The farmland outside Chiyan City is about ten kilometers. Although this section of the road is very long, it is not a burden for a guy with a physical condition that reaches Du Kang.
Along the way, in addition to those poor serfs, Du Kang also saw many mercenaries dressed in the city near the gate of the city. Du Kang always felt that there were not many people in this world, but after seeing so many mercenaries, he instantly felt that his previous estimate was wrong.
It's just strange that if the total population is calculated by the proportion of mercenaries, the population of Xiehu Town is about 400, and there are only a dozen mercenaries, including a few scattered people who have temporarily rested in Xiehu Town. It may be that there may be less than one adventurer among the forty people. Now the mercenaries entering the city cannot be all, at most only a small part. Such a large number makes people doubtful.
As a big city called by the villagers of the townsmen of the Xuehu Town, Du Kang was a little disappointed after entering. After all, Du Kang has seen a super giant city with a population of millions or even tens of millions. Although Chi Yan City is an unimaginable super giant in the eyes of the villagers of the Xuehu Town, in Du Kang's eyes, it is only a junction of urban and rural areas, or it seems that it is no different from the small towns in small places in China.
Having said that, the population of Chiyan City is probably over 10,000, so a large number of formal service organizations have been derived.
After entering the city, the first thing I saw was a cluster of hotels in three or five. There was only a broken hotel in a small place like the town of Xuehu Town. There were several places in Chiyan City just one of the gates of several cities.
Du Kang originally wanted to choose a place with few family members, but he went to these stores. Each of them had no room at all or was queuing in long queues. The most annoying thing was that Du Kang had been queuing for almost half an hour. The store actually announced that all the rooms had been rented out and the people in line were dismissed.
At this point, Du Kang had already vaguely felt something was wrong. The crowd in line was almost all mercenaries wearing various combat equipment, which was exactly the same as what Du Kang saw on the road. What happened that made these people gather here?
In desperation, Du Kang searched all over the city, but couldn't find a place to stay. In desperation, he planned to go to the tavern to have a big meal and chat to relieve his boredom. As a result, the tavern was full. Du Kang went there too late and there was no place.
Seeing the crowd lined up, Du Kang couldn't help but think of the long queue in the hotel. He turned around and wanted to leave. However, as soon as he took a step, his keen perception made him hear the chat of the mercenaries lined up in front.
Hello! Is what you said true? The city lord here is really buying crystal core at a high price? Is the travel expenses we spend here worth it?
Hearing this passage, Du Kang immediately instinctively raised his ears, stopped, returned to the team, pretending that he was still queuing up and continued to eavesdrop on the conversations of those people.
Several younger-looking adventurers were watching a mercenary with a stubble face, they were talking
The mercenary with a stubborn face waved his arms exaggeratedly and responded to them, "I believe that brother is definitely worth it. If you don't believe that you go to the steward agency to see it, the people are crowded. Those people want to take two tasks and earn more money when they take on two tasks! Think about it, how much travel costs? As long as we can get a third-level crystal core and do a simple task, we will earn back our old capital. Not only can we get a fourth-level travel fee, but we can also go back for a leisurely day!"
Really? I still don’t believe it!
Alas, why do you come here if you don’t believe it? This way, please wait and invite me to drink wine, and I will tell you what’s going on here
The price of a glass of wine is not high, and the mercenary who asked immediately nodded in agreement.
Okay, then I will tell you, you know the dragon from last year, right? Yes, the black dragon that did a lot of things and flew away. The dragon broke the connection between Chiyan City and the cities on the beach. Chiyan City cut off the supply of salt. As a result, Yanshan City had a big talk and asked for a high price. Chiyan City had no choice but to accept it as a order. Now, after the dragon flew away, Chiyan City's tone has recovered. The city lord felt that there was no stable source of salt, so he raised supplies and prepared to give Yanshan City a little more powerful look! Think about it, what do you want to start those large war machines? Magic crystal and crystal core! There are magic crystal veins in Yunsong Forest near Chiyan City. The crystal core is mainly because the crystal core is not enough as the starting key, so what do you think Aubrey City wants? Now he is purchasing crystal core at a high price and preparing to start a war!
