Lu Yan returned to the hotel at 6 a.m.
Xu Guanyue's expression still seemed uneasy, "You just killed the security guards like that... What if someone finds out?"
"It won't happen," Lu Yan's expression remained calm.
Due to the terrain near the beach, there weren't many surveillance cameras. Thanks to the system, Lu Yan had been in blind spots of monitoring all along.
Xu Guanyue hesitated, "Did headquarters only send you alone?"
He didn't know Lu Yan's actual level, but the excessively handsome appearance always made Xu Guanyue worry.
Lu Yan smiled, "Don't worry, destroying this place, I can handle it alone."
He rarely smiled, so when he did, it seemed a bit forced.
Lu Yan was the epitome of a winner in life – good-looking, highly educated, and competent at work. According to conventional standards, he should lead a smooth life. However, Lu Yan was well aware that he was just following the template of a human, living a predictable life.
Originally, he was just completing a task, far from being happy.
In his life, happy moments were scarce. Otherwise, the things he saw in the mermaid's song wouldn't be Tang Xunan's tail.
Lu Yan opened the window and returned to his room.
From his suitcase, he took out the piece of human skin he had scavenged from Chen Anzhi. This small piece of skin temporarily granted Lu Yan the talent of dream entry, but the process of peeling it off was somewhat bloody.
Fortunately, with talent 167 regeneration, the skin tissue cut from his hand would regenerate in less than half a minute.
The pattern on the human skin changed. Originally a mysterious starry map, it now turned into a long black eye.
System: [The pattern has always been random. The deity has personality splits, and different patterns represent his current mental state.]
Lu Yan once again stuck the human skin to his hand.
Compared to the last time, this time his hand felt a chilling sensation.
He closed his eyes. Entered the dream. Meanwhile, the eyeball on the back of his hand spun wildly and eventually transformed into a real eye.
System: [Brother, you're late. He already has another evolutionary sequence on him.]
The eyeball seemed skeptical. It bulged from Lu Yan's hand, wanting to wander around.
As a result, Lu Yan's palm suddenly split open. A long red tongue curled into a fist and slapped the wandering eyeball.
The eyeball was knocked around, bloodshot and helpless, finally shrinking back onto Lu Yan's hand.
Wang Yu still felt dissatisfied, unleashing a flurry of punches. It forcefully knocked the eyeball back into the tattoo, then contentedly retreated.
The system couldn't help but shudder, [...The fish with a grudge is really terrifying.]
In the dream, Lu Yan saw a gloomy black.
A candle flickered to life in the palm of his hand. This candlelight was the key to summoning the other souls.
In this building, all the white souls still asleep followed this warm light.
For ordinary people, entering dreams was much easier than for the awakened.
The white souls chattered, full of curiosity. "Who are you?"
"Where is this?"
"Wow, my hands have become semi-transparent!"
Lu Yan placed the candlelight on the table in front of him. He reached out and saw the color of his own soul. Black. But strangely bright, with a warm yellow halo around the edges, like burning fire.
Thinking of Chen Anzhi, his demeanor and tone changed, "I am the island god of Merman Island. Here, isolated from the world, mermaids live happily by the shore. However, one day, the establishment of the Merman Club changed everything."
"This concerns the lives of each of you. I hope you can remember..."
Lu Yan telling the story seemed like a charlatan.
Dozens of white souls listened to the dirty secrets of the Merman Club. Many souls flared up in anger, "This is too despicable! We will leave the island tomorrow and expose them!"
Lu Yan said, "After you wake up, you may not remember. I can only convey the message this way. Beware of the Merman Club."
He wasn't a mental-type awakened, and conducting a dream entry consumed much more than imagined.
Therefore, dozens of minutes later, the dream entry ended, and Lu Yan fell into a deep sleep.
...
...
The bodies of the two security guards were eventually discovered by the fish pond.
The first to discover them was a morning jogger circling the bay.
He saw two sets of clothes damply stuck to the beach from a distance.
Thinking that someone was drying clothes by the sea, he walked over and was scared half to death when he lifted them.
The pants of the corpses were hanging around their knees, bitten in places, leaving only skeletons. A bit of tender flesh clung to the snow-white bones.
On the rocks beside them, the mermaids revealed gentle smiles. There seemed to be traces of blood in their fingernail gaps.
The jogger, trembling, took out his phone to call the police but found no signal.
Here, the only two phones that could be reached were the customer service center of the Merman Club and the landline phones in different guest rooms.
The captain of the Merman Club's security team received the notification, instantly dumbfounded, "What's going on with these two? Two people with a combined spiritual power threshold of 3000, still got bitten to death by mermaids with a contamination level below 500?"
With a spiritual power threshold of over a thousand, they might be just e or d level in the headquarters' primary titles. But don't forget, as the captain of the special operations department's seventh team, Lin Sinan's spiritual power threshold hadn't even reached 2000.
Back then, the fish-man he encountered on the street was only a little over 500 in pollution value.
The captain checked the surveillance footage. These two people went from the hotel to the seaside, and there was no one else on the way.
All he could see was a group of mermaids seeming to revel, biting and gnawing at the corpses of the two guards. They even kicked the heads like balls.
If it weren't for the jogger's discovery, this would have been a minor incident, just two waste guards who couldn't control their lower bodies being killed by pollutants. Compensate some condolence money to their families, and it would be over.
But unfortunately, it was discovered by a jogger, and a large crowd gathered.
The news quickly spread among the guests on the first floor. Many people suddenly lost interest in admiring the beautiful mermaids, clamoring for a refund and return.
