I brought bad luck after awakening as a koi

After the botanical garden's power system was turned on, some places that they couldn't see before could be seen clearly. At least they could see the outside in the dark. The storm was hitting the glass wall of the botanical garden. Leaving now would undoubtedly kill them.

Shen Li started to walk back, and the few people they could still contact kept using the radio, and Kong Xiangming also used a special method to send the floor plan he found.

At first Shen Li felt it was a bit far-fetched, but after seeing the people on the other side said they understood, Shen Li understood that these people had already recorded some special marking methods in their minds, if it wasn't for him and Kong Xiangming, he probably would have been that The only one who lost his way because he couldn't understand.

"Let's go back to the beginning and get the diary." Shen Li said after sharing the map.

Kong Xiangming was a little surprised, "Is it really necessary to turn around two pools to go there?"

"I just think it's weird that a mermaid is sensitive to gunshots. Although the sound of a gunshot is loud enough to irritate a mermaid with keen hearing, she shouldn't have such resentment. I always feel that there is something going on." Shen Li said: "So I want to go back and see if there are any records in it."

"It's not very likely. This mermaid doesn't have the consciousness of being a human at all now, and she may not remember what you said."

But even so, Kong Xiangming didn’t stop him. The responsibility of their exploration team is to explore new locations and explore this part of the area clearly, so that later people can avoid danger. Since they came in, they still have a narrow escape, so they must stay. Bring something home.

If you can find out the past of this mermaid, you will make a lot of money.

They chose a road away from the pool. Although they went around several times, they finally saw their gathering place at the beginning. It was still the same as it was at the beginning. There was nothing to say except some messy things. Shen Li saw it immediately Saw that old diary.

After looking around to make sure it was safe, Shen Li ran over to pick up the diary, and then the two of them walked in the other direction as quickly as possible, and it would not be too late to find a safe place to read.

"Let's go to the air-raid shelter that the director said." Kong Xiangming suggested, "Since it was a passage that was left secretly at the beginning, there should be nothing safer than there."

Shen Li agreed, and the two went up to the third floor along the route, but when they arrived at the location, they unexpectedly found that the passage was opened. According to the dust, it had been opened for some years, and there was a layer of dust on the escalator. They looked at each other unexpectedly, then walked up the escalator.

Dust, ruins, and blood that had turned dark brown.

Remnants of limbs were mixed among the bloodstains, and there was a long bloodstain. Shen Li and Kong Xiangming walked forward cautiously. In the last room, the bloodstain stopped abruptly, but there were several mummified corpses lying here and there.

"This costume looks different from the person below."

"Perhaps someone broke in. Before B27 area became a safe area, there were rumors that you must never come here." Kong Xiangming shined a flashlight on the surroundings, "According to the blood stains, at least a year has passed."

As he spoke, Kong Xiangming walked to the corpse, and took out a gun from the dust and blood, "There are still guns..."

"Wouldn't this be the adventure team that disappeared in area B27 back then?"

"Adventure team?" Shen Li's voice was a little puzzled.

Kong Xiangming didn't seem to know where to start to explain, he scratched his hair, and then told Shen Li from beginning to end.

In the early days of the fog, the world was very chaotic. Because of the great biological changes, many places were losing contact. Even rush repairs could not be repaired. There were biological riots and biological erosion incidents everywhere. Under such circumstances, it was difficult for official forces to penetrate The whole country also gave birth to a number of non-governmental organizations.

They volunteered, disdain to join the state organs, but organized their own staff, and started to play with the organization model in the doomsday novels. The end result was heavy losses. The doomsday is still the doomsday, and the mutant creatures are still mutant creatures. Only the growth of human beings is negligible, and Humans in the past were not so different, and they were not the protagonists of novels.

"There are almost no such organizations now, and no one would spare their lives." Kong Xiangming sighed as he walked, "I heard that there was an adventure team that wanted to come here to explore, and then it disappeared. Look at this fully armed, In the end, the whole army was wiped out here."

Didn't even get out of the dugout.

Shen Li sighed, they walked out of here, and then came to a relevant place, Shen Li opened the diary and continued to look back, the back was blank, as if there were no words.

