Chapter 57 Has it always been this brave?

The fire on the main body of Building 17 was completely unstoppable, and those merfolk were hiding under the water, avoiding the burning gasoline on the surface.

Once the gasoline burned out, the merfolk would launch another fierce attack!

In Building 17, those girls busy on the sunny side also realized that their home seemed about to be gone.

The fire was intense, and the smoke was gradually becoming noticeable.

Glancing back inadvertently, everyone discovered the raging thick smoke behind the building...

They were a bit panicked, but under the direction of one of the girls, everyone obviously accelerated their construction speed.

Zhuang Yan was getting a little anxious.

The more anxious she got, the calmer Zhou Yan became.

To offer help in a time of need, you have to do it when it's cold; the colder it is, the better! It's best if she's about to freeze to death, and you go over to deliver the charcoal—that's when the effect is optimal.

She must be made to remember today; she must be made to know whose hands saved her life.

Indeed, the merfolk coming up behind had very clear targets. That "Sea King" could indeed, as Zhuang Yan said, sense her specific location. The merfolk in front were dodging the flames on the walls and running around aimlessly, but the ones that had just climbed out from underwater behind them had a clear purpose, heading straight for Zhou Yan and Zhuang Yan's location, though they would fall off due to the large fire as they climbed.

From a certain perspective, merfolk were more like the "zombies" in Western disaster movies—they lacked logical thinking but were extremely fixated on human flesh and blood. Yet, right now, all the merfolk seemed not to care about the fresh "flesh and blood" on the water surface.

They were persistently climbing up toward the 11th Floor!

Watching the flames on the exterior of the building burn up, those merfolk were still foolishly climbing up the building, one stepping on top of another.

Honestly, at this rate, in a little while, the fire would almost be extinguished by the slime on those merfolk.

"Where is your gun?" Zhuang Yan grabbed Zhou Yan's hand and asked anxiously.

"I left it with my woman for self-defense." Zhou Yan said this deliberately.

"..." Zhuang Yan.

What kind of humblebrag is this? In our building, self-defense means tying scissors to mop handles; how come your building uses guns for self-defense?

"Aren't you afraid that once she has the gun, she'll seize your supplies?"

"We like each other, and besides, my supplies are all in my heart. Do you want to come in and take a look?"

Zhuang Yan covered her forehead and sighed, saying, "What time do you think it is! Stop flirting, and besides, your cheesy pickup lines aren't appropriate either!"

"..." Zhou Yan.

See, sometimes when you're telling the absolute truth, people just don't believe you!

"You're really stupid for leaving the gun behind. Don't go back; I reckon you won't be able to go back anyway! Just stay here and live with me!" Zhuang Yan patted Zhou Yan on the shoulder.

"Bullshit! You are not allowed to sow discord in our family of five!"

"You already have children? Then she shouldn't go as far as to kill you..."

"Not children, it's that I have four women..." Zhou Yan was as frank as ever.

"?" Zhuang Yan.

"So, I didn't even make it to the rank of mistress?" Zhuang Yan asked, surprised.

In this day and age, with sufficient supplies and firearms in hand, having two women was actually quite normal...

"Then you left the gun with one of the women; aren't you afraid they'll get jealous and cause trouble at home?"

"Absolutely not!" Zhou Yan said confidently.

"First, Su Yanqiu is extremely rational; she knows that right now, guns, supplies, and everything else are not as important as Zhou Yan himself."

"Secondly, with Su Yanqiu's intelligence, she keeps the others firmly under control."

Zhuang Yan didn't want to see his smug look, so she turned and walked away.

"Crack!"

A clap of thunder boomed.

"Oh no!" Zhuang Yan shouted, quickly steadying herself against the corridor wall and running to the other side of the building.

Her original plan was that once the merfolk attacked the 11th Floor again, it would trigger those simple traps on the 9th floor.

The diesel stored inside would flow down along the main body of the building, and once ignited, it could block the merfolk's advance, buying time to allow those girls to have enough time to escape to Building 18.

She never expected that it would start to rain...

For the past two months or so, every rain had been heavy, and the rainwater could not be touched, otherwise there was a risk of mutation.

Seeing the weather change, the girls outside immediately turned around and ran back.

Soon, a torrential downpour fell.

The diesel on the walls had already been flowing down the main body of the building and was running low; with the heavy rain pouring down, it was extinguished before long.

Qingyang is located in the south, and most of the buildings in the city area have no insulation layers on the exterior. It was fortunate there was no insulation; if there were, Zhou Yan and Zhuang Yan would probably be cooked by now.

The open-air areas that everyone else avoided like the plague had now become a place of revelry for those merfolk.

Zhou Yan also saw the "Sea King" as he had hoped.

No, a Sea King should be counted as a single fish.

The merfolk began to gather on the floating bridge built by the girls.

That Sea King was floating on the water surface.

Its level of evolution far exceeded the other merfolk; apart from its humanoid shape, almost no human characteristics could be seen.

Its body was covered in dark green scales, and a row of sharp spikes on its spine was connected by membranes, resembling evolved fish fins. Its two light purple, mung bean-sized eyes were staring fixedly in Zhuang Yan's direction.

Zhuang Yan was just about to remind Zhou Yan that the leader of the merfolk had appeared...

She only saw Zhou Yan wave his hand, holding a long black case in his arms that he had pulled out from who knows where.

"This Sea King doesn't have much intelligence, does it? Doesn't it know that humanity's greatest strength is firearms? Is it always this brave?"