S419M gasped in Bai Lixin’s mind: [Lord Host, please don’t scare me, you’ll scare me to death. No breathing means death, right? Could it be that Lin Xiao is a zombie?]
Escape System: [It shouldn’t be. The horror game summons players with normal vital signs. Such a situation can’t happen.]
Bai Lixin: [Have you forgotten Samael? Wasn’t he an NPC in the copy? Didn’t he come to the game lobby as well?]
Escape System: [But Samael always had his face covered with a cloak, and that cloak seemed to have a function to block the system scan, allowing him to stay in the game lobby. After being discovered the first time, he was immediately sent back to the copy. This person keeps his face exposed, and is clearly unafraid.]
Bai Lixin fell silent for a moment: [Let’s observe a bit more.]
While communicating with the systems, Lin Xiao had already walked up to Glasses.
Glasses: “Oh, it’s you. Why do you walk so quietly? You scared me. It’s so late, why are you out?”
Lin Xiao looked at Glasses expressionlessly, his gaze moved slightly, and the corner of his eye seemed to sweep towards Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Did he just… look at me?
No way?
Who is this Lin Xiao exactly?’
Lin Xiao: “Concealing oneself can only provide a momentary disguise. It cannot hide the figure inside.”
Glasses blinked blankly, “What are you talking about?”
Different from Glasses’ confusion, Bai Lixin remained in place: “…”
S419M’s voice shouted in Bai Lixin’s mind, [Fuck, what does he mean? Is he talking about the host’s invisibility card?]
Bai Lixin: […]
“Those who toy with people’s hearts are destined to suffer backlash.” Lin Xiao spoke again, “Take care of yourself.”
After saying that, he turned and left. As he left, his body seemed to glance towards Bai Lixin’s position, then he melted back into the darkness.
He clearly spoke to Glasses, but it felt like he was speaking to Bai Lixin.
Once Lin Xiao disappeared, Glasses still wore a puzzled expression, and he muttered in confusion, “What weird nonsense? How strange and bizarre.”
Glasses put his fingers within the glasses frame, and rubbed them. He shuddered and murmured in a low voice, “This place is really scary.
After turning on the flashlight, he left cautiously.
After Glasses and Lin Xiao left, Bai Lixin once again focused on the seemingly unremarkable wall.
The invisibility card’s time was running out so he used another invisibility card to extend it, adding five more minutes.
He approached the wall and groped around with his fingers. While feeling around, he suddenly touched a small groove mark on the wall.
The groove was very small and fine, about one millimeter in thickness and ten centimeters in length. If you don’t look closely, you might not even see this groove.
When Bai Lixin saw this groove, he suddenly thought of something.
He turned towards Dr. Olay’s office. Dr. Olay’s office had a password lock, but he knew the password.
Of course Dr. Olay didn’t tell him. After lurking around Dr. Olay for so many days, if he couldn’t get a password, he wouldn’t be Bai Lixin.
After entering Dr. Olay’s office, Bai Lixin, relying on memory, walked to the desk and searched for a while. Finally, he found an access card in the innermost drawer.
He had noticed this access card for a long time.
He didn’t know its purpose and never saw Dr. Olay use it.
With a trial-and-error mentality, he retraced his steps to the end of the corridor, inserted the access card vertically into that hidden groove.
The width of the access card perfectly matched the groove, and he even heard the “click” sound as the machine gripped the card.
The next second, the wall, which originally seemed empty, quietly unfolded from the edge of the wall, just like an elevator door slowly opening.
As Xia Chi suspected, there was indeed a space behind the wall. This was probably the real experimental place Bai Lixin was looking for.
Bai Lixin quickly pulled out the access card, put it in his backpack, and walked in.
Compared to the darkness outside, this place was full of light. There was a spacious hall as far as the eye could see, and the ceiling flickered with bright lights. Upon entering the hall, he heard the door behind him closing softly.
Probably because it was designed as a secret base, the sound of the door closing was extremely subtle. If you didn’t listen carefully, you might not even hear it.
Standing in the hall, he could still hear some hurried footsteps.
