CH 9

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If it was a mermaid deliberately released after special training by the Federation, then there would be an explanation for the mermaid’s previous behavior.

Whether it’s cooperating with the capture and transportation or taking the initiative to provide spiritual counseling to strangers, after training, some smart mermaids can indeed reach this level.

Oddo turned off the detection equipment after some headaches. He’s afraid the future arrangements for this mermaid will need to be decided by His Majesty himself. No one knows what the purpose of the Federation is to release such a precious mermaid.

The appointment has been sent to his communicator by Shawn, and the time is set at 5:00 pm, which happens to be the time between his work and dinner, so he might be able to have a meal in the palace.

When he thought of His Majesty, who had fought off several provocations from the Federation and led the Empire to a new stage, Oddo’s heart slowly fell back into place.

“Carrie, arrange a separate residence for the new mermaid first. Let him adapt for a period of time.” Before receiving specific instructions, Oddo could not arbitrarily tell others that this mermaid might be a spy planted by the Federation.

It was really a headache. Oddo felt his spiritual sea start to agitate again, and his ears and tail were eager to get out.

Ji Mingjiang didn’t know what the old man who brought him had seen on his genetic test results, but he became agitated and relaxed after several calls.

It’s a pity that the earbud translator was taken off. Otherwise, they could have exchanged a few words.

Because it’s currently impossible to match the mermaid language with the common language here, Ji Mingjiang’s language learning progress is basically zero.

Thinking of this, Ji Mingjiang shook his fish tail in annoyance. He could only hope that this institution would carry out some simple education on mermaids, like social training for cats and dogs?

This feeling of having to completely rely on someone else was terrible.

After transmitting the test results to the storage separately, Oddo pressed the button next to him and called Mandessa and the others in.

“You guys first take him to foster area D201. I have some things to do. You just need to deliver the mermaid safely. The subsequent arrangements will be handed over to Carrie.” After clearing the test records in the machine, Oddo picked up the storage device and explained.

“Area D?” Several people were stunned when they heard this arrangement. Although the hardware conditions and personnel arrangements in Area D are the same as in other areas, each mermaid is taken care of separately, and at most, two mermaids will stay together.

“But don’t you usually arrange new mermaids with other little ones? To prevent stress caused by the change in environment…” Mandessa asked in a daze.

“…But, this little mermaid is a little different.” Different in various senses.

The eyes of several people drifted to the mermaid with a dark blue tail moving leisurely in the swimming pool, and after a moment of silence, they agreed with this statement.

“You’re right; I’ll call the transfer vehicle.” Mandessa nodded, then turned and went out to contact the logistics department.

Ji Mingjiang was quickly transferred to the fish tank he had been in before. The foster area was at the opposite corner of the genetic testing area, but with direct access, it didn’t take too long to get there.

After going through several security gates, Ji Mingjiang discovered that this place was much larger than the previous genetic testing place. He saw four of the areas allocated to mermaids alone, and he was sent to the very end of Area D.

There are also many separate rooms in each area, and fingerprint recognition and iris recognition are probably used to open the door.

The heavy silver doors opened on both sides, and the pool, located in the middle of the room and occupying nearly one-half of the area, was the first to come into view.

On the surrounding wall is a built-in monitor. Below is a long floating table with several gaudy and oddly shaped things placed at the corner. Ji Mingjiang also saw small toys such as ocean balls in baskets in the corner of the room.

The current room does look neat and orderly, with no trace of dust on the floor. It’s just that there are really few daily necessities, as if they were cleaned up temporarily.

Have no mermaids ever lived in this kind of room before? Moreover, those toys that seem to be for children are not for him, are they?!

Ji Mingjiang was puzzled and greatly shocked.

After delivering the mermaid, several researchers left the area. Due to the clear functional zoning, staff in each area will not stay in another area for a long time unless there are special circumstances, and everyone will have an ID with anti-counterfeiting technology.

It can be said that the security work is really perfect.

Without letting Ji Mingjiang stay alone for too long, Carrie quickly walked in with a cart.

The first thing that was put down was a couple of plates holding small silvery-white fish that he didn’t recognize, and then Carrie took out a shelf containing two tubes of reagents.

“?” One dish and one soup?

The translator he had worn before was buckled to his ear fins again.

Carrie’s voice was translated into the language of the mermaid: “Two kinds of food, choose one.”

As she spoke, she pushed both things forward. In case Ji Mingjiang didn’t understand, she repeated it several times.

After hesitating for a moment, Ji Mingjiang didn’t choose the red and green reagents but instead pulled over the plate containing the small whitebait.

He showed his sharp nails, and with a single swipe, he smoothly deboned the fish in his hand. He stuffed the delicate, white, and tender fish meat into his mouth and threw the transparent and white fish bones onto the empty plate.

Among other things, this fish tasted good—even more delicious than the ones he ate in the sea—and there was some aftertaste after swallowing it. Moreover, there is only one main spine bone, which can be eaten directly after being removed. Very convenient!

