As soon as he stepped onto the docks of Astapor, as rumored, Ma Shen looked up and saw a golden harpie erected on a stepped pyramid.

"Is this thing made of gold?" Ma Shen looked suspiciously at Luo Kun, who was following him.

The weight of this glittering golden harpy was at least a ton, and if it was made of gold, Astapor's wealth would be beyond imagination.

"You misunderstand, my lord," Luo Kun explained, "this harpy has been in this position for hundreds of years, and everyone here knows that its body is of stone, and the outside is coated with a thick layer of brass, so it looks like it is made of gold. ”

Ma Shen noticed the disgusted tone in Luo Kun's words: "You don't seem to like this place, Luo Kun. ”

"I just don't like it very much, it's a dirty and ugly place, and there are only three kinds of people, slaves, masters, and guests. Luo Kun's face was rarely a little dignified.

"Slave owners plundered villages all over the world, lured innocent maidens, and trained them into obedient slaves by cruel means. ”

Ma Shen listened quietly to Luo Kun while looking at the city that had prospered due to the sale of slaves.

All the streets and buildings in the city are made of red and yellow bricks, and they are yellow at a glance.

It bears a resemblance to the place where the Arabs lived, with fine dust in the air, and the breeze blows along the gutter.

On the docks, some Astapo nobles dressed in toca robes, the symbol of nobility, were talking about business with merchants at the docks.

Their hair was greasy and oddly shaped, and they wore yellow silk cloaks sewn with copper plates.

In addition to this, these were worn by the Astapor nobility in embroidered silk thread robes on the upper body and sandals and pleated linen skirts in earthy yellow tones on the lower body.

It is often more or less followed by slaves with garls around their necks or Astapo women with veils.

"Ahem. After looking at it for a while, Ma Shen was suddenly choked by the wind-blown loess brick wall, "To be honest, I don't like this place either." ”

When there is a strong wind here, it is not the legendary haze weather, I really don't know what those who built Astapor thought in the past.

Touching the dust on his face, Ma Shen changed the subject: "Isn't Knight Laurent still reluctant to get off the ship?"

Luo Kun bent slightly: "It seems that this is indeed the case, Sir Lorent still refuses to get off the ship." ”

"If you don't want to get off the boat, forget it, I really envy his system that he won't get seasick. Ma Shen sighed, "Do you know why I came all the way to Astapor?"

"If I'm not mistaken, my lord is here to buy some slave warriors to work for you. “

"That's right, Lord Luokun," Ma Shen said, "Do you know where to buy the Unsullied here?"

"My lord, I don't recommend you to buy the Unsullied, although the Unsullied are well-trained and not afraid of life and death, but their price is too expensive, buying one Unsullied can almost buy 3 strong slave warriors. Luo Kun sincerely suggested to Ma Shen.

If it was just when he was threatened by the wolf slayer to board the ship, who cared what the wolf slayer did, the worse the wolf slayer was pitted, the happier Luo Kun became.

But this time is different from the past, since yesterday to Ma Shen vaguely surrendered, Luo Kun must also start to think about the wolf slayer.

The Unsullied were castrated slave warriors who were trained in Astapor from a young age and were characterized by absolute obedience to their masters and fearlessness in the face of war, never robbing or raping.

If a customer wants to buy them, they have to buy a whole number, such as a hundred or a thousand.

They are currently widely used as guards in the free trade city-states and are well received by the nobility.

Regarding the Unsullied, they have their own unique beliefs and goddesses, who keep their real names a secret, and outsiders call them Lady Lance, Bride of War, and Lady of the Army.

The most famous battle was the Battle of Kohor hundreds of years ago, in which only 3,000 Unsullied men resisted an attack of more than 50,000 men led by a Temocao.

It's a pity that he is famous, and his combat power is rarely comparable to his fame, so in the same way, his price is also expensive.

The good lord chooses young slaves according to their size, speed, and strength, and trains them to be unsullied.

Their training begins at the age of 5 and goes from dawn to dusk every day, and the training process is very brutal, not only to teach them how to fight, but also to erase all their individuality, emotions and ego.

The Unsullied do not have a name, and the Unsullied in training will randomly draw a name tag from a bucket each day to determine their name for the day.

There are two words written on each of these name plates, one for color and one for bugs, such as "gray worm".

The process is very hard, and there are often slaves who can't keep going, but if they don't want to train anymore, they can, and the good master will mercifully agree to his request, if he fails to train, such as running with weights all day, climbing at night, walking through burning charcoal, etc.

Then the slave will be killed and sleep in an afterlife without a master.

After this brutal training, only one-third of the slaves were able to survive to the end to become unsullied.

Of course, the above is only the hard work of physical training, and what is even more cruel is the erasure of all their human existence, individuality, emotions and ego.

On the day a boy is castrated, he will be given a puppy to raise.

And at the end of the first year of training, the boy had to strangle the puppy, and if he couldn't, he would be killed, and the corpse would become feed for the dog.

In the end, in order to get the Spiked Helm of the Unsullied, they had to go to the slave market wearing a silver mask, buy a newborn and kill it in front of its mother, and then compensate the newborn's slave owner for his losses for a price of. A silver coin.

Regarding Luo Kun's suggestion, Ma Shen rejected with a smile: "I really like the "obedience" of the innocent, let's ask the price first." ”

The benefits of the Unsullied are innumerable, loyal, obedient, fearless, well-trained, without desire, without a salary...

And one of the most attractive things about Ma Shen, in addition to not having to pay wages, is obedience, whoever buys them, they will listen to whomever they want, even if the front is a sea of swords and fires, even if the front is their former "master".

"Alright, my lord, let's go to the slave market here. Seeing that Ma Shen didn't listen to his advice, Luo Kun could only nod helplessly, looking around a little confused, "I remember the direction to go to the slave market... It seems to be going in this direction. ”

The last time I was here was 10 years ago, and I can't remember some places.