Mermaid Civilization

Along with his memories, the mermaids' exceptionally unique inheritance ability also returned.

Unlike humans, who needed stone carvings, books, computers... to engrave and record their civilization.

Human descendants then had to learn the civilization left behind by their predecessors before continuing it on that foundation.

Mermaids, however, could preserve civilization within their flesh and blood through generation after generation of inheritance. As long as their bloodline endured, their civilization endured; as long as their bloodline remained unextinguished, their civilization would never perish.

The rapid development of mermaid civilization could not have happened without this convenient method of inheritance.

They had once briefly stayed on the human planet. On this world, where civilization developed slowly yet had grown increasingly prosperous over tens of millions of years, mermaids gradually became the stuff of legend.

Until many years ago, a mermaid descendant who should never have remained there was drawn to a "star" on this planet. They left behind the fusion of human civilization and mermaid civilization.

A black mermaid egg.

A month ago, after Eggy removed his scales, both Eggy and Chi Li had fallen into slumber.

Si Jinyan had also disappeared for a while.

Si Jinyan was in another spacetime. As his internal and external wounds healed, that encrypted-looking strand of genes carrying inheritance abilities simultaneously unlocked and awakened, and the knowledge passed down through countless generations of mermaids flooded into his mind.

If Chi Li had been there, he would certainly have recognized the man with a human body and fish tail standing before Si Jinyan then—the very man he had once made a deal with.

He looked at Si Jinyan's badly damaged body with some dissatisfaction. This had once been a body he and that person had painstakingly molded. How had it ended up like this?

He thought