Chapter 207: The Little Fat Man in the Gladiatorial Arena
Ma Tao and their luck are good, they bought the qualification to enter the auction tomorrow night, not counting the radishes, a total of five people, 10G per person entrance fee, when participating in the auction, the radishes can only wait outside with some other guides and inferior servants, because they are not qualified to enter this kind of place, and this is also the rule.
Looking at the five-piece wooden sign engraved with an Asura demon in his hand, Ma Tao shook his head and sighed.
This thing is too simple, the workmanship is just like a joke, as long as there is wood, you can make one with a little effort, but the people who can come here are afraid that they don't bother to get these things, no one is bad for the 10 G small money, and there is no money to compete for the things at the auction if you can't get in, and it makes no sense to enter or not.
On the other side of the auction room, there were several rather large doorways, and the people who came in and out were almost a sea away, and even if they were some distance from the auction house, they could still hear the sound of people coming from there.
"Radish, what's the place over there, so lively, is it a bar?"
Xiao Jinzi pointed to the doorway where people came and went, and asked curiously.
Gao Han subconsciously licked his lips when he heard the word bar, with an indescribable bewitching smell, if anyone saw it, they would definitely be fascinated.
"There's a casino over there"
Radish then glanced in that direction at one of them, as if thinking of the reason for her uncle's injury, Radish looked at Ma Tao nervously and replied.
"Casinos? It's so hot......"
Xiao Jinzi shook his head and said with emotion.
There are very few ways for people in this world to entertain themselves, except for drinking, women are gambling, in the last days, gambling and gambling are no longer strange, gambling is addictive, once it is contaminated, it takes a lot of willpower to overcome, and it may not be successful.
"It's just a bunch of bad gamblers"
Ma Tao doesn't like gambling, so he looks down on those gamblers.
"Where's the one over there?"
Little Gold turned her gaze back to the other large doorways that were also overcrowded.
"I don't know there, my uncle told me what kind of man's paradise it is, and children are not allowed to enter"
Radish was asked and scratched the back of her neck.
"A man's paradise?"
Xiao Jinzi pondered for a moment, opened his mouth and repeated.
"It's just the red light district, the land of rouge"
Ma Tao was a man in two lives, and he immediately understood the meaning of Radishes' words, and it was obvious that Radishes' uncle was not willing to tell the young Radish what dirty business he was doing, but just said a general meaning.
As soon as she heard Ma Tao's explanation, An Ruo's pretty face suddenly turned half the sky, and before Xiao Jinzi could react, the girl reacted first, reached out and pinched his waist fiercely.
"Oh, what are you doing?"
The sudden pain made Xiao Jinzi subconsciously hide to the side, very surprised, and didn't understand what An Ruo was doing by himself.
"You are not allowed to go to that kind of place in the future"
An Ruo pouted and looked at Xiao Jinzi, pretending to be angry.
"Where are you going?"
Little Gold listened even more.
Ma Tao didn't bother to explain to this pure rich second generation what is called the land of rouge and the red light district, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, "No matter where you go, you can't go if you don't let you go, you know no."
Xiao Jinzi looked confused, and nodded subconsciously without knowing why.
"I suggest, let's go to the bar for a couple of drinks, shall we?"
From the moment Gao Han heard the word bar, this woman felt that her throat was already unbearable, and her desire for alcohol was far more than anything else.
"Bar ......"
Ma Tao fell silent for a moment, the scene of the last drinking flashed in front of his eyes like a movie, an inexplicable pain in his chest, and in his mind, the familiar and somewhat unfamiliar Qiaoli figure flashed in front of him, the empathetic gentleness.
Lan Xi ......
Every time he recalls this name, Ma Tao feels sad and guilty.
Suddenly, he noticed that someone had touched him, it was his sister, Ma Tao blinked, and then realized that the corners of his eyes were already moist.
"Remembering her again?"
My sister stretched out her hand to help him wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, Ma Tao turned his head to dodge the past, and quickly wiped it by himself and did not reply.
"Actually, you should learn to face it head-on or let go, instead of running away,"
Gao Han looked sideways at Ma Taodao.
"I've been able to face it head-on"
Ma Tao replied after wiping away the tears from the corners of his eyes.
"Then come with us to the bar and sit."
Gao Han looked into his eyes and said.
Ma Tao didn't dare to meet her gaze, because he really couldn't let go of remorse and self-blame, hesitated for a moment, reluctantly nodded and said to the dazed little radish beside him, "Take us to the bar, and eat something by the way."
Bars anywhere are a gathering place for information resources, and bars on the black market have another function, which is to announce black bounties and publish black tasks, so it is not surprising that anyone can meet here.
At the door of the bar, Ma Tao finally regressed and did not enter with everyone, although he also knew that a place like a bar was the best place to inquire about some gossip, and people who drank too much had it every day, and most of what people who drank was the truth, but Ma Tao never stepped out of the hurdle in his heart and stopped in front of the bar.
