Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 257: 256: Heaven's Forty-Nine, Humans Escape One
[You have entered the six internal organs of the Kuhe God - the stomach. ]

[Note: The Six Internal Organs of the Bitter River God are in charge of digestion of grains. You are affected by digestion, and all attributes are reduced, falling into a state of continuous weakness.]

Lin Beixuan looked into the stomach of the Bitter River God, his eyes slightly fixed, and it seemed as if half of his strength was drained away in an instant.

He was unable to adapt for a moment, staggered, and sat weakly on the ground.

Different from the continuous bleeding state in Liuxia God's space, Kuhe God's stomach directly cut off half of his attributes without any transition in between.

The sudden loss of strength caused a disharmony between the brain and the body, which led to his fall.

However, Lin Beixuan quickly adjusted himself.

He usually restrained his strength in his daily life, and after properly correcting some minor differences, he stood up again as if nothing had happened.

"Does this count as a negative buff?"

Lin Beixuan twisted his neck and looked down from the intestinal opening.

The stomach of this Bitter River God is so strange that it looks the same as the outside world, or even better than the outside world.

At least compared to other places in Luozhou, the mountains and rivers here are something Luozhou never has.

Lin Beixuan walked into the stomach along a winding mountain path, and the sound of splashing water came to his ears.

He followed the sound of water and saw a broad, deep lake. The surface of the lake was a deep green, like a huge piece of jade embedded in the center of his stomach.

At the edge of the lake, water flows down from the intestinal opening of the stomach wall, forming a waterfall.

There are some plants whose names I cannot tell growing around, and their leaves sway gently in the breeze, making rustling sounds.

Vibrant and beautiful.

There was no doubt that this was a beautiful scenery he had never seen in Naju.

Lin Beixuan twitched his nose slightly and frowned.

Too bad, it stinks!
Although the scenery in the stomach looks beautiful, the lake is green and looks vibrant, but there is a strong and disgusting stench at all times and in all places.

The stench was like the stench of long-rotting body tissue, or like a mixture of rotting plants and animal carcasses in some ancient swamp.

It has a sour smell that makes people think of death and corruption.

Just as Lin Beixuan was staring at the lake, a clear child's voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Don't stand by the Green Lake or it will swallow you up."

"Swallow it..."

Lin Beixuan turned around and looked towards the direction where the voice came from.

He was a child of only seven or eight years old, with a dirty body and a bald head. His cheeks were not as chubby as those of other children, but rather very thin.

The overall feeling it gives is as if it has been hungry for a long time, with only a pair of eyes that are bright.

This was the first 'person' Lin Beixuan had met since entering Luozhou.

It is indeed a human being, not some evil spirit pretending to be weird.

Lin Beixuan raised his eyebrows and looked at the child: "This lake looks very calm, how could it swallow me?"

The child didn't care about that and ran straight to Lin Beixuan, grabbed his hand and pulled him out, speaking in an adult tone as he pulled.

"Why are you talking so much? I'm telling you to stay away from Green Lake for your own good!"

Lin Beixuan found the child in front of him interesting, so he did not resist and let the other party pull him away from the edge of the green lake.

On the way, he took a deep look at the Green Lake, as if he wanted to penetrate the calm water surface and reach the bottom of the lake.

When they were about ten meters away from the Green Lake, the child let go of his hands and wiped the sweat from his bald head.

"Oh, I did a good thing today, my mother will definitely praise me!"

The child seemed to be thinking of something happy. He shook his head and a big smile appeared on his face.

"What's your name?" Lin Beixuan asked.

"Mother calls me Ah Jiu, so you can call me Brother Jiu. I saved your life, so it's not too much to ask you to call me Brother Jiu."

Ajiu crossed his arms and raised his head high, looking very arrogant.

Lin Beixuan couldn't help laughing when he saw this, thinking that there really is a little brother in every world.

He didn't argue with a kid about it.

"Have you always lived here?"

Ajiu glanced at Lin Beixuan with a strange expression.

"What are you talking about? Weren't we all brought here together by the Bitter River God?"

Ajiu's eyes suddenly widened, he immediately became alert and jumped away from Lin Beixuan.

"Wait a minute, aren't you from Kamikawa Village?"

Lin Beixuan shrugged: "When did I say I was from Shanghe Village?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Ah Jiu turned around and ran away, shouting as he ran.

"Help! Someone broke in. Help!!"

His shout was sharp and traveled far in his stomach.

