Chapter 5: The Possessed Beast I

"Finally awake?" A familiar yet annoying voice broke his thoughts.

It's Fox.

A gentle-looking face appeared outside the glass above. The man with long flaxen hair tied into a strand laughed, his slender ash fox eyes slightly curved, and he pressed the button to open the medical cabin. "If you don't wake up, the major general will find trouble with me."

"Stop making sarcastic remarks."

——As the most valued student of the Dean of the Imperial Medical School, Lu Chuan, and the supervisor of this mermaid-catching operation, who would dare to cause trouble for this guy easily?

After all, the St. Billen Imperial Medical School is tasked with developing a vaccine to fight the next "Shenqi" infection and treating existing infected people, which is related to the survival of the entire St. Billen Empire. The dean, Ye Luchuan, is not only trusted by the emperor, but also has close ties with a number of powerful people in St. Billen. His power is on par with that of Nie, the prime minister of the Imperial Parliament, and Marquis Farman, the minister of finance, and they have mutual interests. No one dares to provoke or offend him, including Niga.

Medusa opened the glass cover and stood up. The remaining nutrient solution flowed down his naked body. Fox's eyes could not help but linger for a while. His skin was almost bloodless pale, and his body lines were extremely beautiful, but he was not as thin as he looked on the surface. Instead, he had extremely tight muscles, and there were many large and small wounds scattered on his body, as if he had been fighting with others for many years.

What was this guy's background before he became the military doctor of the Saint Biron Empire's marine fleet?

Noticing the other person's scrutiny, Medusa's eyes sternly snapped as he quickly grabbed the clothes next to him and put them on: "How many hours was I unconscious for?"

Fox lazily replied, "Not long, just one afternoon. But if you sleep any longer, the credit for catching the merman might be lost."

Medusa's eyes darkened. "What do you mean? What happened to the mermaid?"

"The injury is very serious. I don't know if it's dead." Fox smiled nonchalantly, but there was a sharp gleam in his foxy eyes. "I have to remind you that if the merman turns into a corpse, this credit may turn into a big trouble for you."

"Why didn't you give me a sobering drug earlier?" Medusa's heart trembled. He glanced at the time, then opened the door of the medical area and walked out quickly. Fox followed him slowly and touched the bulge behind his ear.

"You're right. He is indeed the most suitable candidate." Fox sneered at the back of the figure in front of him. "As expected of the 'Rose of the Empire'... He is even more beautiful than in the photo. Anyone with eyes will like him, and I'm afraid mermaids will be no exception."

After a pause, he responded, "It's okay. It's energetic during the day, but now, it's sleeping."

The warship was exceptionally quiet at one o'clock in the morning. The cold sound of military boots woke up the two sleepy guards at the entrance to cabin B1.

"Ahh?, Captain Medusa?"

"Let me go." Medusa said in a deep voice.

The two guards looked at each other and said, "The major general has ordered that no one can go down without his permission."

"Then go and report to the major general and tell him that I am leaving." Medusa raised his eyebrows. "The merman is in a critical condition. As a medical captain, I have a responsibility to check on her immediately."

No one dared to disturb the Major General's sleep, that would be courting death. The two soldiers looked at each other, no one dared to speak, Medusa stared at them with a sharp look: "If the merman dies at night, will you be responsible? Get out of the way! I will take any responsibility."

The soldiers hesitated and made way. Medusa opened the valve and walked down the stairs. The dark cabin was filled with floating water, making him feel like he was in the deep sea again. His boots touched the still damp deck. He looked at the huge glass water tank. A golden halo was faintly visible among the artificial seaweed. The merman was hiding in the shadows, motionless. He had no way of judging what was going on.

Medusa walked closer and tapped the glass with his fingers. There was a cold sound, but the golden halo remained motionless. His heart sank. The merman must not die. It was his only springboard to approach his enemy.

He immediately turned on the searchlight on his watch. The light penetrated the glass, refracting sparkling light on the golden scales, illuminating a corner of the water tank, allowing him to see the merman lying on the bottom of the tank, with her winding golden tail and drooping golden fins. Her long black hair covered most of her body like thick ink, so he could not see her injuries.

Mermaids have a strong ability to heal themselves, and he knew it, but he was still a little nervous. This was not a healthy merman, and he didn't believe that the ice had no effect on its body functions, and he didn't believe that the secondary damage he caused in order to capture it was not serious - it was definitely not a flesh wound.