But soon, after Shen Li turned a few pages, a line of handwriting that was even more illegible than before appeared.

At this time, Xiao Nuomi seems to be degenerating. It is difficult for her to remember how to write. She can only write down the words she wants to write little by little, which is even harder to recognize than a child who has just learned to write.

【Mom, here we come. 】

【The people outside are here, and my mother is very happy. She said that she can leave after this. 】

[They are going to pick up their mother? 】

【I called my mother out, but they looked scared and cried and hit her with hard and painful balls. 】

[Mom is hurt. 】

[Mom needs food. 】

Seeing this, not to mention Kong Xiangming, even Shen Li felt chills, Kong Xiangming almost jumped up, "Her mother is not dead?!"

"Do you still remember? Emotions and the environment will accelerate the onset of genetic diseases. If I'm not wrong, maybe not only Xiao Nuomi, but even her mother may suffer from genetic diseases." Shen Li said: "When emotions reach their peak , she committed suicide by diving into the pool, and the mutation was finally completed."

Kong Xiangming opened his eyes wide, "A fish too? No, no, is there such a coincidence? It just so happens that both of them are fish."

Shen Li frowned slightly, he flipped forward in Xiao Nuomi's diary, and finally found a sentence.

When Xiao Nuomi swallowed the fish, the head's wife anxiously asked her to spit it out. At that time, Shen Li felt strange. In this kind of place, the fish in the pool was almost one of their few sources of food. But the headmaster's wife broke down and cried, unless she knew there was something wrong with the fish in it.

She was letting all the living people in the botanical garden eat the problematic fish, only Xiao Nuomi accidentally swallowed a live fish...

"But why?" Kong Xiangming asked, "Does she need to do this?"

"It can only be because of the director. She and the director have been supporting each other since college until now, and they love each other. Even her husband can foresee that she may not come back. As a woman with a delicate mind, why can't she notice it? Even It can be said that this is the botanical garden that the director is most familiar with, how could the director die in the place he is most familiar with."

Kong Xiangming and Shen Li looked at each other, "What do you mean to say: The director of the garden was probably killed by those people because he suppressed them too much?"

"Of course it's just a guess." Shen Li put down the diary, "In short, the current situation is that there may not only be Xiao Nuomi and a mermaid under the pool here, her mother has also become a genetic mutant, and she should also be lurking below. Nuomi has a little consciousness, but she doesn't have to."

Kong Xiangming followed Shen Li's thoughts, and he opened his mouth after a while, "So, the photo in front of this floor plan was actually put in by the garden director's wife?"

But no matter what, what happened here is the past, Cao Yutian is also here, they don't know what happened outside, and they don't know what Cao Yutian's purpose is, they can only take one step at a time, at least they can't just let Cao Yutian has gained something.

"The headmaster's wife and the headmaster are college classmates, and both are botanists. The headmaster is good at protection, and the headmaster's wife is good at research. Let's go to the headmaster's office to have a look."

Returning to the office where the floor plan was found, Shen Li began to look for some research notes purposefully. Although there was electricity, it was unstable after the heavy fog. It is obviously not a good way to store documents in the computer. It's more convenient on paper.

Finally, Shen Li saw a notebook on a shelf with the names of the principal and his wife written on it.

Shen Li opened the book and found that the date was the early days of the fog.

[We found a new fish species in the pool, neither of us knew this fish, maybe it was a new species. 】

[This fish is very strange. After a simple test, we found that its genetic erosion is very strong. The fish around it will assimilate into this kind of fish within a month. The assimilation is from the appearance to the internal organs. We Was surprised and tried to stay away. 】

【Little Nuomi likes this fish very much. She said that this fish is red and beautiful, and she wants to raise it. 】

[We strictly forbid people here to get close to that pool. We found that this kind of fish only lives in this pool permanently, and the fish in other pools are not affected. What is going on?Can such a miraculous thing happen in nature?Is this a disease or magic? 】

[Why is only this fish special?Other fish changed by it will no longer be erosive even if they are distributed to other pools. Only it has been continuously changing other fish species to reproduce the population. If it is eaten by humans, will people become fish?We dare not try. 】

