"What should I do?" Murong Wei asked. Apparently, she had seen that the boss had bad intentions. Before, he held a sharp knife in his hand and blocked the door, mostly to kill people.

"Tell me the truth." Wu Chen has other important things to do, and he doesn't want to cause more trouble.

"What the husband said is very true." Chu Qiushen also did not agree with startling the snake and revealing his identity in advance, "The husband wants to save people." It's just that she can't be saved, and she can't blame others. ”

Wu Chen nodded: "How is the stove?" ”

"It's still refining." Murong Wei replied. In fact, Wu Chen can fully understand this information through the style plate. It's just that I'm in a low mood right now and have no time to take care of anything else, so I asked casually.

"Okay." Wu Chen took a deep breath, got up and walked outside the house. Time passes much slower in the cave than in Cliff City. Even if Wu Chen can drag on for an hour, it will be useless. Again, what should come will come sooner or later.

"Guest." Sensing Wu Chen's breath, the boss outside the bone gate asked in a low voice.

"Yes." Wu Chen walked behind the door, a small arm's length. This is the bottom line of his inner security.

"Where is my sister?"

"Huh?" Wu Chen was stunned for a moment, "She's not your wife?" ”

"Who said we were husband and wife?" The boss asked rhetorically.

"I thought it was." Wu Chen scratched his head: "Sister Ling, it is difficult to distinguish ...... with Kui Niu's Yuan Shen."

There was silence outside the door. For a long time, Wu Chen seemed to hear a heavy sigh. "So, thank you."

"I'm sorry I couldn't help." Wu Chen also sighed.

"Nope. Even if it didn't work, it gave her relief. ”

Hearing the boss say this, Wu Chen was ashamed.

didn't wait for Wu Chen to reply. The boss had already stepped out of the cave: "Come on." I'll drink with you. ”

"Okay."

Push the door and go out. The slightly declining figure of the middle-aged man led the way in front, and Wu Chen followed him back to the cave hall. At this time, there are not many people in the store. The boss occupied the stone table in the center and motioned for Wu Chen to sit opposite him.

Scooped a bowl of fragrant fruit wine from the pottery (container) and filled the wine bowl in front of Wu Chenman, and the man gently raised his glass: "Please." ”

"Please." Wu Chen accompanied him to drink it all. The early wines seem to have been fruit wines. The proof is not high, and it is mixed with a lot of juice. Because there is color. That's why it's also called colored wine. In this era, grains were not yet widely used, the ancestors were transitioning from hunting to farming, and the liquor of later generations had not yet been made.

In this era, kneeling is also not popular. The reason why the stone table is low is because it is close to the ground, and the ground that is baked by the fire pit day and night is relatively warm.

How to sit casually. Wu Chen sat cross-legged, and the middle-aged man propped up one leg, half-leaning and half-sitting.

"Are the guests here to recruit relatives?" The middle-aged man scooped a bowl of colored wine for Wu Chen.

"Why do you ask that?" Remember. The ghost who led the way earlier also asked.

"Because every time an outsider comes, it's the time for the ghost mother to recruit relatives." The middle-aged man said a secret that was not a secret.

"Huh?" Wu Chen was stunned.

Could it be that this is a pit?

A giant pit set up by the machine man and the ghost mother? In order to prevent hunters from getting on board. So all the hunters who shoot arrows end up throwing them to the ghost mother?

"That's right. Since moving into Cliff City, I can't remember how many days and moons there are. Whenever the ghost mother recruits relatives, there will be strangers flying down in the cliff city. There are more or less quantities. Recently there have been fewer and fewer of them. ”

"No one comes on weekdays?" Wu Chen asked again.

"Nope. There are many prohibitions on the mountain pass of Xiaoyu Mountain, and it is generally difficult to enter and exit. Unless ......"

"When the ghost mother gives birth." Wu Chen blurted out.

"Exactly." The middle-aged man scooped himself another bowl of wine.

Didn't you say that the ghost mother gave birth in the morning and ate it at night? Besides, just after giving birth, you have to recruit relatives, are you in a hurry to conceive? If that's the case......

"Isn't it strange why the customers who come to the store only drink and don't eat?"

Wu Chen really didn't pay attention: "Why?" ”

"You already know why." The middle-aged man's expression darkened.

Wu Chen immediately understood: "Demon change." ”

"That's right. If you eat the meat of a demon beast, you will become a demon. Those who don't control their mouths are like ...... My sister is like that. ”

"Is it okay to drink?" Wu Chen asked.

"It's not okay to drink too much. No more than three bowls a day can resist the erosion of demonic energy. The middle-aged man said. Obviously, the color wine obtained by fermenting various fruit juices is much less toxic than that of demon beasts.

"Could it be that the people in Cliff City drink every day?" Wu Chen asked.

"Definitely." The middle-aged man shook his head: "Actually, we don't need to eat. In the city of cliffs, there is no old age, no death, no life and no death. The reason why I want to drink wine and eat meat is just a desire for food. ”

"Appetite ......" Wu Chen seemed to have grasped something.

