Just as Xu Yuan opened his mouth and bit at the strange thing, Aunt Wang could no longer hold herself back and was about to charge in.
Grandpa Shen stuck out a foot and tripped her.
She went sprawling, her pieces clattering across the ground.
"What are you panicking for?" Grandpa Shen took a drag on his cigarette. "I think the kid's got a plan of his own."
As Aunt Wang reassembled herself, she grumbled on and on. "You men are all so hardhearted. Mo and I just can't stand watching Ah Yuan take risks.
"He's only a teenager, still a child! What if he's just showing off and acting on impulse...?"
Grandpa Shen said impatiently, "Don't forget that kid's fate."
Aunt Wang fell silent. Her head floated up, her eyes fixed anxiously on Xu Yuan, while both hands began putting her body together "blind."
Every time Xu Yuan ate a clump of water, she put a piece in the wrong place.
But since Grandpa Shen had said so, she forced herself not to interfere.
The grotesque flesh beneath Mr. Gao had already spread upward, covering his entire abdomen.
The strange red veins beneath his skin had crawled all over his neck and were spreading onto his cheeks.
There were only two people left hanging from the red threads.
When Xu Yuan ate the first clump of "water," Mr. Gao's concentration slipped, and he nearly let the carpet of flesh beneath him swallow him whole!
Mr. Gao had seen plenty in the Northern Capital, but he'd never come across anything like this!
After sucking the blood from two people in one breath and steadying himself, Mr. Gao had already decided the kid was a reckless fool whose death could be announced in advance.
But the kid had the gall