Chapter 26: The Crazy Gambler

"Mono!"

Sensing the aura gradually approaching behind him, Xiliu looked back and couldn't help but be a little surprised. The priest didn't show any surprise, but just looked at the demon field quietly, and silently asked why he had come.

"I already know who I am, and I can't ignore that fact anymore. Therefore, no matter how difficult the journey back will be, I will move forward. Mono said firmly, as if he had broken free from some invisible restraint.

The priest nodded in surprise, then turned and sped away towards the Colosseum. Mono also completely let go of his pace and followed up as fast as he could really play. He knew that from now on there would be no need to hesitate, and no matter how difficult the return to his homeland was, his people would fight by his side, and he would never leave him, and he had finally found his belonging.

"Shall we enter through the north gate?" Mono suggested, "To the north is an area of Solong City with many abandoned buildings and a relatively thin population, so as long as we pass through it as fast as we can, we won't easily disturb the Sava people. ”

Priest Sirven naturally accepted Mono's suggestion, after all, Mono was more familiar with the city than they did. In fact, not only Suolong City, but also the distribution of cities and populations in the western continent are gradually showing a trend of becoming more and more dense in the southeast and more and more sparse in the northwest. This is mainly due to the relatively flat and fertile land in the southeast and the relatively barren land in the northwest.

Mano told them that each gate of the Colosseum was staffed by twenty guards, who were also responsible for opening and closing the gates. In addition, during the opening of the Colosseum, a team of about 100 patrols will patrol the surroundings. Every time the patrol went around the Colosseum, they passed through each of the six gates.

Therefore, the first thing the three of them had to do now was to wait for this patrol to pass by, quickly stun the twenty guards in front of the north gate, and then take the opportunity to sneak into the Colosseum. But before they entered, they didn't know anything about the situation inside, and now it is difficult to make any effective emergency countermeasures in advance, so they can only act at the opportunistic time.

Although the Sava people are a fighting nation in the Lepeilian world, they also belong to the Lepelian people, so they are far inferior to the streamers in terms of size, speed, and strength. Normally, a streamer can easily win against a hundred Savoyard at the same time, provided that the Savoyard does not have any weapons of mass destruction. Therefore, it is not difficult for the streamer to get rid of the twenty guards in front of the door who only carry weapons in their hands. Just stun these guards quickly before they can react, so they don't have time to send any call for help to their nearby companions.

Then, Moye, who had just entered the gate, retreated again. He untied all the nooses that the fainted guards had carried around their waists, and tied them one by one to their long weapons, and then the guards who had been tied in strips stood one by one against the wall by the door.

"What are you doing here?" asked Xiliu, looking back and bewildered, as the priest had already gone in first.

"Sooner or later, the Savoyard will find out, but at least from a distance, they still look 'standing', which might buy us a little more time......," Mano explained. After quickly cleaning up the guards, he followed Weststream into the Colosseum.

The audience seats in the Colosseum are laid from the second floor of the ground, and gradually extend in the shape of a staircase. On the edge of the front aisle of the second floor, there is a stone-carved parapet, and the balustrade columns are carved in the image of the riding beast of the Savoy people, the hunting beast. Most of the seats in the arena are arranged horizontally in straight lines according to the characteristics of this hexagonal diamond-shaped structure, except for the six rows of seats at the inner corners of the hexagon, which are designed as protruding arc-shaped stepped seats. The first floor of the ground, the one below the spectator seats, was made up of heavy stone walls and thick iron fences, which were used to imprison the beasts and the aliens who had been captured alive. Unlike the beast cages, the enclosures of the cages where the aliens were imprisoned were covered with dense iron serrations to prevent them from slamming the door and escaping.

All the cages are enclosed around the artificial lake in the center of the Colosseum, and the doors all face the dueling table in the middle of the lake. Whether they wanted to or not, the aliens and beasts trapped in the cage could not ignore the bloody battles on the dueling table, because this was the only direction in which they could see the sun.

This design is very unfortunate for creatures who have been locked in the dark for a long time, but for the three streamers who are sneaking into the Colosseum at this moment, it is the only thing to be thankful for. Because the first floor of the ground is much darker due to the lack of lighting, those standing under the long circular corridor at the edge of the cage can clearly observe the dueling arena in the center of the arena and everything in the audience. Standing in the dazzling sunlight by the lake, watching the battle with their backs to their cages, and the excited spectators on the high platform, it was difficult to see what was going on in the dim shadows of the bottom.

On the artificial lake in the center of the field, there are six folding and telescopic bridges, which are located in the six directions of the inner corner of the hexagon. The deck of the bridge does not have any guardrails, it can be folded into three folds and retracted under the corridor on the first floor, controlled by pulleys and cables hidden under the bridge, and the operating mechanism is also located in the corridor on the first floor. These folding telescopic bridges are the only way to the dueling platform in the middle of the lake. In order to protect the safety of the spectators, when the beast is driven out of its cage, crosses the bridge and reaches the dueling platform, the folding telescopic bridge will be immediately retracted to prevent the beast from suddenly turning around and jumping to pounce on the spectators on the high seats.

