Chen Jing, who was in a state of noise invisibility, narrowed his eyes and carefully walked to the side of a corpse. In order to avoid the noise invisibility being broken by interaction with the outside world, he did not try to search the corpse, but only examined it from the outside.

Judging from the remaining parts of the clothing, this is the armor of a former Song soldier, the same as the soldiers who previously guarded the Angel Stone Gate.

The Longsword-IV rifle... is it aimed at... the doorway?

Chen Jing paused slightly, trying to recreate the scene in his mind.

Someone came in through the door, and the soldiers there raised their guns and pointed them at the door...

The absence of ejected shell casings suggests they were a step too slow in firing; the attackers were most likely cultivators with faster reaction times...

Chen Jing walked to another spot where a long table had been overturned and was facing the hall. There were charred marks behind the table, and several charred corpses were behind it.

Chen Jing tried to use the long table as cover, but it was ineffective; the flames exploded directly behind them.

Chen Jing also saw several spent shell casings that had been ejected: "It looks like they must have fired at the door, but there are no bullet marks near the door... Something's not right."

Chen Jing quickly stopped and looked towards the area near the gate.

Sure enough... the long table wasn't facing the doorway directly, but rather slightly off-center from it.

Chen Jing walked along the direction the long table faced to the right of the door and indeed saw several bullets that had been ricocheted.

They didn't fire directly at the door, but rather at a point slightly to the side, their reaction was slow... Perhaps they knew who the intruder was, and that the intruder launched the attack first. Chen Jing made this judgment.

Upon further investigation, Chen Jing discovered even more strange things.

Some people even died from gunshot wounds inflicted by their own colleagues! And some people aimed their guns directly at their own people, rather than at the doorway.

The intruders must have had an inside agent, which is why they were able to easily breach the entire first-floor lobby. But it doesn't make sense, though. How did the inside agent get burned to death by the flames? Was it an indiscriminate attack?

Chen Jing thought for a while but couldn't come up with a solution. He looked at the stairs and steps and continued downhill.

Even if Chen Jing had broken through to the Blood Realm, his spiritual power was still limited. While maintaining his noise invisibility and infusing the bracelet with spiritual power to gain "dark vision," Chen Jing couldn't waste any time.

The hall has downward stone steps, like a basement.

I went down to the first floor, where there seemed to be many cubicles. Some cubicles were closed, while others had their doors open. Inside each cubicle were four bunk beds and bedding.

Soldiers' dormitory? Chen Jing guessed as he walked into an open cubicle.