Youdao is to listen to the music of Lan Kwai Fong by hooking up the fence, and Lin Qing'er plays the flute under the moon.
Lan Kwai Fong is the only brothel in the ghost market. The three-storey building has a flying bridge and sills, and it stands out among the surrounding buildings.
It was already noon, and Lan Kwai Fong had just opened its doors to welcome customers.
On the second floor, a group of beautifully dressed ladies were holding on to the railing and waving handkerchiefs at passers-by below: "Sir, come upstairs to play... Our girls in Lan Kwai Fong are fat and thin, and they can play, play, and sing. , guaranteed to satisfy you..."
The sun was dazzling, illuminating my sister's pink face as beautiful as a flower.
"Dawn! Is it dawn... Come up and talk to your sister..." My sister recognized the young man downstairs at a glance and waved to him one after another.
"Sister Feng, Sister Hua, sister... I won't go upstairs today." At dawn, I greeted my sisters one by one without leaving the ground.
Usually, he would give them some trinkets he found in scavenging. These almost worthless trinkets were the gadgets that his sister liked, which was one of the reasons why they liked him.
"At dawn, come to sister's room. Sister will accompany you for free." Hearing this, Xiao Taohong, the red card among the sisters, poked her face out of the boudoir on the third floor, causing the passers-by below to look askance.
After all, Xiao Taohong's body price is only one tael of silver in one night. It is really enviable that she is willing to accompany this young man for free without seeing him.
"Sister Hong! Next time, next time..." Li Xiao waved awkwardly and ran through Lan Kwai Fong quickly, making her sister and son giggle together. Everyone knows that it's always the next time for a boy.
The gambling house is a big house with three entrances. It is only noon, and the lobby is already crowded with gamblers. There are many lazy people and some extremely evil people. However, under the strict private laws of the ghost society, no one dares to cause trouble.
The games played in the lobby are all small bets, and the main methods of playing include rolling dice, pushing Pai Gow and hitting leaves.
At dawn, I pinched a copper plate and squeezed in front of the large table. I planned to make a casual bet and leave. When I turned my eyes, I was attracted by a notice posted on the wall.
This notice is similar to the government's sea arrest document, that is, the wanted list usually posted at the city gate, with pictures and text, and the image is vivid.
It's just that the picture is not the big head portrait of a wanted criminal in the past, but two human figures fighting with bare hands, outlined in thick lines, one is strong and the other is skinny. At a glance, it is obvious that they are a human and a corpse.
The accompanying text is also very attractive: Fight with demons, become famous overnight, and enjoy wealth!
Yes, the fighting arena in the ghost market is different. Instead of people fighting against each other, people fight against zombies.
When I first arrived at the ghost market at dawn, I heard about this fighting battle. It was said that it existed when the ghost market was first established, and it was even older than him.
With the development and growth of the ghost market, the influence of the arena is also increasing day by day. Every year at the New Year's Arena, a large number of rich and powerful people will flock to several nearby big cities to enjoy this grand opening of the new year, which is equivalent to the Chinese New Year. Part of it.
Unfortunately, the cost of going to the theater is too high, and I haven’t been willing to spend a single coin to watch the show since dawn.
It turns out that the Dou Ba League is divided into the first league, the monthly league, the quarter league and the annual league.
All it takes to watch the first round is a copper plate.
The cost of watching the monthly and seasonal competitions is getting more and more expensive. As for the annual competitions, ordinary people can only look back and sigh.
Fortunately, there is also a storyteller in the teahouse. For a copper plate, the guests can sit and listen to the exciting process of the competition.
Of course, you can listen at no cost and listen at the door or window of the teahouse.
This is how Li Xiao learned about the rules of the fighting arena. Before the fight, a life and death certificate must be signed. The challenger and the corpse fight in a one-on-one hand-to-hand fight until death.
There are three first-day competitions every month, held in the upper, middle and lower ten days of the month. The leaders of the three groups in the ghost market each lead one ten-day period and select a challenger for the monthly competition.
The first round is relatively mild, and the contestants only have to fight once. The ranking will be based on the time it takes to kill the corpse demon. The first place will enter the monthly round.
The three fighters representing the three families competed in the moon competition. From the beginning of the moon competition, it became cruel. There was no longer a timer, but three people entered and one person came out.
In other words, three people have to take turns fighting each other, sometimes for several rounds, until only the last person left alive is the winner.
This is true for both seasonal and annual events.
The competition is closed every spring and resumes in summer until the end of the year, which is exactly three seasons.
