After spending another two days on the island in the heart of the southern region, Buck made sure he was familiar with the local customs before heading south to Mindanao, which is close to the border between Marais and India.

And these two neighboring countries are mainly Muslim, and the Philippines, which mainly believes in Catholicism, naturally collides in this area.

Of course, there is no border defense line here, because there are scattered islands scattered across the South Pacific Ocean, and the largest island in Mindanao is two or three times larger than China's Qionghai Island! The most radical fundamentalist prayer group is on the west side of this island, across the sea from Busuanga Island.

Speaking of which, Buck traveled from the Palawan Islands, to which Busuanga Island belongs, around the central waters of the Philippines all the way north to the capital Luzon Island, before turning to the southeast.

In fact, it is not such a large island that is anti-government, and there are always a small number of troublemakers, although it is divided into many factional armed fronts like the Omoism, but it is indeed very difficult to clean up when it comes to guerrilla, and Buck will certainly not rashly enter the large rebel-controlled mountainous area, which is now a war zone, just as he avoided entering such an area in Burma, and first went to Mindanao's largest state capital.

It was a city that claimed to be the largest city in the world, and that mindset of sitting back and watching the sky can be seen.

In fact, just like many African cities, because the poor have no productivity to build high-rise buildings, coupled with poor management of residents and build houses everywhere, it is like a thin egg cake, plus the people here especially like to gather in the big city, the rare population capacity of more than one million, so that the city area is indeed amazingly large, as long as you climb a little high point of the building and look around, you can know which places are poor, which places are rich, and look at the architectural style during the day and the lights at night, the Chinese area is a bit unique.

Like countless Southeast Asian cities, there are also many Chinese who have been displaced in Nanyang for generations, and thanks to the hard-working temperament of the Chinese, the situation is basically similar to that in Southeast Asia, and the Chinese are always the more affluent class in various places.

Because he was carrying a gun, he took a ferry to this vast island this time, and in view of the fact that he had heard that the city was relatively large, Buck rented an old Toyota car, and the car driven by Ah Nu had just arrived in the state capital two days later, and the ruler here gave Buck a dismount!

The four-lane road is relatively flat because it is built in a plain city, and the road conditions are the best after Buck came to the southern region, which is much better than Busuanga Island.

Although most of the buildings on both sides are low-rise bungalows and temporary houses built of corrugated boards, Buck, who reclines in the co-pilot, is quite leisurely and relaxed, wearing sunglasses and a little sweat-stained T-shirt and shorts, which is similar to the dress of the locals, except that the common toe flip-flops of Southeast Asians have been replaced by high-top travel shoes, but unlike many backpackers' hiking shoes with loose laces above the neck and heat dissipation, Buck is rigorous and has been wrapping the upper part of the ankle, as a military doctor, he knows too well what a pair of high-quality combat boots can benefit him。

Encouraged by his teachings, the Lao teenager also dressed like this, but Ah Nu Oh, who was very skilled in driving, pointed ahead, signaling that the noise that seemed to be gathering a lot of people was heading towards the left road, and asked himself what to do, where to go?

Buck signaled to stop the car on the side of the road, straightened his clothes and walked out of the car, Ah Nu looked at his gesture and slowly slid the car down the side of the road, and finally watched Buck approach the gathered crowd, turn into the street next to a town plaza, the boy parked the car at an inconspicuous intersection and waited, thanks to Buck's taller stature than most Southeast Asians, he could always be seen from a distance.

According to Barker's experience in Europe, many people gather in ordinary cities, either related to political events such as elections, or various cities to promote their own culture to engage in carnival parades and other programs, he originally thought that this was also a gimmick for people to advertise tourist cities, and he went to find out what was going on, but he was shocked when he just stretched out his head and saw the scene in the central area!

More than a dozen people in a line knelt on the makeshift platform in handcuffs!

It's similar to the appearance of cutting off your head in the Middle Ages hundreds of years ago, and you just need to learn from the ancient Huaguo to insert a sign on the back of your neck!

Are you acting?

Most of the crowd around him are locals, and the attitude of giggling and laughing does not seem to have any fighting spirit, seeing that Buck is not a local's surprised look, and he takes the initiative to introduce: "Stealing, fraud, and non-payment of debts...... It's nothing but flogging, nothing!"

The Philippines does not have its own language, and the consequence of its long-term colonization is that Filipino is a hybrid of Spanish, English and Turkish, so almost everyone can speak English, and those with a little experience in foreign communication are very fluent, and the pronunciation is not weird, Buck can communicate well all the way, but it is unbelievable: "If you don't pay your debts, you have to be whipped? Is this a unique tradition on the island?" He had not seen such a scene anywhere else, and there were at least dozens of cities on Mindanao, so this custom was strange enough.

The locals are also proud: "Just our rules here!

As soon as the words fell, the big punishment on the stage began, a leather whip that was not too long, but it was relatively thick, and it felt like a lot of thin strips were staggered and woven as thick as a baby's arm, so that a big man wearing a mask could carry it, just thinking about it on himself was enough to be mad, and the administrative staff holding the notice also read out the charge loudly with a microphone: "Stealing the luggage of foreign tourists, ten lashes!"

After finishing speaking, the execution was carried out, and a person was pulled to lie on the torture instrument, pulled down the prisoner's pants, and verified that the body was not a replacement, and the big man shook his hand is a whip, Buck felt more like a stick, and the tortured person screamed, and the audience below snorted neatly...... Take a big breath!

And then the next, and another whip!

I can clearly see that the executioner also shook the dark liquid on the whip halfway!

One whip can bleed!

Without the introduction of the enthusiastic audience around, the administrative official said that in order to make the tortured person feel the pain more deeply and repent, each whip must be beaten at intervals, instead of just getting through it in one breath like Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai back then, and every whip must touch the soul!

It took more than an hour to get through this long period of pain!

Buck's mind had just flashed thoughtfully with the words "Troubled Times", but he saw a row of criminals who were also handcuffed, but both men and women were all naked, behind the people who were being tortured one by one!

"What kind of crime is this?" Buck estimated that it should be most likely a sexual crime such as adultery or rape, maybe it was still bigamy?

As a result, the people around him gave him a jaw-dropping answer: "These, traffic accidents......"

Yes?