Several large glass jars stood in the hall, filled with formalin and specimens of various creatures.
In the spotlight was a complete mermaid.
Although the mermaid was already dead, everything from her hair to her scales was still lifelike. From Bai his perspective, he could even see the mermaid’s eyelashes that were as thick as cattail fans.
The system had mentioned before that after a merfolk died, its body would be made into a specimen for display. But he hadn’t seen any specimens outside. But after entering here, he finally understood where the specimens were.
However, specimens weren’t just merfolk, there were other exhibits inside.
There were some isolated parts of animals, such as hearts, eyes, hair, and some very strange specimens.
He walked over and stood in front of a glass container.
Inside was a “merfolk,” but the merfolk’s head was obviously pieced together. From the neck down, it was a merfolk, but there was a clear suture wound at the neck. It looked similar to the stitching technique of the human-faced monster in the sewer.
Merfolk had gills in place of the ears, but this newly stitched head had human features —human ears, a human nose, and no gills.
This head stitched onto the merfolk’s body most likely belonged to a human.
Bai Lixin took a few steps forward and stood in front of another glass container.
This time, the merfolk had its head replaced again. However, it seemed there were new improvements; the ears also underwent surgery. There were suture wounds at the ear positions, indicating the removal of the original ears and replacement with mermaid ears.
However, this experiment probably failed too. Otherwise, what he saw wouldn’t be specimens of experiments but lively “human” merfolk.
It seemed that under the guise of studying merfolk’s behavior, this research institute was conducting inhumane experiments on human bodies.
The human-faced monster in the sewer was a victim of such experiments. Judging by the age of that human-faced monster, this experiment had been going on for many years. No wonder it’s called the Special Species Laboratory. Previously, these experiments were conducted on other life forms, and now they’ve started on merfolk.
So, is Dr. Olay’s claim of “observing merfolk” true? Or was it just a rhetoric to misled people?
Dr. Olay couldn’t be unaware of this place because his access card could open it.
If that’s the case, does it mean he’s also planning to conduct this experiment on Dijia?
Temporarily putting aside this speculation, Bai Lixin walked along the corridor in the hall, heading further inside.
The laboratory extended downwards. According to his current feelings, after walking this segment, he should be in the basement now.
No wonder he always felt that the space in the basement was much smaller than the space above ground. It turned out the small space had been turned into a secret laboratory.
Also, the strange noises he heard in the basement before probably also originated from here. Bai Lixin walked down the corridor for a while and finally saw a figure.
In front, a square glass door blocked his way. Looking inside through the glass door, he could see dozens of experimenters in protective suits busy inside.
In front of them were some organ remnants and experimental vessels.
From his perspective, he could vaguely see a series of complicated data that he was unfamiliar with on the display screen.
Bai Lixin stood at the door for a while. Even as the invisibility card was about to expire, no one came to open the door.
Just as he renewed his card, he heard hurried footsteps and conversation coming from the corridor behind him.
He recognized the voices of the two conversing.
“You really couldn’t find your access card?”
“Yeah, I looked around just now and couldn’t find it. I always kept it in that drawer, it’s strange.”
“Did you casually put it somewhere and lose it?”
“No way, after all it’s an access card, not something else.”
“Then report it lost as soon as possible. What if someone else picked it up? Could it be that assistant who has been frequenting your office lately?”
“You mean Bai Lixin?” The man sneered, “Come on, him? If he had that intelligence, he wouldn’t have been discovered while messing around.”
“Hahaha,” mocking laughter echoed in the corridor, “I’m laughing so hard. It’s the first time I’ve seen someone so foolish. Playing so recklessly, and still doing it in the basement. Isn’t he afraid of the bed being shattered?”
“Come on, stop laughing.” Dr. Olay rubbed his slightly aching head, “I was worried he’ll mess around again recently, so I’ve had someone keeping an eye on him.”
“If it weren’t for the experiments that haf to be done quickly, I would have continued to watch him.”
“…” Bai Lixin silently stood in the corner and soon saw two men coming from a distance. They walked side by side, and with brisk steps, they arrived beside him.
