Chapter 600 - 579: One More Update
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.
Yet this feeble sound drew the intense focus of the Disciples of Ghoul Ravine standing guard in the middle, not only fixating on the noise but leaning forward in a great arc towards the source of the mouse’s sound.
This sight was inexplicably eerie. Ju Nanyi paused his anxiety to see what would happen next, and sure enough, one of the men couldn’t resist any longer and pounced quickly towards the mouse.
In the darkness, Ju Nanyi could not see where the mouse was, but the direction of the sound was very clear. Anyone quick enough could locate it by sound and easily capture it, and the next moment, a disciple of Ghoul Ravine had grabbed the little mouse.
If the men’s intense focus on the appearance of a small mouse had seemed eerie and hair-raising to Ju Nanyi, what followed was enough to make one feel nauseated.