My scalp tingled, and I stiffened and asked, "Do those syllables have any other meaning?" ”

Ben's smile grew: "Your face doesn't look good, do you need a break?" ”

"No, I don't." I awkwardly rejected him, "Sue me." ”

"In the mermaid race, the mother is equivalent to the god of the sea, so the word 'interpretation' is used in the name, which means god. Unfortunately, however, 'Kasha' is a fixed phrase and has no meaning other than 'mother, mother', as is 'Iwaka'. ”

Well, while the results weren't very satisfying, at least it alleviated my embarrassment of calling a mermaid "mom...... After all, it is much better to call Shi "God" than to call "Mom".

"But to my wonder, how could your merfolk consider you a mother because of their fin biting? Is it because he is an orphan? ”

Ben looked at me curiously, I didn't want to continue on this strange topic, and said, "You just said ...... Oh, and that mermaid next to me is only four months old? But he looked like a ten-year-old human child. ”

Ben smiled: "The growth rate of the mermaid is quite fast, it only takes five months for the mermaid in the portrait to grow from the embryonic state to this form, of course, the catalyst also plays a big role, but the form of the ordinary mermaid is the same as our adults in ten months at most." The lifespan of mermaids is very long, different species have different lifespans, some can reach hundreds of years, some can reach thousands of years, but unfortunately, we don't have the number of mermaids," Ben sighed regretfully, "Even your mother doesn't know how long they can live, but your mother can live a long life based on the fact that the mermaids only lay one egg at a time." ”

I'm not interested in the blue mermaid, I only think of Shi: "What about the deep sea mermaid?" ”

"Deep-sea merfolk are the shortest-lived species of mermaids, at most a hundred years old. But Ai God gave them this disadvantage, but gave them the advantage of rapid reproduction and high number of eggs. ”

Is it only a hundred years old...... That's long enough for us humans.

Ben returned to the topic: "It's a pity that although the blue mermaids are powerful, their numbers are very rare, and they are good at camouflage and blending into other populations, and in the history of mankind, almost no one has found their existence. This mermaid and his dead mother are the only ones we've ever seen. In order to train him to be the best weapon, we built this state-of-the-art chamber at the time, kept him in this tank, fed him with the best bait, and gave him whatever he wanted, but sadly, he died while he was just an unfinished product. After that, we tried many times, but we couldn't cultivate such a perfect variety, and this real yàn room was also abandoned. ”

I looked at Ben in surprise: "It seems that you are not omnipotent, and you will actually let the real yàn body die." ”

"It was an accident." Ben lit a cigarette, his soul seemed to drift away, his eyes were on the portrait of the mermaid, I don't know if it was my delusion, I seemed to see his eyes full of dark fear, "Eighteen years ago...... Eighteen years ago, when we were still immersed in the spirit of the New Year, this mermaid escaped from a tank full of powerful electrical grids - no one knows how he did it, and we suspect that his body may have developed antibodies due to the excessive stimulation of high-intensity electric currents. In short, his escape brought us a great disaster, three hundred people ......" Ben's fingertips trembled, and the soot fell onto his leather shoes in shaking, but he did not react, "The three hundred staff of the institute, including unarmed researchers and explosion-proof personnel with high-tech weapons and mobile units, were all killed in this accident, and only fifty survived, and Cherson's father, Mr. Leyson, as the commander-in-chief at the time, was torn in half by this mermaid with his heart and body...... It was a nightmare, a nightmare that even after eighteen years, the survivors of that year would go crazy at the mention of it. ”

Ben trembled even more, and the soot had already soiled the surface of his shiny leather shoes: "Fortunately, Chelson and I went out to sea with a mobile force, and when we came back, we only saw corpses all over the ground, blood stained the floor, human organs were thrown on the ground like garbage, and the gunman was dug out of his liver without even firing a bullet...... "Ben seemed to see a demon, his eyes widened in horror, and his voice sounded a little trembling, "It was a massacre of great strength. Kill, according to the survivors, the mermaid only paid the price of having the tail of the fish cut off, his body was as indestructible as steel, ordinary guns and ammunition could not hurt him at all, only the quantum cutter caused damage to him. ”

A broken fishtail, an indestructible body.

