Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 256: The Six Internal Organs of the Bitter River God

Naju.

The sky was filled with wind and sand, and the gray clouds seemed to be always covering the land, lingering for a long time.

The dry riverbed was cracked, and the exposed soil looked like bricks. Looking further, a few withered trees stood alone with twisted branches, looking quite desolate.

"General, where are we now?"

Wu Huo wiped the sweat off his cheeks and said to Lin Beixuan, "We don't have much water left. If this continues, we will die of thirst, if not starvation!"

Lin Beixuan looked towards Wu Huo, then his gaze shifted away, and the two hundred marching soldiers were all in his sight.

"Don't worry about water and food. I'll find a way."

Looking at Lin Beixuan's determined eyes, Wu Huo said nothing more. He spoke to his close confidant and asked him to pass on Lin Beixuan's words.

These two hundred people may not be afraid of death, but none of them wants to die of starvation or thirst.

Because that would be too depressing.

When Lin Beixuan's words reached the team, the worry on people's faces was obviously much less.

They trusted Lin Beixuan so much that they were even willing to die for him.

It's not only because of Lin Beixuan's past achievements and abilities, but also because of the invisible appeal and trust he carries that makes people willing to go through fire and water for him.

Shen Tingmiao was holding a shrine in her arms and following Lin Beixuan.

She is not very old, but due to the constant sandstorms in Luozhou, the skin on her face has become dry, cracked and red, and her hair is messy.

She was the only woman in the team, but she never sought special treatment. Her food, shelter and transportation were the same as everyone else, which earned her the respect and admiration of many people.

"How long will it take us to reach the bitter river?" Shen Tingmiao adjusted her breathing and panted slightly.

Although she was the disciple of Ninth Aunt, her physical strength was not much better than that of ordinary people. Moreover, women are naturally weaker than men. It was already a little difficult for her to keep up with the team when she was around strange people like Wu Huo.

Lin Beixuan took out the map and took a look at it.

"It won't be long until we get over the slope ahead. Just hold on a little longer."

Lin Beixuan took the spirit shrine from Shen Tingmiao's arms: "Let me hold this first, you try to save your energy."

Shen Tingmiao did not refuse and watched Lin Beixuan take the shrine away from her arms.

If it were anyone else, she would just shake her head coldly, rejecting them mercilessly, and wouldn't even let them touch the shrine.

Because the shrine in her arms is equivalent to the presence of the Ninth Aunt in person, and not just anyone can touch it.

But Lin Beixuan is different, he is the person recognized by Aunt Jiu.

More than two hundred people were walking on the desolate land. From the sky, they looked like a young dragon struggling in the mud, trying to rise.

Kuhedi was originally a barren land in Luozhou, located in the southwest of Luozhou.

The reason why life is so hard is that there is a water shortage here. Villages and towns settled along the border often have to go deep into the river to get water for irrigating their farmland.

This place was famous for its water shortage even before the drought in Naju.

After the drought, anyone with normal thinking would think that this place would become even more desolate, so they would not choose this place even if they wanted to escape.

When Lin Beixuan and his party stepped into the Kuhe area, they could feel that the temperature was obviously higher than that in Zhangcun and Pingyang County they had passed before.

The sunlight shone through the gray clouds onto my body, burning my skin, making me feel hot and sweat flow even faster.

Lin Beixuan squatted down, stroked the hot soil at his feet, grabbed a handful of fine sand and held it in his hand. A gust of hot wind blew, and the fine sand flew between his fingers.

"This should have been a river beach, but unfortunately the water has dried up!" Wu Huo analyzed, shaking his head, imitating Lin Beixuan's appearance.

Although he didn't understand why Lin Beixuan stopped to grab the sand at his feet.

As a man who grew up digging in the fields for food, Wu Huo could still see the difference in the land beneath his feet.

"General, you don't want to find water here, do you?"

Lin Beixuan glanced at Wu Huo and shook his head: "I have other ways to get water and food."

"Then what are you doing?"

"I just feel that this place is a little strange. After entering this area, I hardly see any starving ghosts."

Lin Beixuan's words awakened Wu Huo. He thought about it carefully and it seemed to be true.

After leaving Pingyang County, they would occasionally encounter small groups of starving ghosts, but once they entered the Kuhe area, those starving ghosts disappeared inexplicably.

“That seems to be the case!”

Wu Huo quickly stood up and looked around, but what he saw was still endless desolation.