Speaking of this, the narrative mercenary swallowed his saliva, took a break, and continued to talk: There were many local monsters in the north and east of Chiyan City. The reason why few people took risks before was because they were afraid of being besieged by many monsters. Now there are more people, and it is much more convenient to form large teams for temporary cooperation. Finding more teams can also take care of each other on the road, which is much safer. The city lord is willing to pay a price of 20% higher than the market price, so so many people are here to dig gold!
So that's it. No wonder Du Kang saw so many people along the way. It turned out that it was because the city lord of Chiyan City launched a large-scale acquisition of crystal cores in order to prepare for war. I just don't know if this move will affect his collection of crystal cores and transform them into the essence of life, thus delaying the time to upgrade the main base to the second-tier.
Next, the focus of the mercenary talks turned to how to enjoy life after making a big profit. Du Kang lost interest, stopped listening, and left the team silently.
Du Kang was very interested in the mercenary agents mentioned by the mercenary and wanted to join in the fun. After asking people where they arrived, he found that it was a special agency organization dedicated to serving mercenaries and employers. However, there were also crowds of people there. Many mercenaries were competing for the task, thinking that they could do it along the way. Unfortunately, there were mercenaries from all over the place gathered here, but the agency had only the tasks of Chiyan City, which was severely oversupply. After Du Kang arrived there, he could not squeeze in, but it seemed that the tasks that were easy to do had been taken over long ago, and there were not many tasks left.
Du Kang saw that he had successfully taken over the task, and he seemed not very happy when the mercenaries squeezed out of the crowd came out. Instead, he had a sad expression. Du Kang heard his conversation with his companions. It seemed that he was complaining that the unscrupulous merchants who had taken out the task took advantage of the mercenaries to suppress the reward of the task very low. I don’t know if I should be glad, because of the regulations of the comrades, the liquidated damages of the contract also became very low, and even if they were not completed, they could hardly lose a lot of money. They just regarded this task as an extra money that was not burdened. If they could not complete the road along the way, they would just breach the contract. Anyway, the time they snatched was used to hunt monsters and dig crystal cores to earn more than this.
The calculations on both sides made Du Kang laugh. After all, this is a living world rather than a game. Everyone will do their best to make use of their advantages instead of rigidly following certain rules. Especially for businessmen and mercenaries who are eager for money, they are the best at taking advantage of the loopholes.
At the same time, Du Kang also secretly warned himself to be careful when dealing with these people in the future
There are Mage Academy and slave markets very close to the escort agency. This Mage Academy is probably the one that Xue Ni, who was once raped by Du Kang, wanted to go to. Its management is very strict. Unrelated people are not allowed to enter unless they hold a license.
Although Du Kang has a skill like Jifeng Step that is convenient for invisibility and infiltration, he is not sure whether the mage academy will set up strange defensive magic. If you accidentally step on it, you have to lie in a prison. If they know Du Kang's invisibility skills, they will definitely be strictly guarded, and it is probably not that easy to escape.
Another reason why Du Kang didn't want to go to the Master Academy to see it was that it seemed that it was getting dark, so he had to find a place as soon as possible. He could only choose one of the Master Academy and the slave market, and maybe he would have to leave after seeing it halfway.
After real contact with the inside of Chiyan City, Du Kang, who was born in modern society, felt that he had entered this city like Liu Laolao entering the Grand View Garden. Everything was fresh, and the slave market aroused his infinite interest. Human beings have had many slave trade activities since ancient times. Even before Du Kang traveled through time, he knew that there were still several small countries on the earth. During the war, terrorist organizations bought and sold the population.
Obviously, human needs for slaves are like a commonality that exists in nature, and Du Kang is not immune to the common sense. He also wants to see what the place for buying and selling slaves looks like. If he likes it, he will probably buy two female slaves to take care of him and vent his desires.
Compared with the tutor, the slave market is much empty. Apart from the slaves who are locked in cages and are bought and sold like commodities, there are only a few servants wearing thin young man on horseback that Du Kang had encountered before, choosing slaves and negotiating deals with slave merchants.
Slaves, big and small, tall, short, fat, thin, men, women, young and old, all wore shackles, quietly stayed in the iron cage without any desire to escape.
They don't have any fighting spirit or magic on their bodies. They look like they are just ordinary people. Everyone is not involved in any ties. It is convenient for the guests who come to choose to take a good look at their bodies.
After walking around, Du Kang found that most of the slaves were women, the number of men was small, and all were thin. Even if the women stood naked in front of Du Kang who had not vented for several days, they did not arouse the desire to make Du Kang bid.
