Chapter 53 Zhuang Yan

Zhou Yan could swear!

He absolutely did not mean it; after all, it was all water outside right now, and the mosquitoes were ridiculously numerous!

A huge mosquito had been buzzing around that woman, and in the end, it actually landed gently on her thigh.

Zhou Yan just wanted to wave his hand to drive the mosquito away, but it turned out that the damned mosquito was exceptionally bold!

Seeing that the woman was about to be bitten by the mosquito, and considering that in this day and age no one could guarantee whether mosquitoes had mutated or not!

He had no choice but to reach out, attempting to drive it away.

Lowering his head, just as he had reached out his hand and was trying to aim at that audacious mosquito...

His wandering gaze happened to lock eyes with those charming eyes.

She was awake!

She was probably only a bit over one meter sixty, and when she reacted, she directly wrapped her legs around Zhou Yan.

Her fair, tender thighs instantly locked tightly around Zhou Yan's waist with immense force, and the two of them were instantly tangled together!

"Ah... Mmph! Mmph... Mmph..."

Zhou Yan covered her mouth with his left hand to prevent her from screaming.

From the very beginning, Zhou Yan had worried that she would try to control him to take his gun, so he had long since stored the gun away in the system and didn't dare to take it out.

Zhou Yan had been subjected to all kinds of inhuman combat training since he was a child, and almost by reflex, his right hand tightly gripped the woman's throat...

With her vital point instantly grabbed by someone, and the immense strength of the man before her being something she simply couldn't resist!

She suddenly gave up struggling, and the tense energy in her body instantly relaxed.

Because struggling was futile and would only easily incite the evildoer's anger, making her suffer needlessly before death...

The two of them were face to face, very close.

Zhou Yan saw that under the moonlight, her face was beautiful, carrying a delicate, pitiful fragility...

Two lines of clear tears slowly flowed down that beautiful little face.

She closed her eyes, quietly waiting for death to arrive...

Zhou Yan examined the exquisite face beneath him that had given up resistance and was "single-mindedly waiting for death."

Moreover, the closer he got to her, the richer that jasmine scent became...

It wasn't the kind of perfume smell that made people dizzy...

Zhou Yan sniffed hard twice, and the woman's face suddenly turned red!

Then she started struggling frantically...

But it was ultimately futile...

Her strength was completely unable to contend with Zhou Yan! She was pressed honestly beneath him, unable to move...

She was clearly living quite well; before the Su Yanqiu and Su Yanyue sisters had moved into his home, they had been very disheveled, but she clearly had water and food.

Her body was clean, and she had flesh where she should have flesh.

In fact, in this position, Zhou Yan could even see a hint of fat on her lower belly.

Judging by what Bai Qi had implied, this "big sister" didn't sound like a good person at all.

How could she just surrender like this?

What about her ability to control living creatures?

"Why don't you try using that ability of yours to control others?" Zhou Yan whispered softly into her ear.

The woman opened her eyes in panic; she didn't understand why her biggest secret had been spoken out by him just like that?

How did he know?

Seeing that the woman seemed to have something to say, Zhou Yan loosened the hand covering her mouth.

The woman's voice trembled: "My ability has no effect on humans... I can only control animals... But how did you know I have superpowers?"

If it had been useful, she wouldn't have had to surrender and wait for death...

Seeing that the woman didn't seem to be lying, Zhou Yan couldn't help but frown and ponder the feeling from just a moment ago.

"What is your name?" Zhou Yan stood up and looked at the woman before him.

"Zhuang Yan..." With her pretty face, she looked pitifully at the dark shadow by the bed; she didn't have shadow ability and couldn't see in the dark.

"What... do you want to do? I can talk to you about anything, but can you stay a little further away from me?" She was very nervous, shrinking continuously toward the inside of the bed, trying to get away from Zhou Yan.

"I am particularly interested in your ability. I want to know how you obtained this ability to control merfolk..." Zhou Yan sat on the edge of the bed as if he were an acquaintance.

"Can we make a deal?" Zhuang Yan spoke softly, her voice gentle, wearing a pitiful expression.

Zhou Yan now had a very high resistance to beauty.

After all, Su Yanqiu and Su Yanyue were both peerless beauties of the human world...

So Zhou Yan rejected her temptation and issued a threat:

"Be good and tell me everything I want to know. If you're not good... I'll throw you out to feed the fish!" Zhou Yan's tone was flat, revealing no joy or anger, but it was precisely this flat narration that made Zhuang Yan feel a trace of fear.

What a sigma male, not a gentleman at all!

Zhuang Yan put away that pitiful appearance and straightened her messy white lace nightgown.

Her entire temperament changed instantly, looking like a completely different person from the pitiful, teary-eyed woman just moments ago...

Smoothing the stray hairs on her forehead, she slowly revealed the secret of evolution:

"The fish in the water have a small white stone in their brains. Eating it or absorbing it might grant this ability. I have tested it...

The probability is extremely low; so far, only two have appeared!

One is me, and another girl also succeeded, but she... died at the hands of the merfolk..."

Zhou Yan's heart stirred; could the girl she was talking about be Bai Qi?

Bai Qi had entered Building 16 from underwater, and looking from the water's surface, it did indeed look like she had died in the water...

"How do you know she also obtained that magical ability?"

"Anyone who ate that stone and didn't obtain that ability died... Although she never displayed her ability, I am certain that she must have obtained some kind of ability! That stone was eaten by her, and for several days afterward, she was dazed and confused; one look and you could tell she thought she had gone crazy..."

Zhuang Yan's expression was flat, but she gave an answer that slightly startled Zhou Yan.

Seeing the undisguised killing intent in Zhou Yan's eyes, Zhuang Yan hurriedly explained:

"Don't misunderstand me; I didn't use them for experiments... Not every fish has that kind of small stone in its brain. So far, I have only obtained three...

I also didn't know that eating that stone would kill people..."

Damn, Bai Qi surviving was truly lucky!

Zhou Yan looked curious: "How did you know it was the effect of that small stone? Why did you choose to eat that stone at the time?"

Zhuang Yan shook her wrist at Zhou Yan; on her slender wrist were several strings of different styles of collectible beads.

"I like collectibles. I usually have several strings of beads made of 'fish-startle stones'; those are the fish's hearing stones, which can be understood as the fish's ear bones...

Although the fish in the water cannot be eaten, it doesn't say they can't be played with, right?"

"I caught a big fish and prepared to extract its 'fish-startle stone', but I discovered that there was a small, glowing stone in the fish's brain that was quite pretty...

I wore that small stone on my body, and within a few days, it dissolved. The dissolved liquid soaked into my skin, and only a black, withered, and cracked piece of rotten bone was left on my wrist..."

The woman waved her hand, indicating that this was how she obtained her ability.

"..." Zhou Yan.

This round, you collectible enthusiasts really scored big!

Looking at it this way, were the three underlings in his home just that unlucky?

At that time, they only dared to catch fish with low mutation levels to make dried fish. It seems that only fish with severe mutations have a probability of having that white stone in their bodies. If they had been bolder back then and dared to catch some severely mutated fish, perhaps they would have already embarked on this path of evolution...

"Tell me about the girl who obtained the ability..."

"She's already dead, what is there to talk about?" Zhuang Yan asked in surprise.

"Speak!"

"Xiao Bai, her name is Bai Qi... She was a college student, 22 years old this year. She was a nice person, quite well-behaved..."

"That's it?" Zhou Yan tilted his head and looked at the woman.