As the candle went out, everyone suddenly saw darkness, as if the whole world was covered with a layer of black cloth.

“Xiaolinzi!”

Xia Hongyao reached out to grab Lin Baici.

“Don’t make a sound.”

Lin Baici reminded them. They didn’t know what would happen next, so it was best to stay quiet. What if they were targeted by monsters?

Lin Baici’s caution made Nan Gongshu and the others feel relieved.

For now, Lin Baici seemed reliable.

Snap!

A pale light suddenly lit up, illuminating the surroundings in a pale white, like the pale face of a person who had lost too much blood.

It was eerie.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

Clusters of flies buzzed around like bombers.

“What kind of place is this?”

The woman in leather pants swallowed her saliva.

The bar was gone. They were now in a narrow and cramped room, with sewage flowing on the ground and dried feces.

There were many bloodstains on the walls, looking dark red and mottled.

This room was only about half the size of a basketball court, with no windows. There was an iron door in front, with a palm-sized window on it, but it was blocked by an iron plate, so they couldn’t see the outside situation.

“It feels like a prison cell!”

Xia Hongyao took out her black dagger from her backpack.

Lin Baici put on his kasaya and inserted the pine torch into his backpack. When needed, he could draw it out with his backhand. The bronze sword was his main weapon.

Based on the length of the pine torch compared to the backpack, everyone knew that Lin Baici had a space-type divine taboo.

Suddenly, it felt like they had bitten into a lemon, so sour it was unbearable.

The bartender had no spiritual awareness. He had hidden weapons under the stage, but he didn’t take them out in time, so now he was empty-handed.

The landlady and the dwarf didn’t have any weapons either.

The woman in leather pants took out a pair of brass knuckles from her pocket and put them on her hands.

“…”

The old man was annoyed. He had a badge, a space-type equipment, which contained all his belongings, including weapons. It was too dangerous to not have a weapon for self-defense, but if he used it, the badge would be exposed. And he had just said that he didn’t have much stardust coins on him, so he would give them after leaving the contaminated area.

Even a fool would know that the old man was intentionally delaying the payment time because if he had space-type equipment, he would definitely put valuable items in it and carry it with him.

Bang! Bang!

Someone knocked on the iron door twice, followed by the sound of unlocking.

Lin Baici immediately signaled Xia Hongyao.

With her high ponytail, Xia Hongyao took a step and hid behind the door, lying in ambush.

Creak!

The door opened, and a huge and fat ‘person’ walked in.

Buzz!

The flies were disturbed and flew up.

It was not wearing any clothes, only a dirty apron was tied around its chest, stained with minced meat and various disgusting fluids, emitting a strong stench.

There were flies crawling on it.

Its two furry little legs were wrapped in a pair of oversized black rain boots, with dark red liquid flowing down.

Everyone’s nerves tightened.

Because this person had a fat pig head on top of its neck, and there was even an iron ring on its nose.

The pig-headed person yawned and scratched its crotch with its left hand. “Let’s go!”

In its right hand, it held a bone-cutting knife with a notch.

Everyone looked at Lin Baici, especially Xia Hongyao. After the shock, she asked if Lin Baici had made a move.

“Hmm?”

The drowsy pig-headed person saw the bronze sword in Lin Baici’s hand and suddenly woke up, immediately roaring, “Drop your weapon!”

“Attack it!”

Lin Baici growled lowly, raised his right hand, and threw out a flying sword!

Go!

Swish!

The Dragon Tooth whistled through the air like a shooting star, piercing through the pig-headed person’s eye socket, directly penetrating it.

The pig-headed person was caught off guard and didn’t even have time to scream before it died.

Its nearly two-meter tall body fell to the ground.

“Catch it!”

Lin Baici ordered.

He didn’t want to do it himself, it was a bit dirty.

The bartender didn’t move, but the dwarf rushed over and caught the pig-headed person’s body, preventing it from crashing to the ground and making a sound.

“Close the door!”

Lin Baici ordered, rushing to the corpse, grabbing the hilt of the sword, and stirring it forcefully. After confirming that the monster was dead beyond doubt, he pulled out the bronze sword.

“That maid said this tabletop game is called ‘Escape from the Underground City.’ Could this be the first type of monster we encountered?”

Nan Gongshu deduced.

