Chapter XVII: Conflict and Gladiatorial Fighting
Although Zhi'an City does not prohibit other outsiders from entering, it is still necessary to give some things to the guards when entering the city. In these last days, food in general can be used as an item of exchange. Although Yang Tian had never entered the city, he had heard of these small rules in the process of trading with the people in the city.
However, this time the rules clearly did not meet the needs of the other party. Liu Ye was about to enter the door, but was blocked by the black pig. He thought he had caught a fat fish and could make a fortune. "That's not enough! The rules have long since changed! ”
"Changed? How I haven't heard of it! Liu Ye seemed to understand something, the anger in his heart rose, and the fist in his right hand clenched.
"Grass! Here, my black pig is the rule! The black pig said arrogantly, looked at Liu Ye with a pair of small eyes, pointed at him and said, "I see that your clothes are good, and the chains are all left for me!" Give these and you're good to go! ”
"You want this for my clothes?" Liu Ye asked in some surprise, after the other party nodded impatiently. Lao Liu smiled, smiling so happily.
"Lao Tzu is unhappy! You're fucking yourself on your own! You deserve to be out of luck! ”
In the midst of the loud shouts, a fist as big as a weighing stone suddenly appeared in front of the black pig's eyes, "Bang! The black pig only felt like he was flying, and after a while, the fat butt had the feeling of touching the ground. There was no feeling at the nose, and he looked at Lao Liu in disbelief, as if he couldn't believe that the other party dared to hit him.
"Don't you want chains? Lao Tzu gives it to you! I'm afraid you don't dare to ask for it! ”
As Lao Liu's words landed, the other party had already fainted. The yellow skin next to him had already hid to the side, glad that he had not guessed wrong.
"Hey! You! That's right, that's you! Come here! Lao Tzu has something to ask you! "As soon as Lao Liu's ruffian temperament came up, he couldn't care so much. Anyway, it's a fight, what can you do with me!
"It's the first time I've come, you take me around! After the deed is completed, Lao Tzu will give you another bag of pig and rat meat! "Anyway, when he left, Yang Tian gave himself a lot, and he didn't finish it in the past few days, so he just used it to charge a lot of money.
Huangpi was a little sad, but he didn't expect that he still hadn't gotten rid of the trouble, and this big man with very obvious violent characteristics actually targeted him.
With the body of yellow skin, he can mix a gatekeeper in the city, which shows that he is also a human spirit character. Such guys are very smart, they know how to judge the situation, and they will not be blind people with no eyes like that stupid pig just now.
Liu Ye had seen a lot of such people when he was in the special combat team before, and he knew that this kind of person must have his own way. Let him lead the way for himself, which should save a lot of twists and turns. Of course, he will not say his purpose immediately, the foundation will always be left at the end before it is opened, Lao Liu knows this truth very well.
"Well, I see......"
After Huang Pi's introduction, Liu Ye roughly understood the city in front of him.
The name of the city is Zhi'an, and it was built on the basis of a previously abandoned old city site with a thick wall on the outside. The lord of the castle is mysterious, no one has ever seen it, and he has a group of men. It's just that I know that this city lord is said to be very powerful, and can tear a mutant black bear with one hand, and many people estimate that he is an alien or a mutant.
Over the long years, some humans have mutated through the erosion of the element of radiation. Some people suddenly have special abilities, while others have gained immense power through physical mutations. Both of these men have the ability to kill mutated creatures in the wild alone, and other humans gather under their command for protection, and slowly cities are built.
There were three major organizations in the city, the Slave Trade Organization, the Gladiatorial Organization, and the Hunter Organization.
The Hunter Organization specializes in hunting mutated creatures for payment, somewhat similar to tribal activities outside the city. And basically more than half of the people in the city are hunters. Hunters can be solo rangers or teams, and what they hunt can be exchanged for others or sold to someone who specializes in collecting them.
The Black Pig and the Yellow Skin belong to a hunter detachment in the hunter organization, but this organization is very loose, just a group organized by their respective hunters, and there is no big binding force.
The gladiatorial organization is engaged in gladiatorial entertainment activities, which was converted from the former stadium in the city, and the people in the city are eager to vent and thirst for blood under the pressure of death, so there is a gladiatorial fight.
As the name suggests, the slave trade organization is a slave trade, as for whether the slaves are bought to be used as coolies, or sold to gladiators or used as food and meat, the organization never cares, they only care about the remuneration they receive. In addition, they were also in charge of collecting human flesh and selling it to the people in the city, and it was these people who made deals with Yang Tian.
"This is obviously a return to the slave society of the past!" After listening to the introduction, Liu Ye muttered in his heart.
Liu Ye, who walked into the city, looked at this so-called city while looking for what he wanted. Today, when human civilization has faded too much, the county town, which was at most the size of a small town in Liu Ye's eyes, has been consistently named a city.
