Chapter 46

The partner’s breath he sensed in Collins didn’t appease Garcia. He leaned against the glass a little anxiously, and his nails scratched some harsh sounds on the glass.

Collins outside the glass looked at the mermaid inside and repeated: “My name is Collins.”

He wanted to take advantage of this time to develop a relationship with the mermaid. Although his father and grandfather had warned him that he could bring the mermaid back as a pet, Collins was a little disappointed that he could not show it to others.

But Collins also understood that the existence of the mermaid was a secret, so he accepted it under their comfort.

Although I can’t show it to other people, Collins’s desire to have a mermaid as a pet has not diminished. Now that he has time, he comes to the breeding room. He wants to develop a relationship with Garcia, and he can easily catch fish in the future.

Seeing that the merman’s attention was not on himself, Collins knocked on the glass: “I’m here.”

Garcia opened his mouth to him, revealing his sharp teeth, trying to drive away this human being who was always in the way in front of him, and wanted to ask him where Boyce was.

Although he could not perceive Boyce’s existence occasionally, Garcia didn’t pay much attention to it. Until now, he could not perceive Boyce’s breath, but he sensed his partner’s breath on Collins.

This gave him the illusion that the human being in front of him was his partner.

But Garcia knows that Collins is not his partner, his partner should be Boyce.

The receptors on the back of the neck hurt again, showing his presence. The mermaid frowned and wanted to ask Collins Boyce where he is now, but thinking that Boyce has been telling himself, it is best not to be in front of others Speaking, Garcia could only shut his mouth and try to scare him away through the glass.

Collins naturally felt the hostility of the blue mermaid towards him, and was a little timid, but thinking of another mermaid, he mustered up his courage again.

Collins recalled the docile appearance of the blue mermaid in front of him, and regained his confidence. He believed that he could also obey the blue mermaid in front of him.

…

On the other side, Laurie, who came out of the next room, walked into the laboratory.

Boyce glanced at him, Laurie soaked his clothes directly with water, and from time to time drops of water dripped onto the ground along his clothes.

“Boyce…” Laurie came in in the direction of Boyce.

The colleague next to him glanced at Laurie, then Boyce, and gave him an ambiguous look.

I don’t know when, rumors that Laurie had a good impression of him suddenly spread in the institute.

Boyce had heard someone say the day before: “Did you notice the way Laurie looked at you?”

The person who spoke smiled: “He is so enthusiastic when he looks at you.”

Enthusiastic indeed.

Boyce admitted this, but as a client, Boyce did not feel the love and liking that others said in his eyes at all.

“Is something wrong?” Boyce glanced at him.

Laurie looked straight at him, then put his hand in front of him.

“look…”

what to see?

Boyce was puzzled, and Laurie moved closer to him while he looked at his hands, then spread his five fingers, still wet.

“Look at this.”

Boyce’s eyes widened in surprise. Laurie’s hands were still dripping with water, and a transparent membrane appeared between his open fingers.

It is still a very thin layer, and it appears transparent under the light, connecting between the fingers, like the webs between the fingers of a mermaid…

“This… when did it appear…” Boyce’s tone was a bit difficult, and they hadn’t discovered its existence just now.

“Appeared just now when I was in the bath.” Laurie opened his hands wider and looked at Boyce eagerly.

Boyce felt that his current posture was very familiar… It seemed to be similar to the appearance of Garcia every time he came up to ask for a reward…

“Matthew!” Boyce asked Matthew on the other side to come over.

“Is something wrong?” Matthew asked.

“Look at his hands.”

Hearing this, Matthew also set his eyes on the film between his fingers. During the time Matthew came over, the thin layer of flesh film had almost doubled as thick as before.

Matthew looked at this scene and was almost stunned.

For the first time, they witnessed the process of the mutation on Laurie.

Laurie himself didn’t seem to think it was strange. He looked at the extra webbing on his hand, and the look in his eyes was even satisfied.

Boyce and Matthew were still immersed in shock and did not regain their senses, but Laurie, who had been showing them the changes on his hand, suddenly retracted his hand.

He retracted his hand, glanced at Boyce indifferently, then pushed Boyce and Matthew away, and walked out between them.

Laurie’s strength has become much stronger recently, and Matthew was pushed back a few steps without checking: “What’s wrong with him?” Why did he suddenly change his face, but it didn’t seem like he lost control and hurt people before status.

Matthew remembers that Laurie had always been so good to Boyce that colleagues in the lab guessed Laurie liked him.

“Didn’t he say he likes you?” Matthew snorted, remembering Laurie’s attitude when he just pushed them away, and he couldn’t tell his attitude toward the person he liked, “It seems all fake.”

And soon after Laurie left the lab, he met Collins, who left Garcia’s house in frustration.

Although seeing the mermaid is not without gain, Collins is still a little frustrated by being driven out by the mermaid.

Collins thought, the s-37 was a lot harder to please than another merman.

Seeing Laurie, Collins greeted him, knowing that this person didn’t seem to like him very much, and Collins, who had just hit a wall with Garcia, didn’t want to post it again.

However, what Collins didn’t expect was that Laurie took the initiative to walk towards him.

“Collins.” Laurie looked straight at him, the eagerness in his eyes unabashed.

