This chapter is translated by Hoenimochi, translation checked by Rin, and edited by Mika.
In the surveillance room.
Lu Yan hung up the phone. Beside him, the manager was tied to a chair, and his expression was full of horror.
“Where will the auction be held?” Lu Yan turned around and asked.
As he spoke, he stabbed the manager in the leg without hesitation.
In fact, he could get the answer to this kind of thing from the System, but Lu Yan was already used to pretending that he did not have this ability.
[You don’t really need to stab him. His willpower wasn’t that strong to begin with, and now he’s given up resisting…]
“I like it.” Lu Yan replied.
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Lu Yan wiped the blood from the dagger with a napkin and walked to the auction site unhurriedly.
He walked on the ground but his footsteps made no sound.
The System said, [It’s too late.]
“What?”
[Going to the auction site. You can’t catch up with Su Chenyang. I suggest you find a way to climb up through the window.]
At the auction site, the Golden-tailed clients looked unhappy, “What’s going on?”
“Sorry, it seems that the power in the clubhouse was cut off due to the tsunami tide.” The waiter hurriedly bowed and apologized, “We will start the backup generator immediately. Our deepest apologies for this unforeseen event.”
Su Chenyang’s expression didn’t look good. He was not dumb, he understood that things had gone beyond his control.
The seventh floor was about to be invaded by Enlighteneds. Under the leadership of Xu Guanyue, the Ostae had already reached the fifth floor. At this speed, it was only a matter of time before they reached the seventh floor.
The Golden-tailed clients were utterly unaware that danger was already coming around the corner.
Almost without hesitation, Su Chenyang chose to keep this matter under wraps; at the same time, appeasing the other staff with the promise of a pay raise this month.
The purpose of all this was just to stall for time.
Su Chenyang had made up his mind to get out of this hellhole today.
Back then, Prophet brought “space” to help change the location of Mermaid Island, making it a truly isolated paradise.
Today was the last day of July, which happened to be the time when Mermaid Island and the ‘outer’ space were connected every month.
Su Chenyang rushed into his office.
In the past, he was satisfied with the tight security here. However, now, he despised the layer upon layer of checks that delayed him.
Su Chenyang finally opened the last door.
A crafty rabbit had three burrows; a sly individual had more than one backup plan. Everyone only knew that the Mermaid Club had seven floors, but they didn’t know that there were helicopters kept on the top floor. What’s more, they didn’t know that the secret door in his office had a passage directly to the top floor.
The innermost room was not big and had its own power supply.
In the middle, there was an aquarium covered with a black cloth.
No one would come here apart from him.
Su Chenyang lifted the black cloth, and inside the half-meter-long aquarium, there was an Osta curled up.
This Osta was gray and black. Because the box was too small, it had been curled up all year round, its limbs had degenerated and deformed, its body bloated from the stale water, and its eyes were lifeless.
There was a golden follicle hanging from the Osta’s neck, and it didn’t know how long it had been parasitizing on it.
Inside, a small tadpole-like fish swam happily, as if it would break out of its cocoon soon.
This Osta was so skinny its skeletal structure could be seen. If it weren’t for the whole body rising and falling with its breathing, one would almost have the illusion that it was already dead.
Su Chenyang knew that there was not much time left for him, so he pumped out the water, and then fished up the Osta inside. Ignoring the dirty water on Osta’s body, he quickly ran towards the stairs.
He had learned to fly a helicopter.
Su Chenyang already had an escape route mapped out in his head.
As soon as he left the island, he would immediately detonate the volcano under the island. Mermaid Island was originally built on a dormant volcano. When the lava erupted, all the sins and traces on this land would be buried.
Even if the situation was urgent, Su Chenyang did not have the kind of desperation that he had been driven into the corner.
After his anger reached the extreme, he laughed instead, “So what if this island is gone? Laozi1 It means “I, your father” which indicates an extremely arrogant way to refer to oneself. has plenty of money, I can make a comeback anytime!”
Su Chenyang had a treasury abroad and a large amount of money in the bank. He had also bought many private islands and had properties all over the world.
As long as he could leave with this Osta in his arms, he could make a comeback at any time.
However, as soon as he reached the top floor, the smile on Su Chenyang’s face froze.
There was already someone standing on the empty aircraft parking ground.
A question came out of Su Chenyang’s mouth, “Why are you here?!”
Lu Yan held the knife in his hand; he turned around with a very happy expression, “Didn’t you tell me to come?”
Except for Su Chenyang’s office, there was no access to the top floor, so Lu Yan climbed straight up.
“You…” Su Chenyang quietly took a half step back, “are not a Mermaid made from Mermaid genes at all. Why do you have fish scales?!”
On the island, the source of all mutated Pollutants came from the Osta held in his arms.
The Osta wouldn’t hurt him, and the Pollutants that were injected with the mermaid gene and thus distorted also inherited this characteristic of the Ostae.
[It’s the kinship effect.] The System gave an explanation, [Whether it is Dragon Girl or Ostae, the perfectly evolved body has a kind of ‘kinship effect’2The translators are not sure if 眷族效应 has been given with the correct English equivalent. similar to the suppression of blood in front of the distorted of the same kind. An ordinary distorted body will automatically put itself in the position of a “servant.” Su Chenyang has almost drained the Osta’s genes for the sake of immortality and eternal youth. Therefore, he was misidentified as a master by other Pollutants.]
The difference was that the perfectly evolved bodies that Lu Yan had seen were all exceedingly strong. Only this one seemed weak and about to die at any time.
