I was groggy and someone woke me up.

When I opened my eyes, there was a circle of people standing in front of me, each with torches and others carrying stone buckets.

The boss Zhao Lizhu touched his smooth chin and said, "Lazy worm, get up." Let's go dig for salt today. ”

I rubbed my sleepy eyes: "Aren't you going hunting?" ”

Boss: "I don't have enough salt, I'll go hunting tomorrow." ”

Me: "I'm curious, let's go hunting today." ”

The boss was furious: "Damn! You ran out of salt to kill the second child, how can we not dig up salt? Also, I'm up to the cracks! I will do whatever I say, whoever dares to take a step slow, I will kill him in a second! ”

I stumbled after him.

The entrance to the third to fourth floors is also a black hole, and it is also a soft ladder to go down.

I can't help but wonder, how many layers are there in the underworld? Legend has it that there are eighteen floors in hell, and it is not known how many floors there are in the underworld. I've only seen three floors now, and I'm already scared to death!

The fourth floor is much larger than the first three!

The first three floors are actually three fallen palaces. The first floor is complete, hang it up—if you can hang it up—it's a royal palace; The second layer is a little broken, but it can still be repaired, no matter how broken it is, it is also a palace; The third floor was almost completely shattered, and only a few rooms remained.

And the fourth floor is a huge natural cave! Dozens of people raised torches, which did not shine on the top, in fact, on all sides.

There are some small reptiles on the ground, and there are small streams, and there are small fish in them! The fish were transparent, one or two centimeters long, and had no eyes, just like I had seen in the Qinling Cave before.

We walked inside, disturbing something in the darkness, and they were flying in the air. When I looked up, it turned out to be a large swarm of bats. Each of the bats resembled an eagle, and their bodies were pure white.

Suddenly a bat pounced on us, like an eagle pounced on a rabbit. If it were just me, I'd be drained of blood in no time.

But we're the best people in the world. A monk next to him swooped out a stone, and the stone shot out like a bullet, and the bat fell to the ground with a thud.

Bats in the air hear sounds (because I've read in books that bats' eyes don't work; Even if it worked before, it certainly wouldn't work in the burrow), and they all rushed over.

The hunting squads jumped up and grabbed them one by one. They can jump five or six meters, which is quite impressive.

The bat finally realized: "Damn, it turns out that these people are here to arrest us, I thought they were sent to death!" ”

The bat immediately turned and ran, flying higher and higher, slowly escaping the clutches of the hunting squad—but not the clutches of the pale boys. They can even jump ten meters!

So the bats were caught one by one and stuffed into leather bags.

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I followed them to the depths of the fourth floor.

A boy next to me said to me, "Second master, did you kill the old demon god?" ”

I watched him.

Apparently he was a kid who grew up on the second floor. He looked like he was in his twenties, his skin was pale, and his eyes were black and shiny, glowing a faint green light. He was thin and looked like he didn't have any strength at all, but he could jump up to 10 meters at once!

I asked, "What old demon god?" ”

Him: "They said you electrocuted him!" ”

Me: "Ha, you said the original second master! I only knew that he was the second, but I didn't expect him to be called 'Old Demon God', and I thought he was called 'Old Rascal'. ”

Him: "Thank you! ”

I was even more curious: "What are you thanking me for?" ”

Him: "My dad was killed by him seven years ago!" He also tried to kill me and beat me half to death, but was stopped by the boss. I think about revenge every day, but the boss won't allow it! ”

Me: "Ah, I see. Why is he called the old demon god? ”

He said, "How do I know! That's what everyone else calls him. By the way, my name is Wan Poison Treasure, what about you? ”

Me: "My name is Dong ...... Ah, no, my name is Chen Ju. Your name is 'Treasure of All Poisons'? 'Ten Thousand Poisons' is the surname of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, and your father is from the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect? ”

He smiled proudly: "My father is the leader of the Ten Thousand Poison Sect!" ”

I almost paralyzed with fright!

The Ten Thousand Poisons Cult was one of the most powerful cults in the world before (please note my wording, "cult" is not a "demon cult"), and in its heyday it was no less than the Death Cult. Later, the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect was destroyed by the planes and tanks of the forbidden army, and the very few cats and dogs who escaped formed some evil gangs such as the "Five Poison Faction", "Gu Poison Gang", "Refining Gang" and so on. Even these small gangs and factions often beat Wudang Shaolin and even the regular imperial army to the ground.

When the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect was destroyed, the surname "Ten Thousand Poisons" also became a forbidden surname, and no one had a surname anymore - but here I actually met one!