Dr. Olay stood in front of the glass door and urged Dr. Camila to open it. However, Dr. Camila stopped, raised his head, and sniffed around, “Do you smell something?”
Dr. Olay also raised his head upon hearing this.
Bai Lixin noticed that, at night, whether it was Dr. Olay or Dr. Camila, they both underwent some changes.
They both turned into the appearance he had seen that the night they went into the sea.
Pale complexion, glasses looking very abrupt, and strange movements when blinking.
Seeing Dr. Camila approaching him, he quietly moved a bit to the side.
After sniffing, Dr. Olay withdrew his nose, “I didn’t smell anything. Where is it exactly?”
Seeing that Dr. Camila was about to move in front of him, Bai Lixin calmly took something out of his backpack and squeezed it in his hand.
“Achoo!” Dr. Camila instantly sneezed. He rubbed his nose and took two steps back. Tears were about to burst from his eyes, “Fuck, my eyes and nose.”
Dr. Olay was unaware of what happened, and quickly asked, “What’s wrong?”
Bai Lixin wiped the liquid in his hand on Dr. Olay’s clothes.
As Dr. Olay approach, Dr. Camila quickly took two steps back, “Stay away from me, there’s a strange smell on you. Did you eat onions at night?”
Dr. Olay smelled his sleeve with confusion, “What smell? Is your nose having a problem? Can you stop wasting time and go in quickly?”
Dr. Camila rubbed his slightly painful eyes and looked at Dr. Olay suspiciously, but he still opened the glass door.
As the door opened, a gust of wind blew past them.
Both men ignored it and walked through the glass door.
After entering the room, Bai Lixin followed behind them. It turned out they hadn’t left here at all; instead, they circled outside and hid here to conduct some secret experiments.
Dr. Camila and Dr. Olay should be central figures in the experiment. After they entered, the staff next to them greeted them respectfully.
The two didn’t stay here for long. After entering, they walked straight through the crowd and headed inside.
Bai Lixin quietly followed, observing the surrounding experiments while walking.
These experimenters seemed to be refining something.
They placed parts of a creature’s limbs in specific vessels, and at the end of the vessels was a funnel-shaped object. With heating and other operations, drops of liquid slowly dripped from the funnel into glass vessels.
The color was light yellow, somewhat resembling glycerin.
Bai Lixin didn’t closely observe what they were doing. Seeing Dr. Olay and Dr. Camila about to enter a room, he quickly followed.
It was a monitoring room with a huge screen on the wall. The screen was divided into many smaller ones. Dr. Olay operated the screen, and a dark video appeared in the center.
It was footage from the deep sea.
In the room, there were not only them but also over a dozen people sitting at individual desks, each with a screen. Bai Lixin noticed they were likely controlling exploration devices, exploring the deep sea.
Dr. Olay: “You still haven’t found the true location of their faith?”
Dr. Camila: “No. It was a pity we alarmed those green-skinned monsters last time, maybe the faith was on the other side.”
Dr. Olay: “There’s no medicine for regret in the world. If you want to say it, it was a pity that kid run away. His transformation was perfect. We witnessed him transforming from a human into a merfolk without any rejection phenomena.”
He paused and added, “Before he escaped, there were no rejection phenomena. Perhaps he had antibodies against the merfolk’s virus. Once we extract the antibodies, humans can smoothly transform into merfolk.”
Dr. Camila: “Yeah, but if that kid didn’t die, he must still be living in the sewer. He can’t escape, it’s only a matter of time before we find him.”
Dr. Olay: “But what we lack the most now is time.”
As he spoke, he lifted his sleeve. Bai Lixin noticed a black protrusion on Dr. Olay’s arm, much like rough skin from leprosy, which was somewhat nauseating.
“I’ve reached this point. If I had known there were such risks in studying merfolk, I wouldn’t have touched them.”
Dr. Camila rolled up his sleeve. His arm also had a pitch-black area. “I’m the same. You can’t say it like that. If we hadn’t studied merfolk, how would we know they are so beautiful? They are the correct evolution, our evolution went wrong because we tried to ascend to a higher Intelligent species, so we received God’s punishment.”
