Chapter 11: The Gladiatorial Fight Between the Crow and the Mouse

The sun-lit ground was rapidly approaching Zeus, and he simply closed his eyes thinking that he would die this time.

But suddenly, he felt his body be jerked hard—the inertia of the rapid fall—and then he bounced back, and his ass seemed to hit something hard, and Zeus seemed to hear a muffled scream, and he fell to the thick layer of marble powder.

The pain that swept through his body could only be described as heartbreaking, Zeus couldn't help but snort, he thought he would chop out a mouthful of blood, but he didn't want to open his eyes subconsciously, and what he saw was countless sturdy horse legs running wildly in front of his eyes.

Zeus turned his head and saw behind him countless legs galloping past his eyes, and then reappeared—and then he realized that he had been thrown into the middle of the field.

Suddenly, he saw something golden glittering in the marble powder not far in front of him. By this time, the pain in Zeus's body had subsided considerably, and he struggled to pounce on it, brushing away the powder of the white flower on it, and holding the little thing in his hand.

It was a thin sheet of gold, so thin that it seemed to be translucent, so it was extremely light. There were a few lines of words carved on it, and it didn't look like the Latin that you could see everywhere in Rome, and Zeus couldn't tell what it was—it was remarkable to be a mouse to be able to tell what Latin was!

He was fascinated by it, when suddenly a dark shadow rushed forward, and he saw a pair of black claws flash in front of his eyes, and the gold flakes in his hands were gone.

At the same time, Zeus also smelled a familiar smell of corruption. He looked up into the air, and saw the leader of the bullies in the arena, the crow leader Manado, flashing his big, smelly wings, clutching the thin piece of gold with his two mud-stained claws, smirking at him!

Only then did Zeus realize that the strange scream that scared him so much that he fell off the metal pole and the one that suddenly grabbed him when he was about to land were all the work of Manado!

"Thank you for your life-saving benefactor!" the cries of the Ados were even more piercing and unpleasant than before.

"It's not all your good deeds! The reason why you held me back is just because I'm afraid that I'll turn into a ghost and come back to settle accounts with you!" Zeus shook his fist at the bully leader, "Give me back the golden flakes!"

"This is the reward I deserve, you little conscienceless! Believe it or not, I'm going to cut your ungrateful neck with it right now?"

"You come and cut it!" Zeus jumped to his feet and shouted, "Who is afraid that you will not succeed? Lao Tzu dares to pee on the emperor's head, when have you ever been taken into my eyes?" Zeus wondered in his heart as he jumped and shouted, why didn't Shag completely drive this damn stinky bird out of the gladiatorial arena? In the past, before gladiatorial performances, Shag would drive Manado and his more hateful men away, otherwise they would pounce on the gladiators as soon as they smelled blood— This is also the reason why there is such a hunting dog as Shag in the gladiatorial arena.

Also, where is Shag? Zeus looked around, but nowhere was his bodyguard!

Before the little mouse's cry had fallen, the old crow had already pounced on it in a rage.

For a time, the Manado in the gladiatorial arena was inseparable from Zeus. One of them was in the air, one was on the ground, one was waving the golden flakes in his hands, and the other was fighting with his fingers hooked, with two pairs of sharp claws.

The golden flake was swept around by the Manado, and it was like a sharp blade, clinging to the skin of Zeus's brain and the sharp, short hairs of his body, and constantly stabbing violently or slashing down viciously. Zeus tried his best to barely avoid repeated attacks, but it was impossible to fight back!

"You scourge, scoundrel, scoundrel, scum...... You spend all day pecking at corpses, eating the most smelly and rotten garbage, why hasn't the plague dragged you into hell?" Zeus cursed bitterly.

Manado was so provoked by these swear words that he couldn't stop laughing, and he "croaked" hoarsely, as ugly as it sounded. "You're dying, but you're still playing poor here, see if I don't cut you to pieces, and then take the pieces back and feed them to my little cubs!"

"There's a kind of you coming, you haven't cut me once, you're as stupid as a pig, but you still have to be reckless, it's really unbelievable!" Before Zeus finished speaking, he was hit on the neck, and if he hadn't dodged back in time, his head would have been cut off by Qi Brush.

"Damn, it's just a little bit off!"

Zeus rolled backwards, and Manado lunged forward. Zeus saw a blinding golden light cut straight at his stomach, and he raised his foot with all his might, and kicked it in desperation, and the gold piece fell off the claws of Manado, flipped in the air, and flew far away.

At this time, the galloping horses in the gladiatorial arena had all stopped, and the fight in the center of the arena attracted their attention.

These handsome horses galloping across the field are all very spiritual and deeply understand human nature. They kept raising their front hooves and neighing in the cheers of Zeus - a little mouse dared to face such a fierce crow, although he only had the power to parry, and could not use effective counterattacks, but he was so agile that he could not lose to any brave warrior, and this could not but amaze these horses!

