Chapter 9 Part 3 Crimes of Mankind

When Jessie was in middle school, a fishing boat went missing.Among the classmates were the children of the crew, and Jessie still remembers the empty seats on the day they were absent.As a result, the ship was found to have sunk in the evening.At the court meeting the next day, the students collectively mourned and prayed for the father of the classmate.The people of Santa Maria living on the fishing island accept even accidental disasters as part of a peaceful life with tolerance.They mourned heartily, wept loudly, and after three days of mourning were over, they went out to sea to fish in good spirits.

Mother died in the sea.This incident brought great trauma to Jessie, causing her to avoid the sea for a long time.For her, the actions of the islanders are incomprehensible and at the same time enviable.Jessie loves their big hearts. Sitting in the classroom that day, Jessie felt unbearable unhappiness.There are no fishermen's children at Santa Maria High School, so this shipwreck is a completely separate matter for them.The same is true for teachers.Even if a fishing boat were to die, foreigners on the island would not talk about it.This is what makes Jessie unhappy and unbearable. But no matter how upset she was, none of her classmates even noticed.

By lunch break, Jessie left the school alone. When I got home, it didn't look like there was anyone in the institute.Maybe it's because the rescue work is still going on.Just as Jessie was about to go back to her room, she heard voices coming from Ryan's study.Looking through the half-open door, she saw Ryan inside, and the person opposite him, Jessie, was a resident of HATANO Products Company, a man named Sugino.Sugino's son is Jessie's most hated classmate, and he loves the school spirit of Santa Maria High School more than anyone else. "Hey, Jessie." Ryan greeted Jessie after seeing her.Jessie didn't answer, and went straight into the room, and sat down on the back of Ryan's sofa.

"You've grown up so much, Jessie." Sugino smiled kindly. "Yeah, you don't need to spend so much energy, but being a father is a bit lonely." "Compared to her, Sagar in my family is still a child, making people feel that they are not the same age." Jessie took the gum out of her pocket and popped it into her mouth. "How is Sagar at school?" "Sagar? Who is it?" Jessie pretended not to know.Sugino tensed his face and replied: "It's Shuhei." "Shuhei? I don't know him. Are you in the same class as me?"

"yes." "never seen it." Seeing that Sugino was silent, Ryan hinted to Jessie to go out, but Jessie just ignored him and chewed gum. "Jessie, Daddy and the guest are talking about something important." "please." Jessie had no intention of leaving the room. "It's okay, the matter is basically over. I'm sorry, but you are so busy to interrupt. Please." After speaking, Sugino stood up. "How about coming over to my house for dinner next time? Just in time to introduce Sagar to Jessie." Maybe Sugino tried his best to be sarcastic, but Jessie defeated him immediately.

"Can I bring my friends from school? I want to introduce to other students in the class—that Sagar." Sugino went back as if he was about to pass out. "Jessie, what's going on? Your attitude!" As soon as Sugino left, Ryan scolded Jessie on the spot. "What kind of attitude?" Jessie still looked brazen. "Oh, forget it. Anyway, that person doesn't have to entertain him anymore." "Hey, sometimes we can still agree." "I don't think so. It's pretty fast, though." "Me? Today I..." "It's not you. It's HATANO Products Company, and it's here to collect information. My ship was wrecked, but I'm happy."

"Is the boat all right?" "what." "Yes, that's great." Jessie naturally showed a look of relief.Ryan carefully studied her expression. "You are a child with a good nature." "I was a good boy." "Do you hate adults?" "Nothing. It's just that there are a few grown-ups that I hate." Ryan sighed. "Does that include me?" "Whether you like it or hate it, a father is a father. Well, what is HATANO Product Company doing here?" "I found something unexpected on the drifting boat. Because the people on the island had objections, I put it back into the sea. After hearing about it, Sugino came here, probably because he wanted to go out to sea again to search for that thing."

"That thing?" "It's a mermaid." Immediately, the hairs on Jessie's body stood on end. Seeing his daughter's surprised expression, Ryan was secretly happy.He thought his daughter was simply surprised when she heard about the mermaid. The father didn't know that Jessie had already met a mermaid once. The mermaid brought back to the research institute was put into the indoor swimming pool, which was the aerial tank. "Finally used this." Gordon and Haruku were filled with joy.The design and construction of this swimming pool are almost all done by them.

