After understanding the situation in the gladiatorial arena, Qin Dong was thinking about how to escape, when he came in just now, he found that this underground prison is made of stones, and even the ground is covered with thick stone slabs, and there are some difficulties in digging tunnels, and the aqueducts and pipes are too narrow, not to mention an adult, even a child can't escape from the aqueducts and pipes, and the iron door of the underground prison is locked from the outside, and it is estimated that it is difficult to open it from the inside, and I don't know how many soldiers guard outside.

While the other prisoners were returning to bed to sleep, Qin Dong grabbed the iron rod on the iron cell door with both hands and pulled it hard, and the iron rod was easily pulled away by him, for the other prisoners, this iron prison door had already made them have to stay here for the rest of their lives, and it was basically rare for them to come back when they went out to participate in the duel, and for Qin Dong, this iron door was like nothing, he could easily pull away the two iron rods, and the whole person could pass through the middle, but Qin Dong broke them back to the original state.

The guards and defenses above are not very clear, Qin Dong doesn't dare to act rashly, he has to figure out the guards and defenses above, this arena looks like a racetrack, but in fact it is also a huge cage, and it is very difficult to get out if you are trapped here. However, as long as you escape from the arena and enter the racecourse, you can easily escape, because there are many exits from the surrounding stands, which can evacuate 100,000 spectators in less than 10 minutes.

If there are not many guards above, and the defenses are not very strict, how can you go up? There is a height difference of about 10 meters between the dungeon and the performance arena above, and there is also a height difference of 6 meters from the performance arena to the racecourse. At such a high height, how can you go up without tools? It's a question that can't be solved.

In the second half of the night, Qin Dong fell asleep thinking about this question. At dawn, he was awakened by a loud roar, it turned out that it was the slaves of the operating machinery of the angle field who were closing the performance hall, and as the two huge half-moon-shaped stone slabs gradually closed, the underground prison gradually became dark, and as the two huge half-moon-shaped stone slabs of the entire performance field were completely closed, the entire underground prison had no light, and it was pitch black.

Perhaps most of the other prisoners enjoyed the noise. They were still asleep, and only a few people were woken up by this roar, and Qin Dong was one of them.

The awakened prisoners began to make noise. They talked and talked a lot, and soon someone said, "Sleep more, for when the horse race is over, it will be the gladiator and the beast." I don't know which of us will be drawn this time! ”

Two of the thirty-six prisoners here are drawn to duel each day. One of them is to fight with the beast, what kind of beast and the number of beasts it is, it all depends on how the gladiatorial arena is arranged, and the other is to have a duel with the champion of the gladiator school in the afternoon, no one knows if the two people who were drawn can come back, according to the previous ratio, the proportion of casualties between the gladiator champion who came out of the school and the prisoners here is not much different.

Here there is a question as to why there were no deaths in duels between school gladiators. And the final champion will have to fight a life-and-death duel with the prisoners here? In this way, wouldn't those school gladiators deliberately lose the game? To save your life? At least you don't have to fight the prisoners of the dungeon to the death!

There is a reason for this, because the gladiators of those gladiator schools are also slaves and prisoners, as well as captives, in order to motivate them to do their best to win, the gladiatorial arena has long been a rule, as long as you can win the championship once a day, and successfully defeat a death row prisoner in the dungeon, the gladiatorial arena will buy the gladiator's deed of sale from the slave owner, and return the deed of sale to the gladiator, and give them a large bonus, so that he can regain his freedom, become a free citizen, and even become a citizen. It is also possible that these victorious gladiators were favored by some aristocratic women as male favorites, providing them with food, clothing, shelter, and shelter.

This is full of great temptations. The rich reward of confusion is an irresistible temptation for every slave, prisoner, and captive who enters the gladiator school. Therefore, everyone has to do everything in their power to win the championship and kill the death row inmates in the underground prison against him in order to achieve their hope of regaining their lives.

It didn't take long for the door of the dungeon to be opened, and in was the gladiatorial guards in charge of the food and hygiene of the death row inmates, all of whom were wearing armor and daggers at their waists, and they carried boxes full of food to distribute food to the death row inmates in each cell.

