The reason why no one had been able to tell that this bizarre, fleshy sphere was actually a human being was because all the bones in this person's body—except for the skull—had been deliberately removed.
Left with only flesh and skin, inflated into the shape of a round ball, the body naturally failed to stand out.
"Report this to the officials! Report it! How dare this Anjia Village treat human life like dirt nowadays! Using human lives to sacrifice to the river god, this... this must be reported to the authorities!" The tea-vendor brother was scared out of his wits, scrambling up from the ground in a clumsy tumble, ready to run off and report the crime.
Chapter 40