Traces of Evidence, a Timeline That Didn't Add Up!

"This smell..."

Sensing that something was wrong, Su Mo immediately frowned and signaled for the team to stop.

The snowflakes drifting down from the sky had yet to stop completely.

They fell thickly, masking the scents of most living creatures and the stench of decay.

Yet this smell had broken through that barrier and carried clearly for hundreds of meters.

It was hard to imagine that without the snow to conceal it, they probably would have been able to smell it from the foot of the mountain.

"Call the Second Team over. Don't act rashly yet."

As Su Mo issued the order,

the Second Team, which had been taking a detour, also noticed the problem inside the cave. After receiving the Main Team's signal, they completely dropped their disguise and began advancing at full speed.

In less than five minutes, the two teams successfully joined up a hundred meters from the cave.

At that distance, even people with relatively dull senses of smell could clearly detect the foul, bloody stench coming from inside.

"Director, could this place be..."

The smell was overpowering. Most people instinctively took half a step back and began taking masks from their waists and putting them on.

Only Feng Tianmin and a few others stared solemnly at the pitch-black cave entrance, carefully using their noses to distinguish the information carried by the smell.

Su Mo shook his head to indicate that he did not know either.

Then he took a telescope from the Small Leather Pouch at his waist and began peering toward the cave's dark entrance.

Like Cliff Territory, the area outside this ferocious settlement's cave was also covered in crooked characters and symbols, indicating the identities of the people living inside.

However, most of the writing was now covered in snowflakes. Clearly, no one