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.

closer, only two

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

more likely to survive. One would usually prioritize

raising the woman and hauling her to the

she was yanked ashore by the

Blake’s speed, and had

to the shore, and panicked at

She ran

out at this. “Lilly, don’t

around. “Don’t worry, Grandma! I

she ran

to do. She herself could not

There were too many people by the river— she would only cause more

a safe spot, flagging

no time. She did not act rashly, and merely cupped her hands by her mouth to shout,

up. “Don’t go

the river were strong, and Blake could only hear himself rowing. He had reached the middle

around the person’s clothing, all Blake could feel was a sticky,

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

It was a man.

wrapping around

“What?”

trick

his feet free, stomping

have been scared witless coming face to face with

have been terrified if something in the water

male corpse, stomping down vigorously. He had undergone underwater

and soft— because he had lost his

to think about what was underwater. He grabbed

pursuit, and quickly

was dragged backwards once again. This underwater force seemed

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

was far

able to swim with

whatever force that was underwater had now caught both of his ankles. Blake was no longer dragged backwards, but he could not swim forwards

like the corpse from

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

what he was dealing with, and if it might explode with energy