Chapter 2601: "Spiritual City" Oedis (Ⅱ)

Qiao An stopped and looked around. Stone towers under construction could be seen everywhere. The dwarves and underground dwarf masons enslaved by the Mind Demon flexibly climbed up and down on the construction site, using various specifications of stone to build new homes for the host.
Near the stone towers, there is often a circle of relatively low fortresses, which are used to house the slaves of the mind-severs. When the city is invaded, these fortresses can also serve as fortifications.
Unlike the beholder nobles of Udinese, the territories of the mind-grabbing demons are generally relatively small, and apart from the stone towers they live in and the barracks provided to the slaves, there is no other private property.
The Los Beast Ranch and the Mushroom Plantation that Qiao An saw in the city are all large in scale. The areas where they are located are pre-planned by the mastermind and the elders and belong to the "public industry" owned by the citizens of the city.
For example, mushroom and tuber plantations are named "collective farm No. 1" and "collective farm No. 2" according to their serial numbers...
Even the slaughterhouses are numbered like this. The stone house Qiao An just passed by is "Slaughterhouse No. 5", and a line of slogans are painted with "spiritual text" on the wall—
The factory is committed to providing all citizens with nutritious and hygienic high-quality brains, welcome to order!
In Udinos, it is not easy for the beholders to get together and live in groups. Few giant-eyed tyrants are willing to leave their territory and enter the city to participate in public events. Moreover, the only public facility in the city is the council hall, so even if you want to entertain or shop, there is no place to go.
Oedis is different.
The urban area is not only the geographic center of the city, but also the activity center of citizens. The bazaar is full of goods, and there are even fine wines and spices trafficked from the surface world, but the most popular and popular products are always slaves.
Joan walked around the slave auction house in Oedis and found that the environment and atmosphere here are very similar to the "species museum" in Duningburgh. The slaves auctioned off on the booth were amazed by the richness of their races. The intelligent creatures from the surface world, of course, also include humans.
These surface races usually do not take the initiative to go to the dark areas located ten thousand feet deep underground to die. Most of their homes are attacked by the "slavery hunters" sent to the surface world by the mind-severs, and they are taken to Erdi after being captured. In addition, there are merchants specializing in the slave trade who bought, tricked, and even kidnapped them from the surface world. After all, this business is quite profitable.
As long as it is a profitable business, no matter how wicked it is, there will always be someone to do it.
Since some people traveled a long way to traffic black slaves to the New World, they would go further, and trafficking slaves to the dark regions was just a routine operation.
The fate of the slaves in the Oedis auction was more tragic than the black slaves in the plantation of the surface world.
They were bought home by their masters, and most of them wanted to be enslaved.
The Mind Reaver is theoretically an omnivorous creature, but their favorite ingredients are always the fresh brains of intelligent creatures. Unless they are forced to use other foods to satisfy their hunger, they will be like "fasting" Gnostic. In that way, it becomes the laughing stock of the whole city.
It is precisely because of this special food addiction that Oedis has a great demand for human brains. The slave auction house is also called the "vegetable market". Most of the slaves became on the table the first day they were bought home. A delicious dish.
The Mind Reaver only eats soft brain tissue, and has no interest in biological blood and internal organs, but the corpse of the brain will not be wasted. It can be used for experiments, or a brain-eating monster can be placed in an empty brain. It was transformed into an obedient puppet.
Qiao Ann disagrees with the slavery system in his hometown, not to mention the bloodier and cruel slave system prevailing in Oedis. After staying in the auction room for half an hour, he felt physical discomfort. If not, he still wanted to resist Gnostic. I have lived in Oedes for a period of time, inspecting the local ecology and society, and really want to destroy this sinful underground city immediately!
In Qiao An's view, the evil of beholders is mainly caused by birth defects in neurological functions, which is a kind of "overreaction evil".
In many cases, beholders do evil just to divert the pain and fear caused by mental illness, such as unfounded suspicion that someone wants to murder oneself, so they kill them first, which is both hateful and pitiful.
The evil of the demon has surpassed instinct and is a product of pure reason. There is a set of logically rigorous theories explaining the necessity of enslaving and cruelty to others. It is a systematic, institutional, and philosophical evil, which is almost the devil and high. For the devil, it is both terrible and hateful, but it does not make people feel pitiful.
Leaving the slave auction house, Joan walked not far along the central avenue of Odice, and saw a three-story circular building on the side of the road, a theater that was not inferior to the surface world. The noise through the window aroused his curiosity. , Then turned and walked over.
This magnificent building is the arena of Oedis.
In addition to specializing in psychic powers and conducting various weird experiments, the Mind Reavers also have a public entertainment activity to watch slaves engage in gladiatorial matches and place bets.
Surrounding the arena, there are three levels of stands from bottom to top. Only citizens of Odice are eligible to go to the second floor to watch the game, or to spend more money to book a private room on the third floor. As for the refugees, outsiders, and the favored servants around the master, they can only watch and fight in the grandstand on the first floor.
The grandstand on the first floor is actually a circle of stairs. The crowds are crowded with each other and the environment is messy. The only advantage is that everyone can come in and join in the fun without having to buy tickets.
Although Qiao An was a refugee who was deprived of political rights, he was a pure-blooded soul-sever, and he was also decently dressed. When he walked into the grandstand on the first floor, the fanatical crowd evaded automatically and gave him the passage.
Qiao Ann imitated Gnostic's usual reserved style, with his hands behind his back, paced unhurriedly, passing through the crowd to the front of the stand, and stopped in front of the fence.
In the wide arena, the white sand on the ground is mixed with blood stains, and some blood stains have not yet solidified.
The host is introducing the next group of players who will be coming on stage-the ogre holding a big stick standing at the entrance of the left passage, and the underground gnome carrying a mining pick on the right entrance.
The body contrast between the two players is so strong that most spectators believe that the ogre will break the neck of the little dwarf within three rounds. The odds of the sideline gambling game appear to be a general prediction.
Compared to the players in the arena, Qiao An was more interested in the guy who opened a gambling game and ran around in the stands on the first floor with a quill pen and a small book.
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