Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 357 - 7: This Fishpond’s Cannon Fodder Is Contracted (Part 7)
Now Jiang Lai acts completely according to her own temperament. She doesn’t give face to anyone, and Little Buding suspects she is deliberately going against him by relying on the temperament of the original owner.
"Enough with the nonsense. Talk about something serious. How do you plan to deal with the mermaids? They clearly respond to kindness rather than force. How can you possibly get their secrets by tormenting them all the time?"
"I can. Once tormented, they’ll comply."
As she spoke, Jiang Lai got up and walked into the monitoring room, watching the surveillance playback from last night. The section where Ren Yan sneaked in had all turned into fuzzy snowflake images, evidently interfered with by the mermaids.
"I knew you’d want to know. Now you realize you need me, don’t you?"
Saying this, Little Buding directly helped her restore the parts of last night’s footage that were blocked, with a slightly frivolous and arrogant tone.
"I’m not boasting, but there’s no system faster or better than mine in the entire bureau. Without me, could your tasks be completed so smoothly? Sometimes I envy you for having such a good partner... Like me, I don’t have your luck."
Jiang Lai silently looked at the restored images before her.
"Did you hear what I said?"
"Did you say something?"
Jiang Lai’s tone was cold, nearly causing Little Buding to crash out of embarrassment.
So annoying, this Jiang Lai is even more disagreeable than the previously sharp-tongued Jiang Lai, always cold and indifferent, without any sense of humor.
Jiang Lai didn’t intentionally irritate Little Buding. She was rarely affected by the original owner; her own emotions and habits usually prevailed. But this situation was more special. The original owner was extremely self-contained and rational, focusing almost exclusively on what she deemed important, rarely noticing changes around her.
No wonder in the original storyline, several men around her betrayed her while she remained oblivious, continuing to focus on her research.
Jiang Lai was somewhat affected, after all, the brain she was using was the original owner’s, whose internal dullness and indifference towards emotions led Jiang Lai to be less sensitive than before.
Little Buding also understood that, while Jiang Lai was significantly affected, her innately evil nature remained unchanged, and that was enough for him.
For instance, now, upon discovering that the mermaids had learned human scripts and communication methods, Jiang Lai went to the laboratory without hesitation, with the experiment subject still being the juvenile Little Mermaid.
The Little Mermaid feared and hated Jiang Lai. Due to the injury on his dorsal fin, he couldn’t straighten up, having to accept Jiang Lai’s overlooking gaze.
When Jiang Lai approached, he still tried to spread his broken back fin and lifted his head, showing his sharp fangs towards her. His hands, bound by chains, struggled vigorously, even under anesthesia, producing spine-chilling creaks from the metal chains, as though they might break at any moment.
Jiang Lai stood one meter away, close enough to observe the mermaid without being harmed.
"September 13th, 2 PM, Mermaid Learning Research, First Phase, Recording Begins."
Jiang Lai took out the recording equipment and started the experiment voice recording.
"The juvenile mermaid’s brain is not fully developed and has yet to form a complete seabed worldview, making it the perfect object for human societal domestication. I officially name the mermaid before me as Land Dog."
"What’s this ’Land Dog’ about?"
Little Buding immediately understood the meaning behind the name; it fit Jiang Lai’s nasty sense of humor perfectly.
"Considering it’ll be made public eventually, is it polite to give it such a name?"
"Sea Dog, Seal, Land Dog, Land Dog, based on these, I think Land Dog is most fitting."
"Do you just have an issue with dogs?"
Oh well, Land Dog it is then. If this Little Mermaid learns the meaning of his human name, he might wish to chop Jiang Lai up and serve her as a side dish.
Jiang Lai ignored such thoughts, and turned on the TV in front of her. The TV broadcasted language programs, and for the next two hours, she sat quietly watching the program, never minding the mermaid beside her.
Eventually, the mermaid was dehydrated for too long, so Jiang Lai released the chains to let him return to the seawater to recover a bit, then pulled him back up with the chains again.
This time, she turned off the TV and replaced it with a blackboard, beginning to write in front of the mermaid.
On the blackboard were only numbers, one through ten. Each time she wrote, she made a corresponding gesture and threw the corresponding number of dead fish in front of the mermaid.
These were their food, yet the hungry mermaid didn’t glance at them.
It didn’t matter whether he looked or not; Jiang Lai’s objective was achieved. Within half an hour, it was confirmed that the Little Mermaid completely understood the human world’s Arabic numerals, from one to one hundred.
"Now, I will test Land Dog. The test process will be accompanied by rewards and punishments."
After speaking, Jiang Lai placed a table in front of the mermaid. On the table was a pen, and the chains slowly loosened, giving the mermaid more range of motion with his hands.
"Now, I speak, you write."
Following, Jiang Lai uttered a number.
"Five."
The Little Mermaid was unmoved, and even directly broke the pen in front of him.
Jiang Lai, expressionless, pressed the button of the electric controller in her hand, and the next second, the Little Mermaid before her trembled all over, with his tail flailing wildly and his upper body curling up, letting out a sharp cry.
Jiang Lai handed him another pen.
"Again, ten."
The mermaid again snapped the pen, and Jiang Lai, as he wished, continued the electric shock.
After three times, when Jiang Lai placed the pen in front of him again, the mermaid obediently picked it up and wrote a crooked number "6" on the paper.
Jiang Lai glanced down at it.
"Very good, you are clever."
After the compliment, she placed a fresh fish on the table. The Little Mermaid watched the lively fish and uncontrollably swallowed it in one bite. Immediately, his previously erected pupils gradually dilated, indicating he felt pleasure, which, although fleeting, was captured by Jiang Lai.
In the next ten tests conducted, seven were successes and three failures. Seven fish and three electric shocks not only taught the mermaid the meaning of numbers from one to one hundred but also a basic rule of human society.
That is, obedience leads to less suffering.
Before sending him back, the mermaid’s hands were hoisted high up. Jiang Lai slowly walked up to him, reached out, and gently stroked the area where his waist and tail connected.
"Well done."
The mermaid’s tail noticeably shuddered, a clear sign of pleasure.
Sure enough, as derived from the dissection results, this spot is the mermaid’s sensitive point, akin to a mother cat’s rump.
