"Ah!" Pei Mianman exclaimed, but she immediately realized that revealing her location in such a strange environment was not a good thing, so she quickly covered her mouth with her hand.
She instinctively grabbed Zuan's arm and pressed her body tightly against him, as if only in this way could she feel some warmth.
Feeling her trembling slightly, Zu An secretly sighed that although she was usually very imposing, she was still a little girl at heart, and it was normal for her to be afraid when she saw this visually shocking scene.
Let alone the other person, even he, a man, felt a chill run down his spine at the sight. If he were alone, he probably would have jumped up in fright.
But there was a woman next to him, a beautiful woman at that, and for some reason, he suddenly wasn't so afraid anymore.
No wonder that in my past life, my company often arranged for men and women to work together on various tasks. Women could inspire men's courage and hormones, greatly improving work efficiency; similarly, men could stimulate women in a similar way.
He cleared his throat and comforted her, "Don't be afraid, they're just bones. They've been dead for a long time."
Pei Mianman blushed slightly, clearly embarrassed by her outburst: "Hmph, I'm not afraid of them being alive. By the way, is this an ancient battlefield?"
Zuan squatted down next to a nearby skeleton and observed it for a while. He shook his head and said, "I'm afraid not. I haven't seen any weapons around here. It shouldn't be a battlefield."
“What if the victors kill the surrendered soldiers? Of course, they wouldn’t place weapons next to them,” Pei Mianman said. “There’s a legend that an ancient demon god once massacred 400,000 surrendered soldiers in one go. That’s terrifying.”
Zuan was taken aback. Was she referring to Bai Qi? He hadn't expected such a legend to exist in this world.
He always felt that this world was inextricably linked to his previous life's Earth. However, he had previously studied books about the geography of this world at the academy. If the descriptions in those books were not exaggerated, this world was much larger than Earth, so it couldn't possibly be Earth.
Shaking his head to clear his mind of the jumbled thoughts, he replied, "It's unlikely to be a killing of surrendered prisoners. These people don't seem to have their hands tied behind their backs, nor are they kneeling on the ground. It doesn't look like a killing of surrendered prisoners at all."
He had just been observing several skeletons in the vicinity, so he naturally noticed them.
“Could it be a live burial? I noticed you couldn’t seem to get a grip on the wall.” Pei Mianman went to the wall and poked it with her finger. It was hard, yet smooth as if coated with a layer of grease. “This seems to be to prevent the person in the pit from climbing up.”
"Buried alive?" Zuan's expression was strange. "Have you forgotten something? There's no soil here."
Pei Mianman's face flushed instantly as she realized she had made a foolish mistake. If they had been buried alive, these skeletons would still be safely buried underground. The reason they fell in was because the pit was hollow and only had a thin layer of soil on top.
"Then tell me what exactly happened?" she said, feeling embarrassed, and gave a resentful snort.
“I don’t know how they died, but I find one thing very strange: their heads all seem to be facing the same direction,” Zuan said solemnly.
Pei Mianman was taken aback and hurriedly went to examine the surrounding skeletons. She had also felt something was strange before, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. Now, after his reminder, she finally understood. Although the skeletons were lying on the ground in different positions, they had one thing in common: almost all of their heads were lowered, as if they were looking at something at their feet.
Zuan examined them again and said, "They weren't hanged either. The neck of a person who is hanged is broken backward and doesn't bow their head. I also checked other places just now. There are no obvious wounds on these skeletons, which proves that they were not killed by weapons. In addition, their bones are not blackened, so they don't look like they were poisoned."
Pei Mianman's face turned pale: "Don't scare me, you're making it sound weirder and weirder."
Zuan sighed: "This place is strange to begin with. Well, we don't need to investigate the cause of their deaths. Let's find a way out first."
As he spoke, he went to the wall next to him and examined it. He said with some doubt, "Huh, I remember when we fell down, we rolled over a long slope. How come these walls are all straight now?"
“This place is too eerie.” Pei Mianman also remembered that Zu An had just carried her and rolled down from there, but now the surrounding walls were at a 90-degree angle to the ground. Where was that slope?
Zuan also had a bad feeling. He cleared his mind of the jumbled thoughts, looked up at the sky, and muttered to himself, "It doesn't seem that high."
This pit is about twenty meters deep, which is definitely insurmountable for ordinary people, but for cultivators, this distance is still worth trying.
"Wait here for a moment, I'll try to jump up first," Zu An said to Pei Mianman. He had jumped this high before, but he usually needed to use his strength halfway up. But now the wall was so smooth and hard that he could only try to jump over in one go.
He himself would be fine if he fell, but Pei Mianman was injured. If he failed to jump up while holding her and was thrown off, that would be troublesome.
"Okay, be careful!" Pei Mianman said obediently, like a dutiful wife.
Zuan nodded, then took a deep breath, bent his knees slightly, and then pushed off the bottom of the pit, shooting up like a cannonball.
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