Chapter 22

That night, Ivey knocked on Boyce’s door.

“I heard that you were attacked by s-24 today?” Ivey was a little worried. When Boyce came back during the day, someone saw the finger marks on his neck.

It didn’t take long for most of the people in the institute to know about it.

“I’ll go for you tomorrow.”

Before Boyce could speak, Ivey cut him off: “I happen to have a lot of free time lately.”

He looked at Boyce: “It hasn’t attacked other breeders before, it may be targeting you.”

The next day, Ivey went to S-24’s breeding room instead of Boyce.

After Boyce came out of S-37’s breeding room, he went to S-24’s breeding room to wait. Ivey came out from inside and saw Boyce at the door, stunned for a moment.

Boyce looked him up and down, the hair was not messy, the coat was snug, and there were no wrinkles, and Ivey was dry and not wet.

With a relieved expression on Boyce’s face, Ivey smiled at him, with a joking tone: “It seems that s-24 is only targeting you.”

Ivey let others take over more than half of the other work in Ivy’s hands. He said, “I’m idle anyway, and it’s good to be able to help you a little bit.”

“I asked Professor Cyril the other day, and he said he could let you come here to help.”

Boyce looked at Ivey with a question in his eyes, “Do you want to go there?”

But although Ivey is Professor Chris’ assistant, he seems a little mediocre in Professor Chris’s team. Boyce and Professor Cyril mentioned the laboratory that brought him here. Ivey seems to be in Not very important in every project involved.

Professor Cyril also took this into account and told Boyce in advance that if Ivey entered his team, he might not be able to participate in more important experiments for the time being.

Boyce conveyed Cyril’s meaning to Ivey and asked for his opinion.

But Ivey declined his offer.

“I want to wait a little longer,” he said.

“Maybe Professor Chris will be back in a few days.”

Ivey has always had a deep admiration for Professor Chris. As a top scholar in the field, it is indeed normal for Professor Chris to have some admirers.

—

Boyce and Ivey went to the laboratory assigned to him by Cyril after they separated.

He recorded the data of the mice used in the experiment. After accidentally adding z-v to the prepared ec and z-a reagents last time, he synthesized a new reagent.

After injecting the new drug into the mouse, the mouse’s physical condition returned to its peak level, but the next day, Boyce and the others found that it died from a ruptured blood vessel.

Boyce and the others adjusted the ratio in the follow-up. The new drug responded very well to the mice. The body of the old mice returned to a young state. The data of the young mice improved in all aspects. After a few days of the drug, there have been no adverse reactions so far.

Among these mice, the most special one began to grow its nails after the drug was injected, and the hardness of the nails also increased. At the same time, its body size also began to grow. Cyril and the others speculated that the drug may have promoted it towards evolution in some way.

But at present they have not been able to determine the side effects of the drug, so they have not reported the experimental results to the above.

—

The fact that Ivey went to feed the S-24 in place of Boyce didn’t hide it deliberately, and both of them were a little surprised that Oriel didn’t take this incident.

However, just after Boyce and Ivey were relieved, Oriel suddenly asked Boyce to come to his office, and mentioned that Ivey helped him feed the s-24 recently.

After hitting Boyce again, Oriel let him go.

Boyce returned to the laboratory, but Matthew, who should have stayed in the laboratory, was nowhere to be seen.

The drafts that had been neatly piled up were a little messy. The cage containing the mice fell to the ground at some point. The mice whose fingernails had more than doubled in size crawled around restlessly in the cage, scratching their fingernails on the metal cage. Some harsh sound.

Boyce flipped through the drafts. These are all discarded data. There should be a few missing pieces, and a potion that was just prepared a few days ago was also lost.

Boyce picked up the cage on the ground, and Ma Xiu came in at this time.

“Where did you just go?” Boyce frowned.

“Someone said that Professor Cyril was looking for me…”

“what happened?”

“Someone entered the lab and took away discarded data and a potion.”

After the incident, Boyce and Matthew reported to Cyril. After leaving Cyril’s office, Matthew looked at Boyce: “Who do you think would do it?”

Although he was asking Boyce, he seemed to already have the answer: “How could it be possible that the two of us just left, and people entered the laboratory.”

He asked Boyce, “What do you think?”

—

After separating from Matthew, Boyce went to Ivey.

When Boyce went, Ivey was looking at the file. When Boyce came in, he was going to close the file, but he didn’t want to accidentally click on another video.

A somewhat familiar face appeared on the video, and Boyce had just seen his photo some time ago.

Zoe Fleiss, former breeder of the s-37.

What impressed Boyce most about him, Ivey said, was that he fell in love with the merman he was in charge of.

That is the S-37.

The time on the video should have been in the middle of the night. He was alone in the corridor. Boyce saw Zoe open the s-37’s rearing room. After the picture on the video was slightly distorted for a moment, the figures of Zoe and S-37 appeared. on the screen.

Boyce’s eyes fell on the blue mermaid figure, probably because he had been with it for a long time, Boyce felt that the mermaid’s movements on the screen were a little unnatural.

He frowned and continued to watch.

Zooey opened the partition glass and sat on the lifting platform. Boyce saw his lips parted and said something in a low voice, but the mermaid in the pool was indifferent.

Boyce pulled the progress forward a little bit, and the mermaid who was in the pool suddenly burst out, dragging the person on the elevator down the pool.

Then the next day, people from the institute found Zooey’s body.

Boyce pulled the progress bar back and slowed down the speed. Ivey asked him, “What do you see?”

Boyce initially only thought the S-37’s movements in the video looked unnatural, but after slow-playing, he could see some traces of the video being edited.

But in the research institute, the incident of the mermaid attacking the researcher was not surprising, and no one paid close attention to it. Everyone acquiesced to the truth that s-37 dragged him into the pool.

