Chapter 1104 One Thousand and One Nights (Part 2)

The streets, buildings, and even decorations of the entire city that never sleeps are basically the decorations of the Celestial Empire. For example, the street lamps and colored lights hanging on both sides of the street are all in the form of lanterns. The pedestrians on the street are mainly dressed in oriental styles, but the occasional sailor suits and maid outfits seem a bit out of place.

"Does it look normal?" Mashu and Ritsuka looked at the men and women on the street. On the surface, they didn't find any problems at all. What was strange was that the men here were very attentive to the women. In addition, although many women were followed by one man, there were also women with two or three men.

"Master, slow down, don't get tired."

"Master, are you thirsty? Drink some water."

Looking at those men who seemed to be flattering to please the women, Mashu and Ritsuka just felt a little strange and didn't think much about it.

"Ah."

The sudden male scream startled Mashu and Ritsuka, but the pedestrians on the street seemed not to hear it and were still shopping as usual. However, if you look closely, you will find that most of the men began to tremble and then tried to please the women around them more attentively.

"Go and have a look." The pedestrians on the street were indifferent to the screams, but Mashu and Ritsuka could not. After a slight hesitation, they immediately rushed to the place where the screams came from. The sound came from an alley in front.

When Mashu and Ritsuka rushed to the alley, they were stunned by the miserable scene in front of them. They saw a tall monster like a dog biting a man in the dark corner deep in the alley. At this time, he could not even scream, only a low moan of pain.

On the other side, another man covered his mouth with his hands, and his whole body was shaking violently, as if he was trying not to make any sound.

"Mashu."

"Yes, Senior."

The situation in front of him made Ritsuka couldn't help but shout. Mashu nodded in understanding, and the cheongsam on her body disappeared. She turned into a servant and swung her shield to hit the huge canine monster. At this time, Ritsuka's clothes also turned into magic dress.

Bang.

The canine monster that was devouring humans fell down after a scream, but Mashu did not stop, but continued to swing the shield. Her previous attack did not kill the opponent.

However, although the two killed the monster, they did not save the man's life.

"Who are you?" The man on the other side asked tremblingly after seeing the monster die.

"We are the resistance army. Have you heard of it?" After a slight silence, Ritsuka said.

"Resistance army, bad, they are coming, leave here quickly." The man was about to ask something, but the sudden heavy footsteps made his face change drastically, and then he turned and fled to the distance.

"Let's go." Ritsuka looked at the male corpse on the ground, and then chased after him with Mashu. It was still unclear what the situation was in the Never-Sleeping City, and it was not the time to have a direct conflict with it.

"Are you really from the resistance army?" After running through three alleys in a row, the man stopped panting loudly.

"Yes."

"Help me, I don't want to die here."

Hearing that they were really from the resistance army, the man immediately asked for help from Mashu and Ritsuka with a look of fear.

"We are here to investigate the situation here. What is going on in the Never-Sleeping City? I don't think the men here are oppressed." Mashu asked the question in his heart.

Among the three major forces in the underground world, the resistance army did not know the situation of the Never-Sleeping City at all. It was very strange to say that the resistance army was established to save the men of the three major forces trapped in this singularity, but the men in it were all rescued from the Golden City or the Water City, and there was not even a man from the Never-Sleeping City.

Unless the resistance army had never attacked the Never-Sleeping City to save people, such a thing would not have happened.

"What you see is just the surface. In fact, we are slaves of the women here." The man then told the situation of the Never-Sleeping City. After listening to it, Mashu and Lixiang understood why the Never-Sleeping City could be ranked alongside the Golden City and the Water City.

Compared with the violent oppression of the Amazons or the female pirates, this side oppresses men through torture. On the surface, it seems normal, but very harsh punishments are formulated for men, and there are a large number of cruel officials who patrol the Never-Sleeping City constantly. The heavy footsteps they heard before were the cruel officials.

According to the laws of the Never-Sleeping City, men have the lowest status, even worse than animals. The monster that bit people to death just now was actually the torture dog of the cruel officials.

