Chapter 33: Greed
The Corta camp, a camp on the outskirts of Athens, was a place where slaves toiled in the fields that had been carved out, and a few soldiers who acted as overseers walked back and forth with pride, each carrying a stick in his hand, and would mercilessly beat anyone if they saw someone lazy.
Squadron Leader Alix, with a gold coin in his hand, this is a Dalik gold coin, on which is a man with a curly beard: Darius.
Since the defeat of powerful Persia, the gold and silver coins of Daric and Sigros minted by this country have occasionally been seen in the trade of the major Greek city-states, and this one in the hands of Aricos was offered by a Persian merchant.
Unfortunately, this is only a temporary place to monitor slaves, and it is not really a checkpoint to collect taxes from those merchants.
Alix couldn't help but miss the days when he was in his 20s, when he was a mercenary, fighting on the island of Cyprus, with refreshing cider, whole wheat bread, brown dates, and wonderful women, robbing and killing as he pleased.
In his 40s, he is too old to be a fighter.
"Captain Alix!"
A short-haired little man with a bayonet in his hand came running, this was the soldier who acted as a sentry in the Corta camp.
"Little Davers, why are you so flustered?"
"Someone, someone's coming!"
Little Davers, who still had a little childishness on his face, said in a panic: "I saw that three people were coming to the camp, and those three people were very strange!" โ
"Strange?"
"Yes, yes!" Knowing the brutality of Captain Alix's character, the boy, who was not yet 16 years old, was in awe, and he stammered, "Of the three, there is a fat man, almost as fat as the fattest Persian merchant I have ever seen!" The physiognomy is definitely not Persian, nor is it like the Byzantines, Thracians, Asiatic Minor...... Any place I know. โ
"Moreover, they are dressed in a very ...... way Very ......"
Little Davers rolled his eyes, trying to find the words in his head, but he found that he couldn't really tell what the other man was wearing.
"Captain, you'd better go and see for yourself."
Alix thought for a moment and put on a set of leather armor embellished with iron plates, which he had once captured from the Macedonians. He was equipped with a handguard to protect his arm, a shin armor to protect his calf, and a Greek blade to tie around his waist.
This is actually an iron sword, similar to a curved sword, about 65 centimeters in length, with a slight arc.
"Okoro, Axistes, Gadeus, follow me!"
The squadron leader shouted the most elite soldiers under his command, who had been baptized by war, and each of them had some scars on their bodies, but the three were not officers, they were not equipped with iron swords, and each of them carried a bayonet gun and a round shield.
Leaving the camp and standing at the gate of this town, Alix realized what little Davers meant by "strange".
This kind of appearance has never been seen even when he was a mercenary when he was young and has been to many city-states, but this squadron leader's eyes are more focused on the clothes of the three people.
Yanluo is a simple black jeans and a black and white striped shirt.
Wang Dongwei is wearing blue trousers and a brown-red leather jacket with a striped metal plate on it as a decoration.
Zhu Xiaoyong is the standard dress of the fat house: yellow.
This is completely beyond Alix's imagination! The most common type of clothing in Greece is Cretan: men wear a pleated short coat on the top, shirtless, and a wrap-around pleated skirt on the bottom, with a belt wrapped around the middle, called kitong; One is the Athenian style, where a single rectangular piece of cloth is folded in half, enclosing the body, and fastened with pins and belts, called the Himashen.
The clothes of the three men were completely different from those he had ever seen, and the material was by no means linen or wool.
"What kind of leather armor is that?"
The modern cheap leather jacket gave these four Greek soldiers a very strong shock.
After the Greco-Persian Wars, Greece reached the height of prosperity after defeating the mighty Persian Empire, especially the city-state of Athens, which was the most democratic and powerful city in Greece, the center of trade, and they had seen many people, but they didn't have it.
"Dyeing of the cloth, and gorgeous leather armor......"
Alix's heart began to wonder if he could take off the bright yellow clothes on the fat man's body and make a Shimashen...... No, I don't feel like it's enough, so I can only do it. And that orange-red leather armor, dedicated to the big men of the Senate, his identity will not be just a squadron leader, right?
The three soldiers behind him made a color, and the three of them immediately understood, looked at each other, and their faces showed a hint of excitement.
