Zhang Haiyang stood under the bright lights, legs clamped together like a molting chicken.
Li Ziang casually found a white lab coat, shook it until it was spotless, not a single strand of hair remaining, and threw it at Zhang Haiyang.
"Hurry and put it on, then come with me!"
Zhang Haiyang was now like meat on a chopping block, at Li Ziang's mercy.
Pushed and shoved all the way here, Zhang Haiyang had long lost his former spirit.
Li Ziang kicked him hard from behind. He was already old, and his balance faltered, causing him to tumble onto the mermaid.
Seeing the mermaid, he acted as if he had found a savior.
"Wake up! Get up!"
"Stop patting me. You've already swollen up my face. They're all unconscious and won't wake up for a while," Li Ziang said, watching the show with his hands clasped.
Mei Nan looked at Zhang Haiyang and sighed deeply.
In fact, he had achieved considerable success in medicine and science. If he had used his talents for good, he could have saved countless lives.
Yet, this man possessed great talent but used it for wicked deeds. As his teacher, Mei Nan felt heartbroken.
"Time is almost up, what do you plan to do?" Tang Tang asked Li Ziang.
The main issue was that Zhang Haiyang was already an old man, and they couldn't bring themselves to beat him.
Li Ziang was also troubled. Before finding Zhang Haiyang, he had envisioned many scenarios.
But now, with Zhang Haiyang standing before them, he was just an ordinary old man.
Facing a group of young people, he even pretended to be pitiful and trembled.
Ning Wei silently rolled her eyes. The others were starting to soften.
She knew this would happen!
Zhang Haiyang was a born actor!
He could not only exploit his own conditions to choose test subjects but also play the victim to gain sympathy when caught.
Li Ziang indeed hesitated, but catching Ning Wei's disdainful gaze, his anger reignited.
He violently grabbed Zhang Haiyang's clothes and dragged him into the shadows.
Li Ziang poured all his recent fear and anxiety into his rage, transforming it into fists that rained down on Zhang Haiyang.
Zhang Haiyang knew the old man wouldn't be able to take many punches.
Ning Wei, who was enjoying his screams, heard them abruptly stop.
Li Ziang turned to face everyone, a look of exasperation and annoyance on his face. "He's too weak."
"Does anyone else want to hit him?" Ning Wei looked at the others.
No one could bring themselves to do it. An old man already beaten unconscious by Li Ziang, a pitiful old man with gray hair, an old man who had committed countless evils!
Everyone fell silent, but Ning Wei was delighted.
"Since you can't bring yourselves to do it, it's my turn, isn't it?" The resentments and spirits hidden in the darkness slowly crawled onto Ning Wei.
They whispered their tragic experiences in her ear, vivid images of blood, severed limbs, and hands or feet casually discarded in the aquarium, gnawed down to bone.
Li Ye subtly moved closer to her, the beads silently absorbing the resentment.
"Please, proceed."
Just what she was waiting for, Ning Wei happily ran to Zhang Haiyang, kicked him hard, and seeing he didn't react, she beckoned to Li Ye.
"Drag him to the operating room," Ning Wei whispered in Li Ye's ear.
Li Ye directly grabbed one of Zhang Haiyang's legs and dragged him across the floor.
"Where are they going?" Bai Xue asked curiously, peering.
"Don't ask, just follow and you'll find out!" Tang Tang winked mischievously and followed.
The others didn't know what Ning Wei was planning, but they were curious about her methods, so they followed in twos and threes.
Upon arriving at the operating room, everything was back in its place, even the surgical instruments were prepared.
"It seems Zhang Haiyang was ready to capture and kill us all," Ning Wei pushed open a door, revealing several large fish tails.
Each tail had a tag with the owner's name.
Ning Wei looked at them one by one, softly reading the names: "Ning Wei, Li Ye, Tang Tang, Bai Xue, Li Ziang..."
There were eighteen people in total, with about a dozen names written.
This operating room was originally prepared for Ning Wei and the others, but they hadn't expected to be captured.
What Zhang Haiyang also hadn't expected was that Ning Wei would use this place against him.
At Ning Wei's suggestion, Li Ye quietly left the operating room.
Using the power within the beads, he reawakened the humanity and memories of four mermaids, who now harbored an intense hatred for Zhang Haiyang.
"Zhang Haiyang is on the operating table. I've prepared the surgical knives for you. What you do next is up to you," Li Ye's voice was low and magical, as if guiding the mermaids.
The eyes of the four mermaids went blank for a moment, then cleared.
Time was up. Bus tickets appeared in the pockets of all the passengers.
They rejoiced, showing their happiness to those around them.
It was a pity that the young woman who had been transformed into a mermaid had been assimilated by this place and could no longer board the bus.
Though the operating room was far from the main entrance of the aquarium, Li Ziang and the others could clearly hear the blare of a horn, the driver urging the surviving passengers to board.
At this moment, Li Ye arrived with the four mermaids.
Li Ziang walked over, pulled out the ticket from his pocket, and said, "Thank you very much for your help. Our driver is quite impatient, so I need to get everyone on the bus."
Li Ye nodded lightly, indicating he understood, then walked past Li Ziang, leading the mermaids into the operating room.
"Are Li Ziang and the others leaving?" Song Zhi and the others were still in the operating room, knowing that Li Ziang and the group would leave as soon as they got their tickets.
Li Ye nodded slightly.
After the mermaids entered, they dragged their large tails and picked up various surgical knives and cutting tools.
Mei Nan and the others immediately understood Ning Wei's plan.
They had seen Zhang Haiyang performing fish tail suturing surgeries on surveillance before, so this time they chose not to watch.
After all, with Ning Wei around, Zhang Haiyang would receive the punishment he deserved.
"We'll go out with Li Ziang and the others. You can come out when you're done," Mei Nan said and walked out of the operating room.
He still felt a sense of admiration and pity for Zhang Haiyang's talent.
This had also been everyone's habit: to fight alongside Ning Wei, resolve troubles, and obtain tickets, leaving the final disposal to Ning Wei.
Seeing Mei Nan and the others leave, but Ning Wei nowhere in sight, Bai Xue asked curiously, "Didn't Ning Wei and Li Ye get their tickets?"
Song Zhi smiled and said, "How could that be? They have some small matters to attend to."