Chapter 373 Captain Mace's Curiosity
There is no curfew in Duta City, but after 10 o'clock in the evening, most of the city areas will quickly become quiet and few pedestrians can be seen.
Only in parts of the Midtown and Port areas can you still see crowds of people.
Captain Mace, holding a lantern, walked side by side with his night watchman across the central avenue of the Midtown area and entered the port area. As in the past, they focused on patrolling Garden Street, Nail Street, and the commercial districts around the docks.
This route must be patrolled every night.
During the reign of the Ezekiel family, this area was the most active area for gang members and a high incidence of homicides, so it had to be patrolled intensively.
During the time when Coulson O'Neill... no, during the time when the Innadri people came to rule, this area was planned as a "commercial concentration area" and many so-called special tourist service projects were added. Many buildings were also being renovated and a large amount of construction materials were piled up on the streets, requiring more intensive patrols.
When crossing Garden Street, the two night watchmen met the militia of the Public Security Department. The two sides waved and greeted each other across the street, and then moved away from each other.
"These militiamen from the Public Security Department are quite decent, much more decent than the former city police." The night watchman who worked with Captain Mays sighed, "In the past, you couldn't see the city police patrolling the streets at night. Those guys would go to some tavern to get drunk before dark."
"Otherwise, how could the City Hall have the confidence to directly abolish the city police chief?" Captain Mays said casually, "They must have been prepared to replace those guys."
Well... the biggest reason for abolishing the city police chief position is that Zhao Zhenzhen is disgusted by the so-called police officers in this world and thinks that these rubbish are completely desecrating this position...
The night watchman shrugged and ignored the remark; he thought the Public Security Department was good, but as for the current City Hall... he had reservations.
The undead's feat of annihilating the "Eternal Sleeper" sect in one fell swoop did indeed increase the favorability of the Night's Watch.
But then the actions of this group of Tarantan Undead made the Night's Watch very angry again - after the core believers were eliminated, there were still seeds of the evil god left, and the Night's Watch tried every means to convince those undead to hand them over to them, but failed!
According to the custom of the Night's Watch, dangerous things like the Seed of the Evil God's Favor must be transferred to a sealed place and placed in a jar filled with holy water for permanent storage; but the Tarantan Undead, who also looked like they were in the lawful camp, could not understand their nervousness at all and actually put such a dangerous thing in their pockets and took it away!
That is an evil object that is more dangerous than a sealed object and needs to be treated with greater caution!
What night watchman wouldn't have his blood pressure rise when seeing the frivolous attitude of the Tarantan Undead towards containment!
The night watchmen hurriedly ran to the city hall several times, hoping to communicate with the Undead Archon of the City Hall and get the seeds of the evil god to be properly stored. But then... they didn't see anyone at all.
At that time, Zhao Zhenzhen was squatting in Westham discussing the script with Brother Lowell, so of course she couldn't come to appease these worried night watchmen...
Captain Mace understood that his subordinates were resentful of the City Hall. He was optimistic that the Tarantan Undead would handle the dangerous goods properly, but others might not agree with him.
"The City Hall has played an indispensable role in the current appearance of the Public Security Department. Compared with the previous City Hall, the current City Hall is responsible for much more." Captain Mays said to his subordinates with a smile, "Speaking of which, we can be considered as beneficiaries of the City Hall, Solo, we have also benefited from the City Hall. In the past, when it was your turn to patrol the port area, you would not have had it as easy as you do now."
The night watchman Solo subconsciously glanced left and right at the clean and refreshing Garden Street and scratched his head embarrassedly.
The Garden Street during the reign of the Ezekiel family, no, the Port District, is completely different from the Port District today, especially after nightfall.
Dirty streets full of garbage and filled with the smell of sewers and excrement, howling drunkards, thugs lurking in dark alleys and eyeing passers-by, prostitutes under the street lights, horse-drawn carriages rushing through the narrow streets, and the dying groans of beggars on the roadside - for the night watchmen who have to go back and forth several times a night during their shift, it is really not an ideal working environment.
"Well, I admit that these Innadri people have done a lot of practical things." Night Watchman Solo muttered, "It would be even better if those undead could listen to human words a little bit."
Captain Mace shook his head and laughed.
When they were about to walk out of Garden Street, Captain Mace and his partner Solo heard the sound of "click, click" footsteps behind them at the same time.
Only the undead can make such footsteps.
Hearing the footsteps of the undead in the darkness behind you on the dimly lit street is terrifying in every way...but Captain Mace and Night Watchman Solo have become accustomed to it. They both just looked back casually and relaxedly.
Soon, several undead souls ran out from the darkness.
These undead spirits ignored the two night watchmen walking in front of them and walked past them with confidence. They gesticulated with their hands and seemed to be chatting with each other while running into the Iron Nail Street ahead.
Captain Mace and Night Watchman Solo stepped slowly into Iron Nail Street and watched the group of undead running happily towards the dock.
Tieding Street is much more lively than Huayuan Street. There are still many snack stalls and bars open. Foreign tourists who enjoy the nightlife see the dead passing by and lean on the windows to look out...
"So many undead souls! I saw another batch!"
"These undead spirits really won't attack people!"
"Oh my god, it's pretty scary to see the dead at night. How are the locals used to it?"