The lobby manager stepped forward with a smile, "I'm very sorry for this accident. But our mermaids won't harm the guests. These two guards violated the rules and tried to steal from the mermaids at night, and that's why they were attacked by the mermaids."
"Please rest assured; from now on, all the mermaids will be accompanied by our staff for everyone to enjoy. We have received notice, and this trip is completely free of charge. One million will be refunded to everyone's payment accounts within seven working days after returning." The staff was not worried about what the guests would do after returning.
In the enchanting melody of the mermaids, all they would remember is the delightful half-month vacation spent here. Logically, after receiving a free million, most tourists would choose to accept the outcome. At most, one or two dissatisfied individuals might protest. However, this time, even after he spoke, dozens of people still surrounded him, insisting on returning.
Without exception, all these people were individuals Lu Yan had seen in his dreams. Upon waking up, they didn't recall what happened in the dream, but they harbored an inexplicable hostility towards the mermaid club. Surprisingly, even some prepared mermaids like Shang Zhou and Ma Jie were among them.
The manager's expression darkened, "Do you know how much it costs for a round trip on a cruise? As long as you can immediately come up with fifty million, I'll have the crew prepare for departure."
These gray-tailed customers were considered successful individuals in normal society. Otherwise, they wouldn't be willing to spend a million for a trip. However, immediately pooling fifty million was beyond their capacity.
"You're taking advantage of your size. Where does a cruise round trip cost so much?!" A customer retorted arrogantly.
The manager lifted his head proudly, "Then find another ship, or swim out yourself."
In their eyes, these gray-tailed customers were just meaty fish reserves. Maintaining superficial respect was already quite challenging for them.
This scene turned even the tourists who were initially satisfied with the handling of the situation disgusted. This displeased the boss on the seventh floor.
"Tell those security idiots to control themselves. I don't want this kind of thing to happen a second time," he remarked, then leaped into the large swimming pool.
Twenty screens on the poolside tracked the performances of the prepared mermaids. These mermaids were ordinary people, only their appearances were appealing; their dissected souls were uninteresting. Some were keen on fame and fortune, some were simple tourists, and some even slept until 1 pm.
The boss was extremely disappointed and disinterestedly turned off the screens. Fortunately, to prevent the gold-tailed customers on the seventh floor from getting bored, the boss had already arranged different scripts.
Moreover, starting from the second week, these prepared mermaids would begin to deform. Watching the desperate expressions of these people would be a source of joy.
Lu Yan was somewhat worried that the hotel's cleaning staff might search through his room when he wasn't present. Therefore, he decided to carry a dagger with him and lock the bow and other items in his suitcase, then hide it underwater.
On the third day, according to the script, there would be a beach bonfire party, and the mermaids would be driven to the shore for the fortunate "prepared mermaids" to witness. Panic could quickly raise the degree of mutation.
Lu Yan practiced the expression of panic alone in his room several times before mastering it. The bonfire party featured mermaid performances, and Lu Yan's audience seat was arranged on the outermost periphery.
The proximity to the shore allowed Lu Yan to feel the waves brushing against his ankles. Soon, he felt his ankle grabbed by a hand a few meters underwater. According to the script, he should fall to the ground, frantically call for security. However, due to the dirty ground, Lu Yan stiffened for almost half a minute without any action, causing anxiety for Xu Guanyue hiding behind the rocks.
The system comforted him, "[Endure, host, you are someone destined for great things. Think about the streetlight capitalist, think about other suffering fish people!]"
Lu Yan gritted his teeth, fell to the ground, letting the seawater mixed with mud stain his entire body. His heart suddenly erupted with intense resentment, an unprecedented hatred towards the streetlight capitalist.
Security quickly arrived, expressing concern, "What happened, sir?"
"There are monsters, monsters in the sea." Lu Yan grabbed the security guard's arm, looking extremely panicked, pointing to the sea, "Fish-headed, human-bodied. Definitely pollutants, very scary."
Lu Yan tried a few times but couldn't squeeze out tears, so he lowered his head, trembling, and hugged his arms.
"There's nothing in the sea. You must have seen it wrong, sir." The security personnel's voice was soft, covering him with a windproof blanket, "Your mood doesn't seem good. Shall I escort you back to the hotel?"
Lu Yan obediently nodded.
A pitiful and delicate beauty, a beauty with a touch of brokenness, always more appealing than a cold-faced one, especially when the seawater soaked the thin shirt, outlining the contours of the skin.
The boss brought his face close to the screen, licking his lips with an infatuated gaze, "He's really beautiful, isn't he?"
This person would surely become the most perfect mermaid of the year.
Fortunately, Lu Yan couldn't see.
Escorted by security, he returned to the hotel, closed the door, and took out disinfectant spray to douse himself. The feeling was nauseating and revolting.
If it weren't for the unclean water source in the room and the fish genes, Lu Yan would have wanted to take a bath immediately. He wanted to soak in the water for a few days.
He lifted the glass cover under the bed, jumped into the sea, and scales emerged from his arms, covering his face.
These days, Lu Yan had been helping the fish people reduce their degree of mutation. Whether it was due to this or another reason, his deformation, although controllable, became more apparent.
Recently, when Lu Yan woke up, he even felt an itch on his waist. Opening the blanket, he could see some golden scales.
The initial mermaid, after two days of rest, had almost turned its fish head back into a human head. Fortunately, it still retained the ability to live underwater.
These fish people were very attached to Lu Yan, just like the little dragon girls to the Dragon Maiden in Dragon Maiden Lake.
Looking from the bay, Mermaid Island remained lively.
Thinking that he would soon be able to kill them all, Lu Yan's mood finally improved.
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