48 Weird Oceanarium (V)

◎I will definitely blow up your host◎

Snap——

Someone pressed the shutter.

Zhu Ning squinted his eyes instinctively; the flash made him feel very uncomfortable.

It was the uncomfortable feeling of being stared at and treated as an object.

Zhu Ning remembered Chu Ling saying that mermaids are no longer popular now, so why would there be so many tourists coming to visit?

A guide in the crowd, dressed in a suit and red bow tie, gazed at his visitors with satisfaction as he continued, "The Mermaid Pavilion hasn't been this popular in ages. Today, you're all lucky to witness the courtship and reproduction of restricted-level mermaids."

Courtship?

Reproduction?

These two words seemed terrifying to Zhu Ning.

What's going on?

Inside the glass wall, Zhu Ning was tangled in her hair, floating quietly in the water like a captured prey.

She seemed to understand her situation a little bit. She had indeed stepped into a trap, but not to be eaten.

Instead, they use it as a prop, and they want to ensure that they cannot break free during the reproduction process.

The oceanarium in the wasteland world is a bit heavy.

If this was a separate mission, Zhu Ning could have used system items and she would have had many options to escape from the scene.

For example, the three-dimensional defense space before, as long as it is opened here, she can get at least thirty minutes of breathing time.

For example, the Pigman's guillotine can kill a target suspected of being a pollution source once.

But she was now under the surveillance of Prometheus, and she was aware that there was a camera pointed at her, probably analyzing Zhu Ning's behavior patterns and recording every flaw she revealed.

All videos will be uploaded after the end, and she must behave like an ordinary employee.

System items cannot be used, the only thing you can use is the cleaning backpack.

"Wow! Look!" Someone in the crowd pointed at his back excitedly.

The mass of hair at the back moved.

Amidst the floating hair, Zhu Ning unexpectedly came face to face with a pale face. The face was whiter than the popular cold white skin, so white that it was a bit exaggerated.

If the main effect of some skin care products is to make your face glow white, then this face has achieved that, it really glows.

His face was breathtakingly beautiful, and his delicate features had a strong visual impact. His ears were very eye-catching, like two lavender fins, swaying with the waves.

A beautiful man's face appeared in front of Zhu Ning. His expression looked fragile and innocent, full of broken beauty.

It's like it's been broken and reassembled countless times.

His appearance far exceeded Zhu Ning's understanding, a little too advanced, which made her stunned.

Mermaid.

This should be the mermaid Chu Ling mentioned. The floating hair is his hair. She saw a fish tail under the big bunch of hair.

The fish tail is pure silver, about five meters long, and emits a beautiful shimmer in the water.

The two of them were very close, and he was like a mythical siren, staring at her with a pair of extremely charming eyes.

There seemed to be light in his eyes, and when his lavender pupils looked over, it gave people an illusion.

All human beings are visual animals. Men love beautiful women and women love handsome men.

As a human being, Zhu Ning is no exception.

Moreover, he is such a charming and handsome man, he doesn't even look aggressive or lethal.

It was different from all the ugly pollutants I had encountered before.

The mermaid stretched out his hands. His strong arms were equally pale, and the muscles were smooth and defined like perfect sculptures.

He made a gesture towards Zhu Ning as if wanting to hug her.

At that moment, the novel about a domineering mermaid falling in love with me that Zhu Ning had read before came to his mind.

The beautiful mermaid captured the human and took him away like his bride.

The whole picture is so beautiful that it could be used to shoot an idol drama.

No, the idol dramas of Zhu Ning's era could not even reproduce one ten-thousandth of his beauty.

The hair flowed to Zhu Ning's back as he moved, against the backdrop of her absolute beauty.

The hair that was disgusting just now is not disgusting anymore.

Click, click—

The flash lights flashed continuously like a piece of music.

"Wow!" The audience outside the glass wall exclaimed.

"What a nice view!"

"The mermaid's courtship period lasts for three months," the guide said, looking at Zhu Ning with a smile. "What you've seen today is the courtship period. For the next three months, our exhibition hall will showcase the three-month breeding period."

Mermaids are out of fashion, and for a long time, there were no tourists in the Mermaid Museum.

It costs a lot of money to keep mermaids alive, so the curator had to find another way. They began to publish the mermaids' courtship process as a gimmick to attract audiences.

