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Human skin cannot be immersed in ocean water for a long time, so it has delicate scales similar to skin, and of course the eyes will degenerate into a heat-sensing organ.

Taking into account the image of mermaids in fairy tales, this version of mermaids can sing beautiful songs and also secrete a substance that makes people who inhale it have hallucinations.

"You guys really don't have any romantic feelings at all." The boss commented calmly, because he did not participate in the design of the mermaid project. Of course, this was also partly the reason why his cyborg mermaid was eliminated at the beginning.

"By the way, don't you think it's normal for a cyber-modified half-man, half-fish to move around in the deep sea?"

“Using technology to surpass ecology is cheating.”

Chapter 1515 What will happen next?

Penguin flipped through the designs, and there were designs by two geniuses, one was a man dressed as a woman for his first live broadcast, and the other was a masked man wearing a wrestling mask.

During the first live broadcast, everyone thought there were only six people because there was one person wearing a werewolf costume who looked like a mascot.

Now it seems that the one who fought the hardest was the eldest brother, who went on stage wearing only a pair of underwear and with a mosaic on his eyes.

These two geniuses don't talk much and are as busy as the eldest brother, traveling all over the world. Cross-dresser is the most socially powerful among the geniuses and is responsible for external publicity. Mask is keen on wrestling and has participated in world wrestling competitions.

Interestingly, Mask and Women's Clothing are very particular about kitchen utensils.

Mask wanted Chuu to participate in the World Wrestling Championship with him. He firmly believed that Chuu would become the strongest female wrestler in the world. However, because Mask insisted on signing Chuu up for a heavyweight competition, this goal was aborted and he almost broke his back.

As for women's clothing, he felt that Kitchenware was a good clothes hanger, and it was a bit of a waste to wear Gothic clothes. Unfortunately, the clothes recommended by women's clothing were quite revealing. At first glance, it seemed malicious, but in fact, women's clothing simply wanted to show Kitchenware's bulging muscles.

Both of them are geniuses, so they are somewhat a little bit lacking in their brains, which can be seen from their designs.

The mermaid designed by Mask is a crustacean with a humanoid shell, which looks like a puppet in the water. There is no mermaid designed for women's clothing, but he designed the Siren, and it was he who proposed that the mermaid would turn into a fish-man during the estrus period.

No matter how the geniuses find faults with the structure of mermaids in fairy tales, one thing cannot be changed, that is, players definitely want to get closer to the mermaids in fairy tales.

Some people like to be curious, but most people definitely want to be beautiful, with skin as delicate as pearls and flowing hair like a mermaid.

After satisfying a small number of people with your curious works, you must still take into account the aesthetic tastes of the majority.

Such an important project, which requires normal aesthetics that geniuses do not possess, can only be handed over to women.

The woman played with the pen in her hand and smiled mischievously.

"I still can't forget the look of dissatisfaction on your faces, yet you had to come and ask for help from me."

"Is it true?" The Penguin was a little bit unbelievable. He opened the file and saw the mermaid's file.

Just from the perspective of the mermaid race setting, it is impossible for them to pass the discerning eyes of geniuses.

It's not that geniuses can't design normal mermaids, but the knowledge they have makes them unable to understand mermaids, a half-human, half-fish species that lives in the ocean and can even go to underwater areas that humans cannot reach.

Therefore, when designing mermaids, they will try their best to use their knowledge to rationalize them. The result... of course, is those monsters that look extremely reasonable yet extremely twisted.

The mermaid design provided by the woman is a very simple half-human, half-fish, with a human upper body and a fish lower body, and even for aesthetic reasons there are no gills.

This design will definitely be criticized or even rejected, but such a mermaid is online.

The reason is very simple. The woman made a simple change in her thinking direction. The way players can move in the deep sea is the same reason why mermaids can move in the deep sea.

When it comes to how players should explore the ocean world, the geniuses have more open minds. For example, they don't ask about the principles behind gems that can withstand deep-sea water pressure and ensure breathing underwater. They just think it can be done.

Asking is a magical gem, and asking again is a gift from God.

In addition, there are also seaweed that can allow you to breathe underwater for a short period of time after eating it.

If a fat blue mechanical cat can come up with konjac that can translate unknown creatures, why can't there be seaweed that allows one to breathe underwater for a long time after eating it?

Once the way of existence is reasonable, it is allowed to exist, and then it is necessary to supplement the background story of the setting.

"But this background story..." Penguin flipped through the setting book and thought for a long time before he could only come up with a few adjectives. "It's so dark. It's obviously a great story among the gods, but it looks like an ordinary family."

The woman took the script from Penguin, looked at the words in it, and recited its contents like a singer on the stage.

Great God of the Ocean, you own an ocean that is countless times wider than the earth, but you are still jealous of the sky and want to create humans who are better than the King of Gods.

You created humans in the ocean, imitating the brilliant humans created by the king of gods. You firmly demanded that these humans could only live in the sea, not allowed to set foot on land, not allowed to look up at the sky, only allowed to live in the ocean, only allowed to sing praises to the ocean.

