After the Global Evolution, I Stand at the Top of the Food Chain

Chapter 056: “Here it comes.”


This chapter is translated by Kris Xian, translation checked by Kensi, and edited by bluburry.


Western Sea Region.

Because of the unfortunate prior encounter with a tsunami, Shen Qingyang and the Prophet’s small fishing boat capsized.

Shen Qingyang was forced to use his own tentacles and began to swim in the ocean. 

Prophet’s face was ashen as he sat on Shen Qingyang’s tentacles. “I feel uneasy about this journey…”

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He tried to open his eye to see the future, but as soon as he opened it a bit, he felt a stinging pain.

Prophet felt like his eye would be split if he tried to look further.

Shen Qingyang had been a human for more than twenty years and had just grown tentacles this year, so he was not proficient in using them.

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The slow trickle of time brought endless loneliness. One day, he saw Su Chenyang clinging to driftwood, who called him for help.

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He knew he was ugly and didn’t even dare to approach the other man.

It wasn’t until one night that the other man came around the reef, a little frightened, but still mustered the courage to squeeze out a smile and said, “You’re the one who saved me, aren’t you? Thank you.”

The Osta felt that on the island that night, he saw the most moving starlight in his life.


“When I went to the Mermaid Clubhouse, that Osta had been locked up in a small box for a long time and was not mentally sound,” Prophet said as he took a bite of a charcoal-grilled octopus leg, “The boss came to him just to ask him to send him back to the human society. It was so foolish to think that it has met love. People are really interesting, and when they are lonely, they can do anything for just a little love.”

“It’s a small, dark metal box that couldn’t be moved. The boss said that he felt disgusted whenever he remembered that he had had a romantic relationship with a fish. However, he also needed its Mermaid gene and that’s why it’s locked up.”

“Back then, the highlight of the Mermaid Clubhouse wasn’t Mermaids, but mainly hunting exotic fish,” Prophet said, smiling, “Visitors could pay for fish food and watch the Meatfish scramble through the water through a steel cage.”

“I asked him if he wanted a real Mermaid.”

Prophet sounded as if he was reporting the results of his work, full of pride and smugness.

Shen Qingyang rolled up his tentacles, “Shut up.”

He remembered that he wasn’t human now either. While he could use Mimicry, it was ineffective when he lost consciousness.

This look would probably be hated by Dr. Lu.

Prophet said, “You’re still weak-hearted and sympathize easily.”

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“I want to hear the story of the prince and the monster who lived happily ever after, not the mermaid who turned into bubbles,” Shen Qingyang replied thoughtfully.

Prophet wanted to tease him some more, however, the ship hundreds of nautical miles away in his “precognitive” vision suddenly alerted him.

If it was an ordinary ship, Prophet would not be so nervous.

But he clearly saw the “Fifth Research Institute” as the ship’s logo!

This was a combat ship specifically built to search for and deal with shallow sea Pollutants.

“How could this be? This sea region has always been safe, how could there suddenly be a search ship?” Prophet cursed in a low voice, “We’ll come back another time and escape first.”

However, the Prophet found out a little too late.

“Captain. 35° to the southwest, a strong source of pollution is detected. The pollution range is 0.3 nautical miles, and the pollution intensity is about 1,700.”

Because of the Mimicry, the pollution value detected in Shen Qingyang was much lower than his real level.

“Damn, I’ve been looking for Mermaid Island for a week. Not a single strand of hair in sight, we finally met a Pollutant to turn in,” the captain said, “Let’s go and fight!”

In the entire ship, only the captain was an Enlightened, and the rest were well-trained navy soldiers.

Despite having no extraordinary abilities, these people did not have the slightest fear on their faces.

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This was due to this naval ship’s origin.

The steel beasts produced by the Fifth Research Institute may not be able to catch high-level Pollutants, but at least, ordinary humans had the strength and courage to hunt down low-level Pollutants.

Among the 13 research institutes, the Fifth Research Institute covered the largest area and received the most financial allocations each year.

Shen Qingyang’s speed in the sea wasn’t slow, but it was still far behind compared to the naval ship.

Not to mention the fact that he had Prophet on his back.

The distance between the two kept getting closer, and soon, it was within the attack range of the naval ship.

On the deck of the search ship, there was a black steel pipe, which was the barrel of a cannon.

“Fire!”

A torpedo-shaped shell was shot towards Shen Qingyang.

His tentacles immediately enlargened, almost ten meters high,  intertwining into an impermeable wall.

The shell exploded against this wall of flesh. On the pitch-black tentacles, many of the eyes were badly damaged, and the surface skin was scalded off in sections, showing scorched black carbonization marks.

Shen Qingyang’s entire face was slightly distorted in pain.

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The captain expressed his shock, “How could this be? It stands to reason that if this torpedo goes down, even the Turtles with a pollution value of 2,000 would be blown up. What kind of big octopus is this?”

The shells fired were not the highest spec weapons on the naval ship, but looking at the tiny, ticklish wound of the large octopus, even blasting another deep water torpedo ball would do nothing.

