22. Chapter 22
"I" cautiously flew out of the corner, looking for a trace of Shi.
This is a completely different real yàn part from the real yàn room of Arteles, it is incredibly large, at a glance, "I" can hardly see the end, all kinds of glassware and heavenly sinks block the view of "me", "I" after many circles, only to see the release at the end of the wide real yàn part.
Shi quietly floated in a glass sink connected to the ceiling, as if he was asleep, his eyes were closed, his facial expression was very soft, although the facial lines had begun to take on the sharpness of a teenager, but the childishness had not been completely taken off, and he still looked like a child. If it weren't for the environment he is in now, I would have thought it was a very heartwarming scene, but the reality is that he is being abused in an inhumane way!
Look at what those hateful people have done, this glass sink is so small that it barely holds him, and he can only swim up and down straight, not even curling his tail slightly. I swear that if he had grown up a little more, he would have been squeezed into a confined space and deformed, affecting his physical development.
He has several conduits inserted into his body, which lead through holes in the wall of the guò sink to the precision measuring instrument outside the tank, and with each breath he takes, the values on the electronic screen of the instrument change accordingly.
He was like a puppet with several strings attached, manipulated.
A bunch of brutes! He's just a kid and they're abusing him like this, I'm going to have to find a way to get him out of here!
He's probably been heavily tranquilized, and he shows no signs of sobriety, and I have limited mental energy, so I have to take advantage of this only opportunity to talk to him. However, looking at the catheter on his body and the various instruments placed in the water, I really didn't dare to do it, for fear that it would hurt him.
"I" quietly observed him for a long time, and seeing that he showed no signs of consciousness, I decided to observe his surroundings first, looking for an exit that could be escaped in the future.
"I" flew to the side, only to find the glassware I saw when I came in, and there were biological specimens inside. A metal nameplate on the front of the vessel with the name of the specimen includes a lizard, an octopus, and ...... There are even mermaids.
The mermaid specimens were lined up in the middle of the exhibition area, and "I" couldn't help but be stunned when I looked at them one by one.
There are not only specimens of various organs of mermaids, but also morphological specimens of different stages of growth.
The specimens soaked in formalin were wrinkled and their skin was grayish-white, especially the five-day-old mermaid specimens, which were even more crumpled and could only be seen with a magnifying glass in front of the specimen.
The five-day-old mermaid was very small, about the size of half a finger.
When I saw that, I suddenly remembered the little mermaid I had raised.
Oh yes, a little mermaid, he appeared rather out of the blues - I accidentally broke the necklace my mother gave me, and he fell out of it.
At that time, I could say that I was quite shocked, he was incredibly small, like a ball of meat stalking, if it weren't for the fact that his upper body was human, I would have treated him as an inconspicuous piece of garbage and threw him in the trash.
I don't know where he came from, but since he would have survived so long in the necklace my mother gave me, it must not have been easy. I took care of him for a month, and he grew from the size of a finger to the size of a human baby, but unfortunately, his eyes never opened for unknown reasons, and his tail and hair did not develop from the gray color common to mermaids as a baby.
I didn't know anything about him except for his preferences, such as lying on the white sea lion doll I gave him in the sun, touching my face with the soft palms, and touching his fishtail. What mermaid race he belongs to, where he comes from, and why he is in the necklace are all unsolved mysteries.
And this mystery, after I became a sacrifice, there is no possibility of solving it.
Yes, before I was taken as a sacrifice by the Nords, I let him go back to the sea to protect him, and I promised that if I escaped, I would go back to him. Unfortunately, I couldn't escape from that cage by all means, he was like an orphan and I left him behind, and I didn't even give him a name. Later, I went back to look for him in a way that shared the spirit, but unfortunately I couldn't find him.
I don't know where he's gone, I don't know if he's doing well now, but when I'm just alone, I always think of him with guilt.
Because of this, after getting acquainted with Shi, I put the guilt of the little mermaid and the debt to Ed on Shi, hoping to make up for my mistakes through Guò's love for Shi.
Looking from the perspective of the specimen, "I" unexpectedly saw many large and small sinks, in which there were ** mermaids of various races, and a male deep-sea mermaid deeply attracted my attention.