[It is growing up, its growth over the years is very subtle, it used to be a small one, and now it is still a small one, it still likes the small glutinous rice as always, as if it chose the small glutinous rice..., I feel very happy for this I was afraid, so I also restricted Xiao Nuomi from going there, but Xiao Nuomi always found a way to get away from us and run to her fish friend. 】

[I don’t know if it’s my illusion, but I found that Xiao Nuomi’s need for water is getting bigger and bigger. When she starts to take a bath, she will replenish a lot of water. I hope it’s just that I’m thinking too much. 】

【…My dear husband, I once told you that people here don’t know how to be grateful. We should leave here and look for a vast new world outside. Just like you said, a new organization must have formed outside. And the city, although we are in the suburbs, we can definitely find it, but you can't let go of these people, and your kind thoughts will always hurt you. 】

[I was right. 】

[I don’t know who can see this file. No matter who it is, I just don’t want this past to become a speck of dust. I told those people that the fish in the pool can be eaten. They haven’t eaten meat for many years, so they went to fish immediately Fish, this is my last experiment, I want to see if they will turn into fish, but I didn't expect Xiao Nuomi to hide it in her mouth to protect her fish friend. 】

【Xiao Nuomi, my little Nuomi, my only sorry daughter. 】

[Strangers, have they turned into ugly fish? 】

It's a pity that those people didn't turn into fish. People's emotions and environment will cause accelerated genetic changes. Before they turned into fish, Xiao Nuomi mutated quite seriously. In the end, it was Xiao Nuomi who killed all of them because of her mother's smile. People, dive into the water and become a mermaid, guarding the botanical garden in her obsession.

On the contrary, it was her, because the place of suicide was a pool, which promoted the rapid spread of her genes and became the first gene mutant.

I don't know whether Xiao Nuomi was sad or happy when she saw her mother under the pool.

"However, if the real cause of the disease is that fish, does it mean that her mother has also become a fish-like existence like her?" Kong Xiangming said: "Since it is from the same fish, the direction of mutation in the genetic disease should be It's the same."

"The same mermaid?"

"Wrong." At this moment, a voice sounded, the two got up quickly, and then saw Cao Yutian walking towards the end of the corridor step by step.

His clothes were much more torn than last time, and he was wet and muddy. No matter how he looked, he looked like he had just climbed out of a mudslide and was half-drenched by the rainstorm.

Kong Xiangming hurriedly stood in front of Shen Li. He is a member of the Information Department, so he naturally knew that there was some relationship between Shen Li and Cao Yutian, and Cao Yutian was clearly targeting Shen Li. There was also speculation that Cao Yutian intended to kill Shen Li. Shen Li Being able to detect genetic diseases is the last person they can't lose in the three situations.

"Cao Yutian?" Shen Li didn't get too nervous, "What do you mean you just said it was wrong?"

"It means: there is only one mermaid." Cao Yutian said: "Because this mermaid was not formed due to genetic infection, the reason why a mermaid is a mermaid is that it is half human and half fish. became what it is now.”

Shen Li was stunned, "What did you say?"

"The two individuals fused together, neither one eroded the other, but survived peacefully, but the fish gene was temporarily dominant." Cao Yutian put his hands together, "It's not that someone is trying to be human and Coexistence of other organisms? Perhaps this is the best way to coexist."

"But she's not human now."

"Not a pure person." Cao Yutian retorted.

Kong Xiangming listened to Shen Li and Cao Yutian's arguments, and then he raised his hand, "Wait, wait a minute, you mean to say: Xiao Nuomi is special? But her mother is a real genetic mutant, completely irrational and only The kind of biological instinct?"

"Yes." Cao Yutian rolled up his sleeves to show Shen Li the wound on his arm, "He still eats meat, it's super cruel."

Kong Xiangming:? ? ?

"Where is it?" Kong Xiangming immediately became vigilant, "What is the state of that genetic mutation?"

