Yu Jing gestured for Zhen Zhen to lean behind him. Her wounds had yet to heal, and if they came into contact with the filthy water in the vat, they might become infected again.
"That woman? Tell me everything in detail. I'll fulfill your request."
Yu Jing held a butcher's cleaver in his hand, ready to strike at any moment.
"Okay, okay!" Upon hearing that he could die, the man became incredibly excited. He temporarily forgot the pain brought by the scales covering his body and began telling the unfamiliar young man before him about the disaster.
"She's a Demoness, a symbol of the apocalypse! Our village made its living by fishing, and we understood the balance of fish reproduction very well. We would never catch too many fish and disrupt that balance... But the fish in the Dead Lake started becoming fewer and fewer two months ago. The village elders said the apocalypse was about to arrive."
"Not long after that, a fishing boat drifted over from the distant waters of the Dead Lake! A young woman who had passed out was aboard it. We kindly rescued her, but who could have known that she was suffering from a disease that caused scales to grow on parts of her body! Every doctor who came into contact with her was infected with a disease called 'Scale Disease.' Within a day, most of them had scales covering their entire bodies. They threw themselves into the river and died in a state of extreme dehydration."
"The elders regarded her as an emissary of the apocalypse. We tied her to a wooden stake and burned her with flames, but who could have known that scales would grow to protect that Demoness... The longer this dragged on, the more villagers became infected with 'Scale