"What happened here?"
Jeanne was clearly quite surprised by this as well. Li Wei glanced at her.
"You don't remember anything? No reaction at all?"
"No."
Jeanne shook her head. In theory, if this were a game or a movie, she should have been clutching her head in agony or remembering some sort of clue by now. But Jeanne remained quite composed. Although she was a little surprised, she showed none of the reactions Li Wei had hoped to see.
"But this must have been a war... a rebellion?"
"I don't think so."
Li Wei crouched down, rummaged through the pile of bones for a while, then picked up a skull.
"We don't know who these guys were, but at least we can be sure they weren't human."
Li Wei raised the skull in his hand, narrowed his eyes, and examined it closely.
It was long and narrow, looking rather like a dog's skull. Its elongated jaw was lined with sharp teeth, and two pointed horns protruded from its forehead.
He had no idea what this thing had looked like alive, but Li Wei could at least be certain that this was not a human skull.
And it wasn't the only skull like this.
After a quick search, Li Wei found that the skulls here fell into roughly three categories: doglike, bull-like, and humanlike. He called the last kind humanlike rather than human because these skulls were considerably larger than either his or Jeanne's head. If there was one feature all these skulls shared, it was that they all had horns.
During his search, Li Wei also deduced what had happened here from the positions of the remains.
"They were retreating. Running away."
Li Wei carefully surveyed the corridor before giving his answer.
"The Dog-Headed Monsters were running in front,