The captain turned his head and said to his first officer, “Quick, immediately call the Headquarters for support. Unidentified Pollutants were spotted at the sea! We’ll retreat first, keep our distance, and maintain fire bombardment. Let the Bai Team handle the rest!”

Shen Qingyang shook off the tentacles that had broken skin and turned around to leave.

“No need to go.” Prophet’s tone was serious, “This naval ship did not move forward to capture, it should have called for support. If you don’t deal with it, you will be surrounded soon. You will not be able to leave by then. This naval ship cannot be allowed to follow us all the time.”

“But…” Shen Qingyang felt wronged, “I can’t swim fast enough.”

Prophet hated this iron for not being steel, “Why do we have to escape? You are also a perfect evolutionary body, a high-level Pollutant! Destroy that naval ship!”

Shen Qingyang said, “But there are still people onboard.”

“How many times do I have to repeat that as far as humans are concerned, you’re no longer human? If you’re willing to be killed, then you might as well have killed yourself the day you became a Pollutant? Think again about why you didn’t just go and die!”

Shen Qingyang poked his head out of the water.

Another missile blasted over, and Shen Qingyang blocked it with his tentacles. This time, a tentacle was blown off.

Blue blood spurted out.

Before, Shen Qingyang had never experienced shedding blood, therefore, he didn’t even know that his blood had turned blue. 

He looked somewhat startled as he said, “K City is near the sea. A doctor once ordered a large squid from a fishery shop. He wasn’t there when it was delivered, and I helped carry it up.”

“When he came back, he asked me to eat at his house. I watched him dissect the squid. He told me that the blood of this cephalopod is transparent, but because of the hemocyanin, it turns blue when it absorbs oxygen. That was the first time I learned of an animal whose blood was blue.”

Now, blue blood dripped all over his head.

Shen Qingyang inexplicably felt unusually lonely.

Nothing could make him realize more clearly that he was no longer human than the blue color of his blood.

He rolled up the broken one with his other tentacle and shoved it into Prophet’s arms. This would keep the other party floating above the surface.

Subsequently, Shen Qingyang dived into the deep water, and his presence was minimized with the use of Mimicry.

He reached the bottom of the naval ship, and then his dozen dark, thick tentacles wrapped around the hull, wrapping and crushing it like a giant python.

Shen Qingyang’s mutational skills were Gigantization and Tentaculation. Perhaps, even Prophet did not know that his tentacles could grow to such a degree.

The giant steel naval ship, which even missiles could not penetrate, was squeezed into deformity. This caused seawater to pour in.

He heard anxious and panicked cries from people. In the last moments of their lives, some people were calling for help, some people were busy writing their will, some people were trying to escape on a plane, and some people broke their heads due to panic. The smell of blood rippled through the water.

So hungry.

Some say that octopuses were the most alien-like animals. They had one brain and eight sub-brains, with each brain having a separate memory system.

The twisted tentacles surged as quickly as if they were crazy, no longer even needing instructions from the brain.

[17th Ability: Life Absorption]

In the end, none of these people were able to leave.

Shen Qingyang gently pulled down the naval ship towards the deep sea.

Some of the eyes on the tentacles were laughing, some were crying.

After a long time, Shen Qingyang swam back.

Prophet had expected to see a sickly face, but contrary to his expectations, he even had a look of satisfaction and calmness after having a full meal.

He had been hungry for a long time. He dreamt of eating fish, but Shen Qingyang was clear that what he wanted to eat was not actually fish.

Prophet said, “Looks like this sea region is going to be off limits these days. Let’s go back first and find a place to go ashore. The fish won’t run away anyway.”

Shen Qingyang tilted his head a little and replied with a smile, “I can’t go back anymore, Teacher.”


12 midnight.

This was supposed to be the scheduled time to start the auction.

The auction was delayed due to the late arrival of a Mermaid. Despite the auctioneer’s repeated reassurances, there was inevitably some agitation.

The staff said that the iron cage of Mermaid No. 6 was taken away by Yang Tianxin.

Yang Tianxin had been a security guard in the Mermaid Clubhouse for decades and was his most loyal dog. What’s more, because of the power of space, Mermaid Island could only be opened regularly every month. This made him not worried that Yang Tianxin would abscond with the fish.

The boss had asked the staff to find someone, but the monitoring stopped abruptly at 11 o’clock. The only person who could have this authority was Yang Tianxin.

The boss repeatedly dialed Yang Tianxin’s pager, but no one answered his calls.

Until now.

The call finally got through.

At that moment, the boss couldn’t help yelling in the private room, “Where the hell are you taking No. 6?! Hurry to the auction hall! Everyone is waiting here!”

He slapped his hand down heavily on the table, “Get your ass over here!”

The person on the phone answered quickly.

But instead of relief, the boss’ face changed drastically.

Because on the walkie-talkie, it wasn’t Yang Tianxin’s voice at all!

The unfamiliar voice laughed softly and said, “Here.”


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  1. Lioness94

    I feel sorry for the original semi mermaid, doing a good deed and getting repaid with imprisonment and probably mhtklation to get the genes.

    Thanks for the chapter(s).