The Great Flood of the End of Time: Female Neighbor Comes to Borrow Food

Chapter 653 News from Lingyu Island
"Lingyu Island! You lot are all from Lingyu Island?"

Liang Yuan was overjoyed and immediately asked, "Where are Wang Ling'er and Wang Yu'er? How did you end up in that dungeon?"

The young man named Ye Nan choked up and said, "Mr. Liang, please save our island lord and the others."

"They are now trapped in the abyss!"

Liang Yuan was immediately startled: "What? The Abyss?"

Liang Yuan learned the word "abyss" from the military.

Like the Abyss, the Abyss is a special area formed after those giant islands of corpses floating in the sky sank into the water.

In these areas, the creatures that originally lived on the floating islands will rapidly evolve, adapt to the external environment, and form special parasitic beasts.

These creatures are already incredibly powerful, and once they adapt to the marine environment, they will evolve into terrifying behemoths.

It is in no way weaker than the giant floating islands in the sky.

Liang Yuan had no idea that there was an abyss near the mouth of the dark abyss!

"Tell me everything that happened after you left Yangshan," Liang Yuan immediately asked Ye Nan.

With tears welling up in his eyes, Ye Nan said, "After we left Yangshan, we headed straight for the Linjiang estuary."

"Unexpectedly, halfway through its journey, the spirit turtle suddenly sensed something underwater and, beyond the island lord's control, dived into the water."

"As soon as we entered the water, the island lord immediately ordered us to activate the barrier to resist the high pressure underwater, while she kept urging the spirit turtle to leave the water."

"But the spirit turtle seemed to have gone mad, completely out of the island lord's control, and kept diving down until it reached an underwater island area."

"The underwater island is surrounded by a barrier, and inside there are various powerful mutated beasts, as well as a large number of mutated fruits and other precious resources."

"The island owner suspects that this may be a sunken floating island."

"Everyone was tempted by the abundant resources on the island, so they decided to go and take a look at the floating island."

"Unexpectedly, a terrifying horde of mutated beasts dwelled on the island, and the spirit turtle was immediately attacked after it entered the barrier."

"In the end, the spirit turtle was severely injured, and the island lord had no choice but to lead us to move into the depths of that abyss."

"Inside that abyss, we encountered a large number of merfolk. They were incredibly strong, ridiculously strong. Each merfolk possessed combat power at the genetic level."

"We could only flee into the island in the abyss, but there were too many monsters in that abyss, and we were trapped inside, unable to leave."

"Fortunately, the island lord is an earth-attribute ability user, and he led us to hide underground."

"But even so, when we went out to look for food, we were still captured by that group of merfolk."

"Then he was imprisoned in that underground tomb."

Liang Yuan's expression turned serious as he asked, "What's the story behind that ancient tomb? Do you know anything about it?"

Ye Nan quickly said, "We don't know what happened to that ancient tomb, but I know about that museum. It used to be a museum in the park, and most of the exhibits were Stone Age artifacts, as well as a lot of oracle bone fragments."

"The museum before the apocalypse wasn't very famous, and few people visited it, which led to it being opened to the public for free."

"After we were captured by those merfolk, we learned that there was actually an ancient tomb beneath the museum."

“There were more than a dozen of us before. Lately, those merfolk have been taking one of us away every now and then, and we don’t know what they’re going to do with us.”

"Aren't those merfolk just human superhumans in disguise?" Zhang Peng couldn't help but interrupt Ye Nan and ask.

Ye Nan shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, these merfolk are not human, they are definitely not human."

“They don’t understand human language at all, and they even have their own internal language. We’ve tried to communicate with them, but they treat us like livestock or aliens.”

"So I'm certain they're not human! They're pure merfolk, true non-human beings!"

Zhang Peng's expression changed slightly. He said, "Pure merfolk? But, but why do we, when we awaken our superpowers, change in the direction of these non-human creatures?"

"How could we have these non-human genes in our genes?"

Ye Nan had nothing to say and shook his head, saying, "I don't know either."

At this moment, Liang Yuan said in a deep voice: "The organisms that have evolved on this planet, if we trace their origins, should all have evolved from primitive single-celled organisms."

"In the course of countless years of evolution and reproduction, different forms and races have evolved in order to survive."

"Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why genes have similar segments."

Liang Yuan remembered seeing a scientific explanation before, which said that in ancient times, the entire blue planet was actually an ocean.

Life also originated in the ocean.

However, in the process of continuous evolution, some life forms have chosen to leave the ocean and enter the land in order to survive and reproduce.

They gradually evolved from marine life into amphibians, and then gradually evolved into terrestrial life.

Some scientists have also suggested that human ancestors may very well have been fish.

These claims are all supported by relevant arguments and assumptions.

Liang Yuan wasn't sure if these theories were true or false, but from the current perspective, the human body does indeed contain many gene fragments that are also found in other organisms.

When faced with danger, humans awakened this part of their genes, thus gaining superpowers and gradually adapting to this crisis-ridden era.

But Liang Yuan also didn't understand where these merfolk came from.

Legends about merfolk or mermaids have indeed existed since ancient times.

But legends aside, before the apocalypse, no one actually discovered the existence of merfolk or fish-men.

Not even a trace of it was found.

Of course, there may be related fossil remains, but the government has not made it public.

