Three Philosophical Questions for Travelers

Priest Kalimos was stunned for a moment, and said: "I can also take care of myself, but I still have a maid. All men here are needed. You will be busy learning knowledge and various practices in the future, and the chores of life have to be settled. Human care—you can't do your own laundry and empty your chamber pot, that's menial work, not for your kind."

Hearing this, Fasnet felt ashamed for a while.I'm going to be wrong, he thought.

The priest continued: "Since you don't like this, come with me to pick one you like later. There are also slaves from the Bay Area here, depending on your preference." When he said this, the girl next to Fassnut Face bowed her head sadly, as if she was about to cry.Fassnut was used to seeing blood, but he couldn't see women crying, so he said, "There's no need to change it, just this."

Both the priest and the orc laughed, Kaoda the orc made a gesture, and the female slaves beside him immediately poured wine for them.The bright red wine was like plasma, poured into the luminous glass and made a "hissing" sound, and then many bubbles came out of it.Fassnut asked, "What kind of wine is this?"

Carimos picked up the wine glass and said, "This is the best wine in Wine City, so it's a little different from ordinary wine."

It's really different, Fasnat thought to himself, it is said that the best wine in Liquor City is mixed with the blood of virgins - but is that kind of thing really good?He doubts it.

He didn't want to drink a glass of inexplicable wine.

"You two, I don't even know you, why do you let me sit here and eat meat and drink?" He glanced at the table, where there were all kinds of delicacies, bacon, sausage, fried fish...these are all The characteristics of the wine city include stewed mushrooms, jujube soup, cream stew, dry cheese and a large pot of fried lizards.Fassnut is indeed thirsty and hungry, but there is no free lunch in the world. He must first know how to pay for this meal before he can eat it.

The orc raised his glass and said, "I respect you for killing the monsters. What's the reason!" He laughed loudly, "Cheers!"

The reason was so impeccable that Fasnat had to drink the wine.

The fake hand just caught the wine glass, and he drank it down.

He didn't drink alcohol before, but since he broke his arm, he's taken a liking to it, and he can't explain why.The wine was very mellow, and after drinking a glass, it still had the sweetness of the grapes, which was much better than the fruit wine from the Bay Area that I drank before.No wonder the orcs say bayland wine is like horse urine, he thought.

After drinking the wine, he asked the priest, "What about you?"

Karimos put down his glass and said, "You can think of this as a business banquet. You and I, business."

"What do we buy and what do we sell?" asked Fassnut.

"I buy your strength and pay you for your healthy body."

"How do you buy my strength and pay for my healthy body?"

"I will let you practice, and then you will be able to devour the fierce demon in your body and become the greatest warrior. After turning into a fierce warrior, your severed limbs will automatically regenerate, and then you will serve me for three years. You will be free in three years." He held up his glass, "If you agree, drink this."

"Deal." Fassnut toasted him.

After that, it was a pleasant meal time. A few of them ate and drank. The priest and the orc were chatting about some anecdotes outside.The dark-skinned maid stood behind him and kept watching. At first, she would take the initiative to remove fish bones, cut sausages, and skin lizards for Fasnat... But Fasnat hated others serving him, so he declined the maid service, everything by yourself.

Later, he became impatient with being stared at, so he asked the priest, "Can you let her go?"

"Are you dissatisfied with her?"

Fassnet nodded, then the priest waved his hand and said, "He's not satisfied, let's go!"

The slave girl's complexion suddenly changed, and then she knelt down with a "plop", crying, "Please don't do this!" As she said, she knocked her head on the ground, startling Fassnut.

"Is this necessary?" he asked.

At this time, the orc said to him: "There are rules here. If you are not satisfied with the servant, the servant will deduct bone coins."

Fassnut asked: "What? Bone coins?"

Fasnat can't see the sun, [-]

Fasnat can't see the sun, [-]

"Bone coin, this is it." The orc took out a small light blue object from his pocket and threw it to Fasnat.The thing fell on the side of Fassnut's bowl, and he picked it up with two fake hands. At this time, he noticed from the corner of his eyes that the maid was staring at the thing in his hand. The maid's eyes were straight, as if she saw the bread. Hungry ghost.

The bone coin is a blue crystal fragment, which looks no different from the surrounding emeralds.Fassnut asked: "How strange is this thing?"

The orc smiled and said, "It's a long story—first of all, I have to tell you what this place is."

"I'm all ears."

The orc stomped his feet and said: "In order to seal the Spider Queen, countless demon warriors died. Now there is a large cemetery under our feet. Here are many crystallized ancient corpses of demon refiners. Warriors with powerful magic power, their bones also contain some wonderful energy. So the altar was set up here, and the priest hired many people to dig out these alchemy bones and extract the energy essence of the bones, which is the 'bone currency'."

"What does this have to do with her—" Fassnut pointed at the maid, "what does it have to do with it?"

