Raymond and Merman

"July 17, 2016, evening.

The third day we arrived near Iceland.

Ryan carried out a radar search in the captain's office, but still couldn't find the Merman.I really doubt if the Merman can survive in such cold water, but Ryan insists that he had searched for traces of Merman here last year.

According to the record, the Merman is a tropical creature, but I don't want to let it go.

I'm so eager to see a real Merman.

I hope my nickname can continue the exploration of this mysterious creature that the great biology hasn't completed yet. "

I wrote it down in my diary and looked at the round window of the cabin for some reason.

It was dark outside. I could only see the warm reflection of the lamp on the window and my thin outline in the reflection.With black hair, black eyes and pale face, he looked like a drug addict.

I smiled.Ryan said that sometimes I was as stubborn as a madman. Maybe it was true.

When I wrote down this sentence, the tip of the pen suddenly scratched the paper because of a sudden restlessness. At this moment, there was a scream outside.

"Raymond!Come out! There is something under the water! "

My hands trembled violently, and my body reacted more quickly than my mind. I rushed to the captain's office with a big stride. Coincidentally, I bumped into Ryan who just walked out. He opened his arms and hugged me fiercely. Pointing at the screen of the deep-sea camera monitor, he said excitedly, "look, I said there was a Merman here. You should have believed me earlier!"

I opened my eyes wide and when my eyes were focused on the moving shadow on the screen, I lost my breath for a moment.It was an incomparably clear curvy outline, which was obviously different from that of a shark or a dolphin. There was no fish fin on both sides of his upper body, but two pairs of open, human like legs.

It was indeed a Merman.

"Hurry up!Ryan, what are you waiting for? "

I almost jumped up as if I just woke up from a dream. I punched Ryan on his chest, but he grabbed my wrist and laughed. "Do you think I'm as stupid as you?This Merman has been bewitched by our shark scent. Otherwise, why don't you think it will run away? "

"You bastard!"

I immediately rushed to the deck like lightning and saw the sailors on the ship changed their equipment and dived down, spreading the net under the water.There were night lights floating on the fishing net. When they scattered on the sea, they were like stars scattered in the sky.They disappeared under the undulating sea as the sailor dived. My heart sank and my nerves were as tense as being suppressed by the water pressure.

This would be one of the most astonishing discovery in the history of human beings.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but stiff my back. I stood on tiptoe on the Merman. I wished I could dive down with those sailors and bring the man up.

"Relax. Don't fall into the water!"

Ryan snickered behind me, and my calves were held tightly by his hands. I was so scared that I almost agreed to his joke. My body fell forward, and he grabbed the back collar quickly. The two of them fell on the deck.My buttocks almost pressed on his face.Fortunately, I'm not heavy, or I'll have to break his proud nose.

"Dude, why are you so eager to kiss me?"

I moved my body and got up. I squinted at him and smiled mischievously.Ryan casually leaned against the deck and grinned, "from a biological point of view, the buttocks have a good shape and taste good. This is another great discovery besides the Merman tonight."

"Your knees are also hard."I kicked him on his knees, revealing his white teeth.

The next second, the splash under the ship immediately took all my attention.I squatted down beside the ship and watched the sailors pull up the fishing net and put it on the hanger.The fishing net was entangled with a clear wet outline, twisting his body like a captured shark.

When the hook was lifted up, his long tail came out of the fishing net and fell in a beautiful arc.

The only Merman that had been found in human history was a Merman with a magenta tail in India. But this one was different. His tail was black, but not completely black.

Due to the reflection of the water, a ray of cold blue appeared, like the center of the fireworks, but the tip of the blue was a little red, which was shocking like blood on a sharp blade.

For some reason, my eyeballs suddenly ached as if they were stabbed, and a trace of sadness grew in my heart.He vaguely remembered the legend that Mr. Zhenyi, who had studied Merman for fifty years on his investigation in Okinawa a few years ago, had mentioned to me.

