Chapter 165: ** Battle - Victory
While the 60,000 spectators were amazed at the fact that a newcomer's opponent was a three-headed wolf, the gambling market had been opened, and the nobles, the wealthy ladies, some officials and guests from afar were vying to buy the side they thought would win.
A quarter of an hour passed, the market was closed and the duel began. The doorway to the exit where the beast was released had been opened, and the three tall and already hungry wolves with green eyes slowly walked out of the exit and came to the performance arena.
The three wild wolves all opened their big mouths, their long scarlet tongues hung down, the clear saliva was constantly dripping down, and their nostrils were wheezing with the breathing of beasts, they looked at Qin Dong, approaching Qin Dong as they went, and when they found Qin Dong holding weapons and shields in their hands, they walked separately, looking for an exit along the stone walls around the performance arena.
"Oh God, why don't these three damned brutes rush up and bite that cowardly Bull to death? Rush up, rush up and bite him to death! A noble man in his thirties with loose hair stood up and shouted.
Someone else shouted, "How so? The three wolves did not attack poor Boer, had they been fed in the morning by the Colosseum? ”
"Impossible, absolutely impossible, those three wolves were afraid of the rookie gladiator Bull, and they didn't dare to fight him, but ran along the fence trying to find an exit and escape, oh God, what kind of bullshit wolf, these three wolves are worse than three wild dogs, damn it, I'm going to lose five gold coins!"
After the audience saw the appearance of the three wild wolves. One by one, they scolded, they all made a heavy bet on the three wild wolves, judging from the current situation. These three wild wolves were obviously a little scared of Qin Dong, otherwise they wouldn't have separated to find an exit.
There are also viewers who scolded: "What the hell? Is the gladiatorial arena a ghost? How can wolves be afraid of people? They should look very hungry, but they don't attack Boer, which is contrary to common sense, they must be troublesome in the gladiatorial arena! ”
"Yes, yes, this must be a trick on the gladiatorial arena, deliberately creating a gimmick of a newcomer fighting three wild wolves to trick us into selling three wild wolves to win. That way they can make a lot of money! ”
"It must be so! Lose money, lose money, lose money! ”
Rumors of fraud in the arena spread throughout the arena in less than two minutes. Almost everyone held up the stakes in their hands and shouted that they wanted the Colosseum to lose money.
In the emperor's stand, Marcian and Empress Pulkaria sat on the left and right sides respectively, today was Qin Dong's first gladiatorial fight, and Qin Dong was their cash cow. Of course, they have to take the time to come over and see how things are going. And the Prime Minister Alpas, the Patriarch of the Diocese of Constantinople, Anatorius, and a number of other ministers sat in the stands behind the emperor and empress.
Empress Pulkaria turned her head to look at Emperor Marcian, leaned over and whispered, "We want to win money, not provoke the anger of the people, right?" If it goes on like this, is it possible that the gladiatorial arena side will not lose money? Dear Majesty, you still want to find a way to calm the situation quickly! ”
Just to watch a duel between gladiators and wild beasts, the emperor, empress, and many ministers did nothing, just to make money for themselves, the emperor and empress even gave up the political rival camp and joined forces to sit in the village to defraud the citizens of their money. If this matter is known to the citizens of Constantinople. I don't know what kind of expression they have on their faces,
Is Marcian short of money? He was short of money. Very short of money, not an ordinary lack of money, three years ago when he was jointly put on the throne of the emperor by Pulkaria and Alpas, the entire empire was impoverished, the Eastern Roman Empire had long been scraped clean by Attila, the annual tribute of 6,000 pounds of gold was like a mountain pressing on Marcian's body, making him uncomfortable day and night, he was angry and ignored the opposition of Pulkaria and Alpas, and under the threat of abdication, he forcibly terminated the tribute of 6,000 pounds of gold to the Hun Empire, in fact, he bet right, Attila also understood that the oil and water of the Eastern Roman Empire had long been drained, so he didn't care about it anymore, and directly began to set his sights on the Western Roman Empire.
