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Pfft—
He Ao's feet splashed into the muddy water; he stowed his dagger and walked step by step toward the thin man's collapsed corpse.
He squatted down, grabbed the man's ankle, and dragged him towards the deep shadows of the night.
C-level bodies could potentially turn into dangerous Transcendent artifacts or even contaminate the surrounding area, creating C-level bizarre phenomena. Either case could lead to the innocent deaths of nearby residents.
Therefore, the body could not remain here and needed to be taken to a place where it could be properly disposed of.
The rain curtain continued to fall slowly, washing the blood mixed with mud from the old cement cracks, following the trickling streams into the gaping crevices of the ancient sewers.
After an unknown time, darkness again gave way to light as a window was illuminated. A silhouette pressed against the glass of the window as if attempting to glimpse through the opaque dark glass at the scene outside.