The clothes on this corpse were very few, revealing everything, but there was no valuable information. However, Nan Gongshu still planned to dissect it.

But in the end, she didn’t do it.

This pig-headed person was too dirty and disgusting.

If she touched it, that experience would definitely become a lifelong nightmare.

“Bartender, if you disobey my orders again next time, please leave!”

Lin Baici looked at the bartender.

“I understand!”

The bartender lowered his head.

“Then dissect this corpse!”

Lin Baici ordered.

The bartender hesitated for a moment but still did as he was told. He picked up the bone-cutting knife from the pig-headed person’s hand and chopped it on the pig-headed person’s belly.

Splat!

Blood splattered.

“Damn, be careful!”

The woman in leather pants complained.

The bartender opened up the pig-headed person’s belly, and soon his hands were covered in blood. He sighed because he knew he was being used as an example.

[Underground City, Slaughterhouse, the pig-headed person’s paradise.]

[Humans are their food. Before being discovered, caught, and made into sausages, they must escape quickly.]

“Are there still people outside?”Lin Baici asked Xia Hongyao to take a look. He rubbed his nose because his sense of smell was too sensitive, so this dirty environment had a great impact on him.

Gao Mawei opened a crack in the door and looked outside. “It’s safe, no monsters!”

“Bartender, hurry up!”

Lin Baici urged, “Old man, you should help him too!”

“No need, right? What information can we get from a corpse?” The old man didn’t want to touch the corpse. “I think we should go out and take a look.”

In the old man’s eyes, this was just an ordinary monster. Even if they wanted to dissect the body, they had to find a powerful one.

Lin Baici didn’t say anything, just stared at the old man.

If these people didn’t do as he said, he would immediately part ways with them.

In a team, there can only be one voice.

“Alright, Captain, I’ll do it!”

The old man squatted down next to the corpse and inserted his hands into the abdomen of the pig-headed man, flipping it over.

Soon, the small room became filled with a foul smell.

“Captain, there’s a number 98 on its neck, probably its identification number. Other than that, there’s nothing!” The old man shook his hands and reported his findings.

Lin Baici took out the Divine Tortoise Shell and divined for a moment.

“Divine divination, the tortoise shell communicates with spirits, today is extremely unlucky!”

“It is auspicious to go west, but avoid fragrances!”

Everyone looked at the tortoise shell in Lin Baici’s hand, surprised.

This kid has a lot of good things on him!

“Be clear, which way is west?”

Lin Baici frowned.

“To your right!”

After ‘it’ finished speaking, it pleaded in a low voice, “I feel that these people are all plagued by bad luck today. Why not let me divine for them and resolve it?”

Lin Baici put the Divine Tortoise Shell in his pocket.

“Master, two is enough, alright, one, let me divine for one of them? I’m getting bored!”

Everyone was shocked to hear this.

Is this a Divine Taboo with self-awareness?

Generally speaking, these Divine Taboos are very precious.

“Let’s go, Leather Pants Girl, Bartender, you two lead the way!”

Lin Baici ordered.

Actually, it would be safer to ask everyone what divine blessings they had and cooperate, but that would involve privacy, so Lin Baici didn’t ask.

Leather Pants Girl didn’t waste any words. When joining someone else’s team, she had to bear this cost. The bartender picked up the pig-headed man’s bone-cutting knife, weighed it a few times, and found it quite heavy.

Everyone went out.

It was a corridor, with peeling wall paint that had probably been there for decades. Under the ceiling, there was a fist-sized light bulb every few tens of meters, emitting a pale white light.

Some moths were flying around the light bulbs.

There were small cells on both sides of the corridor, but after Lin Baici and the others checked a few, they found that there was no one inside.

This corridor was over a hundred meters long. At the end, there was a door. The bartender pushed it open and looked outside.

There were three paths: upstairs, downstairs, or continue forward.

[To escape from this slaughterhouse, you need to obtain a map and a key. The map is on those pig-headed men, and the key is on the pig king!]

“How should we go?”

Everyone looked at Lin Baici, waiting for an answer.

“Go downstairs!”

Lin Baici thought that the underground should be a warehouse or something unimportant, so they should start searching from these places.

“I think we should go upstairs first. If there’s a boss, they should be living upstairs,” the old man suggested.

“You can go!”

Lin Baici didn’t care. After saying that, he let Leather Pants Girl and the bartender go downstairs.

