Luomei's eyes widened in sheer disbelief, her pupils contracting as her heart hammered violently against her ribs. The frantic pounding echoed in her ears like the beat of a frantic drum. Tension gripped her with absolute force, her entire body rigid and coiled like a fully drawn bowstring.
Before long, she realized this was no illusion. On either side of Lin Yu's spine, four fist-sized bulges began to protrude, vibrating violently like volcanoes on the verge of eruption or cornered beasts driven to fury. They throbbed and swelled frantically, as if frantically accumulating a force of terrifying magnitude—a surging, roaring energy that threatened to burst forth at any second and shatter everything into dust.
Luomei clamped a hand over her mouth to stifle the scream threatening to escape her absolute terror. Her legs turned to jelly, threatening to collapse beneath her, yet she forced herself to stand firm, her eyes fixed in morbid fascination on those bizarre and terrifying protrusions along Lin Yu's back.
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