Chapter 1 Chapter 1 There is an unpolluted, pure sea...
The third district of Aquamarine Planet was the garbage pit, a notoriously lawless area.
The sun finally came out for a day, and Annie concentrated on drying her school uniform skirt on the balcony.
Behind her, an old man smoking called out, "Nier, come over here and help me see if this prosthetic part is the right model."
Ani let go of her hand and walked over. Only the old man's brain and lungs were original, the rest of his body was modified with mechanical prostheses. When he glanced around, a display screen appeared in the air.
Annie lowered her head and helped him choose carefully for a while, and suddenly saw the product placement on the display screen. It said "The selection of the most popular live hunting game in the universe will be held at..."
Ani stared at the ad for a while.
The old man's eyes are artificial eyes, and the advertisement is implanted directly on the eyeballs. He naturally looked over and said, "Those who participate in this are a bunch of idiots. But..." He chuckled, "The live broadcast is pretty good."
Ani asked: "A guy who is looking for death?"
"Of course not." The old man took a puff of his cigarette. "There are people from all races, all for the genetic evolution potion. The bigwigs from those advanced planets are fighting for this, how can we ordinary people be okay if we go there?"
Ani held her chin and said, "Are there any races I haven't seen?"
"Of course there are. Ni'er, you have only seen a few cosmic races, only cosmic type 1 humans and cosmic type 2 humans, right? You haven't even seen the mermaids of the Aquamarine Planet. You can see the world here... By the way, Ni'er, have you received your admission letter?"
"I'm coming down."
"Going to school" is a very precious thing. It is hard to imagine that a poor "family" living in a garbage dump or a lawless area can get the "admission letter" so smoothly.
When the old man heard this, he immediately smiled from ear to ear: "Others have no vision, always saying that you can't grow up because of your albinism genetic defect, but I have good eyesight and raised you to be smart and capable. When I picked you up from outside, I knew you had a promising future. Where did you register?"
Annie opened her StarNet watch and brought up the admissions page.
It says "Hai Lan University" on it.
Just four simple words.
The old man was stunned and didn't come back to his senses for a long time. His artificial eye had already scanned the content and automatically helped him search for "Aquamarine University" - the top university on the Aquamarine Planet that is mainly populated by the merpeople, located in the eighth district of the planet where the rich and nobles gather.
There is the sea there.
There is an unpolluted, pure ocean.
By the time he reacted and started yelling, Ani had already closed the door and returned to her room. Her room was dark, with no lights on and thick curtains blocking out any natural light.
The door clicked and locked. Ani took off her StarNet watch, turned it off and placed it at the door.
There was only a very narrow bed, a small table and a bench in the room. The floor is littered with all kinds of old paper books, paper notebooks, and original pencils and pens produced in 20X5, which can almost be called antiques from the last century.
The room is not small, but there is too little space available. Many things were piled together to make room for something in the center of the room—
It was a huge fish tank.
Strengthened hard glass, expensive water that has been purified several times, high-end pumps that deliver special oxygen... the value of these things can keep all the poor people living in the garbage dump working for a lifetime.
There is a mermaid in the transparent glass tank.
He slept in it.
This huge fish tank was like a prison to him. His mouth was tightly stuffed with a round ball. A sticky substance extended from the ball, gluing his sharp teeth and blocking his tongue and throat. The mermaid has a long silver tail with delicate and shining scales, which have some signs of "research".
The sound of Ani's approaching footsteps woke him up.
He swam out of the water and lay down beside the fish tank. His long dark blue hair fell on his shoulders, covering his fair and well-proportioned body.
The mermaid stared at Ani. She also let him stare at her, picked up the half-finished notebook from the ground, took out a sharpened pencil, continued to write a few words, and said, "My sample is not enough."
The sound of violent splashing water rang in her ears.
Annie lifted a handful of his wet white hair, walked up to him, pulled out a key pendant from his neck, and used the key to open his gag.
As the key was turned, the mechanism inside the gag started to work and the sticky sealing material retracted.
The mermaid forcefully spat out the gag and gritted his teeth: "What else are you going to do?!"
