Spoiled by Eight Uncles

Blake weaved through the crowd quickly, and saw a head bobbing about the water.

Even more strangely, there were two girls sobbing their hearts out. Both of them were drenched.

He had heard that there had been two girls who had fallen into the water. Had they been rescued already.

A middle aged woman shouted, “Give me back my daughter! My poor daughter!”

She panicked as she spoke, insisting on getting into the water.

Blake pulled her out of the way at once. “Don’t you go in there!”

The lady refused to listen, insisting on going in. “My daughter, please save my daughter!”

But, there were a few old uncles and aunties shouting by the shore, “No, it’s a man… there’s a man too!”

So was it a man or a woman?

The middle-aged woman shoved Blake away, and was promptly yanked back.

He asked sternly, “Can you swim?”

The lady shook her head.

Blake said, “Don’t go in there. Wait here for me. Got it?”

Upon speaking, he jumped into the water. There was a life at stake here, and time waited for no one.

Blake rowed in the direction of the floating head.

Only for the middle-aged lady by the shore to jump in anyways. The water’s edge was shallow but got deeper as it went further into the center. She walked along the edge, shouting, “My daughter, save my daughter!”

Before she could finish, she lost her footing and slipped and fell into the river!

The lady cried out in panic, struggling and flailing her limbs.

“Help…”

Blake was nothing but annoyed. He’d told her not to come in, she didn’t know how to swim— and she’d done it anyway.

He stared at the head in the middle of the river. It had stopped moving.

was closer, only two meters

save the person in the middle of the water, the lady might be dead by that time. The

survive. One would usually prioritize that factor when saving someone, not who was more deserving

the woman and hauling her to the shore, before swimming off into

crying out once before she was yanked ashore by the people

match Blake’s speed, and had only reached the shore

looked to the shore,

Daddy!” She

freaked out at this. “Lilly,

I know what I’m doing.

she ran

She herself could not go down, that would only add more

half a meter. There were too many people by the river— she would only cause more trouble if

safe spot, flagging down a passer-by to watch over

reached the shore in no time. She did

her up. “Don’t go running around,

could only hear himself rowing. He had reached the middle of the river, and reached out to grab the floating

second his fingers closed around the person’s clothing,

had just fallen into the water. Why did they feel mossy and slimy, like algae had begun to grow on them? The person was on their back, exposing a pale and lifeless face with upturned eyes. It was

It was a man.

got a shock. Just then, he felt something wrapping around his ankles and pulling him into the

“What?”

trick me, of

his feet free, stomping down

would have been scared witless coming face to face with a corpse, but

have been terrified if something in the water was to grab their ankle out of nowhere… but not

male corpse, stomping down vigorously. He had undergone

because he had lost his footing after stomping

time to think about what was underwater. He grabbed the male corpse, swimming vigorously

its pursuit, and quickly caught

again. This underwater force seemed to be

pushing it hard towards the shore. Whether the corpse made it or not was

was far

was able

Blake was no longer dragged backwards, but he could not swim forwards as well. He

ankles felt slimy, like the corpse from just

raced. If he didn’t panic, he might just be able to hold off this underwater force

know what he was dealing with, and if it might explode with energy all of a