Chapter 30: The Scapegoat

After listening to Xu Mo's analysis, everyone fell into a deathly silence, although they didn't want to believe this result, but their reason told them that Xu Mo's analysis was correct......

"If Lucius had prevented the uprising in advance, there wouldn't have been so many gladiator deaths." Claudia sighed.

"So many gladiators were killed by him like this, and we gladiators are probably inferior to a livestock in the eyes of Lucius!" Ragseus' eyes were red, and his fists clenched fiercely.

"Arres, since Badacus's brothers have been killed, you can take everyone to Vesuvius and join the Spartacus rebels!" Cabal said calmly, "I'm staying to make a break with Bardax and Lucius, and Artemis and everyone can't go unpunished!" ”

"If it's going to kill Lucius, I can help!" Hearing Cabal's words, Claudia rose from Lagerseus' arms, her eyes glinting with hatred. Although she hadn't pursued her father's affairs in the past few years, she was almost certain that Lucius was inseparable from her father's death.

"Let's go into the city!" Xu Mo's eyes flashed, and he said lightly, "Dinah, are you ready to enter the city?" ”

"Well, there are already several hay wagons to hide your armor and weapons, as well as more than a hundred hooded robes, and you will be dressed as a believer in Sebili, the mother of the gods!" Dinah said with a grin.

"Believer of Cybilee......" Xu Mo, who was more familiar with Greek mythology, darkened his face, "You did it on purpose, can't you find another Greek god?" ”

Hearing Xu Mo's words, Claudia and Dinah couldn't help but cover their mouths and chuckle, "Arres, there's no way around it, only the believers of Sabili, the guards of Pompeii will not search their bodies!" ”

"Arres, isn't it good to be a believer in that Sabili god?" Lagerseus next to him was a little confused.

"Hee-hee, Ragseus, you don't have to be a believer in Saburi, you can ride in the carriage with me, those guards don't dare to search my carriage!" Claudia dragged Lagerseus over.

"Eumoth, what's the matter with that Sebili believer, why does Arres seem reluctant!" Cabal quietly tugged at the garment of the giant Omus.

"The goddess Sabili castrated herself because she had developed feelings for her son Artis that transcended maternal love. The Romans sang the praises of this mother-child love, worshipping the castrated pubic ~ shaft very much, and even castrated for this. The priests and believers of the Temple of Sabili were castrations who cut off their testicles~. As a Spartan, Eumes certainly knew the goddess Sebilli in Greek mythology, and his face couldn't help but be a little dark.

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Half an hour later, the disguised gladiator procession began to follow the carriages in front of them slowly, and walked along the avenue towards Pompeii.

"Look, Arres!" As he approached the main gate of Pompeii, the tall Eumos suddenly pointed to the air in front of him and said.

"Huh?" Xu Mo raised his head and looked ahead, only to see a dark cloud-like object in the distance in the low sky ahead, "Yes...... A flock of crows! ”

When everyone approached the vicinity of the crows, they finally understood why the crows were hovering here. I saw that on both sides of the road in front of the gate of Pompeii, there were many wooden crosses, and on each cross was the corpse of a gladiator with his head bowed.

Most of the gladiators had been whipped before their executions, and the one closest to Xu Mo had his eyes closed and had been dead for a long time. Two metal spikes were firmly driven between the radius and ulna of the wrists of both hands, the feet were overlapped, and the spikes were driven into the instep of the foot, leaving the heels without any support.

This gladiator died not from bleeding, but from suffocation. His heels were unsupported, and he could only breathe with his arms crucified slightly extended. However, in such a position, coupled with the intense pain caused by the nail being driven into the body, all the muscles in his body spasmed. The lungs filled with air could not be expelled, and finally suffocated in pain, and the stronger the person, the longer the pain, and these gladiators almost always died tragically after hours of painful torture.

Crows and other large scavenging birds hovered low in the sky, and although it was now dark, there was still a flow of people on the carriage and horse avenue in front of Pompeii, and these flat-haired beasts did not dare to land directly on the cross to enjoy their food for the time being.

The tragic sight and the strong stench of corpses made everyone who passed by the avenue pale, and they clung to their mouths and noses, suppressing a strong feeling of nausea. Looking at the faces of the many companions on the cross who were painfully distorted from suffocation, everyone in Xu Mo's team began to breathe heavily, anger filling the hearts of every gladiator, and the rustling footsteps seemed to carry a low roar.

If it weren't for Xu Mo's special instructions to everyone in the ranks, these gladiators would have rushed forward desperately to free the bodies of their companions from the cross.

"Nia!" Xu Mo, who was hiding in the team, suddenly found a person in front of a cross who shouldn't be here.

Quietly approaching the young woman who was kneeling on the mud and sobbing softly, Xu Mo opened his eyes wide. He read it right, the woman dressed in tattered kunica and holding a small baby in her arms was indeed the most beautiful woman he had ever seen at the Bardachus training ground, Nilo's wife, Nia!

If Nia is here, then the man on the cross is ......

Xu Mo raised his head and looked at the cross in front of Niya, the eyes of the people on the cross had been gouged out, and only two blood holes remained, and there was no tongue in the gaping mouth. However, looking at the angry look on his face, he didn't seem to feel his own pain, but was still roaring and fighting unwillingly before he died.

"Nilo!" Xu Mo let out a low moan. Lucius even sacrificed himself as a scapegoat for his own life and death.

Holding the baby with two heavily armed soldiers guarding her, the two guards stabbed her with the hilt of their spears and motioned for her to stand up.

Nia stood up tremblingly, her frail body swaying slightly, and with a desperate look in her eyes, she was escorted by two Roman guards towards the outskirts.

Looking at the backs of the three people, Xu Mo's eyes gradually turned cold, and he turned his head to look at Max behind him, Max nodded knowingly, and left the team with a few Spartan warriors......

Before entering the city, Max returned with several Spartan warriors, one carrying a small baby boy and another carrying the unconscious Niya on his back.

"Into town!" Looking at this poor Roman stunning, a cold light flashed in Xu Mo's eyes.