In the cold, corpses do not easily decay and spoil; they can be preserved for a long time, but the only downside is that they are difficult to collect.
"Not really. Even a corpse-eating civilization couldn't clean up bodies so thoroughly. There might be a deeper issue here, especially considering that you've been watched by an ancient existence."
"Perhaps there's something inherently wrong with this world," Rest said gravely.
They weren't unfamiliar with corpse-eating civilizations; so many bodies couldn't possibly all be consumed. Moreover, risking the cold to collect them couldn't result in such completeness; there would inevitably be some leftovers.
Currently, they didn't find a single body, which indeed indicated a problem.
"What should we do? Evacuate?" Sim immediately thought about leaving this world.
For them, this world's resources were not indispensable; sacrificing themselves for petty gains was unnecessary.
