Chapter 560 Seawater

The puzzle is solved.

I see.

Seeing Xia Yan's relieved look, Xiao Wan grabbed her clothes aggrievedly, raised her head slightly and said with a pitiful look:

"This is my first collection since I started working here. There are no similar scraps in the store, and I can't target customers. Boss, I picked this up. Can I keep it?"

Xia Yan has always been soft-hearted and doesn't like to be tough.

Besides, there was the system's guarantee of "absolute employee loyalty," so what else could she say? Everyone has to have some hobbies, right?

Xiaowan is such a good employee. She just likes to pick out eyeballs. She doesn't harm customers, nor does she steal or rob. As a boss, not only don't pay her salary, but also control her employees picking up things?

Xia Yan convinced himself, a small feeling of guilt welling up in his heart. He hugged Xiao Wan's waist and said in a rough voice: "Stay! As long as you like, whatever you want!"

Xiaowan's face lit up when she heard that. She pursed her lips and said nothing, but kept staring at her.

Xia Yan conveyed absolute sincerity with his eyes.

Xiaowan finally felt relieved, and the water flowing around her body slowed down. She held her eyeballs close to her body, looking very precious.

Then she said sweetly to Xia Yan: "Thank you, boss~"

Xia Yan reached out and rubbed her head, thinking to himself, having just one stupid Xiong Xiong is enough, and there must not be another Xiao Wan.

"Boss, let's go?" Zhikang called her from the other side.

The sun sets quickly here. In just a few words, the distance is pitch black. The roads and traffic between the buildings below are pitch dark, and only the outlines of the houses can be seen.

Xia Yan waved: "Come here, I will take you back directly, it will save trouble and be faster."

When the two of them came over, Xia Yan said to himself, "Let's go home," and the four of them appeared in the lobby of the hotel.

Xiong Xiong groped his way to the switch in the dark. With a few clicks, the lights in the hall lit up one after another. The bright light not only brought a clear vision, but also a natural sense of security.

After saying hello, Zhichang walked into the resort and busied himself with managing the finishing work of the high-end restaurant for the day.

Xiaowan followed Xiongxiong to help, and when the headlights on the roof came on, she keenly noticed something was wrong.

"Boss, please come out quickly, this place is also surrounded by the sea!"

Xia Yan changed direction of his feet that were suspended in the air and walked outside.

Xiongxiong and Xiaowan huddled together, pressed tightly against the protective shield, and exclaimed in surprise at the waves outside that hit the shield.

Xia Yan walked around the hotel and asked Xiong Xiong to turn the direction of the ceiling light. She saw that the coastline was very far away. The hotel was now in the middle of the ocean, and the sea water almost reached the level of the fourth or fifth floor.

If there are a few bigger waves, they can directly rush to the height of eight or nine floors. Standing in the safe zone and watching it is very oppressive.

"Luckily the hotel doesn't drift with the current, otherwise we wouldn't know where it would be washed away by the sea."

Xia Yan would naturally not miss such a beautiful scene.

"Xiongxiong, move out a big dining table. I want to have a seafood feast! You two can sit down and join us."

Anyway, she has a lot of points, so she can eat whatever she wants and order whatever is more expensive.

Xia Yan tapped his fingers lightly and sorted the prices from high to low. The first, second, third and fourth pictures of seafood cooked in different ways appeared.

The points went up in a flurry, and only six figures were lost.

This is just a private account. She can't even count the long string of zeros on the public account, so she doesn't feel guilty about spending it.

Soon, plates filled with top-quality seafood sprinkled with gold powder appeared, one after another.

The rock crabs are bigger than a bear's face, the lobster is longer than an arm, and the Caspian caviar is plump...

Looking at the table full of delicacies, Xia Yan said that the points were well spent!

While she was enjoying the food, Xiaowan and Xiongxiong couldn't hide their curiosity. They took out a high-intensity flashlight and shone it closely inside the protective cover. Sure enough, they saw some strange fish.

Xiong Xiong shone the light directly into the fish's eyes, but the fish didn't run away. Instead, it swung its tail and came closer.

"What kind of fish is that?" Xiaowan also moved the flashlight over.

This fish doesn't look like a fish at all. It has two gourd-like lumps on its head. Its fins are not the common transparent ones, but are covered with spherical moss-like things.

"It's green." Xiaowan couldn't help but put her hand on the protective shield.

The strange fish swam over slowly, paused for a few seconds, then suddenly swung its tail and pounced with its mouth open to bite.

The protective shield was squeezed inward by the impact force, and Xiaowan's hand also retreated backward, and the fish head seemed to have drilled in.

"Be careful!" Xiongxiong shouted.

Xiaowan took a few steps back in horror, holding the palm of her hand that was hit by the fish.

The protective shield rebounded with double the force, frightening the strange fish and disappearing into the depths of the sea in a few seconds.

Xiongxiong pointed the flashlight at the place where it disappeared, then glanced around at other places, and with lingering fear, he moved away from the protective shield.

If a strange fish rushes over, even if you can't bite it, it will still be scary when it suddenly jumps out.

Xiaowan was frightened, her face pale. "I just... felt its teeth, they were very sharp."

She raised her hands under her eyelids and used the flashlight to look over and over for any possible injuries.

The feeling of the fangs scraping across my palm is so real...

But there was not a single red mark on her delicate and fair skin, as if it was just an illusion.

Xiao Wan sat back next to Xia Yan and said doubtfully, "I know that the more colorful the creatures in the sea are, the more poisonous they are. It looks weird, and at most it has a follicle-shaped poison ball on its tail.

"But normally no fish would approach me on their own initiative. Why did this fish want to attack me?"

Xia Yan blinked, unable to give an answer, because she didn't understand the things in the sea...

Xiaowan held her chin and thought about random things.

Xia Yan thought for a moment and said, "I remember they said the creatures in the sea have also mutated. Maybe they've become completely demented, like zombies?"

Xiaowan felt that this was the only possibility.

...

No matter what you see at night, the sea water will recede completely the next day.

The few remaining puddles glowed white, with shell fragments scattered everywhere and the occasional dead fish lying on the seabed.

Xia Yan went over to take a look. It should be the fish that Xiaowan said would attack her last night.

On the fish's tail, most of the green seaweed-like follicles have deflated, with only two or three small ones still bulging.

Xia Yan picked up a stick at random, stretched out his hand, and poked one of the bubbles.

Without any sound, the follicle exploded, a small amount of green liquid splashed out, and most of it slid down the fish's tail.

There seems to be no reaction.

She stood up and looked around, and found that there were many similar fish lying on the path leading to the castle, and big birds flying from somewhere were pecking at the fish.

Xia Yan slowly approached, and the flock of birds looked up at her vigilantly, flapping their wings in a threatening manner.

On the bird's beak, she saw clusters of tumors.