Seeing the vigilant look of this stranger, Cao Yutian began to clap his hands. He looked like a brat after a successful prank, but Shen Li didn't say anything. He stood quietly behind and thought about Cao Yutian's words.

In the end, all he murmured was, "Why?"

"Because of equality." Cao Yutian didn't approach Shen Li. After all, there was Kong Xiangming standing in front of Shen Li. He said, "Human genes overwhelm other biological genes. , but if human genes and other biological genes co-existed on equal footing, then that would be the way it is now."

"There is no complete abandonment of human consciousness, but it will not be a complete human form, dominated by some microbial instincts."

Said Cao Yutian spread his hands, "This may be the third way nature has given us. If you don't want to become another species, then adapt to other species. It's completely natural."

"Of course, human beings are arrogant and will never allow themselves to be equal to other creatures, and I am the same."

Shen Li could immediately imagine how many people would think that genetic disease is a good thing if this strange organization on the Internet knew about it. The appearance of Xiao Nuomi is attractive enough, and with a little human consciousness, she is going to become the propaganda of the organization. Big head, so Shen Li immediately decided to block the news here when he left.

Absolutely must not leak the slightest bit.

As for why Cao Yutian knew there was a mermaid here... He was too strange, even if he said he heard it from Feng, Shen Li would believe it.

"By the way, there is one more thing." Cao Yutian took out a piece of red scales from his pocket, "I pulled out her reverse scales when I was fighting to the death with the fish mother, so she was chasing me, counting the time, She might be coming."

Shen Li, Kong Xiangming: ...?

With a stabbing sound, the lights in the corridor began to flicker, and a shadow refracted in at the corner of the corridor. Through the shadow, one could see something surrounded by countless vines. The vines spread towards here little by little, but there were black hairs growing on the fish's skull , her gray eyes stared at them without any vitality, and her limbs had long since turned into countless vines.

Her chest also looks like a fish, and the scars from the bullets can be seen on her neck.

The moment she saw Cao Yutian, she made a sharp sound, and the vine flew over in an instant.

"Wow, it's really fierce." Cao Yutian sighed, "I was just careless, why don't I return it to you?"

Kong Xiangming reacted quickly, he turned around and ran, followed by Shen Li, only Cao Yutian reacted a little slower and was almost dragged out by the vines, but he still took his time and didn't look scared, at this moment, An anxious voice came from not far behind, and the mermaid rushed over. She hugged her mother from behind, as if she wanted to say something, but when she opened her mouth, there was only a weird bird cry.

The vines continued to spread regardless of the mermaid behind them. The mermaid held the vines tightly, and finally opened its mouth to bite off the roots of the vines.

"Ah!" The mermaid kept holding her, never letting go.

"It's really touching." Cao Yutian said with mockery and admiration, "The mermaid knows that she is protecting her mother, but her mother only thinks it is a relationship between raising and being raised. Her mother has become like this, she You have to protect your mother too."

"Since people are going to become other creatures, why do they have to leave some reason and humanity? It's so painful."

Shen Li looked at Cao Yutian from behind, and listening to his words, he turned his head and watched Xiao Nuomi dragging his mother back into the pool little by little, and the vines were taken back, but the botanical garden was already in a mess, the irrigation system was not turned off, The mist was still splashing, and he thought of the mermaid lying on the edge of the water with eyes closed, as if enjoying the familiar light.

This is her lair, her home, and her mother, so she won't leave and will stay here forever.

Her mother is also controlled by her here. In her remaining human consciousness, she knows that she cannot let her go. Once she leaves this botanical garden, her mother may be hurt, and she may not be able to protect her, so she has always kept her mother Hide under the sink.

This is where they live.

"What are you here for?" Shen Li asked Cao Yutian.

Cao Yutian turned his head, but he didn't turn around. He just stared at Shen Li from the corner of his eye. After a while, he spoke, but instead of answering the previous question, he asked it back.

He asked, "Xiao Li, are you afraid of death?"

"Of course." Shen Li replied quickly, "I haven't reached the point where life and death are the norm."

"That's great." Cao Yutian smiled, "Then you must be afraid forever, and don't think about it to death."

"You are worth more alive than dead."