Then Ryan and Jessie came. "That's the one." Jessie approached the sink. The mermaid has not yet lifted the anesthesia and is sleeping soundly in the water.A hose was inserted into his mouth, and air was intermittently fed.Although a mermaid, he doesn't use his gills to breathe. Jessie was so fascinated by it that she didn't say a word. "Amazing, isn't it?" Billy stood beside him at some point. "Hey...hey." Jessie pressed her face to the glass and looked in.The thickness of the sink reaches twenty centimeters, and the resulting refraction distorts the actual size.No matter how close the face is, the distortion cannot be eliminated.

"can not see clearly." Jessie complained. This glass was originally designed for durability.Just now, Halulu and the others were delighted to discover that it can also block the high-frequency sound waves of mermaids.According to Hajiri, 90% of high-frequency sound waves cannot pass through.Even the remaining 10% is almost all leaked by the bolts and glue in the joint. If it is repaired, it is possible to achieve close to 100% of the partition.There are also a total of eight high-performance underwater microphones in the tank, which can record all the sounds made by the mermaid.Although it was accidental, the equipment in this swimming pool was the most ideal for observing mermaids.

While the anesthesia was not lifted, they began to conduct basic examinations.Everyone has been working continuously day and night since yesterday, but no one has forgotten their fatigue. To collect blood, Gordon and Haruku entered the water tank.It is absolutely impossible to complete this kind of work unless the mermaid is asleep.Gordon took 400cc of blood from his arm. X-rays were then taken and a CT scan was performed.The mermaid is surrounded by a ceramic sealing screen set inside the tank, and then X-ray photography and CT scanning are processed remotely.Bill used a pocket camera to videotape the entire operation of Gordon and Haluku.Seeing this scene, Jessie asked Ryan: "Hey, is the interview OK?" "That's our record, not an interview." Ryan explained.Billy smiled wryly over his shoulder. "About the interview, I will discuss it with Ryan slowly in the future." "There's a lot to do in the future." After speaking, Ryan sat next to Jack.Jack asked him in an inaudible voice: "What is HATANO property here for?" "If you want information about the mermaid, you can do anything. From the data of the fish finder to the records of the satellite compass, all information is required." "Give it to them?" "Given a little. Wouldn't it be more weird to be clumsy withholding?" "That's true." "They may chatter for a while, but the fact that the mermaid is here must not be leaked." Jessie yelled suddenly.Ryan and the others turned their heads and saw the waking mermaid rampaging in the tank.The mermaid tore off the air hose and kicked the CT shield. "Jessie, get out of here!" As if she didn't hear Gordon's words, Jessie stood still in front of the sink.The mermaid hit the sink several times with her body, but the 20cm-thick glass remained motionless.After a while, the flesh of the mermaid's head and shoulders split open, and the spurted blood mixed the water in the tank. "Not good! Gordon, anesthetize him!" Ryan shouted. Gordon shouted back in panic: "How to fight!" Indeed, access to the sink is not possible in this state. "Open the gate!" Ryan yelled.Hajiri hastily opened the door of the sink. "Stupid! You can't wait!" As Gordon said, he hurriedly loaded bullets into the anesthesia gun, and then ran to the swimming pool outside the house, followed by Ryan and the others.The door of the sink opened slowly, and the mermaid jumped into the swimming pool outside the house through the gap at an alarming speed. When Gordon first got outside, the dolphins in the pool were jumping around in fright.Gordon looked at the pool, but there was no sign of the mermaid. "Gordon, there!" Haluku shouted.Looking back, I saw the mermaid crawling desperately towards the sea in the shade of the tropical forest on the bank.Gordon shot him in the back, and the mermaid wobbled back and called out to Gordon.Gordon didn't hear the high-frequency sound waves he was making.Soon the mermaid ran out of strength and fell into a deep sleep again. "Troublesome guy." Gordon sighed. "What's going on? The 'magic sound phenomenon' didn't happen." Jack said. "I'm afraid he made a mistake in the frequency," said Hanuriku. "Because this guy also learned the high-frequency sound waves used by helium." They wanted to lift the mermaid who was lying prone on the ground, so they turned his body over. "Oops." Jack touched the mermaid's hip with his foot in surprise.The merman's penis was erect. "Isn't this guy in love with Jessie?" To Ryan, the joke wasn't funny at all. "Don't talk nonsense." Then Jessie arrived.Ryan took off his t-shirt and tucked it between the merman's hips so Jessie couldn't see his genitals.Everyone looked at Jessie and snickered. "What's wrong?" Jessie found that the mermaid's lower body was covered