In 1959, U.S. nuclear submarines were already frequently operating under the Arctic ice - a place where they could better confront the then-giant Soviet Union.
However, at the time, no one thought that in addition to the shock and deterrence of war, nuclear submarines could bring humans to areas that they had never been able to explore before. Beneath the Arctic's billion-year-old ice crust, an ancient predator at the top of the biological chain is sleeping.
At first people were just surprised that there were a lot of nuclear submarine accidents during this period - the Americans thought it was the Soviets, but after a while, the information gathered from the Soviet Union surprised the US military - the Soviets also believed that Those accidents were done by Americans.
But at that time the coordinates of the two submarines were separated by a distance of nearly 100 kilometers.
Finally the Americans finally discovered it - an extremely beautiful, but also extremely terrifying creature.
It looks like a huge fish, of course, only from a distance... There are five tooth ridges on the tail, two to four pairs of auxiliary eyes on the head, and strong tentacles can be ejected from the mouth, which can easily turn the propeller of the submarine Crushed to shreds.
It has a special separate movement system, the special muscle structure makes it impossible for them to have a feeling of exhaustion, and the hollow structure of the fin spine and those muscles cooperate with each other, giving them unimaginable flexibility. The outer skin is composed of multiple layers of chitin and lime, which is far stronger than any material that humans could make at the time. The mucus secreted by the epidermis was initially judged to be highly toxic by humans. It was not until years of research that people discovered that it was not venom, but a very high concentration of virus aggregates, even the slightest scratch. Let its prey become infected, and the physiological tissue dissolves under the infection of a potent virus—for the mucus of this creature, their viral polymers react so strongly that most normal people cannot determine its true composition. On the dark sea floor, their blue-green fluorescence resembles the Christmas lights that the god of death hangs up to celebrate.
Well, as of now, it just looks like an ordinary underwater creature... But soon everyone noticed its strangeness.
It looks like some kind of bony fish, but it has the regenerative properties of a cnidaria, and in less than 24 hours after it is blasted in half, two brand new fish will reappear in humans In front... At the same time, because of the thermal weapons they have received, they will evolve a harder outer shell with a thicker buffer layer on the inner layer.
A creature that regenerates and evolves in a very short time.
"...We call this thing a 'primitive species'." Simon said to Ryan, "In 1972, the Soviets encountered a small settlement of 'Sirens'. According to the original data at the time, there were about three or so, but three Only this thing easily smashed the K-19 nuclear submarine to pieces. The funny thing is that the Soviets thought it was an American submarine until now. Since then, the government has begun to want to cultivate them as biological weapons. After all, they're much more useful than monkeys with an anthrax bottle on their backs."
Having said this, Simon showed a malicious smile.
"They...are not the same as the previous one."
Ryan carefully looked at the information Simon provided him, the muscles at the corners of his mouth tensed.
Simon's eyes slid over the other's cheek unconsciously.
"Of course. Too many people died trying to capture the native species, and some of those losses even affected the Navy's military deployment in the Pacific Ocean. For a possible biological weapon, the sacrifice was a bit too large. But to avoid wasting the material that had been put in, the government came up with a compromise - after the order was delivered, the submarines in charge of fishing at the time found that they no longer needed to go all out to catch the living material, and the corpses didn't matter. In this case , we finally let go and used a lot of lethality. As you can imagine it was a very terrible blow, an entire fleet was attacking. In this extreme situation, an interesting thing happened - almost The 'primitive species' that was about to be killed by torpedoes turned into a different kind of creature under the attack, which is what you just saw, the human body, the tail of the fish. This is a special extreme state of them - The regeneration ability of low-level creatures disappears, and the destructive power and attack power are increased geometrically, just like the madness of the boss..."
Ryan once again showed an imperceptible daze when he heard "Rageization", thank God Simon didn't notice it.
"And on top of that, in this state they're more similar to the types of creatures we recognize, I mean, they're going to be smarter... So finally, our lovely scientists are starting to open the brain. , using every possible means to fix them in this state. Thank God, it finally succeeded... After the success of the individual, we call it the 'transformed species' - and this whole experiment is the 'Siren Project'."
"Project Siren is still going on..."
"Yes, of course we have to do it. Stabilizing the 'native species' into a 'modified species' was only the initial goal, and then we discovered something else..."
Simon showed another picture in front of Ryan.
"Have you noticed a difference?"
he asks.
That's a picture of a merman, but...
"The color of the scales... what's the special meaning of red?"
Ryan quickly got the point.
"That's right, it's a 'red scale'. I said before that the native species can split into different individuals... Our research later revealed that virtually every so-called 'siren' settlement started out with only A body, which develops from an embryo, is more powerful than a split individual, and the way to identify it is the color of the scales. The color of the split clade is a duller blue-green color, which we call 'blue scales'."
Simon set the photos of "Blue Scale" and "Red Scale" in side-by-side mode. This approach makes the difference between the two more apparent.
The individual mermaid with red scales is actually much smaller, but its human features are more pronounced, and even through the photo, Ryan seems to be able to see the rich expression and emotional characteristics of its face, against a dark background. Down, its golden red tail is very eye-catching.
"The 'Blue Scale' is completely subordinate to its 'Red Scale', the latter is like the queen of the bee colony to the former, of course, the difference is that the 'worker bee' here is a split from the 'Queen' herself. Mermaids have no gender But what is certain is that only 'Red Scales' has reproductive ability, 'Red Scales' and 'Red Scales' will briefly differentiate into sexes to mate with sufficient food, and then breed new ' Red Scales'."
In the process of Simon's explanation, Ryan kept his head down and digested the information belonging to the siren on the computer at an alarming speed, and soon he found out that things were abnormal.
"Almost all the data subjects here are the 'blue scales' you mentioned, why?"
Simon gave a long whistle.
"You have found a blind spot, dear Watson."
He couldn't help laughing again when he was done, and Ryan glared at him.
Simon could almost see the subtitles rolling across Ryan's face - "What the hell are you laughing at?"
"That's why I hate old people," he muttered. "Unfortunately, or fortunately, 'Red Scales' direct-pressed mating... is an extremely rare condition. I don't think even Earth would want to see it. This creature proliferates. And, don't be deceived, the individual 'Sirens' are actually very rare, so far, we have only caught seven of the native species, only one of which is red scale, and it is in It was only converted into a modified species 16 years ago... Died of complications two days later. Then until now, we have not even seen the original species of blue scale. The Americans were so lucky at the time that they directly destroyed the only one in the Arctic Ocean. It is also the largest 'Siren' group. At present, all our experimental individuals can only cultivate by themselves. We have used a lot of data to do measurements, and we have come to the conclusion that such creatures as 'Sirens' are present on a global scale The number of independent individuals will not exceed three digits, and there should be between ten and twenty 'red scales' individuals - think about it, in the entire ocean of the earth, there are just a few 'red scales', their encounter is not It's an easy thing, and having offspring is even more of a small probability thing."
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Mermaids are divided into two types: native species and modified species.
The native species looks like a fish, but can turn into a mermaid in times of crisis.
The transformation species is to artificially fix this mermaid state.
Mermaids have red and blue scales.
The red scales are bred from embryos and can divide themselves. The split mermaid is the blue scales.
Bluescales will follow the commands of their redscales.