“Report, we have a discovery!”
A voice interrupted their conversation, diverting all their attention.
Dr. Olay and Dr. Camila walked behind that person and saw a giant whale on the screen.
Dr. Olay: “You’re showing us a whale? You really know what you’re doing.”
The person hurriedly said respectfully, “No, please wait a moment, keep watching.”
In the screen, the huge whale swam slowly. As the whale moved away, the area behind it reappeared in front of them.
In the dark depths of the sea, two gigantic merfolk statues stood there.
Bai Lixin’s heart skipped a beat.
Dr. Olay said excitedly: “These are never-before-seen statues. Where were they found?”
The person replied, “I just went to the left side of the last submarine dive as Dr. Olay instructed. Suddenly, there was a powerful water current. Under the influence of the water current, the monitor was carried by seawater. When it resumed normal operation, I found this place.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
They still discovered it.
Dr. Camila urged, “Quick, get closer. It seems the merfolk’s faith is here.”
Dr. Olay: “Can the merfolk faith really lift the curse on us?”
Dr. Camila: “It definitely can. Why is that kid who escaped into the sewer fine? He’s no different from other test subjects. The only special thing that happened to him is that he said he had seen the merfolk’s god and received the ocean’s blessing.”
Dr. Olay: “God, blessing, faith—it sounds absurd just listening.”
Dr. Camila: “Haven’t you heard? At the end of science is theology, and theology is the source of everything.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
The kid they’ve been talking about, could it be the little merman he encountered in the sewer?
While the two conversed, the monitor had slowly approached the giant statues. Just when the monitor was about to enter inside through the statues, and the secret of the merfolk was about to be exposed, a red-tailed mermaid with a harpoon suddenly appeared on the screen.
The camera clearly recorded the red-tailed mermaid raising the harpoon high, and the next second, the screen went black.
When the image disappeared, Bai Lixin noticed the metal bracelet on the wrist of the red-tailed mermaid.
It was the red-tailed mermaid he had once saved.
S419M gasped in Bai Lixin’s mind: [Lord Host, please don’t scare me, you’ll scare me to death. No breathing means death, right? Could it be that Lin Xiao is a zombie?]
Escape System: [It shouldn’t be. The horror game summons players with normal vital signs. Such a situation can’t happen.]
Bai Lixin: [Have you forgotten Samael? Wasn’t he an NPC in the copy? Didn’t he come to the game lobby as well?]
Escape System: [But Samael always had his face covered with a cloak, and that cloak seemed to have a function to block the system scan, allowing him to stay in the game lobby. After being discovered the first time, he was immediately sent back to the copy. This person keeps his face exposed, and is clearly unafraid.]
Bai Lixin fell silent for a moment: [Let’s observe a bit more.]
While communicating with the systems, Lin Xiao had already walked up to Glasses.
Glasses: “Oh, it’s you. Why do you walk so quietly? You scared me. It’s so late, why are you out?”
Lin Xiao looked at Glasses expressionlessly, his gaze moved slightly, and the corner of his eye seemed to sweep towards Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Did he just… look at me?
No way?
Who is this Lin Xiao exactly?’
Lin Xiao: “Concealing oneself can only provide a momentary disguise. It cannot hide the figure inside.”
Glasses blinked blankly, “What are you talking about?”
Different from Glasses’ confusion, Bai Lixin remained in place: “…”
S419M’s voice shouted in Bai Lixin’s mind, [Fuck, what does he mean? Is he talking about the host’s invisibility card?]
Bai Lixin: […]
“Those who toy with people’s hearts are destined to suffer backlash.” Lin Xiao spoke again, “Take care of yourself.”
After saying that, he turned and left. As he left, his body seemed to glance towards Bai Lixin’s position, then he melted back into the darkness.
He clearly spoke to Glasses, but it felt like he was speaking to Bai Lixin.
Once Lin Xiao disappeared, Glasses still wore a puzzled expression, and he muttered in confusion, “What weird nonsense? How strange and bizarre.”