Lin Beixuan looked somewhat helpless, but he still wanted to say that he was a good person.

But Ah Jiu had already run away, so there was no point in continuing the conversation.

He followed Ah Jiu with his eyes and walked lightly, following behind him slowly and at a leisurely pace.

At this moment, Ajiu didn't even dare to turn his head back, he was very scared and worried.

"Mother said that outsiders are all bad people and we should not talk to bad people. But I not only talked to the bad guy, but also saved him. What should I do? Mother will definitely beat me to death if she finds out."

As he thought about it, tears began to flow down Jiu's face.

He ran towards the village crying.

The village where he lived was called Xiahe Village, which was once located in the lower reaches of the Ku River, and Shanghe Village was upstream.

Ajiu thought Lin Beixuan was someone from upstream, so he reminded him, but he didn't expect that Lin Beixuan was actually an outsider.

The noise he made along the way alarmed many villagers who were working in the fields. When they heard that an outsider had broken in, everyone's face tightened and they all picked up their hoes.

A strong man who looked quite prestigious gathered people around him.

"Lao Liuzi, you have good eyesight. Wasn't that Ah Jiu who just ran over?"

"It's him. This guy wanders around the village every day and does all kinds of annoying things. I won't make a mistake."

Upon hearing this, the strong man immediately said, "Take two people and look in the direction he ran from to see if there is an outsider breaking in as he said."

"understand!"

"Baldy, go and inform the village chief immediately." The sturdy man instructed a young man with a bald spot on his head next to him.

He seemed to have considerable prestige among the farmers; no one opposed his words, and they immediately took action after hearing his orders.

"I hope that guy is just lying!"

A hint of ruthlessness flashed in the sturdy man's eyes, and he pulled out the short knife that had been hanging on his waist for a long time.

Not long after, Lao Liuzi and his companion came back in a panic.

"Brother Guan, there is indeed an outsider breaking in!"

Guan Shuo's expression turned grim upon hearing this: "How many people are there?"

"There should be only one...one." Lao Liuzi stretched out a trembling finger.

"One is fine, the rest of you follow me, let's arrest him first."

Guan Shuo waved his hand, and led a dozen villagers from the fields onto the village road, walking towards Lin Beixuan in a mighty manner.

... "Mother, mother..." Ajiu pushed open the fence of a farmyard with tears on his face and shouted to a woman who was weaving straw sandals in the yard.

When the woman saw Ah Jiu's appearance, she continued to weave straw sandals with a calm expression.

"Why, did you fight with some guys in the village again?"

"No, I was very good today. I even saved a person by the man-eating Green Lake." Jiu squatted in front of his mother.

The woman glanced at the child and asked, "Then why are you crying?"

Ajiu wiped the tears from his face.

"But, but that man is not from our village."

"From Shanghe Village?" The woman remained calm.

"It's not..."

The woman paused when she heard that, and her eyes suddenly turned cold.

"The Bitter River God only has Xiahe Village and Shanghe Village in his heart. Could it be that outsiders have come in?" Her voice became noticeably louder.

Ajiu was frightened and dared not to reply.

Seeing this, the woman could no longer hold back her anger. She opened her almond-shaped eyes and said with anger in her tone: "So you saved an outsider!"

"Does anyone else know about this?"

"I don't know." Jiu shook his head repeatedly.

"You must not tell anyone that you rescued that outsider by the Green Lake." The woman's eyes fell on Ajiu's bald head and slapped him.

"Come with me and tell the village chief about this immediately."

"No need, mother. I was shouting all the way back. By now everyone in our village should know that outsiders have broken in." Ajiu raised his head and said with some pride.

The woman glanced at him coldly: "Follow me when I tell you to."

"Oh…"

Meeting the woman's cold gaze, the little boy immediately became well-behaved.

When they arrived at the village chief's house, Laitou was already telling the village chief about the intrusion of outsiders.

The village chief of Xiahe Village is a skinny old man with little flesh on his body and baggy clothes.

The furnishings in his house were old. There was a shrine inside the room. In front of the shrine was a table with an incense burner and several piles of wilted fruits on it.

The curl of smoke rising from the three incense sticks in the incense burner made the village chief who was kneeling below look somewhat ethereal and immortal.

Seeing the bald-headed young man half-kneeling at the door, the woman pulled Ajiu but did not go in, but stood by the door.

"Village chief, I wonder how many outsiders there are. I will go and call all the villagers now."

The village chief of Xiahe Village is named Gu Yan.