The old man didn’t want to act alone, so he had to follow.

The seven of them walked to the end and saw a half-open iron door.

Lin Baici smelled a stench coming from inside. “There’s a monster inside!”

He walked to the side of the door and pressed against the wall.

The others immediately followed suit.

“Old man, stay where you are!”

Lin Baici ordered.

The old man was stunned but understood. Lin Baici wanted him to be the bait. He felt a little unhappy about it, but he didn’t argue.

“Whoever is weaker will be the bait!”

Lin Baici believed that everyone could understand his implicit meaning. Those who contributed to the team could enjoy privileges. He took out a bronze sword and knocked on the iron door.

Clang! Clang!

Soon, footsteps sounded from inside. After about ten seconds, a pig-headed man pushed open the door and walked out.

Wearing black rain boots and an apron, holding a bone-cutting knife, it immediately yelled and pounced on the old man.

“Attack!”

Lin Baici rushed out first.

This time, he didn’t use his flying sword because it consumed too much divine power.

The old man’s dissatisfaction at being used as bait disappeared because Lin Baici was the first one to charge at the monster. However, Xia Hongyao was even faster.

She surpassed Lin Baici and rushed behind the pig-headed man, leaping and stabbing her short knife at its neck.

Eclipse!

Swish!

The short knife pierced the pig-headed man’s cervical vertebrae and was then horizontally slashed by Xia Hongyao. The pig-headed man’s neck was severed, and its large head hung on its neck.

Sizzle!

Blood spurted into the air, even splashing onto the ceiling.

Thump!

The body fell to the ground.

There were still footsteps. Lin Baici and the others turned around and saw another pig-headed man just reaching the iron door. It saw its fellow clansman being killed and immediately let out a roar.

“Damn it!”

The dwarf cursed and immediately pounced.

They had to kill this guy as soon as possible, or it would attract more monsters.

Lin Baici had actually considered that there might be other monsters inside the iron door, but since he let others be the bait, he had to lead by example and take the lead in charging. Otherwise, his prestige would drop.

Seeing a pig-headed man standing there, Lin Baici immediately took out the champion dart he had obtained earlier and threw it out.

Swish!A golden dart flew through the air, leaving behind a golden trail, and pierced into the heart of the pig-headed man.

The dwarf rushed forward, his right hand clenched into a fist, and delivered an uppercut to the monster’s chin.

Boom!

The monster’s entire head exploded, and its scattered remains splattered like flower petals.

“There’s more!”

The dwarf shouted and quickly retreated.

He saw that there were still more than a dozen pig-headed men behind the iron gate. Upon hearing the commotion outside, they immediately picked up their bone-cutting knives and rushed out.

Lin Baici saw that Xia Hongyao was about to join the fight, so he immediately stopped her. “Wait!”

Fifteen pig-headed men ran out, without any formation, just like a brawl. They randomly targeted someone and pounced on them.

“One person, two pig-headed men. Don’t be lazy!”

Lin Baici could activate the red rolling stone, allowing the red clay figures to ambush and kill the pig-headed men as soon as they appeared. But he didn’t do that because he wanted to see the abilities of the others.

He couldn’t do everything himself.

These pig-headed men were tall and strong, each one looking more fierce than the weightlifting champion at the Olympics. If they were to face ordinary people, they would easily overpower them. But when faced with divine hunters, they were no match.

The innkeeper lifted her skirt, ran a few steps towards the pig-headed men, and then jumped up. Her bare legs, without stockings, swept out and kicked the pig-headed man’s head.

Boom!

The pig-headed man flew out, crashing into two of his companions before rolling more than ten meters away.

The innkeeper landed and looked at the stains on her high heels, furrowing her brows.

These pig-headed men were too dirty.

There was no danger, and everyone killed these pig-headed men.

“Everyone, dissect the bodies!”

Lin Baici urged.

The Food God said that the map was on the pig-headed men, but these pig-headed men were barely dressed and had no packages. So there was only one possibility left.

The map was inside their bodies.

“Do we have to dissect them?”

The bartender didn’t want to do it.

Lin Baici didn’t say anything and personally walked to the side of a pig-headed man. After putting on a pair of gloves, he used a bronze sword to cut open its belly and searched for its organs.

Xia Hongyao squatted beside Lin Baici and helped him.

“Should I search inside?”