Several servants who were selected were also indifferent. Sometimes they would rub women's breasts boredly, or insert their fingers into their vaginas, and take a look at them. Du Kang heard a servant who was closer to him muttering: "I'm too thin and can't do farm work, and it's not suitable to use them to breed those cheap animals."
Hearing this, Du Kang understood why men sell better than women. The people here are pragmatists. The first thing they need is labor that can create benefits for themselves. Even women have to do farm work when they buy them. In addition, what he thinks is probably the serfs. Women buy them back and they just cultivate them like mother animals, just to reproduce the next generation of cheap labor.
But Du Kang still couldn't understand why the quality of slaves here was so poor, and how did the slave merchant survive by selling such slaves?
Du Kang walked towards the slave merchant who was discussing business with a servant. When Du Kang walked closer, the business happened to be over. The servant got three keys and three collars from the merchant and walked away slowly.
Du Kang walked to the merchant and asked casually: Brother, your goods here don't seem to be very good.
The slave merchant shrugged and said: There is no way, this is the leftover goods sold last month. They have been picked for a month and will definitely not be very good. If they can't sell them at the end of this month, I can only "handle" them.
When talking about the handling, the businessman acted very naturally, and obviously had done such a thing many times.
Seeing Du Kang's frowning, the slave merchant was afraid of losing a potential business, so he quickly said: A batch of new goods will come next month. Why don't you come and have a look again?
Du Kang replied: If it is not much better than these now, there is no need to come again
Hearing this, the slave merchant was a little unhappy. He felt that Du Kang would definitely not do business with him, and he was still arguing. He said with a sneer: If you want good goods, why don’t you buy them in the "VIP room"? Why do you have to come to me? What I sell here are all messes of farm work. Are you planning to hunt gold in the sand? Poor boy?
This sentence verifies Du Kang's previous speculation. He only saw people dressed in slavery and dressed up here and then pick them. They were just buying and selling strong slaves. Because the slave market has been divided, low-level serfs and other slaves are no longer sold together.
Despite this, Du Kang still pretended to be surprised, looking as if he knew nothing about it.
Seeing Du Kang's surprised expression, the slave merchant laughed and continued: Going into the "VIP room" requires someone to introduce it and get the "invitation letter". Looking at your outfit, you know that it is impossible for someone to introduce it to you. Don't think about it, go home and live your hard life!
Du Kang's expression of resentment left in shame. The slave merchant continued to laugh loudly, but did not reveal more information like Du Kang planned.
Humph, it was useless, I was pointing at him and continued to say something
After Du Kang walked away, he spat, and was extremely dissatisfied with it, but he was laughed at it and he wouldn't have any less meat. Du Kang didn't want to cause trouble, so he turned around and hurriedly prepared to find a place to stay.
After a walk, there were many mercenaries who had the same idea as Du Kang. Unfortunately, all the hotels in Chiyan City were full, and many people could only set up tents outside the city and barely dealt with them at night.
This is normal for mercenaries, but it is unacceptable to Du Kang. He has come to Chiyan City, so why should he sleep in a tent like in the wild?
Du Kang glanced at various buildings and saw a mansion. He became active, found a dark corner to start the storm, sneaked into the house.
Originally, Du Kang just wanted to find an idle room to sleep, but every room in this mansion was cleaned up, with petals sprinkled and incense lit. You could tell at a glance that it would be used soon. If Du Kang was sleeping carelessly on it, he would probably be discovered.
As a last resort, Du Kang could only find an inconspicuous attic covered with dust, push out a gust of wind-type fighting spirit, blow the dust into the corner with a faint palm wind, then take out the bedding from the prop space, and lay down quietly.
Although it is not as good as a hotel, it is much better than the mercenaries stationed outside the city to sleep in tents. Du Kang knew that although the name of Chiyan City contained the word Chiyan, at night, the temperature was not felt at all. Du Kang pretended to bless the mercenaries outside the city and hoped that they would not be frozen at night, and then fell asleep
After sleeping for a while, Du Kang was awakened by the noisy sound under the floor of the attic. He woke up in a daze and complained in a low voice: Who is so noisy
Then he pressed his ear to the floor and listened carefully. He could hear the sound below, and the voices of men and women were mixed, and the sounds of debauchery were everywhere. Could it be... the lower part was having a mess?