It was a creature called the "night fiend Merman".Its tail was blue black with a touch of red, just as what I saw.He told me with a cautious and panic on his face, saying that it was a more terrible creature than a tiger shark.This was not because of his attacking power, but because of the strange power it carried.

He warned me not to bring this kind of Merman ashore and treat it like studying a red tail Merman. Otherwise, you will be doomed.

"A devil from hell.".He said.

But I'm not a Japanese, and I don't know much about Japanese culture. I only know a little about the meaning of this word, guessing that it might be the same as the evil spirits in China and the fiends in the West.

As for how terrible it was, Mr. Zhenyi didn't tell me at that conversation. He just ended it with a mysterious hiss.It seems that in order to avoid my questions, I got the news of his death the second year when I went to Okinawa.This mystery will always be in my memory.

And at this time, this legend really appeared in front of me.

No matter whether Mr. Zhenyi's warning was true or not, Merman was already a temptation to death for me, a paranoid and mysterious scientist.

When it was carried to the deck and put into the cabin, my heart seemed to stop beating.With the help of the sailors, I squatted down carefully and injected a certain amount of anesthetic into its tail. After the injection, I plucked up the courage to touch the curve of the fish tail.The tiny cold scales on the fish tail were different from all the fish. They were very smooth and thinner than the dolphin's skin. They were even... Close to the texture of human skin, like a human leg wrapped in a film.

I was startled by this idea. My hand inadvertently touched the end of my tail, and immediately I felt a stabbing pain in my belly.I was surprised to find that there were thorns on its tail. Its three square tail fin was as sharp as a real blade.The blood dripped from the gap between my fingers to the scales, and in an instant, it disappeared, as if it had been absorbed away.

All of a sudden, the Merman jerked his body and bent his tail towards me in an incredible arc. He was like a python trying to strangle my ankle, and even several sailors couldn't control it.

I fell to the deck and froze there.

"Are you silly?"

Ryan lifted me up from the ground and dragged me aside. He stepped on the fish tail and injected the remaining anesthetic into it.

"No!That's the dose for sharks. Excessive dose may kill them! "I screamed and saw that the fish tail quickly calmed down. In a hurry, I broke away from Ryan's arm and pulled the fishing net out of his body.

My hands couldn't help trembling. Excitement, excitement and fear mixed in my memory slowed down my movements. When the fishing net was pulled down from his head and his whole body was exposed, I shivered all over and took a step back before I could stand firm.

This is the first time that I have to face a live Merman with .

He was totally different from the corpses in the collection and the skeletons in the photos. If he didn't look at the fish tail and the sharp ears, he would be a human being at all.

He bent over and lay there, with his face on one side. Strands of wet hair (although I don't know if it should be called hair) hung down on his neck. He couldn't see his face, but could only see the sharp line of his jaw.Judging from its side face, it might have a nice human face. Of course, this is not what I care about.

As I looked down, the undulating muscles on his back stretched out, and his shape was like an bowstring that was ready to shoot, full of the power of a beast in the water.I even suspect that he will suddenly jump up and bite me like a shark.

It was a Merman with the half body of an adult man.

I once thought that Merman was asexual and could only change its sex like an eel when it was bred.But at this time, this contradiction completely shattered my guess.

I couldn't help but look at its lower abdomen, where there was really a bulge, but it was wrapped in the scale membrane that grew down along the outer muscle of the abdomen, and a [小小] gap appeared in the pubic bone.

It should be a place similar to the dolphin's physiological structure. It would only burst out of its body during the sex, just like the human's pillar shaped physiological organs.

But did Merman have the same physiological system as human beings?Were their reproduction similar to that of humans?

Curiosity surged in my heart. I took out the flashlight at the back of my waist and planned to do a simple examination here.However, just as my hand flashed across his head and bent over, I suddenly moved, but with a very small fluctuation. I immediately bounced away vigilantly, and Ryan stood in front of me to prevent it from attacking suddenly.

