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"Do I have flowers on my face?" Miura Huiren asked.
"No…no, but Mr. Miura, you look very pale," his companion replied.
"Haha, I look pale, but you look even worse!" Miura Huiren was about to comment on his companion's appearance when unexpectedly, his companion mentioned his first.
However, Miura Huiren's laughter had barely started when it suddenly came to an abrupt halt, as if an invisible hand had clamped down on his throat mid-laugh. Miura Huiren seemed to realize something and abruptly focused his gaze on the water.
On the part of his legs that had entered the water, a dense mass of tiny black worms clung to the skin. These worms were tiny, barely bigger than lice, but their sheer number was enough to make one's scalp tingle.
The black worms emitted a faint red fluorescence. Miura Huiren understood that this was because the worms were feeding on the blood from his feet. No wonder both their faces looked so pale; it was because these things had been sucking their blood.