Chapter 12: The Greedy Heart

Even to humanity that once harbored ill will towards you, would it be good?

Thinking so, Jack ran over Sophie's fingers, and he was struck by the goodness and purity of the mermaid. Pen Ɨ fun Ɨ Pavilion www. biquge。 Info Faced with such a beautiful and innocent creature, his heart felt as if something had struck him.

When Jack was already able to talk to the mermaid skillfully, the doorbell rang this day, while Jack was asleep.

"Jack! Have you read today's news?!Someone has taken a picture of a mermaid! Look here! Although it is very blurry, in the dark night, facing the light, you can still see the figure of the mermaid!!" The director of the scientific research institute excitedly told Jack the latest news report as soon as he entered the door.

Jack was shocked at this time, he was scared, although he had always wanted to catch the mermaid, and exchange this high-level intelligent creature for the chance to overturn the case if his mother was not frightened crazy. But Jack never thought that at the moment when the mermaid was exposed, his heart would have mixed feelings.

Since when did Jack indulge in the joy of swimming in the ocean with the mermaid every night, and when did Jack forget his purpose and his desire to get close to the mermaid in the first place......

"Jack!Jack!!" The director shook Jack's shoulders and shouted, "Jack, what's the matter with you! Aren't you excited and happy to see this news?

"Jack, what the hell is wrong with you?!"

Jack tried his best to suppress the panic and confusion in his heart, trying to make his eyes look at the director steady.

"Director, I think this photo is fake! It's artificially synthesized! How can a real mermaid be discovered so easily? Look at the background of this photo, it's an endless sea, and the figure of the mermaid is just standing in the middle of the sea facing the light, which is not clear enough!" Jack confirmed that the photo was not himself and the mermaid after taking the potion, but a mermaid he had never seen before.

"Jack, how can you be so depressed! Could it be that your body is well recuperated during the time you are relaxing at home, but your head is broken?!! you look at the shape of the mermaid here and the angle of the light refracted in the seawater, how can it be a man-made composite picture! How can it be a fake! And as long as we found something before, we would look for it with all our might! How can you be skeptical when you see the picture now!!" The director looked at Jack with emotion, shouting, and looking angry.

"Director, it's not my suspicion, it's my speculation! How could a real merfolk suddenly appear near a human habitation? A lot of the news is fake! The environment where humans live now is full of dangers to these sea creatures, let alone a highly intelligent creature like a mermaid?" Jack defended, trying to calm himself.

"Jack! Believe it or not, the scientific research institute needs your participation now! But for your safety, you don't have to go back and forth for the time being, and participate in research at home, but the institute will increase its efforts to monitor the traces of the mermaid! Do you know! If the unknown creature of the mermaid is real, what a great discovery it will be! The person who discovered this creature can even go down in history! It is known to the entire world of mankind!!" The director ignored Jack's words, and said to himself, looking yearning.

"What would you do if you found a creature like a merfolk?" Jack frowned.

"If a mermaid is found, of course, it is caught in large quantities and raised in captivity, and it must be ensured that this higher intelligent creature reproduces! By the way! It's not you! You should ask us what we're going to do! Aren't you one of us?!"

Sending the director away, Jack's heart was very confused, he couldn't tell what he was feeling, he sat quietly for a while, trying to control his emotions, Jack turned on the computer.

"Oh! no!!" Seeing the news about the mermaid photo on the Internet, Jack stood up suddenly.

He was annoyed, he was nervous, he was flustered, and Jack didn't know what else he could do at this time except for constant rinsing.

If the research institute intervenes, although the mermaid lives in the deep sea with great sea pressure and is not easy to be discovered by humans, it is actually not far from here, and a mermaid has begun to believe in humans.

"What should I do? What should I do?!" Jack felt a splitting headache.

That night, Jack uses a potion to transform into a mermaid to the bottom of the ocean that he has made an appointment to meet the mermaid every night.

"Jack, what's wrong with you today? I feel like you're restless?" Jack hesitated as he heard the mermaid's beautiful soft voice.

"I don't think we'll meet for a while, you tell your people, don't come to the shallow waters!" Although he was reluctant, although he was lucky, Jack still said it, he couldn't bear to be caught by humans and lose his freedom.

"Why?" the mermaid blinked wide-eyed and circled around Jack with a leisurely look.

"Because humans are very interested in you! If you are discovered, you will probably lose your freedom and become a raised animal. Jack looked at the mermaid deeply with a pained expression.

"Jack, why do you say that? Why you? Aren't you one of our merfolks?" the mermaid smiled softly and took Jack's hand.

"I—I was just too nervous! Sophie, you don't know how terrible human desires are!" Jack smiled wryly, looking at Sophie, who trusted him so much, his heart ached.

"We have always been far away from human life, and no human being in this deep sea can dive to such a deep sea! they cannot overcome the strong water pressure!" said the mermaid disapprovingly, taking Jack's hand, and swimming towards the deep sea as usual.

"Sophie, remember what I said, it's always good to be careful!" Jack's heart seemed to bleed at the beautiful and charming Sophie, thinking that he might not be able to see her again.

"Okay, I'll remember what you said. Sophie looked at Jack and smiled softly, her eyes flashing with a soft light, beautiful and moving.

"Sophie, I don't think I can go fishing with you today. I need to go back to my habitat......" Jack avoided Sophie's eyes, he could no longer see her, but he couldn't see her hurt in any way.

In order for Sophie to survive and not be disturbed by humans, Jack abandons his original plan, believing that he will think of another way to help his mother re-investigate the cause of death.

"Jack, would you like to come to my people, I can take you to my people!" Sophie approached Jack and looked at him earnestly.

"I—I can't ......" Jack shook his head bitterly, he couldn't tell Sophie that he had a lot of work to do, he couldn't tell the beautiful, charming, innocent and kind Sophie in front of him that he was a human being.