"My company commander said he was relatively unlucky. Most of the people others encountered still had a leg sticking out of the ground, while nine times out of ten, the ones he encountered had only half a body left." Danyed continued.
"Half a body?" Song He asked, puzzled.
"My company commander's hometown isn't a city. It's the countryside." Danyed reminded him, "The African countryside is different from your Asian countryside. There are wild dogs, lions, and cheetahs, and there are quite a lot of them."
"Oh!" Song He suddenly understood. "Their upper bodies were stuck in holes in the ground, leaving only their legs exposed. Then when wild beasts passed by, they ate the legs clean?"
"Exactly!" Danyed nodded. "Some beasts were more industrious and dug the entire person out to eat them. Others were lazier, eating one or two human legs before leaving. The upper body remained underground. Most of the people my company commander encountered were like that."
"My company commander said that most people stuck like that were, of course, completely dead. But he once encountered someone who was still alive."
"Alive?" Song He widened his eyes again. "His lower body had been eaten by beasts, and his upper body was stuck underground, yet he could still live?"
That was right. My company commander once encountered one. He was a skinny old black man. After they dug him out, his skin had indeed begun to rot, but he still had expressions on his face and could speak. If they stuffed a piece of dry rations into his mouth, he could still chew and swallow it. Even after swallowing, it didn't fall out through his waist. It was simply stuck in his digestive tract." Danyed described it.
"My company commander didn't know the man. After hearing the man