Jackie Chan and his three companions walked through the Bronze Gate.
To their astonishment, Gu Cheng and the others were standing right at the entrance.
They were about to go over and ask what was wrong.
Then they saw something shocking.
Beyond the Bronze Gate lay another enormous cavern.
It was larger than the cavern outside the Bronze Gate.
Before them lay a stone path about two or three meters wide. It stretched roughly a hundred meters, ending at an archway.
On either side of the path was a huge pit extending into the distance, its ends lost in the dim light.
Inside those pits...
Human remains were piled densely together.
The bones lay in layer upon layer, covering the bottoms of the pits as far as the eye could see.
Everyone felt their scalps crawl, terrified to their core and shaken to their souls.
How many bodies were there?
A thousand?
Five thousand?
Ten thousand?!
Struggling to steady his trembling nerves, Jackie Chan made a rough estimate. If the distant stretches of the pits they could not see were the same, then there were at least tens of thousands of people's
remains here.
Tens of thousands!
What did that mean?!
In modern times, that would equal the population of a small county town.
In ancient times, it would equal the entire population of a city.
Even many small ancient kingdoms had populations of only tens of thousands.
At the thought, Jackie Chan's hands began shaking violently beyond his control.
"Fuck!"
Fatty finally snapped out of it and demanded angrily, "Is this a mass grave? Who were all these people?!"
Gu Cheng said, "If I'm not mistaken, they were all craftsmen who built the tomb."
"In ancient times, craftsmen who built tombs generally didn't meet a good end. When construction