The night sky of the ninth star is more beautiful than that of Wright.

Although the artificial atmosphere will not be damaged by air pollution, the dirty air still casts a shadow on the night of Wright Star.

It's over, and I started to feel homesick on the first day I came.

Shu Yungui squatted on the roof, rubbed his face vigorously, and pressed back the short-term personal desires.

In the dim light of the oil lamps lit in the streets, he began to explore the town carefully.

In mid-air, he found that the inner city wall was a perfect circle, and now he groped for half a circle along the outer city wall, and he could be sure that this was also a perfect circle town.

There is a bell tower in the center of the town, which is the tallest building in the entire outer city, but the spire still does not exceed the height of the city walls, and the purely mechanically driven bell makes a "click" sound in the quiet night, and the corresponding time bell is struck every hour to tell the time to the whole town.

This height is not too high for Shu Yungui, even if he does not rely on his mutation ability, he can easily climb it.

Standing in the shadow below the hour hand pointing to twelve, he saw the patrol come out of a building by the city wall with torches and oil lamps and begin their patrol every three hours.

It seems that there is the base camp of the patrol, it may be a city defense camp or a police station or something, the distance is a bit far, Shu Yungui decided not to go there for the time being, he must first figure out the route of this area where the mason Zhan Jin's house is located, so that he can escape quickly when he is discovered.

The structure of the eastern part of the city is relatively simple, it is a slum within a slum, and it is inhabited by people at the lowest level of society like Jenkin and his wife, who cannot afford to light oil lamps, and go to bed early at night, and at this time it is pitch black, only the eyes of a few stray animals flicker in the dark.

It seems that today's exploration will not be fruitful, Shu Yungui has roughly divided the outer city into an area in his heart, and he will go to a few places where the lights are still on tomorrow night to take a look, and it should not be an ordinary place to be able to turn on the lights all night in places with limited resources.

Just as he was about to go down from the bell tower, there was a high-pitched neighing of horses in the distance, and the patrol formation, which had originally formed a column, dispersed, and someone could be heard shouting loudly in the distance: "Catch him! Don't let him run!"

It was really an incomparably familiar shout, Shu Yungui's attention was instantly attracted to the past, could it be that someone from the wild land smuggled in over the wall?

A small area of dwellings around him was woken up, the faint lights came on, and the Hidden Man had nowhere to hide, and soon his whereabouts were discovered, and the sound of muskets chased him in one direction.

In the dark night, the fire coming out of the muzzle of the musket was extremely conspicuous, and Shu Yungui could clearly see that several children came out to observe the situation, and they were pulled back by the ears of the adults.

"What's there to see? It's all unidentified infiltrators, and they're all going to be sent to the Colosseum in two days."

The child cried out "oops", still not forgetting to ask his parents for intercession: "Can I buy a ticket to the Colosseum?"

In the night, the sound of beating children is also particularly clear, the slap falls on the buttocks, and the howl and scolding sound together: "You are a nobleman in the inner city? If you hadn't been born in the outer city, you would have been eaten by the orcs in the wilderness, and you would have been lazy to eat, not helping your family to make a living, and still thinking about going to the Colosseum to enjoy, is that where you should go as a child?!"

After the beating and scolding, the child also cried and went to sleep, and the parents got together to discuss: "I have caught a lot of infiltrators recently, and the Colosseum will definitely be very lively tomorrow, and we haven't seen a show for a long time, so why don't we buy a ticket?"

The man's heartwarming voice sounded: "Don't say it, in fact, I also want to watch it, the last time I saw an orc performance was the year before last."

"Then let's buy a ticket, I just knitted a piece of cloth yesterday, and it should be enough to exchange it for a ticket."

The man hesitated, "Isn't that for my son's winter clothes?"

"It's still early for winter, I'll just knit another one, orcs perform rarely, and I don't know when the next time will be."

Finally

Having made up their minds, the husband and wife finally decided to buy a ticket to the Colosseum, and before going to sleep, the wife was still thinking: "You watch the first half, I watch the second half, don't overdo it, last time, when I go in, there will only be a final curtain call."

Listening to his wife's complaints, the man coaxed a few times, and there was no more movement in the house.

Shu Yungui didn't know when he appeared on the roof of their house, and listened to all the careful thoughts of the husband and wife carrying their sons.

The Colosseum? Orc show?

Shu Yungui found that human beings are really inexorable, and the ferocious animals were domesticated on the ancient earth for performances, the Leyte Star locked up Cree worms and malignant mutants for research, and the Ninth Star also engaged in orc performances.

The more I'm afraid of something, the more I want to tame something.

Not to mention the ordinary people, even the newcomer Shu Yungui wants to go to the Colosseum to see what kind of novelty this orc show is, how can an unrestrained orc scare humans into abandoning the city to build a high wall, and the orcs who are locked in a cage can make people willing to pay for tickets and rush to it?

Is the human definition of danger and non-danger to see if the other person is in a cage?

But Shu Yungui, who had just experienced the Wright Star War, clearly knew that there was no absolutely safe cage in this world.

He jumped down the slope of the eaves, and there were several wooden cages on the way, probably less than a meter high, and the wood on top was broken, and the infiltrators who were locked in them must have escaped from these gaps.

