Lu Feng stood frozen in place, scrutinizing each corpse with his Evil-Dispelling Spirit Eyes as he forcibly endured the shock of the nauseating sight.
Fortunately, the seven intact corpses and one partial corpse that had been sorted out all showed male characteristics. Judging by their bone age, they had all been around forty or fifty.
Lu Feng secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"You three." Ji Lanjun's cold, severe gaze swept toward Liu Chenzhou and the other two. "Go take off these people's storage vessels. There may be clues inside as to why they died here."
Liu Chenzhou's expression abruptly changed. "Let's not... It's too disgusting..."
"Hm?" Ji Lanjun glared at him, her face turning hostile.
Liu Chenzhou hurriedly swallowed his words and steeled himself as he approached the cluster of corpses. The moment he drew near and caught that revolting stench, he began dry-heaving uncontrollably.
In the end, Hu Buzui had to use the scent of alcohol to seal off his sense of smell before he could barely clear away these people's storage vessels.
As usual, Ji Lanjun handed them over to the people from Shadow Pavilion to inventory.
Though Xi Youmeng was worried about her father's safety, seeing these people die here for no apparent reason left her deeply uneasy. Fearing that her own group might encounter something similar later, she patiently remained behind.
After a round of searching.
Song Wenbai shook his head. "I found nothing here."
Dong Li echoed, "Neither did I. There's nothing but ordinary items in the storage vessels. These people seemed to be guards of some sort, so the resources they carried were limited."
Tu Xiaomin hesitantly said, "I didn't find any special resources or treasures, but there are a lot of strange containers. I don't know what they were used for."
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