Corporate slave? Pshaw, I'm the richest woman now!

Mermaids are legendary creatures. There are many legends about mermaids, but most of them have one thing in common: they possess unparalleled beauty.

That's true... At least for now, Tang Tang agrees with this view.

The fish tank in front of us is certainly not an ordinary fish tank. Judging from the thickness of the glass, it is at least ultra-clear bulletproof glass.

These glass panes are so transparent that it makes one doubt whether the vast expanse of light blue water is actually floating in front of them.

But in reality, the fish tank was extremely clean, or rather, monotonous.

This large area of ​​water, enough to house dozens of sharks in an aquarium, consists of only a layer of fine white sand and a few large black boulders.

A few green water plants grew behind the rocks, but apart from that, the entire body of water was eerily empty, without even a single small fish.

Dead silence, emptiness, quietness, dampness.

The dripping sound of water coming from somewhere made the entire dark laboratory feel like a damp monster's lair.

The temperature here is extremely low. Even though Tang Tang is wearing protective clothing, she feels her hands and feet gradually getting cold if she doesn't move for a few minutes.

The pool in front of her was nearly ten meters high. When she looked up, she could only see the black-tailed mermaid floating on the surface of the water. It looked like a dead fish, belly up, with its hands casually spread out on the water. The whole fish was silent.

"Is it dead?" Tang Tang observed the mermaid and couldn't help but complain, "Luckily, the temperature in this laboratory is low, otherwise it would be rotting by now if it really died."

“But wouldn’t it turn into a giant in the water? Oh no,” Tang Tang said seriously, “it should be called a giant fish.”

【…】

The system sighed in exasperation at the host's mental state, but still reminded Tang Tang,

[It's not dead. System detection indicates that the creature possesses a life force.]

"Not dead?" Tang Tang's lips twitched. "If he's not dead, what's he doing floating on the water? Sunbathing? Where's the sun for him in this godforsaken lab?"

As she spoke, she stared intently at the mermaid's back. His long, black hair flowed in the water, as thick as the lush seaweed in the deep sea.

His skin appeared very pale, but the muscles in his bare upper body were beautifully defined, firm and powerful, seemingly containing a fierce strength.

Tang Tang clicked her tongue, suddenly walked to the glass wall, and then casually tapped the glass wall with her fingers.

As she tapped, she made sucking noises, saying, "Little fish? Little fish, come here."

The system has no good airway.

Are you calling the dog?

The sound traveled rapidly through the water. After Tang Tang finished tapping, a violent splash suddenly appeared on the surface of the water at the top, and the mermaid slapped the surface of the water and then quickly swam towards Tang Tang.

In just a few seconds, the mysterious male mermaid suddenly appeared in front of Tang Tang in the pool that was more than ten meters high.

"boom!"

He appeared in front of the glass wall with lightning speed, like a ferocious beast on its hunt, and suddenly pressed his face against Tang Tang's through the glass wall.

"Snapped."

Tang Tang stared blankly at the face pasted on the glass wall, a hint of amazement flashing in her eyes.

"My God..." she exclaimed incredulously, "Tongbao..."

This mermaid has a face as alluring as those in the legends.

His face was both fierce and handsome, with low-set eyebrows, deep-set features, and skin as white and flawless as jade from the seabed.

Its eyes are jet black, with pupils that are larger and darker than those of normal humans, so dark that they can make people feel dizzy just looking at them.

His eyelashes were thick and curly, his nose was straight and high, and his lips were perfectly shaped, so red they were almost dark. Combined with his thick, long black hair floating in the water, he looked like a bewitching ghost with stunningly beautiful features.

However, his beauty is not androgynous; every inch of his features is aggressive, and with his bold and unrestrained expression, one can directly feel the aggressive beauty of this male mermaid.

He was extremely tall, with his black fish tail alone measuring over three meters long. Not to mention the beautiful tail fin, which resembled pale black silk, slightly transparent, spreading out in the water, adding to his slender and dreamlike appearance.

Tang Tang looked up at the enormous object pressed against the glass wall in front of her.

With its tail included, it would be four or five meters tall. It has a great physique, beautiful muscles, and explosive power. It is perfect from head to toe.

"But how could there really be mermaids in this world?"

Tang Tang lowered her eyes to look at the male mermaid's waist and abdomen, trying to find traces of artificial surgery.

However, no.

Beneath his taut, well-defined abdominal muscles were varying shades of black scales, transitioning naturally from his human torso to his mermaid tail.

"Snapped!"

The mermaid clung tightly to the glass wall, her face seemingly glued to it, trying to pass through the glass wall and make face to face with Tang Tang.

The sound he made was because he suddenly raised one hand and slammed it against the glass wall.

Tang Tang subconsciously looked at the hand and found that its fingers were longer than those of a human, but there were translucent webbing between the fingers, and the fingertips were also sharper.

His face was so strikingly beautiful, and being so close to Tang Tang, coupled with his eyes that were full of predatory intent, created a rather eerie and unsettling feeling.

Tang Tang frowned, took a few steps back, and said to the system, "Isn't he an experimental product? You can't possibly tell me that mermaids, these inhuman creatures, really exist in this world, can you?"

System Road,

She is a mermaid, yet not a mermaid.

Before Tang Tang could question it, the system continued,

He was a product of artificial breeding in a laboratory, used for mermaid experiments shortly after birth. Of the more than 200 children born at the same time, he was the only one who survived countless rejections to this day.

The price he has paid for living to this day is that he can no longer become human.

Tang Tang remained silent for a moment before saying, "Does he even have the ability to think? I feel like..."

The mermaid kept looking at Tang Tang.

He pressed himself against the glass wall, his beautiful and three-dimensional features slightly distorted by the pressure, but it did not detract from his good looks.

Perhaps lacking the thinking of a normal human, his every move is more like that of a wild beast acting on instinct, giving off a strong sense of inhumanity.

Just then, Tang Tang heard a commotion outside the door.

She frowned, quickly kicked the pieces of the fallen exhaust pipe into a corner, then climbed onto the wall using the cabinet, and grabbed the ceiling light to flip back into the exhaust pipe.

Perhaps due to good luck, Tang Tang found that the cabinet was not going to have an exhaust net on top when she climbed back up.

She simply covered the broken exhaust mesh with it and then crouched down to peek underneath.

Sure enough, someone was knocking on the door, and a few minutes later, the door was violently pushed open.