Raising My Children With My Personal Spatial Ability Chapter 3192: These Are All Human Bones

"Perhaps they are bats?" Little Nuonuo voiced softly.

He recollected the sound of bats he had encountered before; it matched the one he just heard, and in such somber, damp tunnels, bats were an unsurprising sight. One might even assume they were pets of the Saintess Sect Master.

"They are indeed bats," Qian Yizheng affirmed the young child’s conjecture.

Bats they were, but not of the common variety; these were a type that preyed on human blood. Should they fixate on you, complete exsanguination was the grim fate.

"These bats must be cultivated by someone; they're not ordinary bats, given their exclusive diet of human blood," he declared.

"How can you ascertain that?" Min Yi inquired.

Bats, while often blood feeders, would need deliberate nurturing to exclusively target human blood. Min Yi was intrigued by Qian Yizheng’s deduction.

"I detected their scent; it carries the foul odor of human blood, quite putrid," Qian Yizheng elaborated.

A pungent aroma had indeed reached him, reminiscent of a demonic beast’s blood he’d encountered on Huayan Peak, also unbearably foul.

Later, he had learned that particular demonic beast specialized in consuming human blood.

"Everyone, silence yourselves now. Bats lack sight but possess acute hearing. Any noise we make here might draw them back," he cautioned.

"Mm!"

Little Nuonuo was the first to clamp his hands over his mouth.

He could maintain silence for a short period; the thought of being drained of blood by bats was too horrific.

"Let us proceed onward, striving to exit this passage with all haste," Qian Yizheng urged everyone forward. The immense length of the tunnel made him doubt it led to Reflection Cliff.

However, its destination was secondary; the presence of blood-sucking bats indicated hidden secrets ahead, and persistence would undoubtedly reveal them.

The group pressed on with urgency, encountering the Blood-sucking Bats on two more occasions within the passage before reaching its terminus.

’Bang!’

At the passage's end, there was no hidden chamber, merely a simple wooden door blocking the way.

Upon opening the wooden door and glimpsing the light emanating from within, they were utterly stunned by the scene revealed.

"Heavens, what is this place? How can there be so many corpses?"

Min Yi, confronted by a mountain of piled corpses, felt his stomach churn. He now understood the fate of the cultivators who occasionally vanished within the Saintess Sect’s territory.

It was here they had ended up.

"These are human remains, ugh."

Little Nuonuo turned pale; despite his travels across numerous planes with his mother, he had never witnessed such a grim spectacle.

To perpetrate such slaughter, was it solely to nourish the Blood-sucking Bats within the passageway? Those bats were undeniably ferocious; a single bite could prove fatal.

It was fortunate they had managed to evade the bats successfully during their passage.

"This appears to be an abandoned settlement," Qian Yizheng observed, taking in the general layout of the area.

His observation prompted the others to regain their composure and survey their surroundings; indeed, it resembled a village. However, the village was in ruins, with the structures reduced to mere outlines.

"It truly is a village."

The others gazed at the scene, their faces etched with disbelief. How many souls had perished in this village to amass such a ghastly heap of bodies?

"I understand now!"

Min Yi gently placed the child on the ground, his mind finally catching up to the horrifying reality.