Yang Yong looked up, his gaze grave. "You want to try even if it might achieve nothing?"
"This method comes with no guarantees. It might not work at all. It might even let the Evil Eye parasitize her, turning her straight into an even eerier kind of monster and giving her an even worse death."
"Yes."
Chen Gen answered firmly, without the slightest hesitation. He pointed at Xiaoju, who was breaking down in agony, his eyes filled with resolve. "Look at her now. Between certain death and a slim chance of survival, what is there to choose?"
"Even a one-in-ten-thousand chance is better than standing by and watching her turn into a monster!"
Yang Yong turned to look at Xiaoju and understood.
Cao Xianming's calculations had already made it clear: once this Corpse Worm mutation began, its victims had only two possible outcomes...
They would either become Sea Demon Monsters completely, or use outside help to transform into Half-Human, Half-Eerie Eerie Symbiosis Bodies.
Returning to being completely ordinary people had long since become utterly impossible.
Just then, amid her breakdown, Xiaoju faintly heard Yang Yong and Chen Gen's conversation.
That conversation... did it mean... she could still be saved?
It instantly ignited the flame of survival in her heart.
It was like the last piece of driftwood a drowning person could cling to.
She abruptly stopped crying and scrambled around, dropping to her knees before Yang Yong with a thud. Her young face was covered in tears and blood, her voice choked and urgent. "Big brother... please, save me! I don't want to die! I don't want to become a monster!"
As soon as she finished, she ignored the pain in her forehead and banged her head hard against the ground, again and again.
Once, twice, three times...
Blood soon