Ju Nanyi saw that several people in the dark had no intention to leave; clearly, these people were not brainless despite their stiff movements.
Or perhaps, their brains were stiff like their bodies, but not entirely useless.
After Ju Nanyi had thrown two stones in succession, he came to the conclusion that he needed another way to draw these people away, or the group that had just left would return. By then, luring them away again would not be so easy.
Just as Ju Nanyi was growing anxious, a faint, tiny voice came from the darkness on the other side of him—a sound so subtle that, had the people in the dark not suddenly moved, Ju Nanyi would not have noticed it.
The next moment, indeed there was a slight sound..., that of a very small animal.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak—" A very small mouse, having rarely ventured out of its hole since being born, had accidentally taken a wrong turn. Now, in the dungeon, it scurried about in panic, its cries calling for its mother.
