"Aunt i?"
Yan Junze turned back in shock, looking at Aunt i's floating head in mid-air.
Aunt i still wore a smile, seemingly unconcerned. She shook her head at Yan Junze as if to convey a ssage—it's all right.
"Your body, what's happened to it?"
More Black Bugs had crawled to Yan Junze's feet, and he had to step back two paces, watching Aunt i's head.
Aunt i's eyelids drooped as though sighing but she didn't seem ready to answer Yan Junze.
With a thought, Yan Junze released the two strange babies from the Lockdown.
Due to their sensitivity to visuals, the two strange babies seed quite comfortable in the dim environnt as soon as they erged, quickly integrating into it, and soon recognizing the familiar surroundings.
Then, one of the strange babies looked up, saw Aunt i's headless body, and felt astonished. It turned its head towards Yan Junze, its gaze finally landing on Aunt i's floating head.
Squeak, squeak, squeak...
The two strange babies seed very scared, scratching their ears and cheeks, and occasionally looking up at Aunt i.
Yan Junze didn't understand what their behavior ant, but then saw the two strange babies turn their heads and quickly scurry towards Aunt i's headless body, grabbing a handful of Black Bugs from it and stuffing them into their mouths.
The crunching was abnormally crisp, as if a person was cracking sunflower seeds.
The two strange babies grabbed in handfuls, moving swiftly without pause, soon filling their cheeks which kept bulging.
Watching this, Yan Junze seed to understand sothing.
To his surprise, although the Black Bugs were being eaten by the strange babies, they did not flee, but continued to crawl on Aunt i's body, desperately munching away.
But Aunt i's body was not so easily consud—even though the Black Bugs had strong bones and sharp teeth, they struggled to nibble away even a small bit of flesh.
The two strange babies grew more excited as they ate, eventually climbing onto the headless body, continuously grabbing Black Bugs and stuffing them into their mouths.
Right before Yan Junze's eyes, a large number of Black Bugs beca the strange babies' al. They no longer grabbed in handfuls, as with rapid consumption, the number of bugs began to dwindle.
One of the strange babies crawled directly into the neck's severed spot of the headless body. After it went inside, more Black Bugs, as if startled, frantically crawled out through the severed neck.
The other strange baby just sat on the headless body, waiting for these Black Bugs to surge out and then quickly grabbing them by the handful and chewing them up.
The strange baby inside the body also seed to be enjoying its al, producing crisp crunching sounds.
Soon, the number of Black Bugs crawling out began to decrease. The baby sitting outside could no longer grab them by the handful and had to pick them one by one, like picking peanuts, and putting them in its mouth.
The Black Bugs beca fewer and fewer, and the baby sitting on the outside started to belch, seemingly full.
Upon closer examination, Yan Junze could see that the little guy's belly was swollen, obviously from overeating.
Before long, as the Black Bugs on the outside nearly vanished, the strange baby on the body jumped down, rummaging through the clothes, searching everywhere. Whenever it found a bug, it imdiately pinched it up and put it into its mouth.
Yan Junze could see Aunt i's swollen body undulating, bulging out and then deflating.
After a while, the strange baby inside the body poked its head out of the broken neck. Since Aunt i had been dead for many years with no blood left in her body, the baby looked the sa as before.
Only, its mouth was bulging, still chewing—it seed to have eaten all the Black Bugs inside the stomach.
Luckily, the strange baby was small, otherwise it would have found it difficult to crawl out of the neck again after being full.
Aunt i's head still wore a smile, flew over, trailing fluttering Blood Threads below. It approached another Blood Thread protruding from the broken neck.
However, the tips of these two Blood Threads were not blood-red but a poisoned black.
The head's connecting Blood Thread moved as if on its own, reaching out to the broken part of the Blood Thread from the neck and sticking to it, looking sowhat unstable.
But soon, the joined Blood Threads began to change color; the black faded away, turning into a translucent red.
Now, the joining section of the Blood Threads beca tighter, and Aunt i's head started to slowly near the severed neck.
Before long, the two joined together.
Aunt i's body moved slightly, her hands lifting to hold her head, twisting it a few tis, and then she slowly stood up.
It could be seen that her previously bloated body now appeared sowhat thinner.
Moreover, if it weren't for the loose overcoat, Yan Junze believed the body was almost completely devastated.
Seeing Aunt i stand up, the two strange babies ran to a corner, huddling together, occasionally glancing at her with a sense of both attachnt and fear of getting too close, exactly as before.
"Aunt i, you... Are you all right?" Yan Junze asked.
Aunt i's body swayed as she walked slowly to a row of wooden boxes, looking at Yan Junze.
After a mont, a sound roared in Yan Junze's head—it was Aunt i speaking.
This was his second ti speaking with Aunt i, and she didn't seem to like speaking much. This strange way of speaking was a vibration directly in Yan Junze's mind, as if transmitting sound through it.
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