I approached the top of the cylindrical water tank step by step. My steps were deliberately light. Even when I walked to the side of the mermaid, it didn’t seem to respond. It still leaned against the column wall quietly, and seemed to be asleep without any warning. . Although, we are only one step away through a layer of glass.
I carefully kept my steps and movements, because such a stillness is very convenient for me to record and observe. I put the fluorescent stick aside, turned on the night vision mode of the DV, and leaned against the outer wall of the water tank, and started to take pictures of it from different angles, from the tail to the head. In the dark water, the mermaid's streamlined long tail is like a boa constrictor entangled with a cluster of aquatic plants, and the three wing-shaped tail fins overlap in one place like black smoke, like a dense fog sprayed by a squid.
I can't help but imagine that when it appears in the deep sea, it must be as creepy and terrifying as a shadow from hell. If you encounter it while diving, it must be quite a frightening thing.
It is impossible to accurately measure the length of its lower body, but it can only be judged by visual inspection that it is about 2 meters long. With the upper body included, its body shape is roughly comparable to that of an adult tiger shark. I don't know if its attack power is the same.
Thinking of this, I adjusted the camera angle and followed its tail upwards, and the back of the mermaid appeared in the camera. When I was on the deck, I just glanced at it and felt that its upper body was no different from that of a human being. At this time, after careful observation, I found that there was a layer of glowing substance on the skin of the mermaid, just like the skin of the beluga whale I had seen before. The quality of water, a hazy halo in the water color, I felt very illusory for a while.
It's not just the illusory existence of the mermaid, but I also have doubts about the scene here and now, and I have the illusion of being in a dream.
Are mermaids creatures of this world? Is there another planet we don't know about under the deep ocean
I shook my head, forcing my thoughts to return to rationality from emotional reverie. Damn, why would you think about this? If Rhine heard my thoughts at this moment, she might laugh at me again for pestering myself with ridiculous sophistry.
Doesn't the mermaid really exist in front of my eyes, what are you thinking about!
Laughing at myself mentally, I refocus my gaze on his skin. This must be a kind of protective mucous membrane, because of this, the mermaid will not have ugly wrinkles and become extremely fragile when soaked for a long time like a human being underwater. Their skin looks smooth, perhaps as tough as shark skin.
Thinking like this, I couldn't help feeling an urge to touch the mermaid's skin with my own hands. At this time, I suddenly found a strange detail in the DV lens.
There was a large wound on the merman's strong and slender arm, which did not bleed, and the skin was turned outward, revealing the white muscles inside, leaving some hideous tooth marks, which seemed to be caused by sharks.
My nerves tensed immediately: Damn it, why didn't I notice it earlier, I may be very weak, and I was given anesthesia injection, no wonder it has been so quiet!
At this moment, I couldn't help but be thankful that I carried the medicine box, quickly put away the DV, and climbed towards the top cover of the water column. Maybe it was because I was making too much noise, at the same time, out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of the shadow below twisting, and quietly floated up with me.
The mermaid is right under my feet. This fact made me subconsciously take a deep breath and look down.
I am standing on the semi-circular metal platform where the breeder feeds, and I can see the changing waves through the small holes, but I can't see where the mermaid is.
Gudong...
There was the sound of the undercurrent surging from below, the light in the hole suddenly sank, and a dark color that was very different from the light of water passed by. The mermaid swam to the other side of the platform——
That is the transparent glass door outside the guardrail, which isolates the only passage between the bottom of the water and the outside world.
I don't want to open the door that might bring danger, but right now, there seems to be no better way to treat the mermaid's wound. I don't want it to die from an infection.
I touched the anesthesia gun on my lower back, and a thin layer of sweat broke out in my palms, but the depths of my nerves were trembling with tiny restless excitement.
This is your first face-to-face encounter with a live merfolk, so make no mistake, Desaro. calm down.
I warned myself like this, stepped out of the edge of the guardrail step by step, stared at the nightmarish shadow under the water, stretched out my hand to grab the handle outside the glass door, and slowly pushed open a gap that could only accommodate one person.
In this way, even if the mermaid really attacks me, I will be restricted by a small space, which is also good for me to avoid and counterattack.
I squatted down on one knee. Watching the mermaid's shadow gradually peeling off from the deep water, breathing is as difficult as drowning. My sanity is still alive, but my brain is a little chaotic due to tension and excitement.
When the head of the mermaid emerged from the water, my consciousness went blank for a moment, and I didn't react until half of its body stuck out of the door, and even the water droplets from it splashed on my face. But he was still dull, as if he couldn't remember what he was here for, as if he was bewitched, and his eyes were held by the dark pupils hidden in the hair.
