Blue Star

The area of ​​the laboratory is not small. In addition to the main room and surgery, there are also sample rooms, specimen rooms, and Zach's residence.

Apart from a few rooms useful for experiments, the herbarium and Zack's quarters contained little of value.The ground was mostly broken glass bottles, skeletons of failed samples, and experimental reports torn into pieces.

Eight years of loneliness and disappointment, repeated failed experiments, and a gradually festering body.Let this researcher, who hoped that human beings could become the top of the food chain again, end up in a state of mental breakdown.

I don't know if I should say that I have reaped the consequences, or I should praise Zac's inhuman persistence.

Gu Li stuffed the glass bottle with an unfamiliar code in his hand back into the cabinet, and continued searching after his emotions calmed down.

Iris went to the specimen room to clean up the bones, and organized some fish-like bones into a clean place.

Gu Li flipped through the documents in his hand from time to time, and looked at the cleaned specimens from time to time.

Most of Zach's experiments are based on salamanders, which are fused with humans after a certain stage of genetic modification.Among the failed experiments obtained, most of them were marine biological forms.

This reminded him of Dr. Zhong's underground laboratory, the sketch where the mermaid and salamander were drawn with two-way arrows.

All things originate from the ocean, and survive on land through continuous evolution and evolution.But he didn't expect that in the end, he would return to the sea in this way.

Reluctantly, he retracted his gaze and continued to read the information.Although more than 200 years apart, there are still people as crazy as Zack, and I am afraid there will only be more and more people.

"Found it!" Daoporing excitedly held up a report.

Gu Li hurried forward to check.

The report did not explain in detail what Perlman's gene body is, but the failed drug formulas were constantly recorded under this report.

He seemed to understand the formulas of these medicines, but he still understood the contents of the report.

"This is the test report of Patriarch Elder!" he said excitedly.

The time recorded in the report was when Elder was still living in this town.And the failure recorded in the report was the experiment on the Perlman gene.

It's a thick stack, up to a hundred pages, and there is no successful case in thousands of experiments.

On the last page of the report, Zac left a few lines of writing under the mark of potion failure.Not a comment, but a word he left for Elder.

"We will not succeed. When the people of Dawn City locked us here, this experiment was doomed to fail. We have long been sentenced to death, the infection will not stop, and Perlman cannot be cured .

Elder, you said my experiment was cruel, but you are the cruelest person. "

Dao Porling took off his glasses with trembling hands, and a few short lines of words extinguished what little hope he had left.

Gu Li's face turned pale, and the hand holding the report trembled slightly due to too much force.

It's not that the ancestors have struggled. It should be said that the ancestors can think far beyond them.

The medicine to cure infection has been researched hundreds of times and thousands of times as early as 200 years ago, but it just failed again and again, so that these highly intelligent ancestors finally lost their fighting spirit.

"Gu Li, Ke Erqi Gu Li!" Dao Porling woke up the dazed Gu Li, and sighed: "This answer is not surprising to us, we have already prepared for the worst when we left the town. It worked out, didn't it?"

He patted Gu Li on the shoulder.Although he was helpless, he had to accept the reality, "It is already very remarkable that we can come here and find these reports. Go home, at least you can live with your family for the rest of the day."

Mimir came in from the door with a bucket full of confusion, "Go home? Why?" Without hearing the foreword, he suddenly excitedly said, "Did you find the antidote?!"

Seeing that the two were silent, a bad premonition arose spontaneously, "No, antidote?"

Dao Porling took off his gloves, couldn't hold back his disappointment any longer, turned his back and put his hands on his eyes, trying not to let the unsatisfactory old tears come out of his eyes.

"Don't, don't. Isn't there still more than half of the laboratory missing?" Mimir dropped the bucket he was carrying, grabbed a stack of reports, and rummaged through: "We have all found the laboratory, how could it be possible? There is no antidote!"

He held the messed up report in front of Gu Li, then held Gu Li's hand holding the Perlman gene report, choked up and said, "Elder Gu Li, don't give up. Haven't we finished searching yet? I'll go find it." The laboratory is cleaned up, and more clues can be found after cleaning up."

Daoporing controlled his emotions well, turned his back and said, "Don't look for it, there is no antidote from the beginning."

Mimir looked at Gu Li expectantly, and after receiving a disappointed silence, he angrily stomped on the various reports under his feet.

"Liar, you are all lying to me!" He pushed Gu Li violently, and ran out of the laboratory with red eyes.

Gu Li put down the report in his hand. Although he knew that he would not get any more results if he searched again, he still read all the materials in the entire laboratory in the next few days.

It's a pity that there is only one report about Perlman that was discovered at the beginning.In the ruins around the laboratory, nothing about Patriarch Elder was found.

Here, like the town they lived in, Elder almost destroyed all the materials that would disappoint the younger generations.The difference is that this time there is a clear answer of "death penalty".

Thunder rumbled behind the mist-like clouds, and the three rings on his fingers lost their magnetic field once again.

A fire was lit in the center of the laboratory, and those reports that should have been classified as precious were now used as firewood.

The four of them sat around the fire, not saying a word in the face of the gradually dimming environment.

