NOVPUBChapter 189: Chapter 188: The Land of the Blazing Oriole
Chapter 189: Chapter 188: The Land of the Blazing Oriole
Passing through the city gates, Sally was stopped.
Due to the disappearance of the Empress of Yun Kingdom, the entire Sanbang City was under martial law. To enter the city, one needed to apply for an entry token first.
Sally glanced at the place where one applied for the entry token.
It was near enough that you had to explain in detail tracing back three generations—where you’re from, what your name is, what your family does, and why you are entering Sanbang City at this time…
“What a hassle,” Sally muttered to herself and immediately moved to an unnoticed corner and teleported into the city.
The internal control of the city was also very strict, and there were hardly any pedestrians on the roads.
“Mommy, Manman is sleepy and wants to go to beddy-byes.” These days, following Sally, Manman, who had not been short of eating treasures of heaven and earth, was also sleepy at any given moment.
Sally touched the tuft of hair on her head, “Alright, then you go to Xiaomei first. After you wake up, you can play with mommy.”
Manman nuzzled Sally’s finger, “Mommy, that mechanical bird…”
“I’ll buy it for you.”
“Mommy is the best.”
Sally sent her into the System Space, and watching her fall fast asleep upon entering, her face broke into a smile.
[Xiaomei, are the other children alright?]
[They’re all fine.]
[What about Xiaoba?]
[It is still inside the egg.]
[Didn’t Zi Qi help it hatch? Manman broke out of her shell quite quickly.]
[Xiaoba is a Spirit Rank juvenile, and hatching takes longer. Moreover, since it’s a natural gestation, I can’t make out its hatching period; currently, there are no signs.]
[Then, please pay more attention to Xiaoba for me.]
[Of course, Host.] Xiaomei replied, [Oh~]
Hearing Xiaomei’s curious sound, Sally grew curious as well, because Xiaomei seldom had such reactions.
[What is it?]
[That red building, Host, take a look.]
[Zuichun Building… Xiaomei Sis, that’s Yingchao Brothel!]
[What is Yingchao Brothel?]
[It’s a brothel!]
[Female Cave?]
[Yes.]
[Host, let’s take a look.]
[…]
What kind of System is this? It even likes visiting brothels!
…
Sally teleported directly into the brothel’s backyard.
A young girl was carrying a basin of dirty laundry to the well.
Some of the clothes still had fresh bloodstains on them.
Sally’s brows furrowed slightly.
The young girl also noticed Sally, her eyes flashing with admiration, “Sister is so beautiful.”
Sally responded with a polite smile, “Thank you.”
“Is Sister new here today?”
But before Sally could reply, the girl added, “The Brothel Madam is calling the ladies to gather. Sister, you should hurry over, or else you’ll get beaten again.”
Sally was about to deny it when, hearing her words, she suddenly became a bit curious—what were ancient brothels like? Besides, Xiaomei was very interested in this place.
The things that interested her were limited to one of two.
One was a male with high talents, the other was the Offspring System. There probably wasn’t a male with high enough talents on Yunshan Continent to satisfy her.
So it might be related to the Offspring System.
But this was the human world, and so far, she hadn’t heard of any difficulties with childbearing. The population seemed to have a balanced ratio of males to females, and ever since she walked from the Yun Kingdom royal city to here, children could be seen everywhere.
Could it be that there is someone with the Offspring System here?
Sally released the System Map, and the entire Zuichun Building, including a hundred meters underground, was within the map’s range.
You don’t realize until you look, and when you do, it gives you quite a shock.
Beneath the Zuichun Building, there was a dungeon.
In the cells of the dungeon, disheveled women were imprisoned. They were all surrounded by filth, vermin, and the remains of the dead whose bones had turned white after an unkown amount of time.
Above the dungeon, jade plates served as lamps and pearl curtains draped down, rouge and lipstick adorned beautiful faces, music from pipes and strings filled the air, a state of drunken dreams and ecstatic joy—a picture of earthly pleasures and paradise.
Quite the irony.
Sally suddenly lost the urge to continue forward and turned to leave.
The brothel madam happened to bring some people over and saw Sally.
Especially her snow-white long hair, and her exquisitely beautiful features that possessed an exotic and bewitching beauty.
A sinister gleam flashed in her eyes as she grabbed Sally and exclaimed loudly with a laugh, “My dear daughter Xue Lingling, what are you doing here? Come with mom and meet Young Master Phoenix.”
Sally was tightly gripped by her, and it would take a bit of Elemental Power to really break free.
“Let go of me, you’ve got the wrong person,” Sally said.
“How could that be? Mom could never mistake her own daughter, it’s an absolute impossibility. Come with mom to meet Young Master Phoenix,” the madam insisted, pulling and dragging her upstairs.
Just as Sally was about to set the old brothel madam on fire, she heard Xiaomei say, “Go and meet him.”
Sally: “…What’s happening to you? Really came to tour the brothel?”
Xiaomei fell silent.
And in the delay, Sally was pushed into a room by the old madam.
A strong scent of blood wafted over.
In the System Map, Sally had already seen this person, and the sight was indeed gruesome. Blood covered him all over, and the bedding was also stained with large splotches of blood, unsure whether it was his own or someone else’s.
She was just passing through Sanbang City and didn’t want to meddle in unnecessary affairs. But now, it seemed a bit difficult to get off the tiger’s back.
“Still alive?” Sally walked past the blood on the floor to the bedside.
Unexpectedly, the person suddenly opened his eyes—blood-red eyes and chilling fangs bared as he lunged at her!
Sally raised her hand and hurled a ball of fire at him.
The Secret Technique of the Fire Element at the Spiritual Peak was no trifling matter; it could instantly incinerate an ordinary person to ashes.
The figure immediately sensed the danger and dodged to the side.
The fireball passed through the bed and wall, continuing towards the room opposite, with flames rising high wherever it went…
In an instant, the brothel became a sea of fire.
Sally was of the Fire Element, and since the fire was her own, she had no fear of it.
The other party, having just forcibly dodged, could not maintain his human form any longer, with silver-white furry ears popping out on his head and a strong fox demon aura emanating from him.
“A Fox Demon?” Having spent time with Lena, Sally was quite familiar with the aura of the Fox Clan.
“Who are you?” the Fox Demon asked, eyeing Sally warily.
“Me? Hmm, I’m also from the Demon Clan,” Sally replied, looking at him and listening to the chaotic fleeing and shouting outside. She had no intention of withdrawing the fire; such a place of sin and filth deserved to be cleansed with flames.
“Young Master Phoenix?”
“Call me whatever.”
“Seems that’s not your real name, then I’ll address you as Young Master Phoenix for now. How did you end up like this? You’re losing face for our Demon Clan.”
“…I’ve been cursed.”
“By what curse?”
“The Bewilderment Curse!” The Fox Demon transformed into a silver-white fox, covered in blood, with a gaping wound in its abdomen—he was seriously injured.
“Silver Fox?” Sally asked Xiaomei, “Did you want me to come here just for this?”
“He just expelled a force from his body. That force carried the aura of Spiritual Energy,” Xiaomei replied.
“Spiritual Energy?”
“Humans absorb the spiritual energy from heaven and earth and, through cultivation, it transforms into their Spiritual Power. When it is released in spells, the higher the spell’s mastery, the stronger the Spiritual Power. It’s somewhat similar to the Elemental Power of the Beast Clan.”
“So what? This is the Human world, isn’t it quite normal for humans to cultivate?”
“The issue is that the aura of this Spiritual Energy is somewhat strange. You should ask him who attacked him.”