Glasses put his fingers within the glasses frame, and rubbed them. He shuddered and murmured in a low voice, “This place is really scary.
After turning on the flashlight, he left cautiously.
After Glasses and Lin Xiao left, Bai Lixin once again focused on the seemingly unremarkable wall.
The invisibility card’s time was running out so he used another invisibility card to extend it, adding five more minutes.
He approached the wall and groped around with his fingers. While feeling around, he suddenly touched a small groove mark on the wall.
The groove was very small and fine, about one millimeter in thickness and ten centimeters in length. If you don’t look closely, you might not even see this groove.
When Bai Lixin saw this groove, he suddenly thought of something.
He turned towards Dr. Olay’s office. Dr. Olay’s office had a password lock, but he knew the password.
Of course Dr. Olay didn’t tell him. After lurking around Dr. Olay for so many days, if he couldn’t get a password, he wouldn’t be Bai Lixin.
After entering Dr. Olay’s office, Bai Lixin, relying on memory, walked to the desk and searched for a while. Finally, he found an access card in the innermost drawer.
He had noticed this access card for a long time.
He didn’t know its purpose and never saw Dr. Olay use it.
With a trial-and-error mentality, he retraced his steps to the end of the corridor, inserted the access card vertically into that hidden groove.
The width of the access card perfectly matched the groove, and he even heard the “click” sound as the machine gripped the card.
The next second, the wall, which originally seemed empty, quietly unfolded from the edge of the wall, just like an elevator door slowly opening.
As Xia Chi suspected, there was indeed a space behind the wall. This was probably the real experimental place Bai Lixin was looking for.
Bai Lixin quickly pulled out the access card, put it in his backpack, and walked in.
Compared to the darkness outside, this place was full of light. There was a spacious hall as far as the eye could see, and the ceiling flickered with bright lights. Upon entering the hall, he heard the door behind him closing softly.
Probably because it was designed as a secret base, the sound of the door closing was extremely subtle. If you didn’t listen carefully, you might not even hear it.
Standing in the hall, he could still hear some hurried footsteps.
Several large glass jars stood in the hall, filled with formalin and specimens of various creatures.
In the spotlight was a complete mermaid.
Although the mermaid was already dead, everything from her hair to her scales was still lifelike. From Bai his perspective, he could even see the mermaid’s eyelashes that were as thick as cattail fans.
The system had mentioned before that after a merfolk died, its body would be made into a specimen for display. But he hadn’t seen any specimens outside. But after entering here, he finally understood where the specimens were.
However, specimens weren’t just merfolk, there were other exhibits inside.
There were some isolated parts of animals, such as hearts, eyes, hair, and some very strange specimens.
He walked over and stood in front of a glass container.
Inside was a “merfolk,” but the merfolk’s head was obviously pieced together. From the neck down, it was a merfolk, but there was a clear suture wound at the neck. It looked similar to the stitching technique of the human-faced monster in the sewer.
Merfolk had gills in place of the ears, but this newly stitched head had human features —human ears, a human nose, and no gills.
This head stitched onto the merfolk’s body most likely belonged to a human.
Bai Lixin took a few steps forward and stood in front of another glass container.
This time, the merfolk had its head replaced again. However, it seemed there were new improvements; the ears also underwent surgery. There were suture wounds at the ear positions, indicating the removal of the original ears and replacement with mermaid ears.
However, this experiment probably failed too. Otherwise, what he saw wouldn’t be specimens of experiments but lively “human” merfolk.
It seemed that under the guise of studying merfolk’s behavior, this research institute was conducting inhumane experiments on human bodies.
The human-faced monster in the sewer was a victim of such experiments. Judging by the age of that human-faced monster, this experiment had been going on for many years. No wonder it’s called the Special Species Laboratory. Previously, these experiments were conducted on other life forms, and now they’ve started on merfolk.
So, is Dr. Olay’s claim of “observing merfolk” true? Or was it just a rhetoric to misled people?
Dr. Olay couldn’t be unaware of this place because his access card could open it.
If that’s the case, does it mean he’s also planning to conduct this experiment on Dijia?
