The beautiful mermaid transforms into a muscular merman (Part 2)
However, Shen Huai'an showed no intention of leaving with him. In fact, he didn't even try to sit up.
"I'm not leaving."
It wasn't a question, nor a rhetorical one. Nixos stated with absolute certainty the "facts" he had long anticipated and was mentally prepared to face.
"As disappointing as ever, Silverscale."
He shrugged lightly and cheerfully, then put on a pained expression: "You've picked up some bad human habits."
—Because mermaids are not human, they never "play along" or "endure in silence," at least not for long.
Disguise is the weapon of the weak. The strong never stoop to it.
"Please give my regards to the Council of Elders."
Shen Huai'an spoke, but in standard Jinlin dialect. Nixos easily teleported in front of him, raised his sharp claws, and casually placed them between his neck:
"No need for that."
He smiled faintly, while his claws dug deep into Shen Huai'an's throat: "As for you, Celestis, give my regards to the Sea God!"
This was probably the first time in Yunhe's life that he had ever witnessed a "fight" between different species.
That's true. In the past, unless they were conducting experiments in the lab, it was impossible for experimental subjects of different species to have any interaction while being kept in solitary confinement. Human society has "protected" itself too well, so well that ordinary people like her have almost forgotten that the world today is already a world where humans and different species "coexist in fact."
The human brain sometimes can't keep up with the speed of the limbs. So Yunhe, as a 100% pure human, moved.
Without a second thought, she rushed forward and pried Nixos's "hands" off. Not only that, she even let out a remarkably brave shout:
"You fucking bastard, let go of my claws!"
Impulsiveness always comes at a price. And the next second, she smelled her own blood.
However, as it turned out, Nixos, as a proud golden-scaled warrior, was ultimately too careless.
The moment the sharp claws pierced the silver-scaled mermaid's throat, all the still-operating equipment in the laboratory clicked and went out. In their place flickered on two will-o'-the-wisps—
Eye.
His icy blue eyes were like the undying flames of will-o'-the-wisps in a graveyard.
After that, Yunhe remembered nothing.
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Tick-tock, tick-tock. Tick-tock...
"Is it raining?" Yunhe wondered groggily. When she propped herself up to sit up, she realized she was lying in the medical room of the research institute.
Wait, what happened last night? How come she can't remember anything at all?
"You're awake."
The young male doctor, engrossed in trading stocks on his screen, asked without turning his head. Yunhe was silent for a moment before replying, "What's wrong with me?"
"Look." The doctor pointed to her shoulder. Yunhe looked down—whoa! It was wrapped in bandages; it looked like a serious injury.
The problem is, when was she injured? Not only does she not remember the cause and effect, but the wound doesn't even hurt at all.
“I heard,” the doctor began his rambling, “that you got up in the middle of the night to check on the experimental subjects, and ended up bumping into the glass, shattering it, and cutting a big gash in your shoulder…”
She didn't hear a word the doctor, who was always slacking off on stock trading during work hours and was incredibly gossipy, said next. She was currently preoccupied with only one thing:
Why is it that she remembers nothing else, yet still those will-o'-the-wisps...icy blue eyes?
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What about S2?
After a hasty bandage and unable to take long sick leave, Niu Mayun, still dizzy from blood loss, walked to the fish tank and asked the empty water. Ai Qiqi listlessly yawned.
"...So no one told you about this yet, Sister Yun? The goddess has 'escaped from prison'."
What? !
Yunhe's heart skipped a beat. Just as she was about to ask more, she saw Shen Huai'an walking over from the break room with a cup of coffee. He stopped as he passed Yunhe and whispered in a voice no one could hear, "Does it still hurt?"
"You really are..."
Yunhe opened her mouth, wanting to sneer. But she also knew that, theoretically, Shen Huai'an couldn't possibly have anything to do with this. Suppressing her fear and anger, she composed herself and lowered her voice, saying, "You know something, don't you?"
It was just an ordinary sentence, but it made Shen Huai'an fall silent, which was rare for him.
His silence seemed unplanned, more like a reaction to extreme surprise.
"Can you remember?" he asked. However, this was a statement.
“A part,” she said hoarsely, glancing at the camera. Shen Huai’an said no more and turned back to his workstation.
noon.
"Mr. Shen, please come with us."
