Chapter 318: The King of the Arena (Part I)
The first rays of the morning pierced the clouds, pushing away the color of the blue and dark, and the chirping birds fell into the windowsill, combing their wet feathers, and when they heard the movement in the house, they turned their heads away, and the bird's eyes looked at it, and the gray cloak rolled in the air, covering the people's bodies, and during the strokes, several short blades were inserted into the waist one by one.
On the tabletop, the dry human head was wrapped in a layer of cloth and sealed, accompanied by the birdsong outside the window, Xia Yi grabbed the head and hung under the short blade, and the shoulder without the left arm was covered in the cloak.
The figure turned, walked to the wall, crossed Fang Tian's painting halberd and Qinglong knife on his back, and placed the Xuantie heavy sword in the middle, in the shape of the word 'rice' behind him.
"Quack, let's go!"
Xia Yi greeted the gob, who didn't sleep well, and the latter got up in a trance with a scimitar, followed behind, went all the way to the hotel, ordered two breakfasts, ate quietly, and then checked out and checked.
Out of here, the quiet city is now bustling with people, busy with their livelihoods going to and from the streets to sell themselves, women sitting at the window, combing their hair in the mirror, wrapping their white headscarves, and soon opening the windows, hanging out the clothes they have not worn for a long time, and brushing off the dust with dusters, and those who make a living by taking adventures come and go in droves, occasionally seeing one or two enemies, scolding a few words, or having a fight, and then taking their companions with them.
At a certain moment, Xia Yi carried a weapon on his back, pushed open the door of the hotel, and merged into the hustle and bustle.
The long street was crowded with people, the sun poured into the city, and in the boiling noise, two figures, one large and one small, walked on the other street, it was Maikanoi, who had unloaded the goods, and his sister Dina, who was choosing a gift for her mother in the street shop, and two guards followed.
"Okay, Dina, I've been picking since I entered the city. β
"Alright, alright, that's all. β
Dina held a foundation box decorated with red lace and a necklace inlaid with diamond-shaped crystals, and raised it in front of her brother: "Isn't it beautiful?"
"You bought it for yourself, where does Mom need this. β
"Definitely do, huh!"
"Okay, that's all there is to it, then I paid for it, and then I remember when I entered the city, I said that you wanted to watch the gladiatorial match with me?"
"Got it, it's so bloody, I don't know what's there to see. β
In Dina's muttering, Maikanoy hurriedly paid the money, ready to switch to the competitive gladiatorial tournament he had always wanted to watch, this was Maikanoy's favorite, although he couldn't bear to watch the slaves in it fight for their lives, but every time he saw that picture, he felt excited.
The arena of Tatasya is not only the life of slaves, there are usually poor or adventurers who want to accumulate wealth quickly, and they bring their own martial arts to join in, which is more exciting than simply watching slaves fight, and even learn some practical skills from both sides of the battle.
Usually such people are called gold diggers by the inhabitants of Tatasia.
Of course, that's why Maikanoy is bound to watch a gladiatorial fight or two whenever he comes to Tatasia.
Soon after, he took his sister and two caravan guards on the main street of the arena and bought tickets for admission, the nearby streets and entrances and exits were already full of long queues, giving people the illusion that the arena could not be stuffed, and a little farther away from the edge of the street, there were jugglers and tricks, so that people who didn't like to watch the competition also had a place to go.
"Brother, how many powerful people are there in this kind of gladiatorial fight? Do you recognize them all?"
As the long dragon entered the passage of the ring arena, the girl kept pointing to the character posters posted in the passage and asked, which made Maikanoi not know how to answer, after all, he rarely came, most of them were on the journey of selling goods, how could he have the heart to remember these people.
Moreover, this kind of gladiatorial fight that can kill people is actually very different from fighting beasts, and the replacement is too ordinary, often the person who performed well in the last game may lie on the ground forever in the next game.
In the midst of the girl's chattering words, she walked all the way through an arched stone gate, and the noisy screams and shouts swept in.
The field of vision unfolds in front, the sun pours down from the sky, and on the ring competition stands, the waves of people are surging, and from a distance, the echelon seats from top to bottom are afraid of the scale of tens of thousands of people.
The siblings and their guards found their seats and sat down, they were on the seventh floor, and the gladiatorial battle below had been going on for some time.
"Brother, which of the two of them do you think will win?"
"I don't understand this, but the burly man over there should win ......"
In the field below, people fought shirtless, and flesh and blood were torn apart......
........
Outside the arena, Xia Yi walked over from a distance, looked at the noise near and far, and turned to the registration office, for the audit, on this side of the arena, only those who volunteer to participate in the gladiatorial fight need to sign an agreement, that is, the kind of life and death.
The formalities were not troublesome, and after filling in the information quickly, the registered woman gave Xia Yi a pass with an expressionless face, pointed to the side of the passage, and signaled that he could enter from there, and someone would pick him up.
Turning out of the crowd here, I passed by some adventurers who also came to participate in the competition to make money, and I was greeted by mostly hostile eyes, and soon arrived at the entrance of the passage, and the guards checked the pass and let Xia Yi go, but stared at his black eyes a few more times.
