The churning sea of blood blocked my view. I heard a woman scream and felt a sharp pain in her neck.
I hurried back to the surface and saw a toy bear hanging from the woman's neck.
The bear bared its sharp teeth and, just like the one I'd seen before, bit into the woman's flesh and bone.
Those air bullets flew everywhere, parting the sea of blood and revealing what lay beneath.
Toy bears were clinging all over the woman, each one tearing at her body.
The blood vanished, making it clear that it was what had given birth to these little monsters. They didn't need to swim over from a distance at all. They could emerge directly from the blood, and when scattered, they turned back into blood, soon gathering themselves together again.
The woman's blood as it fell seemed to be the only real blood here.
I whipped around and looked at the toy bear the woman had first controlled.
The woman's ability had collapsed, and her control over it was gone. Yet the bear floated there, smiling as it watched the one-sided slaughter.
I lowered my gaze to where the woman had been.
She was gone. Only the toy bears remained, huddled together.
They stopped moving. Then, all at once, they turned their heads, their glass eyes reflecting my figure.
They'd seen me...
I was in their sights!
In that instant, I went on full alert, ready to strike at any moment and destroy the bears.
I had no confidence that they would remember our past connection. We'd worked together once, and I knew their owner, but so much time had passed, and I hadn't even checked on Lü Qiaolan. I had no idea what the bears had been through with the exorcist, either.
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