“What’s the matter with you?” Collins was a little uncomfortable with his gaze.

“fine.”

Laurie said, “I just wanted to see you…”

“What?” Collins, startled by his words, looked at him suspiciously.

After a while, Laurie seemed to realize that his behavior was a little strange. The overly eager expression was put away, and he returned to his original indifferent attitude. After looking at Collins, he left without a word.

Collins looked at his back and muttered, “This man is weird.”

…

Garcia’s aching neck finally subsided, and the perception of his partner disappeared for a moment and then reappeared, but Garcia was a little unsure whether the person he was perceiving was Boyce.

At night, Boyce came to feed him when it was time, and when he entered the breeding room, he found the mermaid looking at him without blinking.

“What’s wrong?”

Garcia leaned over, wrapped the human in his arms, lowered his head and sniffed the breath on him.

The aura that had disappeared seemed to have returned to Boyce.

The cool tip of his nose rubbed between Boyce’s neck. Boyce originally wanted to push the mermaid away, but he thought that he would be sent away in more than a month, so he put his hand on the mermaid’s head lightly. Strength, with some tacit connivance.

“The man appeared today.”

“His aura is very similar to yours.”

Garcia said, he couldn’t help but smelled him again, confirming that the person in front of him was indeed his partner.

“Is there any problem?” The human seemed to have no idea what he was struggling with.

Garcia shook his head, the mermaid distinguishes his partner by breath, and Collins can also perceive the unique breath of his partner, which means that he may also be his partner.

Garcia always remembered that Boyce was trying to separate himself from Garcia’s partner as a partner, and if he knew, he might push himself to another person.

“I don’t like him,” Garcia complained to Boyce.

He didn’t like the scent of a partner in another human being, even though it seemed that the other person was more coaxing than Boyce, and could rashly agree to the request of returning to the deep sea with himself.

But Garcia only wanted Boyce to be his partner, although he didn’t understand that the original purpose was just to think of his partner to bring him back to the deep sea to spend the breeding season, why he must be attached to Boyce.

“I just want you,” he said.

Boyce’s hand fell on his hair, and he said hesitantly, “I see.”

“I will try to reduce the number of times he comes over.”

Boyce thought, anyway, he just wanted to secretly let the merman out when Collins was about to leave with Garcia.

For now, Collins has always had a high interest in Garcia, and he has mentioned to Boyce more than once that he will take Garcia away when he leaves.

…

The changes in Laurie were getting faster and faster.

After webbing appeared on him, the lab’s researchers again proposed to terminate the experiment.

But this time, Professor Cyril firmly rejected the proposal.

“This was discussed some time ago.”

Professor Cyril’s eyes fell on Laurie who was on the side: “Also, Laurie said before that he was willing to continue the experiment?”

Laurie, who was watched by Professor Cyril, was a little nervous, sweat dripped from his forehead, and his lips were trembling, but he couldn’t say anything for sure.

The cowardice that had disappeared from him for a long time seemed to suddenly return to him at a certain moment.

“I…I…” His voice was weak, a little choppy.

“You don’t want to continue?” Professor Cyril asked him, as if realizing something from his reaction.

Laurie wanted to nod, but he didn’t dare to move when he looked at Professor Cyril’s gaze.

He remembered the time when Oriel had just fallen, when Laurie had just been placed in Professor Cyril’s laboratory.

At that time, Professor Cyril was like a gentle and kind elder, telling him about the progress of z-III research in their experimental group, and then, unconsciously, Laurie’s original idea of ​​just wanting to save his own life changed, and he started. Wanting more, finally agreed to participate in the auxiliary medicine

He seemed to finally realize that he was now a guinea pig again, and for some unknown purpose, Professor Cyril seemed to not allow him to quit.

“I…” Laurie gathered his courage and met Professor Cyril’s gaze, “I don’t…”

With a satisfied smile on Professor Cyril’s face, he directly interrupted the remaining half of his words: “I know, you want to say that you don’t want to stop the experiment.”

Laurie was completely silent.

Professor Cyril looked at the others present: “In this case, the experiment will continue.”

…

Laurie’s webbing is fully grown.

Boyce looked at the man on the test bench, it was almost impossible to tell that it was a human now.

Lowry’s legs were elongated and his body was covered with red scaly bumps, and someone next to him was holding a wet towel over the dry part of his body.

The clipped nails began to grow intermittently, and with the webbing between the five fingers, it was more like a mermaid’s hand than a human.

He now looks more like a humanoid than a human.

After Boyce’s detection, Laurie is now more like a creature between humans and mermaids, but he seems to have inherited most of the weaknesses of humans and mermaids at the same time.

Boyce took out the needle, ready to draw a tube of blood from his hand, and when the needle was pulled out, a hand rested on his wrist.

Boyce looked at the owner of the hand, he could barely make an expression now, only a pair of eyes looked at Boyce, with a hint of help.

Laurie did not refute Professor Cyril because of his cowardice at the last meeting, and now he regrets it.

He wanted to live, to live as a human being.

Instead of living like an alien like now.

Boyce’s eyes trembled, looked up at the people around him, then squatted down and whispered in his ear.

“Reagent No. 1 is in Safe No. 113, the password is…”

As for whether he can get it or not, it is up to him.