Chapter 2: The Princesses of Pontus (Part II)

The royal daughter of Pontus, Adiana!?

It seems that the one under me is not a female ghost, but the daughter of Mithridates and Manimei, and the wall of the mosaic has a mechanism, a mezzanine wall that can hide people, and the eyes of Mithridates in the portrait are hollowed out, and the one who was watching the hall just now is hiding behind the wall, this Adiana makes Li Bida think that the eyes of the portrait are moving.

Seeing that her mother's body was defiled by rape, Adiana couldn't bear it anymore and rushed out of the mezzanine wall.

At this time, Li Bida gradually had heating under his body, and after Adiana spit out those blue-black liquids, her face and skin gradually turned white and red, and her body slowly softened.

The reason for this is probably that Adiana had also taken poison and was going to follow her mother, who thought that before the poison was completely attacked, Highbrida and they rushed in, and in a panic they could only hide in the wall, and then because the action of slashing and killing Batitas and Li Bida was too violent, she vomited all the poison in her body, and the toxin "ebbed".

But then, the bronze door on the other side of the hall opened, and it was Hebrida, Arminius, Safano and the "Cissy", who heard the noise and rushed back!

"Damn it, damn it!" Hebrida howled when she saw the mess, and then a red shadow swam swiftly towards the men—Arminius was a veteran, quick with his eyes, and with a sword he nailed the red shadow to the ground, and it turned out to be a small red snake, shaking its head and tail under the tip of the sword, and died.

It turned out that the venomous little snake had been hiding under the leaves of the fig, and after being alarmed, it attacked and took Fantu's life.

As for who put the little snake in the basket, for what purpose, was it a tool for Ballow to take the lives of the princesses? Was it a murder at the palace that was aborted by the Romans? Or is it a preemptive retaliation taken by the princesses for fear of the defilement? I'm afraid I'll never know.

There was a muffled sound of "bang", and Li Bida hugged Adina's head and hit the floor, causing the girl to faint directly.

"Who is this damn whore?" Highbrida asked.

Li Bida quickly stood up, and then, at an angle that Hebrida couldn't see, he gently swept the small axe into a potted plant crack with a flick of his leg, and then returned: "Honorable official, probably a slave girl hiding behind the wall, was surrendered by me. - "I'm so witty! ”

Highbrida looked at Li Bida, and then glanced at Batitas who had fallen on Manimei's corpse, "What's the matter with Batitas, you'd better give me a decent explanation." ”

"He raped the corpse of this dead princess, perhaps, perhaps, he received the curse of the goddess of virtue......" Hearing the words "adulterous corpse", everyone present showed an expression of disbelief, but what they saw in front of them had to believe that - Battitas had a deep furrow cut in the back of his head, but fortunately the "Gaul-style" helmet on his head was protected by the elongated back brim (in the eyes of Lipida, the helmet of the soldiers of the Roman Republic was similar to the helmet of firefighters today), He was able to gasp for a long time, lying on Manimei's corpse and moaning and twitching.

Just when Highburida was noncommittal, a trumpet sounded outside, and everyone's faces immediately became nervous, because it was the trumpet of the legion!

When Li Bida and the "sissy" used a simple stretcher made of the trunk of the palace to carry the fainted "slave girl" Adiana out of the gap in the broken wall, the dawn sun had already shone on the plains and valleys in front of the palace of Pontus.

At this time, Li Bida saw that the ruins of the palace with smoke and fire were surrounded by square tents of the Roman legions, like rows of white chess pieces, and were also equipped with trenches and wooden fences used to isolate the siege.

At this moment, Li Bida had already taken off the body of the slain Pontus slave and gathered a set of clothes, of course, the precious silk clothes for the corpse of the high-ranking slave were already stripped by the soldiers, Li Bida only found a stable slave Shuli's burlap shirt, no sleeves, a hole in the top, a set of head, the lower trouser belt was tied, and the Greek words "I am a slave, don't talk to me" were painted with charcoal.

Therefore, the big eyes of the "sissy" stared at Li Bida all the way, and he didn't talk to anything.

As soon as the two put Adiana down, there was a sound of horses' hooves, and the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Brigade who had participated in last night's night battle hurriedly took their weapons and shields and lined up in front of the broken wall.

Hybrida hastily straightened up and saluted, "Hi, my esteemed senior centurion of the 3rd Wing of the 6th Brigade, the military tribunon empowered by the Roman citizens, Utarius. Argomez. Good morning Maurice! ”

"Junior Centurion Hybrida, I would most like to hear that you have captured or killed Mithridates, because this will offset your guilt of sending troops out to fight last night while I was not in the camp." Uterius asked loudly.

"Sir, Mithridates has already fled long ago because of the indecision of our army, and only a few of his wives and concubines in the palace of Calabi have committed suicide."

"Repeat, low-rank centurion!"

"Yes, sir. They have all committed suicide, sir! ”

Utyrus bent down in the saddle, pointed his hand very impolitely at Hybrid, and said in a low voice: "Listen, you will be the sinner of the Sixth Brigade, Hybrida, you veteran of Febria, the commander will hear of your crimes and dangers, and our Roman army would rather have a timid soldier than a brave robber—and I will soon write to the governor of the province of Asia who will reckon with the plunder, and he will make a reckoning with you ruffians for the plundering of your ruffians, Zuihou makes you half a drachma can't get it! ”

With these words, Utterus pulled his horse and "stomped" away.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem", on the stretcher, Adiana woke up in a burst of pain.

Li Bida looked up at the relief of Mithridates VI on the cliff, the sunlight was still refracted by the relief scepter, he rubbed into the halo, but the expected result of crossing back did not appear, and the fact that he came back to his senses and became a slave of the Roman army was not a nightmare to wake up.

On October 18, 678, 678 year after the founding of Rome, or in the late autumn of 66 B.C., according to the chronology of the birth of Jesus, which was more familiar to Lipida, they captured the city of Calabi, the palace of the king of Pontus, and plundered it, and the enemy Mithridates VI escaped and took refuge in the Armenian state of his son-in-law Tegrenys.

The war, the "Mithridates War" of the Roman Republic against the Kingdom of Pontus, was still not over.

However, history, because of the mixing of an unknown small factor, has quietly deviated from the trend.