"If you had found me any later, I would have been beaten to death by the ruffians in that dark, smelly alley. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Aduneus, how did you find me? ”

Crane was ecstatic after being rescued, and Turus bandaged his wounds, however, the gladiator tough guy ignored the bloody wounds and said excitedly to Appis. Friends who haven't seen each other for many years, comrades-in-arms who shared life and death back then, are together at this moment, and no amount of words can express their excitement.

"Your voice, brother, four years have passed, and your voice hasn't changed at all. You know, I almost walked away, but luckily you shouted those curses. By the way, those ruffians, why did they beat you? And I want to put you to death? What kind of hatred do you have with them? ”

Appis said, handing Klein a glass full of Gallic fine wine. Klein didn't even look at it, and drank it all. And then he said aloud -

"It's a long, far away story. First, let's start with when we separated. ”

Klein wiped his mouth after a full glass of wine, and then began to talk about his long experience in the past four years.

"Four years ago, in the murder of Lucius, Graus was executed for it, and he didn't even have time to spend money on asylum. After Graus' death, the large Graeus family was torn apart, and Graus's wife, Portilla, inherited most of Graus's fortune, including the gladiator academy. Since then, I've been living a different life, spilling blood on the sand of the arena during the day, and being forced to be that woman's plaything at night, you know. Aduneus? After Graeus's death, the old woman became even more unbridled and indulgent, and almost all the cadets in the gladiator academy were toyed with by her. And I put up with her wanton fiddling for a long time. In order to get rid of the old woman's entanglement, and at the same time to be free, I began to kill people in the arena, and I kept killing people until Portilla kept me like a wild beast. Two years later, I had killed twenty opponents in a grand tournament in Rome, and Gnaeus Pompey excitedly announced on the spot that I had become a freedman. No more internment in the gladiator academy. After I came out of the gladiator academy, I tried to find other jobs at first, but none of them suited me, and eventually, I returned to the arena as a freeman. I fight, no longer for freedom, but for money. Every beautiful gig paid me well, and I started to like the job because it came so fast. ”

As soon as Klein began to talk, it was like a chatterbox that could not be closed, and fluent Latin flowed out of his mouth so quickly that Apis and Seklas barely had a chance to interject. In fact, Sekras was curious as to why this gladiator was called Appis - Aduneus? Could it be that Appis hid his true identity and name? Appis's previous name was Aduneus? But before Sekras could ask, Klein continued to gush—

"Because I was so good at performing in the arena, aristocrats began to come to me to cooperate."

"What cooperation?"

Appis seemed to hear the point, some fresh topics, some topics he had never heard before.

"Arena bets. Aduneus, you know, in Rome, before every gladiatorial match, there will be a lot of commoners and nobles involved in guessing the outcome of the game gambling * Bo, I didn't know the inside story at first, thinking that everything was carried out in a fair and just environment, and later, those disgusting aristocratic guys came to me and wanted to cooperate with me, which probably means that I fought for them, but it was just a performance, they would summarize the number of bets and votes before the game, and then screen to find out which gladiator the pleas voted more by the commoners, so, The nobles would then favor the side with fewer votes, so that if the gladiators with fewer votes won, they could make a lot of profits. Don't underestimate the benefits of this operation, every day in the city of Rome will be staged large and small gladiatorial matches, these nobles only need to go around the arena once a day, repeat the disgusting tricks, every day, they can get a lot of money. And my job is to be in charge of gladiatorial fights, and they come to me and hope that I can do what they ask, win the fight, or deliberately lose the fight. And the reason for deliberately losing the game is very simple, the large army of civilians and knights will bet on my side, so that if I lose, their deposits will flow into the pockets of those nobles. And in the gladiatorial arena, once I lose, the other party will not kill me, because when the time comes, those nobles will stand up and decide the life and death of the gladiator, that is, decide whether the loser will be executed. Every time, as long as I do what they ask me to do and deliberately lose the game, then I will not die, and, after the war, will receive a large fortune. In fact, it's only a tiny fraction of their profits. I know it all, Aduneus. ”

Crane sat in a recliner and gushed the inside story of the arena. And Seklas on the side gritted his teeth when he heard it, it turned out that everything they had seen before was fake, this was a performance, all the results had already been booked, and a large part of his deposit, a large part of it, could not be recovered, and it all flowed into the pockets of that group of disgusting aristocratic senators!

"It turns out that there is such an inside story in the arena."

Appis also sighed in surprise. It was the first time that he had been in this ancient Roman world for so long and had heard of such a dirty and hypocritical deal, and if those nobles could do such a thing, what could they not do, Apiston felt sorry for his goodness, and his opponent was perhaps a hundred times crueler than himself.

"Yes, Aduneus, you may not have been a gladiator long enough to touch such an insider. Moreover, you became famous very early and quickly disappeared from the public eye, I thought you were really put to death. ”

Klein said, his eyes once again showing uncontrollable excitement.

"Hehe, what happened later? How did you offend those people? And then you didn't do what they asked? ”

Appis asked with a smile, the outcome of which is almost impossible to guess.

"Yes, you guessed it right. Later, I met a senate nobleman named Karenus, who asked for a long-term cooperation with me. ”

"Wait, what's the name of that senate nobleman?"

Appis and Seklas both noticed the name almost at the same time...... (To be continued.) )