So the men here need to please women in order to survive, because once their mistresses feel that they don't need them, they will hand them over to the two cruel officials for disposal.

After listening to his narration, Mashu and Lixiang immediately fell silent. They never thought that the Never-Sleeping City, which is so prosperous on the surface, is so cruel under the dark. It is no different from the Amazons and female pirates.

"Do you know where the empress is?"

Boom.

Just as Ritsuka was asking the man if he knew where the Empress was, a loud noise suddenly came from the distance, causing them to immediately turn around and look towards the source of the sound.

"It should be Afu and Dion."

Such a situation suddenly appeared in the city that never sleeps. Mashu and Ritsuka immediately understood that it should be caused by Dion and Ah Fu, and it was obvious that the situation must be caused by Ah Fu. His rationality probably evaporated again.

"You stay here for now, we will come find you later." Mashu and Ritsuka said and rushed towards the direction of the sound to support Afu and Dion.

"Are they the cool officials? What did they do?" After walking through several alleys, Mashu and Ritsuka immediately noticed a group of tall men holding sledgehammers with strange expressions on their faces. Afu and Dion were surrounded by masked women. At this time, the clothes on their bodies had turned into heroic spirits. These women were the cool officials.

"Afu, Dion." When Lixiang spoke, Mashu rushed out immediately and used the shield in his hand to block the hammers hitting Afu.

"Ma Xiu, Master." Seeing Ma Xiu and Li Xiang appear, Ah Fu immediately shouted in surprise.

"Fight quickly and get out of here." Dion just nodded calmly to Mashu and Ritsuka.

"Um."

With the support of Mashu, Shield, and Ritsuka's magic, the four of them quickly dealt with the cruel people in front of them, and then left here before more cruel people arrived.

After all, they are now in the city that never sleeps, and the number of cruel officials far exceeds them.

"Sorry, I was too impulsive." When he returned to the previous position, Ah Fu immediately apologized to Li Xiang, and at the same time briefly explained the cause and effect of the matter.

"It's not your fault. If it were me, I wouldn't be able to help but take action."

After hearing the reason, Mashu and Ritsuka immediately understood why they caused such a big fuss, and this incident was different from what they had guessed before. That is, the incident was not caused by Afu alone. Dion's side I also agree. If Dion disagrees, Afu may not take action.

The reason for the matter is very simple. Afu and Dion went to another direction to detect the information of the Nightless City. What they saw was the same as what Mashu and Ritsuka saw before. The two eavesdropped on the conversation between a woman and two men. Their conversation was the same as what Mash and Ritsuka had heard before, and they were all meant to please the mistress.

But then when the hostess was going to the bathroom, one of the men said that he could no longer bear this kind of life and wanted to escape, hoping that his companions would escape together. Then the other man agreed, but then reported it to the cruel official, and then wanted to The men who escaped were escorted to the execution platform and executed in public, and they were executed late at night.

With Ah Fu's character, he would naturally not die without mercy. Dion refused at first, after all, they would be exposed, but then because of Ah Fu's words and the execution platform, it reminded him of the year he was executed. Queen Mary agreed.

Dion has always regretted that he did not save Queen Mary who was executed because he was not in the capital.

However, it is a pity that because of too many cruel officials and his fearless fighting style, the two of them failed to rescue the executed man in the end. The only result of the change was that he was not executed by Lingchi. Instead, he was killed by a cruel official with a hammer, which relieved his pain.

"So that's why no man escaped."

After listening to the two people's accounts, Mashu and Ritsuka immediately understood the question that they had not mentioned before, that is, under such a high-pressure punishment, wouldn't any man want to escape? The city that never sleeps is not completely blocked. People come in and out. In this case, there will always be unwilling people who want to escape. But even so, there is not even a person on the resistance side, which is a bit strange.