At this time it was the turn of Priest Kalimos to speak, and the old man said in a very sacred voice: "In this spider temple of mine, all transactions are carried out with bone coins. I did this to make these Slaves work hard, and at the same time they can gain freedom, money, and even land through labor."

It's nothing more than a different way of exploiting people, Fasnat thought to himself.

"For specific things, you can ask Violet later in the evening." Karimos said.

"Violet?" Fassnut looked at the maid and said, "Your name is also Violet?"

"Well, my lord, my name is Violet." The maid said with her head lowered.

The orc said, "That's a common nickname, all whores use it!" After saying that, the orc laughed wantonly.

Fassnut raised his hand and knocked a soup basin into the face of the orc.The orc immediately stood up with a roar, and Fasnat's voice was no weaker than his: "My sister's name is that, I don't allow you to insult him!"

The orc pulled out his axe, pointed at Fasnat and shouted, "You have adopted a whore as a sister! You bastard!"

"Your mother is the whore, you are the bastard!" Fassnut stared at the orc's throat when he said this-no matter how strong he is, his throat will not be harder than my teeth!As long as I can bite his throat, I can kill him!

"That's enough, Kaoda, Fasnat, you all sit down." The old priest stood up, his voice echoed in the hall, his face was serious and majestic.

The expression on the orc's face instantly subsided. He saluted the priest and said, "My lord, I'm sorry."

Fasnat also bowed to the priest and said, "Sorry, I spilled your soup."

"Kaoda, this incident was caused by your utter obscenity, please apologize to him."

The orc nodded expressionlessly, and then bowed and apologized with Fasnat.Fassnut returned the salute and accepted the apology.

"Fasnat, there are many rules here. Fighting, swearing, cheating, and slander will all be convicted, and bone coins will be deducted. You must be strict with yourself.

Fassnut has always been strict with himself, and he also likes rules, "I will definitely." He nodded and said.

The dishes on the table were almost eaten, and the atmosphere cooled down, so the priest announced the end of the banquet and asked people to clear away the dishes. "Violet will introduce everything to you, Fasnat, I hope you can adapt to your new life and complete your own redemption as soon as possible." Karimos said to him.

"it is good."

So Fassnut followed the maid and left the hall.

The maid took him straight up, and they passed through a winding staircase, and Fasnat suddenly realized that they were walking inside the spider's legs.The entire body of the Spider Queen was transformed into a huge castle-this is the "Queen Temple".

There was no words all the way, until the end of the road, the maid said: "This is your room." She opened a wooden door, and there was a very clean small room.There are all the necessary furniture inside, and a few small mushrooms with bright colors are planted on the window sill.Fassnut walked in, and he smelled a faint fragrance in the room, which was exactly the same as the body fragrance of violets.

He asked: "You lived here before? Is this your room?"

The little violet replied: "I live here, but this is not my room. This is the room of the 'alternate'. I am only responsible for the hygiene of this room for a long time."

"You don't have your own room?"

"No."

"Then will you live with me from now on?"

"Yes..." She shook her head immediately after saying this, and added, "If you hate me, I can sleep in the hallway! But please don't say 'dissatisfied'."

"I'm not going to do that, I'm just afraid you won't want to share a room with me," Fassnut said.

"I would." She said cautiously.

"But there is only one bed."

"I sleep on the floor, or..." She pondered for a moment, "Or listen to you, I will sleep wherever you tell me to sleep."

"Can you get me a mattress? I'll sleep on the floor and I'll give you the bed."

Violet froze for a moment, and said, "You've got it wrong."

"I didn't say otherwise, can you get it?"

"I..." She thought for a while and said, "I need bone coins to get a new bed, you... you should have some, the high priest will give each candidate five hundred bone coins as soon as he comes up, but the rest You need to earn it yourself."

What is going on with this bone coin?Fassnut is still at a loss.He moved a chair and sat down, and then said to the slave girl, "Sit down too, I'll ask you something."

So the maid knelt and sat on the ground very obediently.

"Come and sit on the bed," said Fassnut.

"No, I'm too dirty to sleep in your bed."

"Hurry up, or I won't be happy."

Hearing this, she burst into tears and said, "You can hit me, scold me, fuck me, whatever you want, just please don't say 'dissatisfaction' to the priest! Please! If you say you are not satisfied once , then I’ll be done for nothing for a month! Please, my lord!”

Fassnut just said it casually, not to mention that he said "unhappy" rather than "dissatisfied".He felt that this place was becoming more and more weird. He asked the maid, "What is the bone coin you mentioned? You tell me from the beginning. Oh, including how you came here, your daily life life, tell me."

"Yes, my lord."

So she talked about the bone coin, which was far more terrifying than what Fasnat thought.

