——"But if the truth is this, then this world is damned."
It was not difficult to enter the city. After being wrapped in three layers of elements, Suli walking in the crowd looked like he had only maintained a complete human image compared to those people with various animal characteristics.
There is no need for identification like a human pass to enter the city.
Even after entering the city, the general appearance is not much different from that of human cities, and the architectural style is still the same as that of Western cities.
Just when he was trying to find out the news, the other three people who had put themselves in the position of waiters began to argue about who should take Sully away.
Egbert patted his chest and said, "I think you know best why I am following Lord Sully this time."
Roy rolled his eyes: "Face, do you want it?"
Lan Zhe refused to dwell on such a trivial matter and only said: "If you fail to save Suli or let him have any scratch, believe me, even if it takes a whole year of running, I will bring you back to Sadina City so that Custer can tie you to the research platform."
Suli pinched the bridge of his nose: "That's not necessary."
So in the end they were grouped in pairs.
Sully and Egbert walked toward one side of the busy street, while the other two walked toward the other.
"Why do we live together? I don't know. I only know that when I was living in the inner city, I awakened the blood of the monster one day, and was suddenly knocked unconscious by a person with vertical pupils, and then thrown directly into this city."
"What's good to eat here? There's nothing good to eat. The roasted Mee Mee in the west of the city is no different from the human city."
"What big thing happened recently? I know this. All the 100 new recruits in the training ground were taken away by people who looked much more powerful than before."
"Do you feel that your wings are a hindrance? Wow! I'm not saying this. In order to solve the problem of not having wings that hinder me from doing things, I always poke two holes in the back of every new piece of clothing I buy. But even so, when the wings are worn neatly, the base will still be exposed. Later, I don't know which smart guy put a button between the cracks. When I wear it, I unbutton it. When the big wings are worn neatly, the base that would be exposed will be buttoned up, and it will become perfect and neat again."
"What is a drill ground?"
“That’s where everyone fights.”
"Why are the first 100 taken away? Just now, I saw you asking the shop owner next door these difficult questions. As for why they were taken away? I don't know. But I know that the first 100 is a proof of strength, so I also want to be one of the 100. Unfortunately, I can't do it for the time being. I can only work hard to become one of the first 100 when the next practice field opens after the first 100 of this batch are taken away."
"What is the currency used?"
"Of course it's gold coins, but the prices here are much higher than in the inner city."
Finally, after the four people gathered again at the separated place, they found out after exchanging information that the focus was the so-called training ground.
"Want to go and have a look?" Egbert frowned. His intuition told him that it was not a good place, but considering the residents were looking forward to it so much, maybe it wouldn't be so bad?
"Go ahead." Suli nodded. "When the residents told us about the training ground, most of them showed envy, but at the same time, some of them were trembling slightly, as if they were afraid of something, but they couldn't tell what they were afraid of."
Roy shrugged his shoulders and said, "That sounds really confusing."
"Don't tell me you didn't see it." Lan Zhe was holding an apple he bought from a roadside stall. After a careful inspection, he confirmed, "Even if food is scarce, we don't have to worry about starving to death in the monster society."
For a moment, Lan Zhe even wanted to rent a stall and process some of the excess food he had stored to make room.
But that's not the point.
It is the so-called rehearsal ground, the central stage of the city.
As soon as we arrived, we found a large circular platform with a diameter of 30 meters. In front of it stood something that explained the rules of the martial arts arena.
"First, every Rota County resident must participate in a drill every month. If they fail to make it into the top 100 for six consecutive times, they will be taken away by their respective tribes."
"Second, every time you fail, you must pay twice the amount of the previous failure fee to maintain your status as a resident of Rota County. If you are unable to pay, you will be taken away by the tribes."
"Third, any resident who attempts to escape Rota County will be taken away and dealt with directly by their respective tribes."
After reading these words, Roy said something useless: "It seems that the place we are in is called Rota County."
Lan Zhe clenched his right fist and mechanically tapped the palm of his left hand, as if calculating something, and said, "I think what we need to pay more attention to is that there are about 30,000 to 40,000 residents in this city."
"Moreover, a large number of them are taken away every six months." Egbert added with a grim expression.
