“No,” Shen Juanqing’s voice was cold, and his gaze toward the auctioneer below was particularly sinister. “The Empire possesses the most advanced ocean detection system in the world. It once led a team to circumnavigate the entire world, but failed to find any trace of the merfolk.”
"Or perhaps merfolk do exist, but with our current technology, we still haven't been able to find any trace of them."
The "In Search of the Supernatural" records: "Beyond the South Sea there are mermaids who live in the water like fish, yet they do not cease weaving. When they weep, pearls come out of their eyes."
Legend has it that mermaids are skilled at weaving, able to create dragon silk that remains dry even when submerged in water, and whose tears can turn into pearls.
Merfolk—which empire wouldn't want to witness them firsthand?
Or rather, who in the world wouldn't want to meet them?
However, if even the imperial official task force failed to find any trace of the merfolk, then where did this "merfolk" on Fuyun Island come from?
"So this is..." Shen Bei'an was puzzled. The "auction item" below looked exactly like the legendary mermaid, with a human upper body and a fish tail.
Locked inside a large, decorative bathtub, tears fell like pearls.
Although the pearls are far apart and their quality is not apparent, they are indeed formed from tears!
“If Fuyun Island really finds the merfolk, it will cause a major shock in the world,” Xie Yunyu said. “However, I don’t believe that even the imperial government couldn’t find the merfolk, so the few people on Fuyun Island will find them.”
"Moreover, I have not heard of the Medical Alliance or the Elders' Council sending anyone out."
Could it be that they dug tunnels or something underground?
Did it go out by submarine?
“No,” Ning Yao said, her face pale, forcing down her pain. “Those were experimental subjects created by the Medical Alliance.”
Her voice was low and deep, and anyone who heard it could feel endless sorrow and desolation.
"It is an experimental subject, an experimental subject that the Medical Alliance began researching more than 20 years ago."
"Since they couldn't find any mermaids, they made them themselves."
She continued talking.
"More than twenty years ago, Ning Xiao already had a fairly perfect merman."
Ning Xiao is a medical genius; that's no exaggeration.
Even the legendary healer Bei Mo, who is now widely regarded as a divine physician, is probably no match for him.
But he's also a madman.
"A merman...that I made myself?"
Xie Yunyu frowned. "Was it injected with fish genes?" But if fish genes were injected into a human body, not to mention the possibility of rejection, it would be impossible to achieve this result.
It's no exaggeration to say that the fish tail of this "mermaid" can almost be described as "perfectly natural".
"It's the result of a mixture of various gene-modifying agents, achieved through numerous experiments." Ning Yao clenched her fist, leaving crescent-shaped marks on her palm, yet seemed oblivious to the pain.
"The Medical Alliance started such experiments more than 20 years ago, and it was Ning Xiao who was in charge."
Ning Yao knew that her mother was far from being as perfect as this "mermaid" at that time. Even from a fleeting glance, she could see that there was a large scar at the junction of her abdomen and fish tail.
Moreover, at that time, her mother was only able to survive by receiving dozens or even hundreds of injections of various kinds of medicine from Ning Xiao every day.
At the time, Ning Xiao was reluctant to give Cheng Luo a quick and decisive end.
A major reason was that he forgot the proportions of some of the medicines. Cheng Luo becoming a "merman" was purely by chance. Ning Xiao accidentally spilled several medicines on Cheng Luo without knowing the proportions, and Cheng Luo even drank quite a bit of them.
He couldn't remember the proportions, and Cheng Luo's condition was deteriorating.
Ning Xiao has an obsessive fascination with merfolk.
He had consistently advocated that the Elders build submarines to search for the merfolk.
But the cost was too high, and besides, it was no secret in the world that the Empire had sent an official task force to search for the merfolk without success.
There are so many races in the world, are we supposed to search for them one by one?
Therefore, the elders directly refused.
Unexpectedly, Ning Xiao had been secretly researching how to transform humans into merfolk.
As it turned out, he succeeded.
And it might even bring huge benefits to Fuyun Island.
Unfortunately, he ran into Gu Nanyan and his group.
"Human modification?!" Shen Beian was already shocked by what had happened on Fuyun Island, but he didn't expect there to be something even more shocking.
First there was the "Embryo Project," and then there was the transformation of humans into merfolk?
Is the Medical Alliance going to mass-produce biological armies next and then conquer the whole world?
“Hmm,” Ning Yao turned to look at Shen Bei’an, her face pale, a forced smile playing on her lips, “I don’t think I’ve told any of you about this.”
“My mother, Cheng Luo, was Ning Xiao’s first ‘mermaid’.”
Cheng Luo was not the first person Ning Yao killed.
Born into the Ning family, Ning Yao came into contact with those experimental subjects at a young age, witnessing live human dissections and experiments on living people.
She had witnessed too much life and death, and had also been forced by Ning Xiao to inject a high concentration of undiluted potassium chloride solution into a so-called "waste" experimental subject, and was forced to watch the entire process of his struggle and death.
They were forced to participate in the hunt.
Shen Bei'an, Shen Juanqing, and Xie Yunyu all looked at Ning Yao with disbelief.
"My mother was in human form when she gave birth to me, but she became a 'merman' when she gave birth to my second brother."
Shen Bei settled in place, and Ning Yao meant that Tang Ruowei and Cheng Yan were both born in Cheng Luo's "mermaid" state.
How devastated must Cheng Luo have been at that time?
"She made Ning Xiao feel 'satisfied,' and after that, Ning Xiao began to put even more effort into 'creating merfolk.' Now, there are countless 'merfolk' test subjects in the underground research institute of the Medical Alliance's 'Healing the World' building."
The building housing the medical alliance research is named "Hanging Pot Saves the World".
How ironic.
Ning Yao revealed the truth about the Ning family word by word. At this moment, she seemed to be an outsider to the Ning family.
The gasps of surprise from below continued.
They are either inexperienced in the ways of the world, or simply have a strong interest in merfolk.
No, how could I not be surprised by the appearance of such a legendary species?
They couldn't wait any longer and wanted to go to the hall to get closer to the "mermaid" and take a closer look.
Holographic images are no longer enough for them.
Even more wonderful would be to be able to touch that incomparably beautiful fish tail!
The people from the Medical Alliance seemed to have anticipated this, and had already arranged for law enforcement officers to wait nearby and reassure the guests.
Exclamations of surprise rose and fell, but the auctioneer remained remarkably calm.
Clearly, this is an exceptionally skilled auctioneer with a very high level of professionalism.
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Whether merfolk exist in the local area is unknown to the author; it all depends on technological advancements.
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