"Han Shiren, there are some scores we should settle with you properly."

In the secret room, Han Shiren sat opposite them, his hands and feet bound, while Xiang Wan and Fang Zheng sat on the other side.

Han Shiren didn't look at Fang Zheng, but instead kept staring at Xiang Wan, and the more he looked, the more interested he became.

"You're that mermaid, aren't you? You look so much like her. If there's anyone in the world who resembles her the most, after thinking about it, it can only be you."

Fang Zheng suddenly slammed his hand on the table, his expression agitated, and roared, "Shut up! You bad person, I won't allow you to talk about her like that!"

Han Shiren turned his gaze to Fang Zheng, looked him up and down for a while, then looked at Xiang Wan. Laughter rose from his throat, growing louder and louder until he laughed until tears streamed down his face.

"What are you laughing at? You bad person, why don't you just die?"

A strong sense of hatred shone from Fang Zheng's eyes, something completely unlike him.

"Fang Zheng? Or, I should call you—Fang Zheng!" Han Shiren gradually calmed down, chuckled self-deprecatingly, as if it were such a trivial matter. "I never expected that you would still be alive."

Fang Zheng, once a genius, was a student Han Shiren had met in his teacher's laboratory before Han Shiren established Genesis. He was intelligent, quick-witted, and full of ideas, and was well-liked by his teacher. However, for some unknown reason, he suddenly left the laboratory and was never heard from again.

"Interesting, very interesting. Fang Zheng, do you know that since you disappeared, I have never been able to find a test subject as good as you?"

How did the injection feel?

He spoke so casually of the harm he had caused others; Xiang Wan could never have imagined that beneath Han Shiren's outward appearance lay such a filthy soul.

"Enough, Han Shiren, your good days are over!"

Xiang Wan interrupted their conversation. Something was wrong with Fang Zheng. She couldn't let them continue talking like this, otherwise, it might ruin Fang Zheng.

With a karate chop, Xiang Wan knocked Fang Zheng unconscious. She then took out a video camera and began her interrogation of Han Shiren.

The mermaid's song could not only make people lose their senses, but also bewitch their minds. At this moment, Xiang Wan was extremely grateful that she still possessed some of the mermaid's qualities; otherwise, she feared that what followed would be far more difficult than she had imagined.

"What's your name? Tell me about your life, from when you graduated until now. Begin!"

The camera was turned on, and Han Shiren began to recount everything he had done in his life.

He graduated from the Biology Department of Tiancheng University, where he pursued his master's and doctoral degrees under the same advisor, and even continued to work for him after graduation. At that time, he was ambitious and idealistic, wanting to achieve something significant. His radical and bold ideas were consistently rejected by his advisor. After this happened repeatedly, rebellious thoughts began to take root in his mind.

Fang Zheng went to the lab around that time. His supervisor liked him very much and would let him participate in all the important experiments, but excluded Han Shiren. Han Shiren felt that he was being treated unfairly. At that time, he had a project on the development of the neuronal system, trying to use electric charge to replace the pheromones released by neurons in animals.

After numerous experiments, the project made no progress. Just then, Fang Zheng completed a major project, which spurred him on. So, he decided to use humans for experiments. He extracted the nervous system from animals, refined the proteases related to pheromone release within the nerve cells, and created a drug, which he then placed in a syringe. When no one was around, he chose Fang Zheng's likely return route, knocked him unconscious, and injected the entire drug into his body.

After the drug was administered, Fang Zheng began to tremble all over and foam at the mouth. Han Shiren dragged him to the laboratory to observe his further reactions. To everyone's surprise, when he woke up, he was completely unaffected, as if he had never experienced anything at all.

A few days later, Fang Zheng left the laboratory and disappeared without a trace.

At that time, the country was recruiting talent, so Han Shiren went to the national research institute. Due to his misconduct, he was quickly expelled. The founding of Genesis was due to his radical treatment that cured a wealthy man, which earned him sponsorship, leading to everything that followed.

Both the underworld and the legitimate world maintained contact with Han Shiren because of the drugs he provided; even organizations on the other side of the world sought to purchase the drugs from him. The materials for Xiang Wan's mermaid experiments, which she was most concerned about, were obtained by him through illegal means.

He once had a crush on a famous star, but his love was unrequited. He then had her drugged and brought to his lab. After being rejected again, he transformed her entire body's cells into human cells to create mermaids. The fish cells were obtained by experimenting with thousands of marine and freshwater fish species. The original owner of this body was the only one to survive these experiments.

He originally planned to use the mermaid's eggs to breed baby mermaids after she grew to maturity, and sell them as ornamental fish, which would surely be profitable. However, the mermaids grew too slowly, so he had to temporarily shelve the plan.

Why did you let your son, Han Yu, come into contact with mermaids?

This was what Xiang Wan cared about most. The idea of ​​making a merman fall in love with a human was too crazy, and Xiang Wan wanted to know why Han Shiren would do such a thing.

"Fairy tales are reality. If mermaids can grow up, they must have thoughts. Rather than forcing them to lay eggs, it's better for them to fall in love with humans and give birth naturally, which increases their chances of survival."

"Have you ever considered that your son is a human being, so how could a monster fall in love with him?"

"All living things are monsters when they first appear. But when the world is full of mermaids, who would call them monsters?"

Does Han Yu know?

"Give a rebellious kid something new and exciting. If he can learn it well, great. If he can't, he can still contribute to the lab. That's nothing."

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