Before Mu Ziqing opened his eyes, he felt that his body was in an extremely comfortable environment, and what his skin felt was not air, but moist, flowing, comfortable, and water.

His whole body was in the water, the water did not pass over his head, holding up his hair and scattering, but it was amazing, he did not feel suffocated, as early as the Temple of Time, he knew that it was a mermaid who came to spend his dream, but he was really in such an environment, he was still amazed-

There really are mermaids, but in a time and space that he doesn't know.

Legend has it that mermaids have no soul, and at the same time, they have an almost eternal life, the most beautiful singing voice in the world, a beautiful face like a goblin, beautiful, mysterious, whether in literary works or film and television works, once they appear, they are usually linked to love, which is his understanding of mermaids.

Of course, since he can appear in front of him, it is impossible not to have a soul, but he can't be sure, because the bamboo hoop is not the mermaid he knows in the real sense, but an artificial mermaid.

This world is very peculiar, human beings in the process of evolution and towards the universe, the rapid deterioration of the bad environment, the weakening of the country towards unification, the birth of the alliance, under the pressure of survival of science and technology highly advanced, human beings urgently need to find a new living space, under the conditions of extreme oppression and tension, human beings began an epic evolution, first of all, the expression xiàn for the expansion of spiritual power, the awakening of special physique, physique and spirit are becoming more and more powerful, science and technology have also developed to the extreme, space problems have been overcome, Mecha and warships came out one after another, but finally made human beings start to explore other galaxies, and after several difficulties, the alliance was finally transferred to the current main star, and the original Earth has been abandoned as a garbage star due to the harsh environment and resource depletion.

After settling on the main planet, the alliance was renamed the Federation and began to develop greatly, because at the time of the transfer, it was detected that there were other civilizations, and they had to be fully prepared, who knows if it was friendship or war that awaited them? In the face of the unknown universe, even the Federation that has undergone great evolution has to be mentally prepared for their weakness.

Science and technology are once again developing at an incredible speed, and at the same time, the power of human beings has also been systematically exercised, and the manufacturing process of mecha and warships has made several leaps and bounds, finally giving the Federation the qualifications to show its strength in the universe and participate in the battlefield of Star Tyrant!

But there is usually no best of both worlds in this world, and while the Federation is strong, there are already hidden dangers in it - when they were just able to conquer the stars, the leaders of the Federation and the entire Federation had to face a huge problem - the population of the Federation finally showed negative growth.

This is a problem that threatens the existence of the Federation.

Women, a huge group, were inferior to men when they first evolved greatly, and some women did not evolve at all, and they even died of aging before they could leave the earth with them. And the evolved women, no, it should be said that the evolved human beings, the pregnancy rate has declined, some women, empty thousand years of life, at most three children, and they give birth to children, girls only half of the probability of awakening, half of the may be the initial person (earth state), the healthiest state is only about 30 years, although their fertility rate is higher than that of evolved people, but the birth rate of girls is only 30 percent, of which half are still unable to awaken, under the vicious circle, fewer and fewer women, the birth rate finally fell to negative.

The decline in the fertility rate is due to the slow population growth, and the leaders are not ignoring this problem, but even the top scientific teams have no way to find any effective solutions, and can only watch as fewer and fewer women are born, and the birth rate is declining year by year.

Originally, after the migration, the population of the Federation dropped sharply to one-tenth compared to the prosperous period of the earth, that is, the population of the Federation was only 200 million. The population base is not large, the birth rate is low, and no matter how many strong people there are, their federation will only decline.

The Federation stepped out of the main star, not only to dominate the universe and strive for more resource space interests, but also to target other civilizations to see if they could find a solution to this problem.

Stepping out of the main star, other civilizations were detected.

One is another Federation-like human civilization in the Sickle Galaxy, which is 20,000 light-years away, and they call themselves the Kaya Empire, and after a series of exchanges, tentative understandings, and even conflicts, and found that the development process is similar, the empire and the federation have established friendly relations.

The matter of the birth rate is so secretive that no one will take the initiative to mention it, and once other civilizations detect that the population has grown into a negative number, it is difficult to say whether "friendly diplomatic relations" will become "a demand with a lot of aggression."

Soon, the Federation discovered another life system, this system, which is not as communicative as the Empire, they are very brutal and dangerous - the Zerg.

In the interstellar world, the Zerg are terrible destroyers. They were ugly in appearance, like the insects on the earth magnified countless times, spitting corrosive, fishy pus from their mouths, and wearing shell armor that was unusually hard. Huge, destructive, omnivorous and huge, intensely aggressive, fond of devouring energy in order to evolve, reproducing rapidly, and every time it emerges from a hive, it is like a locust passing through, leaving no armor behind.

