Crunch! Crunch!
The plant-woven rag washed the pig head mask, carefully cleaning every corner of the mask.
Putting the cleaned pig's head on his head again, coupled with Yi Chen's naked body, this image is indeed not very gentlemanly, but it is very consistent with the positioning of Shebolt Village.
Yi Chen's thin body with weird muscle distribution looked like a malnourished human-pig hybrid that failed to be successfully selected by the butcher and was abandoned in a dirty underground area.
Due to the loss of the "Moon of Massacre",
I can only hold the meat cleaver issued by the meat factory.
In order to ensure the efficiency of handling corpses, the workmanship and sharpness of the meat cleaver are quite good.
"I'll use this for now until I get my weapons back! I hope I can still find my axe and gentleman's clothing, otherwise this investigation mission will be a big loss.
After I get out of this dirty underground area, I will try to go to the village chief's house and maybe I can get everything back at once."
Little Grape suddenly popped up:
“William~ At least before retrieving the weapon, you must avoid direct conflict with the village chief… During this period of time, I have been thinking about the special state that the village chief showed at the end.
Even though the core of the pathogen was destroyed, it was able to show a stronger posture.
This power does not belong to him, but is most likely taken from the Gray Domain, or the guy who created the abnormal Gray Domain, sharing vitality through the "umbilical cord".
If you want to truly kill the village chief and hurt the guy who gave him life, you must use your weapon."
It was rare to see Little Grape looking so serious, so Yi Chen just smiled slightly.
"Well, I'll take my chance. Let's see what's down there first..."
There are still a lot of doubts in Yi Chen's mind, which need to be deciphered and reasoned with the help of subsequent information collection.
Following the only underground passage and the direction of the water flow, we walked for about a hundred meters and squeezed sideways through the narrow gap.
A natural underground river appeared before our eyes.
It is a complex underground pipeline system composed of underground corridors, caves and dissolution, which is mainly formed by dissolution. It was once the life heart of Shebolt Village. The village was built here because of this underground river.
Nowadays, due to the village's disease, the underground river has also been polluted.
Various filthy impurities were floating on the water surface, emitting a strong foul smell.
"Hmm? Is there something else living down there..."
The reason why it is called "thing" is because Yi Chen cannot tell what kind of life form it is by its appearance.
It has some similarities to the rotten meat seen in villagers' homes, but it is very dry, severely yellowed and even gives people a "skinny" feeling.
The facial structure on the surface is more prominent, and the eyeballs, one large and one small, no longer "blink" and no longer have any luster, as if waiting for death to come.
These "things" are either floating on the river, or integrated into the rock wall, or they themselves become part of this place like a pillar.
As Yi Chen, wearing a pig head, slowly approached these things,
Their lifeless eyes suddenly turned, and their nostrils began to sniff slowly.
Maybe it was seeing a pig's head, or maybe it was smelling a bloody odor coming from the factory.
A hint of instinctive fear appeared on their faces, and then turned into relief.
He opened his mouth with difficulty and conveyed information through his eyes, as if he was begging the pig-headed butcher who was passing by, begging for death to come early.
"These guys... are they the former villagers? Since they can no longer contribute to 'creation' and have never been able to give birth to a holy fetus, they were abandoned here to fend for themselves.
Just as Jin said, due to their excessive reproduction, their own meat quality is extremely poor, not even as good as the lowest grade imitation meat, so naturally they will not be sent to the meat factory. "
Yi Chen just walked past this group of guys calmly, without giving or taking anything. He was just an accidental passerby.
The underground lake is much larger than expected, and it can even be said to be interconnected.
Going around some winding paths and stone corridors,
An old man who had committed suicide before the village fell ill was accidentally found deep in a cave. This decision saved him from the subsequent "pain of union" and also allowed Yi Chen to obtain a set of "villager clothing".
It's a pity that
The old man was very short and thin. His clothes couldn't fit on at all. He could only barely put on his pants as if they were cropped trousers.
As for the straw sandals that the old man wove himself, they were quite suitable.
After dressing up, at least your feet won't hurt when you walk, and your private parts will be covered, so you won't be treated as a pervert by others.
Since the clothes couldn't be put on, Yi Chen politely helped the old man put them back on.
In the process of getting dressed.
Feeling a sense of being watched from behind, Yi Chen turned around abruptly.
Although the environment in the cave was extremely dark, Yi Chen still saw a black shadow flashing by quickly, but he couldn't be sure what it was.
"A villager with fast movement and dark vision? Could it be that the village chief has arranged a surveillance here?"
Yi Chen immediately made a strong humming sound from his nose to express his identity as a butcher.
If it was really a surveillance person arranged by the village chief, he would at least show up to confirm his identity... But as time passed, there was no movement.
The sense of voyeurism hidden in the darkness is always present and keeps changing its position.
"Isn't he the village chief's man?"
Just as Yi Chen was trying to figure out his identity, the sense of prying eyes instantly approached, so fast that it was even comparable to Jin Youde...
“So fast!”
Yi Chen swung the butcher knife in a predicted manner, and at the same time shot out several plant roots with his left hand, trying to entangle the opponent in the air.
In the dark room,
A slender body with bones that are more flexible than humans avoided all piercing plants in mid-air... and swung a claw down towards Yi Chen's head.
Ding! The fire core splashed.
The butcher knife collided with the claw, and the blade actually left two gaps in the collision, and Yi Chen's palm was numb from the shock.
Moreover, the butcher knife swung out by prediction only blocked part of the claws.
The remaining claws cut a huge opening in the pig head mask, revealing the appearance of the young man hidden under the mask.
Just as Yi Chen was preparing to counterattack,
The opponent suddenly stopped his attack and his killing intent was also lifted.
In the field of vision, a black-haired girl wearing a tattered white dress stood barefoot in front of him.
Due to long-term malnutrition, his body looked very thin, his cheeks were slightly sunken, and his legs were as thin as bamboo poles... Part of his dirty and messy hair hung in front of him, covering one eye and forehead.
Her other eye shone with a black gemstone-like luster, moist and bright, staring straight at Yi Chen, full of curiosity.
"You... you are not from the village?"
Yi Chen could tell at a glance that the girl was not wearing a 'hypocritical mask' like others.
Just now, I used the butcher's identity to test her and infer that she did not work for the village chief.
"Well, I came from outside, trying to cure the village of Shebolt. Unfortunately, I ran into some trouble on the way and was almost killed. I just escaped from the factory and got here."
"I see! I thought you were the bad guy up there. After all, you're wearing a butcher's mask and stealing Mr. Taigas' clothes."
"Who are you?"
"Laini Sistra, I'm sixteen years old! My mother said that as long as outsiders come to help the village, we must treat them well and try to become good friends with them.
The village has survived only because of the help it received from good people who called themselves "gentlemen."