Chapter 24

“Garcia.”

“Garcia?” Boyce repeated its name. “My name is Boyce.”

“Boyce…” Compared to this somewhat unfamiliar name, the mermaid was more accustomed to calling him “sofia”.

“What does sofia mean?” Boyce heard the word many times from the merman’s mouth, but he couldn’t guess the meaning.

“Each merman seeks a destined mate in adulthood…” In the merfolk language, their mate is called “sofia”.

The word sofia is the destined companion in the merman’s language system…

And the “sofia” in Garcia’s mouth refers to himself…

Boyce didn’t expect to get such a ridiculous answer.

However, after knowing what “sofia” stands for, some of the merman’s previous behavior can be understood.

The mermaid looked at the human beings beside it. It came here from another faraway sea and finally found the sofia that belonged to it.

“I’m here for you…”

“Won’t you find the wrong person?” Boyce asked.

Garcia was stunned for a moment, and answered affirmatively: “My sofia can only be you.”

It does not think that it will find the wrong person. The instinct engraved in its body tells it that the human being in front of it is its partner, and every cell is clamoring to occupy this human being and drag him into the deep sea.

He is unique and belongs only to his partner.

The merman’s eyes were fiery, revealing a faint possessiveness towards him, Boyce subconsciously looked away.

Maybe he shouldn’t bring that up, Boyce thought.

Boyce had never thought about it until the merman uttered the meaning of the word “sofia”.

Although Ive mentioned before that the experimenter in the research institute fell in love with a mermaid, Boyce never thought that one day he would be regarded as a “destined partner” by a mermaid.

To be regarded as a mate by a merman seemed odd to Boyce.

In particular, the “destined partner” of mermaids is difficult for humans to understand, especially when they travel through distant seas to find someone they have not seen and know nothing about.

This kind of behavior looks more like a behavior engraved in the genes, under the control of the reproductive instinct.

The institute has never found a juvenile mermaid, but most of the adults they found have a solitary habit, and the “destined mate” seems more like an instinct to perpetuate the species.

Boyce thought abruptly, does the mermaid under the control of instinct really like or love the so-called “sofia”?

He looked at Garcia, the mermaid’s eyes with a strong and pure possessiveness.

Boyce breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously, it may not know what liking is, and the previous behavior was just out of a natural possessiveness.

“You want me to be your partner?”

Garcia nodded.

“Do you like me?”

like?

A look of confusion flashed in the mermaid’s eyes.

Boyce added: “Do you want me to be your partner because of who I am, or because I am ‘sofia’?”

Is there any difference?

It just wants the human being in front of it as its mate, the merman thought.

Every merman knows “sofia” from birth

The existence of them, they wandered in the ocean for the first half of their lives, looking for their destined mate, and then leaving their own offspring.

It seemed like every merman, so Boyce’s question seemed odd to him.

The human pupil looked over, earnestly waiting for an answer.

Garcia felt that the correct answer to the previous question should be like.

but…

“What is like?”

Then the mermaid saw a faint smile in the eyes of the human, and he seemed to be completely relaxed.

“Humans are different from mermaids.” The mermaid heard him say, “Being a partner is something only people who like each other can do.”

Garcia heard the message of rejection in the human words.

but…

If being a partner is something only people who like each other can do…

“I will love you…”

Boyce, however, had moved on to the next topic.

“Do you remember Zoe?” Boyce thought, maybe Garcia will know some clues about Zoe’s death.

Zoe?

who?

“The breeder before I came here, do you remember him?”

Garcia finally remembered some impressions of him.

It only cares about its human being, sofia, so it doesn’t care much about other human beings. After listening to Boyce’s reminder, it matched the name with the young man who was always chatting on the elevator platform in his memory.

Zoe did appear in Garcia’s breeding room that night, but the mermaid stayed underwater and did not go up. It had no interest in humans other than Sofia, and did not attack him just because the attitude of this human was better than other breeders. Not a lot.

Zooey, who didn’t get a response, left the breeding room after a short stay, and then, in the second half of the night, a body was dropped in Garcia’s pool.

That’s all Garcia knew. After Boyce heard it, he was going to ask the others if anything special happened that night.

The mermaid watched him stand up: “Are you leaving?”

