The big dog woke up.
It lowered its head first, its muzzle close to Knov in its arms. Its face covered in eyes paused over Knov's chest for a moment.
The spatial fluctuations around Knov's chest had already vanished. His body was gradually stiffening in its arms, his skin taking on a waxy grayish-white color, and his fingers no longer reacted at all.
The big dog stretched out its tongue and slowly licked across Knov's face.
Its muzzle lingered at his neck for a while. Only after confirming there was no Nen left to absorb did it unhappily open its claws and set Knov down on the ground.
Bai Zhu's vision remained fixed forward.
The big dog stood up, spread its four legs, and slowly paced among the wax statues.
It first went to a person wearing a long robe and pressed its nose against the person's chest as it inhaled. Several cracks immediately split across the grayish-white wax layer on the statue's surface, and a faint rotten stench wafted out. It seemed that not all wax statues contained Husks.
The big dog raised a front paw and tapped the wax statue's shoulder.
Then it turned to the next one.
Its muzzle passed before every piece in the collection, occasionally touching a shoulder with the tip of its claw or pressing down on a chest. Whenever it stopped, Bai Zhu could feel the drowsiness in his body grow heavier.
He could barely even concentrate.
Whenever the big dog approached, red mist rose from the ground and flowed into its nostrils. The waxy substance inside Bai Zhu's chest tightened along with it, compressing his heartbeat into an extremely narrow interval.
Thump.
Thump.
He could not hear the sound, but he could feel each impact in his chest.
The big dog arrived