Gu Li was the first to break the silence and said, "Zach mentioned Dawn City in the report, does Ke Erqi have any similar records?"

Dao Porling had already calmed down and drank his saliva and said, "No, this is probably what Dawn City is talking about."

"Palman's gene body seems to be different from the infectious bodies we know, and the ingredients in Elder's report have never been in the reports of other researchers..."

"Child, even if we know what the ingredients in the report are, what can we do?" Daoporing interrupted: "The experiments of the predecessors have always failed, and even if there is a little hope, it will not reach us. Now this step."

He glanced at Iris, the only successful subject among all the experiments, and sighed: "Even if it is possible to transform humans into mermaids and survive in the ancient continent, the success rate is only one in a thousand." Just one. Everyone in the whole city is dead, and there may not be a second Iris."

Mimir did not give up and said: "There is a group of mermaids, and their number is no less than that of humans in our town."

"It's the offspring of successful experimental subjects, it's in the genes, it's not caused by infection." Daoporing tightened the cap of the water bottle, "We'll return early tomorrow morning, and there will be no results if we continue on. Let's go home, even if we are disappointed, we will do our best."

Mimir lowered her head, "I won't go, my father and brother are still waiting for me. They are still waiting for me to find an antidote to save them!"

"They are already dead!" Daoporing said the truth ruthlessly, "People who are infected and mutated, even if they are released into the wild, they will not survive for three months at all."

Mimir's eyes widened, and he tremblingly said: "You are talking nonsense, you are talking nonsense!"

He stood up neatly, grabbed Dao Porling's burnt beard and said sharply: "They are not dead! Elder Gu Li said, if you don't see it, you are not dead!"

"Let's go! Your beard is going to be bald!" Daoporing grabbed Mimir's hair tightly with his backhand, "If you don't let go, I'll pull out your hair!"

Mimir pulled off a handful of beard, threw it away, and then grabbed Dao Porling's white hair tightly, "If you want me to let go, I'll apologize first, or else I'll be bald together!"

The two of them didn't give way to each other, they tugged at each other's hair and wrestled in a disorderly manner.

Gu Li supported his forehead with a headache, and walked out of the laboratory irritably to breathe.Looking at the dark sky in the direction of the Sixth Goddess Pillar, he wondered whether he should respect the statement of the patriarch.

What a ridiculous and helpless choice to die in a beautiful fairy tale.This may be the reason why only fairy tale books can be found in the town, because from the very beginning, the patriarch Elder never thought that human beings could continue in a stable manner.

But he still established towns, gave institutions and a certain amount of education.If it is really thought that human beings will go extinct, then the towns they live in will only become like the Boom Boom tribe.

But in fact, it didn't. Chief Elder didn't brainwash the younger generations.In the face of incurable infections and monster attacks, they will still resist and fight.

Everyone dies, but not in this waiting fashion.The instinct of a creature is to live, even if it will be bruised from the struggle, he will never accept this life sentenced to death.

"Gu Li." Iris followed and stood with his back against the wall to calm down.

"Apart from Bermuda River, do mermaids live in other sea areas?" Gu Li's tone was almost dejected, and he found a topic and asked aloud.

After the successful experimental subject was released by Elder, it seemed that he had been living in the harsh sea area so obediently.Why not choose a better living environment when there is no fence around them that can stop them?

"Bermuda River?" Iris looked at him, as if analyzing what these three words meant.

Gu Li explained: "Your home, the place where you live with your kind."

Iris frowned and thought, and then said: "No, leave."

Gu Li was surprised by this answer.Mermaids have strong adaptability, just like Iris, who is an infected person but can adapt to the magnetic field. It is not difficult to leave Bermuda to find a better place to live.But Iris said he couldn't, not that he didn't want to.

"why?"

Iris turned his face away, hesitated and said, "Stay away, human."

Gu Li stood up straight, and asked: "Do you know that there are humans? Know from the beginning?" He grabbed Iris' arm, "Is it because humans have hunted you in recent years, so stay away? Or is it yours? The ancestors told you to stay away?"

"Always, I know. Human beings cannot enter and must be eaten."

Iris' intermittent answer made Gu Li's heart beat faster, "You want to eat it? If there are humans entering Bermuda River, do you want to eat them all? You can't leave Bermuda River because you can't let humans enter?"

Why?This simply overturned his previous cognition.The mermaids living in the restricted area of ​​Bermuda River have always been aware of the existence of humans, and have guarded the Bermuda River for many years to prevent humans from entering?

"What's in Bermuda River? Humans can't know it?"

Iris avoided Gu Li's questioning gaze, he couldn't answer this question because he didn't know why.This is the rule of the mermaid group, a rule that all mermaids must abide by.

"What about me? I'm also human, why didn't you eat me?" Gu Li couldn't understand the world more and more, "Mermaids can't leave Bermuda River, but you not only saved me as a human, but also went ashore with me ?”

Although he couldn't understand it, Iris' answer was confident, "You are a spouse."

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Yu Ling:

The content about Dawn City will not be detailed in this book. Yes, Blue Star has a second book, but it has not yet been pre-ordered.But the story about Gu Li and Iris will be finished in this book.