Afterward, Kojo, Nagisa, and Liana finally made it out of the underground tomb ruins, only to find the camp almost completely burned down. They were all stunned.
After learning the whole story from Gajou, everyone fell silent again.
There was nothing they could do.
Although the culprit, "Death Emperor's Younger Brother," had been defeated and captured by Luo Zhen, the incident had also caused the entire investigation team to suffer heavy losses.
Luo Zhen, Kojo, and Nagisa had only come to watch and lend a hand. They were not members of the investigation team.
The only people actually carrying out the excavation work around the ruins were Gajou and Liana.
In other words, aside from Gajou and Liana, the entire investigation team had been wiped out in this incident. No one had escaped.
Under such circumstances, how could everyone not fall silent?
Kojo in particular looked extremely grim, as if he had finally realized the importance and severity of the incident.
On one hand, Kojo was still shaken by the dangers they had encountered.
On the other hand, he was also blaming his father for bringing Nagisa along to participate in such dangerous work.
Fortunately, Nagisa had not been injured.
However, ever since she had come into contact with the "Fairy Coffin" in the deepest room on the ruins' third level, Nagisa had remained asleep and showed no sign of waking.
Kojo had been unable to relax because of that. He looked so anxious that he might as well have had the words written across his face.
As for Gajou and Liana, although they were not unconcerned about Nagisa's condition, they still had to make a decision about the matter at hand.
That was, what to do next.
Actually, this matter had already been settled from the very beginning.
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