This chapter is translated by Rin and edited by Kikiji.
Yang Tianxin was excessively strong — so for an iron cage that needed two people to carry, he could pull it himself with just a chain.
Because of his ability, his muscles and bones were far denser than ordinary people. When his metal prosthetic limbs step on the ground, even the floor lightly trembled.
The auction site was a circular pool resembling the Colosseum. Twenty iron cages would be pushed to the bottom of the waters.
By now, the preparatory Mermaids already possessed the ability to breathe underwater with their high degree of distortion. The pollution source in the pool would help these people complete their final transformation.
The transformation from humans to Pollutants.
As long as the customers wanted to, the Clubhouse could even open the iron cages and allow the newly evolved Mermaids to start fighting in the pool.
The Mermaid Clubhouse had been laying the groundwork for the feast on the last day for a long time. The back kitchen’s preparations for the dinner party had even started half a year in advance.
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Yang Tianxin walked up to the iron cage, crouched down slowly, and looked at Lu Yan’s face.
“You must be an Enlightened too. At least, before you came to Mermaid Island. I don’t know how the people who did the screening this time chose the targets. When this auction is over, I will definitely go and check it out personally.”
“But I believe that your spiritual power threshold isn’t very high. Otherwise, you would have been found out on the first day you arrived on this island, and then you wouldn’t have had to hide in a disgusting, damp water pipe like a mouse in a sewer.”
“The boss likes you very much. If you don’t participate in this auction, he’ll definitely be angry. This troubles me a little, but I have an idea that gives us the best of both worlds. Let’s break your arms and legs and then throw you into the pool. In this way, it shouldn’t be a big issue, right?”
The ‘break’ that Yang Tianxin spoke of refers to the severance of the limbs, just like the dismemberment of a human body that occurred in the Mrs. Qi Incident.1Mrs. Qi was someone who received the punishment of cutting the human body. The punishment includes: cutting off palms and feet, digging out eyes, penetrating copper into ears to cause deafness, stuffing drugs into the mouth, cutting off the tongue, damaging the vocal cord, and then throwing to the toilet and many more.
[Yang Tianxin also has the ability to see in the dark. His only weak point is the junction of his metal legs. He’s been amputated, so a broken prosthesis will incapacitate him. However, the prosthesis produced by the Fifth Research Institute will not be so easily damaged.]
“There’re also dealings between the Fifth Research Institute and Mermaid Clubhouse?” Lu Yan asked.
[As long as there’s enough money involved or enough cash pulled out, buying a metal prosthesis isn’t a big deal. The Fifth Research Institute may not even know who the people who bought the items are.]
There were thirteen research institutes across the country, and the research courses of each institute were quite different.
For example, the Seventh Research Institute liked to study agricultural sideline products. The special medicine that killed parasitic fish eggs and the pesticides of Luochuan Botanical Garden were all produced by them.
The Fifth Research Institute was a fully functional cyberpunk lab that spent all of researchers’ time studying how they could kill Pollutants with thermal weapons.
Due to the slower speed of physics development, they couldn’t keep up with the speed of the Pollutants’ biological distortion, so their contribution to the frontline battlefield was weak. Nevertheless, some of their auxiliary devices were selling quite well.
Lu Yan knew that it would be useless to continue pretending. He opened his eyes and met Yang Tianxin’s scarlet eyes.
His hand grabbed the knife hidden in his clothes.
Yang Tianxin’s body continued to grow, and black wolf fur pierced the black uniform he wore like steel needles.
331st Ability: Lone Wolf.
[You better hope he doesn’t have the habit of licking blood.] The System’s tone was rarely so serious. [You already don’t have a good chance of winning against him. If he drinks your blood and gets strengthened, I’ll find a way to notify your liaison and choose a better-looking urn for you.]
[In addition, even if you tell him the truth about the car accident, in his current state, he won’t believe it. Rather, he’ll even fall into a state of rage. After all, you’re currently not on equal footing with him, and people will only believe what they want to believe.]