Temporarily putting aside this speculation, Bai Lixin walked along the corridor in the hall, heading further inside.
The laboratory extended downwards. According to his current feelings, after walking this segment, he should be in the basement now.
No wonder he always felt that the space in the basement was much smaller than the space above ground. It turned out the small space had been turned into a secret laboratory.
Also, the strange noises he heard in the basement before probably also originated from here. Bai Lixin walked down the corridor for a while and finally saw a figure.
In front, a square glass door blocked his way. Looking inside through the glass door, he could see dozens of experimenters in protective suits busy inside.
In front of them were some organ remnants and experimental vessels.
From his perspective, he could vaguely see a series of complicated data that he was unfamiliar with on the display screen.
Bai Lixin stood at the door for a while. Even as the invisibility card was about to expire, no one came to open the door.
Just as he renewed his card, he heard hurried footsteps and conversation coming from the corridor behind him.
He recognized the voices of the two conversing.
“You really couldn’t find your access card?”
“Yeah, I looked around just now and couldn’t find it. I always kept it in that drawer, it’s strange.”
“Did you casually put it somewhere and lose it?”
“No way, after all it’s an access card, not something else.”
“Then report it lost as soon as possible. What if someone else picked it up? Could it be that assistant who has been frequenting your office lately?”
“You mean Bai Lixin?” The man sneered, “Come on, him? If he had that intelligence, he wouldn’t have been discovered while messing around.”
“Hahaha,” mocking laughter echoed in the corridor, “I’m laughing so hard. It’s the first time I’ve seen someone so foolish. Playing so recklessly, and still doing it in the basement. Isn’t he afraid of the bed being shattered?”
“Come on, stop laughing.” Dr. Olay rubbed his slightly aching head, “I was worried he’ll mess around again recently, so I’ve had someone keeping an eye on him.”
“If it weren’t for the experiments that haf to be done quickly, I would have continued to watch him.”
“…” Bai Lixin silently stood in the corner and soon saw two men coming from a distance. They walked side by side, and with brisk steps, they arrived beside him.
Dr. Olay stood in front of the glass door and urged Dr. Camila to open it. However, Dr. Camila stopped, raised his head, and sniffed around, “Do you smell something?”
Dr. Olay also raised his head upon hearing this.
Bai Lixin noticed that, at night, whether it was Dr. Olay or Dr. Camila, they both underwent some changes.
They both turned into the appearance he had seen that the night they went into the sea.
Pale complexion, glasses looking very abrupt, and strange movements when blinking.
Seeing Dr. Camila approaching him, he quietly moved a bit to the side.
After sniffing, Dr. Olay withdrew his nose, “I didn’t smell anything. Where is it exactly?”
Seeing that Dr. Camila was about to move in front of him, Bai Lixin calmly took something out of his backpack and squeezed it in his hand.
“Achoo!” Dr. Camila instantly sneezed. He rubbed his nose and took two steps back. Tears were about to burst from his eyes, “Fuck, my eyes and nose.”
Dr. Olay was unaware of what happened, and quickly asked, “What’s wrong?”
Bai Lixin wiped the liquid in his hand on Dr. Olay’s clothes.
As Dr. Olay approach, Dr. Camila quickly took two steps back, “Stay away from me, there’s a strange smell on you. Did you eat onions at night?”
Dr. Olay smelled his sleeve with confusion, “What smell? Is your nose having a problem? Can you stop wasting time and go in quickly?”
Dr. Camila rubbed his slightly painful eyes and looked at Dr. Olay suspiciously, but he still opened the glass door.
As the door opened, a gust of wind blew past them.
Both men ignored it and walked through the glass door.
After entering the room, Bai Lixin followed behind them. It turned out they hadn’t left here at all; instead, they circled outside and hid here to conduct some secret experiments.
Dr. Camila and Dr. Olay should be central figures in the experiment. After they entered, the staff next to them greeted them respectfully.
The two didn’t stay here for long. After entering, they walked straight through the crowd and headed inside.
Bai Lixin quietly followed, observing the surrounding experiments while walking.
These experimenters seemed to be refining something.