It didn't make any big move. It just raised its head slightly, and its wet hair slid a gap from its face, so that I could see half of his face.There was a thin layer of eyelashes under his eyes, but his eyes were dark and unfathomable, like a dark current floating in the deep sea, without focus.

But I know very clearly that they are staring at me, and even looking at me up and down.

I felt a chill down my spine. Based on the experience of the biology, I'm sure that kind of eyes are simply... Treating me as a prey.

"2016.7.18, early in the morning.

With Ryan's dissuasion, I temporarily gave up the temporary inspection of Merman.According to the information recorded, like a dolphin, the Merman was a highly intelligent beast. Without effective security measures, they were captured and imprisoned. This kind of creature might take a relatively extreme way to resist.For example, suicide.

This Merman is so precious. I can't let its life be threatened.

Even if I risk my own life. "

I wrote it down one by one in my diary. My determination was as determined as the sharp ink, but my mind seemed to still be trapped in the dark eyes of Merman, and a trace of coldness was still lingering on my back.

"Before dawn today, I will start a taming plan, just like treating a wild dolphin.Although I'm not sure how smart a Merman is at present, I want to try to communicate with it, hoping that it can relax its vigilance against me - "

"Rat-a-tat -"

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. "Raymond?"

It was Ryan's voice.I quickly closed the diary and tucked it into the bed to avoid being discovered by him.If this plan is discovered by Ryan, he will definitely stop me.Ryan had always thought that the Merman was a bloodthirsty creature. It was tamed like a big white shark and could only be observed in an airtight way.But Ryan is my master. He is much better at mysterious biology than me. I can't persuade him to give up this idea at all.

As soon as he put away the diary, Ryan pushed the door open.I just lay on the bed, squinted at him and closed my eyes, pretending to be asleep.

He bent down and his shadow fell from the air. "Don't pretend to be asleep. I just heard you go to bed."

I closed my eyes and ignored him. I smacked my lips and pretended to be asleep.He seemed to have waited patiently for a while and grabbed my injured hand. When I was wondering what he was going to do, I felt a cold in my finger belly and a burning pain hit my heart. I almost screamed and jumped out of bed. When I opened my eyes, I saw this guy dipped the cotton ball with alcohol!

"Damn it! Do you mean to kill me?"

I gritted my teeth and stared at him, but my arms were tightly grasped.He didn't even look at me. His eyes were raised carelessly, and there was a trace of insidious complacency floating in his eyes. He slowly wiped the wound.I gritted my teeth and pretended to be indifferent, but my forehead was sweating.Ryan liked to play tricks on me, which was one of his greatest pleasure in the boring long journey on the sea.

Moody and abnormal.

I thought to myself.When my eyes darkened, the cotton ball was moved away.I breathed a sigh of relief and leaned against the bed, but Ryan still grabbed my hand. Instead of letting it go, he pulled me closer, with his lips almost touching the tip of my nose. He threatened in a low voice, "don't risk to get close to that Merman behind my back. Raymond, you are restless in your bones, aren't you? Today, there is something wrong with your eyes!

Caught off guard, I was in a cold sweat on my back. My nose was filled with the heavy smell of his cigar, and even my breath slowed down. "I didn't!I know how aggressive that Merman is. Look, I'm so afraid of pain and death -- "

I put my red hand in his hand and looked at him with sincere fear. My guilt almost reached my throat.

Ryan's Adam's apple slid in front of me disdainfully, and he snorted, "Raymond, are you afraid of death?"

I nodded immediately.

When his hand was released, I breathed a sigh of relief, but my back was held tightly by his other hand. He easily pressed me against the wall with his much stronger body than mine.At that moment, I thought he was going to strangle me, but he just lowered his head and blew on the back of my ear. "Raymond, if I find that you do something ridiculous without permission, I will rape you.I hired those sailors on the ship... "

'oh my God! The more I hear, the more ridiculous it will be.'.

