Chapter 1047: Statue
Tap, tap-tap.
Uneven, stumbling footsteps echoed through the warehouse as a filthy man staggered into the light, swaying as though drunk.
"Here! Here!"
He gasped for breath, one near-roar after another spilling from his mouth.
With every roar, another person petrified into a statue burst apart.
Bang!
Bang, bang!
In an instant, blood mist filled the warehouse.
The people who appeared to have been completely petrified were actually only stone on the outside. Inside, they were still flesh and blood.
As they exploded, the six people were like sausages suddenly stuffed with too much meat. Their casings split, spraying flesh and organs everywhere.
The filthy, roaring man lunged heedlessly at the flesh and organs strewn across the floor, scooping them up and stuffing them into his mouth.
He did not chew. He simply swallowed.
And he did it incredibly fast.
In less than a minute, he had devoured almost half the flesh of those six people.
To achieve such speed, his cheeks split open on both sides of his mouth, exposing more sharp teeth until his mouth resembled a shark's maw.
He continued swallowing flesh, crimson gradually covering his hands, face, and clothes. When his entire body was drenched in red, a statue the length of an adult man's forearm slowly rose from his back.
It was a strange statue without limbs-or even a torso, for that matter-consisting of nothing but a long, narrow face.
Although its elongated face looked utterly vacant, its exposed fangs were indescribably hideous and terrifying.
Especially while the statue remained connected to the flesh of the man's back, with sinew-like strands stretching from him to it.
Then they pulsed with his heartbeat, as though delivering the nutrients he had consumed into the statue.
But that was far from enough.
The statue began