Apocalypse: I rescued the big boss with millions of supplies

Chapter Forty-Eight: The Mermaid Shi Qing

Upon witnessing this bizarre scene, Bai Zhi gasped in surprise, her usually composed demeanor vanishing, replaced by a flicker of fear in her eyes: "This...this can't be a water ghost, can it?"

Bai Zhi couldn't help but recall scenes from horror movies she had seen before: pale to bluish-purple makeup, blood-soaked limbs... The more she thought about it, the more terrifying it became. "Is it trying to find someone to take its place?"

Folk tales say that water ghosts cannot be reincarnated normally. They can only be reincarnated by dragging another person into the water and drowning them, so that the other person can become the next water ghost in their place.

Long Yangyang: "If it's a water ghost, how do you explain zombies? A mutated species of zombies?" She really didn't understand why the other person suddenly thought of something like fantasy.

"Get out of the car first." Fu Muyu opened the car door first. Regardless of whether the other party was human or ghost, since they had followed, they were probably enemies rather than friends. It would be disadvantageous for the fight if everyone was crammed into the car.

The others followed closely behind, opening their car doors and getting out, watching the uninvited guests on the sea with wariness.

Her long, azure hair moved without wind, spreading across the sea surface; her skin was snow-white; her eyes were a deep, serene blue, like the ocean; her face was exquisitely beautiful, in no way inferior to Fu Muyu's.

Upon noticing Fu Muyu and his group's gaze, ripples spread across the river beneath him, the waves expanding outwards in concentric circles. To everyone's astonishment, they discovered that his lower body, submerged in the river, was actually a shimmering silver fish tail—he was a mermaid?!

"Mermaid!" Qiu Ling was still an eight-year-old child. Upon seeing such a dreamlike existence, he exclaimed in surprise. However, he knew that things were different now, so he quickly covered his mouth after shouting. But his bright eyes, looking at the mermaid, revealed his excitement.

The other party seemed to be dissatisfied with Qiu Ling's address, or perhaps they were hostile to humans. Upon hearing Qiu Ling's voice, a huge water ball was thrown towards their location.

"Quickly, dodge!" Yun Cangshu pulled Bai Zhi back hastily, while Fu Muyu quickly picked up Qiu Ling and flipped over to avoid the water ball.

Long Yangyang channeled her supernatural power, and the seedling that had been quietly resting on her wrist instantly transformed into a rose vine, which she lashed out at the mermaid in the water. The mermaid sidestepped and dodged the mutated rose vine, which landed on the river surface, splashing up a large wave.

Seeing that her first attack had failed, Long Yangyang followed up with dozens of spatial blades, slashing densely at her opponent, but they were easily blocked by walls of water. "Brother Fu!"

Fu Muyu's cold eyes darkened, and an extreme chill spread from his feet, instantly freezing the water wall of the opponent. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Long Yangyang used her superpower to create corn bombs and threw them at the mermaid. In an instant, the river was filled with the sound of bombs, and countless waves rolled on the surface of the river.

"Did we win?" Bai Zhi asked, looking at the now calm river surface.

"They've hidden underwater." Long Yangyang felt the rose vine in her hand still sinking, guessing that the other party had already dived underwater the moment the corn bomb exploded.

She had Miaomiao catch the mermaid, and she could feel Miaomiao's rose vines growing wildly in the water, "glug glug—"

Bubbles suddenly appeared on the calm water surface, and the next second, a silvery-white light leaped out of the water, and a slender figure jumped out of the water and floated in mid-air, its silvery-white scales shimmering in the sunlight.

"Boom—" Thick green vines, as thick as saplings, followed closely behind, bursting out of the water, their sharp green leaves swaying in the air.

Then the straight rose vine turned a corner and charged fiercely toward the mermaid. Just as it was about to reach the mermaid, the tip of the mutated rose vine bloomed like a flower bud, and five emerald green vines emerged from the top, like a fishing net, and headed toward the mermaid.

"Ah—" The mermaid's red lips parted slightly, and a clear and melodious sound suddenly rang in everyone's ears. The rose vine net that was rushing towards the mermaid seemed to be hit by something and turned into thin strands that fell from the sky.

“Sonic attack, Yangyang, be careful,” Fu Muyu warned.

The mermaid lowered her head, her gaze fixed on Fu Muyu. "Beast Tamer."

A five-meter-thick giant wave appeared in front of the mermaid like a waterfall. The mermaid stretched out her right index finger and gently touched the giant wave. The giant wave instantly transformed into a water sleeve and swept towards Fu Muyu.

Just as Fu Muyu was about to freeze the giant wave, he suddenly sensed Yin Zhu's presence, "Hiss—"

A thick black fog appeared out of nowhere, gradually enveloping the giant wave. Each wave was swallowed up by the fog the moment it touched it. After the giant wave disappeared, a hundred-meter-long silver python stood in front of Fu Muyu, its dark blue eyes watching the mermaid warily.

"Useless." The mermaid lowered her eyes and glanced disdainfully at the mutated megalodon chasing after Silver Candle on the river.

Qiu Ling quickly ran between Long Yangyang and Fu Muyu and whispered a reminder: "The Megalodon is coming. The beautiful mermaid is a merman, at the peak of level five, similar to Miao Miao, with water-based abilities."

Long Yangyang frowned. In their previous encounter, her opponent had easily broken through Miao Miao's vine net with just a shout. If they really fought, Miao Miao would probably be no match for her.

If Miao Miao can't catch the other, she can't suck its flesh and blood.

As for the hallucinogenic and dizzying effects of floral fragrance, there are many legends about merfolk. They are said to be a species that is also good at bewitching enemies, so Miao Miao's fragrance may be basically ineffective against merfolk.

Upon hearing the merman speak, everyone looked at him in surprise. Since he was a legendary creature, it wasn't impossible for him to speak human language.

"Xiao Fei, is there something wrong with my memory? I don't remember there being any merfolk in the book." Long Yangyang secretly contacted Xiao Fei. Was it just her imagination? Why was the world in the book getting stranger and stranger? It was one thing for a super high-level BOSS to appear in the early stages of the apocalypse, but what was with this merfolk?

[Yangyang, I'm not sure either. Maybe the world filled in the gaps on its own. After all, the laws of nature are incomplete, so the emergence of new species isn't impossible.]

"Then what do you think is the purpose of the merfolk attacking us? It can't be that they just don't like humans and want to exterminate the human race, right?" Long Yangyang asked.

[The target should be the Beastmaster.]

Xiao Fei explained to Long Yangyang that mermaids usually take a thousand years to reach adulthood, and the one in front of you is probably not an adult yet; it's a mermaid cub.

Without the protection of their people, it is extremely difficult for beast cubs to safely reach adulthood, but with a Beastmaster, it is different.

The Beast Tamer's special ability can not only alleviate the energy surge during the advancement of the Beast Race, but also, for races like the Merfolk with inherited lineages, the Beast Tamer can stimulate their Beast Race bloodline, increase its concentration, and increase the possibility of bloodline reversion to its ancestral form.

Xiao Fei summarized: "I think this merman cub is about to reach adulthood. Without the protection of its clan, it's highly likely that it has Fu Muyu's talent as a beast tamer to survive into adulthood."

Upon hearing this, Long Yangyang grabbed Fu Muyu's arm, looked warily at the merman in the air, and emphasized, "Brother Fu, this is mine."