Alix greeted these strange people.
"Strangers, where do you come from?"
Yan Luo, Wang Dongwei, and Zhu Xiaoyong stopped in front of the town gate.
"We are from the East."
Zhu Xiaoyong is a fat house and is not good at communicating, Yan Luo often has a cold attitude, and it is Wang Dongwei who comes forward to deal with him, this "loser" actually knows a lot, and along the way, he popularized some common sense of B.C. and Greek society for the other two.
Wang Dongwei's waist hangs an eight-sided Han sword.
Alix's gaze shifted from the orange-red "leather armor" to the weapon, because the eight-sided Han sword was placed in the wooden sheath, and the weapon material could not be seen, but the cockroach pattern engraved on the scabbard, the sword buckle with the gluttonous pattern, and the gorgeous decoration made the squadron leader stationed on the outskirts of Athens feel hot.
"Isn't the East Persia?"
"No, we are further east from Persia."
There is an ancient Greek module loaded by the world modulation program, and Wang Dongwei is proficient in communicating with each other in Greek.
Yan Luo was looking at the four soldiers, and introduced himself as a man named Alix who was about 1.78 meters tall - on the way, Wang Dongwei said that ancient people, because of nutrition and fatigue, were short in stature, and the remains of ancient Greeks who had been unearthed lived from about 580 BC to 250 BC, with an average male height of 1.66 meters and a weight of 62 kilograms.
However, Greek slavery was developed, relying on slave labor, coupled with the prosperity of trade, which was enough to support the development of some prosperous city-state "citizens", and the figure of some soldiers was still relatively tall, this 1.78-meter-old man in his 40s, weighing at least 75 kilograms and strong muscles.
The other three soldiers are also more than 1.7 meters tall.
"May I take a look at your weapon?"
Alix suddenly made a request that embarrassed Wang Dongwei.
In such a strange world, the most trustworthy people, except for their companions are their own weapons, the Greeks actually asked to see the weapons...... As he hesitated, Yan Luo said in Chinese, "It's okay, show him what he wants to do." โ
"In addition, Zhu Xiaoyong, Wang Dongwei, you two be careful."
Hearing Yan Luo's words, Wang Dongwei gritted his teeth and pulled out the eight-sided Han sword on his waist.
"Hiss......"
A toothache inhaled.
You feel strong emotions:
Shock +2, Shock +1, Shock +1, Shock +1
Four people, a total of 5 shocks.
The hilt of the sword is wound with black threads, the sword body is ground on eight sides, flowing with a cold light like water, and there are winding and radiating patterns on it, which is the texture formed by the high temperature of the ancient method, the pattern steel manufactured, compared with this sword, the Greek war blade in Alix's hand is simply a black iron bar!
Moreover, Alix's iron sword with a handle is 65 cm long, and this eight-sided Han sword has a total length of 108 cm and a sword body of 77 cm!
In ancient times BC, the iron-smelting technology was backward, and it was difficult to create a long cold weapon in that era, just like the weapon of King Yingzheng of Qin at the beginning: the reel sword, about four feet long, was so long that it could not even be pulled out when hung on the waist, just to show the strength of the national power.
The sword body is 77 centimeters, much longer than a complete Greek war blade, cold white, and intoxicating patterns - even those Persian scimitars inlaid with gems and gold only rely on wealth to attract attention, unlike this sword, which is simple, but full of art and shock.
"Even Xerxes I, who was once known as the king of the gods and the king of kings, does he have no such treasures......"
Leather armor, sword!
Alix could almost see his bright future by offering these two treasures to the Archon Pericles...... Then he noticed that there was a delicate jeweled headdress in Yanluo's hairโthe texture of the Joy and Sorrow Mask, which was a crystalline gem.
These "strangers", from the palms of their hands, can be seen that they are not warriors.
No calluses whatsoever!
He turned his head to look at the three soldiers, who clenched their bayonet guns in understanding.
Everyone's eyes are shining with greed.
You feel strong emotions:
Greed +2
Greed +2
Greed +2
Greed +2
Yan Luo's hands were placed on the handle of the mandarin duck knife at his waist, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, showing a beautiful arc.
On the mask, the original "expressionless" has become "joy", and in this state, agility is increased by 10%.