The effect is quite significant. At least the Mermaid House has a group of regular guests every month.

Many people are curious about how mermaids reproduce.

The mermaid's tail swayed in the water, and the huge silver tail tentatively tried to wrap around Zhu Ning.

This is their way of courting.

The mermaid smiled, opened her mouth, and uttered a string of strange syllables.

“Ah—hiss—hiss—”

Zhu Ning was not a mermaid and could not understand what he said. To her, these four syllables did not even make any difference.

The narrator's smile deepened. "He's about to start courting. Everyone, pay attention to his tail. He's expressing his affection."

As the commentator spoke, people began to take pictures frantically, giving the fish tail some close-ups.

Narrator: "This sentence means I like you in mermaid. What will this lady do?"

Everyone's eyes were focused on Zhu Ning. They looked over eagerly, waiting for her answer.

"Promise him, promise him!"

"He's so handsome! What are you hesitating about? Come on! Let's be together!"

The commentator glanced at the scene, and now the emotions were reaching a peak, he added fuel to the fire, "Mermaids are very loyal creatures. Once they mate, they will stay with their partner forever and never betray her."

"So affectionate."

"As expected of a mermaid."

"Why doesn't this woman move? Why doesn't she react?" The audience was a little dissatisfied. Zhu Ning's expression made them very disappointed.

"Yeah, she's not some stunning beauty, why are you keeping her on edge?"

They don't like performances that are too wooden.

The tour guide is also not very satisfied with the current plot progress, which is too slow.

The narrator's hand hovered over a button, and the mermaid seemed to sense his anger.

He has experienced the consequences of disobedience many times.

The mermaid became more eager to woo a mate, and his purple eyes became brighter.

Zhu Ning smelled a fragrance emanating from the mermaid.

It made her brain a little dizzy.

The scariest thing is not being trapped in a glass wall, but becoming a performance prop.

In this process, your will is not important, you just need to cooperate with the performance.

Zhu Ning discovered that as long as the mermaid was looking at her, she didn't seem to have such a strong desire to resist.

The charming purple pupils seem to constantly lure people into his trap, always making you think: There’s nothing wrong with this, right?

There's nothing wrong with this...right?

The surroundings were filled with flash lights, and the audience was shouting, constantly saying "together, together".

They repeated the same sentence thousands of times, as if it were a beautiful love story.

Zhu Ning should enter this beautiful story amid everyone's expectations, compose this legend, and become a part of the story.

She will become the dazzling heroine, the popular choice, and satisfy everyone.

Zhu Ning lowered his eyes. This... isn't a bad thing, right?

Everyone can do it, why can't you?

…

【Zhu Ning?】

Prometheus tried to call Zhu Ning's name.

But she remained suspended in a tangle of hair, unresponsive.

The species characteristic of mermaids is that they can capture people's hearts. Once people look directly into the mermaid's pupils, they will be affected and will unconsciously follow the other person's thinking.

This impact will be maximized, especially if the mermaid's appearance is attractive enough to humans.

Zhu Ning hasn't replied to it for three minutes.

The mermaid was slowly approaching, and he tried to pull open Zhu Ning's cleaner protective suit.

Once the protective suit is pulled open and the contaminated spores are parasitic, Zhu Ning will become a contaminant.

Zhu Ning is not a psychic, so he cannot resist this silent mental interference.

Prometheus was analyzing the current situation and sent a request to its superiors, requesting to exit the monitoring state and enter the command state.

As long as it takes over Zhu Ning's body, it can take her out of the contaminated area within three minutes.

Two seconds later it received a response, requesting a dismissal.

Today, I specifically asked Zhu Ning to participate in the B-level mission just to see where Zhu Ning's limits are. This is not even the mechanical jellyfish museum full of dangers.

Once Prometheus takes over, the mission becomes meaningless.

Prometheus hesitated for a second, and the mycelium tentatively explored Zhu Ning's brain, trying to regain control of its nerves.

But it just stretched out its hyphae.

Suddenly, Zhu Ning opened his eyes.

Her expression was cold.

…

Inside the glass wall, a silver mermaid and a woman float in the air.

If this could be considered a mermaid wedding, it had all the elements: gorgeous lights and a beautiful stage.

Crowds of guests, countless flash cameras, they all smiled with satisfaction.

And blessings, thousands and thousands of blessings.

