Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Chapter 1773 Slaves and Citizens

As he approached the city filled with black smoke, Lan Nuo was somewhat surprised to find that no one stopped him at all. Although there were demon guards at the city checkpoints, when they saw Lan Nuo's purple-black skin, they let him pass without a second thought.

After entering the city, Lan Nuo saw a strange scene of prosperity and depression. This small town was not an important town in the seventh plane, but the city planning here was quite good. The streets were wide, and there were magic street lights lit by evil flames on both sides of the streets. There were beasts of burden pulling various vehicles, shuttling through the streets, transporting various goods. At the same time, there were things like sewer manhole covers on the road, which could be used to discharge sewage.

There are also some pipelines buried underground, which seem to be pipelines for transporting magic power. In terms of infrastructure construction, the city has done quite well. It must be said that the foundation left by Yzaks in the past was quite strong. If there is no interference from any external forces in this world, Seraton will inherit this foundation and will probably become the most powerful demon king in the future.

However, a strong foundation does not mean that the city is now running healthily. Lan Nuo can clearly feel the depression of this city.

Although the city is well planned, good urban planning also requires someone to maintain it. Now, feces and garbage can be seen everywhere on the clean streets. People with collars around their necks are forced to clean up the feces and garbage, but they are all listless and will slack off if the supervisor is not paying attention.

Snap! The whip hit a human wearing a collar, causing him to scream. The one holding the whip was a low-level Chaos Demon, who cursed in the language of demons: "Idiot! Get up and work!"

Lan Nuo frowned when he saw this scene. Judging from the accent, the Chaos Demon holding the whip should not belong to the seventh plane.

Because the demons living in the 7th plane have lived with humans and other races for a long time, both their language and accent have been affected. Although the official language is still the demon language, both the grammar and vocabulary have been mixed with the languages ​​of many other races, and there is a trend of evolving into a completely new language.

What the Chaos Demon spoke was pure demonic language, which was not difficult to understand. After occupying and ruling a new territory, he would definitely send his own people to take over the ruling power. It would be impossible for the original people to maintain the original ruling system.

The human who was whipped cursed and picked up the tools to continue cleaning the street.

After seeing this scene, Lan Nuo started the rehearsal and observed the scene repeatedly, with the aim of observing everyone's reaction to the event that just happened.

The Chaos Demons holding the organization have always been arrogant, and have a look of contempt for other races such as humans, elves, and the Eldar.

As for those races who were wearing collars and forced to work, their eyes revealed resentment, sympathy, and some fear.

What is more strange is that some demons who were not wearing collars showed pity and sympathy in their eyes when they saw this scene.

This is quite interesting. Obviously, even though they are all demons, different demons can be very different.

After observing the details of this scene, Lan Nuo continued to move forward in the city seemingly aimlessly, but in fact he was walking towards several factories.

Along the way, he saw that except for the demons, almost all other races had collars around their necks. After asking the demons on the roadside during the rehearsal, he learned that the purpose of these collars was to prevent these races from escaping. As long as they left the city, the collars would immediately tighten, tightly strangling their necks, making it impossible for them to breathe. If they did not return immediately, they would be strangled to death.

In this city, except for the demons, all other races are slaves. This is also the norm in other demon worlds.

Even in other demon worlds, slaves of other races like this are rare, because it won't be long before these slaves become food and are eaten.

The biggest reason why these races have not been eaten here is that these intelligent races are indispensable for the factories here to maintain operation.

Compared to demons, the average IQ of humans, elves, and eldar is still higher. Therefore, most of the senior engineers in this city are actually these people. If they are really killed, the factories here will not be able to continue operating, and will not be able to provide Seraton with an endless supply of advanced weapons.

Therefore, although these alien races were reduced to slaves, they at least had the right to survive. Judging from the situation in this city, most cities in the seventh demon plane should be in a similar state, and there are still a large number of alien races living here.

The closer to the factory, the more alien races there are. According to visual estimates, demons only account for 30% of the population in this city, and the rest are all slaves of other races.

In the preview, Lan Nuo sneaked into the factory and found that the workers' work efficiency was extremely low. Although there were supervisors around to monitor their work, the supervisors' IQs were not enough to tell whether they were lazy. Even if they could judge whether they were lazy by calculating the number of products they produced, they could not tell whether they were following the regulations and executing each step in a standardized manner during the production process.

These ignorant demons have no idea whether the workers in front of them are working seriously or just measuring some data casually, and don’t care whether the products they produce are up to standard.

After all, Seraton was a traditional demon. He was very different from Yzaks. With their social system, the factories would not last long. When these skilled workers died or grew old, these factories would be completely abandoned. By then, no one would know how to start these devices. They would all become black technologies left over from ancient times.

Even without any supernatural powers, Lan Nuo's stealth skills can be like in Assassin's Creed, walking in the blind spot of everyone's sight and walking into the heavily guarded places openly. Therefore, after sneaking into the factory, no one noticed him at all.

When the factory was finished, the workers were driven to their dormitories, or prison cells. Lan Nuo followed them in. There was no one to monitor the slaves, so they finally dared to speak their truths.