Thus, the mermaid was born.

They have upper bodies as strong as humans in the Golden Age, fish tails that are only useful in the ocean, and the blessing of breathing in water that can only be obtained by trusting the God of the Ocean.

They are perfect, yet imperfect. The sea god forcibly transformed the best things he saw into the residents of the ocean kingdom.

"This is also a paradox. The sea god created mermaids, and the mermaids' structures can only survive in the ocean with the support of the sea god. The mermaids are grateful to the sea god for blessing them with survival, but their bodies are like this also because of the sea god."

"Whales can leave the sea to breathe, but the sea gods forbid them to surface in order to make their creations belong to themselves and not be shrouded in the kingdom of the sky."

The penguin tapped the table with his pen and sighed heavily. This is why mermaids have a legitimate place in the world.

Although the monsters created by geniuses are distorted, they are born naturally and are born that way. However, the mermaids created by women are forcibly distorted by the will of others. They are beautiful but unnatural.

"So there will be world quests about merpeople?"

“Who knows?” The woman shrugged, her smile still carrying some kind of evil taste as if she was behind the scenes. “If I were to do something bad, I would make sure it was done perfectly. The unfortunate person would shout to the one who offered a helping hand, “Don’t mind your own business.” “I’m fine this way.”

"What a bad guy, guys like you deserve to be punched hard!" The kitchen utensil shouted, raised his fist, and really intended to hit him.

"Haha~ What will happen next~"

Chapter 1516: Murder Guild

Luxor Group has been established for 500 years. It has gotten rid of the useless family inheritance system and adopted a more advanced system of meritocracy. Whoever has the greatest ability can become the leader of the group.

The big guy's real name is Luxor Luxor. On the surface he is the spokesperson for the Luxor Group, but in fact he is the leader of the Luxor Group. Only by mixing the real and the fake, the true and the false can he confuse the enemy.

Before the appearance of [Hermes' Traveling Hat], the Luxor Group was the leader among the chaebols, but after its appearance, it was the first to be kicked down.

Business channels were blocked one after another, and even the mountains of gold and silver stockpiled by the Luxor Group were visibly reduced in the confrontation with the [Hermes' Traveling Hat].

Now the mainland is the territory of [Hermes's Traveling Hat]. Every gold coin spent on the mainland will eventually roll back into the hands of [Hermes's Traveling Hat]. They seem to be fighting against [Hermes's Traveling Hat], but in fact they are giving money away.

As for whether the money they send will be accepted, it depends on whether [Hermes' Traveling Hat] wants it. Gold coins that do not meet [Hermes' Traveling Hat's] preferences will be rejected.

Now all of Luxor Group's businesses have gone underground, doing businesses that [Hermes' Traveling Hat] doesn't do.

Luke does not feel humiliated by his sewer rat-like lifestyle. Business is business, but these businesses are too dangerous and being robbed by other cheaters is common.

In this world where power is paramount, if there is no absolute force to punish those who dare to engage in espionage, then espionage will become the norm and everyone will step up to step on them.

Unfortunately, the Luxor Group does not have this kind of deterrent power. Although it can entrust evil strangers, the evil strangers themselves are in a bad situation and will also become targets.

The right thing to do is to get back into business.

Luke quickly convinced the group's cadres that it was quite tempting to restore the group's past glory days. Of course, the cadres mentioned the issue of profit distribution.

Luke did not answer this question, but remained silent.

Silence means that after completing the planned goals, you should eliminate other competitors and monopolize the results.

This is very despicable, but Luke also understands the principle of too many equals. At the moment of achieving the goal, the cooperating tycoons either become enemies or hinder them.

Luke doesn't think that there will be any good results if a bunch of chaebols control the ocean resources together. Maybe [Hermes's Traveling Hat] doesn't have to do anything, and the chaebols will be destroyed in internal strife.

The hard-earned opportunity was missed.

The cadres got the answer from his silence, and took out their seals to stamp the contract, joining this gamble. Most of the resources of Luxor Group will be allocated to the plan.

The first step is to gather strangers. There are too few evil strangers and their fighting strengths vary greatly, so we can only take a risky move.

"Oh my, I don't even know when was the last time I came here."

The leader of the largest killing guild, Azazel, Zero, put his hands behind his back and elegantly looked up at the surrounding decorations.

After looking around, my attention was focused on the end of the bench in the hall.

"Mr. Luke, I didn't expect you to contact us again? Do you want to assassinate the senior partner of [Hermes's Traveling Hat] this time as well?"

"You said that you only accept commissions to assassinate strangers and blessed ones. I respect your guild's working principles." Luke placed his hands on the table with his fingers crossed, his face expressionless, but his feet under the table could not help shaking.

It was so scary. I felt like I was suffocating even from such a distance.

"But didn't you secretly contact other members of our guild to assassinate him?"