A terrible and vague dream suddenly appeared in my mind, and the once vague image of the mermaid gradually coincided with the mermaid in the portrait, and became clear and three-dimensional......

Ben didn't stop his reminiscences, now his face was full of fear, and even his body began to tremble: "We immediately sent a mobile force to search for the mermaid's whereabouts, and fortunately, he probably didn't flee Lifu Island because of his overdraft and injuries—oh, that's the name of the island." He hid in the hollow of a hundred-year-old tree, I don't know how this tree hole was formed, maybe he dug it by hand, maybe it was naturally formed, in short, this tree hole is magically still alive today, eighteen years later. Oh, and far away, we found the merfolk, he's very powerful, as I described before, the lasers can't do any real damage to him, he brutally killed the mobile forces that attacked him, fortunately...... Luckily, Chelson arrived just in time and killed him with a small pulse cannon......"

No...... My head suddenly felt as if I had been hit by some heavy object, and the fragments of the mermaid deaths that I had experienced in my dreams came out clearly again—blood, killing. Killing and death, these three extremely dark fragments of memory struck my nerves and made my head hurt even more.

Ben didn't seem to notice my anomaly, as if he was struggling out of a nightmare, he exhaled deeply, and slowly closed his eyes: "The tragic accident ended in the death of the mermaid, and it took us nearly a year to complete the cleaning and reconstruction of the institute, and to apply for follow-up funding from the angry government, and recruit enough people, but the accident was so terrible that the living people still can't forget it." When you came in, you smelled a foul smell, yes, that smell was the smell of blood here, and after all these years, no matter what method we used, we couldn't get rid of it. The stench is like a haunting demon, a reminder of the horrific accident that happened here eighteen years ago—the cruel, inhuman slaughter of a mermaid for freedom. ”

No, it's not like that...... I felt like I was getting a headache and I couldn't breathe, and at the same time, I suddenly felt a strange emotion in my mind.

[Mother won't let me kill, I can't kill, I can't kill......]

My eyes widened in astonishment, staring at the portrait of a mermaid, as if a swirling black vortex appeared in the center of the portrait, sucking in the surrounding image, and the world seemed to be pressed backwards, fragments lying upside down.

The heart that had been pulled out was returned to the body, the bullets that flew out and exploded were retracted into the guns, the staff who came and went walked backwards, and the portraits that had just been hung were returned to the hands of the staff...... Then "my" body was erected and rudely thrown into a huge sink.

"Poof!"

A large amount of clear water poured into both sides of me, and the large number of bubbles produced by the oxygen pump made it difficult for me to see the situation outside.

"I" slapped the fishtail dissatisfied, rushed to the top of the sink, suddenly an electric shock numbness hit my body, the golden current swished on the top of the mesh trough, "I" gritted my teeth, unwilling to hit the trough wall, but was hit by a stronger current, "I" couldn't help but let out a painful scream: "Evil! ”

"No, kid, stop, stop!" The beautiful woman shook off the staff's clamps, pounced on the outer wall of the sink, and looked at "me" with a painful expression, "Child, don't move, okay?" That will only hurt you. ”

"Kasha, Kasha!" "I" bared his teeth in anger, the fishtail flicked wildly, and its webbed claws pressed against the wall of the groove, touching the woman's hand across the wall.

The woman's beautiful voice came through the microphone, and she actually cried, her voice full of choked throats: "Child, I'm here, promise me, don't do anything to hurt yourself, okay?" ”

"Renata Eddie Breeder, please go back, we need to perform the next real yàn on the real yàn body." A short, one-eyed man walked over and pulled the woman away roughly.

It's this nasty ugly man again! "I" hate him a lot.

"No, McGinn, please don't hurt him, he's just a kid! You can't turn him into a murder weapon, that would destroy him! The woman screamed hysterically, but it was useless for her to struggle, she looked back at "me" with tears on her face, and silently spoke to "me" with her lips: "No matter how patient the child is, it will be fine, one day we will leave this hellish place, I will take you to see my children, my husband, and we will live together as a family from now on......"

The woman was taken away, and "I" looked at her back in distraction, tears blurring "my" eyes: "Kasha, Kasha......"

Leave here and live together as a family...... This is what she and "I" want......

One day, "I" will take her out of this hell, out of here, and live with our family, together!