They placed parts of a creature’s limbs in specific vessels, and at the end of the vessels was a funnel-shaped object. With heating and other operations, drops of liquid slowly dripped from the funnel into glass vessels.
The color was light yellow, somewhat resembling glycerin.
Bai Lixin didn’t closely observe what they were doing. Seeing Dr. Olay and Dr. Camila about to enter a room, he quickly followed.
It was a monitoring room with a huge screen on the wall. The screen was divided into many smaller ones. Dr. Olay operated the screen, and a dark video appeared in the center.
It was footage from the deep sea.
In the room, there were not only them but also over a dozen people sitting at individual desks, each with a screen. Bai Lixin noticed they were likely controlling exploration devices, exploring the deep sea.
Dr. Olay: “You still haven’t found the true location of their faith?”
Dr. Camila: “No. It was a pity we alarmed those green-skinned monsters last time, maybe the faith was on the other side.”
Dr. Olay: “There’s no medicine for regret in the world. If you want to say it, it was a pity that kid run away. His transformation was perfect. We witnessed him transforming from a human into a merfolk without any rejection phenomena.”
He paused and added, “Before he escaped, there were no rejection phenomena. Perhaps he had antibodies against the merfolk’s virus. Once we extract the antibodies, humans can smoothly transform into merfolk.”
Dr. Camila: “Yeah, but if that kid didn’t die, he must still be living in the sewer. He can’t escape, it’s only a matter of time before we find him.”
Dr. Olay: “But what we lack the most now is time.”
As he spoke, he lifted his sleeve. Bai Lixin noticed a black protrusion on Dr. Olay’s arm, much like rough skin from leprosy, which was somewhat nauseating.
“I’ve reached this point. If I had known there were such risks in studying merfolk, I wouldn’t have touched them.”
Dr. Camila rolled up his sleeve. His arm also had a pitch-black area. “I’m the same. You can’t say it like that. If we hadn’t studied merfolk, how would we know they are so beautiful? They are the correct evolution, our evolution went wrong because we tried to ascend to a higher Intelligent species, so we received God’s punishment.”
“Report, we have a discovery!”
A voice interrupted their conversation, diverting all their attention.
Dr. Olay and Dr. Camila walked behind that person and saw a giant whale on the screen.
Dr. Olay: “You’re showing us a whale? You really know what you’re doing.”
The person hurriedly said respectfully, “No, please wait a moment, keep watching.”
In the screen, the huge whale swam slowly. As the whale moved away, the area behind it reappeared in front of them.
In the dark depths of the sea, two gigantic merfolk statues stood there.
Bai Lixin’s heart skipped a beat.
Dr. Olay said excitedly: “These are never-before-seen statues. Where were they found?”
The person replied, “I just went to the left side of the last submarine dive as Dr. Olay instructed. Suddenly, there was a powerful water current. Under the influence of the water current, the monitor was carried by seawater. When it resumed normal operation, I found this place.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
They still discovered it.
Dr. Camila urged, “Quick, get closer. It seems the merfolk’s faith is here.”
Dr. Olay: “Can the merfolk faith really lift the curse on us?”
Dr. Camila: “It definitely can. Why is that kid who escaped into the sewer fine? He’s no different from other test subjects. The only special thing that happened to him is that he said he had seen the merfolk’s god and received the ocean’s blessing.”
Dr. Olay: “God, blessing, faith—it sounds absurd just listening.”
Dr. Camila: “Haven’t you heard? At the end of science is theology, and theology is the source of everything.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
The kid they’ve been talking about, could it be the little merman he encountered in the sewer?
While the two conversed, the monitor had slowly approached the giant statues. Just when the monitor was about to enter inside through the statues, and the secret of the merfolk was about to be exposed, a red-tailed mermaid with a harpoon suddenly appeared on the screen.
The camera clearly recorded the red-tailed mermaid raising the harpoon high, and the next second, the screen went black.
When the image disappeared, Bai Lixin noticed the metal bracelet on the wrist of the red-tailed mermaid.
It was the red-tailed mermaid he had once saved.