The swift agreement of the Federal Empire is also due to this enemy.

After another two hundred years, the Federation failed to get a solution to the negative population growth, and when it was very worried, it finally found a clue from the "little partner" - women in the empire are also extremely rare, even reaching a probability of one to one hundred, staring at this small slit, the Federation did not spy on solving the problem of population growth rate, but found another civilization in the interstellar -

Located in a place farther than the Scythe Galaxy, close to a natural black hole, a blue ocean galaxy, the inhabitants there are all fishtails, extremely beautiful, but the level of the protective shield on their galaxy is extremely high, the Federation cannot break through at all, and their mecha is even closer to perfection, each mecha seems to be from the hand of a mecha master, this kind of technology is exciting, but can only look at the protective shield and sigh - even the black hole not far away has no fear, what can they do?

The Confederation had no choice but to retreat and communicate with the Empire.

Through the "friendly exchange" between the Guò Empire and the Federation, the Federation understands that although the physical strength of the mermaid is weaker than theirs, the spiritual power is highly evolved, and every mermaid is a natural mecha master, and the protective shield technology is even more top-notch, they can turn into a human form, drive a mecha battleship, combat awareness, mecha operation is not weak, have many energy stars, extremely powerful.

The Federation sent a request for friendly relations to the mermaids, but was ruthlessly denied.

Mermaid refuses to establish diplomatic relations, but admits that pure interest interaction, only exchanges resources, does not accept any diplomatic means, has a tough attitude, the alliance and the empire originally wanted to force cooperation, but many times hit a wall, human beings have no way to take this hard bone, each mermaid has a high-strength miniature protective shield, each mermaid's mecha also has a special protective shield, hard work, and this protective shield, human engineers and scientists can't crack it at all, the strength of the imitation is a few levels worse than that produced by the mermaid, and the mermaid has the advantage, Humans can't think of it either.

As a result, human beings can only maintain a pure interest relationship with mermaids.

The merfolk's attitude of refusal shows that they have long been familiar with the development of human beings, and they must be the civilization that appeared in the stars before humans; And the mermaid's tough methods must be hiding some secret that cannot be known to humans. The Empire and the Federation are not stupid, they just have no ability for the time being.

It is worth mentioning that the Zerg, who are not picky eaters, seem to be particularly fond of mermaids, so mermaids are also very disgusted with Zerg, and in terms of fighting Zerg, mermaids will not be stingy with help.

In this way, many years have passed, the last woman of the empire and the federation has passed away one after another, and scientists have also preserved the genes of women, hoping to reproduce human beings and save human beings through guò genes, but unfortunately, all experiments have failed, the interstellar environment is not suitable for baby off-topic cultivation, there is no mother, even if the baby or □□ body is successfully bred, it will die in the environment that simulates the mother, and there is no accident - human beings officially announced that there will be no new life.

And at this time, the turning point appeared.

By chance, on the Zerg battlefield, the general of the Federation rescued a teenager who had fallen into a coma who had not yet been eaten by the Zerg, and the boy was detected to be an ordinary person, who was injured and had blood in his brain, and lost his memory after waking up, and was sent to the Federation's protection agency and arranged simple work for him. The boy fell in love with the general who rescued him, and soon got married—and same-sex marriage was long recognized at a time when women were in sharp decline.

This is not unusual, the important thing is that the teenager became pregnant soon after.

A man! He's pregnant! The scientists are desperate to know what this is all about, and the empire is desperate to know what this young man is! The Federation has even set off a marriage craze, almost indulging in love-making - maybe it was a sudden evolution? They might even have a baby! However, it turns out that there is no great evolution, men are still men, and there will be no children, so the existence of the teenager is even more precious, and almost everyone stares at the teenager with green eyes...... They didn't hurt the teenager, after all, every newborn now has a supreme position, they need to make sure that his child can be born well, and the secrecy is not bad, once they grasp the key, they can be in an absolutely advantageous position in the confrontation with the Empire, even!

Finally, the mystery was revealed, and when the teenager gave birth, his legs turned into fish tails! There is no doubt that the boy was originally a mermaid! Mermaids can have babies! He gave birth to twins, a mermaid and a human!

