Suya's first reaction was to jump out of the window, but then she found that the window seemed to be a spring, and she was bounced back.
I had no choice but to open the door and rush downstairs.
When I got downstairs and came out of the restaurant, I saw a woman holding a child who looked to be about three or four years old.
The child was foaming at the mouth, and his body was twitching uncontrollably.
Oh no, it's epilepsy.
Su Ya thought to herself.
Unexpectedly, those who had been watching earlier all knelt on the ground with blank expressions, muttering to themselves.
It's like praying for divine protection.
Su Ya snatched the child from the woman's hands, took out her needle case from her spatial storage, and then gave the child an acupuncture needle. Soon, the child stopped convulsing.
Upon seeing this, the woman cried out for her savior while kowtowing to Su Ya, thanking her for saving her child.
Su Ya waved and left.
We returned to the Never Sleeping City Restaurant.
The way the waiter and the manager of the restaurant looked at Su Ya changed.
It wasn't a look of awe, but a look of gratitude.
Suya didn't understand.
Back in my room on the third floor, after thinking for a moment, I rang the bell and called the waiter up.
"My lord. You call me that."
Suya was too lazy to correct his form of address.
"Waiter, I'd like to ask, when they saw that woman's child had an accident, why were all the onlookers kneeling on the ground and muttering something? What were they muttering?"
Upon hearing Su Ya's words, the waiter quickly closed the doors and windows, looked around, and then whispered, "My lord, you may not know this, but the reason the child had convulsions was because they entered the City That Never Sleeps during the day."
"Is that a saying?"
Su Ya didn't understand. Everyone says that if you walk at night too much, you'll encounter ghosts. How could she encounter ghosts when she entered the city during the day?
Su Ya took out a spirit coin from her pocket and gave it to the waiter.
Then I heard the waiter talking about the city that never sleeps.
Legend has it that this city that never sleeps wasn't called that back then; it was called Sunset City. A hundred years ago, during a war, everyone in the city was slaughtered, and all the houses were burned down. The fire burned for ten days and ten nights until a particularly heavy rain finally extinguished it.
The rain lasted for almost a month.
That's when it stopped.
Several months later, some daring people dared to enter Sunset City, but when they entered, they found that not only were there no corpses in the entire city, but even the ashes of the corpses were gone.
All that remained were burned-down houses.
For a long time, this city that never sleeps didn't even have a single rat.
Later, the king forcibly relocated everyone to Sunset City, only to discover that several of those who entered the city had inexplicably gone mad, foaming at the mouth and convulsing, exhibiting symptoms identical to those of the woman's child. Some even babbled incoherently, lamenting how unjustly they had died.
Through a long period of practice, they gradually discovered that those who entered the city during the day might contract madness, but those who entered at night would not.
It was later discovered that people who spent the day on the streets of the city that never sleeps would go crazy at night.
Later, it gradually spread that this was because all the people in the city had died during the day, so their souls remained in the city during the day, but left at night.
From then on, the people living in Sunset City slept during the day and only came out at night. It was as if yin and yang had been reversed.
After the new city lord arrived, Sunset City was renamed the City That Never Sleeps.
After listening, Su Ya asked, "Then in that case, people shouldn't be allowed to enter the city during the day. That way, nothing bad will happen."
"Those guards don't dare to come out during the day. They only come to the city gate at night, and entering the City Never Sleeps at night requires paying spirit coins."
"There's such a saying?"
Suya didn't remember the gatekeeper taking her spirit coins back then.
"Does everyone accept spirit coins?"
Su Ya asked.
"No, cultivators don't accept them."
"How did these gatekeepers know that those entering the city were cultivators?"
"My lord, every gatekeeper carries a stone. If the stone in the hand of someone entering the city glows, that person is a cultivator. If not, they are an ordinary person. Also, in our Never-Night Tower, if a cultivator enters, the price on the wall is one price, but if an ordinary person enters, the price is another."
"So you know I'm a cultivator?"
The waiter nodded slightly.
"How many spirit coins are needed to enter the city?"
The waiter raised one finger.
Su Ya thought to herself that one spirit coin wasn't much.
The waiter seemed to have discerned the important person's thoughts and said, "Sir, it's not a spirit coin, but one tael of silver."
Is one tael of silver a lot?
“My lord, you are unaware of this, but if a family is frugal, one tael of silver can last for half a year. Moreover, it costs one tael of silver to enter the city and one tael of silver to leave the city.”
Su Ya thought to herself, "You guys are robbing me."
"So those people entered the city that never sleeps during the day in order to avoid paying the money."
Su Ya thought to herself, "Who made this stupid rule? It costs 3 taels of silver to enter and exit the city."
Isn't this forcing people to enter the city during the day?
"Where are all the sick people who went into the city during the day before?"
"Speaking of those people, no one dared to treat them. In the end, they were all driven out by the soldiers sent by the city lord. Today, that mother and child were lucky to meet you, my benefactor. If it had been a moment later, they probably would have lost their lives."
Suya hadn't expected it to be this serious.
He gave the waiter another spirit coin and then let him leave.
There probably isn't any mechanism here that opens during the day and then closes at night.
Otherwise, why would no one in the entire city dare to come out during the day?
Su Ya remembered that Bai Xiao had shown her an animated film about a little girl who accidentally entered a place where people only came out at night, and the whole city was deserted during the day. Later, the little girl accidentally discovered that there were people she knew in the place.
The person I knew had actually been dead for a long time.
So the people in that city were actually all dead. More precisely, the dead were trapped there, repeating the same thing over and over again, and could never escape.
Is the city that never sleeps like that too?
Are all the people here dead?
But it doesn't seem like it. And today the child was clearly frightened by something. What did he see or hear that made him convulse?
After all these years, has the city lord of the City That Never Sleeps never thought of resolving this matter?
Suya felt increasingly uneasy.
Suddenly, Su Ya remembered something. She had given the waiter two spirit coins today; was he taking advantage of her? And why was it that cultivators didn't enter Night City for free? How much silver could one spirit coin be exchanged for?
Su Ya thought about it and decided to ask the waiter, since no one else could answer that.
So he rang the bell at the door again.
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