Chapter 313: Sacrifice
A wall!
A rock wall covered in green moss.
There were no gaps between the stones; the rock wall was a single solid piece.
And it was not just this wall. All four walls were the same.
"Prison?"
Qin Ran looked at the cell door in the opposite wall, then at the skeleton by his feet and the shackles extending from the wall. He frowned.
Everything before him was far too familiar.
He had encountered something like this in the special punitive dungeon [Prisoner].
The only difference was that he had been far luckier than the unfortunate fellow at his feet.
"The skull was severely shattered. It was probably struck head-on with a flail, hammer, or similar weapon, crushing the crown of the head..."
"The unfortunate man chained here had been forced into a corner. He had struggled and begged continuously, but the murderer showed no mercy and killed him with a single blow!"
After crouching down to examine the skeleton, Qin Ran came to that conclusion, and the scene from back then surfaced in his mind.
Then, his gaze shifted to the cell door.
To his surprise, the prison door was not locked.
"There is light outside, yet the cell door is unlocked. If I rule out the possibility that this is an illusion, then the guards must have known the person here was already dead!"
"But if they knew he was dead, why did they leave him here to decay into bones?"
A new doubt arose within Qin Ran.
After all, the process of a corpse decaying into a skeleton was anything but pleasant to witness.
Leaving aside everything else, that stench alone was not something ordinary people could endure.
Especially not in an underground prison like this.
Qin Ran could easily imagine everyone having