"Rustle, rustle..."
"Slurp, slurp..."
Not far away, Xiao Yu was still struggling, kicking up great clouds of dust across the wilderness.
In front of Xu Ye, Jiang Qiang was crouched on the ground, picking through Shenchuan Qian's corpse.
After the intestines came the stomach, and after the stomach, the heart and lungs...
The sight was so horrifying that Xu Ye felt a physical urge to vomit.
"Has he been corrupted? Has his second personality taken over? Is he just a beast?" Xu Ye asked instinctively.
His heart thumped violently, and a trace of confusion crept into the Bandit Lord's voice. "That shouldn't be possible. Awakened aren't corrupted this easily. Besides, he tore off his arm and cut off the pollution source. Corruption shouldn't happen this quickly, either. It might make sense if he were an ordinary person."
Xu Ye gripped the Black Blade tightly.
"Some kind of ritual?" Alice suddenly asked in a low voice.
"What?" the Bandit Lord and Xu Ye asked together.
At that, Alice stood on her hind legs and planted her forelegs on her hips, chuckling. Finally, it's this cat's turn to shine.
"I don't know. I feel like I've seen something like this before. It's a ritual that lets you assimilate others by devouring them, then reach another state of being... Damn it, my head's such a mess."
While Alice clutched her chubby head, Jiang Qiang finished his meal across from them.
Jiang Qiang turned around, carefully wiping the blood and scraps of flesh from the corners of his mouth with a tissue. When he saw Xu Ye, he smiled happily.
Xu Ye noticed something golden sprouting from the stump of his severed arm.
He rubbed his eyes, confirming that he wasn't seeing things-those were ears of rice, cluster after cluster, growing at a visible