"I want to be able to completely mimic a mermaid and know everything about the mermaid race." Ani thought for a moment and answered him seriously, her voice clear and calm, "Including physical signs, inherited genes, reproduction methods... reproductive value, and so on?"
"Fertility value!" He put his hands on the edge of the fish tank and leaned forward. A fierce and cold light flashed in his beautiful eyes. He sneered, "You haven't forgotten that mermaids are a race that does not intermarry, have you? Even if you catch me, lock me up... and insult me, you won't be able to achieve your goal."
"I thought you would cherish the time you can speak." Ani shook her head and picked up the gag he spit out.
“…”
Annie cleaned the gag, reset it to unlock status, and looked at the mermaid.
"……Wait a moment!"
His hands were tightly gripping the fish tank, his sharp nails almost carving into the glass, but at this moment he had no power to break the prison and tear apart the young girl in front of him.
"Is this the end if you don't ask any questions?" He curled his nails together, almost digging into the flesh.
"I do want to ask you some questions." Ani looked at him, "Besides the three chips I dug out of your body yesterday, do you have any other positioning devices on you?"
"You ask questions like this that even a fool wouldn't answer?" Those crystal blue eyes were still full of arrogance in this situation, as if he was looking at an idiot.
Ani knocked on the fish tank: "This is a routine inquiry. You have to remember that I will ask you every time. You don't have to answer."
The mermaid buried half of her face in the water again and stared at her face.
"I have entered a lot of basic information in the past half month, and now it's time to give it a try." Annie looked at him, and in the mermaid's confused gaze, she suddenly took off her shirt.
He turned his head subconsciously——
The non-intermarrying race also has basic courtesy towards the humans in the universe, and she is a woman.
Halfway through turning her head, the mermaid suddenly remembered her situation and turned back fiercely.
Ani was only wearing underwear, with a pale complexion and a healthy body. The moment she met the mermaid's gaze, the appearance of this human girl suddenly changed drastically.
Tiny silvery-white scales grew on her collarbone, the same color as the mermaid's tail; her delicate ears became soft and flexible, a layer of coral-like external ear bone grew from the side, and a hidden, cicada-thin gap appeared behind her ears.
Those are fins used for breathing.
Annie rolled her pink eyes around, observing the mermaid's expression.
He froze in place.
Her appearance now is almost exactly the same as the mermaid on land.
Then he watched Annie stretch out her hand. Her fingers became exceptionally slender, her nails were sharp, and there was a thin layer of flesh between her fingers.
"It seems that my initial mimicry was successful." Ani suddenly approached him.
He was caught off guard and failed to dodge. The girl's hand suddenly grabbed his long dark blue hair, and this time, he felt a tremendous power that was almost that of his own race.
Ani grabbed his hair, looked him in the eye, touched his nose lightly, and whispered: "You are the best gift I have ever encountered since I was born. You are the first research subject of my simulation of mermaids. Your opinion is very important to me. How about it? I will take a look."
His arrogant and mean eyes trembled.
Blue eyelashes quickly brushed across her cheek, and the mermaid tried to turn her head away, but was held tightly. The adult female mermaid has great strength and a more brutal temperament. In a trance, he realized he was facing a fellow mermaid.
"Your opinion is important to me," Ani repeated, her tone pleading, even a little pitiful and innocent.
The mermaid trembled a little.
He knew this was a weird girl. Ever since that damn starship accident happened half a month ago, this girl has been trying every possible way to control me.
"You," he said, "you monster. How could you, how could you . . . "
He could still distinguish between superficial changes and substantial changes.
Annie's hands sank into his blue hair, her sharp nails looking like they could split his head open at any moment. She said: "I want to hear a positive answer."
But the mermaid kept her mouth tightly shut.
What on earth is this monster? Her appearance did not simply change, but she truly transformed into a land-based mermaid. ...It doesn't matter, it's just land, if it's just legs, it doesn't count at all...
Annie stepped into the glass tank which was too deep for her.
An ordinary human who steps into the water will be easily killed by the mermaid. Even though this mermaid had an electric shock device tied to his tail to control him, and even though he had been injured for many days and had not recovered, he still could not live without water.
