She is a ripple caused by tide
"Number 07, emotional response test, begin."
In the eternally silent laboratory of the deep sea, the mermaid lord tide recorded this line of data. In front of her was the only surviving sample of humanity after the end of the world - You Yi, a perfect experiment that should have been observed, measured, and finally disassembled in a petri dish.
Tide gave her shelter and calculated the frequency of each of her heartbeats.
Give her a name and monitor her emotional attachment to that identity
"come closer"
tide's voice was transmitted through the water, as cold as the sound of an instrument, "I need to record the impact of changes in body temperature on emotions."
You Yi took it as caring and misunderstood the experimental procedures as clumsy tenderness.
"Sir, the sea water is exceptionally blue today." You Yi leaned against the observation window, her fingertips leaving fleeting traces of warmth on the glass.
Tide did not raise his head, and the pen tip paused on the record book for 0.3 Seconds: "Irrelevant variables, no need to report."
But she still wrote down this sentence. In the "Sample Subjective Statement" column, her handwriting was half a minute darker than usual.
The experimental plan should have been clear:
1. Make humans emotionally dependent on rescuers
2. Measuring the critical point when dependence turns into love
3. Implement emotional stripping at the peak moment to complete the ultimate verification of "human vulnerability"
But late one night, when You Yi unconsciously grabbed the hem of her clothes in her sleep, tide found that she had forgotten to start timing.
That should have been recorded as a "sample of physical attachment behavior", but for the first time in seven hundred years, the heart rate monitor, which had been stable, experienced unexplained fluctuations.
"Sir, am I just a line of data in your experimental report?"
The crystal recorder in tide's hand suddenly fell to the ground.
On the screen, all labels related to "Experimental Product No. 07" Are being automatically tampered with——
"Observation object" → "Unclassifiable existence"
"Emotional variable" → "System error, unable to calibrate"
"Experiment termination plan" → "Permanently suspended, permissions locked"
You Yi became the only wrong variable in her experiment
All the data says "over" except the heartbeat
Intention: Use love as a prison to imprison yourself in it