"Exactly." The man continued: "I don't know how it is in other places, but in Cliff City, you must be able to hold back your appetite. If you can't help it, you will be haunted by demonic spirits, and life is worse than death. ”

"Hold back the appetite ......" A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and Wu Chen blurted out: "Appetite!" ”

"That's right, it's appetite." The middle-aged man nodded slowly: "Except for eating, there are no taboos in Moya City." However, if you can't eat it, what's so interesting? ”

That's right. When people can't even guarantee the most basic survival, they really don't think about anything else except to fill their stomachs!

Wu Chen nodded, and asked quickly, "How many floors are there in Cliff City?" ”

"Nature is one layer."

"How many floors are there in the crater?"

"It's said to be ten floors."

"Have you been to the next floor?"

"Nope."

"So, aren't all the people on this level able to eat? And the people on the next layer can eat it? ”

"It's not clear."

Wu Chen nodded again: "So, are there any marriages and children in Moya City?" ”

"Nope."

"Is there a brothel?"

"Of course not."

"Such as robbing people's women, molesting women......"

"Naturally, there can't be."

"Don't you want that?" Wu Chen tried to ask.

"We don't think about anything other than to eat."

"I see...... Wu Chen finally understood, what was going on with the ghost mother, what was going on with the volcano, and what was going on with the people here!

"Master?" Murong Kai also understood.

"That's right, the city carved around the crater has ten or eleven floors. Each layer represents a kind of 'ghost'. The city is full of 'hungry ghosts'. In other words, each layer represents a kind of 'desire'. It's hard to fill the craze. Desire. Hope is the devil, this sentence is very appropriate here. Wu Chen continued.

"So, the husband is saying that the ten sons born to the ghost mother represent the ten 'greed' in the world?" Chu Qiushen also understood.

"That's right. Just as the closer you get to the lava, the more dangerous it becomes. The hierarchy of desire also deepens gradually. It's like eating and thinking about prostitution. Desire. When you are full, you will think about popping. And the people here are already exhausted from fighting with their appetites all day long, so how can they still have the leisure to snap! Wu Chen paused and said, "This volcano that has been sealed layer by layer, I guess, is the greed embodied by the ghost mother. Whenever there is too much greed to excrete, she will use the method of giving birth to alleviate her pain. ”

"But ......" the sleepy-eyed Beigong couldn't help but ask, "Since the pain has been discharged, why do you still eat it?" ”

"Greedy!" Everyone spoke in unison.

"Because I'm so greedy, I can't help but eat even the newborn child." Xiling Jin let out a long breath.

But why did these ancestors come here?

Don't be in a hurry to ask. Accompany the middle-aged man to drink the last bowl of wine first. Wu Chen asked unhurriedly: "Dare to ask the shopkeeper, how did you and Ling Mei come here?" ”

"That was a long, long time ago." The middle-aged man subconsciously wanted to scoop the wine, but the wine spoon was firmly contained before it fell into the pottery. He smiled self-deprecatingly and gently put the bone spoon aside: "That year, a plague broke out in the Great Wilderness......"

Without warning, an unprecedented plague broke out in the Great Wilderness. That is, demonization. There is no cure for this condition, and there is no cure. The plague spread rapidly and swept through the Great Wilderness. Just when the ancestors were hopeless and closed their eyes and waited for death, there was Our Lady of Yushan who saved people with divine revelation. The plague that had passed was dispersed, and the plague was completely eliminated. In order to cure the disease and eliminate the disaster, the ancestors rushed to follow her all the way to migrate, and finally arrived here.

The process is not complicated. However, Wu Chen has his own discoveries.

First of all, there are traces of this unprecedented and unprecedented plague. According to his understanding, it should be the result of the accumulation of toxins over the years, passed down from generation to generation through blood, and finally exploded. In the final analysis, it's still the fault of eating monsters.

Eat what you want to make up for. So these monsters ended up growing on people.

However, the question is, why does Yushan's ghost mother want to cure diseases and save people? For what purpose and for what psychology?

Could it really be as the store said, the ghost mother of Yushan in front of her used to be the Holy Mother of Yushan?

Contracted a vicious disease due to the treatment of the plague and deteriorated into the ghost mother she is today?

"In any case, the ghost mother saved the Great Wilderness." Murong Qi said in one word.

Wu Chen nodded: "Isolate all the sick people in this volcano, and indeed eliminate the plague for the Great Wilderness." In this way, humanity can be passed on to the present day. In other words, the reason why monsters are becoming more and more rare is that they all grow on people? ”

Xiling Jin understood what Wu Chen was thinking, so he comforted him with kind words: "Master, Ru Mao is indeed easy to be invaded by demonic qi when he drinks blood. However, after roasting and eating, the demonic spirit will fade a lot. Besides, nowadays, the number of ancient relics is scarce, and ordinary beasts are harmless to eat. ”

"Wait!" Wu Chen suddenly thought of something: "In other words, today's so-called demon beasts are all evolved from ordinary beasts, right?" It stands to reason that the fierce beasts of the ancients have all degenerated into ordinary beasts? ”

"That being said, there are exceptions." Murong Wei's implication is that aren't the ancient relics that accompany you every day?

"The speed at which the beasts in the frozen forest evolve into demon beasts is accelerating......," Wu Chen frowned and said, "Isn't it, where do demon beasts gather...... Leaking air? ”

"Like this volcano in front of you?" Xiling brocade blurted out.

"Possibly!" Wu Chen's eyes lit up. (To be continued.) )