Chapter 158 Despair of the Island City

No matter how much Professor Nan wailed, the fact remained that he could not return to the shelter.

But for him, this wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

At least he no longer had to live in constant fear of being framed.

Li Tianran sighed. Even in such dire circumstances, people still couldn't resist scheming against each other. Perhaps this was an inherent flaw of advanced intelligent life, and only when humanity was completely extinct would the infighting cease...

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Xiya City.

This was an island city belonging to Portugal. It was once a prosperous city, rich in oil and coconuts, attracting a large number of tourists with its pleasant scenery.

But now, the prosperous scene was gone, leaving only despair and ruins.

The coast was littered with the remains of people wearing Portuguese military uniforms, and in the sea mixed with huge ice blocks, there were also countless mutated beasts floating, their wounds charred and incomplete.

Going beyond the coastline towards the city, the thirty-meter-high shelter wall had a huge gap blown into it, with steel bars exposed from the breach, like desperate arms reaching towards the sky.

But the gap in the city wall was not broken by the beast tide.

There were signs of explosions and charring on the city wall.

The shelter's city wall… was blasted open from the inside by anti-aircraft guns.

The shelter's city wall, used to defend against invading beast tides, failed to protect against missiles from within. When the shelter's city wall was breached, the fall of the entire city could not be reversed.

A giant octopus was entrenched at the gap in the shelter's huge wall. On top of its head was the Siren, with long hair, an indifferent face, and a hand touching the gap in the shelter's wall, with the Green Turtle resting on her shoulder.

The beast tide had occupied the city; they had won.

But the Siren, touching the steel and concrete ruins of this huge gap, a hint of fear appeared on her indifferent face.

Human weapons… were indeed terrifying.

If this time they hadn't seized the human command center, causing the missiles originally intended for the beast tide to change course and blast open the shelter's city wall, occupying this city would not have been so easy.

Under the cover of the shelter's high city walls, even the Beast Kings would not have been able to withstand such powerful artillery fire and enter the city.

Humanity was defeated by its own weapons, not by the Beast Kings.

The Siren narrowed her eyes slightly, looking into the city, and gently emitted a single tone. The octopus under her quickly climbed down the city wall and headed towards the city.

Tens of thousands of humans still survived in this city!

They were being raised in the city center by the Beast Kings and mutated beasts, and the Beast Kings were following the Siren's orders to analyze and study human research centers and armories.

Although the Beast Kings were powerful and highly intelligent, human civilization still had a one-hundred-year advantage in technology over them.

In a short period, the Beast Kings could not close this one-hundred-year gap!

They could not develop their own technology for the time being, and the best way was to analyze, copy, or directly transplant existing human technology!

The Beast Kings had more than four times the intelligence of ordinary humans, and with the data in the Green Turtle's brain, it was not difficult to completely analyze the technology of this city.

Soon, the Siren arrived at the city center.

Tens of thousands of humans were blockaded by a hundred Beast Kings in a certain hall. In the hall, people were crowded together, some crying loudly, some howling in despair.

Xiya City had fallen for more than three days, but no Portuguese troops came to rescue them.

Perhaps it was because these humans made the army afraid to act rashly, or perhaps… the country was already struggling to take care of itself.

These humans had long understood their situation and fate.

Outside the hall, the Beast Kings were devouring the corpses of the dead mutated beasts, occasionally grabbing one or two people from the hall and swallowing them whole. Every time this happened, screams would rise and fall in the hall.

The Siren arrived, and the Green Turtle on her shoulder crawled down and headed towards the command center.

It would guide the Beast Kings in the command center to learn human technology.

And in these three days, besides guarding against a surprise attack by human forces, the Siren had also done something particularly strange.

She was learning human languages.

Beasts had their own unique way of communicating, but as evolvers, the Beast Kings already possessed the ability to produce complex languages like humans, but most of the sea beasts refused to learn human languages. Only the Siren began to learn this ability.

She found a human woman to be her language teacher.

The Siren learned very quickly. In just three days, she learned three languages, including Yanhuang (Chinese) and English.

In addition to the human memories she already had in her mind, she quickly mastered these three languages.

Advanced learning ability was also an advantage of evolvers.

The sea beasts near the hall saw the Siren arrive and made way for her.

In the hall, the woman responsible for teaching the Siren walked out.

Since the destruction of her city three days ago, and the death of her family, she hated these monsters in front of her!

She had tried more than once to kill the culprit in front of her with her own hands, but after her attempts, she finally realized how big the gap was between herself, without weapons, and these monsters in front of her.

These monsters were highly intelligent, extremely strong, and seemed very difficult to kill!

If it wasn't for the fact that she was a language translator, she would probably have been killed by the Siren long ago.

But the Siren's learning ability was too strong. She had nothing left to teach it, and she believed that she would soon lose her value to it and be killed by it neatly.

The woman suppressed her fear and stood opposite the Siren, beginning today's lesson.

Time passed minute by minute.

Finally, today's lesson was over.

The Siren turned to leave without expression.

"Can I ask you a question?" At this moment, the woman asked as if she had mustered all her courage.

The Siren paused and emitted a very simple note from her throat: "Okay."