Chapter 1753: Mermaid Rearing Guide 25

Lin Juan lowered his brows in thought, sinking into recollection: "Back then, my relationship with that juvenile octopus… wasn't bad either; it was a smart female, and even when my parents weren't around it could still look after me."

"Until…"

Until a phone call.

Teenager Lin Juan had just finished his homework, idly twisting the alarm clock left and right.

Recalling the study material he had shown the octopus sister a few days ago, he was firmly convinced that if he didn't know how to do something, he could just ask later; she had learned so quickly she must already know everything!

While pondering what book to show the octopus tomorrow, Lin Juan's phone on the bedside table suddenly vibrated, the Bell Signal a bit piercing.

He hurried to answer; it was an unknown number.

Strangely, after the call connected, there were several seconds of static on the other end, as if the signal was poor.

"Hello?" Lin Juan wondered, then immediately heard a familiar voice.

"Little Juan! Little Juan! It's Mother!"

The mother's voice on the other end of the phone was extremely agitated; she was usually a steady person, and in Lin Juan's memory he had never seen his mother look anxious.

Lin Juan was momentarily stunned, "Mother?"

"Little Juan! Listen to Mother! Shrink the octopus into the cage! Do you hear me! Put it into the basement cage before twelve o'clock!"

Hearing the almost hysterical voice, Lin Juan instinctively looked up at the alarm clock on the table.

Eleven fifty-five a. m.

Lin Juan didn't even have time to ask why; the disconnected phone emitted a busy signal, as if urging him to act urgently.

As he picked up the alarm clock and ran out, the octopus was no longer in its favorite corner of the Living Room but was pushing toward the door; the usually good-tempered octopus now looked unusually agitated, its tentacles flailing against the walls, making a cacophony of noise.

"What's wrong with you, you..."

Lin Juan was rendered speechless by the turning octopus, and then came the tentacles that coiled him and flung him away, completely unlike his usual self.

Like a monster.

Fifteen-year-old Lin Juan exerted great effort, but could not match the already insane octopus, and as time passed, the octopus's frenzy became increasingly evident.

Lin Juan used his father's gun for the first time.

Eleven fifty-eight.

Lin Juan didn't know what would happen next, had no time to think, only felt that completing what he needed to do was enough; afterwards he would wait for his parents to return.

He expended tremendous effort, finally forcing the octopus to move toward the iron cage.

But just as the alarm clock's hand pointed to fifty-nine, Lin Juan was suddenly coiled again by the nearly broken tentacle and violently thrown toward the basement window.

Then came fire and blood.

That frenzied octopus self-destructed, scalding sludge splashing and igniting a fire.

Only the thrown-out Lin Juan managed to save his life.

When Lin Juan awoke again in the hospital, he consecutively received several pieces of bad news.

High-intelligence animals surged into the city, causing chaos; self-destructing and insane killers caused heavy casualties among ordinary people.

His parents, in order to protect the experimental data, were strangled by the frenzied high-intelligence animals in the lab, leaving no remains.

The home where he had lived for fifteen years was also destroyed in the fire explosion, all memories gone; he also bore fault, the alarm clock's time had been tampered with, preventing him from timely stopping the octopus's self-destruction.

"After that, I entered Professor Edmond's lab; he was my father's junior fellow."

Lin Juan's recollection ended; the things he did after joining the lab, he does not want the mermaid before him to know.

Jin Chen Silence listened to the end, and though it matched the scene in his nightmare, he just felt……

It seemed something was missing.

"Wife, did the octopus throw you out to protect you?" Jin Chen asked.

"No, it wanted to kill me."

Lin Juan's tone was firm, with hardly any expression when mentioning this: "It was frenzied and angry, just wanting to kill me."

He gazed into Jin Chen's eyes, deep and brilliant like sapphires, recalling how he too had once doubted this many years ago.

Full of doubt with no way to relieve it, he thus asked the teacher for help.

At that time, Edmond's answer to him, Lin Juan still remembers to this day.

"The nature of high-intelligence animals is precisely to want to replace human existence."

But now, the belief he upheld seems to have begun to waver.

Doctor Edmond's continual experiments were not for humanity, nor are all high-intelligence animals as he described.

Lin Juan suddenly reached out to gently stroke Jin Chen's cheek, doing so slowly and carefully.

"I won't ask anymore," Jin Chen tilted his head and kissed Lin Juan's palm, "Wife, don't be angry."

"I'm not angry."

Lin Juan curled his lips and spoke softly.

Moreover, telling the past events to this mermaid seemed to have become not so difficult.

【Zero Egg, check the true situation of Lin Juan's parents' lab from ten years ago.】

Jin Chen always felt that the old immortal doctor was hiding many things.

【Okay~】

The Pixiu adult, happily gnawing on a pile of scallop fish meat, decided not to quarrel over the Host's random way of addressing.

"Let's go, let's play at the next place."

Jin Chen decided to take Lin Juan, who had just gone through unpleasant memories, out to relax; as long as the wife didn't mention leaving, anything was fine.

Forceful marriage and seizure is just this domineering!

——

On the other side, Xu Yi, with the help of the Mermaid Boss, successfully left the Ocean Forest Number Ten base and successfully returned to the Blue Star China Investigation Society.

The information and data he brought out were extremely useful; the Investigation Society attached great importance to them, and overnight invited senior officials from the Blue Star Animal Protection General Association to come discuss.

Although the facts were not far from what they had guessed, it was still shocking.

Meanwhile, the Blue Star Animal Protection Society was very concerned about the escape of high-intelligence animals from Number Ten Base.

"Mr. Xu, you don't need to worry; we just want to understand the full situation."

The staff of the Animal Protection Society treated Xu Yi with great respect, after all they had sent many investigators to infiltrate the base for investigation, but without exception they were discovered, and some even did not make it back alive.

"That's understandable; what would you like to know?"

Xu Yi changed back into the reporter uniform of the Blue Star China Investigation Society, but his fiddling with the work ID somewhat revealed that he was not calm.

It wasn't for any other reason; Xu Yi was worried they would ask about the Mermaid Boss.

And indeed, his guess was correct.

"To be frank, we are very curious what kind of power prompted—or rather commanded—the high-intelligence animals to retreat in an orderly manner; this is unheard of in all experimental bases on Blue Star."

The staff typed notes while asking, not forgetting to observe Xu Yi's expression.

"Besides, it's said that Number Ten Base recently kept an ancient inherited high-intelligence species; do you know what it is, and have you seen it?"

Xu Yi shook his head, looking at them and said: "Sorry, I had also thought about getting close to the Breeding Chamber, but it's very difficult; the base guards Number Seventeen very strictly."

"I never got to see with my own eyes what species it was, until I finally left."

Even though the Blue Star Animal Protection Association would largely not harm the Mermaid Boss, he had promised not to disclose it to anyone, so he must keep the agreement.

Moreover…

The fewer people who know that there are still mermaids in this world, the better; the more who know, the more likely trouble will arise.

Half an hour later, the staff had not learned anything about Number Seventeen, but they indeed obtained plenty of new information, and consequently admired Xu Yi even more.

"Okay, thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Xu; we hope we will have a chance to work together again."