Lu Cijian frowned as he looked at the empty surroundings.
He didn't believe that Likunge would go to such great lengths to create this underground cave just to burn silver to raise rats; there must be some unspeakable secret hidden inside.
Just then, Jiang Yimian said, "Can you smell something strange?"
Jiang Yimian frowned, smelling the occasional whiff of scent in the air, finding it all rather strange.
The smell wasn't like the fishy smell of damp earth, but rather a strange, foul odor mixed with various rotten and bloody smells.
It's not particularly strong, but it's impossible to ignore.
Lu Cijian nodded, and after a moment of silence, said, "There might be a corpse in here."
The smell was all too familiar to him; it was exactly the same as the smell he had in the tower prison.
That smell was caused by too many corpses rotting.
Jiang Yimian was taken aback, but then instantly understood.
The stench of decay and blood is likely caused by a mixture of rotting and fresh corpses.
The two stopped talking and instead began to carefully examine the cave.
However, a scream was suddenly heard.
The sound was some distance away from them, but it didn't seem to be coming from behind them. Instead, it came from the wall on their right. If the cave hadn't been so quiet, they probably wouldn't have heard it.
"That's Xue Lingyu's voice. She must have fallen down by accident too. It doesn't sound like she fell from the same mechanism as us," Jiang Yimian said casually.
Lu Cijian nodded, thought for a moment, and then said, "It seems she probably doesn't know what's hidden here either."
His original idea was to use the other party to lead them to a way out.
Judging from the panicked voice of the other party, they were probably not very familiar with this underground area, and it might be their first time discovering it.
Jiang Yimian smiled helplessly and pretended to be afraid, saying, "Lord Lu, what if we can't get out?"
The girl's voice was soft and gentle, with a hint of coquetry, as if she were genuinely afraid.
Lu Cijian smiled and subconsciously reached out to grab her hand, squeezing through her fingers and inserting his own fingers into hers. He said gently, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
Jiang Yimian was taken aback, but she just smiled and didn't pull her hand away. Instead, she silently squeezed the large, slender hand back.
The two walked for nearly half an hour, but still couldn't find the end. They only noticed that there were more rats on the ground.
The stench of decay in the air was no longer faint; it was now pervasive.
Jiang Yimian frowned as she looked at the rats, which were significantly larger than those in the cell. "These rats underground seem to have eaten quite a lot."
Otherwise, it would be impossible for it to grow this big; it's really strange.
Lu Cijian nodded, then looked around and found that all the rats were heading in one direction, as if they had found something extremely attractive, and were moving forward quickly.
He simply said, "Let's follow these rats and see what happens; we might find something."
Jiang Yimian simply nodded.
The two followed the rat forward, turning several corners and passing through several passages, until they finally arrived at a spacious cave again.
However, the scene before them left the two frozen in place, too afraid to move an inch.
The spacious cave was now filled with corpses.
The corpses were piled up into a small mountain, with many fat black rats climbing on it, and many unknown insects wriggling on the corpses, which was extremely disgusting.
Jiang Yimian found the smell at the tip of her nose extremely pungent. The stench of rotting corpses and blood kept penetrating her nose, making her dizzy and almost causing her to vomit on the spot.
She quickly took out two handkerchiefs from her spatial storage, handing one to Lu Cijian and using the other to cover her own face.
The strong smell of blood and decay hadn't disappeared, but it wasn't as pungent as before.
Lu Cijian slowly approached with a torch in hand, and when he saw the current state of the corpses, he was shocked.
The corpses below were completely decomposed, either torn to pieces by rats and insects or broken into pieces, making them unrecognizable.
On the mountain of corpses, many arms and legs were raised high, probably because the rats tried to move them but failed, resulting in this bizarre scene.
Lu Cijian kicked the stone at his feet toward the pile of large, black rats.
The stone landed on the mountain of corpses with a dull thud, instantly scaring the rats that were frantically climbing up the mountain into scattering in all directions.
Lu Cijian and Jiang Yimian finally got a clear look at the relatively fresh corpses at the top.
It was a little girl of about ten years old, her eyes wide open, her face full of terror, and her naked body covered with bruises and various whip marks, which was extremely terrifying.
Jiang Yimian looked to the side again, and what she saw startled her.
The bodies around the little girl were still around ten years old, but there were both men and women. The expressions on each of their faces were terrified, with their eyes wide open, clearly indicating that they had suffered some kind of fright before they died.
Her hands tightened involuntarily, and she vaguely realized something, "These corpses can't all be children, can they?"
Realizing this, she looked at the mountain of corpses again and felt a chill run down her spine.
This mountain of corpses is made up of the bodies of countless children.
That guy Likunge is really a pervert.
The corpse underneath was covered in maggots, and there were only a few pieces of white bone next to it, which had been there for at least several years.
Li Kunge has been doing this disgusting thing for years.
Thinking of this, she was furious. "Likunge is a pervert. He brought so many children and just piled up their corpses under the mansion. Doesn't he worry about having nightmares at night?"
She never imagined that the secret hidden deep underground would involve so many children.
The children in that mountain of corpses were almost all around ten years old. They should have been at the most carefree age, yet that bastard tortured them to death with such cruel methods.
How afraid and terrified they must have been in life.
I wonder if this person has any other residences; it's truly terrifying.
This place is only two days away from the capital of Tuyuhun, and such a tragic scene has already occurred. If it were elsewhere, many more children would likely have fallen victim to Likunge's cruelty.
She simply dared not think about it.
Lu Cijian frowned deeply as he looked at the corpse.
He never imagined that the secret hidden underground was composed of so many tender lives.
Li Kunge must not be allowed to live.
Whether it's to seek justice for these children or to let them truly rest in peace, this person cannot live on.
He should go to hell to repent for the lives lost.
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