This matter was well understood. It’s like you’re shopping at the vegetable market, and someone you didn’t know came over and told you that your own son belonged to Old Wang next door.
Even if your neighbour was indeed called Old Wang, would you wholly believe it or give that person a punch first?
The reaction of most people was probably the latter. Furthermore, he would go on to complain to his friends and relatives that he encountered some crazy person at the market.
Yang Tianxin slammed open the door of the iron cage with one hand.
Lu Yan didn’t dodge but instead grabbed Poison Fang and rushed forward.
After all, this was a C-class psionic weapon that Lu Yan spent a full 10,000 contribution points to redeem.
The long dagger penetrated deep into Yang Tianxin’s arm, and blood spurted out like a fountain.
The poison from the C-class psionic weapon “Poison Fang” would gradually slow down Yang Tianxin’s movements as it spread.
Lu Yan knew that he could never win against Yang Tianxin with strength alone. The opponent’s strength and speed were much greater than his.
So his tactic was to trade injury for injury.
Injure five hundred of the enemy, and lose one thousand of his own.
At the same time that his dagger pierced Yang Tianxin’s arm, Yang Tianxin’s fist smashed heavily into Lu Yan’s lower abdomen.
Even though his scales surfaced in a timely manner when the force was applied, he was still forced a few steps back and spat out a mouthful of visceral blood with a gasp.
“Trading injury for injury?” Yang Tianxin swung his arm; the toxin made his arm a little numb. “This is not a fight that can be won by willpower alone.”
On the surface, it looked like he was the one with the more severe injury.
Nonetheless, Lu Yan was not worried.
He had the ability to regenerate. It looked like he was suffering a loss, but as long as he didn’t die, he was already benefiting.
In addition, he was not afraid of pain. As early as his childhood, he had long learned how to stay awake under extreme pain.
There were not many bunkers for him to hide in the room.
The marble table was smashed into pieces by Yang Tianxin. The action that took place here was not small, but because of the remote location and how most of the security force was concentrated in the auction site, even if the wall was about to collapse, there would still be no third person joining the battlefield for the time being.
[Some better news. The fact that you were taken away by Yang Tianxin was relayed back to the bottom of the sea by the Mermaids, so Xu Guanyue decided to bring the Ostae ashore in advance.]
The Mermaid Clubhouse had been established for half a century, yet it had never been so chaotic.
Although these Ostae were Enlighteneds, because they’d been deprived of their abilities. Their spiritual power threshold was not high, and they won primarily through their large numbers.
The second evolution, which was extremely difficult to achieve in the outside world, actually appeared on a few old Ostae.
They were never able to encounter any chance opportunities, so they could only hide in the depths of the red seaweed, lingering on. These Ostae were well aware that a part of their souls died when they killed those of their own species 15 years ago. It was the most unforgettable hatred that had supported them to survive until now.
The Ostae climbed ashore along the pool and bit the staff. They planned to attack from the first floor all the way to the seventh floor.
Many tourists were frightened by this scene and hurriedly locked themselves into their rooms. Nonetheless, there were also some tourists who had accepted “Dream Intrusion,” and their expressions were dazzled as if they remembered something.
The bottom floor was completely in disarray.
The boss listened to the report with a gloomy expression.
He looked around at the round table, where the wealthy businessmen sat in complete ignorance.
The waiter served exquisite dishes one by one.
By the end, the dishes had already become undisguised human-shaped Pollutants.
Over the years, the most popular dish in the Mermaid Club was the mammal organs of humanoid mammals made from meat pigs ranging from 14 to 16 years of age. Coat with honey from bees that had become Pollutants and then roast on low heat for 6 hours— the texture and taste were the best in the world, as if they were going to ascend.
The auction was still an hour away from starting.
