Chapter 172


    Chapter 172 She Just Won’t Listen


    ke 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.


    ke had juste 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?”


    ke nodded. “I went. No one drowned.”


    Everyone found this incredibly strange, nothing but confused.


    Yes, ke 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 toe 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!” ke 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 evene from.


    Yet she had jumped into the river, the water leveling 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 ke held up a hand to stop him as he was on the phone.


    “I’ll get the boats toe over.”


    The streamers began to yell,N?velDrama.Org: text ? owner.


    “The poordy’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. ke blocked him off firmly, stopping him from


    getting into the water.


    Seeing ke 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?”


    ke 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.


    ke 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.


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


    The nearest boat came speeding over.


    ke 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. ke suddenly thought of one risk:


    the resentful spirit might drag the woman underwater—


    But ke 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 ke out. Even the streamers were piping up in rage.


    “This man’spletely 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 popr!”


    Harvard was the only streamer who remained silent, but his gaze shed 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, ke and the woman.


    All of these shots were going to be great content!


    Harvard knew very well that this was going tond 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


    d 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!