He did not answer the bald man's words, but took out a few machetes with strange patterns painted on them from his arms and threw them on the ground, then closed his eyes and silently chanted a spell.

After a moment, he pursed his lips and said, "The God of Kuhe said that the other party is only one person."

"One person!" Lai Tou heaved a sigh of relief: "If it's just one person, Brother Guan Shuo and the others should be able to handle it."

But then he heard Gu Yan say, "We can't deal with this man. Go and tell Guan Shuo to invite him to the village."

"Remember, use please!"

Perhaps because he was afraid that the bald man would not learn his lesson, Gu Yan emphasized it again.

Baldy was stunned when he heard this, not quite understanding.

"Village chief, they are outsiders. The lesson of Shanghe Village..."

However, before the bald man could finish his words, Gu Yan interrupted him sternly: "You went just because I told you to go. Do you want to disobey the will of the God of the Bitter River?"

"Don't dare."

The bald man immediately fell to the ground in fear, waved towards the shrine three times, and then left the room.

He walked out and saw the woman holding Ah Jiu standing aside. He pointed at Ah Jiu and said with a smile: "You kid, you have done a great deed today."

Discovering the intrusion of outsiders in advance and informing the village is something worthy of praise in itself.

Ever since Shanghe Village was invaded by outsiders, resulting in casualties among half of the village, the entire Xiahe Village has become panic-stricken, fearing that their village would also be burned, killed and looted by those outsiders, so they are extremely wary of outsiders.

After the bald man left, the woman pulled Ajiu into the house, knelt down and worshiped the shrine.

The woman did not explain her purpose, and after paying her respects she knelt quietly.

Jiu's face was serious at this time. He didn't dare to make a fuss like usual. He knelt on the ground obediently, not daring to move.

After a long time, Gu Yan opened his eyes and slowly turned around.

"Yinggu, I know everything about Ah Jiu. Go to the granary and get two kilograms of rice later."

"Thank you, village chief." The woman lowered her head and said, "But I don't want rice. I just want to take Jiu away from here."

Gu Yan narrowed his eyes and sighed deeply: "Do you really have to do this? You should know what it is like outside. If you go out, you will die."

A trace of confusion flashed across the woman's eyes when she heard this, and her voice trembled a little.

"But staying here is also a death."

"It's fake, all of this is fake... The sun is fake, the water is fake, there's no way we can grow crops in here!"

"Shanghe Village was destroyed not because outsiders broke in, but because they had run out of food and started eating their own people."

"Our village is running out of food. I would rather run out and starve to death than let my widowed mother and I become meat on the village table."

As she spoke, two lines of tears flowed down the woman's cheeks: "I heard everything that the head of Shanghe Village came to discuss with you that night."

"Ah, you don't trust me that much, and think I will be like Liang Bo?"

Gu Yan shook his head and sighed, seemingly not angry because the other party had overheard the conversation between him and the head of Shanghe Village.

"I know that you led us to hide here and saved us from the disaster, but the human heart is unpredictable. Even if I believe you won't do this, what about others?"

"My husband is dead, I'm scared..." The woman was trembling all over, clutching the corners of her clothes tightly with both hands.

It was the first time that Jiu saw his mother like this. He was a little overwhelmed and asked, "Mom, what do you mean by eating our own people? The people in the village are very kind to me. They won't eat me."

Although he was only seven or eight years old, he already understood many things and knew what his mother meant.

But he was simple-minded and didn't believe that the villagers would commit cannibalism.

"Shut up!" The woman's eyes were red and her voice became hoarse with fear.

Ajiu was frightened by his mother's roar. He stood there with his eyes turning red.

He didn't know why his mother became like this just because she met a stranger today.

The woman looked at Gu Yan again and bowed deeply to him: "Village Chief, please tell me how to leave here!"

Gu Yan looked at the scene before him, feeling mixed emotions.

"Okay, I'll tell you how to get out of here."

"But before you leave, it's better to meet the outsider. He came down from the ground and saw what the scene was like up there. I didn't lie to you."

"The village is indeed just as you said. It is almost unable to hold on. Nothing can grow in the stomach of the Bitter River God."

"In the past three years, I have been fortune-telling for a long time, which has cost me a lot of life, but the answer I always get is a dead end."

"There are fifty great ways and forty-nine heavenly titles. Luozhou was originally a dead end, but today, my hexagram came alive!"

The woman looked up in confusion when she heard that, only to see Gu Yan smiling.

"It can be seen that people avoid one of them."

(End of this chapter)