In addition, the duty of the thirty heavily armed Saviean soldiers standing by the artificial lake was to drive the beasts from their cages to the dueling arena and to retract the folding bridge, and to ensure the safety of the spectators on the high platform if they suddenly went berserk. However, these soldiers usually just stood by the lake, facing the dueling platform, and would not easily approach the cell door unless necessary. You know, hungry giant beasts are very dangerous, and even if they are kept in cages, they must not be taken lightly.

Fortunately, the circular corridor in front of the cage door on the first floor is wide, and it is still a short distance from the artificial lake in the middle of the field in the sunlight. As long as the priest and Cissey wrapped themselves in black cloaks, tried not to let the light of the creatures on their bodies flow out of the darkness, and kept walking next to the cage, placing themselves in dim shadows, the Saviey soldiers, who were standing by the lake with their backs to them at the moment, nervously watching the dueling platform, should not be able to spot them so quickly.

There are at least hundreds of cages of various sizes, all built along the hexagonal inner walls of the Colosseum, each facing the center of the arena. Most of the cages are filled with beasts, and only a few are imprisoned by streamers. So, no matter which direction the three of them looked, they might break into the perspective of those Savoyard soldiers by the lake, and it would be a matter of time before they were discovered. But with the Streamer's super visual ability and sensing ability, they quickly sensed the general location of the clansman's captivity.

"You go along the right side, and before you rescue your people, if you are unfortunate enough to be discovered by the Sava Clan, open all the beast cages around you immediately, so that you can buy some more time. But even if you're only discovered after rescuing your people, don't forget to open all the beast cages before leaving. The priest stood in a hidden place inside the gate, and after giving these words, he quickly turned and searched alone along the corridor on the left. Mo Ye and Xiliu naturally didn't dare to delay, and immediately ran in the opposite direction.

At the same time, the streamer standing on the dueling platform finally stunned a giant beast twice as large as him. He never wanted to kill any of the beasts, and always tried to delay the fight, even though the hungry beasts almost killed him at times. Normally, until they were sure whether the beast on the dueling table was dead or faint, the Savoyard soldiers by the lake would not easily lower the bridge and let him return to the cage early. And what he is fighting for is actually just this little bit of time.

He looked away from the seemingly moribund beast at his feet, though he knew that the hungry creature would soon wake up and pounce on him again. He also turned a blind eye to the sights on the high platform, which were much more ferocious than the beasts, and just stood on the bloody dueling platform, looking up at the vast sky, the only moment in ten years when he could directly bathe in the light, although it was very brief.

Even when fighting beasts of prey, he had to drag heavy restraints, and the Savoyards never dared to take him lightly. He didn't even have a decent piece of clothing on him, only a half-tattered robe wrapped around his lower body. That was ten years ago, when he was a child, and the clothes he wore were obviously too small for him now. But he still holds his head high and his steps are steady, although he is a prisoner who has lost his freedom, he is like a triumphant god of war!

As usual, the Savoyard did not give him much respite, but the difference was that they did not drive out the second beast against him today. He was suddenly a little curious, wondering what new tricks the retinue beside King Savoy who was so thin that he couldn't even stretch his waist straight would come up with to torture him. That timid and cunning fellow has the greatest skill to make these 100,000 gamblers in the Colosseum go home every time.

At this moment, the guy was standing on the curved referee at the front of the second floor of the audience, stretching his neck to the big horn of the amplified beast, and shouting flatteringly: "Today, we are going to change to a new way of betting." I will put on a unique and wonderful performance for all the Savoyard warriors present and the adults who have come all the way from the Eastern Continent!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a group of Savoy soldiers running out of the aisle of the second-floor auditorium, roughly about two hundred people. The soldiers scattered and ran to the guardrail in front of the auditorium to take a stand, then raised their bows and arrows and aimed at the dueling platform in the middle of the artificial lake from all directions.

At this time, the weak guy in the referee's stand continued to shout: "Now you have seen that the two hundred and twenty warriors at the guardrail of the spectator have bows and arrows in their hands, and each of them has ten arrows. Today we're going to bet on how many arrows these warriors will shoot when they finish all the arrows they carry with them......

Before the people on the referee's bench finished explaining the specific rules, the audience was already boiling, cheering one after another, and the gamblers were all excited.

But no matter how turbulent the audience was, the people on the dueling stage remained calm and unmoved by the noise in their ears. The folding bridge over the lake had long since been tucked away, and two large, heavy iron balls were dragged on the chains behind his feet, and his wrists were also chained to the walls of the cage by two long chains. If hundreds of sharp arrows came at him from all directions at the same time, there would be nowhere to hide from this empty dueling platform. But he didn't panic, and if the crazy gamblers thought that he would be crushed by a dense rain of arrows today, they would have been disappointed again. It seems that it has become his only pleasure in the past ten years, and besides, he will never let himself die in this cruel world......