The boy who gave birth to a child, among the choices given by the Federation, picked the path of eating soft, at least the Federation guaranteed his personal safety and basic rights, guaranteed the safety of his children and the safety of his lover, the genetic sequence of the mermaid was quickly cracked a small part, but the good progress was quickly broken, and some of the genes could not be deciphered, after three years, the teenager became pregnant again and gave birth to a boy, the secret of the gene was not cracked, the problem of having a child was not solved, and I missed, the boy gave birth to a mermaid, and for another three years, gave birth to a pair of boys, all the time, scientists failed to find out the secret of mermaid birth, but the form has changed - the news leaked, the empire knew, the mermaid also knew, but none of the mermaids came out of the mermaid star, only the detector detected that the mermaids sang loudly to the sky that day, they thought that the worst outcome appeared, the mermaid has no female, but the secret of being able to reproduce, without the protection of the strongest shield of the blue star, they will become the object of human hunting, to be studied, forced, imprisoned, Give birth to humans! Humans still don't know what's going on, and when they come to their senses, the young mermaid and all the mermaid babies he gave birth to die together, and the mermaid star is closed to communicate with humans, and there is no more intersection with humans!

Human beings didn't have time to object, they only hurriedly preserved the bodies and genes of the mermaid and the baby mermaid, and didn't even have time to send a request to the mermaid star, the mermaid star was already surrounded by the overwhelming Zerg, and there were countless high-level zergs, and the mermaid's song attracted them, relying on the protective shield, the mermaid had no fear.

It's just that they didn't expect that the Zerg was born at the time of the birth of the new queen, and the new queen ate the old queen, and it was the time when the appetite, sexuality, and aggression were at their highest, and they spared the lives of thousands of Zerg, exhausted the energy of the protective shield, encroached and destroyed, and slaughtered all the mermaids.

The mermaid is extinct, human beings will inevitably die of rabbits and foxes, and the understanding of the Zerg is also more comprehensive and rich, integrating the current situation of mankind, the Imperial Federation decided to merge, a new empire was established, a new order was formed, and a new era began.

This history is something that every citizen of the empire can tell. At that time, mermaids were called natural mermaids.

Bamboo hoop flicked his tail, closed his eyes and swam in the huge fish tank, he had never felt so free and comfortable in the water, and sighed comfortably, but Zhu Ji's heart was not relaxed.

The bamboo hoop is not a natural mermaid, but an artificial mermaid.

After hundreds of years of studying the genes of natural mermaids, humans finally succeeded in creating an artificial mermaid, the body of a mermaid, allowing him to grow in an isolated environment, and after combining with humans, this mermaid successfully gave birth to a boy.

At this point, the reproduction of human beings is not a problem.

The technology of artificial mermaids has gradually developed, and it has become more and more skilled, the social system of mermaids has gradually been established, a sound mermaid education system, mermaid protection system has been established, and the social status of mermaids has also been recognized, although there are still some defects, such as artificial mermaids can only give birth to human beings, can not give birth to mermaids, mermaids can only be produced through guò artificial, mermaid bodies are weak, cultivation is not easy, etc., despite this, it has been called a perfect solution to the problem of human beings - inheritance plan.

The social status of the mermaid is not as low and humble as that of a pet or a child, just as the mermaid cherishes beauty, although the artificial mermaid has the word artificial, but it is still a mermaid, and because it has been cultivated since childhood, the environment that grows into it is simple and beautiful, and the character of the artificial mermaid is mostly pure and cute, beautiful in appearance, and pleasing in character, how can ordinary people hate it? The empire recognizes that mermaids are also citizens of the empire, and are protected by the laws of the empire, for which the "Mermaid Protection Law" and other relevant laws have been promulgated, and mermaids cherish, not all people can have their own mermaids, want their own mermaids, and the review is also very strict after submitting the application, in other words, the great evil people are not qualified to own mermaids, and mermaids do not have to worry about being treated badly.

But the status of the mermaid also has something he has no choice but to have.

Merfolk have little freedom.

For example, it was given as an item to a meritorious general of the Empire. Some people may not be able to own mermaids in their lifetime, so human beings usually participate in the military meritorious service to get the opportunity to own mermaids, and when the meritorious service is particularly large, the empire will choose to match the mermaid with a fairly high Cheng dù to reward the soldiers.

Of course, this is not particularly unfair, after all, if you are dreamed of, you will naturally be held in the palm of your hand, and you will be happy and safe for a lifetime.

And the bamboo basket is also like this. He is an artificial mermaid cultivated by Dr. Yao in the mermaid cultivation center, Dr. Yao is a very gentle and kind person, technology is authority, he cultivated the bamboo basket, is the best mermaid in his career, and the last mermaid, he is old and is about to retire, so when naming, he willfully used his favorite ancient earth plant - bamboo basket, and after listening to the bamboo basket, he said that he was not a plant, so it was changed to bamboo basket.

Spiritual power A level, the highest point of artificial mermaid, can become the object of almost all men, and the bamboo basket is also very beautiful and healthy, of course, the health of the mermaid cannot be measured by human standards.

But his fate made these titles very sad and pitiful, and even more ironic.