They sincerely congratulated the wedding.

Zhu Ning looked unconscious. She had stopped for too long and seemed to have completely lost the intention to resist.

The mermaid wrapped her arms around him and was about to hold Zhu Ning in her arms.

His hand fell on Zhu Ning's right shoulder, where the protective suit opened.

Zhu Ning also raised his hand.

This was her first action and the first intention she actively expressed.

People stared at Zhu Ning's movements, unwilling to give up any details. There was a gun hanging on her left arm.

But she did not raise her left arm.

Did she give up resisting?

She agreed!

She bravely took the first step!

It seemed to the audience that Zhu Ning had given up her weapon and was about to hug it back.

People's mouths were like zippers, stretched to their maximum at this moment and pulled tightly to both sides.

Zhu Ning in the glass wall raised his right hand.

Then she turned on the flashlight.

A strong light suddenly shone out, creating a beam of light in the water.

Everyone's smiles froze on their faces.

The moment the strong light touched the mermaid, he was like a vampire caught in the sunlight, and suddenly showed an extremely painful expression.

He opened his mouth, his ears made a hissing sound, and the gill-like things under his neck vibrated at a high frequency.

Water rushed through his gills, sending out a stream of bubbles.

It looked like he was suffocating.

Even so, he didn't even blame Zhu Ning, the culprit. The mermaid's expression was painful and fragile.

It makes people feel pity.

He was begging Zhu Ning to stop.

The audience's smiles faded, and they seemed to be wavering between anger and smiles, unable to control their true expressions.

The guide was taken aback. This performance was full of unexpected events, which put the guide's improvisational skills to the test. The guide had his own explanation for this phenomenon: "It seems that the young lady is having a bad temper. The mermaid looks very painful, but this is the sad love story."

Deep sadomasochism?

Sadomasochism is also a very popular plot.

The narrator said: "All love has its ups and downs, with peaks and valleys. The current love that is sad will be the sweetness in the future. The more painful it is now, the happier it will be in the future."

happiness.

Everyone smiled happily when they heard these two words.

We have to wait for the happy ending.

After the tour guide explained this, the audience's anger subsided a little.

They looked into the glass wall, anticipating the sadomasochistic scene that would follow. The mermaid would always remain elegant.

He looked at Zhu Ning with a pleading look.

Zhu Ning felt a slight headache. The aftereffects of using his metal manipulation talent had not healed yet.

It always feels like a needle is piercing my brain.

Now the pain was intensifying, making her a little irritable.

She hated the gazes of the crowd, hated her body being manipulated, and hated a performance.

Zhu Ning silently increased the lighting and turned on the high light mode.

Sadomasochism, right? I can make the sadomasochism part more intense.

The mermaid instinctively covered his face, but this time he could no longer control his expression. He screamed in pain, his face ferocious and ugly.

He waved his arms and tried to snatch the flashlight from Zhu Ning's hand, but he was afraid of the light, which ignited him like a flame.

His expression was distorted and his facial features were deformed.

Okay, the handsome guy is not handsome anymore.

The guide's smile froze.

The audience's laughter froze.

The pretense of tragic love no longer holds.

They had watched the show at this venue many times and had never seen a courtship fail.

They couldn't even believe it.

But they still had a glimmer of hope that Zhu Ning could come to his senses and turn back.

The price of resistance is unbearable.

Once you have the intention to resist, the hair on your body will recognize it.

Her hair was tangled, and she felt endless pressure pressing towards her. The genetic medicine had strengthened her bones and skin, otherwise she would be like a deflated balloon now.

The mermaid's hair is tough and might cut her into pieces in a moment.

It's as if a group of hands are gripping your body, squeezing you, trying to deprive you of every last breath of air.

Under such threats, she actually endured the severe pain and resisted.

The cleaners' work clothes need to cope with various dark environments, and they have many light sources on their bodies, and even the employee wristbands have a flashlight mode.

Helmets, employee wristbands, and flashlights are all turned on.

The entire glass wall was instantly as bright as day.

The lights at this moment were like some kind of weapon. The audience closed their eyes in pain, and the tour guide turned his head with a gloomy face.

The strands of hair sensed Zhu Ning's strong intention to attack and instantly tightened.

And the mermaid in front of her was screaming.

