“I disagree,” Aria said. “It would be better if these people died.”
However, he still kicked the horse with his heel to slightly increase its speed.
Further on, the trees gradually thinned out, but the number of corpses remained high.
The forest turned into a muddy plain, and gallows replaced the branches. Countless crows screeched as they flew up from the corpses, only to fall back down once the crows had passed.
These are evil people, Lei Zhen reminded himself, but the scene still saddened him.
He forced himself to look through them one by one, searching for familiar faces.
He felt he had seen some of them somewhere before, but due to the mutilated state of their bodies, it was difficult to be sure.
Finally, they arrived at their destination before sunset.
Standing three stories high amidst the muddy road, it resembles a solitary fortress. Its walls, towers, and chimneys are all constructed from carefully selected, high-quality white stone, which gleams faintly and coldly against the backdrop of the gray sky.
The south wing is firmly built on heavy wooden piles, below which is low-lying and cracked earth, overgrown with weeds and interspersed with brown withered grass, like the traces of time, quietly settling under the erosion of years.
The north wing was nestled close to a thatched-roof stable and a towering clock tower.
The entire building is surrounded by a low wall made of white gravel, which bears the deep marks of time and is covered with moss.
"We've arrived! This is it!" the guide announced. "Go inside, and you'll find a secret passage that leads directly to the dungeon of the Endless City!"
Upon seeing this, Lin Mo's heart skipped a beat. "Ruoxi and the others...are they here?"
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