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Chapter 313: Children Are the Future
"It's true! It happened to Walpole's family, and I was there—I saw it with my own eyes!"
"Oh, you should've seen it, it was awful! The baby was only four months old, covered in blood from being gnawed by a rat. The rat ran off as soon as it saw people, still holding a tiny finger in its mouth—horrifying!"
"Exactly! We wrapped the baby's hand in cloth, but the blood just kept gushing out. Nothing could stop it."
Under the gentle probing of Yi Wenni, a reporter from the Interconnected News Headquarters, the village elders at the entrance quickly let down their guard, chattering eagerly about the incident. To elicit shocked reactions from outsiders, they grew more animated and exaggerated with each retelling.
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