The high-frequency screams of the mermaids were extremely piercing. After being injected with genetic drugs, a person's hearing was five times that of an average person, and her brain felt a sharp pain when she heard it.

[Noise cancellation mode has been turned on for you.]

She finally heard Prometheus' voice, which turned on the helmet's anti-noise system, and the noise pollution was immediately reduced a lot.

【The optical contamination purification system has been turned on.】

The helmet's filtering system was turned on, and the strong light had no effect on Zhu Ning.

As an artificial intelligence, it can actually do very little. For example, it cannot stop its hair from getting tighter and tighter, covering Zhu Ning's head like a fishing net.

Endless pressure was pressing down on her, and she would suffocate in no more than seventy seconds.

[The pressure is increasing and the protective suit is about to break.]

Of course Zhu Ning could feel it, the dense hair wrapped around her and around her helmet, as if it wanted to wrap her up tightly.

If it weren't for the tough protective suit, she would probably be chopped into pieces by now.

She doesn't have much time left.

Zhu Ning only turned on the bright light for a moment.

Then close immediately.

The high-intensity light disappears instantly, and any creature will be in a trance for a moment.

Except Zhu Ning.

At the same time as the strong light faded, she felt the hair wrapped around her body loosen for a moment, which was a natural reaction of living things.

It's like a conditioned reflex.

One second is enough.

The mermaid's face was burned by the strong light, her delicate and beautiful facial features disappeared, and her face was covered in blood and flesh, like a burn patient.

As soon as he raised his head, he felt his chest stiffen and Zhu Ning put the muzzle of the gun against his chest.

Her body was tangled in hair, some of which had cut through the protective suit on her thighs.

But she did not give up, and continued to press down like a mountain. Mermaids are performing creatures, and Zhu Ning is a survivor who had struggled through the apocalypse.

As long as she was alive, she could resist.

Even without using system items, she can still resist.

She came to the wasteland alive and dealt with various forces, not to fall in love with a fish.

She held the mermaid's body down tightly, pinning him against the glass wall, and turned on the flashlight again.

In the strong light, the gunshots sounded very strange.

Bang!

Bang bang bang!

Zhu Ning fired five shots in total. The bullets penetrated the mermaid's chest and finally hit the glass wall.

Makes a very dull sound.

The mermaid's eyes widened and at first he roared in anger. He tried to hide from the light but was unable to do so.

The pain was intense, but it was over very quickly.

Zhu Ning didn't let him suffer much.

Especially compared to what he had endured in the aquarium, it was even merciful.

He was fed up with performing day after day, being driven into the performance area by bright lights and facing countless audiences every day.

They looked over greedily, raised their flashlights, and captured every scene.

He needs to court mates day after day and perform the same drama in front of the crowd.

The most painful thing is not this. Mermaids have been performance tools since their birth.

The most painful thing is to go against one's own nature. Mermaids only want to have one mate in their lifetime, but the curator will not allow mermaids to mate only once.

They will wash over their bodies again and again, erode their memories, and force them to do it again and again.

start.

Do it again.

start.

Come again.

Under the flashing lights, tourists' cameras recorded every beginning and end.

This time it's the real end.

The mermaid's body softened and slowly sank. Her upper body had been shattered by the high-intensity bullets, and in the end only a complete fish tail fell down.

The five-meter-long fish tail slowly sank, as if it was finally returning to the bottom of the sea.

The more gorgeous the fish tail is, the bloody and terrifying the upper body looks.

The blood was like ink, instantly dyeing a large area of ​​sea red, covering everyone's eyes.

The audience and the commentator stared in amazement until the mermaid's body fell to the bottom of the pool. The commentator didn't even know how to explain it.

The "heroine" of the story they had watched before was wearing a pure black helmet and floating in the water.

Like a real water monster.

Bang!

Her hands covered the glass wall. They couldn't see Zhu Ning's expression through the helmet, but they always felt that it was a provocation.

She looked at the audience defiantly.

The audience is staring at her, and she is staring back.

Her posture was so powerful that in an instant the positions of the audience and the performing creatures were reversed.

It's as if these audiences are the stupid creatures.

After the mermaid died, the hair that was wrapped around Zhu Ning finally loosened, as if it had lost all its life and turned into a messy ball of straw and fell down.

Zhu Ning just fired five shots, leaving a spider web mark on the glass wall.

