Gold Medal Mediator [Quick Transmigration] 72p2

Chapter 72: The Little Mermaid, Part Two-2

“That was a mermaid… I don’t know if it’s a new type of experimental subject, or a native creature of the ocean. It’s too incredible. I always thought this was a creature that only existed in legends…” Along the way, Xia Dan used his rich vocabulary to describe the shock in his heart to Hua Baihe.

Hua Baihe was very calm, and even took the time to reply, “It’s native.”

Xia Dan: “How do you know?”

Hua Baihe: “Have you forgotten? The core content of the project is to transfer existing biological characteristics to humans. Without a perfect native body, how can there be a successful experimental subject? What’s more—”

“You can see from the current situation of the third experimental field that the success rate of that natural power is five percent. Although the first experimental field has the highest level of confidentiality and the most complex experimental content, the fusion success rate is only ten percent.”

“In other words, if the mermaid we just saw could be completely fused successfully, the ‘Blue Sea Project’ would have broken through long ago.”

Perhaps it was because of what she was thinking, but Qu Muchun’s face had no smile at the moment. It was a world away from the way she had tricked Fu Guangqi with a childhood TV series before, and there was even a sense of solemnity.

Especially when she was expressing her professional opinion, the persuasiveness in her tone was very strong, almost easily convincing Xia Dan.

“That’s true…” he sighed in a low voice.

If there really was such a successful mermaid experimental subject, then they, the “volunteer reserves,” would have been disbanded long ago. Why would they need to be kept in captivity, waiting for the day the butcher’s knife was placed on their necks?

At this thought, he subconsciously reminded her:

“By the way, I think this project is a bit more complicated than it seems…”

He didn’t say the rest, the reminder stopped there.

After all, Xia Dan didn’t dare to say that he had violated the rules and looked at the experimental records of the first experimental field before. Although Qu Muchun was his fellow countryman, in this place where interests and survival were at stake, saying more could harm him.

If he was reported by Qu Muchun, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Xia Dan thought this sentence was out of the blue and could only elicit a laugh from the other party. But the person next to him looked at the corridors on both sides, and seeing that there was no one around, suddenly reached out to take his work badge.

Xia Dan: “?”

Hua Baihe just smiled, had the System temporarily block the signal in this area, took off her own work badge, and said to Xia Dan, “I know, I’ve seen it too.”

Xia Dan: “!!!”

Hua Baihe said to him, “Unfortunately, the office I’m in is responsible for magnetizing these ID cards and setting their permissions.”

“If someone wants to walk out the main door, they’ll have to get past me.”

After saying that, Hua Baihe winked her right eye at him. It was a harmless face, but it had a cunning and clever feeling.

While Xia Dan was still stunned, he heard a “beep” next to him. Hua Baihe had swiped his card and said to him:

“You’ve reached your work location. Hey, I told you to be careful and not to put your work badge and wireless charger together. I’ll go and re-enter your information for you now. See you at six in the afternoon.”

After saying that, Hua Baihe waved at him, put his work badge in her pocket, and walked away without looking back.

Leaving Xia Dan standing there: “…”

He was a little confused, not understanding how the situation had changed so quickly.

A bad guess was confirmed, and a plan to leave instantly appeared…

All of this happened in just a few short minutes.

Xia Dan felt he needed to calm down.

Amidst the teasing of his colleagues, he walked to his post with a feigned composure, and also chimed in when they were talking about the situation in the third experimental field.

“I heard there was a problem at an experimental field at noon? It’s not those damn reporters sneaking in again, is it? I remember last time after a little bug snuck in, even our normal reporting and going out were put under lockdown.”

“Who knows? I only know that there seems to be a big event at the first experimental field recently, but my girlfriend only told me that much, nothing else.”

“Hey, Lisa, you should learn to use your womanly advantages and ‘interrogate’ him properly in bed!”

“Go to hell! I would never ask about his work. That’s our mutual understanding.”