with a T-shirt, and stretched out her hand. "Ah! Don't move!" Ryan didn't have time to stop it, and the mermaid's lower body was exposed in broad daylight.Jessie blushed instantly. The X-ray film is scanned into the computer, and the skeleton of the mermaid's whole body is displayed in a three-dimensional picture, so that it can be observed from any angle.From the whole body to the fingertips, you can project it on the 30-inch large screen as you like.Haluku explained while operating the screen: "First of all, the mermaid has a total length of 2.15 meters, which is a rare height in the NBA. Then the arms, the radius and ulna are arched. The knuckle bones are slightly longer, but it is better to say that the metacarpal bones have evolved very long. In terms of feet, As you can see, the tarsus and metatarsals are extremely long, and the calcaneus is rather weak." Halulu gave a special explanation for Billy who listened together: "Simply put, the hands and feet differ from humans in a few ways. Nothing too interesting." "Is it just a little bit of evolution because of living in the sea for many years?" Ryan said. "That's right. It can be said that its skeleton is about the level that humans would naturally evolve if they lived in water. For example, if they lived in the sea for two or three hundred years, humans would evolve to this level. In other words In other words, about ten generations." "After ten generations, can that kind of web be born?" Jack looked at his palm in surprise. "I've seen the hands of Olympic swimmers, and it's really quite evolved." Billy said. "What I want to say is..." Hanluku said, "I don't know when this guy started to stay in the sea. If it is assumed that it started tens of thousands of years ago, shouldn't there be more dramatic changes? But he and Compared to the human skeleton, there is not much difference." "Is it a species that hasn't been in the sea for a long time?" Ryan said. "Well, it's a species similar to human beings, that's for sure." Hanuriku said. "Or, it can't be human?" Jessie made a bold assumption. "Originally, there is nothing more ambiguous than the definition of 'Homo sapiens'." "You want to say 'what is the definition of human?' That's a hard question," Ryan said. "It's not hard to say what I'm saying. How are humans not called 'Homo sapiens', like Neanderthals, classified?" "That...Neanderthals are Neanderthals, not the same as 'Homo sapiens'?" Jack said. "Yes, but what if Neanderthals are still alive? Are they not considered human?" "Uh?" "Not recognized as a human being?" Now Jack couldn't answer. "It's not my classification." Jack said and ran away. "If famous scholars believe that the living Neanderthals are not human beings, but Neanderthals can talk and work, will everyone listen to the scholars? Wouldn't that be racism?" Jessie looked around. "Now there are three races here, so it's easier to understand. Whites, blacks, and yellows are all 'homo sapiens'. Orangutans, chimpanzees, and gorillas are not humans. What's the difference? Is it just a matter of bones or appearance? Or Intelligence problem?" Interpretation of this ethical nature is not their concern.Everyone listened noncommittally.Jessie saw this anxiously, and impatiently brushed her hair. "Now here he is alive and existing. The most important thing is this." After speaking, Jessie fell silent. "Anyway..." Ryan said, "What is this guy is interesting. The problem is his magical ability. He can use high-frequency sound waves to cause auditory hallucinations, and hallucinations. Can't guess this What kind of body structure caused it?" Everyone looked at the mermaid in the tank.The naked mermaid is still sleeping. That night, although it was not a toast to celebrate, everyone drank heavily to appease the excitement from yesterday. "It is indeed a great discovery. But everyone, we must think again: We are originally scientists, people who love the sea and nature very much. Don't forget that this century-old discovery, if we make a mistake, will bring us The result I don’t want to see. Most of the endangered wild creatures are caused by human hands, and everyone knows this!” Gordon got drunk and turned into an unusual rhetorician.After drinking a bottle of liqueur by himself, he lay on the floor and fell asleep snoring loudly. Then Hajiri grabs Billy and Jessie and starts uttering these words: "I discovered the mulberry beetle one day. When I was four years old. Do you know the mulberry beetle?" "have no idea." Billy shook his head. "What's that?" Jessie also tilted her head. "Similar to a bee... except that the wings mimic a bee. It's actually a beetle. I've only seen this beetle in an insect guide. I caught it one day and was so happy that I put it in a cage But one morning when my mother saw it, she made a fuss. My mother insisted it was a bee. She said: 'It's going to sting you, throw it away!'