Chapter 20 Night Tour of Nancheng District
"Why is His Royal Highness the Prince sighing?" a familiar voice came from behind Murphy.
Murphy turned his head to see that it was Simon Knight, so he turned his head back and continued to look at the giant city below.
"I can't get used to the atmosphere inside, so I came out first, but it's you Simon, why don't you fall in love with your Miss Emma Dalton, why are you here?" said Murphy, teasingly.
"My duty is to protect you, not to deal with the nobles there. Simon was stunned, then straightened back.
"Alright, okay, I'm just kidding. You're out too, why don't you go around town with me?" asked Murphy with a wave of his hand.
"I am there where Your Highness is. Simon clenched his right hand into a fist in front of his chest and bowed slightly.
"Okay, let's go change our clothes first, it's too conspicuous to go out in this outfit, and we will meet at the south gate in fifteen minutes." With that, Murphy returned to the castle and walked towards the room assigned to him by the Grand Duke of the Rhine.
He didn't wear his conspicuous "Holy Spirit's Protection", but only the "Flame Farmer's Robe", which was nothing more than an ordinary satin robe as long as he didn't run magic, and even kept his staff in the room.
Perhaps thinking that he was still a little conspicuous, he put on a black robe over the robe and covered it with a satin robe.
With that, Murphy pushed the door open and headed for the south gate of the castle.
Knight Simon had been waiting here for a long time, and when he saw Murphy come out, he immediately greeted him.
Seeing that Simon Knight and himself coincidentally put on a black robe, Murphy nodded with satisfaction.
"Let's go, let's go for a walk in Nancheng. Murphy beckoned to Simon, motioning for him to follow.
"But Your Highness, Nancheng is a place where the untouched people gather, and this hurts the prestige of the royal family. When he heard that he was going to Xicheng District, Simon's face was a little ugly.
"Untouchables, they possess power enough to make all the nobles of the world tremble. Murphy was annoyed by the word "untouchable." "Besides, we are only fortunate to become extraordinary people, and we so-called nobles are going up dozens of generations and hundreds of generations, which one is not from a pariah?"
Simon Knight listened in a cold sweat, Murphy's words were still too advanced for the people of this era, those untouchables who did not know magic and fighting spirit would have more power than warrior mages?
However, the person in front of him is the fourth prince of the royal family, no matter how excessive his words are, no one dares to do anything to him.
Seeing Simon with his head down and not knowing what he was thinking, Murphy sighed lightly.
It seems that he must turn on the wisdom of the people, as long as he is the first to eat crabs, he will not be swallowed up by possible popular uprisings in the future.
"Let's go. Murphy walked down the main road away from the castle.
Simon Knight also quickly came back to his senses, covering the short sword hidden at the back of the black robe, not letting him make a sound, and trotted to follow Murphy.
At night, there were basically no people on the main road of Nancheng, only a few low houses on both sides were lit by candlelight, and two black-robed people were pacing slowly on the side of the road.
The two of them walked along the main road all the way, and before they knew it, they had reached the Sington slum, one of the two largest slums in the Rhine.
Due to the city's size and poor management, the Rhine was divided into thirteen districts, of which except for one castle district and four noble districts, the others were all plebeian districts, and among the eight plebeian districts, the Gesang district in the north city and the Sinton district in the south city were the poorest and most chaotic slums.
It's a place where countless shady rats live, doing their dirty work, from stealing chickens and dogs to killing people and setting fires, but the City Guard is largely blind to the filth.
Anyway, as long as these rats don't affect the nobles in the high-ranking places, the guards don't bother to waste manpower and material resources to clean up.
As a result, the city and the hundreds of thousands of people who live here are controlled by rats, and the place is full of violence and crime at night, and the people in the slums are almost never able to survive.
Murphy walked into the area with a blank face, not caring that the sludge and water on the ground would stain his expensive shoes, and headed straight into the depths of the slum.
Simon frowned, trying to avoid the puddle of water under his feet, keeping an eye on his surroundings.
All around them were poor people, dressed in sackcloth, disheveled, unusually emaciated, and with hollow eyes, sitting on the ground or lying on the ground with their arms resting on a plank.
Every day, people die of starvation, and their corpses are eaten by crows and other people to feed their stomachs.
When Murphy and Simon passed by, these people just raised their heads, and when they saw two strangers, their eyes lit up slightly, but compared the two-meter-tall strong man behind them with their own figures, and lowered their heads again.
Big guy, I can't afford to mess with it!
Still, two half-year-olds of twelve or thirteen ran quickly into the depths of the street.
"Your Highness, do you need me to kill them?" Knight Simon noticed the two children, touched the back of his right hand, and asked Murphy in a low voice.
"They're just kids, you can do it?" Murphy reprimanded, tilting his head.
"But Your Highness, they are children who grew up in the black streets, and they were born to be rats. Simon held his ground anyway.
"The environment in which they grew up made them develop such a character, and they are helpless, not to blame the children, we should find the reason from ourselves. Murphy sighed and walked forward.
"Your Royal Highness, here come the rats. Simon didn't continue to discuss the issue with Murphy, just as the street rats arrived, prompting him to find an opportunity to divert the conversation.
Five or six people were walking towards the depths of the dark street, and there were also people at the intersection on both sides, coming from all directions, flocking to where the two Murphys were.
After a while, the two of them were surrounded by more than forty rats.
"Who are you, and why did you come to our 'Crocodile Eye' territory?" asked one of the leading rats.
I saw that he was still shirtless in shorts in October, with tattoos all over his body, at first glance it looked like he was wearing a half-amputated sleeve on earth, and a scar ran down the forehead of the left side of his face through the eyelids to the chin, looking like a big centipede lying on his face, hideous and terrifying.
"We just came here for a walk, no offense. ”
Half of Murphy's face was hidden under the black robe, so that the scar man couldn't see his expression clearly, but he seemed to be very calm when he heard the voice, could it be that the other party had no fear behind the nobles?
However, he quickly denied this conjecture, and the guys in the southern city who were backed by the aristocratic mountains all lived in the Thorn Flower District, far away from the Sinton District, although it was also a civilian area, but the situation was much better than here, and they did not usually come to this neighborhood.
Not to mention the aristocratic lords, who are eager to walk around this place, just so that the stench of the sewers in Sinton District will not stain their noses.
Could it be that these two men were merchants from other cities, and because they didn't know the rules, they strayed into Sinton District?
Thinking of this, the two people in front of him turned into two fat sheep in the eyes of the scar man.
"Take a walk, then pay Lao Tzu a walk fee!"