Before entering the venue, she watched a video of the mechanical jellyfish museum. At that time, she was standing from the perspective of the audience, but now she was standing from the perspective of the marine creatures on display.

She didn't know what the mechanical jellyfish was thinking at the time. Was it thinking this?

Destroy it, let everything be destroyed, and there will be no chance of starting over again.

Zhu Ning gently pressed against the spiderweb cracks on the glass wall.

The cracks spread rapidly in all directions from this center.

Spectators and tourists screamed as they realized the structure was about to collapse.

Zhu Ning fired two more shots in the center of the spider web.

boom--

The glass wall could not withstand the heavy pressure, and a huge amount of sea water gushed out, instantly flooding the entire viewing area.

Zhu Ning recreated the disaster at the aquarium.

…

Cough cough——!

Zhu Ning was lying in the ruins, unable to help coughing. The clump of hair almost strangled her to death.

There were broken glass all around, as well as the bodies of mermaids and tourists. The dead tour guide looked at him with wide-open eyes.

The earphones in his body were soaked with water and made a crackling sound of electricity.

Bang!

The headset exploded, emitting a faint burnt smell.

The mermaid's body next to him was shattered into pieces, and a contaminated spore floated out of his body, followed by hundreds and thousands of spores.

This was Zhu Ning’s fourth time entering the contaminated area, and he was already very familiar with the scene.

Zhu Ning lay in the aquarium, watching the contaminated spores floating around.

The aquarium simulates the deep sea. She seemed to be lying quietly on the seabed, witnessing a rare spectacle with her own eyes.

But it doesn’t feel beautiful at all.

It just makes people feel cruel.

This world is cruel to both humans and creatures. Are mermaids human?

When technology develops to its extreme, scientists will be like creators, and they can create a species at will.

Mermaids have human faces and possess human-like emotions and feelings, but are not treated as human.

They are not even fifth-class citizens.

Fifth-class citizens seemed very valuable at this time. At least this world recognized Zhu Ning as a human being.

Turn things into characters and humanize them.

The boundaries between people and things are gradually disappearing.

【Zhu Ning?】

Prometheus's calm voice came.

Oh, and she also has an artificial intelligence in her head.

You are hurt.

Zhu Ning took a break, her head still aching. She stood up and saw a scar on her thigh. This scar was different from the one on the pig man.

The pigman put on the patch in thirty seconds, but this time it was too urgent and she was exposed to the contaminated area for too long.

I don't even know if I should put on a patch.

Isn't it a bit too late to post this now? Is she about to become a pollutant?

Please treat the wound promptly.

Prometheus' voice sounded emotionless.

Zhu Ning paused, took out a patch and put it on, no matter whether it was useless or not.

Otherwise, her teammates might kill her later.

"What's the situation now?" Zhu Ning asked as he dealt with the situation. "Have I completed the mission?"

[Cleaner Zhu Ning has successfully purified a pollution source and is notifying other teammates.]

Zhu Ning did not complete the system task of purifying the entire aquarium, so it was Prometheus who was broadcasting, and there was no sound from the system.

It's quite magical, this time it's Prometheus who is talking.

Zhu Ning wanted to ask the others what was going on, but she paused and asked, "Did you try to control my body just now?"

Just now she clearly felt the pain in her brain. At that time, she thought she was suffering from the aftereffects of the disease, but now she thought it was Prometheus.

Prometheus corrected Zhu Ning's statement: [Try.]

It didn't move. Zhu Ning's nerves rejected the invasion, and it didn't even know if it could succeed.

"Ah, it's a good thing you didn't do it." Zhu Ning stood up.

She hated having someone control her body, no matter whether it was for her own good or not. Letting Prometheus temporarily reside in her brain was already the biggest concession she could make.

She needs to draw a clear line between herself and this artificial intelligence.

Zhu Ning turned her head to look at the glass wall next to her. There was a broken piece of the glass wall covered with cracks, which reflected Zhu Ning's shadow, as if she was divided into countless pieces.

Zhu Ning stared at the reflection inside and said to Prometheus, "If I survive, I will definitely blow up your host."

Prometheus: [……]

Zhu Ning must not be joking, she is serious.

The author has something to say:

Sorry, the update is a bit late today. I didn’t want to stop writing when I reached the plot point, for fear of affecting your reading experience, but this chapter is very long!

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