When confronting any beast, you should avoid your eyes, otherwise you will be attacked by them as a provocation. This point is lingering in my mind very clearly at the moment, I try to avoid my eyes, but my eyes can't move away from the face looming in the water color——
It was a face that I cannot describe.
It is not as beautiful as the rumors say, but I have to admit that it is more amazing than any human being I have ever seen. Its silhouette is a perfect fusion of sharp and classic. If such a face had been born on a human being, I would have regarded him as a Russian soldier of noble blood.
But I couldn't think of any beautiful words to praise. What came to my mind was only the word that Mr. Shinichi murmured with fear.
Evil.
Those eyes sunken deep under the shadow of the brow bone were soaked in the gloom from the deep sea. But the corners of his mouth were raised slightly, as if mocking something, that smile was full of indescribable coquettishness and evil.
For the first time, I tasted what Mr. Shinichi called "the deepest fear in my heart".
It was a feeling that even the soul trembled.
Just when I was in a daze, its upper body had completely floated up, with one hand resting on the edge of the platform, its wet body stood upright, and the part above the water formed a shadow taller than me, completely covering me up below. My eyes widened in surprise. Because I can't think of how its tail supports the center of gravity in the water, which is an impossible task for its body structure.
I stepped back vigilantly, raised the anesthesia gun at the same time, and suddenly curled up my tail, suddenly approached me only half an arm away, then bent down to face me, like a giant prowling for prey. python.
God, this situation is too scary.
I was taken aback by surprise, and the other hand used to protect my head, but the light stick rolled into the water. The sudden change of light caused me to be confused for a moment. I was kneeling on the ground with one knee, but I lost my center of gravity before I stood up. on the ground.
This time, I completely lost my geographical advantage, and my body became extremely sluggish for some reason. I could only curl up and hide like a dying snail. I can't even see where the mermaid is or how close it is to me. I can only smell a strange and damp aroma oppressing it in the dark, and even the air freezes because of it. The cold water fell drop by drop on my calf, and my ankle was suddenly cold, and it was firmly grasped by something wet and sticky.
It was the mermaid's hand.
After realizing this, the rapid sweat from the palm of my hand made my pinch of the anesthesia gun unsteady. My lower body couldn't move at all, and I could only let the mermaid wind its way up from my legs. My heart was beating violently, and I was about to inject anesthetics into his neck artery when his head approached me. This is The most rapid and effective way to cut off the attack.
Soon, the mermaid's long, wet and thick hair hung down on my skin, passing over my calves and thighs one by one, and then stopped in the lower abdomen.
At that moment, the nerves in my legs twitched with tension.
I can't be sure what he wants to do, it is very likely that he wants to cut open my abdomen to eat my internal organs.
If I shot at this moment, it would most likely hurt his head. Between the mermaid and my own life, I must immediately make a choice.
However, at the moment when I was hesitating, suddenly, a series of low and strange voices sounded.
"De-ra-cu-la..."
It was a low hum that seemed to vibrate through the throat, somewhat similar to the Russian uvula. My family is from Russia, and this familiar way of speaking made my consciousness immediately escape from the chaos of dying.
Although it is impossible to judge what he wants to express, it at least proves that mermaids are not animals driven purely by instinct. He's not trying to attack and eat me right now.
Otherwise, what a strange thing it would be to communicate with one's prey before eating!
Maybe... this kind of mermaid can understand human language. This is a bold assumption, because there is no record of successful communication between humans and mermaids in history, but through various media. I may be the first human in the world to have a face-to-face conversation with a merman.
I took a deep breath, forced myself to calm down, and lowered my head to look at the mermaid oppressing my body below the abdomen.
Hidden behind the cover of his hair, his eyes emitted a faint blue light, which looked like the pupils of a wild wolf in a night vision lens.
I swallowed my saliva, trying to swallow the fear back into my stomach, and said clearly and in a low voice: "Hey, listen, I have no malice towards you. You were bitten by a shark, and I want to disinfect your wound."
I gestured and pointed to the wound on his shoulder, but the mermaid didn't respond at all, and was still lying on my legs, holding my legs tightly with both hands, without letting go at all.
I felt a little disappointed, but through the slight fluorescent light under the water, I saw that the corners of the mermaid's mouth seemed to move, and it grinned slightly, deepening the faint smile on the face, like teasing, and like It's a grin.
A chill ran up his spine again, overwhelming the frustration. I once believed that the intelligence of mermaids was between that of dolphins and humans, and I published many papers on this topic under the guidance of Rhine. But now, I have huge doubts about my past judgments.
Because of the expression of the mermaid, I had an extremely terrifying cognition, I don’t know if it’s an illusion——
He is a high-level creature who can play with my applause with his unique wisdom. A hunter through and through.