The "Survival on the Train" game has bugs, it's really laggy!

"The survivors have arrived!"

"If I'm not mistaken, these people are merfolk who have reverted to human form."

Su Yuan's heart stirred, and he took out the medal and held it in his palm.

Sure enough, the moment the medal appeared, a slight commotion arose from the kneeling crowd below.

The middle-aged man who was leading the group trembled violently upon seeing the medal. The last trace of doubt in his eyes vanished, replaced by boundless fervor and reverence.

He buried his head even deeper.

"Alright, get up, everyone!"

Looking at the scene, Su Yuan roughly guessed what was going on. He put away his warhammer, jumped off the vehicle, and said loudly.

However, no one moved.

They remained kneeling there, looking at Su Yuan with an almost reverent gaze.

The middle-aged man who was leading the group shouted in an extremely excited tone:

"Great hero! You have finally arrived! You have saved the sea city, you have redeemed us!"

His voice, trembling slightly with excitement, echoed throughout the valley.

"I told you, all of you, get up."

Su Yuan paused, looking at those faces filled with hope and reliance, and the frustration he felt from the human flesh search gradually dissipated.

He sighed, put on a smile, and said in as gentle a tone as possible, "Saving you was just something I did on a whim during my travels; there's no need for such a grand gesture."

Perhaps sensing the hero's gentle attitude, the middle-aged man who was leading the group hesitated for a moment before slowly standing up from the ground.

Seeing this, the others also stood up one after another.

"What's your name?" Su Yuan asked, looking at the middle-aged man who was leading the group.

"Honorable hero, we have no names."

The middle-aged man bowed his head respectfully, his voice filled with awe. "None of us have names, but just now, at the moment you broke the curse, some long-buried memories flooded into our minds like a tide."

"We have come to know our identity, where we came from, and we know you, our great Savior, the prophecy that you will come."

He paused, then looked up at Su Yuan with utmost sincerity in his eyes.

"If you like, you can call me Haite."

"Haite?" Su Yuan nodded. "Okay, I understand."

Looking at the group of survivors of the sea city who had just shed their monster forms and seemed somewhat lost, he suddenly felt a surge of curiosity and wanted to ask them a lot of questions.

Su Yuan then asked directly, "Haite, do you remember anything else?"

Hait clearly hadn't expected Su Yuan to ask this. He paused for a moment, then began to try to search his mind for those fragmented memories.

"Our ancestors came from a prosperous city-state called 'Sea City,' which lies beneath this sea."

Hait pointed to the distant sea where the tide was receding rapidly, revealing the outline of the city, and said slowly.

"About five hundred years ago, the god we worshipped was cursed and corrupted by another evil god for some unknown reason. However, our ancestors at that time did not know this and still held an extremely grand sacrificial ceremony as usual."

"And on that very day, disaster struck."

A look of pain crossed Haitt's face.

"The massive tsunami that blotted out the sky swallowed everything: cities, homes, loved ones... everything was reduced to nothing in that disaster, and most people died in it."

"Only a very few ancestors who lived in high mountains survived by chance, but what awaited them was a fate more cruel than death."

"The blood of all of us survivors has been corrupted by that evil curse. We have become chaotic monsters, driven only by the instinct to kill and reproduce—mermaids."

"Our lifespan has also been greatly shortened, to only half that of ordinary people. Moreover, due to the curse, women in our race have become extremely rare, while men are numerous. In order to reproduce, we must... we must rely on normal human men."

At this point, a look of shame and pain appeared on Hait's face.

"Before you arrived, several other 'heroes' like you came here," Haite continued. "We didn't harm them because our remaining sanity told us that they might be the hope to break the curse."

"Among them was a hero who even volunteered to stay behind to help our clan, but... in the end, everything failed."

"Until our previous leader came along."

A hint of sadness and admiration flickered in Hait's eyes.

"She doesn't have a name either, but I want to call her 'Haitesh.' She is the only one in our race in the last five hundred years to have awakened a trace of royal blood. Because of this, she gained more precious wisdom in the chaos."

"She met the hero who stayed behind, and... and gave birth to a son. After that, she took the hero with her into the temple in the deep sea, wanting to completely break the curse."

"But they never came back..."

"And the child she left behind, the one who should have become the 'king' we hoped for, was bewitched by a cursed skeleton as he grew up, eventually turning into a monster that only knew how to kill and devour..."

Hait told Su Yuan everything he knew in one go.

Su Yuan listened quietly, and all the clues in his mind came together at that moment.

"My guess was pretty accurate; it seems this is the whole story."

Just as Su Yuan was pondering, he suddenly noticed that the eyes of Hait and the other survivors of Haidu were all fixed on him. In their eyes, besides gratitude, there seemed to be a hint of... expectation.

Upon seeing the unusual look in Su Yuan's eyes, Hait immediately understood what he meant.

He bowed respectfully again and said in an extremely solemn tone:

"Great hero, please come with me to thank us for everything we have done."

"Our ancestors, thousands of years ago, when the city of Haidu was first established, had a great priest who foresaw today's disaster. At the same time, he buried this secret, along with a last hope, in our blood."

"But as time passed, this secret was gradually forgotten, until the moment you arrived, when it was awakened along with the lifting of the curse."

Hait raised his head and stared intently at Su Yuan.

"Our ancestors left something in their treasure trove, something not for us, but... something specifically for you, for the savior who will eventually come and rescue us from our suffering!"

"treasure house?"

Su Yuan's eyes lit up instantly when he heard those two words.

These two words are his favorite to hear!

The frustration I felt just moments before over those hundreds of kilograms of human flesh vanished instantly.

"lead the way!"

Su Yuan waved his hand, speaking succinctly, but also keeping a watchful eye on things; if anything went wrong, he would immediately kill them all.