"This life is really unbearable. When the king was still alive, no demon dared to do this to us. At that time, the demon commander greeted us when he saw us. Now even a chaos demon dares to whip me.

Does anyone have any medicine? Maya has been having a fever these days. I heard that the pharmaceutical factory now only produces medicine that is useful for demons. Does anyone have any? She also has ointment for elves on her body. I'm afraid she won't make it. "The one who spoke was an elf with blue skin and a long dragon-like tail. As one of the most technologically proficient races, he was the top leader of the factory back then, but now he is put on a collar and locked in this prison.

"I still have a little bit, but this is the last medicine. The civet cat has also started to cough. The air purification system in the city has not been turned on since the group of airborne demons came here. We really don't know how long we can hold on at this rate." Another elf sighed. Among the many races, elves are the first to collapse. Although their lifespan and physical fitness are stronger than humans, they have higher requirements for the natural environment, and their minds are more fragile than humans. Yzaks once conducted a social experiment. After investigating the psychological state of volunteers, he found that elves are more likely to suffer from various mental illnesses, especially when the living environment is not suitable. In addition, the respiratory system of elves is also more fragile than that of humans.

Most of the city's air purification systems were prepared for their race. However, the demon commanders who were airborne didn't care about these things. They only liked the air mixed with the smell of sulfur. They felt stuffy for the moist air brought by the air purification system. So without thinking, they had the equipment turned off.

The Eldar technician looked outside the iron window and whispered, "Just bear with it a little longer. Someone should be able to secretly deliver medicine to us tonight. We have to stay alive first to have hope."

Just as he finished speaking, there were two gentle knocks on the iron bars behind them. They turned around and saw a Chaos Demon in a black nightgown quietly leaning on the window and stuffing a package in.

"This is the medicine I collected that is suitable for all races. The pharmaceutical factory has stopped production, and I really can't find more. I and other demons suggested that we open the pharmaceutical factory, otherwise you will die of illness, but they said that if you die, we can just capture more people to replenish it. I can't convince them at all."

It can be seen that the Chaos Demons who have come into contact with more intelligent creatures are much smarter than those who have lived among demons since childhood and were airdropped here.

Lan Nuo seemed to be thinking about something. It was easy to tell from his temperament that this person was probably a native of the period of Yzaks' rule and had long been accustomed to living on equality with other races.

"Thank you, it's great to have these medicines. You should also be careful. If someone finds out that you are secretly delivering medicines to us, you will probably be implicated. How is the situation over there?" The Eldar technician took the package of medicine, on which different races were thoughtfully marked.

"We demons are actually fine. Demons all respect strength. When the king was still around, he said that those of us who didn't study well should at least exercise. He trained us to death every day. We can beat three demons of the same race at once, so basically no demon was bullied.

However... Neva was punished not long ago for standing up for other races. He was hung at the city gate to be exposed to the sun for three days and three nights. I don’t know if he can recover. Those demons in the city who dared to stand up for you are not in a good situation now.

Alas... Why don't the other demons understand that the operation of this city is inseparable from you. There are many things that require thinking, let alone them, even if I am much smarter than them, I can't do them well.

It was better when the king was here, even if the Vatican coalition attacked us, but after defeating the king, they just hid in the corner of the Obsidian Plain and didn't dare to move. I don't know where the courage to challenge the king before has been thrown away by them. "

A human in the prison shook his head and said, "You think too well. If the Vatican coalition forces come, your fate will definitely be worse than ours. At least you have the support of everyone here. If we fall into the hands of those crazy people in the Vatican coalition forces, let alone the demons, even humans like us who live with the demons will be regarded as heretics and burned at the stake.

Don't think that just because we humans look civilized we are really civilized. When facing heretics, we are much more cruel than the devils."

The Chaos Demon lying on the window stuck out his tongue and shrank his neck in fear: "Don't say anything, you know I've been timid since I was a child. If you really can't stand it, you can run away. There must be pliers in the factory that can cut off your collars. Can't you sneak out and cut them off before the collars strangle you to death?"

"Alas...it's not that simple." The human who just spoke sighed. He seemed to be one of the leaders among this group of workers.

"Do you think we haven't made a plan? But what can we do if we escape? On the Obsidian Plains, no other race can survive except the demons. Even humans, who have the strongest survival ability besides the demons, find it difficult to survive in such a harsh environment without tools and enough food, not to mention the elves and spirits who have even worse adaptability.

They couldn't even survive three days without the city's water supply. If the king hadn't built the city next to the river, how could we have survived in the demon plane?"

Lan Nuo, who had been hiding in the corner watching this scene, silently wrote down everything that happened before his eyes. If the sea of ​​stars was too ethereal and too far away for these people, then the goal of peaceful coexistence of races and equality for all people in the world seemed more practical.

Lan Nuo was sure that as long as he gave this group of people a detailed and successful plan, they would definitely respond in unison and rise up to resist the brutal rule of the foreign demons.

There was a reason why Yzaks was able to build such a foundation. Even in the current ruling mode where demons are the masters, those indigenous demons still sympathize with other races, which shows how solid the basic foundation was during Yzaks' rule. If the current situation in other cities is the same, then Lanno already knows how to fight the next war.

[To be continued]

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