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.