MTL - Mermaid Feeding Rules-Chapter 26

"Diamond candy?" Anthony looked up at Boyce, "I see."

He put the things Boyce asked them to bring last time on the table: "What do you want, let's see if there is anything less?"

Boyce counted the list and put it away after confirming that everything was in order. As soon as he looked up, he saw Laurie who was standing at the door looking at them impatiently. He put one hand in his pocket and saw Boyce. Looking at himself, his eyes flashed, and he said a little loudly: "What are you looking at?"

"Why haven't you left yet?" Seeing Boyce still there, he couldn't help but speak.

Laurie was one of Olier's subordinates, and it wasn't surprising that Boyce didn't have a good face for himself, but Boyce always felt that he was trying to drive him away on purpose, and a thread flashed in his mind, but Couldn't catch it.

Laurie stared at Boyce, holding the contents of his pocket in his right hand, until he left, Laurie's somewhat tense body relaxed, and some eagerly sat down on the table in front of Anthony.

The moment Boyce closed the door, he heard Laurie's urgent tone: "I need you to send something out..."

…

The logistics knows more about the outside world than the research institute. When Boyce left, he heard several logistics staff talking about the news from the investors.

"Some time ago, the old Patriarch of the Eureka family abdicated, and the new Patriarch takes over..."

"I heard that the old family owner originally wanted the younger son, and felt that the older son was not smart enough, but in the end the older son succeeded in ascending the throne."

"It is said that the eldest son invited foreign aid. Knowing that there were outsiders intervening, the old owner was directly angered and entered the hospital. The current owner is looking for medicine..."

"The deputy director who airborne over a period of time is said to be the son of the current head of the family."

Boyce listened to their chat, and suddenly thought of Laurie in the logistics office. He wanted someone to send it out. Could it be the potion based on the z-III formula?

…

"Who did you meet at the logistics office, why is this expression on?"

"Meet Laurie." Boyce didn't say much about his guesses, remembering that he had just had a clue about the medicine to relieve the effect of Z-III, and frowned with a headache for a while.

Sure enough, in the afternoon, Boyce was called to the office by Cyril to inquire about the progress, and Boyce was more certain of his guess.

A lot of fresh fish were caught today. Boyce remembered that one of the slap-sized fish Garcia liked very much, but most of the time the food provided to the fish by the institute was large pieces of fish, and only occasionally there were small fish. fish appear.

Thinking of Mermaid Garcia, Boyce also had some headaches.

Originally thought that after talking to him, Garcia would give up the idea of ​​​​being a partner, but Boyce underestimated the instinct of the mermaid, although the mermaid seemed to agree with Boyce's saying that two people must like each other to be able to It is said to be a partner, but his behavior is vaguely revealing the attitude of male courtship.

Since knowing the meaning of the word "sofia" in the merman, Boyce always felt that it was no coincidence that Garcia appeared near the ship of the institute some time after he entered the institute. Let yourself be caught in the institute.

This kind of behavior that sounds crazy, makes no sense to humans, and is incomprehensible to a merman does not seem to be too surprising.

This kind of speculation made Boyce feel a sense of responsibility towards this mermaid. He couldn't help thinking that this mermaid should have been free.

But as an insignificant researcher, Boyce didn't have the right to let him go even if he had this idea.

He also couldn't let the merman leave without permission. Even if he hoped that Garcia could leave here, Boyce couldn't risk the merman's revenge on others to give the merman the chance to leave the breeding room privately.

After all, the one outside the glass is his kin.

"Sofia..." Garcia came up and called to Boyce.

"You can call me Boyce," Boyce emphasized to him again, trying to get a fish to separate himself from the word "Sofia."

Although Boyce clearly knew that the word was the reason why he now had special treatment on this merman.

But he also knew that he would not fall in love with a mermaid.

He was always an alien.

Boyce felt that he could not give this mermaid the love between partners that belonged to humans, and Garcia was the same at the moment, unable to understand the feelings between humans.

Boyce glanced at the blue merman, subconsciously looking away from his canine teeth.

The human looked away, his eyelashes fluttered slightly, he let out a breath, and repeated in his heart: He won't hurt you.

Boyce deliberately ignored the minions on the mermaid, and his straight body relaxed a little.

He thought that, at least, so far, his mate selection was still within the human race.

