How to become a mermaid

Chapter 14 Mermaid and Human
The malnutrition of the sea anemones lasted for more than half a month, and finally the first dead sea anemone larva appeared.

Massive die-offs followed, with the carcasses of hundreds of anemone larvae floating in the water, serving as a buffet for reef fish.

However, to Shamanleir's surprise, there are still four little anemones still alive tenaciously, and they are still devouring the corpses of their companions, trying to make themselves grow up.

Why did they survive when all the other anemones died?

Shamanleir picked up the few surviving sea anemone larvae in the palm of his hand. After careful observation, he found that these sea anemone larvae had something in common: they all had a high degree of alienation!
[Alienation degree: 54%]

[Alienation degree: 48%]

[Alienation degree: 51%]

[Alienation degree: 62%]

During Shaman Lair's investigation, it was found that the degree of alienation of these four sea anemone larvae was close to 50.00%.

The degree of alienation is high, which means that the two genes in their bodies are better fused. Unlike other larvae, which are spliced ​​together by two sea anemones, they are truly fused to produce new species.

Seeing such a high degree of alienation of these little sea anemones, Shamanlell thought of a certain merchant ship he had seen.

There was a man with a very strange appearance on that boat: he had two heads, one big and one small, three arms with scales of some kind of animal, half of crow-like wings, one particularly thick leg and two It has a lizard-like tail, and various strange-shaped thorns on the exposed skin.

That "person" can no longer be called a human being, and Shamanleir even saw that his degree of alienation was as high as 79%.

One doesn't just turn into a monster like that for no reason, there's only one reason for that: the guy took too much potion with a messed up system!
Combined with the results of this sea anemone experiment, Shaman Lair has a bold guess: taking potions is essentially genetic modification!
With a bold conjecture, Samantel further reasoned that the barriers between species on this planet are relatively weak, and there may be some kind of substance in those potions that can break through this thin barrier , to speed up gene fusion.

However, after taking the potion, it is impossible for all genes to be fused, otherwise, after drinking the potion, he would not even be able to eat, and if he was not careful, the genes of the food would be fused into the body.

Each potion is specially tuned, and it is only suitable for the fusion of gene fragments that need to be transformed.

When concocting potions, you need to add some "raw materials" from living things, just to extract genes!

But... If only genes are needed, and only a few cells are needed to contain all the genes in the organism, why subdivide it into several materials?
Thinking of this, Samantel's divergent thinking stagnated.

He hasn't explored this world far enough now, all of this is just his conjecture, and he still can't get the answer.

"Samanale! It's time to eat! I caught some of your favorite jumping fish today! If you don't hurry up, I'll eat them all!"

In the distance, Alicia's voice came.

"Forget it, don't think about it, I don't even understand the sea anemone, so I'm still thinking about potions." Hearing his mother's call, Shamanlael decided to put aside the research on potions for the time being.

He protected the remaining four sea anemone larvae in a glass bottle and swam towards Alicia.

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During the period when Samantel was studying sea anemones, Jonny's fleet had been sailing at sea for more than half a month.

As soon as they went out to sea, they sailed directly to Mermaid Bay, and searched up and down that sea area for several days, trying to find clues about the Mermaid.

But let alone clues, not even a mermaid scale was found.

And because there are many reefs in Mermaid Bay, several ships in their fleet had run aground accidents.

Fortunately, the problem was not very big, the ship did not sink, and was towed to a deserted island by other members of the fleet to repair it.

This tinkering was delayed for another day or two. After their fleet sailed out of Mermaid Bay, ten days had passed.

Everyone sailed forward in the "direction that the mermaid left" that Johnny said was right, and kept going in the same direction as much as possible.

The fleet sails for about [-] hours a day, but because most of them are fishing boats and need to keep an eye on the situation in the sea, they can only travel [-] to [-] nautical miles a day.

They have been out at sea for more than half a month, nearly 20 days, and they have only left Sebator Town for more than 500 nautical miles.

Also, the utterly aimless voyage made the rest of the ship a little impatient.

The crew on three or four ships even started their old business directly. They cast nets and fished while sailing, and they actually gained quite a lot.

Even the members of the other boats couldn't hold back and joined the fishing team one after another. If this continued, their fleet would no longer be a fleet looking for mermaids, but a fishing fleet.

"Jonnie! Are you sure the direction you said is right? Why can't we find any clues of the mermaid after so long? How long do we have to keep going? We'll be in an unknown area!" Batonio said. Holding the chart in his hand, he yelled at Johnny annoyedly.

Although Sebator Town does not have any rich resources, there are still plenty of sea fish around. Fishing boats usually go out to sea for no more than [-] nautical miles. Occasionally, a few adventurous ones only sail for three or four hundred nautical miles before going back. .

The range shown on the charts sold in the town is only [-] nautical miles. If their fishing boats go further, they will have nothing to refer to.

Thinking of this, Batonio felt a little restless.

His boat was next to Johnny, and Johnny could hear it without shouting, but Batonio didn't just want Johnny to hear it, but also wanted the other crew members in the fleet to hear it.

Batonio's goal was quickly achieved, and not long after he finished speaking, others also began to criticize Jonny.

"Yeah, Johnny, you can't even see the shadow of the mermaid after walking for so long. Could it be that you made a mistake?"

"Going further down, we may encounter danger, and there is not much fresh water on board. I will return in five days, at most five days!"

"I want to go back now. I caught two valuable star spots today. I have to go back and sell them while they are still alive!"

This group of people was originally a temporary team, and there was no tacit understanding at all. The only support for them was the belief in finding the mermaid, but now this belief has become weaker and weaker, and many people have already regretted going to sea with Johnny.

"Say something, Johnny, where are we going!"

"Mermaids don't exist at all, Johnny, do you think you can't pay off the boat loan yourself, and you think we can't pay off the boat loan? This trip to sea cost me at least two gold coins!"

As the accusations grew louder, Johnny let out a roar and said, "Enough! You short-sighted fellows, you'll never be rich lords, you'll only ever be fishermen who smell like fish. ! No gold coins, no beautiful women, and die of old age in the town of Sebatore!"

"If you don't want to go on, you can go back, I want to go on! Even if I, Jonny Edel, die at sea, I will go to find the mermaid!"

　Invest in me~
　　Vote for one~

　　huh huh...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)