Ryan was straightforward, and those sailors liked to make dirty jokes. I've been like a hooligan for months, and I've already been used to it.Am I afraid of such ridiculous joke?

I raised my head slightly and tittered with him. I opened my mouth and drew a conclusion with a little banter, "after you rape me, can I study that Merman?Well, I'll do as you say. "

He was obviously stunned. Apparently, he didn't expect me to reply such an absurd sentence.He seemed to be a little angry. His hand on my back suddenly tightened. It slid straight to my coccyx and tore off my belt.I thought he was joking. He pretended to struggle for two times lazily, but his crotch hit him.

My body stiffened in an instant.

The penis in Ryan's lower abdomen was right against mine.

Damn it! My mentor and partner are lesbian! And he is sexually impulsive to me!

Thinking of the intimate relationship with him over the past few months, I suddenly jumped up from the bed. My head hit the railing and I retreated to one side. With a straight face, I raised three fingers and said, "Oh, I swear to God that I will never touch that Merman without permission!"

Ryan put his hands on the bed.He raised his eyes and stared at me doubtfully. His two slender legs were forked, and the bulges between his jeans were obvious.

I scratched my hot cheek. In order to ease the embarrassment, I forced a joke between my teeth, "it is good-looking, bigger than me."

Ryan lowered his head to have a look. The shadow of his bangs swept over the corner of his mouth with a meaningful arc.A creepy numbness surged up from the soles of my feet. I resisted the impulse to run away as soon as I kicked the door open. I watched him slowly sitting up from my bed and finally walked out.

Ryan thought he had succeeded in threatening me and stopped harassing me.It's a pity that I'm an atheist. I never believe in any sect. I swear it's just hypocritical.

That night, I didn't sleep the whole night. I waited quietly for the whole ship to be quiet. Even the night watchman would take a nap with a fluorescent stick and some small equipment.

Such as a small echo detector and a DV under water.I have successfully communicated with many different types of creatures, so I am very clear that these are essential auxiliary tools.

However, the most important thing was the experience of communicating with creatures.

At 2:11 o'clock in the morning.At the most tired moment of the human race.I looked at the electronic watch in my hand and hid in the darkness like a nimble cat. After successfully avoiding the visible area of the viewing platform on the ship, I didn't spend much time and successfully dived into the bottom cabin of the ship.

When I opened the door at the end of the bottom cabin, a green light was emitted in the darkness. The cylindrical glass water tank came into my sight. I raised the fluorescent rod and looked for the curvaceous long black shadow in the artificial grass.The Merman was quietly floating at the top of the pillar.Its drooping hair and sharp face could be seen in the air. It was like a silent ghost in the night sky, who would fall down and take my soul away at any time.

I took a deep breath, trying to restrain the rising adrenaline. I slowly walked up the spiral stairs around the pillar, but my heart could not help beating wildly.

I approached the top of the pillar shaped water tank step by step. I walked very lightly on purpose. It didn't seem to have any reaction even when I walked to the side of the Merman. It still leaned quietly against the pillar wall, seeming to be asleep without any vigilance.Although we are only one step away from the glass.

I carefully maintained my steps and movements, because such a state is very convenient for me to record and observe.I put the fluorescent stick aside and turned on the night vision mode of the DV. I leaned against the outer wall of the water tank and began to take photos of it from the tail to the head from different angles.In the dim light of the water, the Merman's streamlined long tail was like a python that coiled around a bunch of water weeds. The three wings of the tail fin overlapped like black smoke, and the tail was like a mass of thick fog spurted by a squid.

I can't help but imagine that when it appears in the deep sea, it must be as terrifying as a shadow from hell. If it meets in diving, it must be very frightening, as if it has seen the God of death.

I can't accurately measure the length of its lower body, so I can only judge it by visual measurement about 2 meters. In addition, its upper body is as tall as an adult tiger shark. I didn't know if it had the same attacking power.

