Forty Days

"...as of now, 90% of the land has been excavated and all the skeletons unearthed have been transported here. Among them, we've also discovered a skeleton which seemed to belong to an infant, though its bone structure suggested that it was born with severe deformities. Professor Hu estimates that there are approximately sixty people who met with an unnatural death in Shenci Island, with the youngest around seventeen of age. That makes up almost the entire village population as recorded in the city's census…"

Mr. Secretary couldn't help but suck in cold air as he relayed the report, still feeling the same trepidation as when he first learned of the news. 

Who could have imagined that such a huge mass grave had existed for more than two decades without anyone knowing?