"Let's go in and take a look first."

Lin Beixuan stood up and his eyes followed the dry riverbed.

He felt that the Kuhe area was not as barren as he had imagined.

Even starving ghosts don’t want to stay here. Is it really because this place has no value?

Or……

A flash of inspiration came to Lin Beixuan's mind.

The team continued to go deeper, and after walking for a long time, a village suddenly appeared on the distorted heat waves of the ground.

This village is not like normal villages where wood is used to build houses. Instead, the houses are built with piles of yellowish-brown soil. From a distance, it looks like a bunch of ochre coffins are laid out on the ground.

Lin Beixuan led his men in and found that this village was really made entirely of earth. Even the doors of the houses were made entirely of loess, which made people wonder how to open the doors.

People outside can't get in, and people inside can't get out.

"Tsk, is this village really habitable?"

Wu Huo tried to push the door of a mud house, but it took him a lot of effort to push it open.

Accompanied by an indescribable friction sound of "creaking", dust flew in the air, revealing the interior of an earthen house.

It was dark inside and seemed a bit eerie.

Wu Huo lit a fire and walked around inside, and found that there were only some simple furniture inside, all covered in thick dust.

"General, there's nothing in there."

Wu Huo walked out of the mud house and said to Lin Beixuan: "This village should be similar to the villages we have encountered along the way. All the people are dead."

Lin Beixuan frowned when he heard this, and ordered the several squad leaders he had just appointed behind him: "Take your men and search the other rooms."

"Yes!"

Several squad leaders immediately led their men to push open the doors of houses one by one and search inside.

Shen Tingmiao came to Lin Beixuan: "Did you find something?"

After following Lin Beixuan for a period of time, she had more or less understood Lin Beixuan's character and knew that he would not do these things in a deserted village for no reason.

"It just feels a little strange, let's take a look again!"

Lin Beixuan did not directly answer Shen Tingmiao's question, and began to wander around the village.

He pushed open the door of the mud house and went in to check the situation inside. Then he stomped on the ground hard with an intriguing expression.

"Is there really no one in this village?"

He came to an open space in the center of the village, lowered his head and looked around, and finally found what he wanted to see.

Those were traces left behind as if a heavy object was being dragged away, leaving faint marks on the ground. If it weren't for his amazing eyesight, it would have been difficult to find.

Lin Beixuan raised his eyebrows slightly and followed the traces all the way to the door of an inconspicuous mud house at the edge of the village. The traces were interrupted here.

"interesting!"

Lin Beixuan walked forward and prepared to push open the door of the earthen house, but he found it was a little heavy and much harder to push than other houses.

You have to know that his current strength is measured in thousands of pounds, which makes him feel a little strenuous, let alone ordinary people.

"Rumble..."

A sound like a huge rock rubbing against the ground was heard as Lin Beixuan pushed forward.

The door of the earthen house was pushed open, and the situation inside looked similar to the other earthen houses. Only a few pieces of tattered furniture and scattered farm tools showed that someone had lived here before.

However, Lin Beixuan looked at a table in the corner, which was covered with a light dust.

Then he started hammering again.

Finally, in a corner of the house, Lin Beixuan stopped.

This made Shen Tingmiao, who had been following Lin Beixuan, very curious, and she couldn't help but ask.

"What clues did you find?"

In her opinion, most of the people in this village had met with accidents, so she could not understand Lin Beixuan's previous strange behavior.

until……

Lin Beixuan raised his hand and punched out, hitting the ground in the corner of the house.

"Boom..."

The impact sound was somewhat hollow, not as dull as a normal fist hitting the ground.

Shen Tingmiao's eyes gradually widened, and she guessed what was going on.

She looked at Lin Beixuan in shock: "Is there a tunnel in this room?"

Lin Beixuan did not answer her, but just kept punching the ground. Under his tremendous strength, cracks soon appeared on the ground in that corner and gaps began to appear.

"Bang!!"

Finally, after he landed his last punch, the ground was completely pierced through, and the earth and rocks rolled down, revealing a deep tunnel underneath.

After digging through the cave, Lin Beixuan felt a fishy wind blowing up from below. He lowered his head and looked inside, and found that the entrance to the tunnel was a bit old, and it should have been dug out simply with a hoe.

Lin Beixuan instructed Shen Tingmiao, "Wait here. I'll go down and take a look. If Wu Huo and others come over, tell them to stay here first and don't act rashly."