However, the mermaid in front of him seems to have always been very good at responding to his face, and Garcia didn't think there was any difference between the two titles. His Sofia was the human in front of him, and Boyce was referring to him.

A name is just a designation used to distinguish different individuals.

In Garcia's cognition, Sofia and Boyce are equivalent concepts, and the former is more familiar to him than the latter.

"I remember." The mermaid agreed, looked at Boyce for a while and said, "Sofia, I like you."

Suddenly hearing the mermaid's confession, Boyce was stunned for a moment. The mermaid had promised before that he would never deceive Boyce again.

Boyce had a gut feeling that what he said was true.

And the mermaid in front of him said "like it" seriously, Boyce could see that the mermaid really thought he liked him.

But the mermaid still didn't understand the real meaning of the word "like" by humans.

Boyce said before that "two people who like each other can become partners".

In the mermaid's understanding, "like" has become a necessary step before becoming a partner, just like, you need to apologize when you are angry, and you need to apologize when you apologize, and proceed according to the established steps.

Boyce remembered Black's record on the s-5, which he had just read the other day.

Even if he did not receive positive emotional feedback in the early stage and was treated like this by the so-called destined partner, s-5 still never hurt Black. After reading all the records, Boyce did not feel that s-5's feelings for Black were love. .

All her, seemingly desperate love, is directed at the symbol "sofia".

Boyce looked at the mermaid, he said seriously that he liked it, but there was no love in his eyes.

He is still that creature, dominated by instinct, who doesn't understand the true meaning of liking and love.

Then Boyce retorted him: "No, you don't like it."

Garcia felt that things seemed to exceed his expectations once again.

"I like you," he repeated to Boyce.

Last time, Garcia asked Boyce what human like should be like.

Boyce has never liked other people, and can only explain to Garcia based on what he saw: "I like someone and I am happy when I see him, and I will miss them after we separate..."

Garcia took notes one by one, then compared what Boyce said with himself, and came to the conclusion that he liked Boyce with satisfaction.

He felt that he had achieved what Boyce said, "like him".

But Boyce told him.

"You don't like me."

Garcia repeated what Boyce had said earlier.

Boyce was at a loss for words.

He reached out and tapped the mermaid's heart: "Like it or not, it's to see here."

Garcia subconsciously held his heart, and through the skin, a steady heartbeat came up, a trace of confusion flashed in the mermaid's eyes, and he didn't understand why liking was related to the heart.

…

A researcher in the same group gave Boyce a box of diamond candies.

Boyce subconsciously remembered Ivey who had asked himself to ask Anthony to bring diamond candy for him next time.

Boyce went to Ivey's room to look for him, but he didn't see him, so he went to the dining room first.

Matthew noticed that Boyce seemed to be looking for someone: "Who are you looking for?"

"Ivey, I don't seem to have seen him much today."

Hearing Boyce's words, Matthew was also a little confused: "I don't seem to have seen him today either."

He waved in one direction: "Hayden!"

A young male researcher turned around. "Is something wrong?"

"Did you see Ivey?" Matthew asked.

"Ivey?"

"I didn't see him last night. If you see him, remind him to come to the lab."

Boyce also asked other people later, and it seemed that they had never seen Ivey much.

When I went to Juliana to return the materials, Boyce said something casually, and Juliana was also a little puzzled: "Ivy doesn't seem like a lazy person..."

She put the candy in the drawer: "I'll give this to him when I see him."

After Juliana checked the information, she put it back: "What information do you want this time?"

After Boyce said the information he wanted, he hesitated a little: "Is there any information related to s-5 here?"

Juliana nodded and pulled out a few brochures from the archives: "That's all you haven't seen."

Boyce returned to the room with these materials and opened the top booklet.

The author is Blake.

Boyce paused when he turned to a page.

"…After our observations, unlike other mermen in the lab, it has an estrus period in the spring. We detected higher concentrations of estrogen in the blood than before."

"It's the only mermaid we've caught that shows signs of estrus, and we're trying to find out what makes it go into estrus, so as to induce estrus in other mermaids, and mate to get the next generation of mermaids."

"Maybe the merman who grew up in the institute will be a little more docile than the wild merman caught..."

"...But the S-5 doesn't have an urgent desire to breed the next generation. Instead, it looks agitated, indiscriminately attacking everyone who comes close, and resisting the approach of everyone else."

In the end, it was Blake's hesitant words.

"I think I heard singing."