Chapter 54
Entering the underground boxing ring, there is still the huge circular ring in the center, brightly illuminated by spotlights.
The edge of the ring was surrounded by a circle of solid and cold metal railings, like a large cage. Inside, two large beasts, covered in blood and scars, were fighting a desperate battle, roaring fiercely or in pain.
The two floors of seats around were surprisingly packed, business was booming, and the enthusiastic males watched the life-and-death fight on the stage with shining eyes, cheering loudly from time to time, making it extremely lively and noisy.
Everyone was immersed in the fight on the stage and no one noticed the newcomers.
"I'll take you there."
Jiang Yue knew the way and led everyone down the steam-age-style metal stairs, which made clattering sounds when they stepped on them.
This was the voice that Li Zhi heard while masked after being tied up by the scorpion. It seemed that Scope also walked down the stairs in the same way at that time.
Beside the dim and hidden narrow stairs, there were quite a few males behaving strangely, some standing drowsily against the wall, some slumped on the ground with their eyes closed, their life or death unknown.
Beside them, there were empty syringes of some kind of reagent scattered on the ground. Li Zhi took a look and saw the label on it read Chongxing Company - Artificial Pheromone Inhibitor.
It was indeed a stench that made Li Zhi feel disgusted from the depths of her soul.
There is a smooth path all the way to the basement, where there is a black iron door.
Unexpectedly, there was no guard at the door.
"It may be that the two people at the door tipped off the situation." Lan Heng said calmly, "It seems that if there is a secret evacuation passage, the people inside may have evacuated as well."
Li Zhi blinked: "Then can we find any clues?"
Su Jing shrugged: "Since we are here, let's go in and take a look."
"I'll come, I'll come."
Jiang Yue was just about to look for the start switch of the gate. Luo Chen, who had been particularly active after being praised by Li Zhi, couldn't wait to kick the gate to the ground with a handsome flying kick.
The others: “.” This young brat!
Not only that, after the door collapsed, the room was dark, and Luo Chen entered like lightning, and soon a clear and loud voice was heard.
"No one's inside, I found the switch!"
As his voice fell, rows of incandescent lights lit up, like a stage curtain being pulled down, and the situation in the basement was clearly presented to everyone.
But that scene made everyone speechless, and the place was completely silent.
In the middle of the silver room, there is a closed laboratory, which should be where Li Zhi was taken before.
But the most shocking thing is that there is a circle of transparent vertical glass cabins surrounding the walls.
It was just like the scene when Li Zhi was first discovered, except it was a more shocking version. In dozens of glass cabins, females of different appearances were quietly floating.
They had their eyes closed and were unaware, with nutrition hoses and data cables connected to instruments and equipment plugged into their bodies.
It looked like a captive humanoid energy source, but it no longer emitted any light.
Su Jing felt as if his throat was being strangled by an invisible hand, as if he saw the nightmare scene when he rescued Su Yao that year reappear.
He walked forward quickly and checked the indicators on the equipment. His face was grim and his voice was cold: "The pheromones of these females have been completely exhausted and they have lost their vital signs."
Jiang Yue's eyes were dark. He checked the data on the intelligent computer and the scene: "Their faces match the missing females reported before. We are too late." Su Jing punched the instrument table. New and old hatreds mixed together and surged into his heart. He gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "Damn it! Damn scorpion!"
Li Zhi looked at the hellish scene in front of her, her fellow men who had been killed and would never wake up again, and bit her lip and asked, "Why on earth did he do this?"
"I don't know the purpose this time, but such evil things have happened before and are related to an organization."
Lan Heng's eyes were solemn behind his glasses as he answered her question: "The Poison Scorpion is the remnant of that organization. I now suspect that there are also people within the empire who belong to this organization and are secretly supporting it for their own purposes."
Luo Chen woke up from the shock of what he saw and murmured, "Are you talking about that extreme male chauvinism organization?"
Lan Heng glanced at him with a little surprise: "You are so young, and you also know this old story?"
Luo Chen nodded.
He didn't say that he had eavesdropped on his father and the Doctor Who in the big cloak discussing this matter outside the study.
Li Zhi blinked in confusion and couldn't help but ask curiously: "What organization are you talking about?"
"Well, this is going to talk about the long-ago history of the empire."
From Lan Heng's slow and leisurely narration, Li Zhi learned about the little-known history of the Star Empire.
As she knew, in this interstellar world, males and females evolved with innate physiological differences.
Males have two forms: human and beast. They have sharp five senses, strong fighting power, and can defend the stars. At the same time, they also have glands, usually located in a relatively hidden place, for females to inject pheromones.
Females only have human form, but can transform into companion plants and secrete pheromones to appease and mark males.
Males will experience estrus during the estrus period. If they are not calmed down in time, they will lose control and turn into beasts, or even suffer a mental breakdown, and become pure beasts.
At this time, the female needs to use pheromones to soothe or mark the male. Therefore, relatively speaking, compared to the females who need the males' protection, it is the males who need and cannot do without the females more.
In particular, after being marked for life, males will be loyal to the pheromones of the female that marked them until death.
Therefore, in the past when females were not so scarce and the pheromone levels were generally high, females had an extremely high status due to their absolute physiological advantages.
In order to survive, males must be comforted by females, and they must please them in every way and do whatever they say.
Males who are marked for life can even become slaves and playthings of females, without any power to resist.
Furthermore, a male can only be loyal to one female throughout his life, while a female can have many different males depending on their abilities.
Therefore, in the long course of history, there was a period of extreme female dominance and male inferiority.
If you don't please me, then there will be no comfort, and I will just wait for you to lose control.
Don't listen? Just find a way to mark it forcibly.
Don't like it? Then change it. There are plenty of males anyway, and the next one will be better behaved.
Where there is oppression there is resistance. Under severe inequality, extremely oppressed males launched an equal rights movement, demanding improved treatment of males.
The movement was very large at the time, and the empire also listened to the voices of males, adopted their suggestions, and introduced some laws to protect the basic rights of males.
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