Chapter 280: Sealing × Screams × the Man with Closed Eyes
The kitchen knife sucked blood extremely quickly, but it did not drain the corpse completely. Some blood remained.
The appearance of the blood-vessel tendrils seemed more like an illusion. They vanished in the blink of an eye, leaving only a corpse that looked extremely familiar to Joey.
It looked familiar precisely because he had seen this before while rescuing Knuckle!
What remained of the corpse after its blood was sucked out was the same special flesh that Pighead had controlled from inside the room.
But that was not what surprised Joey most. What truly startled him was that the shriveled ape's appearance was showing signs of changing toward that of the earlier Pighead.
Joey could even clearly sense the ape's appetite for the lump of flesh left by the corpse. It seemed that if he loosened his restraints just a little, this ape, which had likewise had its "vital essence" sucked out, would pounce on that flesh and devour it in great mouthfuls.
A thought involuntarily arose in Joey's mind. Could the Pighead stationed in that room earlier have been not a Humanoid, but a freak transformed from a human?
Looking at the lump of flesh, Joey abandoned his plan to continue experimenting with the ape.
It was a human corpse, after all. Having the ape eat that thing in front of him still felt wrong.
Besides, the ape itself was not a real living creature. After the kitchen knife's feeding-or, more accurately, its attack-it had become extremely weak. Without Joey even giving any instructions, its body had already begun showing signs of collapse.
Potting soil spilled from its abdomen. When it turned back into a flowerpot, the pot could be seen to have shattered completely.
This should have