The old village chief, Wang Defa, saw that evening had already fallen.
He was thinking of going to the riverside to check whether anything unusual had happened. Although he had arranged for several strong young men to keep watch, they were all ordinary people, after all. They might not notice certain hidden supernatural occurrences.
But as soon as he stepped outside,
the village dogs suddenly began barking wildly again. Unlike that morning, when they had charged toward the village entrance in a pack, this time they tucked their tails between their legs and huddled on the ground, trembling all over, their eyes filled with terror.
He muttered inwardly, This is bad. Something happened.
Wang Defa had no time to worry about anything else and hurried toward the outskirts of the village. The villagers along the way were also alarmed by the dogs' strange behavior. They all grabbed weapons and rushed outside, only for him to immediately shout them back.
If this really was a supernatural event, ordinary people would only get in the way and throw away their lives by joining in.
He had just reached the village entrance when he already smelled a nauseating, rotten stench. Following the scent and looking over, he immediately saw He Qiang, a young man from the village, standing by the river with his eyes tightly shut, holding a badly decomposed corpse in his arms.
In the river behind the corpse, a strange black shadow flickered in and out of sight.
Wang Defa was an Awakened. Ordinary visual deceptions had little effect on him, so he merely focused his attention slightly before piercing through the river's surface and seeing what lay beneath it—a woman whose arms had been severed at the elbows!
No... They weren't severed at the elbows.
After examining it carefully, he