According to Shu Yungui's observation, there are no mountains in the inner city, and if you want to quarry stones, you must go to the city to go to the wilderness, the stone is not easy to come by, and there must be something very important hidden in this stone house.

The stone house only has an extremely narrow window, and with Shu Yungui's size, he will definitely not be able to enter, but fortunately, he is tall enough, and when he looks through the window, he can see many stacks of wooden cages, and there is a living person locked in each cage!

It seems that this place is all infiltrators captured by the patrol, he doesn't know if there are so many people sneaking into the outer city from the wilderness every day, or if there are so many people who have suddenly appeared recently, in short, looking at this number, there should be a lot of human activities in the wilderness.

How did they survive in the face of horrific orcs?

"Poof! Puff puff!"

Several breath sounds came from the depths of the stone house, as if trying to attract Shu Yungui's attention.

It was too dark in the room, and Shu Yungui had no lighting tools at hand, so he widened his eyes and looked in carefully, only to see a waving arm from the depths of the cage.

"Yo, you've been arrested too?"

Seeing Konny's declining appearance, Shu Yungui couldn't help but laugh at him, "Aren't you running fast? I couldn't see it in the blink of an eye, and I thought you could do it on your own."

Kony was starved in a small and smelly cage for a day, and he almost didn't have the strength to speak, he looked at Shu Yungui with pleading eyes, and begged him for help: "I was wrong, I was too scared to hear the gunshots, and I won't run anymore, you can save me."

Shu Yungui snorted twice very ruthlessly, and refused: "I still have my own things to do, let's not want to live with you as an oil bottle, not to mention that at the critical moment, you will leave me to live, then I can be regarded as learning from you now."

Murderous, he didn't forget to remind Kony: "I just heard that you will be sent to the Colosseum, I didn't expect that the orcs who talk about tigers in the wilderness can still be used for performances in the city, and the people in the outer city are still very flowery, don't worry, when you enter the Colosseum, I will also go to see your performance."

It's okay not to say this, but as soon as he said it, Kony, an inner city who didn't know about the Colosseum, didn't say anything, and some people who knew about the Colosseum's performance mechanics cried first.

Like yawning, sadness is contagious, I don't know who took the lead and started crying, and in an instant, sobs rang out one after another in the entire stone house, so startled that Shu Yungui hurriedly looked around, making sure that he did not alarm the residents and patrols, and then persuaded him: "No, brothers......

Isn't it just being locked in a cage and putting on a humiliating show? Although it is really humiliating, and you may be driven back to the field to mine in the future, it is not so much

Crying like this, right?

Obviously frightened, Kony poked the man in the cage next door and asked, "What are you crying about?"

This question seemed to be as if it were the right reason for him to join the mourning army.

"If we are sent to the Colosseum, we will die, we will be torn to pieces by the orcs and swallowed into our stomachs, and we will be fodder for the Orcasse in the Colosseum!"

Shu Yungui and Kony were both shocked, and some people who didn't know the truth also stopped crying and looked at the man one after another.

"What do you mean?" Shu Yungui asked vigilantly, "You said that the Colosseum would feed the living to the orcs as food?"

The man blew his nose and said with tears in his eyes, "Otherwise, what do you think the Colosseum will feed the orcs? How many animals are there in the city? It's enough for them to stuff their teeth, the orcs in there are hungry, and every time new feed is brought in, it always stimulates the bloodthirsty nature of the orcs, so that tickets to the Colosseum sell well."

Someone in the crowd exclaimed, "Aren't we dead?!"

The man cried, "Dead!"

The stone house cried again, and this time even Kony joined in, and he cried especially loudly, crying and begging Shu Yungui to return: "I know that you are the most jealous and hateful, and you are chivalrous and righteous! You see there are mothers with babies here, and you're going to save us, right?"

Shu Yungui was silent, and seeing that he didn't speak, Kony hurriedly said, "What I said before is true! I didn't lie to you! It's okay if you don't want to save me, but there are so many children here, can you get them out? We can only count on you now."

Countless pairs of eyes full of hope and pleading looked at Shu Yungui, those children were still not sensible, did not understand the situation they were about to face, and were still biting their fingers blankly in the arms of their parents.

Huge pressure was suddenly exerted on Shu Yungui, he thought that although he was not a jealous person, he would not ignore the suffering of others, but this time, he hesitated.

"Where am I going to send the children when I get them out?"

He asked rhetorically, "No one in the outer city will adopt them, and they will only serve as orcs in the wilderness, and I will take them with me under the muskets of the patrols."

Looking at those eyes in the stone house, Shu Yungui shook his head and said, "I don't have the ability to let them live."

He has no abnormal ability now, he is alone without assistance, and the child is the most uncontrollable variable, even if he cries more when he is hiding, it may lead to everyone being arrested.

Since the ending is the same, is it necessary to toss around?

Shu Yungui thought silently, maybe after crawling around in the Hope Star Field, he finally learned a word called "weighing the pros and cons".

This is not in the Hope field.

Shu Yungui warned himself in his heart that without IAFA and a guide to give him a back-up, he is now alone, and his first task is to protect himself.

Just like what Cheng Sikong kept repeating to him, save the vitality and then seek a way out.

He closed his eyes hard, stood at the window and said sorry, not even daring to open his eyes, and hurried out of the stone house.

It's just that the long night is unbearable, and the cry of despair seems to linger in my ears all the time.