Now I understand that it is because of this whistle-blowing system, and I can be sure that this kind of whistle-blowing must be rewarded. In this case, it is not just women in the city that never sleeps. The cruel officials are staring at these men. Even men will stare at each other, and even appear. The false accusations are not surprising. After all, under such a harsh punishment, there will definitely not be a detective like Holmes to investigate and provide evidence to prove that you want to escape. It may be just a random whistleblower, and the torture can be carried out.

"She is indeed the empress." After the Chaldean group listened, Roman couldn't help but say.

"That empress's laws are not so cruel."

After Shen Fei heard this, he glanced at Da Vinci, but did not explain. It is certain that if the whistleblowing trend prevails, there will definitely be many unjust, false and wrong cases. However, judging from the situation of the Queen's rule, this system It’s completely different from the situation in the city that never sleeps.

Any system, if someone wants to, can become extremely cruel. Just like absolute justice is sometimes more terrifying than absolute evil, and people's hearts are more evil than ghosts.

This city that never sleeps immediately reminded Shen Fei of a destroyed country in the Hunter World. The king there relied on informing to maintain his throne. Unfortunately, the king never thought that he would be unlucky. To the ant king.

"I remembered the whereabouts of the Empress. A friend of mine once encountered a cruel official who suddenly appeared. It seemed that he suddenly appeared from the ground. He should be behind the execution platform."

While Shen Fei was asking about the Empress' situation, Mashu, Ritsuka and others were asking about the Empress' whereabouts.

"Is it underground? It's very possible. There are no buildings in the Evernight City that match her status. Considering that her job is as an invisible person, it's very possible that she lives underground."

After hearing the information from the man, Chaldea immediately judged that it was very likely, but Chaldea did not remind Mashu and the others.

Just like before in the water city, after they sneaked into the city that never sleeps, Chaldea turned off the voice contact, fearing that the voice would expose them accidentally, just like what was shown on some TV shows, a phone call at a critical moment could be fatal.

Maybe Roman Da Vinci and Holmes have never watched TV, but they are experienced and will naturally consider it very comprehensively, and there is no need to remind Ritsuka what choice he will make.

"Then let's go."

"The execution platform, public slow execution, the empress is really amazing." Seeing the high platform with gorgeous decorations and red lanterns hanging around it from a distance, Roman couldn't help but sigh.

This kind of public execution, and slow execution again, for those men who came to the underground world due to space teleportation, the deterrent effect can be imagined.

"Be careful, Mashu, Ritsuka, you are surrounded." Just as Mashu, Ritsuka and his party quietly headed for the execution platform and were about to approach, Roman's voice suddenly rang out from Mashu. Originally, they should not have spoken, but who let Mashu and the others be surrounded.

"Surrounded."

As soon as Mashu spoke, a large number of cruel officials immediately appeared around them, and the man behind them ran quickly to the back. In this case, there was no need to consider why they were surrounded.

"You betrayed us, why, don't you want to escape?" Mashu and Ritsuka looked at the man who ran to the cruel official with puzzled faces. You know, they came to save him, but the other party betrayed them.

"Save me, but it's just a mere resistance army. How can it be the opponent that the empress must have? And after this time, I can get a superior status and live a superior life. I don't have to worry anymore. Why should I run away, and even if I escape and return to the ground, what's the point? Will I continue to be a person at the bottom?"

"I didn't expect it to be like this." Mashu and Ritsuka immediately understood why the other party betrayed them.

Obviously, the Never-Sleeping City offers generous rewards to informers. With such generous rewards, some people will naturally be tempted. In addition, the identities of the people who are transferred to the underground world are different. Not all people who come to the underground world want to return to the surface, especially those who are unhappy or unable to survive on the surface. They are not willing to go back at all.

Apart from other things, this underground world is never short of women, and the appearance of women is just above the passing line. At the beginning, many men who were transferred here were very excited, until they understood the rules of the underground world, they began to regret it.

In addition, some people think that they are amazingly charming, and maybe they can be a superior person in this underground world. For example, a man in the original book wanted to please and use the pirate princess Dayu to fulfill his dream of controlling the water city of Ys, but the result was that he was killed by Dayu.