Although the battles with martyrs are bloody and cruel, with a narrow escape from death, the rewards are generous. It is said that there must be a brave man under a heavy reward.
In order to encourage people to sign up, those who participate in the first round will receive a sum of money as a reward as long as they survive. The higher the ranking, the greater the reward.
Even if you win the first place in the first round, you can stop and quit, and the competitors behind you can take over.
Of course, these are those who take the initiative to participate in the competition, and the gamblers who are forced to participate in the competition to pay off their debts can only go to the dark side.
Contestants are not allowed to withdraw from the Moon Challenge, unless they die unexpectedly.
Of course, contestants above the monthly level are closely protected by each family, and accidents rarely occur.
The winners of the three seasons compete for the final championship and the highest reward: a house on the ghost market street and a huge sum of money.
If the King of Challengers has other ideas, he can give up the above rewards in exchange for an official certificate to go to a nearby big city, and be escorted into the city by the city's caravan.
It is said that over the years, a total of more than twenty champions have been produced in the Fighting Demon Arena. Only five of them stayed in the ghost market, and the rest chose to leave. This shows that there are many people with high aspirations.
For refugees struggling on the edge of survival, the lowest level of the above rewards is full of temptation, but the mortality rate of 70% in the first round is also prohibitive.
After all, if you fight with a zombie with bare hands, even if you are a good fighter, there is no guarantee that the zombie will be killed instantly with one strike. And if you are bitten and draw blood, you will almost certainly die.
Therefore, although there are desperadoes in the ghost market, there are even more people who are just trying to survive. No one wants to go into the ring with their head on their hands unless they have to.
The three leaders of the ghost market had no choice but to recruit challengers through other means, and gambling houses were one of them.
As for Daybreak, even being a hunter is too dangerous, let alone being a part of the fighting arena.
But today, as if by fate, he heard the faint noise coming from next door, and by some strange mistake, he stopped placing bets, walked out of the gambling house, and came to the arena that was only separated by a wall.
The arena is open-air and surrounded by high walls, and you have to pay to watch the arena.
At dawn when I came here for the first time, I looked at the spectators queuing up to enter the venue. I casually asked someone around me and found out that today was the day of the first competition.
What you can buy with a copper plate is only station tickets, which are usually snatched up early.
If you can buy it, just watch it, but if you can't buy it, forget it. With this idea in mind, Poxia squeezed in front of the counter selling the tickets.
A moment later, Li Xiao clutched a red standing ticket, and as the crowd rushed to the arena that they had never set foot in, it seemed that everything had some kind of foreshadowing.
The arched doorway at the entrance is like a city gate, with two rows of gun-wielding guards. After passing through two thick door curtains, a smell mixed with the smell of sweat and various human body odors hits the face, followed by dawn. Just be immersed in the noise and atmosphere like never before.
The first thing to enter is a three-sided arena facing the entrance. The platform is several feet high. The wooden floor is like a whole big tree cut open. The area is about the size of a large hall. There are nets on three sides and a high wall at the back. The white wall Shine and look like new.
A huge white gauze covered the four high walls of the arena, which not only blocked the scorching sun, but also let in light. Even though it was in the open air, it didn't feel hot, which was amazing.
Under the ring is a circle of seats, like a teahouse, with square tables and tea cups. It has been filled with men and women in brocade robes and embroidered skirts. They are all oily-haired, pink-faced, and round. This is where the distinguished guests are. It is said that many of them come from the nearby big city. The children of powerful people live in inns for a long time, just to watch the four rounds of competitions every month, that is, three first-time competitions and one monthly competition.
Behind them are rows of benches, also filled with men and women. They are the rich people in the ghost market. Most of them are rich and wealthy people who have fled. They have extra money, nothing to do, and always want to have some fun.
A three-sided guardrail was set up around the seating area to separate it from the standing area, and there were also security guards. There were at least a thousand people in the venue, half standing and half sitting. Everyone was shaking their hands and heads, looking very excited, and some Many people were not wearing masks, and their faces could be seen flushed, as if they had been drunk.
The fighting has not even started yet, but the atmosphere in the entire arena is already quite lively.
Dawn came late, and standing at the very back of the crowd did not affect the view. It seemed that the entire ground was in the shape of a valley, and the design was quite clever.
He also shook his head, feeling that it was difficult to calm down. Suddenly, the noise in the arena stopped. It turned out that a person walked out from the side ladder of the arena. She was wearing a long white silk skirt, a slim waist, long sleeves, and a headband. A white gauze curtain hat covers the facial features, but there are countless ways of being romantic and graceful in every gesture...