He took a diving suit from the wall and put it on quickly. He saw Fox walking down slowly. The guy crossed his arms and asked with a smile: "Can I help you, Captain? Your medics subordinate all seem to be asleep now. Although my job is only to supervise and record, but when it comes to mermaids..."

"Excuse me, Dr. Fox, help me keep an eye on that thing." Medusa pointed to the mechanical wheel hanging on the water tank and connected to the chain. When I signal you later, please help me pull the merman up."

Seeing Fox nod with a smile, he smiled back, climbed up the ladder on the outer wall of the water tank to the top, and lowered his eyes to look at the golden figure below. It might be more convenient to drag it up for inspection, but for a dying creature, any dragging could be a fatal blow, and he couldn't take the risk. Medusa bent down and jumped into the water.

The thin diving suit made him move much more agilely than in the deep sea. Enduring the severe pain in his ankle from time to time, he quickly dived to the bottom of the warehouse.

The merman was still lying there, with only her jet-black hair surging with the waves. In the light from above, her golden fins appeared translucent, like a divine robe woven with gauze dotted with golden sand. Medusa subconsciously touched it, as if a thin blade had cut across his palm, causing him to bleed immediately. He didn't care, and stroked the merman's muscular back, grabbed her shoulders between her black hair, and carefully turned her over.

The young golden-tailed merman had black hair covering her face. It was hard to tell whether her eyes were open or closed, but she was as calm as when she first saw her under the glacier, like an ancient Egyptian god that fell in his hands. Her body, which contained terrifying power, was bound by a special restraint for dark matter germ mutants that he had put on himself. They had no experience with mermaids, so they had to prepare this thing. He always thought that its shape was like some kind of SM sex toy. He wondered if the guy who invented it had some strange and heavy taste for mutants. The graphene strap, which was tougher and softer than metal, was buckled around the mermaid's neck, passed around her shoulders, and passed under her armpits. There was a small mechanical pulley with a magnetic pole on the back, connected to a chain, which could drag it.

Although it looks very erotic, it can release powerful biological radiation that is enough to slow down the movement of mutants and directly affect the spine. I just don't know if it works on mermaids. Anyway, he let a strong captive try it in the torture chamber of the warship and verified that it is also effective on humans, making humans incontinent on the spot and turning into a puddle of mud. But I don't know if it's because the restraint is too tight, the wounds on the merman's chest and shoulders caused by the "carving" have no tendency to heal, especially the penetrating wound on the chest, the skin and flesh are horrifyingly rolled up, and even the white bones can be seen.

It was so serious that he had to take it for treatment.

He swam down a little, held the mermaid's neck, and picked her up. At such a close distance, he could see the shape of the dark golden totem in the center of the mermaid's chest. It looked like a sun, but also like an eye.

There was no time to take a closer look, so he moved his eyes away and looked up. Just as he was about to inform Fox, his wrist suddenly tightened!

—the burning webbed claws grabbed him.

The golden fish tail immediately wrapped around his calves, and the heat penetrated the diving suit and reached his skin and bones, but it did not reach the burning temperature like in the deep sea. Medusa moved his eyes and met the green eyes that leaked out from between the black hair.

The young merman stared at him, her eyes extremely clear...not even a trace of the confusion of just waking up from a coma, nor the weakness of being on the verge of death.

It was as if it had been lying in wait quietly for the purpose of hunting.

——He should not ignore that this creature is said to have extremely high intelligence, even surpassing humans.

He tried to stay calm and didn't move, letting the merman stare at him deeply. Unlike when he first saw it in the seabed, it didn't seem to want to attack immediately. He found that its green eyes were really beautiful, which reminded him of the aurora he had been seeing recently. It was that green, deep, mysterious, seductive, and full of vibrant wildness. It made people feel dangerous, but it was easy to fall into its trap. These eyes were definitely not human eyes. They belonged to wild animals, and they were fierce beasts. During this brief moment of distraction, his cheeks felt warm. The merman was actually touching his face with its webbed claws. The sharp fingertips brushed his cheeks, nose, lips... He still didn't move, and saw it get closer, swimming slowly around him, and squinting his eyes to look at him. He turned his body as it swam, avoiding exposing his back and neck to this deep-sea predator full of uncertainty.

Although it didn't look very old, he had already realized how dangerous it was when he first saw it, and his ankle, which was still in severe pain, was the best evidence of it.

Niga (Nijia in pinyin)

Fox eyed fox (seems like a bitch to me)

Our cutise ML

No.1 mc Medusa

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