"Why don't I take you somewhere else? There are still a lot of interesting places in the Shura Temple."
Squatting outside the bar door, Little Radish looked at him with a dull look and said.
"Where are you going?"
Ma Tao took a deep breath and made his voice sound as good as possible.
"The Colosseum"
Radish then looked excited, and continued, "Guaranteed to make you forget everything."
The gladiatorial arena is also located in the entertainment area, and it is also a kind of gambling, and it is also the largest entertainment venue, the oval venue is full of irritable shouts all the time, the gladiatorial arena is full of flesh and blood of two or several people fighting with cold weapons, it looks full of blood and violence, and the audience outside the circle is roaring hoarsely, the duel between blood and life and death stimulates everyone's spirits, regardless of men and women, almost all of them are crazy about it.
Xiao Radish told Ma Tao that almost all the people who came here to watch the duel of life and death bought one of the sides to win, and every time it came down, there were losers who sighed and sighed, and there were winners who roared excitedly, but the biggest winner here was always the black market.
On average, there will be a duel every two hours in the entire gladiatorial arena, and the fast start of a duel is only a few minutes, and the slow one takes several hours, and the longest record is that a duel lasts more than eight hours, until one of the parties makes a mistake and is beheaded by the opponent.
Ma Tao glanced at the gladiatorial arena, the vertical height of the wall is nearly ten meters, there are no tools, no one can climb up at all, the ground is paved with a layer of yellow fine sand, the oval gladiatorial arena has a sculpture of Shura evil ghosts in all four directions, the fierce and vicious appearance is extremely terrifying, the four sculptures are dark red, the color is like being dyed red by blood all year round.
At this time, the gladiatorial arena shouted and killed the sky, and a duel was going on, and all the audience were red-eyed and shouting wildly, the reason for this was because of the two bloody gladiators in the center of the gladiatorial arena, and these were still two women, two women who were tied to their waists, Ma Tao was a little far away from the two women who were dueling, and one was that these two women were now covered with blood and mud, and they couldn't see what they looked like!
The rule of the gladiatorial arena is to kill the other party to achieve victory, and the result of victory is just a full meal, and a life must be sacrificed for just one meal, which is cruel and realistic.
At this time, these two female gladiators are exactly like this, in order to destroy each other and get this ridiculous-sounding reward, they have reached the edge of life and death, the leather armor of both sides has been scratched all over the place, and one of the women's arms is bent at a strange angle, hanging weakly, it seems to be broken, but she still gritted her teeth and held the dagger in her hand and looked at the woman opposite her who was also holding a dagger, both of them were covered in bruises, like bloody people, and the audience close to them were almost crazy cheers, I don't know which one I'm cheering for.
"How can there be a woman?"
Ma Tao frowned, he was very disgusted with this kind of duel, there was no humanity at all.
He is not optimistic about the woman who has lost an arm, even if she is lucky to win this time, she will definitely die in the next game, although he knows that she will die, but this is not Ma Tao's concern, it is not that he is insensitive, but Ma Tao knows that he can't change this situation.
"Hey...... Not only women, but also children and the elderly."
Unexpectedly, another voice answered him, but Ma Tao didn't notice it, and was still observing the gladiatorial fight.
"And the children and the elderly! This ......"
Ma Tao didn't expect that the gladiatorial arena made by the Shura Hall was simply inhumane, and he could think of such a unconscionable play, just wanted to speak and suddenly realized that the voice was wrong, this is not the voice of the little radish, turned his head and looked, the person who was talking to him was actually a little fat man, He was standing next to him, and the most conspicuous thing was the logo embroidery of the Asura head on his clothes, but these days, fat people are rare.
"How? Do you want to bet on the next gladiatorial fight? Win triple and give it a try? ”
The little fat man's eyes narrowed when he laughed, almost into a slit, and his tone of voice was full of a tempting urge to give it a try.
"Who are you?"
Ma Tao looked at the boy Xiao Radish standing behind him, and found that Xiao Radish was standing at a distance of one zhang from him with his head down, and beside him, there were many people standing side by side who also lowered their heads, and that position was the distance between the servant and the master to keep.
"Little brother, he is the guide you hired, you don't have to look at him, just an inferior person, as long as I don't lie to you, an inferior person can't participate in the conversation between us. Otherwise, it's a corruption of the rules."
The little fat man smiled again and answered instead of the radish.
"Really? I didn't know there was such a rule? ”
Ma Tao was slightly stunned, and when he looked at the little radish who was honestly standing with other inferior people, he understood that what this little fat man said should be true.
"You haven't answered me yet, who are you?"
Ma Tao looked at the little fat man suspiciously after being surprised.
"Selling betting tickets, you can call me Ermingzi, I just came to the Shura Hall not long ago, how to play two"
The little fat man seems to like to laugh very much, and the smile on his face has never stopped, and it still is.