According to data from previous years, each auction could bring billions of profits to the Mermaid Clubhouse. Sometimes, there were also other things of higher value, far more than money.
“Boss, should we proceed to the cruise first?” On the phone, the lobby manager’s tone was terrified and uneasy.
The boss whispered, “What are you afraid of? They’re just a group of Ostae whose spiritual power threshold won’t exceed 1,000. You could kill them once before, and now you can kill them a second time. Allow the security guards to use their guns.”
His blue eyes, as clear as seawater, contained extremely deep anger, but the smile on his face grew even more gentle. “The preparatory Mermaids haven’t fully evolved yet, so no need to worry.”
After speaking, he hung up the phone. To the other wealthy businessmen, he sighed helplessly, “A Golden-tailed member from previous years called to reserve a Mermaid. He insisted that I take a picture for him.”
The rich merchants had bright smiles on their faces. “Well, that won’t come cheap. Let him arrange some more funds. According to the rules, off-site auctions require him to pay a 10% premium.”
After paying the price of a broken arm, Lu Yan successfully struck Yang Tianxin’s abdomen with his dagger, lacerating a bone-deep wound.
It was 11:15 pm now. The room was dark, and the ground was covered with wolf hair and blood, and even severed limbs.
[167th Ability: Regeneration]
This was the first time that Lu Yan had used this ability to repair a broken limb.
Muscle fibers stretched out from the cross-section of his arm and twist into one strand. The broken bones were squirming and growing, and within half a minute, a brand new arm reappeared.
This arm was as white as jade. Looking at the skin, it seemed as delicate and tender as a newborn baby. However, if someone touched it, they would find that the texture was more like touching a layer of smooth fish skin rather than a human one.
That skin was soon covered with a layer of golden scales.
Yang Tianxin’s eyes shone with excitement. “Interesting. This is at least the fourth time I’ve broken your arm, but you can still regenerate. What’s your ability? Phoenix?”
[Regeneration is not “Phoenix,” and the number of times a severed limb can be regenerated is limited. With your current spiritual power threshold, you can probably still use it one more time.]
Lu Yan clenched the dagger in his hand and replied calmly, “That’s enough.”
The spread of neurotoxins had weakened and slowed down Yang Tianxin’s attacks.
If not because of his regenerative ability and the System’s support, Lu Yan might’ve been beaten to death long ago.
There were visible bloody holes in his shoulders. The speed of regeneration and repair could no longer keep up with the rate at which the wolf claws battered at his shoulder blade. The newly grown body parts also felt foreign to him.
Nonetheless, Yang Tianxin’s condition was not much better.
He was panting heavily, the wolf fur on his body had already fallen off, and he was about to return to his human form.
Yang Tianxin opened his mouth; his saliva was bloody and flowed uncontrollably from the corner of his mouth.
These were not the main points. The key point was that his metal prosthesis had become less agile under Lu Yan’s continuous attack.
His metal skin was split open to reveal several broken bio-sensing wires.
“I admit, you are the most difficult opponent I have ever encountered.” Yang Tianxin raised his arm and wiped the blood from his face.
[His fighting ability is quite strong. However, after awakening, he’s been working as a security guard in the Mermaid Clubhouse. What a pity.] The System tutted, [If you had joined the SpecOps Division, you could have been at least as good as Bai Qiushi. Living in ease will leave you behind!]
Lu Yan didn’t have the strength to respond to him anymore.
Physical exhaustion and spiritual threshold depletion. His entire body was drenched like he’d just been pulled out of the water.
The System said, [Although you cut a sorry figure right now, fortunately, the other party is also an arrow at the end of its flight…. Do you want to take a bet?]
“On what?”
[Bet on how much your son loves you.]
Just as the System’s voice fell, Yang Tianxin suddenly burst out, flashing his sharp wolf claws as he pounced on Lu Yan.
[Head down, the nerve center of his prosthesis is located in the lower abdomen.]
