It is damp and stuffy, and the air is filled with a faint smell of blood and an indescribable odor. That is human body odor. Anyone who has not bathed for a long time will have a strong body odor, and when many people gather

Being together and unable to wash up will cause such a smell...

This was my first feeling when I got into that dirt hole.

The earthen cave is not high, but it is higher than the bandits' cave. We almost hunched our bodies and walked forward in a semi-squatting position. The people of the Hu family did not have the skill of bucket buckets. It was very unsuccessful to dig such a shelter.

What people say is - frizzy!

Generally speaking, it means that the holes dug by novices are not up to standard. They are as deep as a shovel and as shallow as a shovel. They are full of pits and are not round at all.

This kind of environment somehow reminds me of the homeless people living in air-raid shelters in my hometown. Those air-raid shelters were dug during the Anti-Japanese War. They were in disrepair and were infested with snakes and insects. The garbage collected by the homeless people was piled up everywhere, and the stench was unbearable.

, so he was ridiculed by some people as "bedbugs", which shows how depressed the big shopkeeper and his disciples have been.

There was no light in the earthen cave, but it was not too deep. At the end of the cave was a place similar to a cellar.

Wow!!

The moment I ducked in, many eyes focused on me.

There is no light here. When the flashlight in Brother Yaozi's hand swept forward, those who were watching us turned away almost instinctively.

I took this opportunity to see clearly what was going on inside.

shocking!!

Apart from these four words, I can't think of any other adjectives.

The cellar is not big, only about forty square meters at most. For a group of people who know nothing about civil engineering, it is very rare to be able to dig such a large cellar underground without collapsing.

But in this thirty or forty square meter area, twenty or thirty people are crowded...

Twenty or thirty people with disheveled hair and looks no better than beggars!

The smiles that appeared on the faces of the few of us because we found the big shop owner disappeared little by little...

Twenty or thirty people...it seemed like a lot.

However, these people should not be the only ones!!

The information provided by Tianmeng is not comprehensive. It only mentions the five direct disciples of the big shopkeeper and three sons and one daughter. That is because these people are the pillars of the Hu family!!

What are direct disciples? They are all the disciples of the big shopkeeper!

These three sons and one daughter have all entered Taoism and want to take over the mantle of the big shopkeeper!!

It can be said that they represent the Hu Sect. When the big shopkeeper joined the Tianmeng, they all joined. They are registered in the Tianmeng. They are members of the Tianmeng like us, so the Tianmeng is in

When the mission was announced, the disappearances of a few of them were only mentioned, and the others were not mentioned at all!

Humen is one of the four gates in Northeast China. How could it be possible that there are just these few people?

As a sect that has always been very popular in the Northeast, the Hu sect has never been short of disciples. It does not have the current difficult situation of inheriting descendants of various sects. It’s just that their inheritance model is different from our Taoism. Our Taoism teaches

Once a teacher, always a father, like my master and I, the relationship is not only about teaching and teaching, but also like a father and son. He protects me when I am young, and I raise him when he is old. Only by never leaving can we be considered mutually exclusive.

But this is not the case in traditional sects. In addition to disciples, they also accept many casual disciples. After coming to learn skills for a while, they will leave and become a great immortal who is alone outside. Now he is alone looking at things.

This is basically the origin of the great immortals of Er. They will definitely not be able to learn the unique skills of the Hu family, but they can basically raise a Baojiaxian. After all, they are inheriting the inheritance from one party, which can be regarded as spreading!

As the head of the four sects of the Hu Sect, these people are all counted within its sphere of influence. The chief shopkeeper only had five disciples in his lifetime, but even the scattered disciples were not counted...

At the time of this incident, there were fifty or sixty Wuyangyang disciples who were still studying at his place. These people did not live in his home, but rented houses outside and came to him to learn skills every day.

It is an inherited habit. When something happens to the big shopkeeper, he will naturally take these people with him, so that these people can gain experience and learn things along the way. In addition, he also invited a few old friends to help out...

Mrs. Hu didn't know the exact number of people, but there were so many people that it looked like a tourist group.

But now... there are less than thirty of them. One can imagine how tragic the casualties are!