Ji Mingjiang narrowed his eyes in satisfaction. Although he misses those open-fire sizzling steaks, stir-fried vegetables, grainy rice, and other foods, if he can eat this kind of fish at present, it won’t be that unbearable.

“Ah!” Carrie had just put away the shelves containing the nutrient solution and was about to debone the mermaid’s lunch when she saw that the mermaid, who had just arrived in the new environment, wasn’t nervous and even prepared food for himself. Even the fish bones were nicely stacked aside.

Looking at the mermaid, who was obviously in a relaxed state and was swaying his dark blue tail fin leisurely in the water, Carrie didn’t stop him but squatted down and stroked the long, smooth hair.

Although she knew that this translator had limited functions and could not accurately convey all the words to the mermaid, she still praised: “You’re so awesome, little one, to be able to handle food by yourself and handle it so cleanly. Is it because you have suffered too much from living alone before? It’s okay, we’ll all take good care of you after you come here.”

Carrie squatted down and talked a lot to the mermaid in front of her. She tried her best to let the new mermaid accept the infinite kindness of her and her colleagues through the limited translation.

After saying almost everything she wanted to say, she got up and took out a bracelet from the cart, recorded the mermaid’s fingerprints, and turned around to walk to that embedded screen for pairing and debugging. She also perfectly missed Ji Mingjiang’s gradually confused eyes and rigid body.

As Carrie wished, although the translator can only translate limited vocabularies, it did send some key words into Ji Mingjiang’s ears.

“Awesome %[email protected]#, own *% food, suffer …… we’ll take care of you. Lovely ……”

Ji Mingjiang’s brain automatically expands, translates, and arranges these words: “Awesome, you can eat on your own! It must be because of too much suffering; we will take good care of you; you are really a cute mermaid. ”

Carrie’s tone was gentle and soft when she whispered her ramblings. Other than such an arrangement and combination, Ji Mingjiang really couldn’t imagine any other possibility.

But… that’s too over the top! He was just eating!

Can’t any of your mermaids eat on their own?! Is this kind of imbecile performance normal in your eyes? ?

Having lived for almost thirty years, Ji Mingjiang, who was praised for doing daily activities such as eating, expressed his incomprehension, and his tail was about to stand up in horror!

“Okay.”

After successfully matching the bracelet with the display screen and switching to the young learner mode, Carrie smiled brightly. If this little mermaid is so smart, his learning progress will definitely advance rapidly, and maybe he will soon be able to find a suitable match to live a more comfortable life.

Keeping each mermaid happy and helping them find a match so they can live happier lives afterwards is what every mermaid keeper is pursuing.

After putting the bracelet on the mermaid’s wrist, the smart bracelet that sensed the skin quickly adjusted itself to the appropriate tightness. The white wrist was matched with a white metal bracelet, and Carrie couldn’t help boasting that he was beautiful.

Ji Mingjiang is adjusting his mentality so that he can be indifferent to this kind of praise. He looks curiously at the thing on his wrist, which is very close to the skin, but if he didn’t look at it, he wouldn’t feel anything at all.

Carrie saw that his attention was focused on the bracelet and explained in as simple a way as possible: “It’s a learning bracelet that controls the screen on your left, and you’ll be relying on it for your learning afterwards.”

Seeing that the mermaid in front of her didn’t show any repulsion, Carrie didn’t show it on her face, but she was actually relieved.

This bracelet used to be a modified children’s bracelet. Every time they tried putting it on the mermaids’ wrists, the group of fragile and sensitive little guys would panic while crying and flapping their tails until the keeper took off the bracelet, or else they’d continue to flap their tails until it bled.

After that, the research institute developed this weightless bracelet.

Even so, when they saw an unfamiliar object on their wrists and it was related to the lessons they were going to learn later, most mermaids would still make a fuss in dissatisfaction or pout at the keeper to take it off.

Although it is a bit of a headache every time, in reality, watching the cute and delicate little mermaid blinking and acting like a baby is a happy and sweet burden for all the keepers.

The mermaid in front of her doesn’t seem to like acting cute and taking the initiative to express his dependence on others, but Carrie didn’t feel displeased by it; on the contrary, she felt even more distressed.

He must have been through too much hardship before, that’s why he became wary of strangers while being curious about the strange things around him.

“Someone will come to take you for a physical examination in a while, and I will come back at that time. Can you stay here by yourself for a while?” Carrie knelt down and asked.

After seeing Ji Mingjiang nod, she stretched out her arms to hug him with pity on her face and left with one touch to prevent the mermaid from feeling uncomfortable.

“Then I’ll come back later.” Gently taking off the translator, Carrie left the mermaid’s room while turning her head back every three steps.

Finally, when the person went outside, Ji Mingjiang relaxed the muscles on his face. After roughly inferring what the image of the mermaid here was from Carrie’s words, he tried his best to adjust his expression so that he would not look too indifferent and out of place.

His face is going stiff.