Chapter 44 Who locked the door?

Li Mei's action was not meant to devour the flesh on his body, but to torture him...

Sharp teeth easily pierced Zhang Xiao's clothes and skin!

Intense pain swept through Zhang Xiao's mind once again!

Da Yong seemed stimulated by the thick scent of blood in the air. He swung his other sharp claw down violently, effortlessly tearing through the clothes and skin on Zhang Xiao's chest, leaving several claw marks deep enough to expose bone!

Fresh blood instantly gushed out!

The attacks from Li Mei and Da Yong were not meant to kill, but carried a sense of cruel mockery and torture!

Every tear, every bite precisely avoided his vital organs!

The aim was to maximize his pain and fear!

Zhang Xiao's screams had become hoarse and erratic; adrenaline was starting to kick in.

Right now, he could barely feel the pain from those wounds.

His consciousness began to blur amidst the excruciating pain and extreme fear; he could clearly perceive his body growing cold.

Li Mei noticed his abnormality. If he mutated at this moment, the torture would lose its meaning...

Li Mei and Da Yong released their mouths, staring fixedly with eyes filled with endless hatred at Zhang Xiao's face, which was gradually turning pale from excessive blood loss. She seemed to recall all the humiliation and pain she had suffered, and a more violent roar erupted from her throat!

She suddenly extended her fingers, precisely and cruelly stabbing toward Zhang Xiao's eyes...

"Puchi..."

The excruciating pain of his eyeballs bursting became the final and most terrifying experience in Zhang Xiao's consciousness...

His world instantly plunged into darkness...

His final scream was choked off in his throat by blood, only allowing him to make "gurgling" suffocating sounds.

The two merfolk, completely consumed by hatred, began to tear even more frantically at the already mangled corpse. Their sharp claws easily sliced open the abdominal cavity, pulling out the internal organs...

Sharp teeth gnawed at the soft visceral tissues...

Blood splattered all over the surrounding walls and stairs, the thick scent of blood almost solidifying. Zhang Xiao, who had once participated in the abuse, was now paying for his sins in the way he feared most...

In the end, only the faint, hair-raising sound of chewing remained in the stairwell...

Meanwhile, downstairs, Zhuo You, relying on the precious time bought by Zhang Xiao's "sacrifice," finally caught up with the others on the 12th Floor.

Just as he was preparing to speed up, he saw those few shadows begin to turn around and charge toward the upper floor!

"Are you idiots?! Run downstairs!" Zhuo You said in a low, furious roar, anxious and angry.

"Downstairs! There are some downstairs too!" The person arriving pointed a trembling finger toward the direction leading to the lower floor.

"There are so many! It seems like they were lured over!"

"Damn it!" Zhuo You had been wondering why those two merfolk were calling out? Why make noise and alert everyone? Wouldn't it be more efficient to launch a surprise attack quietly?

He understood now; they were calling their teammates!

As if to confirm his words, more chaotic footsteps and heart-wrenching roars faintly echoed from deeper down the stairs...

Apparently, the violent roars of Li Mei and her husband after mutating not only alerted Zhuo You but also successfully attracted the attention of other merfolk lurking in the water!

They were being drawn by the calls of their own kind, converging from all directions and surrounding them by moving up along the building structure!

The 12th Floor instantly became an isolated island sandwiched between two layers of hell...

"We can't go up, and we can't go down! Damn it! We're going in between!" Zhuo You roared, pointing downstairs.

"Go to the 11th Floor! We'll go in and close the fire door to hide!"

The crowd panicked and huddled together. Everyone wanted to be the first to squeeze through the fire door, while others were worried that someone else would get in first and close the door. For a moment, it was chaotic...

"Ah! Brother Zhuo! What are you doing!" A man clutched his neck and screamed, and before he could react, he slowly collapsed.

The crowd stopped moving and looked at Zhuo You in a panic.

Zhuo You had used his Nepalese saber to slash directly at the man's neck in front of him...

Blood immediately gushed out like a fountain, flowing down along the building structure...