Suddenly, the world seemed to be fast-forwarded, and the scene flew by......

The portrait of "I" was hung on the wall by a short, one-eyed man, cheers rang out in the room, and a beautiful woman reluctantly said goodbye to me, and finally the fast forward stopped, and in the dark of the night, a dry voice sounded.

"Do you want to get out of here and be with your family?" Outside the sink there was a very unpleasant face for "me", the short, one-eyed man, McGinn.

Even though I was very unhappy with his presence and hated him, ...... "I" thought, "I" really wanted to get out of here, and if he could let "me" go, "I" would be very grateful to him.

"I" flicked the fishtail carefully, and told him in a way he could understand, "I" wanted to leave with my mother.

"Good boy, I was moved by your true feelings, so I let you out, and you promised me that you would secretly escape without anyone discovering it, do you know? If someone finds out, your mother is in danger. ”

"I" nodded in fright, knowing, "I" knowing.

"Then remember, don't leave Lifu Island after escaping, go under a very large tree, hide in the hollow, wait for your mother's arrival, and then you will leave together."

"I" promised him.

"Good boy, remember, don't be discovered." McGinn walked over to the sink and pressed his finger toward the button to turn off the automatic shock system.......

"Mr. Eddy, Mr. Eddy......"

Familiar voices cut in, and the images vanished, and I was awakened by a sudden thrust on my body.

The rancid smell crept into my nose, and I held my forehead and looked around in a sluggish circle, cold and outdated, a sink without water...... A jumble of emotions came alive in my head.

Grief, anger, longing, and the excitement of leaving......

【Ksha...... Take her away......]

"I can leave this hellish place and go to see Kashak's husband and children, so happy. 】

"Mr. Eddie!"

My body shook, and the scene in front of me came alive again. Oh, this is the real yàn room, which was abandoned eighteen years ago. The cigarette ash on the leather shoes has been cleaned up, and there is no more cigarette in the hand.

I rubbed my forehead and frowned. Again, that feeling – experiencing other people's memories from the first perspective. Now, I can say with certainty that the mermaid I dreamed of in the tree hole before was the one in front of me. It's just that I didn't expect that in this situation, I actually saw the scene from eighteen years ago, and felt the strong emotions of this blue mermaid again.

I clearly felt that he wanted to leave the real room, not for freedom, but for the sake of that beautiful woman, Renata Eddie, my mother. But he didn't run away, but was let loose by the short, one-eyed man, McGinn.

"He didn't kill the three hundred people in the institute."

I don't know why, but I'm so sure - even though I've personally experienced the slaughter he carried out in the hollow of the tree, after a painful struggle. Kill - his emotions are quite simple and determined, the only thing he thinks about all the time is my mother, and when he is treated inhumanely, he still has no desire to kill. Hope, even if it produces a kill. When people think, they will also try to restrain themselves because of their mother's instructions. Moreover, McGinn had told him to leave secretly for the sake of his mother's safety, and he had no reason to kill his mother without regard for it.

If it weren't for accidentally reading the mermaid's memory, I would have believed Ben's words, but in fact, there are too many doubts about this matter. Actually, before that, I didn't really want to care about this mermaid, but seeing that my mother has always defended him and regarded him as family, I can't be indifferent.

"Why are you so sure you weren't the one he killed?" Ben's expression didn't look surprised.

"Feeling." I don't want to give too much information to Ben.

Ben pushed the slippery glasses and told me word by word: "But in fact, the surveillance has recorded the entire process of his killing."

"Where's the surveillance footage?" I was a little surprised, but I never believed that he could be the butcher who slaughtered three hundred people.

"The surveillance footage has been blocked, and unfortunately, the person in charge of the surveillance footage code," Ben looked at me, his eyes filled with a strange light, "who died in an accident while escorting the sacrificial offerings a few days ago. ”

I was stunned, wasn't it when I was escorting the sacrificial offerings a few days ago when I rebelled against the Nords on the transport? Looking at Ben's expression, is it true that the man he spoke of died at my hands?

I didn't speak, I really don't know what to say at this time.

Ben didn't seem to want to continue the topic, and said, "I don't know why you're so sure of the conclusion, but I guess you must have seen something, right?" Like what...... The memories of this blue mermaid. ”