In the carriage behind them were a series of rare birds and beasts, all of which had been collected from the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa through all kinds of difficulties and dangers. The carriage is not completely sealed, and there are many small holes of different shapes to ventilate the animals inside. These giant beasts were stunned through the air holes. They are all the kings of all beasts who can be called "the dominant party", what kind of fighting, fighting, and competition have not been seen? But as soon as they came to this world-famous gladiatorial arena, they witnessed such an unexpected and superb fight, which made their blood boil a little!

And so, a roar shook the metal carriages, whether gold or silver or iron, and these cries startled the horses like mad demons, and kicked their raised front hooves almost to the sky!

Besides, the group of slaves who rushed up to subdue the war horses, they were helpless in the face of the war horses that kept rushing into the gate, and so many soldiers outside the gate did not come in to stop them, what could a group of people like them do?

Coincidentally, the golden flakes kicked by the little mouse Zeus flew straight towards a carriage - the carriage was the "culprit" who had recently been pulled by a war horse, broke into the door, and almost killed Zeus.

The glittering carriage made of gold was lined with a line of extremely realistically carved and mighty lion heads, and the lion's mouth was open in anger, and these were the air vents.

I saw that the gold sheet was impartial, and was about to fly into one of the ventilation holes. At this moment, a snow-white figure suddenly rushed into the ground, rushing straight towards the golden flake like lightning, but it was too late.

Finally, the poor figure slammed into the sturdy carriage,

"Oh, it's Dura!" cried Zeus, who was lying on the ground, and he quickly jumped up and ran towards the white dove that had fallen to the ground.

When Manado saw the opportunity, he wanted to attack Zeus from behind. He spread his two blackened wings to the maximum, then lowered his head and upper body, ready to pounce. But he suddenly felt a white light flash in front of him, and when he stared again, the little mouse had been caught by the white dove and flew to the top of the golden carriage.

"It's so neat, it's so fast that I can't even see it!"

"You saved George's life, and now you've saved mine! You're my gospel!" Zeus was put into the carriage by Dura, where he landed steadily.

Dura landed beside him, "Don't be so polite, you're fine!"

As they spoke, Manado flew back to the top of the arena and landed in a flock of crows, the great ugly birds of his command, and he wondered what they were plotting to do.

"Just let him run back, it's really cheap for him!" Zeus waved his little paw at the side.

"Leave him alone, what are you fighting over just now?"

"A small gold flake with words written on it, but unfortunately I don't even know it!"

Hearing this, the white dove raised his head and looked at Grandpa David, who was standing outside the gate at the moment. Just now, she had long wanted to fly over to help Zeus, but the old priest kept stopping her: "Wait, don't worry, let me take a good look at the courage and skill of that little mouse!"

Bai Ge knew that Grandpa David must have his deep meaning in doing this, so she obediently obeyed. Later, the old priest whispered to her again, and she rushed to Zeus' rescue like an arrow.

Now, she wants to learn what Grandpa David said to Zeus, and it seems that he wants to test the little mouse further: "It is a treasure that Grandpa David brought from Eastern Rome, and it is very important to him, so can you help him get it back?"

"You're letting me in?" Zeus pointed to the golden carriage and looked at the white dove in disbelief.

"If you hadn't kicked it away, it wouldn't have fallen in!" Dura continued, slightly grumbling.

"But there's a divine beast locked up here!" Zeus shouted, he was really unconvinced before, and he was determined to subdue this divine beast, but he really wanted to meet the other party, and he couldn't help but feel a little weak - he had been listening to her deafening roar just now, it was so fierce and terrifying.

After more than 400 years in the gladiatorial arena, Zeus had never heard such a thrilling roar, and he was really worried that he would not be the opponent of the divine beast - it didn't matter if he couldn't beat it, if the news got out, he couldn't afford to lose anyone!

Besides, the divine beast was a "surprise" specially prepared for the young emperor - at this time, he recalled what the eunuch, Olympius said, - she must not be dragged into hell, if you do that, it will really anger the young emperor, and how much trouble it will cause for the gladiatorial arena!

Although Zeus didn't like it, after living there for more than 400 years, he still had some attachment - but what he feared most was that the poor slaves and weak animals would be punished by the young emperor, and maybe they would lose their lives for it!

Just as he was scratching his ears and cheeks, and did not know what to do, the war horse on the left turned his head sideways, squinted at Zeus, and said slowly in a tone of contempt:

"You still don't want to look for death, this is a divine beast that the general took great pains to catch from Bengal, and it is a great gift to the emperor today! It is said that in order to capture her, the general actually lost two capable teams!"

"She?she's really a girl inside!Then there's nothing to be afraid of!" Before, Zeus had only heard from the soldiers guarding the door, and he was not sure, but now when he heard the war horse say this, he was alive again.

The horse on the right also turned his head, and in a tone that was both stiff and flattering, he quietly recounted: "For more than twenty days, the general's men have been wrestling with her in the sweltering and gloomy forest, and every day people have died tragically under her fangs and claws. She'll bite those people to shreds, and then kick their heads out of the jungle, and let these bloody heads roll straight to the General's tent!"

Hearing this, Zeus's small body couldn't help but tremble, but at this time, his white dove mount, which was already covered with the old priest's "demon", was getting closer and closer to him.