"What are these undead doing running around the city at night?"
When passing by the bar that specially catered to foreign tourists, Captain Mace and the night watchman Solo clearly heard those ignorant foreigners shouting and yelling.
Walking out of the busiest section, Solo couldn't help but complain, "Earlier I heard someone say that someone came all the way from the capital to see the undead, and I thought it was a joke... What a ghost, aren't they just some moving skeletons? Are they worth so many people buying boat tickets to come and see them?"
Captain Mays also found it funny and said, "There's nothing to do in the winter, so it's understandable that some people would come to see the undead. After all, moving skeletons are not uncommon, but skeletons that can live in peace with humans are extremely rare."
"It's only the rich people who can afford it. If it were me, I wouldn't waste such money." Solo said painfully.
The two chatted along the way, walked around Tiejian Street, and made sure that nothing unusual had occurred, then turned to the dock area.
The dock area of Dutata City is quite large. There are warehouses along the northern wall. To the northeast there is a large shipyard for ship maintenance and dedicated docks for several shipping companies. The southeast area is occupied by several factories.
The remaining area was filled with bungalows, cheap hotels, restaurants and taverns that served the crew and sailors, and buildings belonging to gray industries that had been sealed off by the city hall.
During the reign of the Ezekiel family, the dock area was more like a "place that never sleeps" than Garden Street and Nail Street - places like bars, casinos, and brothels were basically bustling until dawn.
By the time the Innadri people ruled, the "glory" of the dock area had completely become history.
Walking on the quiet streets, with the cool breeze blowing from the Barcelo River towards him, Captain Metz felt very refreshed .
“This is what this city should look like.”
Captain Mays, who was born and raised in Dutata City, thought to himself.
After all, it is the largest city in the southern part of the Rhine Kingdom with the largest population. How can it be as chaotic as before?
Even if he couldn't expect Dutata City to be on par with Moses Port run by the Odis family, at least it couldn't be as bad as before and be criticized and lambasted in newspapers every now and then - he, a man born in Dutata City, would be embarrassed to admit that he was a Dutata person when he went out !
During the reign of the Ezekiel family, the capital's current affairs magazines always rated Dutata as the worst city in the entire Rhine Kingdom. Captain Metz was furious every time he saw it, but Count Ezekiel turned a blind eye to it, and held the dinner and cocktail party as usual, refusing to do anything about it, which almost made Captain Metz vomit to death.
Captain Metz, who was extremely disappointed with the upper nobles of Adler, might have run away to be a "guide" on the day when the Innadri people attacked the city, if it were not for the restrictions of his own status - anyway, no matter who governed the city of Dutata, it would not be worse than Ezekiel's family.
And these Innadri people did not disappoint Metz. In just two months, the city of Dutata had changed completely.
Captain Mace would not believe that the new lord Coulson O'Neill had put much effort into the governance of Dutata City. After all, this guy's previous performance had always been mediocre.
After pondering it privately for a long time, Captain Mace still believed that the person making the governance decisions behind the scenes could only be Charlie Rex, or the black magician followed by Rex, or - some mysterious wise man who has never appeared in public so far.
This made Captain Metz even more excited to deepen his connection with the "Innaderi System"... He was really curious about this mysterious man who had such remarkable governance capabilities, the courage to resettle more than 300,000 poor people in one go, and the courage to conduct anti-cult propaganda in a way that challenged the domestic upper-class public opinion and secular views.
The black magician Yang accompanied Coulson O'Neill to the capital to be conferred the title. When the black magician returns, perhaps the backlog of events in Dutata City will be taken over by the undead. After the demise of the "Eternal Sleeper" sect, Mace, the captain of the Night's Watch, has noticed a change in the attitude of the bishop.
In other words, the Night Watchmen will have more opportunities to come into contact with the Tarantan ghosts and the City Hall in the future.
Captain Mace did not hate the undead, nor was he as afraid of the legendary Nightmare Butcher as others were. He did not like the Church of the Fiery Sun, which had intervened in Middle-earth forcefully and caused the war in Middle-earth. In his opinion, the nobles whom Yang had treated harshly deserved their punishment.
Since Yang could get along harmoniously with Bishop Lee Gene of the Innadri Diocese, and generously lent the undead to the Odysseus family to deal with the incident in Moses Port, Captain Mace believed that this black magician could be regarded as a friend of the Gold Coin Church.
After completing the night duty conscientiously, Captain Metz returned to the headquarters and slept for a few hours before dawn. When he woke up at noon, he changed into formal clothes and went to the city hall to inquire about the news.
The identity of the captain of the night watch is still very important. The anti-cult propaganda work that Captain Mace inquired about happens to be the focus of the city hall at this time. The city hall will certainly not refuse to communicate with the captain of the night watch and learn from each other's experience.
Soon, the expectant Captain Mays was invited into the mayor's office, and a warm and considerate clerk handed him a rhododendron-shaped badge for him to keep temporarily.
As Captain Mays was holding the badge in confusion, a tall undead opened the door of the mayor's office and walked in. He extended his right bone claw towards him, grinned, and said in a gentle and powerful voice that seemed to belong to an older woman: "Hello, I'm Zhao Zhenzhen."
Captain Mace: “——???”
