The Federation's Fire, the Fish in the Pond Suffer (Thanks to Yu Shi for the Silver Alliance)

The merfolk are coming!

Surprised? Was it unexpected?

Before they could even keep the music playing and the dancing going, the experiences of the many survivors and the news they brought spread through the Seven Cities as though they had grown wings. Even the media controls imposed by the seven families failed to stop it...

There were simply too many channels, and the Seven Cities were too much of a ramshackle operation.

As for Luo Island, Ji Jue could have kept it under control, but he saw no need to.

The threat of the merfolk would at least make those clever fools, who considered themselves wise and preached daily that the hazard winds were nothing to worry about, take a proper look at the situation and stop being blindly optimistic.

Those bloodthirsty behemoths, ten to twenty meters long, were now migrating and spreading eastward across the Endless Sea in groups, one after another. Based on the currents and their directions, at least several groups would pass through the waters near the Seven Cities. Should they follow the sewers or underground rivers into the Seven Cities, the consequences would be unthinkable.

As predators of the sea, merfolk naturally possessed an extremely strong affinity with the Waste Ruins and the Entropy Lineage. Their destructive power simply could not be judged by common sense. Even more frighteningly, unlike other large predators that roamed alone, merfolk were a species with a powerful sense of community. They often acted in groups, with clearly defined internal roles, and were not unintelligent either. Once grown, they possessed the intelligence of an eleven- or twelve-year-old human. Every group large enough to be called a tribe could number anywhere from a dozen or a hundred at the low end to several hundred or even thousands at the high end...