His face was familiar, and after I looked at him for a minute, I was finally sure I recognized him.
Remember when March said that he captured a merfolk and came to Clifford Island, the merfolk walked away? In fact, his words were deceptive, the one that walked away was the one in front of me, and it was clear that March had taken him to the institute and lied to me.
It seems that my coming to this island was also carefully calculated by March.
Compared to the merfolk who swam quietly around him, this mermaid was much more irritable, sliding his tail to swim around in a restless manner, and occasionally slapping his tail against the walls of the sink, of course, as a result, he screamed at the electricity released by the walls of the sink. He had a white electronic ring about half a thumb wide on his head, I don't know what material, it was so tight that it almost crushed his head, and there was a numerical display on the electron ring, which would beat every minute, and the value hovered between 45 and 50 repeatedly.
I don't know what the electronic ring is for, but judging by the way he repeatedly reached out and grabbed the thing, it caused him a lot of damage.
Just as I was about to take a closer look, the sound of the gate opening sounded behind me, and I immediately flew to a corner where I could observe them up close.
Two people who looked like investigators came with electronic notebooks, one of them observed the mermaid for a minute, lowered his head and wrote on the notebook, as if recording the number of electronic rings, and the other investigator scanned the mermaid through the guò communicator, and then the two nodded to each other at the same time, as if they had reached some kind of consensus.
"Report to the headquarters, the value of the connection of the real yàn body No. 163 continues to decline, and it is lower than the normal value, and I request an order from the headquarters."
After a short burst of electric sound, the empty real yàn part echoed with a cold voice: "The fifth failure of the induction connection, the real yàn body No. 163 has no value, and the ** dissection is allowed." ”
**Dissect? I was astonished that this was really the voice of flesh-and-blood human beings, and my knowledge of this institute reached a point of fear, and the simple word "brutality" was no longer enough to describe their abuse!
After that, two staff members in white coats came in, they activated the switch, released a high-intensity current in the sink, grabbed the mermaid with electric anesthesia, pushed it onto the operating table, and then ...... I saw one of the bloodiest and most tyrannical scenes of my life.
The cold scalpel pressed against the mermaid's belly without any sterilization measures, and the sharp tip of the knife slashed, and blue blood gushed out of the gap like a spring. The merfolk let out a miserable scream, and the fish's tail flicked in pain, but the struggle only allowed the electricity to penetrate his body with greater intensity.
The mermaid's screams seemed to bore the staff, and they coldly clamped the mermaid's jaw, and the cold knife cut his tongue to remove the delicious tongue from his mouth, and then they gagged the mermaid's mouth with a piece of bloodstained gauze. In this way, the mermaid was in pain and despair, watching her belly be lifted, turning out the blurred flesh and blood tissue, revealing blood vessels, and the organs that were still beating were taken out of her body alive, the large and small intestines, and the stomach...... It's all thrown like garbage into the bucket placed next to it.
Fishy blood flowed all over the ground, as if deliberately admiring the mermaid's painful expression, the staff's techniques were very precise, each knife would avoid the vital point, and the mermaid's strong vitality also allowed him to endure pain while staying awake.
All the organs except the heart were removed, and the staff changed into another pair of rubber gloves, measured the position of the knife, pressed the knife to the edge of the fish's tail, and neatly cut the fish's tail in the mermaid's whimper, then to the webbed claws, to the ear fins...... All fish-related organs are removed and placed on a separate table.
The mermaid's eyes were no longer in focus, their eyes were about to fall out of their sockets, and their facial expressions were covered with tears, which showed how much pain they had endured. Eventually, his heart was removed, and for a brief moment before he stopped breathing, his eyes widened with resentment, staring at the staff with a dead eye.
"This guy is still glaring at us. He should be honoured to have dedicated his life to science. A staff member pointed to the eyes and said, "Man, let's remove these beautiful eyes, and I'm going to make them into a specimen and string them into a necklace." ”
"Oh, your weird collector's habit is disgusting," another long-haired staff member laughed and gestured to his hands, "but it's wonderful to think that we've been oppressed by merfolk for so long, and now that we can control the merfolk's life and death, and have him beg us to let him go." I like it, come on man, I'm going to collect his hair and get it on my beautiful long hair. ”