"The flood is coming, why are you not staying home but coming to the garage?"
Liang Yuan shook his head. He didn’t take the car and instead swam in another direction to continue collecting cars.
As he was swimming, a group of crabs, over half a meter high, suddenly scuttled towards him.
Liang Yuan hurriedly swam behind a pillar to hide.
There were about ten crabs, all moving sideways together along the driveway.
Seeing them moving in unison, like a military formation, Liang Yuan was amazed.
"How can these crabs move in such a coordinated formation?"
Filled with wonder, Liang Yuan hid and observed from the shadows.
Soon, he saw the crabs reach a car, smash its windows, and then a smaller crab crawled inside. After a short while, it emerged again.
Amazingly, its claws were holding two packs of wafer biscuits!
Liang Yuan was stunned; the crabs were searching for food inside the cars!
"No way, how could these crabs eat human food?"
"And they found the wafer biscuits so precisely?"
With surprise and a heightened sense of alert, Liang Yuan watched them smash windows and search for food one by one.
Then they moved uniformly towards the other end of the garage.
Liang Yuan followed them silently.
After about ten minutes, Liang Yuan grew anxious, realizing that more than half of his superpower energy was already consumed.
If he continued on, once his energy ran out, all his evolved organs would revert to their original state.
Just then, the crabs stopped and suddenly squeezed through a safe door!
Liang Yuan’s heart skipped a beat: "A safe door! Someone is controlling these crabs!"
Liang Yuan immediately thought that someone must be manipulating the crabs to search for food.
But how did that person do it?
Liang Yuan quickly followed and looked at the signs around the safe door.
The flood had caused significant peeling on the wall paint.
Faintly visible on the wall was an inscription: Building 88, Unit 3.
"So this is already Building 88?"
Liang Yuan was startled. Between Building 88 and Building 76, there was barely 300 meters, with Buildings 86 and 87 in between.
Liang Yuan hadn’t realized he had swum so far underwater.
"This underground garage was quite convoluted even before the flood. Without the signs, it’s even more confusing now."
Silently lamenting, Liang Yuan didn’t dare waste more time, swiftly swimming upwards.
As he ascended, the pressure within his body changed constantly, and the osmotic pressure of his cells continuously adapted to the external pressure.
Around the twelfth floor, most of the crabs squeezed into room 1205.
Inside that room, one window was fitted with security bars. After the crabs entered, a half-meter octopus crawled out of the living room, locking the door behind them.
The octopus then gathered all the food, stuffed it into a net bag, and swiftly left the room.
From the anthropomorphic expression in the octopus’s eyes, Liang Yuan sensed that it was definitely being controlled by a human!
He quickly caught up, watching the octopus with the net bag swim upwards.
Soon, they reached around the 14th floor.
This area was slightly higher than Building 76, so the 14th floor wasn’t completely submerged.
The octopus entered a room on the 14th floor, put the net bag down, and quietly dove back into the water.
Liang Yuan didn’t follow the octopus this time, instead hiding in the room on the 14th floor.
He scanned the surroundings and found that most people were fishing on the 15th floor.
The 14th floor was half-submerged, with no one around.
Most of the fishermen were men, with few women.
They all maintained cautious expressions, no one talking to each other.
Except for those who came in groups.
"It seems Building 88 has some powerful person overseeing it, maintaining a certain order."
"I wonder if this person is also controlling the crabs and the octopus."
"No, probably not. If this person was in charge, there would be no need to go through all this trouble, using the octopus and crabs to search for food underwater."
Curiosity filled Liang Yuan’s heart; who was this person?
What role did they play in this building?
After waiting a few minutes, the sound of water splashing suddenly reached his ears from outside the door.
Liang Yuan crouched in the water, hiding himself. He expanded his spiritual power, observing everything.
Soon, a figure wearing a black baseball cap, a black mask, and a black T-shirt, slipped into the room. f.(r)eew ebnov\ll.com
In the dim room, the person dressed in black was hard to notice without the sound of splashing.
Hidden in the water, Liang Yuan saw everything clearly using his spiritual power.
Despite the loose-fitting T-shirt, he could tell from the prominent swell of her chest that this person was a woman.
However, he couldn’t see her face.
The woman entered the room, cautiously glancing around. Once certain no one was there, she went straight to the corner, fumbled in the water for a while, and quickly picked up the net bag left by the octopus.
She was delighted: "Found it."
Liang Yuan recognized the slight excitement in her voice.
"She should be quite young," he thought.
Choosing not to greet her abruptly, as it might cause misunderstandings in this situation, he watched as the girl in the black T-shirt left with the net bag.
Liang Yuan slowly rose from the water, ready to explore this Building 88.
Suddenly, a scream and angry shouts echoed from upstairs.
Then he heard someone sneer coldly.
"Grab her, she has food in her bag!"
"Damn it, I knew it. She never goes out fishing but always has food. She must have hidden it here!"
"Wang Ling’Er, hand it over. Don’t make us boys use force."
"Xiaoling’Er, considering we’re neighbors, don’t make me, Brother Zhao, use force on you."
Several men leered; Liang Yuan frowned, thinking that the girl had been careless, getting herself noticed so quickly.