The blue-gray city wall has become barren with the washing of time, but the red and black stains on it can still tell the past that happened. The city's dilapidated pavement smelled unpleasantly under the rain. There weren't many pedestrians in the city, and the sound of stampeding accompanied by splashing mud echoed dullly around them.
"Why are all the people here?" Liu Ye saw that everyone around him was in a hurry, and asked curiously.
"What? What else can you do! Huang Pi's face showed a dejected look, "Killing, fighting, robbing, playing with women, anyway, everything that can be done is done quickly, who knows what will happen to me tomorrow!" ”
"Why is there no one in the city?" Liu Ye was a little surprised.
"Tube? Who cares? This city was built only to block the mutated creatures from the outside world, and the city lord had never seen the city lord come forward for other things in the city, as long as his interests were not touched, the city lord would never come forward. Let's just say that recently, there have been disappearances of major organizations in the city, but the city lord hasn't even asked! Now the people in the city are panicking, afraid that they will be the next person to go missing! ”
"Missing?" Liu Ye became more and more curious.
"Who's to say it isn't! I don't know when, but many of the captains of the hunters, gladiators, and some of the guards of the slave regiment disappeared one after another, including my captain Iron Head. Many people in the city rumored that it was a mutant creature that had infiltrated the city, and they didn't know what was going on. Huang Pi was a little excited for a while.
Liu Ye was also silent in his heart when he heard this, the people in this city are not as comfortable as outsiders think, and they also have to face things. For mankind in this last age, there will never be so-called absolute security, or is there a step by step crisis, danger everywhere.
"Look at me! Patronage has to speak for itself! I forgot to introduce you! Huang Pi patted his head as if thinking about something, and said, "You are here for the first time, and you must not know our characteristics here. There's an event in the Colosseum today, so you can check it out! ”
"The Colosseum?!" Liu Ye had some doubts in his heart.
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The gladiatorial arena was rebuilt from a former stadium, and the words "XX Stadium" can still be seen on the broken walls. The surrounding billboards are still broken and erected on the sidelines, continuing the old days. Liu Ye was also bitter in his heart, once upon a time, this famous stadium in China has become a gladiatorial arena for people to slaughter and vent.
The huge site is no longer the green shade of the past, and the delicate grass that grows in the greenhouse has long since been ruined by nuclear radiation, leaving only sparse unknown weeds and bare dirt.
"Grass! Ge Laozi! This kid dared to treat Lao Tzu as a big money, so he deliberately pulled me to watch the gladiatorial fight! Liu Ye muttered in his heart, thinking about the fact that he had handed over two kangaroo meat by himself just now, and he couldn't help but feel a little like he had been slaughtered.
Some of the gladiatorial stands were torn apart, and there were a few people sitting in a scattered place, their clothes much stronger than the shabby furs of the yellow skin and the black pig, or at least the animal skin was newer and cleaner than theirs. It seems that being able to watch gladiatorial fights in the city is only a treatment that only the middle and upper classes can enjoy, otherwise the black pig would not have seen the bag of pig and rat meat at that time and got evil, and he was just a character at the bottom.
There are only two people in the wide square who are tearing each other apart with steel spears, and the upper body is ** and the lower body is only wearing a pocket cloth. The two were not strong, even a little thin, and looked malnourished. The scene of the fight is even less worth it in Liu Ye's opinion, it is purely poking each other with spears and guns, except for the fierce momentum of the two of them, which is eye-catching, there is nothing else to see.
However, the audience outside the stadium didn't think so, they all shouted frantically, and the yellow skin around them was even more hoarse. In a trance, Liu Ye thought that he was in the scene of a super league again.
Gradually, the yellow-faced duelist on the right finally couldn't hold on, and the dark-skinned man on the left saw the opportunity and swung a steel spear to knock the opponent to the ground, and then the tip of the spear was aimed at the throat of the man lying on the ground.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
The audience outside the arena suddenly shouted in unison, their thumbs pointing down, and they turned their belongings towards the standing duelist.
"Whew!"
Amid the shouts of the spectators outside the arena, the standing gladiator stepped down, and the sharp tip of the spear pierced the opponent's throat. The bright red blood that flowed out was quickly diluted under the rain, and the other party writhed meaninglessly, and grabbed the spear with both hands. After a while, the frightened eyes finally closed slowly, and the body stopped moving.
Liu Ye saw that his heart was already boring here, so he wanted to leave. He was disgusted by the fact that he treated humans like beasts, and there was no difference between watching these two men duel and watching two beasts fight.
However, the yellow skin next to him suddenly said, "Don't go! There's the best in the back! ”
"The most exciting?!" Liu Ye was puzzled and couldn't help but sit down.