Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The male player was so shocked that he slowly backed away, but Gu Wuji over there was already carrying a bucket and walking towards the water.
There was a constant sound in the water, but nothing appeared. From the perspective of the two of them, they could only see the water surface with constant waves. And they didn’t know if there was a problem with the light in the water in the tank. There was no visible water at all. There was something inside that made people feel even more creepy.
“Brother Sun, do we have to go there…” The male player felt the terrifying situation, but he really didn’t have the courage to step forward and contact the monsters that might appear in the water.
“Have you forgotten the requirements of the main mission?”
Gu Wuji said, and the male player’s expression suddenly changed. No matter how reluctant he was, he could only walk over with another bucket of meat.
Since the main mission required them to complete their work well, there was no room for slacking off. However, the main mission would definitely not put people directly into a certain death situation, which gave the male player some comfort.
Gu Wuji looked at the water. From the moment he entered the door, various complex sounds kept popping up in his mind, like the murmurs of ghosts. It became much clearer after entering this room.
The male player carefully took out the piece of meat from the bucket with gloves on. He felt it was still a bit warm, and cold sweat immediately flowed down his forehead. This was obviously just taken out of the cold storage. How could it be possible? So quickly… it was as if it had just been taken off a living creature.
The male player didn’t want to think deeply about the reason. After he took out the piece of meat, the coldness in the room became a little stronger, and the water surface suddenly boiled, as if he was urging something. He was so frightened that he quickly threw the piece of meat into the water.
At this moment, both of them saw clearly as a pale shadow suddenly emerged from the water, bit the piece of meat with gleaming sharp teeth, and then jumped back, with the upper half of its face emerging from the water and golden eyes appearing that looked at the two of them coldly.
They finally saw clearly the true appearance of this so-called experimental subject. At first glance, it looked very similar to a human being. It could even be said to be a beautiful boy. Moreover, it looked only thirteen or fourteen years old, and it seemed that it was still developing… However, if you looked more closely, you would see that this test object had some inhuman features compared to humans. It had long silver hair and a pair of snake-like eyes. It generally seemed to be looking at some prey when it was looking at people.
When he saw this test object, the male player felt relieved. After all, people judged others by their faces, and a monster that looked like a pretty boy was better than a scary ghost.
….
At this time, in a certain room of the institute, surveillance images from various places in the institute appeared on a huge screen.
It could be seen that the players who had received the most attention were the players who had only arrived in the past few days.
These people looked at the screen in Gu Wuji and the male player’s room, and one of them said: “These two are quite unlucky… The test subjects in this room are very cruel. It is estimated that they will never come back.”
“It doesn’t matter anyway, they are just two irrelevant people.” The other person frowned, “It’s a waste of resources to stay here if you can’t even hear that voice.”
The others didn’t say anything. They knew that only by finding the most important person could the current trouble be solved. So, everyone’s attention was focused on the people who heard the sounds last night.
Although these people were nominally asked to help the researchers, in fact they had already started testing in secret.
“Wait a minute, zoom in on that picture a little bit more!” Director Fiona’s eyes fell on one of the screens and he immediately spoke eagerly.
That picture occupied the entire screen, and everyone no longer had the intention to pay attention to the situation elsewhere but looked nervously at the scene in front of them.
The scene that appeared in front of everyone was a man who suddenly fell to the ground with cold sweat on his face.
“I don’t know if he is the chosen one…” Director Fiona muttered to himself.
….
The male player picked up another piece of meat and threw it into the water. Suddenly another shadow jumped out of the water and started competing with the previous figure for the piece of meat.
With the water splashing everywhere, Gu Wuji and the male player could clearly see that the lower bodies of the two teenagers had long fish-like tails, which looked very powerful, and their hands were both swollen. If the long sharp claws fell on a person’s body, they would be able to cut flesh and blood instantly.
The male player took a breath, already feeling the ferocity of these experiments from these details.
“No wonder it’s a research institute on the seaside. I don’t know what they are studying these mermaids for…”
“Anyway, we will know the truth in a few days.” Of course, we have to live until that day.
Gu Wuji’s mind recalled the system’s previous prompts. Should these test subjects in front of him be called mermaids? In short, regardless of whether they were as kind as the Little Mermaid, in appearance they completely fit the name.
