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.

middle-aged lady was closer,

middle of the water, the lady might be dead by that time. The person in the middle of the river was already unmoving, and

the person who was more likely to survive. One would usually prioritize that factor

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

once before she was yanked ashore by the people nearby. Her cries could still be heard from a

Lilly could not match Blake’s speed, and

the shore, and panicked

Daddy!” She ran

freaked out at this. “Lilly, don’t go

I know what I’m doing.

speaking, she ran

know what to do. She herself could not go down, that would only

many people by the river— she would only cause more trouble if she were to fall

to a safe spot, flagging down

fast runner for how short her legs were, and reached the shore in no time. She did not act rashly, and merely cupped her

over, hoisting her up. “Don’t

himself rowing. He had reached the middle of the river, and reached out to grab the

the person’s clothing, all Blake could

begun to grow

It was a man.

then, he felt something wrapping around his ankles and

“What?”

you trick

wrenched his feet

scared witless coming face

been terrified if something in the water was to grab their ankle out of

the floating male corpse, stomping down vigorously. He had undergone underwater training before, and was able to use his strength underwater unlike most

lost his footing after stomping down, the round thing was probably shaped like a human

not have time to think about what was underwater. He grabbed the male corpse, swimming

pursuit, and quickly caught up to his leg

This underwater force seemed to be pretty

let go of the corpse, pushing it hard towards the shore.

was far

doing this, he was able

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

felt slimy, like

If he didn’t panic, he might just be able

work. He did not know what he was dealing with, and if it might explode with