"Whoever doesn't follow the rules, the merfolk won't need to do anything! I'll send them off first!" Zhuo You scanned the crowd with a cold gaze.

"Get out of my way!"

Zhuo You held his blade, and the crowd didn't dare to provoke him, so they lowered their heads and made way.

Zhuo You stared at the crowd in front of him with ill intent, cursing internally: Damn it, if I let you guys go in first, wouldn't you lock the door tight?

He stood before the 11th Floor fire door, reached out, and pushed hard...

"?"

"What kind of joke is this?"

Zhuo You increased the force in his hands in disbelief, only to find that the fire door in front of him just wobbled but did not open...

As it wobbled, the clinking sound of iron chains came from the gap...

"Damn it! F***, you beasts! You beasts!"

"Who is it! Who the f*** locked the door?!" Zhuo You stood outside the door, cursing loudly!

In Zhang Yajing's home, Wu Yang and Li Meng were passionately battling with a game console borrowed from Zhou Yan's house.

It was originally something Su Yanyue had nagged Zhou Yan into buying a long time ago as an excuse to spend time with him, but in the end, these two boys benefited from it.

Neither Zhou Yan nor Su Yanyue actually liked playing games.

However, both of them thought the other liked it, so they bought one and brought it home to gather dust...

Wang Zeyu, who was sitting to the side with his arm around Zhang Dongxue watching the fun, suddenly sneezed three times in a row very loudly!

This really worried Zhang Dongxue.

"Did you catch a cold?" She reached out and touched Wang Zeyu's forehead to check his temperature.

"No, I just feel like my ears are burning; it feels like someone is cursing me..." Wang Zeyu scratched his head in confusion. In this day and age, he hadn't offended anyone, so who would curse him for no reason?

"It's dark out, did you lock the fire door outside?" Zhang Dongxue asked, looking at the security door with some concern.

"Don't worry, I locked it with that thick iron chain. Let alone merfolk, even Aquaman would have a hard time if he came..." Wang Zeyu gestured with his hands to show the thickness of the chain, saying with a confident face.

"Hey, damn it! Wu Yang, what are you doing! Eavesdropping on people dating, are you?" Wang Zeyu yelled, looking annoyedly at Wu Yang, who had snuck up on him without him noticing.

Wu Yang, however, looked nervous and held a finger to his lips.

"There's a sound outside the door!"

As he spoke, Wu Yang picked up the stick by the sofa, unscrewed the top section to reveal the dagger inside, and faced the security door, looking battle-ready.

Wang Zeyu decisively pulled out his walkie-talkie.

"This is Earth..."

"Earth my foot! Tell us what's happening first!" Zhang Dongxue angrily slapped Wang Zeyu on the head. What time did he think it was?!

You're still messing around?

"Big Brother! Something's happened!"

Meanwhile, in Zhou Yan's home, in the second bedroom.

"Big Brother, something's happened!" Wang Zeyu's voice suddenly rang out from the walkie-talkie on the bedside table.

The drowsy Zhou Yan instantly became alert; the laziness in his eyes was replaced in an instant by a flash of murderous intent.

Someone came to cause trouble?

He wanted to see today, who was tired of living?

He looked down at Bai Qi in his arms; her eyes were teary, and she looked exhausted...

He rose slowly, afraid of waking Bai Qi, then gently tucked the blanket in for her and quickly got up to get dressed.

As the second bedroom door opened.

"..." Zhou Yan.

"What... are you doing?"

Zhou Yan looked speechlessly at Su Yanyue, who was pretending to be very busy in front of him, though he didn't know what she was busy with...

The air was filled with an awkwardness and guilt that could be called "trying to cover up the truth"...

She had clearly been pressing herself against the door listening for a while...

Su Yanyue's movements froze, and two red blushes quickly flew onto her face, but she forced herself to stay calm and gave a dry cough.

"Ahem! Nothing, I was just checking if you were done with your reward..."

After saying that, she looked at Zhou Yan, who was getting dressed, with a puzzled face.

Was he... planning to go out?

"Where are you going?" Su Yanyue asked, looking at Zhou Yan with a worried expression.