"The prison gate... was smashed open from the inside." Li Shun examined it, his voice grave.
Only seven or eight mutilated corpses remained in the sinister cells. The bloodstains had long since dried black.
The other prisoners had clearly taken advantage of the chaos to flee.
"But what's strange is that something this terrible happened at the county office, and no one outside noticed a thing." Li Qing's expression was grim as well.
"To the granary first." Though shocked, Duan Jiuzhang kept his composure. With a sweep of his sleeve, he used a secret art to seal off the county office, forbidding anyone else from entering the scene of carnage. Then he led the two brothers at a hurried pace toward the Yunguan County granary.
The granary gates were still locked. An eerie silence hung over the place, steeped in an unnatural air of death.
"Something... doesn't feel right." Li Shun instinctively sensed that something was wrong.
Duan Jiuzhang moved a finger, forcibly breaking the seal. In an instant, a stench of blood so thick it was almost tangible burst out like a caged beast, striking them full in the face.
"Hm?"
Duan Jiuzhang's expression changed sharply. The moment the doors swung open, he moved like lightning, seized Li Shun and Li Qing, and dragged them sideways.
Then Li Shun saw something he would never forget.
Blood surged through the doorway like a raging crimson tide!!
Swoosh!
The vast granary seemed to have become a giant vessel brimming with blood. With the barrier gone, the blood pent up inside rushed out unchecked, pooling in a viscous, dark-red layer across the ground.
Amid the churning scarlet waves, countless severed limbs and organs could be glimpsed, drifting like deadwood on the current.
Mountains of corpses and a sea of blood!
The horrifying,