"Once inside, someone will arrange it for you, gold digger. β
Xia Yi nodded and walked into a rather cool passage, a picture like this was similar to that of the original rice country, but it was just a different environment and world.
On both sides of the passage, there were gladiatorial stars, making all kinds of ostentatious gestures, and some people's posters were taken down by the arena staff and thrown into a cart at random, apparently, this person may have died in the last gladiatorial fight.
Along the way, there were more adventurers around the competition, with different descriptions, there were slim men, but they were bald, with a slight row of small sharp horns on both sides of the head, and when they spoke, their slender tongues were occasionally exposed, and they were swallowed on the lips.
There are also women with winged arms, and of course, there are many humans with normal body shapes, and among these people there are four-armed weirdos, who should be of the same race as the four-armed blacksmith in the desert town.
Most of them stood inside a semi-circular iron window, like prisoners, looking out at the dust raised by the dust outside, a duel in progress.
His eyes swept over the place, and then someone greeted him.
"You're Xia, I'm your receptionist, and I'm arranging for you to have a gladiatorial fight. The person who came was a thin middle-aged man, looking at the information he had just gotten in his hand, "Don't blame me for not having any welcoming smiles, after all, the people who come here either go back with a wealth or are buried in a cemetery in the suburbs." β
"What's over there?"
For this person's words, Xia Yi actually only understood half of it, but he didn't care, and then, he found that on the other side of the hall where adventurers gathered, there was an iron fence isolating, and dozens of lines of sight on the opposite side were looking over, it was squatting or standing, many figures, their eyes were numb, hateful, overlapping and extending backwards.
"That's bought slaves..... well, you can call them death fighters, they're going to die anyway. The receptionist wrote the form, looked up at the other side, whispered, and beckoned: "Don't move around, don't talk to these people, come with me, you are the first time to enter, I hope not the last, I will introduce you to the rules." β
As a big man nearby, he turned around and slammed into Xia Yi suddenly, his shoulder bumped hard, and then he stumbled back.
Xia Yi glanced at him, ignored it, and left directly with the receptionist.
The big man stood in place, and the person he had talked to before encouraged him to go up and look for trouble, but the big man was holding his arms motionlessly, his face was pale, and faint beads of sweat leaked out.
I didn't dare to move.
.......
At this time, who didn't dare to move, there was also Dina on the seat, clenching her small fists, opening her eyes slightly, and breathing hard.
Mikanoy stood up excitedly.
The gladiatorial fight below has come to an end.
Blood splattered on the ground, and the flying figure fell heavily to the ground, and the large man who had guessed before raised his hands in the air to meet the cheers coming from all around, and then, walking over, grabbed the opponent's hair on the ground, and dragged the person up.
A head hammer slammed into the opponent's door, and blood splattered.
The body that was hit was directly cut half a meter on the ground, and the whole person lost consciousness and writhed in a daze.
In the audience, McAnoy clenched his fists and shouted with the rest of the audience: "Kill himβ"
The younger sister beside her frowned, stretched out her hand and pulled it: "Brother....."
"Haha...... It's a little exciting. Maikanoy sat down a little embarrassed, he was not usually like this, but he still couldn't help but say: "This person is too powerful, empty-handed, if you take a weapon, I'm afraid it will be even more powerful." β
"Hmph, is that Mr. Xia powerful?"
"Uh...... It's hard to judge...... However, this person, I heard that he has won fifteen games in a row, but he is the biggest favorite recently. β
Just as the brother and sister were talking about the man, the neck of the man who fell to the ground below was twisted in the big man's hand, and the tall figure hammered the muscular chest with a roar.
All around, the audience gave an enthusiastic response, and the whole arena was full of cheers!
In the passage, Xia Yi walked by, and stopped at the receptionist's words, and the latter stopped and turned his head: "Xia, what's wrong?"
"That's a good guy. He looked at the arena through the bars.
Cheers echoed over the arena.
The big man, who enjoyed this feeling, refused to leave, still standing on the field, his fingers swept over the figures participating in the game behind the surrounding iron fences, revealing a cruel smile.
Behind the iron fence, some people had a bad face, some people slapped the railing, shouting at him to wait, and there were many silences, calculating the probability of winning in their hearts.
With a voice: "That guy is good....." There was a faint sound, and a cloaked figure walked up, approaching the iron bar.
Lift your foot violentlyβ
Boom!!
The huge tearing sound of the metal suddenly resounded, and the big man on the field turned around, and what came into view was a semi-circular iron fence with the debris of the rock, whistling.
In the next second, he swung his fist and slammed the iron bar into the sky with a thud.
In the audience, which was still cheering and discussing, someone reacted at this time, and when they saw this scene, there was an uproar.
"What's going on next?"
"..... there are challengers?!"
"Hit-"
.....
In the midst of countless sounds, the iron fence slammed to the ground, and between the stirred up sand and dust, opposite the big man's field of vision, a figure in a cloak had already entered the gladiatorial arena.
With a wave of one hand, the three weapons behind the back are automatically separated, and the ..... are inserted into the surrounding ground.
Xia Yi only wore gloves and hooked his fingers at the other party.
"Come, I'll fight you!"
The fingers were curled and clenched into fists, and there was a shock, and there was a faint roar of explosion.