. I insisted:' No, it's the mulberry ridge beetle, and my mother didn't listen at all. As a result, the mulberry ridge tiger beetle was thrown out of the window. It's really annoying. That's the mulberry ridge tiger beetle that I managed to catch.... This This incident is still a joke in my family, "A Yang was stupid when he was young, and he even raised bees." My relatives all laughed at me like this, saying that I was a stupid A Yang who kept bees. They didn't know anything, that's true. It's the mulberry ridge tiger beetle." "What are you trying to use as a metaphor?" Billy said. "Those who know the truth are never rewarded." Jessie burst out laughing. "But it's also fair to say that," Jessie said. "Happy are those who don't know the truth." "……why?" "If your mother had followed the truth, that beetle would have turned into a mummified corpse in the cage." "Are you mocking us?" Jack said. "nothing." "No, yes. I hear you mean clearly: the mermaid is about to become a mummified corpse in the tank." "I didn't say that. Jack, you have heard too many mermaid voices, and you have become hard of hearing." "Hahaha!" Jack laughed. Haluku was still immersed in memories alone. "I used to keep a lot of things. Unicorns, scarabs, butterflies, dragonflies, canaries, carrier pigeons, mice, voles, groundhogs, flying squirrels and Taiwan squirrels, golden snakes, soft-shelled turtles, South American turtles, tuataras. Dogs have Hounds, wolfhounds. Cats include Siamese cats, Japanese cats, four mongrel cats. There are countless tropical fish." "What's going on now? Your pets." Jessie asked. "Huh? The cats and dogs are still alive and kicking back home." "What about the others? Are they all dead?" "……what." "It doesn't matter, give the mermaid to such a guy." Jack said. "But Mr. Pet Shop, I want to ask. I want to raise a mermaid. How should I feed it? First of all, what kind of food should I feed?" Billy said. "Fish or shellfish?" Hanuriku replied seriously. "Aren't you going to feed the mulberry tiger beetle?" Jack said, and Hanuri drank the wine in the glass with a little displeasure. Ryan was drying himself on the balcony.Billy showed his face there. "What's the matter? I'm here alone." "Eh?...It's nothing. I don't seem to be in the mood to mess around with everyone." "yes." "That guy is all on my mind. I'm so excited to think about the pile of things that need to be done. I don't want to drink to suppress the excitement, it's a shame. "Oh. I see." Billy sat next to Ryan. "Hey, Ryan, do you know what the water people say?" "...Ah. I've been thinking about that too." "Yeah. Me too." The two of them looked towards the twilight seaside for a long time. In the living room, Jack and Hajiri are engaged in a fierce verbal battle over Japan's whaling.Jessie slipped away alone, quietly walking towards the indoor swimming pool. In the dark room, only the emergency lights were on, and the mermaid was still sleeping.Bubbles periodically escaped from the air tube inserted into his mouth. Jessie faces the sink, talking to the merman. "Hi... do you have any companions?" Of course it was impossible for the mermaid to answer. "Is the sea a good place?" Jessie tapped the glass.The mermaid didn't wake up. "Thank you for saving me." After speaking, Jessie wanted to leave the room.Something was moving in the dark, and she narrowed her eyes to take a closer look.That's all Jessie remembers, and then she doesn't remember anything. When I came back to my senses, I was lying on the bed with a severe headache.Jessie bumped into something as she reached for her head.It's a bandage.She tried to recall what had happened, but couldn't recall anything.Looking out the window, he saw the blue sky upside down.Before you know it, it's dawn! After a while, Ryan came in.Seeing his daughter wake up, Ryan couldn't hide his joy. "Are you ok?" "Hey...headache." Ryan sat down on the edge of the bed and stroked Jessie's face.Jessie turned her face away as if bored. "You'd better not move. Your neck hurts." "What happened?" "Here comes the thief." "thief?" "They stole the merman." "Uh?" Ryan bit his lip bitterly. "It's from HATANO Products Company." "……how so." Jessie wanted to get up, but Ryan stopped her. "Didn't you go to them to come back?" "This morning, I went to Sugino's place to question him, but he pretended not to know. He also asked me: 'What was stolen?' He asked me that question, but I couldn't answer it. Once I answered, the matter of us hiding the mermaid was a mystery. It's been exposed. If the other party really doesn't know anything, wouldn't I just leak the secret on purpose? There's really no way." Jessie thought of the mermaid.His nakedness thrilled Jessie wonderfully.Although she didn't want to admit it, Jessie did feel the sexy charm from that mermaid. It will be several months before Jessie sees him again. 1 A device that automatically controls the volume so that it does not exceed the limit. 2Lorelei Large rock on the right bank of the Rhine.Legend has it that the witch Lorelei sang on the rock to lure boatmen to run aground. 3 German explorers (1822~1890), firmly believed that the stories in Homer's epics did exist, and based on them excavated the ruins of Troy.