Guild Master Zero's light words made Luxor sweat profusely in an instant.

He wanted to complain that a killer organization would only accept commissions from targets that could not be killed, and that they would pay a fee each time they killed someone, which was simply robbing him.

But compared to the money-robbing rules of this killer organization, provoking them is more terrifying. They are a killer organization and will definitely turn around and kill Party A without hesitation.

Luke didn't know whether this kind of commission that violated the rules to the people under the killer organization without the knowledge of the leader of the killer organization would lead to retaliation.

Normally, such an exposure would lead to bloody revenge.

"But this is not your fault. You just issued the commission. Strictly speaking, it was the person who received the commission who broke the rules. Besides, my management is relatively lax."

Guild Master Zero smiled warmly, and Luke stopped sweating, but his face looked ashen. Tolerance and generosity were not suitable for someone with the profession of "Murderer".

This is just like wiping the blood off the target's face with a handkerchief in a serious manner while hunting. It's so insane.

"Ahem." Luke clenched his fingers, imitating the ancient torture of pinching fingers, using the pain to force himself to calm down.

"In fact, this time it's not about killing people, it's a serious business. To use the words of you foreigners, it's an event mission commission."

"Oh~ I thought all the event missions were monopolized by [Hermes's Travel Hat]."

Guild Master Zero raised his eyebrows with interest, took a step forward, and used a short-distance displacement skill to leave a cloud of mist on the spot. His real body appeared behind Luke and placed a cup of hot tea in front of Luke.

"That's got me interested. The situation of killing strangers is a bit tricky."

Rather than being subtle, it is more like asking for trouble by being responsible for one's own actions.

Guild Master Zero would occasionally care about the development of the guild. Recently, the situation of [Azazel] was not very good. The tenth seat was okay because he was a lone wolf, but the killing players other than the tenth seat were in a bit of a bad situation.

It feels good to kill players, but when large-scale events start, it becomes uncomfortable.

Even if the NPC is willing to receive the murderous players, the murderous players would not dare to show up at the event.

The murderous player is a walking treasure bag, do you dare to show up openly?

Just like the murderous player can choose to hunt the murderous player and NPC, other players and NPC also have the right to hunt and kill the murderous player. They are all their own choices and there is nothing to complain about.

However, such a situation has caused the participation rate of murderous players in large-scale activities to drop. Other players use activities to frantically improve their levels like a sponge absorbing water, and murderous players can only watch, participate secretly, and some even simply reincarnate as good citizens.

I estimate that within two or three years, the killing players will become extinct.

In other games, it would definitely be better without the murderous players, but this is "Godlock", and any player will have a place to use his skills here, even the murderous players.

Before the day comes when he needs to kill players, he will protect [Azazel] and other [scum] who are releasing their malice.

Chapter 1517 Happy cooperation

"Tell me about it."

Guild Master Zero pulled out a chair and sat down upright to show that he cared about the matter.

Luke took a deep breath and told him everything that had happened, including Naylan, the competition with [Hermes's Traveling Hat], and even the matter of the King of Atlantis.

Guild Master Ling tapped the table with his index finger. The orderly and slowly accelerating tapping sounded like the footsteps of the god of death approaching.

This is a method of disrupting a person's inner defenses, and combined with the terrifying identity of the murderous stranger, it can be called a mental attack.

But Luke remained calm and composed, not because he had a strong psychological endurance, but because everything he said was true.

As early as when Naylan told him the plan, he was already prepared to contact this group of dangerous murderous strangers. He did not ask for the specific details just to feel calm at the moment.

If you have no secrets in your heart, naturally nothing matters.

"Hmm~" Guild Master Zero's fingers paused. He always tapped the table subconsciously. This was not a good habit. However, this instinctive bad habit could also help him identify whether the other person was speaking truthfully or not.

To be honest, he didn't believe what Luke Luxor said.

In other games, if an NPC starts issuing tasks or stating their requirements, just listen carefully and don't ignore the details.

But "Godlock" is different. The high degree of realism makes every NPC infinitely close to a real person.

Therefore, the person in front of him is not an NPC who is a tool for issuing tasks, but the leader of a large chaebol with a history of 500 years. His meticulous and complex mind is a basic quality.

Using these methods, coupled with the deterrent power of the murderous player, this old fox can be more or less behaved.

However... I didn't expect that one day there would be an event specifically prepared for killing players. It's worthy of being "Godlock", the freedom enjoyed by NPCs is no less than that of players.

Guild Master Zero subconsciously knocked on the table again as he was thinking about the pros and cons of this matter.

Honestly speaking, he felt that this matter should be told directly to Herbie Hermes. The current manager of [Hermes's Traveling Hat] could be said to be the first NPC that made him raise an eyebrow, as he could actually get in touch with the evil player.

Now [Hermes's Travel Cap] is also salvaging [Ika Black Stone]. I heard that it is currently recruiting players of the Arcadian race. Obviously, it is not as simple as salvaging.