Boyce bowed his head, the mermaid did not try to keep him, but Boyce felt a little guilty for no reason, especially knowing that the mermaid had always regarded himself as a partner in the past.

He subconsciously reached out and covered his warm ears.

But I can’t possibly be with a merman, Boyce thought.

He looked at the mermaid, his lips opened slightly,

Just as he was about to speak, the mermaid in front of him suddenly changed his appearance, becoming the appearance of s-19.

The red-tailed merman gave a malicious smile, and a paw reached out and tried to grab Boyce’s ankle.

“You’re dying…”

“Sofia?” Garcia’s somewhat puzzled voice suddenly sounded in Boyce’s ear.

“What’s wrong with you?”

The mermaid in front of Boyce changed back to its original appearance. He pressed his temple, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes. Maybe he had a late rest recently?

He looked at Garcia, the mermaid was here because of him: “Do you want to go back to the sea?”

The mermaid shook his head, now he can’t go back and take Sofia back, but it wants to take him back to the deep sea.

—

Boyce quietly inquired about Zoe in the laboratory.

However, the deepest impression of most people at the Institute was that he fell in love with a merman.

Matthew was chatting with Boyce when he suddenly thought of another person.

“Speaking of which, the previous breeder of s-5, the one who committed suicide, has always been said to have fallen in love with that mermaid.”

“What do you think?” Matthew asked Boyce.

“Maybe.” Boyce replied vaguely.

Matthew didn’t care, and continued to gossip with Boyce: “However, s-5 seems to have always been special to him. At that time, some people in the laboratory thought it was because some people were special to mermaids.”

Boyce had also seen these in previous experimental records, however, the study was later terminated.

“It is said that Beard stopped the experiment,” Matthew said. “He has always been an opponent of this theory.”

“But this is also normal.” Matthew raised his eyebrows, probably because Beard had passed away, so Matthew mentioned that he didn’t have much scruples, “I heard that after s-19 entered the institute, the most annoying thing was he.”

—

When the time came, Boyce went to feed the two merman.

Probably because of the fight with Garcia last time, when Boyce went to feed the s-24 in the morning, it stayed in the pool, and his face was not very good, but he did not take the initiative to attack Boyce.

When Boyce appeared in the breeding room in the afternoon, Garcia sensed the scent of s-24 from him again.

Probably because he felt that he had spoken to Boyce, Garcia didn’t hide his emotions very much in front of Boyce now.

“Have you seen him again?”

Garcia looked a little unhappy about it.

“He wants to kill you…” Garcia’s eyelashes trembled slightly, and he flicked his tail in a guilty conscience.

The cyan mermaid did want to kill its sofia, though Garcia knew it wouldn’t.

But he did have this idea, and the mermaid glanced quietly at Boyce’s face, and it felt that he was not lying, just hiding a small part of the truth.

“They’ll all want to kill you.”

The mermaid said, “Only I will protect you.”

Seeing that there was no response from the humans, Garcia continued to speak.

“He’s not as strong as me, his claws are not as sharp as mine, and the scales on his tail are bald…”

The merman said, showing his thick and beautiful tail to Boyce.

Boyce’s eyes fell on Garcia’s tail, which was also bald after the fight with S-24. Probably because the bald part was in the blind spot of Garcia’s field of vision, and it didn’t hurt or itch, so the mermaid had forgotten about it. That little bald existence.

At this moment, when the mermaid displayed its tail like a mating male beast, the abrupt piece of skin was exposed in Boyce’s field of vision.

Boyce thought a little out of time, a little like a peacock with an open screen, showing a bare **** behind him, but he didn’t know anything about it.

“sofia?”

“Your tail seems to be bald too.”

Hearing this, the mermaid’s body froze, and subconsciously hid its tail back.

“But…” The merman seemed to change the subject.

“His face is not as good-looking as mine.”

Boyce heard it speak with some certainty, and said the conclusion he had drawn after observing the surrounding experimenters for a year: “You humans prefer a face like my face.”

The author has something to say:

It’s hard to come up with a name qaq

Before the name: I want a balabala (a bunch of unknown requests) name ╮(‵▽′)╭

When choosing a name: Although I don’t know the specific requirements for this name, I still think these names are not good╮(??ω??)╭

Then I found out that it is very difficult to choose a name, but our fish can’t have no name until the end! Grip.jpg(っ╥╯﹏╰╥c)