Chasing and chasing, the blood trace abruptly came to a halt in the tunnel, as a torrential stream of water blocked Lund's path.
He looked along the direction of the flowing water and saw that the pitch-black sewer stretched on without end, which caused Lund to frown.
Some of the city's sewers were connected to a tributary of the Star and Moon River, and engineers had diverted a part of that tributary into the sewers to use the flowing water to wash away waste, saving on most of the cost of manual cleaning.
The mastermind who designed the auction house had considered the possibility of slaves dying accidentally, choosing a main pathway with torrential water flow for the convenience of disposing of bodies, even constructing a secret passage for transporting the corpses.
