What did he say in Chapter 49?

Zhou Yan stood at the doorway, peering into the room.

The exclamation from inside the room and the middle-aged man's momentary panic made Li Meng feel that something was wrong.

Big Brother has his own way of fighting because he possesses special skills, and the darkness hardly causes him any negative effects.

But he couldn't say the same for himself!

With his nearly 400-degree myopia and severe astigmatism from playing on his phone, it was very difficult for him to see his surroundings in the dark...

He reached out and gently poked Wang Zeyu, who was beside him, wanting him to take out the emergency flashlight Big Brother had given him to illuminate the surroundings and that pitch-black door.

The moment the flashlight's beam shone into the room, it caused a chorus of exclamations from the people in front.

"Ah! Ah!"

There were two more pained cries from men inside the room!

Zhou Yan waved his hand!

"Retreat!"

Everyone hurriedly retreated along the corridor back to the Fire escape.

Although they didn't understand what had happened in the middle-aged man's room, it didn't matter; retreating was the only thing that mattered!

"Hey! Don't go! Listen to my explanation!" The middle-aged man shouted at Zhou Yan while leaning against the doorway, seemingly still struggling with someone inside the room.

Listen to what the hell?

If Zhou Yan had come alone, he might have just drawn his gun and started fighting!

But now he had a bunch of underlings who hadn't had the chance to grow yet to protect, so he couldn't just act recklessly.

He immediately signaled to everyone to retreat to the 11th Floor first, and if the middle-aged man didn't appear tomorrow...

Then they would just assume he was dead!

If he wasn't dead, they would come back after daybreak and kill him!

Seeing that Zhou Yan and his group had started to head downstairs, the middle-aged man panicked.

"Brother! Brother, don't panic! It's okay! She doesn't bite!"

"Huh?"

Zhou Yan pulled back the leg he had stepped out with...

"Doesn't bite? What are you keeping in the room? A mermaid?"

"It's not exactly a mermaid... but it is indeed something I'm keeping!" the middle-aged man said urgently.

Zhou Yan held his gun, aiming at the door, and approached step by step.

"Big Brother! It's dangerous!" Li Meng hurriedly whispered into Zhou Yan's ear.

Zhou Yan turned his head; it seemed that only he and Wang Zeyu had looked into the room earlier...

Perhaps he had seen the situation inside the room!

"What did you see?"

"It's a mermaid! A very special mermaid!"

"How special?" Zhou Yan asked while walking forward.

A mermaid!

A mermaid meant there was an ordinary blind box to collect!

Perhaps many people in the room were infected, so he could pick up a few more ordinary blind boxes along the way!

Seeing that Big Brother wasn't listening at all, Li Meng had no choice but to grab Wu Yang and follow behind Zhou Yan into the room.

To avoid any sneak attacks from the shadows, Li Meng took the flashlight from Wang Zeyu and swept it around the room a few times...

In the living room, on the sofa, several iron chains used for walking dogs were tied tightly around a young female who looked to be about twenty years old...

But she was indeed special; the other mermaids were covered in mucus and those kinds of keratinized scales!

But this mermaid before them was covered in real scales! And she was extremely clean! There was no sticky feeling, and she looked very fresh and clean!

The exposed skin was shimmering with a faint purple glow under the flashlight's beam! That was the reflection from the scales on her body!

The mermaid didn't struggle, just stared at Zhou Yan in silence.

She didn't make any hissing sounds either, and even with Zhou Yan's shotgun pressed against her forehead, she remained calm!

On the other side of the living room, a boy and a girl were glaring at each other. Looking at the boy's grimacing expression and the hand clutching his waist, Zhou Yan seemed to understand the source of those exclamations and cries of pain...

"Brother! Do you want to know the origin of the mermaids?" The middle-aged man sighed, sat down on a small stool nearby, and looked at the girl with eyes full of regret.

"Aren't they transformed from humans?" Zhou Yan asked, somewhat puzzled.

The middle-aged man nodded: "Indeed! But you surely don't know why people turn into mermaids, right?"

"If you know, then hurry up and say it. If you're just here acting cool without knowing anything, I'll shoot you dead!" Zhou Yan said irritably.

If you know, just say it. What, do you want a Mermaid Award or something?

"..." The middle-aged man.

"The rainwater and the floodwaters below should both contain this special substance that causes people to mutate into mermaids! However!"

The middle-aged man paused slightly, then held up his finger...

He hesitated a bit, but still spoke up: "Brother, do you have any cigarettes?"

Zhou Yan gripped his shotgun tightly; he was definitely doing this on purpose!

"Don't misunderstand! I don't smoke! I'm just trying to demonstrate something to you..." Seeing Zhou Yan's hostile expression, looking like he was ready to open fire at the slightest disagreement, the middle-aged man hurriedly explained.

Zhou Yan took out that pack of "Eagle" brand cigarettes and tossed one to him.

The middle-aged man flicked the cigarette up with his fingers in a very cool manner, and the cigarette flew up and landed directly in his mouth.

The middle-aged man held out his finger and rubbed it against the tip of the cigarette; very quickly, a small flame rose up...

The firelight cast a faint, eerie glow on Zhou Yan's expression...

Seeing that the expressions of the original inhabitants in the room didn't show much surprise, it was clear that they had long known about the middle-aged man "possessing special skills"...

"Don't get me wrong, brother, I know my limits! A flame this big is already my limit! However!"

The middle-aged man gently flicked the ash, his movements extremely practiced.

"Damn, didn't you say you don't smoke?" Zhou Yan asked, staring at his hand as he flicked the ash.

The middle-aged man was stunned. He raised his hand, looked at the cigarette held between his fingers, and said: "I said I don't smoke, but I didn't say I don't know how to smoke?!"

Zhou Yan waved his hand, ignoring the man's sophistry...

"Tell me, how did you get this ability!"

"That was the third week after the torrential rain. The girl before you is my adopted daughter. I am infertile, so I was fortunate enough to be able to adopt her. Oh, right, you might not know! Our country's regulations stipulate that for cross-gender adoption, the age difference must be over forty years... But my medical condition is very special, and because of that certificate, I was able to adopt her without the forty-year age gap..."

The middle-aged man smiled nonchalantly, not caring at all about how others viewed him.

He pointed to his crotch.

"Before I was twelve years old, I was a girl..."

Zhou Yan blinked; his brain couldn't process this information for a moment...

Wang Zeyu: "Huh?"

Li Meng: "Huh?"

Su Yanqiu and Su Yanyue: "Huh?" × 2

Wu Yang: "This guy! What is he saying?!"