Ning Weihe rubbed his chin: "What about your speculated cause of death?"
The young man was stunned for a moment, touched his head and replied: "Chief... I am not a forensic professional, and I am really unfamiliar with this aspect - Lao Cui, it's your turn..." He poked the "rescuer" beside him.
"Lao Cui" stood up suddenly like pulling an onion out of dry land, and then looked around nervously.
"Ahem!" Ning Weihe coughed to remind him, and the former quickly responded: "Yes, leader!"
After the guy on his left repeated the question in a low voice, the guy said apologetically, "Sir—I think they were probably crushed to death by their own weight."
"Your inference?"
"No, no, no, it's just my imagination."
"Tell me about it, before the comrades from the Academy of Sciences submit their reports..."
"Is that even necessary?" Old Cui muttered to himself. "We've found over 100,000 skeletal remains so far. Most are found in buildings, mostly lying down. A smaller number are scattered along roadsides, mostly standing, with some crawling. Their skeletons show virtually no visible trauma—I'm referring to injuries from cuts or kinetic weapons impacts. Of course, some may be secondary damage from disasters."
"Do you think a disaster has occurred here?" Ning Weihe accurately extracted the key points.
"Yes, that's the only explanation. Only a disaster of enormous scope could have caused so many, uh, giants, to die in the same manner within such a short period of time. I'll reserve my opinion on their technological level for now, but if it were us, or a civilization similar to ours, it wouldn't have been possible unless we were attacked by weapons far beyond our comprehension. Furthermore, I can't imagine why those enemies would kill these giants."
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