"Somebody has collapsed!"
"What happened? What is going on?"
Ba Tu's sudden collapse to the ground startled the passersby around. Some ducked away to avoid being implicated, while some came over to help, and the rest kept a distance and watched the commotion grow.
"He is dead!" The Good Samaritan who had knelt to help screamed out loud.
They had not expected such a turn of events. How could a person just die suddenly?
Was it a seizure or a stroke?
Suddenly, a figure emerged from the midst of the gathering crowd. The person announced himself as a student of medicine and began to perform examinations on the corpse under the curious eyes of the onlookers.
"No illness and no injuries either...", he murmured to himself, pressing Ba Tu's chest and abdomen.
Suddenly, Ba Tu's rib cage sagged and cracked opened like a dried husk that crumbled under the force of his hands.