He looked at Ani in surprise.
The next moment, a silver fish tail that looked exactly like his, beautiful and dazzling like a work of art, unfolded in the water and suddenly wrapped around his tail.
There was a moment when the mermaid really felt that the world would be better off being destroyed and she would be better off going crazy.
Ani rolled him up and pressed him to the bottom of the glass tank, then spoke to him underwater, "Is there anything I haven't learned?"
The mermaid was breathing rapidly under the water. He opened his mouth angrily and bit Ani's arm that was holding him, leaving a bloody mark on his fangs. His voice carried the signature mermaid howl underwater: "Why did you become like this? Aren't you a space human? What on earth are you going to study on me?!"
"Do I look like a human being?" Ani asked curiously.
"..." He was going crazy and said angrily, "No. You are like a monster."
"I'm not human." Ani didn't get angry, and explained, "I have no one of my kind left. I am the last... well, a monster. There are no males in our race, so I can only..."
She paused, unsure of what to say.
“…Have the males become extinct?”
"You can understand it this way." Ani said, "I studied you for so long before I learned how to become like this. Before I met you, I had only simulated cosmic humans, you know, the kind you can see everywhere. I simulated for eighteen years."
She looked very happy and talked more than usual: "There are a lot of humans in the universe, a large sample size, and nothing special about them, so it's easy to study them. I haven't encountered any human branches that have been injected with genetic drugs or mutated. I can only simulate them into ordinary ones. Ordinary humans in the universe can't bear my reproduction mission at all."
"…What? Mission?"
It's already the eighth era of the Star Sea Calendar, and there are still people saying such magical words.
"Reproduction mission." She answered seriously, "I'm going extinct. Can you hear that? I need to know if you can give birth to a child for me."
If this sentence was said by an ordinary human girl, he would just sneer and would not even bother to mock her.
But these words came from a monster who suddenly became a member of the same race—
He would run away this time even if he died, and he couldn't wait to recover from his injuries before turning against us. For a race that does not intermarry in order to maintain the purity of its bloodline, if this monster could really have a child with him - he would go crazy, he would definitely go crazy. If she was defiled by an outsider, he would definitely find a way to kill her.
The mermaid struggled hard to break free from her entangled tail and swam upwards to break out of the water. The electric shock device implanted in his body buzzed, and the next moment, his long hair was grabbed again, and a figure hugged him tightly from behind.
A soft whistle, the unique sound of whispering in the water, sounded around the transparent fins.
Her lips touched the fin, close to the soft crack. "You're going to pounce away all the water. This water is very expensive. By the way, what's your name?"
A slightly warm touch slid across the thin fin line. In a trance, he thought it was the forked tongue of a mermaid, but it was not. Annie had not studied it thoroughly yet, and her tongue still looked like a human's.
He breathed heavily, "You lunatic, mermaids have a reproduction lock, it is impossible for them to have intercourse with foreigners..." This cultured and educated noble mermaid couldn't say such words, and gritted his teeth in hatred, "Let me go, I will work with you to find another way."
He tried to deceive people by making compromises.
But Ani was not fooled and asked persistently, "What's your name?"
"You locked me up for half a month, dug out my positioning chip, released my blood, and plucked my scales, and now you suddenly ask me what my name is!"
"What's your name?" she continued to ask relentlessly, the girl's voice soft yet firm.
Ani used her teeth to pry open the gap in the fin.
This was what she learned from a book. She was not a mermaid, so she could only half refer to the book and half rely on instinct to find out the reproduction method of mermaids to obtain more information about this race.
The male in his arms seemed to feel severe pain. He struggled more hysterically, ignoring the injuries on his body. His cry of collapse caused the ornaments on the small desk to fall over, and the water that splashed out flooded the floor and the papers scattered on the floor.
He groaned in pain, and the unique voice of the merman made people's eardrums throb: "My name is... Lin. My name is this... You can't... succeed like this, don't worry..."
"My name is Ani." She responded, "I'm not in a hurry. I just want to collect some things from your body first. You are too nervous."
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