Perhaps because of special care, Qin Dong divided two dough cakes and a large piece of roast mutton, and Qin Dong quickly killed the food, drank enough water, and fell asleep on the bed.

I don't know when, Qin Dong was awakened by the sound of the door opening, and when he got up to look, he saw several armor soldiers standing outside the old door, among which there was a big man in black armor, the big man held the hilt of his sword and shouted: "Thirty-seventh, today is your first gladiatorial fight, hurry up!" ”

Qin Dong estimated that it should be more than nine o'clock in the morning, and it was impossible for him to sleep until the afternoon, when the horse racing competition should be over, and it was time for a duel between the gladiator and the beast.

Qin Dong stood up and walked out of the prison door, he didn't bother with these armor soldiers, these people are just little minions, they can't help themselves, besides, these people can't help themselves even if they are kind in their hearts, but it's not good to offend them, if anyone has a grudge against him, it will be troublesome to secretly poison the food, but they are the most prone to bad things.

As Qin Dong walked, the death row inmates on both sides of the tunnel looked at him one by one, and the death row prisoner Vandal Man Wei said as he passed by: "Bull, I didn't expect your luck to be so bad, you have to duel on the first day, but it's still good to duel with beasts, if it's not too fierce animals, you can train your combat skills, and by the way, experience the cruel atmosphere of the dueling arena, which is good for you."

Qin Dong turned his head to look at Weir, nodded and said, "Thank you, man, I'll be careful!" ”

Someone else shouted at him, "Hey, man, good luck!" ”

The short-haired goth Bart cried, "Dear Bull, I hope you better not die until you touch me." If you die, I'll regret that I can't tear you to shreds with my own hands! ”

Here the gladiators were not without the opportunity to meet every month. The Colosseum will randomly select two of the thirty-six death row inmates in this dungeon to engage in the most brutal, ruleless death duel, which is why Bart would say such things.

Led by the big man in armor, Qin Dong walked to a corner, where there was a lifting platform, the four corners of the lifting platform were tied with ropes, and the place where the lifting was controlled was outside the prison. Operated by several big men, when Qin Dong stood on the lifting platform, the leading big man threw a short sword and a shield on the lifting platform at Qin Dong's feet. Several big men outside the prison exerted force at the same time, turning the winch to pull the lifting platform up until it was level with the performance arena.

When wearing a mask, barebody. Showing a strong muscle. When Qin Dong, who was only wearing a pair of shorts, appeared on the performance arena with a shield in his left hand and a short sword in his right hand, there was a huge commotion in the huge arena.

Qin Dong's previous appearance was too cruel, so the new person in charge of the gladiatorial arena had to order not to remove the chains on his wrists and ankles when he was dueling, because it was easy to take them off, and it would not be easy to cuff the chains again, and if he was not prepared to lose some lives, it was unlikely that he would be able to shackle the chains to Qin Dong's hands. Fortunately, these two chains are long enough, and they are only a little cumbersome to wear on the hands and feet. The impact on the operation was not very large.

The chains on Qin Dong's body were quickly discovered by the audience, and the audience on the third and fourth floors were some civilians and women. They were extremely dissatisfied with Qin Dong's participation in the duel despite having iron chains on his body, and had to make "boo" noises from time to time to protest the unfairness of the gladiatorial arena, but the gladiatorial arena completely ignored it.

Because Qin Dong was wearing a mask, and the shape of this mask was very special, even people who knew him were basically unlikely to recognize him. The audience here today doesn't know who this newcomer is.

But it doesn't matter, there is a special host on the scene to introduce the audience of about 60,000 people, this is a middle-aged man in a sleeveless robe, he is sitting in the middle of the west stand on the second floor, only to hear him hold a big horn made of unknown materials to his lips and say: "Ladies and gentlemen, first of all, let us warmly welcome the Supreme Emperor Xià to take time out of his busy schedule to accompany us to watch this upcoming duel!" ”

"Boom, la......" The entire arena resounded with loud applause and jubilation, and everyone stood up and bowed in the direction of the emperor's stand in the east.