…

On the other side.

Hua Baihe, with two work badges in her pocket, was on her way back to her office. She heard the System ask in her mind:

“You want to save him?”

“But he doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Fu Guangqi’s mission progress. And the apocalypse is coming soon. If he leaves now, he might die an even more miserable death after a while.”

It was only a matter of time.

Hua Baihe replied with a grin, “Just a casual act.”

If this person hadn’t given her, a stranger from the same country, a word of warning, she wouldn’t have gone to the trouble.

Now it was just returning a favor.

What’s more…

Hua Baihe thought of the countless emojis inside the door after she had just walked into the third experimental field. By recalling the content of the “Blue Sea” project, how could she not know what kind of creepy scene the System had blocked for her?

She knew she couldn’t save those experimental subjects who were struggling in pain.

It was just a matter of saving one if she could.

As for Xia Dan’s future fate, at least it was in his own hands, and not lying on an operating table at the mercy of others.

Hearing her casual reply, the System didn’t bother to distinguish whether it was true or false, and just fell silent.

It watched as Hua Baihe calmly changed the permissions of Xia Dan’s and her own work badges—

Because the apocalypse was coming in a few days, and the permission change records would only be checked again a week later, it was very easy to do something now.

Hua Baihe decided to hint to Xia Dan tonight to remember to leave early tomorrow.

She had no intention of staying in this strange company for long either.

After changing the permissions, she took out her phone, and then…

First step, sitting in the office, she opened the Jinjiang website across the country.

Second step, in the novel tag line, she started searching:

“Apocalypse.”

The perfect two-part series to help all humans who have foreseen the arrival of the apocalypse get the best survival guide in advance!

Apocalypse home travel, killing and arson essential operations!

System: “…What are you doing?”

Hua Baihe replied very calmly, “I’m looking for novels like an apocalypse survival manual. They must have written down clearly what to prepare for the apocalypse.”

System: “…”

It was impressed by her crazy idea.

Looking for survival rules in apocalypse novels, sounds reasonable!

“Hoard non-perishable food… instant noodles, compressed biscuits, rice… prepare a clean water source… a handy weapon… a drivable jeep… sufficient gasoline…”

Hua Baihe blatantly slacked off during work hours, taking several pages of scratch paper to record the essential supplies for the apocalypse.

She could understand the ordinary supplies recorded on the first page.

But from the second page onwards, some novels had things like soilless cultivation methods, water purifiers, etc., which made Hua Baihe marvel, and at the same time, she beat her chest and stomped her feet at the System:

“System, why did I have to be such a boring researcher! I should have been a farmer!”

System: “…”

System: “Can you… not look at the farming genre tag?”

This path was obviously not suitable for Hua Baihe, who was not good at physical labor and didn’t know the five grains!

It was too late to cram!

Could she have a little self-awareness!

Hua Baihe: “Oh, okay.”

Then on the third page, she found something even stranger—

Because in different novels, zombies, the living dead, mutated plants, etc., the direction of mutation was very different, especially zombies.

Sometimes they had vision, hearing, and smell. Sometimes they had none, only relying on their instinctive cells to lock onto and capture the presence of humans.

And among the zombies that still had their five senses, in the novels, in order to confuse the zombies, the protagonists would usually use an object to cover their own scent.

It had a very fancy name! Six God!

Chinese name, Liu Shen Florida Water!

It could repel mosquitoes and ward off zombies, making it one of the greatest inventions in the lives of ordinary people before the apocalypse!

Hua Baihe took a sharp breath, touched her chin, and asked the System in a deep voice:

“System, I can’t buy this right now. Do you think a bottle of Chanel No. 5 would work as a substitute?”

System: “…”

It said tiredly, “I have no opinion on what you want to buy. I only have one request: check if you have enough money in your pocket.”

Hua Baihe: “???”

Five minutes later, she looked at her balance from a text message query:

56.6

Which was only a few hundred RMB.