Along the way, in addition to those poor serfs, Du Kang also saw many mercenaries dressed in the city near the gate of the city. Du Kang always felt that there were not many people in this world, but after seeing so many mercenaries, he instantly felt that his previous estimate was wrong.
It's just strange that if the total population is calculated by the proportion of mercenaries, the population of Xiehu Town is about 400, and there are only a dozen mercenaries, including a few scattered people who have temporarily rested in Xiehu Town. It may be that there may be less than one adventurer among the forty people. Now the mercenaries entering the city cannot be all, at most only a small part. Such a large number makes people doubtful.
As a big city called by the villagers of the townsmen of the Xuehu Town, Du Kang was a little disappointed after entering. After all, Du Kang has seen a super giant city with a population of millions or even tens of millions. Although Chi Yan City is an unimaginable super giant in the eyes of the villagers of the Xuehu Town, in Du Kang's eyes, it is only a junction of urban and rural areas, or it seems that it is no different from the small towns in small places in China.
Having said that, the population of Chiyan City is probably over 10,000, so a large number of formal service organizations have been derived.
After entering the city, the first thing I saw was a cluster of hotels in three or five. There was only a broken hotel in a small place like the town of Xuehu Town. There were several places in Chiyan City just one of the gates of several cities.
Du Kang originally wanted to choose a place with few family members, but he went to these stores. Each of them had no room at all or was queuing in long queues. The most annoying thing was that Du Kang had been queuing for almost half an hour. The store actually announced that all the rooms had been rented out and the people in line were dismissed.
At this point, Du Kang had already vaguely felt something was wrong. The crowd in line was almost all mercenaries wearing various combat equipment, which was exactly the same as what Du Kang saw on the road. What happened that made these people gather here?
In desperation, Du Kang searched all over the city, but couldn't find a place to stay. In desperation, he planned to go to the tavern to have a big meal and chat to relieve his boredom. As a result, the tavern was full. Du Kang went there too late and there was no place.
Seeing the crowd lined up, Du Kang couldn't help but think of the long queue in the hotel. He turned around and wanted to leave. However, as soon as he took a step, his keen perception made him hear the chat of the mercenaries lined up in front.
Hello! Is what you said true? The city lord here is really buying crystal core at a high price? Is the travel expenses we spend here worth it?
Hearing this passage, Du Kang immediately instinctively raised his ears, stopped, returned to the team, pretending that he was still queuing up and continued to eavesdrop on the conversations of those people.
Several younger-looking adventurers were watching a mercenary with a stubble face, they were talking
The mercenary with a stubborn face waved his arms exaggeratedly and responded to them, "I believe that brother is definitely worth it. If you don't believe that you go to the steward agency to see it, the people are crowded. Those people want to take two tasks and earn more money when they take on two tasks! Think about it, how much travel costs? As long as we can get a third-level crystal core and do a simple task, we will earn back our old capital. Not only can we get a fourth-level travel fee, but we can also go back for a leisurely day!"
Really? I still don’t believe it!
Alas, why do you come here if you don’t believe it? This way, please wait and invite me to drink wine, and I will tell you what’s going on here
The price of a glass of wine is not high, and the mercenary who asked immediately nodded in agreement.
Okay, then I will tell you, you know the dragon from last year, right? Yes, the black dragon that did a lot of things and flew away. The dragon broke the connection between Chiyan City and the cities on the beach. Chiyan City cut off the supply of salt. As a result, Yanshan City had a big talk and asked for a high price. Chiyan City had no choice but to accept it as a order. Now, after the dragon flew away, Chiyan City's tone has recovered. The city lord felt that there was no stable source of salt, so he raised supplies and prepared to give Yanshan City a little more powerful look! Think about it, what do you want to start those large war machines? Magic crystal and crystal core! There are magic crystal veins in Yunsong Forest near Chiyan City. The crystal core is mainly because the crystal core is not enough as the starting key, so what do you think Aubrey City wants? Now he is purchasing crystal core at a high price and preparing to start a war!
Speaking of this, the narrative mercenary swallowed his saliva, took a break, and continued to talk: There were many local monsters in the north and east of Chiyan City. The reason why few people took risks before was because they were afraid of being besieged by many monsters. Now there are more people, and it is much more convenient to form large teams for temporary cooperation. Finding more teams can also take care of each other on the road, which is much safer. The city lord is willing to pay a price of 20% higher than the market price, so so many people are here to dig gold!