In short, the creatures from these myths and legends had long since disappeared before the apocalypse.

Now that the apocalypse has arrived and superpowers have emerged, why have these monsters appeared as well?
In what way exactly do they appear?

Liang Yuan frowned and said, "Could it be that these monsters all came from the abyss?" "The abyss islands were formed from the falling of floating islands, but where did these floating islands come from?"

All these questions seem to have returned to the world above the thunderous clouds in the sky, and to the question of where the flood came from.

Liang Yuan still had an important question at this moment: the ancient tomb could not possibly be a structure brought by the abyss.

This ancient tomb was clearly built by the Blue Star civilization.

The stone coffin on the altar also basically proves that this ancient tomb was built by humans.

What are these merfolk doing gathered there?
And what exactly is the mermaid skeleton inside the stone coffin?

Too many questions arose in Liang Yuan's mind, but no one could explain them.

At this moment, Zhang Peng couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Liang, you said that even alien races like merfolk and mermaids have appeared. Could the dragons and phoenixes in ancient mythology also be real?"

"Could the ancient mythical beasts recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas actually be mutated beasts?"

Liang Yuan was shocked and looked at Zhang Peng: "You have this idea too?"

"I think it's not impossible, after all, there have been great floods in history."

"Could there have been times in history like ours, with floods and all sorts of mutated beasts?"

"Later generations recorded these mutated beasts, which formed various legends."

Liang Yuan nodded slightly: "I've thought about that guess before, but I can't guarantee it."

Zhang Peng couldn't help but say, "I think it's very likely."

"Look at those dark clouds and thunder in the sky, doesn't it look like the lightning tribulation that the ancients talked about?"

"Could those floating islands in the sky be the heavenly palaces imagined by the ancients?"

"In addition, were the floating islands in the flood considered by the ancients to be overseas fairy islands, and the elixirs and spiritual fruits on the islands were actually mutated fruits?"

"Could these so-called immortals be people with superpowers?"

Zhang Peng couldn't help but let his imagination run wild, and he began to talk non-stop.

The more he talked, the more he felt that his guess was very likely true.

Liang Yuan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't get excited, these are just our guesses."

"We still have important matters to attend to right now. Rescuing the people of Lingyu Island is of utmost urgency, and the matter of Fanshan Island also needs to be resolved."

"Chang Yuntao is eyeing us covetously in Baoshan City, so we must be on guard."

"We are not yet qualified to explore the truth of the world."

"Once we improve our strength, we'll figure these things out sooner or later."

Liang Yuan then looked at Ye Nan and said, "Tell me about the situation in the Abyss, and what is the current situation of your island lord and the others."

"Let's go back to the mouth of the dark abyss first. After we've dealt with things here, we'll figure out a way to rescue our friends on Spirit Jade Island."

Ye Nan was moved to tears and quickly explained the situation in the abyss.

This abyss is located downstream of the Linjiang River, not too far from here.

As Liang Yuan listened to his description of the location, a strange look gradually appeared on his face.

That location... doesn't it sound like the direction where the Dark Abyss used to be?

Is it really true, as Feng Jiangong and Zhang Yujiang said, that abysses and deep abysses are most likely to appear near floating islands?
"The island lord and the others are in a very bad situation. They are currently hiding inside the abyss island, where they have built simple dwellings in the underground space."

"We survive entirely on the flesh and blood of mutated beasts from the abyss, which we secretly hunt down."

"Drinking is fine, as there are water elementalists here who can create water sources at any time."

"Then how do you breathe? Isn't it all water underwater?" Zhang Peng asked.

Ye Nan said, "The abyss is essentially a floating island, and you should know what's inside the floating island."

"Its interior is not solid, but rather a biological organ-like structure, containing not only blood vessels but also giant organs such as the heart and lungs."

“We live inside the lungs, where there is already a small ecological cycle system, so we can survive.”

"Actually, apart from the threat of mutated beasts, the resources inside are very abundant, with a large number of blood crystals, which allow us to improve our strength to our heart's content."

"The two island lords have made rapid progress in their cultivation and have both reached 100 points in their main attribute."

"However, we cannot continue to improve it at the moment. The island owner said that we will need to carry out gene recombination later."

"They consumed too much of the flesh and blood of mutated beasts, resulting in too many mixed genes, and they never dared to attempt a breakthrough."

Liang Yuan nodded slightly, having roughly understood the situation in the Abyss.

That's like a sunken floating island, with relatively abundant resources, and it has bred a large number of parasitic mutant beasts.

These mutated beasts are powerful enough to threaten the safety of everyone on Lingyu Island.

This is the most deadly danger.

"Alright, you guys come with me first. Once I've settled things on Fanshan Island, I'll personally go to the Abyss to rescue your island lord."

Liang Yuan spoke to Ye Nan and the others.

Ye Nan and the others were immediately moved to tears and knelt down to Liang Yuan.

Liang Yuan quickly pulled the group up and said, "There's no time to lose, let's go back immediately and resolve the matter of Fanshan Island."

The group quickly followed Liang Yuan and flew directly towards the mouth of the Dark Abyss.

Before long, the group had returned to the mouth of the Dark Abyss.

Good news arrived as soon as they returned to the mouth of the Dark Abyss.

(End of this chapter)