Thinking of this, I adjusted the angle of the camera and looked up along its tail, showing the back of a Merman.When I was on the deck, I just took a quick glance at it and felt that its upper body was the same as that of human being. At this time, when I carefully observed it, I found that there was a layer of glowing material outside the skin, just like the skin of a white whale I had seen before. A faint halo appeared in the water. For a moment, I felt very illusory.

Not only do I feel that the existence of the Merman is illusory, but I also have doubts about this scene. I have an illusion that I am in a dream.

Was Merman a creature of this world?Is there another planet under the sea that we don't know?

I shook my head and forced myself to return to reason from sensibility.Damn it! How could I think of this?If Ryan heard what I was thinking now, he might laugh at me for making ridiculous excuses to badger him again.

Isn't Merman really in front of me? What am I thinking about!

I laughed at myself in my heart and focused my eyes on his skin again.It must be a protective mucus. Because of this, Merman wouldn't wrinkle and become extremely fragile after being soaked in water for a long time like a human.Their skin looked smooth, maybe as tough as shark's.

While thinking, I couldn't help but have an impulse to touch Merman's skin with my own hands.Just then, I suddenly found a strange detail in the DV.

There was a big wound on the Merman's powerful and slender arm. It was not bleeding. The outer layer of the skin turned open, revealing the white muscles inside. There were some ferocious teeth scars on it, which seemed to be caused by a shark.

My nerves immediately tensed. Damn it! Why didn't I notice it earlier? It might be very weak, and it was given an anesthetic. No wonder it was so quiet all the time!

At this time, I couldn't help but feel lucky that I had brought the medicine box with me. I quickly put away the DV and climbed towards the top cover of the water column.Maybe it's because I made too much noise, at the same time, I caught a glimpse of the below. It twisted and quietly floated up with me.

The Merman is under my feet.This fact made me take a deep breath subconsciously and look down.

I'm standing on a semicircle metal platform for the Merman to feed. Through the tiny holes, I can see the change of wave light, but I can't see where it is.

Plop! Plop

The sound of undercurrents came from below. The light in the hole suddenly sank, and a dark color that was completely different from the water light swept over.The Merman swam to the other side of the platform.

It was a transparent glass door outside the guardrail, separating the water from the outside.

I don't want to open the door that may bring danger, but now there seems to be no better way to deal with the wound for Merman.I don't want it to die of infection.

I touched the tranquilizer gun at the back of my waist. My palms were sweating, but my nerves were trembling because of a little restless excitement.

This is the first time that I have direct contact with a live Merman. Don't make a mistake, Raymond.Calm down, calm down.

I warned myself to walk out of the edge of the guardrail step by step, staring at the nightmare like under the water, and reaching out to grab the handle outside the glass door. Slowly, I opened a gap that could only accommodate one person.

In this way, even if the Merman really attacks me, I will be limited by the narrow space, which is also good for me to dodge and counterattack.

I squatted down on one knee.The shadow of the Merman was gradually taken out of the deep water, and it was as difficult as drowning.I'm still rational, but my brain is a little chaotic because of nervousness and excitement.

When the Merman's head emerged from the water, my consciousness went blank for a moment. It was not until half of his body popped out of the door, and the water drops splashed on my face that I realized what he was doing, but my mind was still dull, as if I couldn't remember what I was doing. It seemed that I was only bewitched, and my eyes were gripped by the dark pupils hidden between his hair.

When fighting with any beast, they should avoid their eyes, or they would consider them as provocation and be attacked.This point is very clear in my mind at the moment. I tried to avoid my eyes, but my eyes could not move away from the face that was faintly visible in the water.

It was a face that I couldn't describe.

It's not as beautiful as the rumor says, but I have to admit that it is more stunning than any human I have ever seen.Its outline perfectly mixed the sharpness with the classical style.If such a face is born on a human, I will definitely think that he is a Russian soldier with noble bloodline.

But I couldn't think of any beautiful word to praise. The word Mr. Zhenyi whispered with fear appeared in my mind.

Evil.