So that's it. No wonder Du Kang saw so many people along the way. It turned out that it was because the city lord of Chiyan City launched a large-scale acquisition of crystal cores in order to prepare for war. I just don't know if this move will affect his collection of crystal cores and transform them into the essence of life, thus delaying the time to upgrade the main base to the second-tier.
Next, the focus of the mercenary talks turned to how to enjoy life after making a big profit. Du Kang lost interest, stopped listening, and left the team silently.
Du Kang was very interested in the mercenary agents mentioned by the mercenary and wanted to join in the fun. After asking people where they arrived, he found that it was a special agency organization dedicated to serving mercenaries and employers. However, there were also crowds of people there. Many mercenaries were competing for the task, thinking that they could do it along the way. Unfortunately, there were mercenaries from all over the place gathered here, but the agency had only the tasks of Chiyan City, which was severely oversupply. After Du Kang arrived there, he could not squeeze in, but it seemed that the tasks that were easy to do had been taken over long ago, and there were not many tasks left.
Du Kang saw that he had successfully taken over the task, and he seemed not very happy when the mercenaries squeezed out of the crowd came out. Instead, he had a sad expression. Du Kang heard his conversation with his companions. It seemed that he was complaining that the unscrupulous merchants who had taken out the task took advantage of the mercenaries to suppress the reward of the task very low. I don’t know if I should be glad, because of the regulations of the comrades, the liquidated damages of the contract also became very low, and even if they were not completed, they could hardly lose a lot of money. They just regarded this task as an extra money that was not burdened. If they could not complete the road along the way, they would just breach the contract. Anyway, the time they snatched was used to hunt monsters and dig crystal cores to earn more than this.
The calculations on both sides made Du Kang laugh. After all, this is a living world rather than a game. Everyone will do their best to make use of their advantages instead of rigidly following certain rules. Especially for businessmen and mercenaries who are eager for money, they are the best at taking advantage of the loopholes.
At the same time, Du Kang also secretly warned himself to be careful when dealing with these people in the future
There are Mage Academy and slave markets very close to the escort agency. This Mage Academy is probably the one that Xue Ni, who was once raped by Du Kang, wanted to go to. Its management is very strict. Unrelated people are not allowed to enter unless they hold a license.
Although Du Kang has a skill like Jifeng Step that is convenient for invisibility and infiltration, he is not sure whether the mage academy will set up strange defensive magic. If you accidentally step on it, you have to lie in a prison. If they know Du Kang's invisibility skills, they will definitely be strictly guarded, and it is probably not that easy to escape.
Another reason why Du Kang didn't want to go to the Master Academy to see it was that it seemed that it was getting dark, so he had to find a place as soon as possible. He could only choose one of the Master Academy and the slave market, and maybe he would have to leave after seeing it halfway.
After real contact with the inside of Chiyan City, Du Kang, who was born in modern society, felt that he had entered this city like Liu Laolao entering the Grand View Garden. Everything was fresh, and the slave market aroused his infinite interest. Human beings have had many slave trade activities since ancient times. Even before Du Kang traveled through time, he knew that there were still several small countries on the earth. During the war, terrorist organizations bought and sold the population.
Obviously, human needs for slaves are like a commonality that exists in nature, and Du Kang is not immune to the common sense. He also wants to see what the place for buying and selling slaves looks like. If he likes it, he will probably buy two female slaves to take care of him and vent his desires.
Compared with the tutor, the slave market is much empty. Apart from the slaves who are locked in cages and are bought and sold like commodities, there are only a few servants wearing thin young man on horseback that Du Kang had encountered before, choosing slaves and negotiating deals with slave merchants.
Slaves, big and small, tall, short, fat, thin, men, women, young and old, all wore shackles, quietly stayed in the iron cage without any desire to escape.
They don't have any fighting spirit or magic on their bodies. They look like they are just ordinary people. Everyone is not involved in any ties. It is convenient for the guests who come to choose to take a good look at their bodies.
After walking around, Du Kang found that most of the slaves were women, the number of men was small, and all were thin. Even if the women stood naked in front of Du Kang who had not vented for several days, they did not arouse the desire to make Du Kang bid.
