Chapter 80: The Colosseum
"It's all live on TV?" Ah Fu pointed to the TV screen and was dumbfounded.
When he was in the Wasteland Gang, he also knew about beastfighting.
It is often heard from the mouths of the mercenaries of the Wasteland Gang that they are discussing what beasts are powerful and which beasts are the fastest.
From the mercenaries' words, Ah Fu learned that in the territory ruled by each warlord of the Wasteland Gang, there are places like the Colosseum and the fighting arena. Every time a mercenary returns to the territory after a shift change, he has to go there and take a gamble.
It's just that I didn't expect that Shadu was actually more trendy, and directly engaged in a live show.
"It's not just live streaming, it's gambling."
The third child handed the blue ticket in his hand to Ah Fu and said: "Look, this is the list I bet on, as long as I guess correctly, I can get a bonus according to the odds." ”
"The Colosseum in Shadu is integrated with the fighting arena and the casino. There are so many items in it! ”
"My order is about speed competition, and after the nonsense of the host on TV, the speed event will be broadcast as soon as possible. Look at the black snake on the ticket, it is the beast I bet on, the lightning snake! He has won two speed championships in a row. ”
In addition to this, Ah Fu also saw the betting time, the live draw time, and the amount of 2000 wasteland coins.
Link heard a series of shouts from the lounge area and walked out of the office.
"Boss, we're watching the live broadcast of the beast, you can come too!" Ah Fu greeted Link excitedly.
Beast Fighting Live?
Link saw the blue tickets in the hands of the thugs, and old memories welled up in Link's mind.
The Colosseum.
The largest gambling venue in the Free Federation.
It is a multi-functional entertainment industry integrating the Colosseum, the fighting arena and the casino.
Only you can't think of it here, and you can't see it without you.
Horse racing, hand-to-hand fighting with beasts, these are the most basic sports.
The derivative competitions about the speed, strength, intelligence, flight, and diving of beasts are all gambling items.
The Colosseum is located in the northwest of Shadu, where the river that enters the city is covered with sediment, forming a delta.
Later, Moros, the economic lord of Shadu, took a fancy to the proximity to the slums and the upper city, and simply spent a lot of money to transform the place into the Colosseum, and at the same time spent a huge amount of money to build a bridge directly to the Colosseum on both sides of the strait.
The Colosseum is larger than the underground black market, and tens of thousands of players come here every day to try their luck after the game officially opens.
Link has also been to the Colosseum, but his luck has always been bad.
It is often in high spirits and out in despair.
"Okay, then I'll take a look."
Link found a place to sit down, and Ah Fu quickly brought Link snacks and herbal tea.
Before Link could make a move, the treasure hunt rat smelled something delicious, and a cigarette came out of his pocket, lying directly on the snack plate, and peeling off the melon seeds in his mouth to eat.
The sand sculpture in the waste paper bird's nest outside the house felt the breath of the boss, and an indelible light erupted in front of him, and he immediately stretched out his trembling wings, turned out of the bird's nest with difficulty, and fell to the ground with a chirp.
The white-knife sea eagle in the bird's nest quacked twice, and the sand sculpture trembled with feathers all over its body.
The sand sculpture gritted its teeth and crawled into the room, immediately relieved.
Phew, finally get rid of this mother-in-law!
If it weren't for his cleverness and finding an excuse to watch TV with his master, I'm afraid that if the moon is dark and the wind is high at this time, I will have to pay public food.
Link glanced at the sand sculpture lying in the doorway, squirming on its neck and body, where was the sharp eyes and lofty posture of the upper-class eagle a few days ago.
Now his eyelids are drooping, and he looks weak, obviously overindulged.
Link is thinking, is it better to improve the food for the sand sculpture tomorrow?
Even the Cerberus outside was not willing to be lonely, probing at the door, looking at it with a pair of innocent big eyes.
"Alright, you can come in too!"
Link beckoned, and Cerberus grinned and stuck out his tongue, happily running to Link's side, sitting on the sidelines and watching TV obediently.
After a day of getting along, the thugs gradually accepted this setting.
Boss Link is an extremely powerful animal trainer, and all beasts will become exceptionally well-behaved and humane as long as they are domesticated by him.
At this time, the picture on the TV suddenly moved away from the male host and became a live picture.
The name of the first event appeared on TV - the land speed competition.
Immediately after that, the names of the participating animals and previous awards appeared.
At this time, the scene also sounded with a high-spirited commentary.
"This is the Colosseum Channel, this is the Colosseum Channel. What you're looking at is the first event of the night, the Land Speed Competition. Next, we have the first contestant of this competition, the silverback monkey, to play! ”
Soon, a monkey with silver fur appeared on the first runway in the picture, led by a special animal trainer behind him, with a leather rope tied around his neck.
"The second contestant, the Golden Leopard!"
Roar!
With a low roar, a hideous-looking leopard appeared in the picture, Link could feel the wild aura of the leopard through the TV, obviously this was a beast that had not yet been completely domesticated.
The animal trainer behind him threw a piece of fresh meat, and the leopard pounced directly on it and began to bite.
Jack's gang of thugs who often deal with wild beasts couldn't help but grin when they saw this scene, as if they were the fresh meat in the mouth of the leopard.
Cerberus glanced at the leopard on TV, his eyes full of disdain, and his mouth popped twice.
Link smiled and stroked the head of the Cerberus dog, reassuring him slightly.
He understood, Cerberus was scolding the money leopard for pretending.
"The third contestant, Lightning Snake!"
As soon as the lightning snake appeared, everyone in the Jack Gang's rest area was boiling.
Waving the blue ticket printed with the little black snake in his hand, he loudly supported: "The lightning snake will win!" ”
At the same time, the audience in the arena on the TV screen also let out a mountain of shouts, and the scattered cries gradually converged into three words: "Lightning, electricity, snake!" ”
In the picture, a black-scaled snake twists its waist to the track where it belongs, and keeps spitting out letters from its mouth.
There was no tamer behind the Lightning Serpent, and it entered the arena through the passage on its own.
"It seems that our lightning snake is still very good-looking, I don't know if it can successfully defend it today, let's wait and see!"
"Next up is the fourth contestant, the light of holiness shining on the earth, please - unicorn!"
With a neighing sound similar to that of a horse, an adult unicorn with a soft light enters the track from inside the tunnel.
The huge and clear eyes are like a mirror, which makes people's spirits and emotions peaceful.
"Let's have the last runner in the land speed competition, the gazelle of the fifth track!"
The gazelle jumped into the track, and all five runners were in place.
The speed competition is a 2-kilometre course that starts with a 500-metre endurance climb, followed by 500 metres of cornering, 500 metres of obstacle course, and the last 500 metres of straight sprint.
And each track is independent of each other, so there is no interference between animals.
In just one project, a complex two-kilometer track was created.
There are more than a dozen similar sports in the entire Colosseum, and the scale of the venue can be imagined.
"Teacher Han, now that all the contestants are in place, who do you think will win this time?"
"Director Zhang, you're embarrassing me. This time, the five players have all won the weekly championship, of which the lightning snake has three championships, and the least silverback monkey also has a weekly championship. They've never competed against each other before, and you're embarrassed to ask me. However, the market has been closed just now, we can take a look at the odds, who everyone is more supporting......"
P.S: It's on the shelves this Friday at 12 noon, and I ask for recommendation tickets!