[That’s because it has been drained of all its vitality by the parasitic kingfish.]
Lu Yan’s eyes fell on the monster in Su Chenyang’s arms.
Su Chenyang was a little different from the normal awakened Enlightened. The ability on his body was transplanted. Although the spiritual power threshold exceeded 3,000, his combat power was basically 0.
Therefore, he knew very clearly if he could beat Yang Tianxin to death, then it would probably be easy to crush Su Chenyang.
System, [To be honest, because he’s just too weak, I am too lazy to give any information. ]
[His spiritual power threshold is 2,700. His ability: Early Warning and Homine Shot. The latter one is transplanted. There is a gun produced by the Fifth Research Institute under his clothes, you should be careful.]
Su Chenyang noticed his line of sight.
A business smile appeared on his face, “I can give you this Osta in my arms. Frankly, I have a lot of money. I’ve long since lost interest in making money, it’s better for you to let me go. My combat ability is average and poses absolutely no threat, I just want to stay alive.”
As he spoke, he blocked his arm with the Osta’s body and quietly touched the gun attached to the back of his windbreaker.
“I admit my mistake, I can’t believe I was blind and took you for a normal person. Honestly, you look a bit like an old friend of mine… Luckily, it didn’t cause a big disaster for the time being. Maybe we can discuss some cooperation?”
After several evolutions, Lu Yan’s features had undergone some subtle changes.
Lu Yan played with the dagger in his hand, “What if I don’t agree?”
“Then die!”
Su Chenyang pulled the trigger. His gun was still behind his back — he didn’t even take it out — but it was enough.
[309th Ability: Homing Shot]
However, the bullet disappeared the moment Lu Yan raised his hand.
In fact, it didn’t disappear, Lu Yan just blocked it with his hand.
The gun Su Chenyang used was produced by the Fifth Research Institute, and so were the bullets.
Compared to the firearm, this bullet was actually the seed of some kind of plant Pollutant.
Since it was a Pollutant, the Kingfish was able to eat it.
The child was already six months old, and eating only meat would easily lead to nutritional imbalance, so it would be good to have some vegetables to make up for it.
The Kingfish chewed some more and felt that the peas were a little hard.
Su Chenyang couldn’t understand what went wrong; he was thunderstruck.
He took a step and tried to run. However, Lu Yan’s knife flew over and penetrated deep into his back.
Lu Yan was more like the one with the ‘Homing Shot’ ability rather than Su Chenyang.
Su Chenyang stumbled and fell to the ground. The Osta in his arms also fell out and rolled around on the ground.
Lu Yan stepped on Su Chenyang’s head.
He bent over and drew the dagger out, glancing at the Osta who had been dropped to the side.
Su Chenyang, with his last shred of hope, shouted, “Chen Yun, save me!”
That was the name of this Osta.
[That Osta… is dead.] The System said, [The reason is interesting. It was actually because of the degeneration of the respiratory organs and suffocation.]
[He had longed to die for so long and didn’t even struggle a bit. Perhaps, death was kind of a relief for him?]
Lu Yan silently took down the golden fish egg as big as a tumor hanging from the Osta’s neck.
In that second, he almost heard the Kingfish cheering.
After the egg was plucked, the Osta was like a corpse that was drained of blood, shriveling into dried fish skin wrapped around deformed bones.
Su Chenyang finally lost his composure; his tone trembling as he spoke, “I will give you the Mermaids, I’ll give it all to you. I can also give you money. I still have a few bottles of extracted Mermaid genes… Don’t kill me, don’t kill me. …”
“It’s wrong to kill.” Lu Yan said, “My personal preferences and distastes aren’t allowed to override the law.”
Su Chenyang nodded frantically, cold sweat dripping all over his back, “Yes, yes.”
As long as he didn’t die now, there was still hope.
However, Lu Yan’s next sentence quickly made Su Chenyang feel desperate.
“Fortunately, there are no laws specifically for Pollutants yet.”
There was a pleased smile on Lu Yan’s face.
He picked up the collar of Su Chenyang’s coat and came all the way to the edge of the cruise, overlooking Mermaid Bay. In the distance, a patrol boat with its lights on was coming towards them.
It was 0:47 in the morning now.
Under the cliff was the habitat of the Mermaids.
After smelling the blood, dozens of beautiful Mermaids emerged from the bottom.
Su Chenyang’s expression was full of horror. He grabbed Lu Yan’s arm and shook his head, “No, no! Please—”
Lu Yan had a strange smile, “But I want to test something: when the perfectly evolved species dies, these Mermaids — will they still listen to you?”
He let go.
With the loud bang of a body hitting the water, the Mermaids squeezed out a beast-like hiss from their throats. They scrambled towards Su Chenyang.
Su Chenyang’s cry for help was drowned out in the water, the surface was quickly dyed red.
Lu Yan watched the scene and narrowed his eyes slightly, “It seems that they won’t listen.”
The author has something to say:
Off-topic: The setting of the species in the same family has reference to the “Family of Stars” (Baidu below)
The Star-Spawn of Cthulhu is a creature in the Myth of Cthulhu created by American novelist Howard Philip Lovecraft. They are servants of the great Cthulhu, similar in appearance to Cthulhu, but much smaller in size.
It can be understood that there are many small Pollutants that look similar to each large Pollutant, and these small Pollutants are very obedient towards the greater Pollutants.
And here I thought he would get that Su bastard to first hand over all hos money begore saying he would let him go, but with this same outcome of letting him go above the sea with mermaids. 🤔
Thanks for the chapter(s).