Several servants who were selected were also indifferent. Sometimes they would rub women's breasts boredly, or insert their fingers into their vaginas, and take a look at them. Du Kang heard a servant who was closer to him muttering: "I'm too thin and can't do farm work, and it's not suitable to use them to breed those cheap animals."
Hearing this, Du Kang understood why men sell better than women. The people here are pragmatists. The first thing they need is labor that can create benefits for themselves. Even women have to do farm work when they buy them. In addition, what he thinks is probably the serfs. Women buy them back and they just cultivate them like mother animals, just to reproduce the next generation of cheap labor.
But Du Kang still couldn't understand why the quality of slaves here was so poor, and how did the slave merchant survive by selling such slaves?
Du Kang walked towards the slave merchant who was discussing business with a servant. When Du Kang walked closer, the business happened to be over. The servant got three keys and three collars from the merchant and walked away slowly.
Du Kang walked to the merchant and asked casually: Brother, your goods here don't seem to be very good.
The slave merchant shrugged and said: There is no way, this is the leftover goods sold last month. They have been picked for a month and will definitely not be very good. If they can't sell them at the end of this month, I can only "handle" them.
When talking about the handling, the businessman acted very naturally, and obviously had done such a thing many times.
Seeing Du Kang's frowning, the slave merchant was afraid of losing a potential business, so he quickly said: A batch of new goods will come next month. Why don't you come and have a look again?
Du Kang replied: If it is not much better than these now, there is no need to come again
Hearing this, the slave merchant was a little unhappy. He felt that Du Kang would definitely not do business with him, and he was still arguing. He said with a sneer: If you want good goods, why don’t you buy them in the "VIP room"? Why do you have to come to me? What I sell here are all messes of farm work. Are you planning to hunt gold in the sand? Poor boy?
This sentence verifies Du Kang's previous speculation. He only saw people dressed in slavery and dressed up here and then pick them. They were just buying and selling strong slaves. Because the slave market has been divided, low-level serfs and other slaves are no longer sold together.
Despite this, Du Kang still pretended to be surprised, looking as if he knew nothing about it.
Seeing Du Kang's surprised expression, the slave merchant laughed and continued: Going into the "VIP room" requires someone to introduce it and get the "invitation letter". Looking at your outfit, you know that it is impossible for someone to introduce it to you. Don't think about it, go home and live your hard life!
Du Kang's expression of resentment left in shame. The slave merchant continued to laugh loudly, but did not reveal more information like Du Kang planned.
Humph, it was useless, I was pointing at him and continued to say something
After Du Kang walked away, he spat, and was extremely dissatisfied with it, but he was laughed at it and he wouldn't have any less meat. Du Kang didn't want to cause trouble, so he turned around and hurriedly prepared to find a place to stay.
After a walk, there were many mercenaries who had the same idea as Du Kang. Unfortunately, all the hotels in Chiyan City were full, and many people could only set up tents outside the city and barely dealt with them at night.
This is normal for mercenaries, but it is unacceptable to Du Kang. He has come to Chiyan City, so why should he sleep in a tent like in the wild?
Du Kang glanced at various buildings and saw a mansion. He became active, found a dark corner to start the storm, sneaked into the house.
Originally, Du Kang just wanted to find an idle room to sleep, but every room in this mansion was cleaned up, with petals sprinkled and incense lit. You could tell at a glance that it would be used soon. If Du Kang was sleeping carelessly on it, he would probably be discovered.
As a last resort, Du Kang could only find an inconspicuous attic covered with dust, push out a gust of wind-type fighting spirit, blow the dust into the corner with a faint palm wind, then take out the bedding from the prop space, and lay down quietly.
Although it is not as good as a hotel, it is much better than the mercenaries stationed outside the city to sleep in tents. Du Kang knew that although the name of Chiyan City contained the word Chiyan, at night, the temperature was not felt at all. Du Kang pretended to bless the mercenaries outside the city and hoped that they would not be frozen at night, and then fell asleep
After sleeping for a while, Du Kang was awakened by the noisy sound under the floor of the attic. He woke up in a daze and complained in a low voice: Who is so noisy
Then he pressed his ear to the floor and listened carefully. He could hear the sound below, and the voices of men and women were mixed, and the sounds of debauchery were everywhere. Could it be... the lower part was having a mess?