"Brother Ye, are you so curious about Garden Star because you're planning to go take a look?"
"We can go up there? Didn't you say Train Conductors were forbidden from entering?"
Monrojina gave a mysterious smile.
"Just like the city's advertised ban on selling items above level 4."
"As long as you live long enough in this world and have sufficient ability, you'll discover that the point of every rule is for someone to break it and reap greater profits."
"Garden Star has quite a few natives, you know. Hehe~ Brother Ye, how do you think some Train Conductors see those natives?"
"As human beings?"
"Or..."
"As tools for venting their pent-up feelings?"
Tools?
Ye Qiyan thought of Qin Qiang, whom he had met in a Platform World back then.
That fellow hadn't treated the natives of that Platform World as real, flesh-and-blood human beings at all, but entirely as NPCs in a game that players could toy with and slaughter at will.
And of the three cities he had visited so far...
Neither the City of a Thousand Stars nor this Sky Garden made any attempt to conceal their slave trade.
Those slaves were all natives of Platform Worlds.
Only Solo City, perhaps because of Zhao Xi's presence back then, had no such thing, at least on the surface.
"It seems you already understand how some Train Conductors view native humans."
Monrojina gently stroked little Annie's head beside her, her eyes filled with pity.
"So, some people pay a hefty price to enter certain parts of Garden Star and indulge their desires."
"And there are those livestreams and videos outside."
"Some even spend Train Coins to forcibly destroy someone's family just because they dislike a human on Garden Star with a happy family."
"Now~ hehe, I shouldn't need to