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.

lady was closer, only two meters

he were to save the person in the middle of the water, the lady might be dead by that time. The person in the middle of the river was

would usually prioritize that factor when saving someone, not

and hauling her to the shore,

out once before she was yanked ashore by the

Lilly could not match Blake’s speed, and had only reached the

the shore,

She

out at this. “Lilly,

turned around. “Don’t worry, Grandma! I know what I’m

she

what to do. She herself could not

clutched her remote controller, backing her wheelchair up half a meter. There were too many people by the river— she would only cause more trouble if

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

in no time. She did not act rashly, and merely cupped

hoisting her up. “Don’t

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

clothing, all Blake could feel

the water. Why did they feel mossy and slimy, like algae had begun to grow on them? The

It was a man.

Just then, he felt something wrapping around his ankles and

“What?”

dare you trick

feet

scared witless coming face to face with a corpse, but not

would also have been terrified if something in the water

corpse, stomping down vigorously. He had undergone underwater training before, and was able to

and soft— because he had lost his footing after stomping down, the round thing was probably shaped like a

what was underwater.

underwater was relentless in its pursuit,

dragged backwards once again. This underwater force seemed to

the shore. Whether the corpse made it or

was far

doing this, he was able to swim

caught both of his ankles. Blake was no longer dragged backwards, but

slimy, like the corpse from just

be able to hold off this underwater force until the authorities got

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