Its eyes, were as deep as the sea. However, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, as if he was mocking something, and its smile was full of indescribable coquetry and evil.

It's the first time that I have tasted what Mr. Zhenyi said, "the deepest fear in my heart.".

It was a feeling that even one's soul trembled.

When I was in a daze, the upper part of its body had completely floated up, and its wet body stood up with one hand on the edge of the platform. The part of the water above it formed a shadow that was taller than me, completely enveloping me.My eyes widened in surprise.Because I can't think of how its tail can support its center of gravity in the water. For its body structure, this is simply an impossible task.

I stepped back vigilantly and raised the anesthetic gun at the same time. Suddenly, it curled up its tail and ran towards me, ignoring me with only one arm. Then it bent down and faced me, like a python testing its prey.

'oh my God! It's so horrible!'.

I was taken aback. I habitually protected my head with the other hand, but the fluorescent rod rolled into the water.The sudden change of light made me panic for a moment. I was supposed to kneel on one knee on the ground, but before I stood up, I lost my balance and took two steps back. Then I staggered and fell to the ground.

This time, I completely lost my geographical advantage. My body became incomparably slow for no reason. I could only curl up and dodge like a dying snail.I couldn't even see where the Merman was and how close it was to me. I could only smell a strange and moist fragrance in the darkness, and even the air froze.The cold water dripped on my shins, and my ankles suddenly cooled, and were firmly gripped by something wet and sticky.

It was Merman's hand.

When I realized this, the sweat quickly oozed from my palms made me unable to hold the anesthetic gun steadily.My lower body can't move at all. I can only let Merman climb up from my legs. My heart is beating violently. I'm going to inject the anesthetic into its neck artery when his head gets close to me. This is the fastest and most effective way to cut off the attack.

Soon, Merman's wet long and thick hair fell on my skin, streaks of which swept past my legs and thighs, and then stopped in my lower abdomen.

At that moment, the nerves in my legs began to twitch because of nervousness.

I'm not sure what it wants to do. It's very likely that it wants to open its abdomen and eat my internal organs.

If I shoot now, I'm very likely to hurt its head.I have to make a choice between Merman and my own life.

However, just as I was hesitating, a low and strange voice suddenly rang out.

"De-ra-cu-la..."

It was a low sound that seemed to be made through the throat, a little similar to the sound of a little Russian tongue.My family is from Russian. This kind of familiar voice made my consciousness immediately escape from the dying chaos.

Although it was hard to tell what it wanted to say, at least it proved that the Merman was not purely driven by instinct. It doesn't want to attack and eat me at the moment.

Otherwise, it would be strange to communicate with his prey before eating!

Maybe this Merman could understand human language.This was a bold assumption, because there was no record of human successfully communicating with Merman in history, but through various media.I might be the first man in the world to talk to a Merman face to face.

I took a deep breath and forced myself to calm down. Then I lowered my head and looked at the Merman who was pressing my body below my abdomen.

Its eyes were hidden behind its hair, emitting a faint blue light, like the eyes of a wild wolf in the night vision camera.

I swallowed, trying to swallow the fear back, and said clearly and in a low voice, "Hey, listen, I don't mean to harm you.You were bitten by a shark. I want to disinfect your wound. "

I pointed at the wound on its shoulder, but the Merman didn't make any reaction. It still lay on my legs, firmly holding my legs with its hands and didn't relax at all.

I felt a little disappointed, but with the help of the fireflies under the water, I saw the corners of the Merman's mouth seem to move. The corners of its mouth slightly opened, and the faint smile on its face deepened, as if it was joking, or as if it was sinister.

The chill came up from its back again, replaced by depression.I once thought that the intelligence of Merman was between dolphin and human, and I had published many thesis on this topic under the guidance of Ryan.But now, I have great doubts about my past judgment.

Because of the expression on Merman's face, I have an extremely terrible perception that I don't know if it is an illusion--

It is a high-level creature that can play with me in the clap room with his special intelligence.A complete hunter.