In the past few years, the empire's finances have not been financially rich because of the cessation of paying tribute to the Xiongnu Empire, the finances are still very tight, the salaries of officials are expensive, the army needs huge salaries, the Sassanid Dynasty of the Persian Empire in the East is eyeing all day long, and the threat of the Xiongnu Empire in the west has been temporarily lifted, but now the Persian Sassanid Dynasty in the east is making trouble on the border again, and the empire has to send a large number of troops to garrison the eastern border, which makes the military spending soar more than once, so he is very short of money, and he urgently needs a lot of money to relieve the financial pressure, As long as Qin Dong is still in the gladiatorial arena, as long as Qin Dong has no physical problems, Qin Dong will continue to contribute wealth.
Marcian instructed the chamberlain to call the new colosseum officials, and the colosseum officials were also very anxious at this time, and the colossators came over and said that the emperor called him, and he secretly complained, and if this matter was not handled well, he would definitely not be able to wear this official skin, and maybe there was a danger of losing his head, but the emperor called him over, and he couldn't help but go over, so he could only follow the chamberlain.
Marcian looked at the trembling gladiatorial officials who came over and said, "I don't care what method you use, you must let those three wolves attack the gladiator within five minutes, otherwise you will cut off your own head!" ”
The official of the gladiatorial arena was sweating profusely, and hurriedly agreed: "Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor, your humble servant will definitely restore the scene to normal!" ”
After the official left, he immediately began to arrange, if he wanted the wolf to take the initiative to attack Qin Dong, there was only one way, that is, to fill the scene with the smell of blood, the smell of blood could stimulate the wolf's ferocious nature, he immediately called a few of his subordinates and ordered them to prepare some animal blood to splash on Qin Dong's body from a high place.
Qin Dong knew the nature of wolves, ferocious, cunning, united, and hierarchical, even if these three wolves were transported from different places, they must have decided on a leader among themselves. There are upper and lower ranks, and it can be seen from the scars on the three wolves that there was a fierce fight between them.
Qin Dong didn't dare to be careless at all. Wolves are one of nature's top hunters, they not only have the above excellent characteristics, but also their endurance is super strong, in order to capture their prey, they learn to camouflage, learn to camouflage, learn to show weakness. And often for several days and nights without rest, chasing after their prey until they can no longer run, catch up and bite their throats.
Qin Dong held a shield in his left hand. Holding a short sword in his right hand, he walked casually around the field, but in fact he did not let his guard down on any of the wolves, and the three wolves separated. They are on one side. And constantly looking for an exit.
Just when Qin Dong was standing under a stone wall and was just about to turn around, a basin of warm blood suddenly poured from the top of his head, and suddenly the entire performance hall was full of blood.
Just when Qin Dong was drenched, the three wild wolves rushed towards Qin Dong with all their strength at the same time, they were not afraid of Qin Dong, but they were looking for an opportunity, looking for an opportunity to strike a fatal blow, and now the opportunity came. Qin Dong's whole body was drenched, and his attention was completely diverted. They immediately spotted the opportunity and rushed over like lightning.
"I'll rub!" Qin Dong, who was suddenly drenched, scolded, and at this time, a vicious wind suddenly came from the left, Qin Dong even smelled a fishy smell, and he didn't want to raise his shield and throw it over.
His body was full of blood, Qin Dong's eyes couldn't open, he instinctively blocked it with his shield, only to feel a strong force hitting the shield, and then heard the sound of an object falling to the ground, and he immediately raised his leg and kicked it.
The wolf on the left side of "Wangwang" was kicked by Qin Dong and flew out, rolling on the ground a few times in pain, screaming and trying to stand up but failed several times.
Qin Dong took advantage of this rare opportunity to immediately raise his arm holding the sword and quickly wiped his face and eyes, and finally could see, and the two wolves that were originally a little farther away from him had also rushed to the front at this time, he felt in his heart, even if he had huge strength and super combat skills, but still could not be invincible in the world, a basin of blood could make his eyes not open, if he met a powerful opponent, he could use this opportunity to kill him, which also made him realize not to underestimate anyone, Do your best when fighting anyone, or you're likely to fall on someone who is inconspicuous one day.
There was no time to think, the two wolves had already rushed to him, Qin Dong quickly dodged the pounce of the two wolves sideways, and slashed down at the nearest wolf with a sword, this wolf was in the air, and he couldn't dodge it at all, just by Qin Dong's sword, the northern spine was cut off, and he couldn't move on the ground, but he didn't die yet, he just kept whimpering in a low voice.