As far as I know, almost all the five disciples of the big shopkeeper were killed. The youngest Hu Tianyin was murdered by Fang Erwa, and the rest of them basically died at the hands of those gold diggers in order to protect Hu Yue'er!

This is almost like destroying a sect in one battle. Fortunately, the big shopkeeper persisted. If he and his sons also died in the battle, it would almost mean that the Hu sect was completely wiped out!

Right now, there are more than twenty people alive, and all of them are miserable!

As soon as you enter, you will see people with unkempt hair, skeletal figures, and dull and numb eyes. The cellars are all blocked, and the air circulation is not good, so there will inevitably be environmental hypoxia, so everyone looks pale. At first glance,

More like a ghost than a human!

A young man cowering in a corner lost a leg. Due to lack of necessary medical supplies, he just pulled a dirty rag from his clothes and bandaged the wound. He would have died without excessive blood loss. The wound had already

It's broken and even infested with maggots...

There are two or three seriously injured people like this...

It was so miserable. In the small cellar, these people were almost crowded together, and there was not even a place to lie down. After a few of us entered, we could only stand at the entrance, with no place to stay at all.

The reaction of these people is also very scary. They almost lie there motionless, which is even scarier than when they jump up and fight us desperately, almost like the walking zombies.

"Cough, cough cough..."

Waves of deep, hoarse coughs sounded intermittently.

I looked past the many people in the cellar and towards an old man sitting in the corner.

After a few glances, I was finally sure that this person... belonged to the big shopkeeper.

He almost changed his appearance, completely different from the photo Mrs. Hu showed me.

The big shopkeeper is old, but he used to have very good hair, thick and black, not even a single gray hair, and he kept his hair short.

At this moment, his hair seemed to have been growing for more than two years. It was abnormally long and sparse, almost white, and disheveled. As for his face, it was even more scary. Originally, he was a rather amiable old man with a pale face.

, but at this moment, the bags under his eyes were so big that they almost drooped, showing a blue color, and his lips were also blue and purple. His cheeks were sunken, making his cheekbones stand out. When he stared at it, he looked like a ghost!

He ignored my master, stared at me for a long time, opened his mouth, and sighed: "They look the same as your ancestors, but... cough, cough, cough, cough... you... you shouldn't

Come here!! Qingzhu, Qingzhu, you... are really in a hurry!!"

I quietly looked at the old man in front of me.

After a moment, the big shopkeeper waved his hand, and the many disciples who were walking around like zombies finally moved a few times and reluctantly made room for a few of us to step forward.

The big shopkeeper, supported by a middle-aged man next to him, bowed his hands towards my master: "Thank you so much, fellow Daoist Zhang. I have traveled thousands of miles for my old bones, and I am tired..."

The middle-aged man next to him was also malnourished, but not as serious as the big shopkeeper.

This person is none other than his eldest son, Hu Changsheng!

After getting closer to the big shopkeeper, I smelled the strong smell in the cellar. The smell of the big shopkeeper was the strongest, almost to a frightening level.

My expression changed, and I took a closer look at the big shopkeeper in front of me again. I saw that his clothes were extremely dirty, as if they were covered with asphalt. His hair was withered and sparse, but his armpits were wet, and his body had an unbearable stench.

His expression was even more gloomy, without even a smile...

This series of characteristics are connected together...a terrible word suddenly popped up in my mind - the Five Declines of Heaven and Man!!

In addition, I also smelled a fragrance from the big shopkeeper's body, which was intertwined with the stench. It was very light, but had a distinct fragrance.

I smelled this kind of fragrance when my master broke through the half-step of Heavenly Master and stepped into Heavenly Master!!

My master obviously noticed this, and a trace of surprise flashed across his face. He was the master of Yiguan and a heavenly master himself, so he didn’t have so many taboos and asked directly: "You... took that step?!

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(There are roadblocks everywhere. Quarantine. It was too congested. It was blocked until dark yesterday. It was too dangerous to take my children with me. I didn’t dare to leave. After passing the traffic jam, I got off the expressway and found a hotel to rest. Then... I took another detour today.

I'm stuck. I just got home. I gritted my teeth and persisted in coding a chapter. My head feels like mushy and I can't write anymore. I'll take a nap first and update when I get up tomorrow. I can only spend the next half month trying to make ends meet for my broken promise.
Chapter completed!