Chapter 48

It is indeed tempting for humans to have a longer life, but most of human life is within a hundred years. Unlike mermaids who are accustomed to living alone, after a hundred years, for human beings, watching familiar people pass away is better than living a life of less than a hundred years.

Garcia originally thought that this should allow Boyce to agree to him, but he didn’t expect that he was only shaken for a moment, and then rejected him again.

“Can everyone be transformed?” Boyce asked Garcia.

“Only sofia can.” Although Garcia was a little reluctant to be interrupted by Boyce, he still explained seriously that only humans who were chosen by mermaids as their partners could be successfully transformed.

“Only you can.” Garcia looked at Boyce and said it again.

This kind of transformation can be successful originally so that the partner of the human fish can accompany them for a longer time. As Garcia’s partner, Boyce is naturally able to successfully pass the transformation.

Boyce thought of the mutation in Laurie, which was a little different from what Garcia said. He had the characteristics of a mermaid directly.

Boyce guessed that he might be the result of a failed conversion.

But Garcia said that so far no mermaids have transformed objects that are not their partners, so Garcia is not sure if this is the reason.

But Boyce still couldn’t understand why the mermaid would waste so much energy to transform a human belonging to another race, instead of choosing a mermaid of his own race as a partner.

Compared with humans, mermaids should be able to understand each other better, and the same family should be a more suitable choice for partners.

However, it was very strange for Garcia to hear Boyce’s question. In other races, reproduction of the same race is the norm, but in the mermaid group, reproduction with the same race has become incomprehensible.

Mermaids don’t think it’s wrong for other races to reproduce within the group, but they don’t have the intention to reproduce with their own race.

“No merman will be another merman’s mate,” Garcia told him firmly.

…

After talking with Garcia last time, Boyce inexplicably remembered what Garcia said “two mermaids can’t be together”, kept it in mind, and flipped through the materials in his spare time to try to find out. reason.

Knowing that Laurie’s current state may be due to the failure of the transformation, Boyce couldn’t help but look at him when he met him, wondering if there would be any sequelae.

Since the injection of No. 1 agent, Laurie’s personality has begun to be closer to the personality that he first entered the research institute. Later, the people in the laboratory thought that the personality that had undergone major changes never appeared again.

Overall, it seems that they are changing in a good direction, and the situation is much smoother than Boyce and the others expected.

Laurie’s current physical and mental state is much better than what was seen with the naked eye before, and there is no more loss of control and hurting people before. Moreover, although the cells in his body are slow, they are transforming in the direction of getting closer to humans.

“At this rate, he should be back to normal in about three months.”

Matthew came to a conclusion after reading the data.

“Have a conclusion so early?” The person next to him raised his eyebrows and looked at Matthew jokingly. Although he said so, he also maintained an optimistic attitude.

“Everything is changing in a good direction. Could there be other accidents?” Matthew smiled. Originally, they estimated that Laurie’s body should be restored to the state before the injection with the transformation, but this This state has not yet appeared, and it is estimated that it will appear after the effect of z-III is completely removed.

After the two of them finished speaking, they couldn’t help laughing. Matthew turned his head and found that Boyce was still looking at the image.

“What did you find?” Matthew leaned over, and the people next to him also looked over curiously.

Boyce glanced up at them, then opened another file and released a few pictures.

The first is the genetic comparison between humans and mermaids. Both mermaids and humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, and their genes are somewhat similar.

Boyce then brought up pictures of Laurie’s recent analysis, which showed that his genetic similarity was higher after being modified during this period than humans.

“What do you want to say?” Matthew was a little puzzled. These were all they had known before, and they didn’t understand the meaning of why Boyce called them up again.

“Look here.” Boyce pointed to one of the parts. At the position he pointed out, the mermaid had one more gene than humans, and this fragment also existed in Laurie’s fragment.

After Laurie’s injection of Potion No. 1, the clip seems to move closer in the direction of the merman…

“When the mutation first happened, it also started from here, but now he has not changed.” Some time ago, there were people who speculated that maybe it was this clip that induced humans to change in the direction of the mermaid, but because of labor Rui was injected with the No. 1 agent, so the study was just out of the question.

Boyce looked at this, inexplicably a little uneasy.

And Matthew and the others were a little hesitant after listening to Boyce’s analysis.

“But Laurie’s situation seems to be fine at the moment…” Matthew rubbed his eyebrows, “I hope you guessed wrong.”

Boyce hopes so too.

Looking at the similar analysis image on the screen, he suddenly remembered what Garcia said, there should be a reason why the merman chooses a human as a mate instead of a kin.

Boyce thought for a while and asked Matthew next to him: “I remember there was an experiment in which two merman were tried to breed before?”

Boyce still listened to what Matthew said before, and wanted to ask him if he knew more.

“Yes.” Matthew looked at him suspiciously, “Why are you suddenly curious about this?”

Because Matthew was interested in this experiment, he deliberately turned over a lot of information.

“The first step of the experiment failed because the merman’s territorial awareness failed. Although the selected merman was male and female, they showed a strong aggressiveness to the merman that appeared within a certain range of them.” This is also the majority of the research institute. known reasons.

But it is naturally impossible for researchers who are committed to merman research to stop cultivating new juvenile experimental subjects for this small reason.

So after many unsuccessful attempts to keep the two merman in the same pool, they switched their minds.

“Using test tubes to cultivate embryos, artificial cultivation.” Matthew looked at Boyce and asked him, “Is it a brilliant idea?”

Everyone else at the Institute at the time thought so, trying to breed fertilized eggs.

However, after the artificial womb was successfully developed, the embryo was still not cultivated.

“You might be hard-pressed to imagine that it took them two years to develop a single embryo.”

It’s as if two mermaids couldn’t successfully synthesize a fertilized egg at all.

Because this conclusion is too unbelievable, the institute prefers that it is due to their technical reasons and can only stop the project.

“We don’t have the technology to create fertilized eggs yet,” Matthew said. “After all, if merman sperm and egg cells can’t be fertilized to form fertilized eggs, how do they reproduce?”

But Boyce, who was listening next to him, seemed to understand something in combination with Garcia’s words.

The reason why the mermaid chose a human as a partner should be that the two mermaids could not reproduce at all. Therefore, regardless of gender, merfolk will expel their kin in their own territory.

In order to successfully continue the race, they will choose human beings with high genetic similarity to their own as partners and give birth to offspring, and because of the characteristics of mermaids, the offspring born should also be mermaids.

According to the institute’s research on mermaids, it takes about several decades for mermaids to develop in the mother’s body, and the life cycle of humans is not enough to complete the conception of offspring.

So mermaids will transform humans so that they can live long enough to make their mates fit for raising offspring.

And the sofia selected by the mermaid should be a group of people who can be successfully transformed among humans, including himself and Collins.

It’s just that Boyce doesn’t know what each merman relies on to perceive his mate, and how each merman corresponds to the only mate, what is the division.

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