I responded with a sound, then moved the water bottle back a bit, drew my dagger, and walked into the passage with renewed alertness.
The walls on both sides of the passage were also embedded with glowing stones, which were better than electric lights since there was no worry of a power outage.
Bi Shi had already walked over ten meters away, and upon hearing me follow, she glanced back at me but didn't stop to wait.
Other than the bones she had crushed underfoot, the rest were well-preserved, with all the skulls intact and undamaged.
Bi Shi once heard He Su say that the undersea civilization was destroyed by war, but looking at it now, it didn't seem that way. Of course, their weapons of war might have left no trace of their killing.
The mummified bodies we saw earlier had intact limbs, frozen in their pre-death stances. They weren't gunned down or blown apart.
The time of their death appeared consistent; I don't think they died from disease either.
