The walls of Blood Kapok Castle are thick, and the corridor behind the city gate is tall.

The deep corridors, the ground, left and right walls, and the ceiling above are covered with neat holes about a square foot.

The holes on the ground are more than one foot deep, and in the middle are several copper nozzles as thick as thumbs. The holes on the ground are covered with iron plates with hollow patterns carved on them.

The holes on the left and right walls and ceilings are also covered with carved and hollowed-out iron plates.

However, the existence of these holes cannot be hidden from Qiao's eyes. Especially on the walls and behind the holes on the ceiling, there is a faint sound of human breathing. In the holes on the ground, there is a trace of tinder oil left in the copper nozzles.

The four-wheeled carriage slowly drove into the corridor. Wherever they passed, the heavily armored soldiers standing on both sides of the corridor raised their right hands and hit them heavily on their left chest and heart.

When the carriage reached the end of the corridor, two Hydra secret guards opened the car door: "Joe Rong Weitu, we are here."

Qiao lowered his head and got out of the carriage, then straightened his waist. Then his sight was attracted by the three giant cannons in front of him - these were three giant cannons with a caliber of 600 mm. The huge metal cannon was fixed to the ground, and the cannon body was parallel to the ground. The black muzzle locked the corridor behind Qiao.

Qiao subconsciously glanced back.

Tsk... This arrangement is really life-thinking - think about it, if there is an invasion of foreign enemies, they will happily break through the city gate and rush into the corridor proudly. First, they are sprayed with turtle oil on the ground, pierced by crossbow arrows and spears on both sides, and then be harmed by the evil things falling from their heads...

When they rushed out of the corridor happily, they were greeted by three giant cannons with a caliber of 600 millimeters!

Tsk, whether it is firing shotguns or solid projectiles, this is a nightmare treat for these enemies attacking Blood Kapok Castle!

"Crazy!" Qiao said in horror: "Turun Port uses Thor's giant cannons to bombard warships, and here uses giant cannons to hit living people?"

A secret guard of Hydra nodded: "These three giant cannons have killed more than 20,000 foreign enemies since they were successfully cast... It is precisely because of them that the Blood Kapok Castle has never fallen... The Blood Kapok Hill has never been broken, and they have great contributions."

"I can imagine!" Qiao grabbed his head hard and looked around for a week: "Can you help me find some history books? Well, I used to read a little, but now I think I should read some books."

Looking at these three huge and heavy cannons, Qiao suddenly became interested in the history of Blood Kapok Hill and Blood Kapok Castle.

"As the 'Vice' of Blood Kapok Castle, all reasonable requirements can be met... Books are just the most basic guarantee... Here, as long as you are willing to pay, takeout from all the high-end restaurants in Heidra Castle, you can order... including, help you find a few girls to accompany you." A Hydra Secret Guard said the coldest joke in the most serious tone.

Qiao looked at him in shock.

The Hydra Secret Guard also looked at Joe in shock... After a while, the two Hydra Secret Guards and nearby court knights laughed at the same time: "Haha, it's still a young and tender little rookie... This is a rare variety."

A court knight giggled a little further away, smiling happily: "There were boring students from the second university counting two years ago that the young men in the imperial capital were on their maids at the age of thirteen..."

"This Young Master Qiao is really... rare."

"Card, card, rigorous tutoring, pure moral character... Well, I have a cousin..."

"Get out of here, it's your freckled cousin? My dear sister... this year..."

The court knights were 'twist' and joking happily. Qiao's face became darker and darker, and he kept rolling his eyes.

Two Hydra Secret Guards looked at Joe's increasingly ugly expression with a smile. After a while, they shook their heads. One Hydra Secret Guard raised his right hand and shook his fingers towards a tall building in the middle of the castle.

“Open a luxury suite with newcomers to check in!”

The exterior wall of Blood Kapok Castle is a hexagram castle, and the inner wall is a circle with a diameter of more than 1,000 feet. In the middle of the area surrounded by the inner wall, a pure boulder structure stands, with a cylindrical tower nearly 200 feet high, or the Battle Fort.

On the top of the battle fort with a diameter of more than 200 feet, there is a circle of large-caliber field guns arranged, with brightly decorated palace guards on it.

On the walls with an inner wall of more than 100 feet high, inner windows several feet high and two or three feet wide have been opened.

Behind the inner window is the passage for transporting troops, and next to the passage is the barracks that once stationed troops. Now behind these inner windows, many palace guards poked out half of their bodies and looked at Qiao standing next to the carriage curiously.

Between the inner wall and the central cylindrical tall building, there is a flat grassland, dotted with several flower beds, planted with thorn flowers with strong vitality. Although it is snowing in the sky and the temperature has dropped to freezing point, the thorn flowers in the flower bed are still blooming tenaciously. Under the cover of ice and snow, these blooming thorn flowers give people a strong sense of visual impact.

