"If you say it like that, I can't help you. For your father's sake, I'll leave you a whole corpse."
Jing Shang said coldly, then raised his frail hand to grab Xia Kai.
The originally thin and short arm swelled up endlessly in Xia Kai's eyes, finally transforming into a menacing claw larger than a human that descended upon him, with sharp nails like blades, piercing his eyes painfully.
He wanted to run away but found his legs wouldn't obey.
In reality, many animals' first reaction when facing danger is not escape but playing dead. The reasons are complex, involving innate genetic traits and learned behavior.
As a human, Xia Kai's instinct to play dead had long been weakened and he hadn't learned such a useless skill, but faced with Jing Shang's monstrous claw, his animal instincts were forcibly awakened.
The result of this forced awakening was him being prey to Jing Shang, the hunter.
"Move, damn legs!"
Facing the approaching claw, Xia Kai screamed frantically in his heart.
