Afraid of frightening her, Hu Xiaotian did not dare tell her the truth. He slowly unfolded the sheet of human skin.
Jian Rongxin looked up. Tattooed on the skin was an image that made her blush and her heart race: a blue giant coupling with a naked woman. Utterly mortified, she cried out in shock, spun around, and covered her pretty face with both hands. Her face felt frighteningly hot. Never could she have imagined that her father, always a man of lofty virtue, had kept such a thing inside a wine jar.
Hu Xiaotian, however, felt no embarrassment. What he felt deep inside was shock. Setting aside its subject matter, the tattoo was astonishingly lifelike. The blue giant looked remarkably like the Visitors from Beyond depicted in the relief carvings at Dragon Spirit Wonderland. Even more astonishingly, the image on the skin began moving before his eyes.
Hu Xiaotian thought he had seen a ghost. He asked quietly, "Does this image look like it's moving to you?"
Jian Rongxin wished she could find a crack in the ground and crawl into it. Had this thing not been a relic left by her father, she might have angrily accused Hu Xiaotian of deliberately taking liberties with her. She refused to turn around and said in a voice as faint as a mosquito's hum, "I'm not looking. Hurry up and throw that thing away..."
Hu Xiaotian said, "Look, it really is moving!"
At last, Jian Rongxin could no longer suppress her curiosity. She turned around and saw the blue giant on the skin spread across the table moving incessantly atop the naked woman, as though it had come alive. The sight made her blush and her heart pound, yet once her gaze fell upon the image, she could no longer look