"Only 600 people made it into the top 100. The rest were either forcibly taken away because they could not provide the funds for the right to live here, or they were forcibly taken away while trying to escape. In the end, it seems that this city is not in need of a major personnel change every six months, but rather, it is a massive personnel change every month."
"Assuming that everyone can pay the six-month residence fee, the population of this city will be completely renewed every six months. This means that every year, there will be 50,000 to 80,000 awakened monster bloodlines."
"This number can't possibly exist?!" Roy shouted in disbelief.
"With so many people, if the royal family in the inner city didn't find anything, wouldn't it be like their brains were filled with the water from the moat of the Mercenary City?"
"This number is indeed unlikely," Sully said, frowning.
Euphia's statistics on the Mercenary City showed that during the six months of the reform plan, no awakened monster bloodline appeared.
“Unless the Amikobi are not the only human species kept in captivity.”
"In other words, every awakened person will be taken to Rota County as soon as they show a reaction."
"In this case, we certainly have no way of knowing that these people came here. We can only assume that they died in various accidents or disappeared."
"The total population of Amikubi is about 10 million. Last year, there were about 150,000 newborns and 300,000 deaths. It's a bit too incredible to expect to be able to extract 70,000 or 80,000 awakened monster bloodlines from this number."
"But it's not impossible, right?" Compared to the existence of another enclosure, Lan Zhe thought that the more likely possibility was, "After all, as far as we know, the royal family of Amikubi has merman blood."
"With the king of a country actively covering up the incident, and the nobles obeying the king's orders, even if 70,000 or 80,000 more people 'died', it wouldn't be a big problem, right?"
"Just looking at this number, it's impossible." Suli even thought Lan Zhe's guess was incredible.
That's not seven or eight people, that's seven or eighty thousand people!
And since the second and third rules exist on the practice field, it means that this number may be increased.
How could it be undetectable?
"Then let's put it another way. Let's just assume that the king knows nothing, and there happen to be monsters with the ability to conceal human memories." Lan Zhe looked at Suli's green eyes filled with disbelief, and decisively changed his words.
"If this premise exists, even if the person brought to Rota County disappears, if the people around the disappeared person are unaware of it, the nobles in charge of household registration will only define it as an accidental disappearance, right?"
The second possibility is one that even Suli cannot refute.
There are few good nobles in the inner city.
Even the destroyed gem family, after investigation, still maintained the slave system in private, and secretly kidnapped many ordinary people to go to the mining area to dig gems...
That place looks bright and beautiful on the surface, but in reality it is a den of snakes and rats.
Even if the person in charge of household registration defines it as an accidental death, the people around the missing person who have no idea where he is will certainly not raise any questions.
When facing a giant dragon, he never stuffed his nails into his mouth and chewed them, but this time he broke the nails on his left hand.
What's worse, the pedestrians on the road didn't give him any time to dwell on this cruel number for long.
They said one after another: "Tomorrow is the next rehearsal. I am really looking forward to it. I will definitely be in the top 100 this time."
"What are you talking about? Even if it's the top 100, I should be the one who gets in. For a weakling like you, you should just pay the loss fee."
This kind of conversation is not normal at all!
Suli now had reason to believe what Lan Zhe said, that there really was a monster that could tamper with memories.
No matter what they do, they will be taken away. The so-called top 100 in the training ground now seem to be props that can be provided by the three tribes of beast, water and feather to increase the survival rate of transformed monsters?
Or medicine?
Otherwise, there would be no point in deciding the top 100.
After all, the final outcome is being taken away.
Rather than saying that the top 100 were chosen, it would be more accurate to say that the top 100 relied on themselves to gain a higher chance of survival.
Although this still exists, the exact mortality rate is unknown.
but.
It is impossible for humans not to be curious about the unknown.
In other words, everyone here either has their memories tampered with, or there is something irresistible that suppresses their curiosity.
Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why they can continue to remain ignorant for so long despite having the memory of the past and knowing that they are living under the extreme pressure of the three rules of the training ground.
Disguise?
Self-deception?
But the existence of [Madness] itself seems to prove that there is a problem with the brain of the transformed monster from the root, and it is not just the so-called genetic influence...
Could it be that Rota County is the original beginning of everything?
Sully was in an endless brain storm, and the other three, noticing that it was getting dark, had no choice but to take him to find a hotel.
Whatever the practice field and the so-called top 100 mean, we will have to wait until tomorrow to find out.
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