Lao Chen didn't immediately find out the poor boy, or really wanted to punish him because he was beaten with a stick.

Instead, I was shocked by the scene around me.

With a flick of his index finger, a light source the size of a shot put was released so that he could take a closer look at his surroundings.

Where the limited light goes.

Illuminated the scene inside the first cave he passed.

A dirty middle-aged woman in tattered clothes sits quietly on an old sofa chair reinforced horizontally and vertically by several wooden planks.

Her messy gray hair was coiled together with an old paulownia hairpin full of ugly black spots, making her whole dead white face look even more ghostly. The dirty faces, with their black and gray faces, were full of stagnant despair and fear, but there was even a hint of relief that was incomprehensible.

A tattered old scarf enveloped her body, and there were large patches of fluorescent fungus of various shapes on her face and bare skin.

In the midst of the large pile of 'colored rags' in his arms was the dried corpse of a moldy baby that had turned into dry bones, and he seemed to be grabbing the woman's open placket with his right hand in a gesture of struggling to get milk.

And the withered flesh and blood of the dry corpse old woman after her death have been gnawed out of a small pit.

This scene.

It's chilling.

If the hell in this world is really as terrifying as described in the scriptures of the gods, then this must be the same hell on earth.

Master Chen retracted the playful expression just now, sighed, and his face became solemn.

Walking behind the old woman, Lao Chen discovered the true cause of the other party's death.

At the back of the middle-aged woman's head, there were five or six fungal plants that resembled grapevines, pierced deep into the skull, and through the gaps, it could be seen that the original brain inside had disappeared, but the inside was not empty, but a mass of plants resembling pig's blood sausage was entrenched.

Her mummy, corpse-clad body covered her body, and several other fungi that looked like necromantic vine branches pierced through her body, holding her body firmly to the chair.

That's why the woman's body seemed to sit there all the time.

He scanned the cavern, and all that was left was the rotten remains of wooden furniture.

Chen Xuyuan walked out of here and walked past, checking out the other caves.

As far as the eye can see.

There is also a young couple sitting on a wooden bed without mattresses, leaning on a half-hugged young couple who died peacefully, a craggy girl wrapped in scraps of paper and dirty sheepskins, leaning against a corner and freezing to death, lying in a "bathtub" dug out by itself and fed by the black and smelly sewage of the drain pipe, the whole body is soaked in black and green hairs; their unified feature is that the body surface is more or less covered with various fluorescent fungi, and secondly, the brain and even the internal organs are digested and empty.

Lao Chen walked into the fourth cave where the "baby face" was hiding.

The environment here is no better than the others, it is all dark, cramped, foul-smelling and rotten fungi.

It's hard to imagine how long humans can survive in such a damp, foul-smelling and filthy place. If it weren't for the young child's luck, a random encounter with a powerful giant snake poisonous insect or a strange monster would have been enough to kill him.

If a child wants to survive in this kind of place, it is estimated that he must be extremely cautious and careful, and there are many lucky ingredients~

Each cave is mostly in the shape of a gourd, and it is thought that it is dug and deepened one by one.

Old Chen Xin stepped into the cave where the young man was hiding.

The extremely effective [Light Technique] in his hand brought light to this room that had not been seen for a long time.

An old man was lying on the bed, his lower body covered with a fairly intact gray linen, and he still had vital signs and the mental power of the surface of his soul squirmed.

Despite this, his face still showed a sickly bleak deathly white.

Those terrible fungi, like blood-sucking pipes, took root in the old man's right eye and ears and other parts of the human body, like an edible mushroom blooming a fleshy wrinkled umbrella cap mushroom flower, and even the arms and neck were covered with dots, these disgusting and sticky things.

The old man's legs are even more bizarre.

It looks like a man named Abul Bajandar in Bangladesh on Earth, suffering from a rare skin disease called "verrucous epidermal dysplasia", which is the growth of branch-like warts like tree roots on his hands and feet, and a pair of "tree-man" legs.

In addition, the "roots" are also connected to the bed board and take root in the soil at the bottom of the bed to draw nutrients.

The fungus and the strange bark disease used the old man's body as a battlefield, and there was a tug-of-war from the junction in the middle of the body.

Maybe.

That's why this old man still miraculously has a breath~

Though...... It's just alive like a plant.

in this room.

I don't think it's possible to afford an oil lamp in normal times, at most burn some firewood or something to keep warm.

Because along the way, there is burned soot on the ground, which is scattered everywhere on the roadside.

But in the sewers of the city, there will certainly not be much firewood fuel available.

So.

It's also the main place for shady creatures to survive.

Here comes the light.

From the shadows where they had been hiding, a wide variety of insects writhed their bodies and frantically fled from the nearby area illuminated by Master Chen.

The soft light of the spell shone through a crack in the broken furniture, like a twisted and collapsed "bookcase", onto the canvas where the young man was hiding.

Young Hawthorn hid under the canvas and dust, still shivering.

But Lao Chen didn't care about him at all.

He was now more interested in the old man's state of existence.

Of course.

Not the kind of "interest" you think.

Hawthorn peeked out one eye from under the canvas and cautiously peered into part of the room.

Thereupon.

He saw the terrible "cannibal wizard", with a pair of evil and powerful hands, touching ~touching~ on his grandfather Fabio's withered body

Wow!! it feels so perverted~~~

He didn't know what perverted and homosexual was.

He only thought that the other party was like a butcher who slaughtered pigs or a hunter who slaughtered his prey, gesturing to see what meat was left to eat.

To know.

In such a food-scarce place, most of the resources have to be used to the extreme, and it is not only a term for capitalists and corrupt officials, but also for extremely hungry human beings.

As if by magic, Lao Chen conjured out several transparent test tubes and long-necked flasks from his hands.

Then two pairs of transparent and symmetrical "snake-shaped hands" grew from the side of the body, so that the force field energy could hold the glass equipment steadily and float in front of him to facilitate experiments.

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