The Merman, My Man by Black Velvet Chapter 188
The Merman, My Man by Black Velvet Chapter 188
“Linda, please call me Professor Bob. I’m delighted to meet you again, my Japanese friend.” Bob’s unsteady eyes stared at me as if wanting to convey a bit of happiness. But instead, his eyes looked like they were twitching, making his face look even more strange,
I suddenly felt a rush of anger from being lied to. So, I tightened my fist and questioned him. “Didn’t you die? I saw you on the hospital bed with my own eyes. Your heart stopped beating, and I even saw you being put into a coffin! How are you here now? What more with this group of people?!”
As I said this, I remembered that stormy afternoon. I had accompanied the weak Bob and listened to him speak with his dying breath about his desired merpeople. He then looked out the window towards the rolling sea in the storm before letting out his final breath. His closest friends and I held a vigil for him and went to his funeral together…
That was why seeing all of this was so strange to me!
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“Linda, don’t be so brash. What you’re seeing right now is reality.” He held onto a cane and walked towards me step by step. “I did, in fact, die during that stormy night, but I’ve come back to life! Look at me, isn’t my physical condition amazing? I’ve even become younger! This is all because I’ve extracted the merpeople genes! Is this not a miracle?”
“Linda, remember the old lady who told you her daughter was taken away by merpeople?” Bob stared at the oriental mermaid and praised, “she had returned to find her mother, and this opportunity enabled me to obtain the merpeople genes. She can even act as the key to finding the merpeople’s whereabouts! Wouldn’t you say that this was a God-given opportunity?”
He looked at me excitedly, but then his gaze turned dark, showing a fraction of dissatisfaction “It’s just that the merpeople’s genes within my body are too unstable. We need a stronger, purer, and more stable bloodline’s genes. Just think about it, Linda, eternal youth, immortality, rapid healing, and overwhelming strength. If we pull this off successfully, we will accelerate humanity’s evolution, and human beings will be recognized as survivors of the fittest in natural selection. What a glorious thing this would be Join us now, Linda, and believe me, you’ll become a biologist who’s even more famous than Darwin,”
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