Chapter 169 Is Saving Someone A Mistake?


    The rescue boats lit up the water in the night, searching and scooping as time passed.


    The middle–ageddy, now restrained, continued to shriek, "My daughter… my daughter…"


    Yet after half an hour searching, nothing seemed toe up. Someone said that the girl may have


    been dragged under the current, and had sunk to the bottom of the river.


    Either way, there was no way she was still alive…


    "Ugh, if thatdy hadn''t meddled just now… her daughter might have been found…"


    "Alright, stop talking about it. She just lost her daughter, that''s a pretty big deal…"


    The middle-aged woman''s chest ached as she listened.


    No, how could it have been her fault?


    She had just been anxious. Any mother would have done the same in a situation like this.


    She hadn''t asked for ke to save her, either. Why hadn''t he saved her daughter, and gone back for


    her instead!


    The woman was ovee with remorse and guilt she could barely breathe, running to ke and


    beginning to hit and kick at him:


    "Why didn''t you save my daughter first! Why did you rescue a dried-up corpse! Why did you save me!"


    "You''re evil, you should be dead! My daughter''s only sixteen, but you didn''t save her! You should be


    dead!"


    The middle-ageddy shrieked loudly, yelling bloody murder at ke.


    Lilly clenched her fists. "Unreasonable! Unreasonable! You''re being absolutely ridiculous!"


    Her father was far from deserving to be dead!


    Lilly did not get it. Her father had tried so hard to save everyone, why was it his fault now?


    ke pushed Lilly behind him gently, his expression cold.


    He could understand the pain of losing one''s daughter—e to think of it, he would be just as


    overwhelmed if his dear Lilly was gone.


    But understanding was one thing. That didn''t mean he was going to be med for it.


    ke grabbed the woman''s palm, outstretched and ready to p Lilly. He shoved her away. "I won''t


    me you for this, seeing as your daughter''s nowhere to be found."


    The woman refused to back down still. The man that had helped Bettany look after Lilly just now


    shouted, "Are you done making a scene?"


    "Did he not go down to try saving everyone? Did he not run into trouble on the water as well?"


    "Who do you think you are, asking for someone to sacrifice their life for your daughter''s! Is your


    daughter''s life somehow worth more than that of others'' now?"


    The woman bit her lip. So what if it was?


    The point was that her daughter was gone now!


    "Did I beg him though?" The woman had seemingly lost it, shouting such a thing.


    Everyone else did not know what to say.


    Someone piped up, "It''s truly your daughter''s demise to have a mother like you! No wonder she offed


    herself."


    "Exactly! Who says that? He jumped in to save your daughter, and you''re still saying all that."


    The woman broke down for real this time, sobbing loudly as she screamed, "What the hell are you


    talking about! My daughter''s already gone, and you''re speaking of her like this! Did he save her? No,


    he didn''t! You''re all evil, saying things like this…"


    She iled her arms as she spoke, trying to hit the crowd.


    Polly was not having any of that. She hid in Lilly''s shoulder, squawking, "You evil woman, fall on that


    big bottom of yours!"


    Just as the words rang through the air, the woman really lost her footing and slipped and fell to the


    ground.


    Her head hit the ground hard, putting her in a kneeling position to the person that she had just hit.


    Both Lilly and ke were rendered speechless by it.


    Polly herself was terrified at the sight, scrambling to appease Lilly at once.


    ke scooped Lilly up. "Let''s go!"


    The authorities had finished recording his statement, and he had also left his number with them.


    There was no point in staying here anymore.


    Before leaving, ke cast onest nce at the corpse lying by the shore.


    The tarp covering his face had been blown open, exposing his bloated, pale face.


    ke''s heart lurched in fear at the sight—


    The man''s pupils were looking at him!


    Just now in the water, they had been rolled backwards.


    When he was ashore, they were wide open and staring in front of him.


    And now…


    The pupils had somehow turned over!


    ke was speechless


    Lilly asked, "Dad, what''s up?"


    ke asked, "Where''s your Master?"


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    Lilly responded, "He''s back underground. Said that there was someoneing for an inspection…"


    ke did not say anything more. He pushed Bettany along, returning home.


    Bettany asked anxiously, "Are you alright?"


    ke did not show much emotion, only mumbling, "I''m fine."


    Bettany, "Why were you struggling in the water for so long, then?"


    She had been on the walkway by the riverbank when everyone was crowding by the shore, and could


    see that ke had been struggling in the water for quite a while.


    ke wrung his T-shirt out. "The water weeds were a pain."


    Bettany could not help but nag, "Well, don''t be so rash next time! It''s sote in the night, how terrifying!


    You can''t see anything, what if you had run into something in the water?


    ke was speechless.


    Bettany was referring to branches, or rocks in the water.


    ke thought of the thing that had grabbed his ankles just now.


    Once he was home, ke took off his soaked clothes to reveal his firm, broad chest. He checked


    himself for wounds in the mirror, and saw nothing strange.


    There was just a purple-green handprint on his ankle…


    "Tss.." ke touched the mark. It felt cold.


    It seemed like he would have to go looking for his dear Lilly after he was done showering.


    Just as he was in the middle of his thought, a knock sounded on the door. ke wrapped himself up in


    a towel, cracking the door open slightly.


    Lilly stood outside the door, looking to the left and right before whispering, "Dad…"


    ke opened the door for her toe in.


    "What''s the matter, my darling child?" He asked.


    Lilly was holding a wooden sword around the length of a palm. She was d in yellow robes, and was


    holding a paper amulet in her other hand.


    God knows when she''d bought all that…


    Lilly said, "Dad, I''m here to exorcize you!"


    ke: "Uh… hang on."


    He hadn''t showered yet.


    Lilly nodded. "Don''t run a bath!"


    ke gestured an ''ok'' sign at her. He had never liked taking baths anyways.


    The sound of water came through the bathroom. Lilly was still worried, and called out. "Daddy?"


    ke''s voice rang through. "Mmm?"


    Lilly stopped worrying. "Nothing, just checking if you''re alive."


    ke was speechless.


    Within thirty seconds, Lilly called out again. "Daddy?"


    ke thought to himself …I''m still alive.


    Another thirty seconds passed. "Daddy?"


    ke was speechless


    The door opened with a creak, and ke stood in the doorway with a bemused expression.


    He was d in a bathrobe, tossing the towel he had used just now into theundry basket as he said,


    "My dear child, this is the fastest Daddy''s ever taken a shower.


    Lilly thought, Uh…


    She asked, "Are you clean, then?"


    ke was speechless.


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