It's a huge, big, almost suicidal wasteland. I don't know when it began, the war was raging, the river dried up, nothing grew in the ground, but everyone who could walk was gone, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled could only sit in place and wait to starve to death, and in the end, of course, they all succeeded in dying.

There was once a person with great ability who went out from a place called Xinghua Village. He finally returned to his hometown, but he couldn't see a living person, and happened to find an old apricot tree that had been dead for a long time. The place had grown so powerful that he couldn't tell if it was his original home.

He has been away from home for hundreds of thousands of years, and he has long been devastated everywhere. The river that had nurtured so many people had dried up, and the bones of the people who had been buried in the earth had been blown away by the wind, and they were half hidden in the sand and gravel.

This person with great ability is the ancestor of the Dark Tomb Gate, and everyone calls him Xinghua Ancestor.

When the old man of Xinghua was about to die, he would occasionally babble like an ordinary old woman. It is said that he had a young lady next door, who was very diligent, had big eyes, flickered as if she could speak, and was very loving, and would hide food in her bosom and secretly stuff it for him at night.

At the entrance of the village, there is a stone statue of the ancestor of the apricot blossom, with his head slightly tilted, his chin slanted forward like an awl with half of his beard missing, and his eyes staring at the distant sky, as if there was something he was looking forward to in the distant sky.

Zhong Zhen looked at it, but felt that he seemed to be a little dead.

At this time, she was standing not far from the statue of the Apricot Blossom Ancestor, looking carefully with her head held high, and drawing with her finger in the air as she watched. The statue is not small, it is a foot high, and it looks very impressive, but because of the age, the face has been eroded by the wind and sand, and it is no longer possible to see whether it is majestic and handsome.

She sighed, "I don't know who carved it, at first glance it looks quite like, if the hand of the Xinghua Ancestor was not originally one long and one short, it must have been carved by that person." ”

"Zhong Zhen, Zhong Zhen, it's time to eat."

"Here it is!"

Just as she turned to leave, a black scavenger crow flew by, landed on the statue's head, happily pulled a puddle of blue and white, and flapped its wings and flew away.

Zhong Zhen didn't see this scene, and when she saw it, she would only turn a blind eye, isn't the Dark Tomb Gate as smelly as a piece of?

She didn't know what the old disciples were eating, these dozens of new disciples only had one meal a day, and if there was no accident, it would be either roasted white polyps or long-legged centipedes. If it's a white polyp, it's pretty good. The fat and white worm has only one intestine in its internal organs, and when it is removed, it is all meat. The taste has an earthy smell, and you can eat it even if you pinch your nose.

If it is a long-legged centipede, the mouth is full of slag, and the taste is bitter and astringent. If it weren't for the fact that he would be so hungry, Zhong Zhen wouldn't say anything about eating, and he wouldn't even want to touch it.

Whether it is a white polyp or a long-legged centipede, it can be seen everywhere in the underground near the water source, and it is a small number of insects that are not poisonous, so everyone is easy to catch, and they are also very relieved to eat, and they are not afraid to eat this meal without the next meal.

The person who asked her to eat was Lin Jiaoyan, who was deceived by Marlowe to the dark tomb door together, more than a year older than Zhong Zhen, thirteen years old this year, and her family opened an old coffin shop, and she has been doing this business for several lifetimes. The Lin family has a large population, seven or eight children, as well as old and sick grandparents and grandmothers, although there are many dead people in this year, but not everyone can afford to buy a coffin, so the family has a difficult life.

The parents of the Lin family heard Marlowe boasting for a while, saying that Lin Jiaoyan had the talent to practice, so they didn't need to ask for the opinion of their third daughter, so they directly made a package, packed a few changes of clothes, and sent her out.

Lin Jiaoyan doesn't have much opinion on this, she is rarely at home, and usually goes to help cry or paint makeup and bathe the dead. When I'm not busy with the dead man's business, I'm also busy, feeding my younger siblings and washing diapers, and being able to escape from this home is definitely a good thing that makes people feel happy.

In addition to Lin Jiaoyan, there is another thirteen-year-old boy Wang Yougen, who is an apprentice who chases corpses.

Originally, there should have been two more people, both of whom had been dealing with corpses for a long time, but for some reason, they were robbed by other sects. Marlowe nagged all the way on the bone bird, complaining that people didn't follow the rules, and it was clear that he was the first to talk about it.

Seeing that the more and more desolate she flew, Lin Jiaoyan clamored to go back halfway, but Uncle Ma said that the bone bird used five spirit crystals every half a month, and if she wanted to go back, she could only walk by herself. This is undoubtedly difficult for the strong, this place is so barren that she can't even find someone to beg for food, so how can she go back.

In just five days after the three newcomers arrived at the Dark Tomb Gate, Wang Yougen had already started to cultivate with great interest, but Lin Jiaoyan walked in and out with a calm face, as if someone had offended her ancestors for the eighteenth generation. In fact, the eighteenth generation of her ancestors would also be very unhappy if they faced her current problems.

When Zhong Zhen came over to eat, he saw Senior Sister Liu, who was managing the new disciples, poking Lin Jiaoyan's head with her fingers, and scolded with words in her mouth.

Hearing Zhong Zhen coming, she suddenly found a new object, "You have to be called for dinner, it's too unusual, if I will definitely let you starve to death." If you two girls don't start cultivating and absorbing corpse qi, they will send you to Elder Deng when the time comes. He didn't dislike the number of waitresses. It's not that I'm cruel to you, there are more than ten or twenty women around Elder Deng, and there are not too many maids to come, and you will know how powerful you will be when the time comes. ”

At that time, it would be enough to send a few portraits of her bare buttocks to that Elder Deng, Zhong Zhen didn't care, but she still nodded, and smiled sweetly at this ugly Senior Sister Liu, who made her eyes hurt, "Thank you Senior Sister for your advice, I will definitely start cultivating another day." ”

Lin Jiaoyan kept silent with a calm face, took a small half of the white polyp and put it in her mouth, and she didn't see her chewing, so she swallowed it in one bite. Today's meal was her cooking, and it was very clean, and the insects were not whole as usual, but cut into small pieces, so that she could eat them directly without biting.

It takes courage to eat bugs, and it takes even more courage to bite bugs off and chew them.

Zhong Zhen didn't care, even with a strong earthy smell, it was much better than a long-legged centipede, she kept chewing and swallowing slowly, and the chopsticks didn't stop, as if she would suffer if she ate one bite less.

Many people's food requirements are actually not that complicated, if there is a worse one, the less bad one is slightly more delicious.