These men were all bare-chested and wore coarse cloth shorts. Some hauled stones, some smashed them, and the cries of work chants never ceased.
But the louder sounds came from the overseers clearly dressed in Bai Family uniforms. Every one of them held a barbed whip, and their mouths scarcely ever stopped berating and cursing.
Though these were stronger adult men, the work they had to do was clearly far harsher and more physically exhausting. From time to time, someone collapsed from exhaustion and fell to the ground.
But they received no treatment at all. All that awaited them was a lash.
If they could still struggle back to their feet after that lash, they could barely keep their lives for the moment. But if they remained down, several more merciless lashes would immediately follow.
Given the terror of those whips, after several strikes, a person was basically finished.
And then, they would be dragged away alive.
Ye Tian and Xia Xuan had originally only followed one person being dragged away. But by the time they had fully entered the mountains, nine people had already been dragged along the way.
Less than a quarter of an hour had passed.
Of those nine, seven had either been beaten to death on the spot or dragged alive across the ground until they died.
Only two had stubbornly held on and remained alive.
The nine were dragged all the way to a cliff deep within the mountains.
The cries of crows and vultures drifted up from the darkness beneath the cliff.
Though it was extremely dim, with the aid of starlight, Ye Tian and Xia Xuan still clearly saw the scene below the cliff.
It was all corpses!
They were packed densely together, layer upon layer, squeezed atop one another, filling the space