After giving the instructions, Lin Beixuan held his breath and jumped directly in from the entrance.

The entrance was quite deep. After experiencing a brief state of weightlessness, Lin Beixuan felt his feet touching the ground.

The ground was not as hard as the dry earth outside. Instead, it was unusually soft, like a ground covered with hay, or like the intestines of some creature.

Lin Beixuan didn’t know why he had this illusion, but that was how the facts made him feel.

Soft and a little creamy...

[You have entered a special area: the intestines of the bitter river god.]

[The illustrated guide of common gods is opened, and the information of the minor common god - Kuhe God is partially unlocked. 】

[Your contact with the minor god, the God of the Bitter River, did not result in a confrontation, and you are unable to copy his abilities.]

……

"Bitter River God!"

After receiving the information on the panel, Lin Beixuan's pupils suddenly contracted and he became alert.

Isn’t Kuheshen a place name?

How could he be a secular god!
Lin Beixuan couldn't help but feel a strong sense of shock.

He never imagined that one day he would be standing on the intestines of a secular god. It was so bizarre that it somewhat subverted his worldview.

The place where he is standing now is the intestines of the Bitter River God. Does it mean that the ground of the passage he broke through is the other party's skin?
Even when more than 200 of them entered the Kuhe area, they were walking on each other's bodies all the way?

Lin Beixuan raised his head and looked upwards. The tunnel... no, it should be said that the entrance to the intestine was glowing slightly, which meant that it had not healed like human muscles.

No wonder it took him so many punches to open the entrance. He was even surprised that there was nothing underneath. With his strength, two punches should have cleared the entrance, but it ended up taking him a lot of effort.

It turns out that he was actually hitting the skin of the Bitter River God.

Lin Beixuan shook his head to pull himself out of his shock, took out a fire starter from his bag and lit it.

The fire lit up, instantly dispelling the surrounding darkness and revealing the surrounding scene in Lin Beixuan's eyes.

He hadn't noticed it before, but now in the light of the fire, Lin Beixuan saw that what was on both sides of him were not earth walls at all, but slowly moving intestinal walls.

The intestinal wall is dark brown in color and even looks like soil, but if you look closely you will find that the surface of the wall is covered with a layer of flesh membrane similar to leather.

The membrane tightly wraps around the rock-like polyps, making a slight friction sound as the intestines slowly move.

"How great must this bitter river god be!"

"If we calculate based on the length of human intestines, the small intestine is between six and seven meters long, and the large intestine is nearly two meters long. Am I in the large intestine or the small intestine?"

Lin Beixuan frowned. In order to prevent himself from getting lost, he marked the entrance where he fell, and made another mark every time he walked a certain distance.

However, not long after they walked, suddenly, a huge sound like thunder sounded overhead.

"Boom!!"

Following the sound of muffled thunder, Lin Beixuan felt the amplitude of the peristalsis of the intestinal walls on both sides increase in an instant, and the entire intestine vibrated violently, almost making him unable to stand.

Fortunately, the muffled thunder only sounded for a moment, and then the intestines returned to their original state.

"What on earth is that sound!?"

Lin Beixuan raised his head and looked towards the source of the sound, but all he saw was the intestinal wall above his head.

Considering that he was now in the intestines of the Bitter River God, could that sound be the other party's heartbeat?
Lin Beixuan frowned and thought about it, but he became even more curious.

Using the firelight to dispel the darkness, he walked along the intestines. During the walk, he heard several muffled thunders. Fortunately, he was mentally prepared and was not as helpless as the first time.

After experiencing it several times, he further confirmed his guess.

That is the heartbeat of the Bitter River God.

But this heartbeat is much slower than that of a normal person, only beating once every half a quarter of an hour.

As he was thinking, Lin Beixuan's ears suddenly moved and he heard some noise in front.

He casually extinguished the fire and walked towards the direction where the noise came from in a low voice.

He lit the tinder just because he liked the feeling of light, but it didn't mean that he couldn't see in the dark.

As he walked in, the sounds gradually grew louder, and the intestines began to not be as dark as when he first entered.

Finally, a gentle beam of light shot out from the corner of the intestine.

Lin Beixuan supported his intestinal wall and looked out towards the light.

It was an extremely huge space, with mountains and water, like a small world of its own.

Sunlight shines through two huge holes on the top, illuminating the entire space.

[You have entered a special area: Kuhe Shen Liufu - Stomach. ]

(End of this chapter)