The remaining wolf pulled its hairy lips, revealing its long sharp teeth, and the saliva at the corners of its mouth kept dripping on the ground, it should be a wolf, and it was obviously extremely hungry, it actually rushed over and bit the throat of the wolf that was cut by Qin Dong just now, and the injured wolf suddenly lost his breath.
After biting the wounded wolf to death, the wolf began to tear open the belly of the dead wolf with its sharp teeth, and was about to start eating the internal organs.
Qin Dong's heart moved, and immediately rushed over, the wolf saw Qin Dong rushing over, and immediately jumped away in fear, Qin Dong knew that if the wolf was allowed to eat, his strength would be more sufficient, and his combat effectiveness would definitely increase, and it would take more effort to start when the time came, wolves were not bulky beasts like bears, they were very flexible, and they could change direction at any time during the attack.
Qin Dong also thought of a possibility, if the wolf dragged away the dead wolf's corpse and ate it, it would no longer attack when it was full, but blindly dodge and escape, he really couldn't do anything about it, and wanted to catch up with the wolf? I am afraid that this can only be achieved in dreams.
After snatching back the corpse of the dead wolf, Qin Dong kept the corpse of the dead wolf and didn't go anywhere, the head wolf was already extremely hungry, and it would only get weaker and weaker if it didn't eat, so it had to attack Qin Dong to kill him, and snatch the food to survive.
The head wolf kept wandering around, Qin Dong kept facing it, not giving it a chance to sneak attack, one man and one beast confronted each other like this, and by now, the audience finally stopped arguing for refunds and refunds of gambling money, and they began to shout loudly for the wolf.
Qin Dong heard neat voices coming from the four directions of the southeast, east and west, all of these voices were telling the wolf to bite him to death, and some shouted more viciously, he knew that most of these audience members bought the wolf to win.
"My dear Uncle Wolf, rush up and bite him to death, cut open his belly and eat his internal organs, tear him to pieces, hahaha!"
Wolves are almost a ferocious animal that combines many advantages, and because of this, they can become one of the top hunters in nature, the speed of wolves is very fast, very fast, when they hurry up, Qin Dong is a little overwhelmed, which is why he dare not be careless, their claws are very long and sharp, if one is accidentally scratched by their claws, there will definitely be a few blood marks on his body, Qin Dong knows that there is no King Kong that is not bad, if he is tickled by the wolf's claws or kissed by the wolf, then the probability of being infected with the virus will be very high, In this day and age, contracting tetanus is simply a terminal illness with no cure.
One man and one beast confronted each other, Qin Dong turned a deaf ear to the commotion in the stands, he only paid attention to the wolf opposite, at this moment, the wolf that had been kicked away by Qin Dong and was lying on the ground and did not move suddenly moved, it pounced on Qin Dong's back at a very fast speed, and some women in the stands immediately exclaimed when they saw this situation.
Qin Dong heard the exclamations of these women, and immediately reacted, it was too late to meet the attack, he could only choose to dodge, and immediately a lazy donkey rolled to the side, in the process of rolling, the short sword in his hand swept diagonally upward, he had already judged that as long as he moved, the head wolf on the opposite side would rush up without hesitation.
As expected, when he rolled to the side, the head wolf rushed over with extremely fast momentum, but was met by Qin Dong, a sword swept over, it couldn't dodge, and a huge opening was swept on its forehead, which made the head wolf immediately go crazy, and after landing on the ground, he pounced on Qin Dong again, and the other wolf dodged and pounced on Qin Dong because of Qin Dong's rolling, and now he also pounced with the wolf.
Qin Dong immediately threw the shield on his left hand at the head wolf, the head wolf was hit by the shield, Qin Dong's strength was too great, its head was hit, it immediately fainted, fell to the ground, the other wolf also pounced, it was impossible to stop, the inertia was too great, and it was not far from Qin Dong.
Qin Dong waited for it to pounce on him, and suddenly stabbed out a sword, and before the wolf could stretch out its claws to attack Qin Dong, he pierced the head with a sword, and his body fell to the ground and died instantly.
Qin Dong walked to the side of the head wolf again, and stepped on the neck of the head wolf in a coma, the battle was over, and the audience who were still frantically shouting for the wolf to bite Qin Dong to death a second ago instantly became silent at this moment. (To be continued......)