Hua Baihe looked at her three pages of notes and fell into a dead silence: “…”

This was no way to live.

She was quiet for more than ten seconds, then resolutely clenched her fist and announced:

“I’m going to borrow money from Fu Guangqi!”

…

That night.

At dinner time, Hua Baihe waited at the entrance of the canteen for a full two hours, but didn’t see Fu Guangqi at all.

At ten-thirty, the canteen closed.

Hua Baihe stood up and stretched, then walked back dejectedly. “Miscalculation. I forgot that research dogs have always been willing to sacrifice even their thick hair for their research results. What’s skipping a meal…”

She was really too naive.

Hua Baihe returned to her dormitory in a daze, went to bed, and resolved to go and borrow money for apocalypse survival gear the next morning.

However, she didn’t know…

She would not live to see the day she successfully borrowed the money.

The reason was in the middle of the night.

At that time, Hua Baihe was sleeping soundly in her bed when she was suddenly woken up by the System shouting in her mind:

“Wake up!”

Hua Baihe was unmoved.

The System gritted its teeth. “Fu Guangqi is here with the money!”

“Where, where!”

Hua Baihe woke up with a start!

Then she broke out in a sweat.

The reason was simple: at this moment, she was actually standing in the third experimental field she had been to during the day.

In front of her was the wide glass.

Inside was still the deep blue seawater, with no end in sight.

The hole in the interior that had been damaged during the day was gone. It was unknown if it had been repaired, or if this was actually a dream of hers.

Hua Baihe subconsciously turned her head and looked around. It was the same familiar parrot mosaic, but she couldn’t help but shiver.

Even the soles of her feet were ice cold.

She looked down and saw that she wasn’t even wearing shoes. She was wearing the pink bunny pajamas she had gone to bed in, standing barefoot on the cold marble floor.

Hua Baihe lifted her left foot and rubbed her right ankle with the sole of her foot. She hugged herself tightly and asked the System:

“System, you didn’t tell me this body has a sleepwalking setting?”

Compared to her confusion, the System was a little more solemn.

The reason was the feeling of being watched from behind the glass…

It was too strange. This was only the intermediate field. How could there be an existence that even it felt threatened by?

“Don’t look around, look ahead! Something is coming!” the System warned.

Hua Baihe: “???”

But before she could react, a hand suddenly appeared on the glass.

It had the same five fingers as a human, but was more bony, like upright bamboo joints, with more prominent knuckles.

The nails were sharp, never having been trimmed.

Hua Baihe followed the hand and saw the figure that had appeared in front of her.

A silver fishtail, a slender upper body, and long hair falling in front of her chest, just enough to cover it.

This mermaid had a face that was almost demonic.

A face that was pale to the point of being translucent, without a trace of blood. A high-bridged nose, and lips so red they seemed to have gathered all the hot blood in her body. And those deep eyes.

Hua Baihe couldn’t even see the color of those eyes, and a vague string of color adjectives flashed through her mind:

Deep blue, ink blue, sea blue…

It was everything, and yet it was nothing.

But when she looked at those eyes, it was as if she was being sucked in.

Hua Baihe stared at those eyes in a daze, not even realizing that she was involuntarily reaching out, trying to match her palm with the one spread open on the glass surface inside.

If an outsider were to look from a third-party perspective, they would definitely be able to tell from her obsessed expression that she had been bewitched.

Legend has it…

The song of the siren can make sailors lose their way during their journey.

But the bewitching power of this mermaid was even greater than that. Just by looking at her, one would lose their consciousness.

Just as Hua Baihe’s palm was about to meet hers, as she wished.

She suddenly took a step back!

Then, Hua Baihe, still conscious, made a ‘stop’ gesture to her, took a big step back, and asked warily:

“This, uh, mermaid friend, may I ask a question—does your diet consist more of fish, or more of people?”

***

※ Author’s Note:
Honest mermaid: Actually, I eat both.