Meanwhile, Su Jiu had already woken up.
After opening her eyes, she discovered that everyone had left except for a handful of people she knew.
Su Jiu looked at Jin Chen, as though asking him what exactly had happened.
For an instant, Jin Chen's expression darkened, but he soon smiled again. "The others left ahead of us."
They had supposedly left ahead, but really, they simply wanted a head start in searching for resources.
Su Jiu's expression remained unchanged. She could understand that. After all, they were neither her kin nor her friends, and had no obligation to stay here waiting for her to heal.
Jin Chen, however, thought otherwise. They had only been able to enter this place thanks to Su Jiu. Their actions left a chill in his heart.
Had Su Jiu known what Jin Chen was thinking, she would probably have laughed aloud. What righteousness could there be between cultivators? As far as she was concerned, she was already grateful that they had not thrown stones at her while she was down.
At the end of the corridor stood a half-open door. It was not hard to guess that those who had left earlier had pushed it open.
Yet the moment they passed through it, they saw two corpses. Both belonged to people who had followed Su Jiu inside earlier.
Su Jiu hurried over to the bodies with her companions and discovered that the wounds left on them were actually sword wounds.
Aside from those, several sets of white bones lay piled in the other corners, some more densely than others. These bones had been there for years.
Si Lin glanced at the corpses and rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "Someone clearly did this. Did they turn on each other?"
Jin Chen took two steps forward, and another