"Sai-no-Kawahara Underground Arena. The arena is not difficult to understand, but where is "Sai-no-Kawahara"? Is there such a street in Tokyo? It sounds unlucky."
After listening to Mr. Gu Mu's trial conditions, Yunyan nodded first, and then asked doubtfully.
According to ancient mythological records, after death, people will go to the "River of Three Ways" and take the God of Death's boat from one shore to the other shore.
The shore area where people ride the Death Boat is called "Sai no Kawara".
In other words, this location is the "last stop to the other side", the closest place to Huangquan.
With such an unlucky name, it’s hard to imagine anyone naming a certain area after it.
Otherwise, if you take a taxi home late at night and the taxi driver asks you where you live, and you reply "Go to Sai no Kawara", you will probably scare people to death in seconds and think it is haunted.
But in fact, "Sai no Kawara" is a mysterious place known to only a few people in Tokyo, which is equivalent to an urban legend.
It is said that somewhere in Nishi Park, Tokyo, there is an abandoned subway station.
Due to the surrounding expansion, the subway station was surrounded by public toilets and parks, but for some reason it was not completely demolished.
As a result, the homeless people who often hang out in the park took over this place, occupying this abandoned underground area that is said to be no less than the size of West Park itself.
And under the leadership of the "Sai no Florist", the boss of Tokyo homeless people, the homeless people transformed this place into an underground amusement park dedicated to entertaining the rich.
It is said that after entering the long-abandoned subway entrance, you will see a bustling scene like an ancient flower street.
The narrow road of only about ten meters is paved with bright red carpets, and the red oil-paper umbrellas placed on the ground every few meters exude an antique atmosphere.
Small pink lanterns hang at the doors of the wooden houses built on both sides. From the outside, you can see that there are many women in kabuki costumes and heavy makeup sitting in the half-covered rooms.
If you want to accurately describe the style of this "Sai Zhihe original underground neighborhood".
It is as if the custom flower street of the Edo period hundreds of years ago is roughly presented, giving people a feeling of going back in time and space.
However, most of the people walking on this street at this time were wealthy uncles wearing masks and expensive suits who looked oily and pink-faced.
This makes people jump out of the fun of the Edo period and return to the dirtier modern world.
Is this the legendary "Sai Nokawahara Underground Block"? The construction is quite impressive.
Not long after, when Long Dou and Yun Yan were led by Komaki Sotaro, they walked through many alleys, and finally bypassed a public toilet and park, and finally arrived here through the abandoned subway entrance.
Even Long Dou was almost dazzled by this majestic and strange underground world for a moment, while Yun Yan was already so excited that he almost screamed.
She stretched out her trembling fingers and pointed to a red oil-paper umbrella in a corner not far away. There was a bed underneath the oil-paper umbrella.
Suddenly, Yun Yan asked in an excited tone: "Classmate Long Dou, what is that for?"
"This should be for passers-by to rest, right?" Long Dou reached out and touched his head and said uncertainly.
"Wow, I've never seen a roadside rest area like this before. Ryuu Dou-san, come and sit and take a look!"
So when Yun Yan heard the words, she jumped up and ran towards the red oil paper umbrella, and took Long Dou to sit under it, preparing to take a beautiful photo with her mobile phone.
But Mr. Komu came over and reminded with a smile: "It is indeed for passers-by to rest, but it is not an ordinary rest. It is for the wandering girls and guests of the Edo period to do temporary business."
"Young ladies and guests?"
When Long Dou heard this, his scalp went numb with fright, but Yun Yanqi still curiously asked: "What does You Nu do? Perform?"
"It's not about acting, it's about selling yourself."
"Selling yourself?"
"Wandering girls are prostitutes as they were called in ancient times. They would sometimes have sex with customers under red oil-paper umbrellas on the roadside to attract more customers to continue doing business."
Selling yourself? prostitute? illicit sexual relations? Doing business
Suddenly, Yunyan first looked at the red oil-paper umbrella on his head, and then at himself and Long Dou sitting on the bed. It seemed that his brain could not process such interesting information for a while.
Three seconds later, Yun Yancai blushed, then quickly pulled Long Dou and jumped up from the bed, and at the same time completely deleted all the photos on his phone.
When he saw her embarrassment, Long Dou couldn't help but smile and asked: "Senior Yunyan, are you okay?"
"It's not bad, but this is too weird, isn't it? On the street? Aren't they ashamed?"
In fact, it's not that Yunyan didn't know that there was a special profession like "wandering girl".
But the pavements and oil-paper umbrellas on the roadside were still beyond her perspective.
"Well, you're right if you can't understand this, because it just means that your life is very happy."
When faced with Yun Yan's incredible question, Long Dou patted her on the shoulder and explained with a smile.
For a young lady like her who comes from a privileged background and has never worried about money, let alone ever been hungry, selling her body for money is obviously a very shameful thing.
But for those people who may have been abandoned on the roadside since birth, with nothing but their own bodies, they have long been accustomed to such transactions that are despised in the eyes of ordinary people.
In the face of existential threats, dignity and face are worthless.
This is not only the world where wandering girls live, but also the world where the Yakuza and other people who are not tolerated by society live.
Everyone living in the underground world has already tried their best to survive, and there is absolutely no extra money to care about other things.
Such a world is undoubtedly abnormal, but it does exist.
Not even just in the past Edo period, it still exists even in this glamorous modern society.
After listening to Long Dou's explanation, Yun Yan fell into silence for a while.
It wasn't that she couldn't understand Long Dou's words, but the more she understood them, the more she realized that she seemed to understand nothing.
As Long Dou said, Yunyan's life is very happy.
So much so that she didn't realize the hardship of life at all, nor the bitterness of bowing down for five buckets of rice.
Perhaps it is because of this ungrounded life experience that the novels written by Yun Yan are completely unconventional, giving people a sense of being unconstrained, flying up to the atmosphere, and then always lingering between the sun and Mars. Feel.
Therefore, for Yunyan, this trip to "Sai no Kawara" has indeed given her a lot of knowledge.
Especially when we came to the underground fighting arena where there was a huge iron cage like a colosseum in the middle, and many wealthy people around were drinking and chatting while excitedly shouting for the two strong men in the iron cage. During "Sai no Kawara Arena".
(End of chapter)