"I haven’t even settled the score with you for that sneak attack just now, and here you are, preparing to strike at me again," Zachary said, "You really must be tired of living."

"Who are you?"

Upon hearing the other party speak, Dong Tianyu immediately recognized which country the person was from; it was those people from the neighboring country, who seemed to have not too bad a time of it.

He wondered how such a small country managed to survive the fierce natural disasters.

In fact, Dong Tianyu was mistaken, because even before the Cold Catastrophe, their country frequently suffered from various natural disasters, so they had much more experience in dealing with most disasters than the Chinese People.

Aside from being caught off guard by the Cold Catastrophe, which inflicted severe losses on them, the impact of the remaining disasters on them was minimal.

Because their country was surrounded by the sea on all sides, when droughts struck and the surrounding sea level continuously dropped.

It not only did not cause them any harm but instead effectively expanded their territorial area.

Although earthquakes also caused devastating damage to the buildings on their island, unlike in China, aside from a few central cities, most of their other buildings were two-story wooden houses.

Even if the earthquake collapsed them, they could still salvage usable timber from the rubble, with which they could rebuild their houses; the unusable wood would serve as fuel for cooking and heating.

After the earthquake, the continuous expansion of Blue Star’s volume also granted their small island some additional territory.

Rainstorms and floods were experiences they had been facing since birth, so they actually had a complete set of dealing strategies.

And because they belonged to an island nation, although they didn’t have many large ships, they had a significant number of small and medium-sized ones.

Of course, "significant" is relative to their population, after all, they were an island nation where fishing was one of their main industries.

And indeed, because they had so many sea vessels, they never lacked ships when floods and rainstorms struck.

And whether it was the appearance of prehistoric creatures or the descent of insect swarms, although they had not fought them, these invading creatures were not aquatic, so for safety’s sake, they simply abandoned most of the newly acquired territories and retained only some areas.

The other common folks, confronted by the dangerous creatures on the island, chose to live directly on the ships, thus no longer landing. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Because of this, the proportion of their population lost in successive rounds of disasters was gradually declining.

Some of the more dramatic among them, inspired by the situation, began to imitate the comics from their country, establishing fleets on the sea to claim kingship.

The fleet that attacked Dong Tianyu belonged to a squadron of the ninth-ranked fleet in their country which, though easy prey for Dong Tianyu, was still among the most prominent in terms of scale and numbers within the ninth fleet.

The main task of this fleet was to collect survivors at sea; to put it bluntly, at this time, the population was a crucial resource.

Furthermore, even before the Cold Catastrophe, the top four "Evil Techniques" of Asia were famous internationally: the transformation techniques of the Monkey Family, the cosmetic surgery of the South Korean Family, the photo editing of Rabbit’s Home, and the makeup Artistry of the Basin Chicken.

These four "Evil Techniques" could let someone possess an ability akin to face-switching in the ordinary world.

However, precisely because of this, before the catastrophe, the beauties from these families were more famous internationally.

But even though the Evil Techniques had effects comparable to face-switching, after encountering them often, people could roughly distinguish whether the women they saw had used Evil Techniques.

And because of the prevalence of Evil Techniques, most people were more focused on natural beauties.

When Dong Tianyu discovered the five emerging beauties behind him, he had already scrutinized them with his Divine Sense.

The five diverse emerging beauties not only had no traces of Evil Techniques on their bodies and faces but were also surprisingly all genuine.

It should be noted that according to Basin Chicken customs, finding an unaltered person was difficult even before the catastrophe, as one would have to go to a kindergarten.

After all, according to their customs, it was easy for people to open up and inspect the merchandise, whether it was the neighbor next door, the kid living nearby, a repairman coming to the house, or the delivery guy; one inattentive moment could lead to someone helping themselves to "unboxing."

So after confirming that they were all unopened and original, Dong Tianyu felt so surprised and chose to stay here waiting for them instead of leaving.

After all, Dong Tianyu was very clear about their intentions, and had it been people from another country, he might have just asked them for the silver that Granny Silly had compensated them with.

But facing the people from Basin Chicken, Dong Tianyu’s actions were completely devoid of guilt.

Seeing that Dong Tianyu didn’t respond, a bespectacled man spoke up again, "This person by my side is the second young master of the Tokugawa family..."

Before the man could finish, the Flying Swords behind Dong Tianyu seemed to move dissatisfiedly, and then a streak of blood appeared on the man’s neck and he fell stiffly into the sea from the edge of the deck.

Seeing this, Dong Tianyu openly scoffed and said, "I gave you face, and you’re still barking at me."