However, if you look closely, you can still see a slight difference.

These bones, which resemble a sea of white foam, are slightly different from those on the stairs before they die.

Some of them have been scattered, while the skeletons that are still intact and partially intact are frozen in a mad posture.

They seem to be trying to repel a threat with all their might, or they are hooking their crooked finger bones around their companions' shoulders in a cannibalistic, push-and-shove motion.

All of these bones have tiny tooth marks on them, most of which are left by rats, a few from the gnawing of humanoids, and a small number of small mouse bones among these skeletons.

"What the hell are these human skeletons?"

Jilu forcibly calmed down his heart and asked this self-soothing question.

But no one in the room could answer his question, so there was a long silence in the air.

In the casual investigation, Zilai still found some more subtle suspicions.

Assuming that this underground cavern was once an underground city-state in the distant past, there were some underground dwellers who lived in seclusion here for unknown reasons.

Then these human skeletons should naturally be the owners of the surrounding buildings, this is the least logical inference.

But the problem is that there are so many skeletons here that if you count the minimum number of occupants in a building, there are not enough skeletons that can be found everywhere on the ground and on both sides of the road.

If these bones were to be filled with flesh and blood, and the houses were divided equally among them, then the most basic human needs for construction would not be met at all.

The people here can probably only sleep in a pile like livestock.

However, what made Jiraiya even more surprising was that each house in the complex here will be equipped with a huge stone circle as standard.

These stone circles are not very high, and adults can easily cross them, about the same height as a sheepfold.

And it is this similar analogy that makes Zilai also have a kind of thoughtful and terrifying thought.

The stone enclosures here are the pens used to keep animals, but the animals used in these pens are not ordinary livestock such as cattle and sheep.

It's people!

These piles of bones on the ground are not the owners here, but living humans who are kept in captivity here!

These people must have been kept in captivity in stone circles, and then hunger and fear of rats forced them to break through the stone circles in a frenzy.

There must have been these things in captivity here!

They are fed fat and fat with low-quality vegetables, and they live like pigs in this narrow and crowded stone enclosure.

In the process, their bodies gradually become rickety, degenerating from bipeds to quadrupeds, and they really crawl on the ground like a mouthful of livestock!

Their sanity has deteriorated for twenty or even thirty generations, or these short-lived but surprisingly fast-growing animals have not had time to evolve their intelligence, and they have already been sacrificed.

As for who the sacrifice was for, he never dared to think about it again.

But the ugly swineherd, the man-eating mouse, and the white and fat four-legged beast in that dream seemed to have made the answer clear.

...

For some reason, Jiraiya's brain has these "reveries".

Although these chaotic "imaginations" are like fragments of memory, they are not continuous, but the pictures are naturally clear.

[Get 2500 shiver points from Jiraiya!] 】

Jiraiya gasped heavily, and his body suddenly squatted down, holding his head with one hand, trying his best to bear the information.

Is this inspiration?

It was the first time that Jiraiya had been convinced of the existence of inspiration, and it was the first time that he had experienced such an informative and shocking inspiration.

But despite the sheer volume of information, there's still plenty of room for exploration in this story.

"Jiraiya-sama, what's wrong with you?"

The land next to him asked with concern, and Jilai just replied casually, "It's okay." ”

In fact, the current Jiraiya just doesn't want to tell everyone the truth he thought of, because with Jiraiya's concentration, just looking at the skeleton in front of him and imagining that kind of scene, the food in his stomach will continue to stir, let alone others.

Jiraiya pretended to be calm and stood up, and then continued with the others towards the rich dark green phosphorescent light in the depths of the cavern.

Maybe they were shocked by the previous scene, and their hearts may have adapted to all this in a paralyzing way, so the four of them have been moving forward in silence all the way.

The surrounding complex of buildings finally disappeared at a relatively reasonable distance, replaced by a bottomless abyss as black as midnight on the ground.

What is frightening is that in this place, which should be the peak of green phosphorescent light when viewed from a distance, this green light cannot reach the depths of the bottomless abyss.

It was a deep well of hell that no one would ever see, and his intuition told him that there were secrets hidden in it that humans should not know.

But at the edge of these pits, the sawn-off bones and the skull cap that had been pried open to remove the brains could be clearly seen.

The cerebral cord, muscle, and fat in it have all been removed by artificial means!

This is absolutely clear and understandable man-made, and it is impossible for anyone with basic judgment to blame the man-eating rat for the fault.

The piles up in these deep pits are all human bones that have been removed by human hands!

Some of the pits have even been overflowed, and there are countless bones there, and the bones accumulated over hundreds of years have filled this eerie crevice.

None of these high green phosphorescences could reach the bottom, and the pit was filled with human bones!

How deep are they?

How many bones do it take to fill these pits!

At this moment, imagination finally has room to play, and the indescribable darkness in the pit can no longer hide the truth!

The truth is that the people here are people in captivity, and the people who keep them in captivity are also human!

Humans live in captivity.

Humans slaughter humans.

Humans sacrifice humans.

These completely cut bones are the most powerful proof of this!

They kept humans in captivity like cattle and then periodically sacrificed them to deep pits.

Until one day, the people who drove this place were forced to be unable to return here again for some reason, and this place was sealed away forever.

As for these hateful people who keep humans in captivity, it is the infamous Temple of Fire in history that can be predicted!

And that moment of sealing in history is also the time node when the original Hokage led Konoha Village to attack the Temple of Fire and defeat the Temple of Fire.

After the underground caverns of the Temple of Fire were sealed once and for all, a lack of food forced the hungry creatures in the pit to burst out of the darkness.

The ravenous army of rodents swept away all the livestock in the cavern, devouring all living life here.

It wasn't until the two years that the Fire Temple was renovated that the seal was accidentally loosened and the man-eaters returned to the surface.

But why?

Why haven't these rats been starved to death after all these years?

How did they survive in this empty underground world?

While everyone was immersed in a variety of complex emotions such as shock, fear, uneasiness, and resentment, a glimmer of light in a cave was faintly rising on the mountain wall opposite the pit.

This scene may be more familiar to you.

And in this glimmering cavern, a figure is poised to strike.