In the end, during the dispute, the piece of meat was still swallowed by the mermaid at the beginning. The mermaid who came later seemed to be injured, and blood spread in the water. He backed away unwillingly, and his cold eyes were already looking at the two players.
The male player’s body froze when he was looked at by the cold eyes. He felt that the other person’s eyes were threatening him, so he quickly threw several pieces of meat into the water in a hurry.
Because of the attraction of these pieces of meat, three more mermaids emerged from the water. It could be seen that the appearance of each mermaid was very similar, with silver hair and golden eyes. Maybe these five mermaids were related by blood.
At the same time, these mermaids were almost as ferocious as if there was no affection between the same kind at all. They fought for meat from time to time. In addition, each one had sharp teeth and claws, and they could cause serious harm to their companions in a single move. Due to the injuries, part of the water surface had already been dyed red.
Their appetites also seemed to be huge, and the male player began to feel that the bucket of meat he brought might only satisfy one mermaid.
The male player watched the pieces of meat in his bucket decrease rapidly, and saw that there were only the last two or three pieces, and he relaxed a lot… Although these mermaids were scary, they only stayed in the water and had no intention of coming ashore. Think about it, it was also impossible to kill someone every time they came to feed, so he felt he could complete his part of the task right away.
Just when the last piece of meat was thrown down by the male player, a mermaid suddenly appeared, and the bite position was not the piece of meat, but the player’s sleeve. The sharp teeth immediately bit the male player’s wrist.
This mermaid was surprisingly the second one to appear before. The mermaid was bitten by his companion because of the fight for meat. It was also because of this that he didn’t get any meat in the subsequent feedings, so he couldn’t wait to bite the live male player.
The male player was so relaxed because the mission was about to be completed that he didn’t pay attention for a moment. He then let out a scream and his body was pulled into the water by the mermaid.
There was a look of horror on his face. At this moment, he looked at the mermaids in front of him, and he suddenly found that the cold eyes were no different when they looked at him than when they looked at those pieces of meat. They just waited. When he fell into the water, they shared the food as they had before fighting for pieces of meat.
…If he fell into the water like this, it was already obvious what the result would be waiting for him.
At this critical moment, Gu Wuji suddenly grabbed the male player’s other hand and pulled him up, bringing with him most of the mermaid.
The male player fell to the ground with a face full of fear. He didn’t realize what had happened for a long time. He picked up his wrist and saw that there were several bite wounds on it that were deep enough to show the bone. He gulped hurriedly panting, only when he felt the piercing pain, did he have a clear feeling that he had escaped from death.
“Brother Sun, thank you so much -“
The male player was just halfway through his words when he was stunned. He saw that the mermaid that was pulled ashore did not give up, but suddenly moved in a careless direction and pounced on him, so he immediately said in a panic, “Brother Sun, be careful! This mermaid’s strength is really amazing…”
Then the male player saw Gu Wuji holding down the mermaid’s shoulders with a very relaxed look, and the latter actually could barely move, and only their tail kept flapping on the ground, making muffled sounds.
Male player: “…” He was too naive, there was no one else who could compete with Sun Shi!
The other mermaids were obviously not in the right mood in the water, their eyes looking at Gu Wuji and the male player had become even darker, with strong hostility.
The male player thought that these mermaids had finally realized that the two of them were not moving feeds sent in, but existences that could hurt them… Now the situation looked troublesome.
Gu Wuji also took out the rope and tied the mermaid tightly and used another binding magic before placing it beside him. After the rope disappeared last time to deal with the female ghost, Gu Wuji still cherished the remaining rope.
The mermaid looked at Gu Wuji with astonishment in her eyes. Probably he had never been treated like this by anyone in his life.
“This mermaid seems to be quite smart. They are probably afraid that you won’t be able to eat the meat in the bucket if you die, so they waited until you finished feeding them.” Gu Wuji said.
The male player was still frightened. Although he saw that these mermaids looked similar to humans, he was actually discriminating in his heart. He only thought that the mermaids were monsters and never thought that they would have higher IQs.
“What should we do now? Should we continue to feed them? These mermaids are obviously…”
“Of course we will continue to feed them. Isn’t this our mission?”
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