From the notes left by Zooey, Boyce guessed that the relationship between s-37 and him should be considered peaceful.

“It doesn’t seem to like me, I rarely see it when feeding, and most of the time it’s underwater.”

“However, it doesn’t seem like it was intended to hurt me either.”

It was recorded in Zoe’s notes.

Boyce watched Ivey close the video and remembered another creature in the video. How much did S-37 know about the truth about Zoe’s death?

—

The next morning, Boyce continued to feed the two merman, and after feeding s-37, Boyce went to the breeding room of s-24.

S-24 in the pool surfaced after hearing the sound of footsteps, and looked like he was skillfully waiting for food.

Seeing that it was Boyce, it seemed a little surprised. It looked behind him subconsciously, but found that Boyce was the only one who came over.

Boyce felt that he could probably see some disappointment in him, and he seemed to want other experimenters to come here more than himself.

The fish with fresh blood was thrown into the water, and S-24 watched Boyce’s movements not far away. Suddenly, its tail stirred in the water. Seeing Boyce looking at him, it grinned and turned towards Boyce. Boyce’s mouth was full of fangs, and his fins were spread out like a demonstration.

However, as if he had some scruples, it looked at the humans on the shore, with a trace of unwillingness in its eyes, doing demonstrations, but did not approach Boyce.

After Boyce left, the s-24 patted the water as hard as it could vent its anger.

can’t hurt…

It silently recites this sentence in its heart,

The frowning brows suddenly loosened, not hurting anyone, it shouldn’t matter if you don’t get hurt…

—

S-37 smelled faintly of another merman on its sofia a few days later.

A shallow, somewhat vain aura, which surrounds a layer of human beings, can be easily dissipated, which means that he and the other mermaid are not too close.

But the s-37 is still a little fidgety about it.

He went to another merman’s breeding room, and the merman came to this conclusion.

He looks fine now, the s-24 has done nothing to him for a while, but it has a hostility towards its own Sofia.

In other words, the other mermaids in this institute are more or less hostile to him. Although they will not endanger his life, they may cause some small troubles.

And its Sofia probably doesn’t know anything about it.

It felt that it should make him understand that in the research institute, being the only mermaid was harmless to him.

As a fragile human, he should stay away from the merfolk who have bad intentions towards him.

As long as a mermaid is close to me is enough.

s-37 thought.

—

S-24 sensed the scent of another merman, and it dived into S-24’s territory through the abandoned passage between the two pools.

s-24 instinctively wanted to drive the mermaid out of its own territory, especially some time ago, this inexplicable mermaid suddenly came through this passage to fight with him, and even cut off most of the scales on its tail. All pulled off.

If it wasn’t for him, s-24 also wanted to swim to the pool where he was through this channel and beat this inexplicable mermaid.

Now, this mermaid once again appeared in his own territory without any scruples. Although he knew the strength gap between the two mermaids, s-24 couldn’t help but want to fight it again.

However, just as s-24 could not bear to fight it again, footsteps sounded outside the rearing room.

S-24 tilted his head, the breeder came again.

It retracted its claws, and in front of this human breeder, it did not want to stage a scene of kinship fighting.

Hearing the familiar footsteps, s-37 flicked his tail unhappily, and he really came to this mermaid again.

Although he knew that Boyce feeding S-24 was work, s-37 still looked around S-24 displeasedly. After comparing with himself, he came to the conclusion that this mermaid is not as good as himself.

s-24 glanced suspiciously at the somewhat strange comrade, and saw that it stayed there and did not want to come over, and then dived to the surface.

It was going to teach that human ashore a small lesson.

Boyce didn’t know that there was an extra merman in the pool, as before, he was going to throw down the food and leave.

When he opened the partitioned glass, he was still a little distracted, and he didn’t see it appear when he thought about going to feed s-37 just now.

Boyce deliberately waited for a while after feeding, but the blue mermaid was not seen.

The s-37 was lurking underwater, looking at the s-24 whose upper body was above the water.

It knew what the cyan mermaid wanted to do.

It was waiting for an opportunity to drag the humans from the shore down into the pool.

Let the pool water cover his mouth and nose, feel the air in his lungs decrease a little bit, let him emerge from the water before he completely loses consciousness, and then keep repeating the process of nearly suffocating.

He will not leave any wounds on his body, but he will leave the fear of this mermaid, and stay away from this mermaid as he wishes.

And he only needs to appear at the last moment to make him understand that only he is the only mermaid who has no malice towards him.

Boyce stood on the lift platform and met the s-24 in the water.

Boyce had an inexplicable sense of crisis, instinctively assumed a defensive posture, the mermaid in the water suddenly jumped up and attacked in Boyce’s direction.

At the same time, the blue mermaid broke out of the water, and before Boyce could react, its claws grabbed the blue fish tail in mid-air and pulled it down hard.

The cyan mermaid smashed into the water, and a huge splash of water fell.

S-24 was stunned for a moment because of S-37’s sudden action, and then looked at S-37 that suddenly appeared, and raised his fins.

s-24’s eyes widened suddenly, and it remembered a detail that it had overlooked. The human on the elevator platform was covered in the breath of the mermaid in front of him…

The s-37 stands between Boyce and the s-24, and the meaning of maintenance is obvious.

Humans live on land, and mermaids often live in the deep sea.

Mermaids can walk on land, but humans cannot survive in water.

It knew that the s-24 would not kill Boyce or even leave any scars on him.

It looked back at Boyce and looked at him with a still surprised look. Boyce didn’t expect that s-37 would suddenly appear here.

It still hadn’t been able to figure out the source of Boyce’s anger.

but…

Sofia’s eyes are beautiful, the merman thought, and it shouldn’t be tainted with dark emotions of pain and despair.