"Huh? You want to ask about that?"
"Yes. We'd like to get a full picture. Anything you know would be helpful."
"Oh... I haven't heard of anyone dying there, but I have heard that people dug up the dead... That was pretty strange, too. At first, they set the land aside for a farm. It was more or less... well, it wasn't exactly cleared from scratch. Back in the early days, there was already a farm there. But then there was a war, and the country was founded, and a lot happened. Most of the land over there was left empty, with no one to look after it. Some of us who lived nearby would claim a little of it. If we got too busy, we'd just leave it overgrown and let it be. People were having a hard time back then. The older generation was tough and could endure hardship, but there weren't many people, and we had no machines, so it was impossible... More or less, the land had to be cleared again. Some of the work was done by soldiers, some by us, and some by prisoners doing reform through labor. There were a few machines, but with more than a hundred thousand mu of land, how could a few machines be enough? Honestly, we didn't think about it once there were more machines later on, but back then, it really was all manual labor. And a lot of those prisoners had never farmed before. They were learning as they went and weren't very skilled. Anyway, that's more or less how it was. So... yeah... It was pretty strange."
"What was strange about it?"
"Oh, well, when they first cleared the land, nobody heard about anyone digging up human remains. Later, the work ended, and it stopped