Chapter 167: The Peacemaker
The gladiatorial performance of the second day ended in a calm and calm manner, with no accidents and no twists and turns.
Basically, the gladiators who were previously favored were all on the final list of the third day, unlike the prediction of only ten before the show began.
Among them, the gladiators from the gladiator schools in the city occupy the vast majority of the list, and except for the talented ones such as the giant Terephilos, only a dozen people outside the city have made it to the final battle list.
This result was quite unexpected by the gladiators outside the city, just like the unlucky ghost who went to provoke Satonilos that night and was beaten in the nose said, these gladiators outside the city because they had to perform everywhere and challenge the local masters, their actual combat experience should be richer than these "pampered" gladiators in the city, and their living environment was more difficult, and it stands to reason that they were more sharp.
But the reality is brutal.
The overwhelming advantage is these "ladies and ladies' toys" that they don't look at.
But this is actually quite a normal thing, the gladiators in these schools in the city live in much better conditions than the gladiators outside the city, naturally have more time to train, instead of wasting it on the road back and forth, they are better nourished and stronger, and there are special doctors to treat their injuries.
Of course, the most important point is that the value of gladiators in the city is generally higher than that outside the city, and in terms of average price, there are also two gladiators in the city who top the outside of the city.
So those slave traders were naturally willing to sell better and stronger gladiator embryos to gladiator schools in the city, and even some gladiators outside the city were sold to the gladiator schools in the city at a high price after they became famous, compared to the extra combat experience of the gladiators outside the city, the huge gap between the two sides could not be erased at all.
So it's not surprising that the results are now.
After the performance, Zhang Heng took the donkey cart of the gladiator school back to his residence as usual.
He deliberately chose a little later so that the vast majority of the audience had already gone home, so as to avoid the harassment of some extreme admirers, and Habitus and Bach and others were also with him.
By the end of the second day, there were only four people left in the Victor Arena.
Zhang Heng, Bach, Habitus, and an old gladiatorial fight called Murkazan.
However, even though everyone was in the same arena, they didn't talk much along the way. Maybe it's because you'll be an opponent tomorrow, so there's been a bit of silence.
Zhang Heng didn't expect that the first person to speak was Habitus.
"Satonilos and Danaeus, they're talking about what to do with you."
Bach heard this, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Isn't it a little late to pull the relationship now, isn't there no one who doesn't know about this matter anymore?" ”
"But you don't know what Satonilos and Danaeos are planning to be." Habitus said with a blank face.
"Oh?" Zhang Heng leaned his back back again.
"I know you don't like me, and honestly I don't like you either." Habitus looked into Bach's eyes, "If there is a chance, I want to punch your unstoppable stinky face, and you," Habitus looked at Zhang Heng again, "You think you are better than everyone else, and you don't take us people seriously, but in the end we are all from a gladiator school, if you win the championship, the attendance of the Victor Arena will undoubtedly increase, although I don't want to admit it, but it is also good for me." ”
"So?"
"So I pretended to accept Satonilos' invitation at the Flavi Amphitheater just to break into their interior." "They're planning to make a debilitating herb and sneak it into your lunch tomorrow at noon." ”
"And such herbs?" Bach was a little surprised.
"This is Rome, not the poor countryside where you barbarian lived before, and there are many things you haven't seen." Habitus scoffed.
Bach also said angrily when he heard this, "We barbarians from the backwoods don't just think of using some indiscriminate means when we can't beat others, so what glory is there even if we win?" ”
Hearing this, Habitus disagreed, "If you have been a gladiator long enough and have experienced enough battles, you will know that staying alive is the most important thing, and the best way to stay alive is to win all the time, and the means don't matter." ”
"No wonder I don't like you very much when I see you, although your strength is good, but there is a nasty smell on your body." The Germanic spat out the donkey cart.
"You'd better keep your mouth clean," Habitus' face darkened, "or you'll pray that you won't meet me tomorrow." ”
"Oh, I've been waiting for revenge for the first time we met." Bach was undaunted and stood up from his seat.
Another gladiator named Murkazan, seeing that the situation was deteriorating, had to become a peacemaker, he got up and stood in front of Bach and Habitus, and said, "Okay, everyone, stop arguing, calm down, and even if there are any grievances, you can leave them in the arena to settle them." ”
Bach snorted from his nostrils, and he was about to sit down, but he didn't expect that the next moment Murkazan, who was acting as a peacemaker, slapped his hand and somehow found a knife on his chest.
"It has nothing to do with you, don't move if you know each other." Murkazan warned.
And just as Murkazan took out the knife, Habitus also took out a small razor and pounced on Zhang Heng on the other side.
All this happened in a flash of lightning, just a moment ago, Habitus had just confessed that he was mixed with Satonilos and the others to find out how the latter planned to deal with Zhang Heng, but in the next moment, he suddenly turned his face without any warning.
He and Murkazan had a clear division of labor, one restrained Bach, and the other pounced on the unsuspecting Zhang Heng.
However, when Habitus met Zhang Heng's eyes, there was a bad feeling in his heart, because there was no panic or panic in the other party's eyes.
Just looked at him quietly.
Immediately after that, Habitus saw the flash of the knife, and the two fingers that he was holding the razor fell to the ground, until blood gushed out from the severed place, and then Habitus realized the pain.
Although he had already imagined Zhang Heng to be very strong, cautious and cautious, first using words to try to numb the other party's nerves, and then move his hand, he still didn't expect that the other party's knife could be so fast.