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I said to Wan Poison Bao, "Your father is the leader of the Ten Thousand Poison Sect, and you grew up on the second floor since you were a child, you must be the most powerful, right?" ”

He sighed: "Far from it! The people on the fifth floor are much more powerful than me, and only a few of us can beat them. ”

I don't have enough brains: "Five floors?!" ”

He said, "yes, five floors, five floors underground. The people on the fifth floor are terrifying. They live by eating us! Do you know how bad they are? They ......"

The boss Zhao Lizhu said to us: "Shut up! ”

So the two of us quickly shut up.

We followed the stream, which grew wider and wider, almost into a small ditch, and then emptied into a small lake.

By this time, my eyes had adjusted to the dark environment, and I raised my torch and looked, and the middle of the lake was boiling!

I thought there could be no fish in the boiling lake, but there were a lot of mosquito larvae and so on near the lake, and a lot of small fish eating them!

How do they come alive?

How can there be these things in hot water?

I blurted out, "This is Hell Lake?" ”

Wan Poison Treasure said, "Well, one of the hell lakes. There are many such lakes on the fourth floor. Dozens, or hundreds, who knows! This one is the smallest, and there is a hell lake several miles long in front of it. ”

The further you go, the hotter the ground gets. I couldn't stand the heat in the leather shoes they gave me.

How hot is the ground? The soil was steaming out like a volcano. Of course I haven't seen a volcano, I read it from a book. I don't think you've ever seen a volcano before. Ha ha! Interestingly, two people who have never seen a volcano are using a volcano as a metaphor.

Okay, let's stop talking nonsense, let's move on to the ground.

The ground is like a volcano, steaming hot. Suddenly, I saw a small thing running under my feet. Wan Poison Bao was caught at once, and it turned out to be a crab. The white crab, again without eyes, has only a large claw, and on the other side is a small claw, which is sending something into its mouth.

I was thinking about whether to go back and eat it roasted or boiled, but the Ten Thousand Poison Treasure actually ate it alive!

Wan Poison Bao touched his mouth: "It's delicious!" ”

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We walked to a lake, and the whole lake was boiling.

I looked inside, and it was so clear that I could see the bottom at a glance, and this time there were no living creatures at all.

The boss Zhao Lizhu said: "Scoop water!" The rest were on guard. ”

Wan Poison Bao said to me, "This is the only source of salt, and we often rob it here with people on the fifth floor. But what's there to grab? This whole lake of salt water! ”

The boss looked at more than a dozen barrels of salt water and said, "Send it to the second floor and let the cooking class boil it into salt." That's enough for a month. ”

The group was just about to return when a squeaking sound came from the darkness in the distance, from far and near, very fast.

I shuddered and asked, "What's that?" Savages? ”

Suddenly, a dark shadow flew towards me from afar!

In the midst of the lightning, an iron spear shot at the black shadow, nailing it to the ground!

It was a giant white snake, at least five or six meters. It has no eyes, small scales on its body, and white flesh that looks like an earthworm. It opened its mouth wide and swung at us, but it was nailed to the ground with a spear.

A monk waved his hand and cut off its head.

The boss laughed: "Drink snake soup today." Carry it away and let the cooking class cook the snake soup today. ”

In the evening, the transport crew brought us snake soup from the cooking class. To be honest, it's unpalatable! Acid to death! Slippery to death! Not even meat, it's all bones, and it's not as delicious as a mouse!

Wan Poison Bao said excitedly: "It's delicious, the boss said that snake meat is a great tonic." ”

He chewed on the bones of the snake and ate with his mouth full of oil.

I asked Wan Poison Treasure, "Why didn't I see the wild man?" ”

He touched his lips: "Ha! The second thing you do when you see the wildlings is that you are eaten by them. ”

Me: "Savages eat people?" ”

Him: "Yes, look, how bad they are! ”

Me: "Don't we eat too?" What's the difference? Ah, the difference is: we eat our own people, they eat us, so they are more moral than us, aren't they? ”

The boss Zhao Lizhu shouted: "Dongfang Ju, shut up!" ”

Wan Poison Bao asked me in a low voice, "Why does the boss call you 'Dongfang Ju'?" ”

I whispered, "I've changed my last name." ”

Wan Poison Treasure: "My father told me when he was dying, let me rather die than change my surname." ”

I put my arm on his shoulder: "We have to do things with our hearts, not on the surface." Although we have changed on the surface, we have not changed in our hearts, so we have not changed in reality. ”

He nodded quizzically.

I continued: "The earthly world is so chaotic that some things have to be done. I don't want to change my surname, but I still have to; I don't want to be a eunuch, but I want to do it anyway. ”

Silent.