CHAPTER 499: CHAPTER 377: THE UNDERGROUND TOMB, A TANGLED MYSTERY!

After entering the third level of this underground space, Lin Yue found that it seemed noticeably more spacious than the two levels above.

"This is almost three hundred square meters or more... but these skeletons, there really are quite a lot."

The beam of Lin Yue’s flashlight swept around, checking the surroundings. To confirm whether the oxygen was sufficient, he also lit a torch, and the scenes before his eyes were indeed horrifying.

He saw skeletons after skeletons lying prone on the ground in tragic states; some had various weapons stuck in them, some had heads that had flown off to unknown places, and on some, there were round holes in the skulls...

The furnishings on this level were various tables, chairs, and sofas; against the walls, there were things like weapon racks, with swords and guns slanted in them, but not neatly arranged. As for the walls of the shelter, they changed from the alloy above to stone, appearing much coarser. Moreover, inside here, Lin Yue always felt gusts of wind coming, but he couldn’t tell where from.

The flashlight’s beam landed in a corner of the room, discovering something different. Lin Yue walked over and found an open door. Looking inside, he saw neatly arranged single beds, roughly over forty of them.

The single beds were still covered with dust, and in the glow of the torch and flashlight, Lin Yue discovered eleven skeletons inside.

Of course, they all more or less had fatal wounds and were of various ages.

"Something indescribable must have happened here; it’s simply too tragic." Lin Yue sighed again; there were just too many corpses here.

Altogether, there were twenty-seven skeletons on this level. Their terrifying postures seemed to let Lin Yue see the scene of a tragedy unfolding.

"They were all hit in the vital spots, and some seemed to be killed directly by gunshots to the head." He shook his head; perhaps what occurred here was not just a tragedy but something even more unacceptable.

Looking around, Lin Yue did not discover anything more notable. This larger area should be the residential area, the level above was the warehouse, and the first level was probably the dining area. As a shelter, it wasn’t very well planned, but it was certainly safe enough.

However, there are just so many skeletons here...

Glancing at the dusty footprints on the floor behind him, Lin Yue again questioned how long this place had existed.

No matter how you look at it, the tragedy that occurred here definitely wasn’t just thirty-five days ago.

In thirty-five days, who could make an alloy shelter? Could they also build such a concealed and deep underground shelter? There’s even an oil extraction and refining platform?

Moreover, the time of death for these people is also an unresolved mystery.

But with so little evidence in hand, although Lin Yue had doubts in his heart, he didn’t have direct evidence to prove the terrifying conjecture in his mind.

Lin Yue finally shook his head, walked to the stairs leading down, and proceeded to the next level.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew in, making the torch in his hand flicker in another direction; this suggested that there might be a vent leading outside here, explaining the source of the breeze above.

However, Lin Yue didn’t pay much attention to this; under the light, he was intently focused on the smaller space in front of him occupied by dozens of wooden racks.

The glow of the torch and flashlight illuminated the wooden racks, and surprisingly, they were filled with books!

"Books? And a lot of them are in Tang Country script..." Lin Yue casually picked one up and found the cover said something about strawberry cultivation techniques. Picking up another, it was about something similar.

The dust on these books was quite heavy, but perhaps due to dampness, most of the books were deformed, with many pages stuck together, having no value for further collection.

It seems that the people in this shelter likely went to the Secret Realm to collect a lot of books and made this place into a library for the convenience of reading.

The torch cast a circle of light around, and the surrounding shelves were also filled with various books, truly giving him the feeling of stepping into a library.

Lin Yue continued to search forward, the beam of his flashlight aiming towards the deepest part between the bookshelves, discovering a mass of dark stuff there.

Approaching, he unexpectedly saw a skeleton sitting on a chair!

This skeleton wore a trench coat, and jeans below it, with these pale garments having large patches of blood. It leaned back in the chair, one hand drooping on the chair arm, maintaining a reclined position.

"Could that be... a handgun?" Lin Yue walked over, saw below the hand hanging from the armrest, lying on the ground was a handgun, and looking at the side of the skull, there was a perfectly round bullet hole!

Lin Yue picked up the handgun, finding it was a revolver he had never seen before, with one bullet out of the six missing. Looking again at the bullet hole on the skull, he seemed to understand something.

This person, did they use the handgun to end themselves?