"Immortal security guards spoke coldly outside the office." Under the trembling gaze of the crowd, Shen Huai'an calmly tidied the documents on his desk before obediently following them out of the office. Yun He, like the others, tried to gossip, but unexpectedly, a voice suddenly rang in his mind—a familiar voice.
Tell me, Yunhe, do you want to know what will happen next?
You will hear it if you want to.
? !
Yunhe stared in horror. At that moment, Shen Huai'an and the security guards had already disappeared outside the office.
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"Please sit down."
When Shen Huai'an entered the huge circular conference room on the top floor, there were several people inside, who had obviously been waiting for a long time.
"Please allow me to introduce you," Director Xiao Lin said, abandoning his usual aloofness and becoming as humble and obedient as a true servant: "This is Mr. Li Jing, Chairman of the Federal Supreme Council."
“This gentleman,” he bowed slightly, gesturing for Shen Huai’an to look—it was a slender, tall Westerner with a serious, almost rigid face, dressed in a suit as impeccably as a military uniform: “He is Mr. Heinrich, the commander of the Federation Human Legion.”
...
Shen Huai'an had no interest in the complexities of human titles. However, there was someone who did interest him, and he didn't want to spoil or bore her.
“Alright, Mr. Xiao!” Heinrich interrupted Xiao Lin’s increasingly lengthy introduction, his tone habitually cold: “Pull up last night’s recording!”
The so-called "video recording" is a record of the entire event that occurred last night, captured by one of the world's most advanced technologies—an anti-biological interference imaging system. The video clearly records everything that happened after Nixos "broke through the window":
All the machines stopped operating. Shen Huai'an, whose shackles had been torn off, slowly stood up, faced Nixos, and said something very strange, not like human language.
“Ancient Merfolk Language,” Xiao Lin patiently explained to the important figures present. “It was the common language of the golden and silver scales millions of years ago before they separated. This ancient language is now basically extinct.”
In the scene, Shen Huai'an's words, translated, are:
"I have no intention of killing you today. You can leave."
Nixos on the other side clearly understood. It was precisely because he understood that he was so angry that he burst out laughing.
However, the brave Golden Scale Warriors never resort to words. They take action directly!
Nixos let out a shriek, and his legs instantly transformed into a massive golden fish tail nearly three meters long, slamming down on Shen Huai'an in the next second! Shen Huai'an, restricted by the chip, was unable to transform for the moment and was about to be flung away by the tail. However, he merely raised his left hand, making a gesture of clenching his five fingers:
"Sit down." Shen Huai'an's voice was soft and his tone was calm.
The next second, Nixos's body suddenly stiffened. Then, in extreme pain, his body bent at a bizarre "90-degree" angle—his tail broke in two, with the base of the tail sitting directly on his tail fin.
In human terms, it would be a perfectly standard kneeling posture.
Even in the not-so-clear video, the cold sweat on Nixos's face was clearly visible. Shen Huai'an looked up at the surveillance camera in the corner, and then said to Nixos:
"The silver scales are extinct. One should show mercy where possible, like the golden scales."
"You...!" Nixos gritted his teeth to keep himself from crying out. He was already broken and in so much pain he was about to faint; he had no strength left to speak.
"Note that S1 is using mental energy here." Xiao Lin pressed the pause button and continued explaining, "And we had already applied the highest level of ability restriction to it according to Alpha-level containment procedures. Clearly, our current level of human technology is still not fully capable of..."
He wanted to say "control," but the word that came out was different: "mastery, all the mysteries of alien creatures."
The video continued playing.
About ten minutes later, the alarm outside gradually faded away. Nixos suddenly moved.
"hiss!"
He grinned, revealing sharp fangs, and flicked his purplish-black tongue. This was the most standard provocative and threatening posture in the merfolk world; however, the next second, this golden-scaled warrior knew when to back down and refused to die in vain.
Of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, the best is to flee.
Having finished his provocation, he turned sharply and jumped out of the window he had just smashed open.
"A fantastic performance."
After watching the entire recording, Heinrich clapped his hands a few times, then turned to Shen Huai'an: "In Eastern parlance, subduing the enemy without fighting? Very clever. But what I'm more curious about is—"
He narrowed his eyes slightly, his expression extremely cold: "Is the name Celestis your real name?"
Shen Huai'an remained calm and said indifferently, "Mermaids are different from humans; their names have no meaning."
"Is that so?" Heinrich stepped forward and stopped less than half a meter away from him. "But as far as I know, Celestis is the legendary last direct descendant of the 'Sea God,' is that true?"
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