total collapse tore through the River Mother Disaster with instant, total violence.
Without the spirit tension of the core curse to bind them, the hundreds of thousands of drowned corpses lost their unnatural holding power.
The cords of black river moss hardening their joints rotted away in seconds.
The waterlogged muscles, bloated with hundreds of years of rotting salt water, tore apart under the simple weight of the surrounding river.
Massive walls of meat, once dense as cured oak, dissolved into loose gray silt that billowed through the water like underwater smoke.
A hundred meters of knotted horror was coming undone.
The sudden collapse created a total pressure drop.
Millions of gallons of Cangwu River water surged into the resulting empty pocket. It formed a violent high-pressure vortex that pulled down everything in its path.