Fasnat can't see the sun, four

Fasnat can't see the sun, four

Bone coins, in layman's terms, are the money of this place, but if you really want to say, this thing is more terrifying than money.

Because it restricts all the behaviors of everyone here, everything is linked to bone coins.Eating, sleeping, and purchasing various necessities of life consume bone coins every moment.Without bone coins, people cannot live in this place.He learned from Violet (as Fassnet called her in his heart) that there are more than 1000 people living here.These 1000 people are divided into "bone farmers" and "candidates". Due to their different identities, their lifestyles are also very different.

The first is bone farmers.

Most of the bone farmers are ordinary people. These people used to be various slaves, farmers or other unemployed people.They came here to dig "bone mines" under the call of the priests of Kalimos.These people signed a contract, and once they entered the "bone mine", they could not leave, unless they could dig enough money to redeem their freedom.

"How many bone coins do you have to dig up before you can leave?"

"Ten thousand." Little Violet said to him, "After ten thousand bone coins, we can leave, and we can also get one hundred gold coins and five acres of land. If it is a woman, you can also choose to marry a monk from the ancient god sect .”

"How much can you dig every day?"

"I don't mine, my lord, I earn bone coins by serving you." She thought for a while, "I can get about [-] bone coins every month, and if I do some part-time jobs, I can get more."

"But you also consume bone coins in your daily life, right? In this case, how long will you save before you can be free?"

"About ten years." She smiled wryly. "The premise is that I don't make mistakes—so, my lord, please don't say 'dissatisfied' to me."

"How long have you been working?"

"Well... I came here when I was 15 years old, and I am 20 years old this year. I have been working for five years."

"How much have you saved?"

"3376."

It seems that it will be difficult for you to leave here within ten years, Fassnat thought to himself, this is a prison.Bone Coin Prison.

Then he asked Little Violet about the "candidate".

Little Violet told him that candidates are the most important part of this "Temple of Queen Worms".These people are candidates for fierce demon warriors. They have the blood of fierce demons in their bodies. After passing the four major trials, they can become real "vicious demon warriors".The purpose of the existence of the Temple of the Queen of Worms is to cultivate these warriors.

"Candidates can get bone coins without labor, as long as they take classes seriously and practice hard." When she said this, Little Violet's eyes were not without envy, "As long as they can pass the monthly assessment, they can get success." Hundreds of thousands of bone coins, and various resources are also open to them at a discount."

Fassnut couldn't help asking: "Isn't it true that the candidates have too many bone coins to spend? What do they want these bone coins for?"

"They eat bone coins, they will grind bone coins into powder, and then soak them in water to drink, so as to gain strength. When their strength reaches a bottleneck, they can conduct an 'upgrade test'. If they succeed, they will be able to upgrade, level four Candidates can graduate and return to freedom after graduation, it is said that the high priest will assign various jobs to the fierce warriors, so they don't have to worry about it for the rest of their lives."

"Is everyone graduating?" Fassnut asked.

"No, some ferocious warriors have poor grades. They are lazy and stupid, so they will fail the assessment. If they fail the assessment, they will be fined, hundreds of bone coins at a time. Some people will be in debt because of this, The indebted ferocious warrior candidate will be downgraded to a bone farmer and work with us. After he has saved up to [-] bone coins, he can be free or regain his qualification as a candidate."

Fassnut probably understood the situation here.

Obviously the priest is a smart person, this kind of "exploitation with bone coins" is much more effective than exploitation with whips.Fassnut feels that if one wants to exploit a person to the extreme, one cannot rely solely on whipping and temptation, but most importantly, deception.

Still, it was better to be lied to than to be a slave.

Next, Fassnut asked Little Violet to take him around.

The inside of the queen's body and the rock wall behind it were hollowed out, and stone houses were built inside, and various places were rebuilt.It's a small town with everything you need.Little Violet introduced to him: "The passage on the back four legs is connected to the bone farmer's house, and the first four legs correspond to the three major trials and the final baptism. In the stomach of the queen, there are taverns, restaurants, arenas, brothels, Casinos, arms shops, hospitals, potions shops, tailors, and other little grocers that pop up now and then."

They walked around here. It was a spacious commercial street. Fassnut saw many people active in these places, and laughter and laughter came from inside; Eyes drained.There were people fighting and applauding in the casino. The blacksmith was a shrew who was stronger than a man, and she was working hard to forge iron.

Fassnut asked Little Violet, "Do you also use bone coins here?"

"Yes."

"Then these people are squandering bone coins here, so they can't get out?"

Little Violet pondered for a while, and said: "Some people... may need this kind of thing, they need to relax. Besides, going out is not necessarily good, as long as you work hard here, you will have a place to live and meat to eat. It's even worse when people are captured as slaves."

"So you want to be free?" Fassnut asked him.

Little Violet pursed her lower lips and said, "I...I just want to earn enough [-] bone coins."

"and then?"