The woman in leather pants suggested.

“Whatever!”

Lin Baici turned the pig-headed man over, with its belly facing down.

Splash!

The organs spilled out.

Lin Baici searched through them, but found no clues.

“Captain, what are you looking for?”

The dwarf wasn’t afraid of getting dirty, but he felt that doing this was a waste of time and meaningless.

“Clues to the way out!”

Lin Baici explained.

“Some trash monsters, what clues could they have?”

The old man sneered. “It would be better to search more places first.”

“You should trust Little Linzi, he has strong reasoning abilities.”

Xia Hongyao thought Lin Baici was comparable to Sherlock Holmes.

“I’ve said it before, if you don’t want to do it, you can leave!”

For the first time, Lin Baici let the bartender dissect a body to show his authority. If it weren’t for the Food God’s comment, he would have chosen the same plan as the old man.

The old man looked at the others.

“Who wants to go inside with me?”

The woman in leather pants asked.

Everyone looked at each other and ultimately decided to stay.

Lin Baici looked at the pile of organs on the ground and fell into deep thought.

Why wasn’t there anything?

Was it in their heads?

Or was it that only certain pig-headed men had the map in their bodies?

“Damn, what do these monsters usually eat? Why do they smell so bad?”

When the dwarf was searching through the organs, he accidentally broke the large intestine, causing the unformed feces to immediately spill out and soil his hand.

The stench filled the air.

“Yes, the intestines!”

Lin Baici suddenly realized. He didn’t want to do it himself, so he summoned the Muscle Buddha.

“Quick, search the intestines!”

Lin Baici ordered.

“…”

Everyone was speechless. Was he a pervert?

“If I were that Muscle Buddha, I would smash his head right now!”

The bartender grumbled.

The Muscle Buddha squatted down, picked up the large intestine from the ground, and then squeezed it with one hand.

Squish! Squish!

The filth inside the large intestine was squeezed out and fell onto the ground, forming a large yellow puddle.

Ugh!

The innkeeper moved away.

Since giving up exploring God’s Ruins, she hadn’t experienced anything so disgusting for a long time.

Lin Baici pinched his nose and carefully stared at the things that were squeezed out. Suddenly, a lump the size of an egg fell to the ground with a thud.

Everyone’s spirits were instantly lifted upon hearing this sound.

“Could it be? There’s really something?”

The bartender was dumbfounded.

The old man glanced at Lin Baici. Did he already know that they could find clues from these pig-headed men?

The Muscle Buddha picked up the iron lump, and Lin Baici took out a bucket of mineral water and poured it on top.

Splash!

After washing away the dirt, the Muscle Buddha exerted force and cracked open the iron lump.

Inside was a silk cloth about the size of a palm, with some lines drawn on it.

“Is this a part of the map?”

The dwarf’s expression was excited. “Captain, you’re truly amazing!”

“Captain, I was wrong!”

The old man apologized.

When you’re wrong, you have to admit it. When you get hit, you have to stand straight. No problem.

“Captain, I won’t question your orders next time!”

The bartender lowered his head.

The innkeeper looked at Lin Baici with great interest. This boy had many secrets!

“Heh, are you convinced now?”

Xia Hongyao said with pride. “I told you before, Little Linzi is amazing!”

“What are you waiting for? Let’s dissect the large intestines quickly.”

Lin Baici urged.This time, no one was squeamish. They pulled out the intestines of these pig-headed creatures and squeezed out the contents.

“We’ve got one!”

The bartender was overjoyed, having found a metal lump.

After ten minutes of rummaging, they found nine metal lumps in the intestines of fifteen pig-headed creatures, and extracted nine pieces of map fragments.

“Why are there no metal lumps in some of the intestines? Did we miss any?”

The bartender was puzzled, “Everyone, let’s search carefully again!”

“No need. The pig-headed creatures have numerical codes on their necks. Among the creatures with the same number, only one has a map fragment in its intestines!”

Lin Baici explained, having deduced this pattern.

“I see. So, we need to hunt more pig-headed creatures, but we don’t need to kill those whose codes correspond to the creatures from which we’ve already extracted map fragments!”

The old man understood instantly, “What are we waiting for? Let’s get started!”

“Boss lady, team leader, come over here quickly!”

From the direction of the iron gate, the anxious voice of the woman in leather pants suddenly rang out.