Unlike the fierce and violent Rapos with dark scales, the Red Lady is like a floating cloud, with a thousand gorgeous colors of morning light and dusk projected on the female mermaid at the same time. The lightest scales are pink like white roses, and the darkest fin membranes are red like dripping blood. Her wild beauty is far beyond the limit of human imagination.
When the Red Lady was captured, she was already seriously injured. Her struggle and resistance were fierce, but not as unfathomable as that of Lapers - she couldn't even make a sound, let alone manipulate infrasound.
"... The result of successfully subduing her has injected arrogant confidence into the top management of the institute, and also laid the foundation for their contempt for you." Jiang Mian said hoarsely, "They were too happy, so happy that they forgot everything else. There was a grand carnival and celebration banquets all night long, as if the blood in their veins had been replaced by champagne. They celebrated that humans had finally caught a living mermaid, and they could finally verify their absurd conjectures and theories on her..."
His smile was bitter. "In fact, Madam Hong was not the first mermaid obtained by humans, but she was the first living mermaid. In fact, the first mermaid that was salvaged was just a mermaid's skeleton. The remains named 'Adam' were like a real Pandora's box, opening the ambitions of too many people."
Jiang Mian paused and explained to the concentrating Rapos: "Adam is the first creature created by God in mythology. Pandora's Box is also a box full of disasters and misfortunes in mythology... It's just an analogy. You just need to understand the meaning."
Rapos nodded knowingly and asked, "Human, what did you find?"
"Their biggest and most important discovery is the bone age of the remains." Jiang Mian took a deep breath, "512.8 years old, which is no more than 2 years different from the actual physiological age, and it is not a natural death... The lifespan of mermaids, this is the only trigger."
"The curse of wisdom," said Rapos.
Jiang Mian looked at him: "What?"
"The truth that circulates under the sea," said Rapos, "is the curse of wisdom, which causes a fish to swim away from the cycle of eating and being eaten to seek what does not belong to it."
Jiang Mian smiled: "And we call it desire."
"Good, that's easier." Rapos approved.
"So, although many people are seeking the secret of longevity - I don't know the research progress in other places, but I can be sure that Sigma Research Institute has gone the furthest." Jiang Mian lowered his head and looked at the waves reflected on the water. "They used mermaid blood as the main material and developed a potion called 'Eternal Life Water'. It can not only cure diseases, but also supernaturally prolong the life of dying people."
"Do you see the guy up there?"
He pointed to the window where the light was coming from. "The scholars there, the oldest people, have all drunk the so-called immortal water, so they can live until now, six years later."
Jiang Mian said: "Sigma Research Institute and my adoptive father used...Ms. Hong's blood and flesh as the core resources for research experiments. Anesthetics are ineffective on mermaids, and some senior decision-makers also refused to use neurotoxins, believing that it would 'contaminate the purity of the immortal water'... Therefore, the method they adopted was to perform a live dissection."