This angle would reveal a human being’s fragile neck.
But Lu Yan still followed suit, because this was his only chance to kill Yang Tianxin.
The expression on Yang Tianxin’s face was ferocious. He grabbed Lu Yan’s neck with one hand up and one hand down, and then pulled fiercely!
Lu Yan’s head and neck were torn apart instantly under tremendous force. The bones connecting the neck were broken, his eyeballs were almost squeezed out of their sockets, and even his facial features were slightly deformed.
Blood spilled onto Lu Yan’s collar, dyeing it red.
His head was torn off. No matter how one looked at it, it didn’t look like he could still survive.
Yang Tianxin didn’t even care that Lu Yan’s dagger plunged into the nerve center of his prosthetic.
At most, he couldn’t move it anymore. Anyway, Lu Yan was dead. He would just have it repaired again when the time comes.
He fell to the ground with a slam, revealing a carefree smile.
However, in the next second — Yang Tianxin’s pupils shrank uncontrollably.
Where Lu Yan’s neck ended, white threads suddenly grew.
This was the thin thread used by the Kingfish to feed.
The thin white threads, like hands, quickly reached out and grabbed Lu Yan’s airborne head, pulled it back abruptly, and reattached it to his neck.
There was really no way to regenerate and grow another brain for Lu Yan.
But if it was just repairing the neck and the broken cervical spine, it was still fine.
Lu Yan said sincerely, “Thank you, but you put my head on the wrong side.”
He looked down and saw his own buttocks.
Needless to say, it’s quite perky.
“……”
The thin white lines appeared again. They pushed Lu Yan’s head back up with difficulty, slowly turned it 180 degrees, and then put the head on with a “crack.”
Yang Tianxin’s face reflected his desperation. “How is this possible?!”
Even though he knew that both pollution disease and abilities didn’t align with science, at this moment, he also had the feeling of “this is too fucking unscientific.” It even made him want to curse at him.
If he had Liu Yan’s ability, would he still need a metal prosthesis?!
The newly-installed head was still a little dizzy. Lu Yan turned his neck, and the place where Yang Tianxin had twisted it off burned with aching pain.
“Nothing is impossible.”
Lu Yan bent over and picked up the dagger but didn’t give a final blow.
Instead, he only cut off the other party’s deltoid muscle, coming off quite merciful.
Yang Tianxin couldn’t lift his arms or stand up again, completely losing his ability to fight.
陆言打开门，光从外面透了进来，洒在他完美无瑕、完全符合三庭五眼比例的脸上。
Lu Yan opened the door. Light spilled in from outside and brushed over his flawless face, the structure and beauty of which completely matched the golden ratio of three courts and five eyes.2It refers to the perfect standard of beauty.
As if remembering something, he turned his head and said, “By the way, the car that had hit you that time had the license plate number Yin A99**8. The driver is called Su Chenyang.”
Yang Tianxin’s expression instantly stiffened. His eyes widened, the crown of his teeth rattled, and he even started to tremble faintly.
“Impossible!” he growled.
“Nothing is impossible, whether you want to believe it or not is up to you. I’m just informing you.” Lu Yan smiled, “Nowadays, you all call him Boss.”
He closed the door.
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*Note 1: R18, refers to the foreign film rating system.
*Note 2: G18, indicating G Xiang, comes from the English word grotesque (gore, ugly, deformed).
Yay, new chapters! It’s been a few months.
I had to wonder for a second what the system meant by his son, then the tendrils came out and I thought, ‘right, the kingfish’.
Though I had to desire to both laugh when the head was attached backwards and Lu Yan’s reaction at seeing his own behind. 😅🤦🏻♀️
If I’m being completely honest, I was not expecting decapitation, however as a Lioness94 would have mentioned, Lu Yan’s reaction to the perkiness of his butt is very funny. Thank you for the translation.
The perky butt part was just a perfect part to put humor in.
Thanks for the chapter.