This lasted for about three minutes before the host continued: "Alright, ladies and gentlemen, citizens, guests, now allow me to introduce you to this Mr. Gladiator, his name is Bull, he is a rookie gladiator, and he is a death row prisoner, and today is his maiden fight!" ”

There was a lot of noise in the entire arena, in addition to hard work, there were people from all walks of life in Constantinople, there were emperors, ministers, priests, knights, merchants, slave owners, and commoner freemen, and people from each class had different reactions when they saw Qin Dong.

These nobles and other people of all walks of life are more curious about the new gladiators, wanting to see their panicked expressions in the gladiatorial arena, and they like to see the rookie gladiators being chased and killed by wild beasts to flee everywhere, so as to satisfy their perverted desires. Hope.

In fact, rookie death row gladiators generally duel with beasts first, and only after three fights will they duel with other gladiators under the arrangement of the gladiatorial arena, of course, it is not that the level of duels between gladiators and beasts is relatively low, but because beasts are beasts after all, they have no intelligence, and if they are not particularly powerful and huge beasts, they are just some small beasts, in the case of a small number, gladiators can practice with them, Of course, the gladiatorial arena sometimes arranges for experienced gladiators to duel with particularly powerful and huge beasts, such as jackals, wolves, leopards, tigers, lions, bears and other large and fierce beasts.

After the host introduced Qin Dong, Qin Dong walked around the first layer of stands with a short sword and shield, if it weren't for the fact that he was in this arena that has a history of more than a hundred years, he even doubted that he had returned to the stadium of the twenty-first century, how could the host's introduction be so modern? Are there "ladies and gentlemen" now? Qin Dong didn't know, and he didn't care about this.

He kept tapping his shield with his short sword while walking, and at the same time observed the distance from the performance arena to the ground, which was about six meters high, this distance was too high for him, he couldn't go to the ground without tools, and he couldn't escape if he couldn't go up to the ground, what should he do? Qin Dong couldn't think of a way, it was estimated that all the methods he could think of had already been thought of by the gladiators, someone must have used it, and the gladiatorial arena must be experienced in how to prevent the gladiators on death row from escaping.

While thinking about it, the host shouted again: "Okay, now the dueling objects with the newcomer Bull, the death row prisoner, have been shaken out, they are three adult wolves!" Spectators, citizens, you have a quarter of an hour to decide who buys to win, the rookie gladiator Bull pays 1.5 to 1, and the three-headed wolf pays 1 to 1, now you can place your bets, and in a quarter of an hour the duel officially begins. ”

After the host's words fell, from the various openings in the stands came out of the gladiatorial arena bettors, who were in charge of placing bets on the spectators, and they recorded the names of the spectators and what bets were placed by the spectators as they collected the money.

"Huh? It turned out to be a wolf, and it was three-headed? Hahaha, this newcomer Bull will definitely be bitten to pieces by three wild wolves and then eaten down to a few bones" shouted a fat nobleman in the second floor audience.

Many people in the audience on the third floor gasped, the wolf is a ferocious beast is very ferocious, and the general rookie death row gladiators will only be arranged to duel with small animals such as wild dogs or small wild boars, the purpose is to cultivate their adaptability to killing, so that they can grow up gradually, but this time they arranged three wild wolves for the first time, wolves are very terrifying creatures, one wolf is already terrible, three wolves can already form a group.

Since except for a limited number of people who knew Qin Dong's identity, all the other audiences didn't know that the person wearing the mask on the performance stage was Qin Dong who killed 800 soldiers more than half a month ago, so they just regarded Qin Dong with the mask as an ordinary rookie death row gladiator, and could an ordinary rookie gladiator survive under the mouth of three extremely tall and hungry wolves?

Obviously, almost no one believed that Qin Dong as a newcomer could kill the three wild wolves and win, they naturally bet on buying three wild wolves to win, only a very few people bought Qin Dong to win, and the number of bets was not large. (To be continued......)