Spoiled by Eight Uncles (Lily)
Chapter 172

Blake whipped his head around. The voice was loud and shrill, but he did not see anyone around him who could have said the words.

But because of the sound, many people crowded over at once.

"Quick, someone's drowning!"

"Help them... quick, someone help them! Does anyone know how to swim? Save them!"

"Get the people on the boats over here..."

The people shouted loudly in a fit of panic. Soon enough, seven to eight people had crowded by the originally empty riverbank. Almost half of them were holding streaming equipment.

The riverbank broke out into chatter.

"Oh my God! Guys, someone's drowning! Why can't I swim... oh, help them!" This was a panicked cry.

"Guys, someone's drowning. Oh my God, what is with this river and people drowning in it all the time..." This was a voice of shock and confusion.

"I can't swim, sorry... Oh, thank you for the tip, Bro! Oh my, we've got a mega tipper here! Well, uh... I'm going to do it! I'm going to give it a try! Please pray for me, guys!" This was someone who had clearly lost their mind just for a tip...

Amidst the chatter, a middle-aged man had taken off his shirt and was getting ready to jump.

The livestreamers panned their cameras over to him at once.

Lilly ran forwards, tugging at the man's trousers. "You shouldn't go, Sir!"

The man thought that Lilly was worried for him, and said, "Don't you worry. I can swim!"

Lilly was in a fit of panic. "No, there's danger out there in the water..."

Lilly refused to let go. Her red bracelet glowed lightly, and the man could not shake her off no matter how hard he tried.

Someone from the side called out, "Hey, what's wrong with you, kid? Why are you getting in the way? Where are your parents, whose kid is this!"

A few grown-ups crowded over, trying to pull Lilly away.

Blake had just come back up from the mud. Seeing this, he growled, "How dare you touch my daughter!"

The ferocity of his tone scared a few people, and they withdrew their hands.

He cast a look around him. "No one fell into the water. I checked."

Everyone else took in the sight of him, his clothes soaking wet. They stopped short.

The guy hurried to ask, "Did you go down there?"

Blake nodded. "I went. No one drowned."

Everyone found this incredibly strange, nothing but confused.

Yes, Blake had promised Lilly that he would not go into the water before going to the banyan tree, and Lilly had given him an amulet as well.

He had lied. He hadn't gone into the water, and was going to pull her ashore before she got too far away when he realized that something was very off and came back at once.

So, he lied. He did not go into the water, but was going to call for the bots to come over instead of having average people jump in.

Yet just then, a middle-aged woman parted the crowd with a bewildered expression as she shouted, "That's my daughter, that's my daughter..."

She ran towards the river as she screamed, jumping in without hesitation as she continued to shriek, "Jane, Jane!"

"Jane, Mommy's here! Jane..."

"Come back!" Blake cried out coldly.

Yet the woman paid him no mind, swimming deeper into the river.

All of this happened out of nowhere, and no one knew where the woman had even come from.

Yet she had jumped into the river, the water level coming up to her chest before she was knocked over, beginning to struggle.

"Ahh.. help..." she shouted instinctively.

Everyone did not know what to do. "She can't swim! What was she thinking, my God!"

The man was about to jump in again, when Blake held up a hand to stop him as he was on the phone. "I'll get the boats to come over." The streamers began to yell,

"The poor lady's going to drown!"

"The boats are so far away, they're not going to make it in time!"

The man looked over, and wanted to jump again. Blake blocked him off firmly, stopping him from getting into the water.

Seeing Blake stop him time and time again, the man finally lost it and shouted, "There's a life at stake here! What the hell are you doing?" The crowd was beginning to panic as well. "Yes, yes, he can swim! Let him go!"

"Come on, hurry up! She's not going to make it!"

"What's happening over here? Both the kid and the man trying to be nuisances, are they uncaring because it's not happening to them?" Blake saw that the man was not listening to him, and sent him keeling over with a flying kick as he said to Lilly, "Darling, hold him down!" Lilly climbed onto the man at once- and sat right on his back.

The man: ...

He struggled for a little, and found that he really could not get up.

Blake glowered at the crowd. "I said, no one's going into the water!"

The crowd could not retaliate, growing more and more anxious before beginning to yell insults and abuse.

Blake paid them no mind. He made a few calls, to which he got quite a good response.

The nearest boat came speeding over.

Blake estimated the distance. The boat should be here in two minutes.

A human being can be saved within four to six minutes upon drowning, and can be rescued within one or two minutes after they have drowned.

Even if the woman had stopped struggling, she would be saved for sure if she was given help within two minutes.

Which was to say that as long as the boat got here in two minutes, she would be fine. She would just cough up some water, and be fit as a fiddle.

The sun was setting then, its rays hitting the woman in the water. Blake suddenly thought of one risk: the resentful spirit might drag the woman underwater- But Blake did not really care about whether or not that happened, really.

Call him cold-blooded, or heartless. A life was just a life. Why drag other innocent people down because these people kept on refusing to listen?

The crowd began to curse Blake out. Even the streamers were piping up in rage.

"This man's completely heartless! He's got a kid, too! No wonder his daughter's just as evil as he is. It truly runs in the family!"

"Does this man have a heart? How could he be so cold-blooded?"

"He's making it sound like there might be danger in the water, but there's a life at stake here! Are we really going to see a life end before our eyes and not do anything?"

"What a fake! He thinks he's doing good, but he's clearly just trying to get popular!"

Harvard was the only streamer who remained silent, but his gaze flashed excitedly.

He had taken the chance to whip out two phones the second he heard someone cry out, "Someone's fallen into the water!, and now had three angles shooting Lilly, Blake and the woman. All of these shots were going to be great content!

Harvard knew very well that this was going to land him in the top searches. No one was going to cover this as well as he did.

He was going to edit a few videos in a row, and upload them every half an hour! Yes, this was going to make him go viral- Harvard was certain he was going to make it big!

Just then, someone cried out in shock.

"Look over there!"

All that could be seen as the sun set across the river, was a blond female corpse floating over. She was clad in a gray and white miniskirt.

It was clear she was a corpse, because she was floating lifelessly...

Just as everyone was agape in shock and horror, a terrifying sight happened.

The corpse raised her hand, dragging the woman to the bottom of the ocean!