The grass covered with frost is covered with white space, and small buildings with thick and simple appearance stand on them.

These small buildings are all in ordinary shapes, square in shape and three floors high. There is only a small metal door on the south side. Each floor has a small number of windows, and the windows are extremely small. Each window is equipped with a metal fence of the thickness of an arm. Judging from the density of the fence, only mice can pass through the gap.

The sky is covered with clouds, and under the dim skylight, a stream of light flashes faintly on the surface of these metal fences.

A team of palace guards wrapped in iron-gray cloaks, lined up in neat rows, slowly walking through the small buildings.

Behind the windows of some small buildings, curious eyes were cast.

Qiao looked over several gazes that made him feel particularly strong. Behind the metal fence, behind the thick glass, and inside the flowing light gauze curtains, there were figures shaking.

"There are many people here..." Qiao murmured.

"And they are all like you, with enough status and enough things they committed." Two Hydra Secret Guards grabbed Joe's arm from left to right: "Well, your residence should be arranged."

"Well, don't you need to register your identity information?" Qiao asked them curiously.

"This is not a prison of the Ministry of Police... Here, there is no need to register identity information... Sometimes, for the 'VIP's' here, being forgotten may be a blessing for them."

A middle-aged man wearing black Aunt Feng, tall and expressionless, walked out of the tall building in the middle. He walked very hard and took extremely fast steps. He came to Qiao in his breath.

When the middle-aged man heard Qiao's question, he responded casually.

He nodded to the two Hydra Secret Guards, then turned around and led the way to a small building in the distance. While walking, he said without looking back: "Remember, here, as long as you don't try to escape, you can enjoy a high degree of freedom... The only taboo is not to inquire about the identity, origin, and their past history."

"And you are...a kind reminder, for the safety of you and your relatives and friends... don't disclose your identity, origin, and the causes and consequences of your being sent to the Blood Kapok Castle."

"You can give yourself a nickname if you want."

The middle-aged man led the way to a small building in the northwest corner of the tall building. He took out a bunch of keys and slowly opened the one-foot-thick metal door of the building.

He turned around and looked up and down Joe, especially his eyes stayed on the Royal Hydra badge on his collar for a while: "Here, we offer the most basic three meals a day and late supper... The daily meal fee is ten silver Finneys. You can eat enough, but it is definitely not considered good."

"If you want, you can pre-store a sum of money from us and formulate your daily meal fee standards... No matter what you want to eat or drink, we offer it by 10% at the market price."

"Of course, you can also book the food and wine at any high-end restaurant in Heidra Castle one day in advance. We will send someone to serve you... Of course, for this, you have to pay 20% of the service fee for those foods and wines."

"Every day, you have twelve hours of outdoor activities, if you want... the weather is bad now, but it's a great treat to wait until the spring season to take a walk outside and bask in the sun."

"I hope you have a happy life in Blood Kapok Castle." The middle-aged man squeezed out a stiff smile and nodded at Qiao: "I am the manager here Hyde... Except for not being able to leave Blood Kapok Castle, you can ask me any needs you have."

He pushed open the heavy metal door with force, and a cold air spurted out from the door.

Hyde pointed to the open door and said slowly: "I hope you can enjoy your life in Blood Kapok Castle... and adapt to it as soon as possible, because you will always live here in the future."

Joe shrugged, he looked at Hyde and said seriously: "I think I'll leave here soon."

Hyde was stunned, and then the smile on his face slightly increased: "Then, I will wait and see... But little guy, I have worked in the Blood Kapok Castle for forty years... Forty years, only people were sent in here, and no one had left!"

Shaking his head, Hyde looked at Joe seriously: "I don't think you would be an exception... If you don't believe it, you can ask your neighbor next door. He was sent here when he was seven years old and his father. Now his grandson is seven years old... He and his son, grandson, live next door to you!"

Joe widened his eyes and looked at Hyde with disbelief: "Son? Grandson? Here?"

Hyde tilted his head: "That's why I said that as long as you don't try to escape from here, you can enjoy a lot of freedom...including finding a group of women and giving birth to a bunch of dolls... Of course, the meals for these women and dolls must be provided by you... The imperial royal family is only responsible for the basic living expenses of 'self'."

The two Hydra Secret Guards pushed Qiao into the small building with a little force.

Hyde pulled up the metal door with a hard thump, and with a 'boom', the door closed tightly.

Hyde's voice came faintly from outside the door: "If you have any needs, just greet the guards at the window... There are candles and gas lamps in the building, and matches are on the small table on your right hand... Well, if you are not good at handling daily chores, do you need to hire a few special maids for you?"

"The blood kapok castle clearly marked the price. The maids, maids, etc. here have twice the wages than outside, and we charge three months of intermediary fees..."
Chapter completed!