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

Tang Tang was completely bewildered. She silently tugged at her hand again, only to suddenly see the mermaid in front of her looking at her, then tilting her head and opening her mouth to let out a deep voice.

“The person is mine.”

Tang Tang was shocked, and twitched her lips as she said, "You can talk?"

However, this mermaid seemed to know very little. Hearing Tang Tang's words, he blinked slowly, then stubbornly said, "...Mine."

Tang Tang clicked her tongue. "Idiot."

The handsome merman didn't quite understand Tang Tang's meaning. He watched Tang Tang try to leave, flicked his tail in annoyance, leaned against the glass wall, and approached Tang Tang. He inhaled her fragrance with satisfaction and repeated, "...I like it, mine."

"What do you mean 'yours' and 'mine'?" Tang Tang decided not to argue with an idiot. She nodded perfunctorily and said, "All the good things should be mine, understand?"

The mermaid didn't understand; she just kept holding onto Tang Tang's wrist to prevent her from leaving.

Tang Tang had no choice but to reach into her bag with her other hand, grabbing a piece of bread at random. After taking it out, she looked at the merman with slight hesitation and asked, "Tongbao, can mermen eat bread? What does he usually eat?"

The system didn't answer the question, but instead asked in confusion,

[Huh? Host, the system search is suddenly malfunctioning... Wait a minute.]

The system exclaimed in shock.

[Host, um, could you possibly take a drop of mermaid blood?]

Upon hearing the system's request, Tang Tang paused for a moment in a strange silence, then glanced meaningfully at the mangled corpses scattered on the ground below the stairs, and said in a complicated tone, "Tongbao, although I believe you won't stand by and watch me die, I'm also very scared if this fish suddenly goes berserk and tears me apart."

What nonsense were they talking about?

System Road,

[Host, I suspect the "golden key" might be related to this mermaid.]

Tang Tang paused, then turned her gaze back to the mermaid, scrutinizing him from head to toe. Finally, she asked with a hint of doubt, "Why? I can't see anything special about him."

The system countered, "Out of hundreds of experiments, he was the only one who survived. Isn't that unusual enough? Even if such advanced science and technology truly existed... to transform a human into a mermaid, with certain racial mutation characteristics... and yet he's still alive and healthy. Something just doesn't seem right, does it?"

Tang Tang pouted, "Isn't that because this world was already abnormal from the very beginning of my rebirth?"

As she spoke, she handed the bread in her hand to the merman.

The merman quietly watched Tang Tang, then reached out and took the bag of bread. The bread was glutinous rice bread, a round and plump white bread wrapped in a plastic bag, which looked extremely cute.

Seemingly experiencing the texture of a plastic bag for the first time, the merman was startled by the cold, hard plastic in his hand and instinctively clenched his fist, squeezing the bread flat in an instant, making a crunching sound in his hand.

Tang Tang understood that this fish was probably in a state of being knowledgeable, but people only knew a little bit about it.

Given the lethality displayed by the merman just now, Tang Tang estimated that it was absolutely impossible for anyone in this laboratory to provide human education to the experimental subjects.

The handsome merman is clearly very intelligent. Although he has not received systematic training, he may be silently imitating and learning some of the researchers' behaviors.

Tang Tang didn't open it for him, but instead made a gesture, indicating that he should tear off the outer plastic.

The merman watched Tang Tang's movements with a probing look. He didn't let go of the hand that was holding Tang Tang. Instead, taking advantage of his long and sharp fingers, he held the bread in one hand, his fingers slightly bent, and lightly scratched the packaging with his sharp nails.

"Tear it apart."

Like a sharp knife, without any obstruction, the plastic bag was sliced ​​open with a straight gash.

One can imagine that if a person's skin were scratched so lightly, it would probably crack like tofu very quickly.

Curious, the mermaid took out the bread from the packaging bag, grabbed it with her hand, and like a cat showing off its trophy, handed it back to Tang Tang.

It seemed as if he was proudly saying to Tang Tang, "Look, I got it for you, here you go."

Tang Tang chuckled, shook her head, and said, "Eat it yourself."

It seemed the mermaid understood the word "eat." He looked at the round, plump bread in his hand with some hesitation, and then handed it to Tang Tang.

Tang Tang thought for a moment, took the bread, broke off a piece, and beckoned the mermaid to bend down.

The merman was very clever and understood what Tang Tang meant.

However, he clearly had his own temper and didn't come running just because Tang Tang beckoned.

He lowered his head, narrowed his eyes slightly, and stared at Tang Tang with an inscrutable expression.

"Come and eat," Tang Tang waved to him again.

The merman stared at Tang Tang with slightly narrowed eyes for a long time before slowly bending down and getting closer to her.

Tang Tang placed the bread near the merman's mouth, pressed it against his lips like feeding a small animal, and said, "Don't bite me, or I'll pull out all your teeth."

The merman, seemingly oblivious to whether he understood or not, calmly looked at Tang Tang and then opened his mouth.

His perfectly shaped lips were a dark red, with a hint of the uncanny, like a monster from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

When he opened his mouth, Tang Tang was surprised to find that his teeth were actually sharper than those of a normal human.

[That's normal. He mostly eats raw beef and fish that have undergone sterilization in a laboratory, and occasionally supplements with nutritional products.]

He ate with elegance, and when he took the bread from Tang Tang's hand, his slightly cool, jelly-like lips touched Tang Tang's fingertips.

Even through the protective suit, Tang Tang could still feel the chill.

Clearly, this bread, brimming with technology and grueling workmanship, wasn't very popular with the merman.

However, he probably hadn't eaten in a long time, so with a strange expression on his face that said "it tastes a bit bad, weird, and strange," he obediently finished the bread that Tang Tang had stuffed into his mouth while glancing at Tang Tang.

"Eat the rest too."

Tang Tang continued to stuff the remaining half of the bread into his mouth. Compared to the merman's slender figure, this bread, which was not even the size of a palm, was obviously not very useful.

The mermaid looked at the bread stuffed in her palm, narrowed her eyes, grabbed it, squeezed it into a ball, and then stuffed it into her mouth and ate it.

Tang Tang watched his actions, sighed, touched his cool, handsome profile, and then praised, "That's great, so you're not mentally challenged after all."

The mermaid felt Tang Tang's hand on his face, his dark eyes filled with an unreadable expression. He stared at Tang Tang, then suddenly turned his head and bit Tang Tang's finger.

The cool lips and sharp teeth didn't frighten Tang Tang at all. On the contrary, she was used to petting dogs and subconsciously hooked her finger up to check the health of the teeth.

The mermaid froze, holding Tang Tang's finger in her mouth and staring at her with a hint of confusion in her eyes.