Chapter 37: The Colosseum
After Lin Qiu settled Anna and the others, he took Sasha out. The Vikings www.biquge.info met them with respectful glances, and Sasha was clearly uncomfortable with such a gaze, the last time she had come to the island as a slave. The slaves on the island were not only women from Holutia and Solan Harbor, but also a small number of young and strong men who were captured here.
They were captured on the island for one reason - to fight each other for the Vikings' amusement. In the center of the island is an ancient gladiatorial arena, and when there is a shortage of slaves in the gladiatorial arena, these fierce pirates set sail to plunder merchant ships and bring some of their crew back to the island.
This ancient gladiatorial arena is Lin Qiu's destination.
What Lin Qiu didn't expect was that the level of the Viking man-made house was really limited, but the arena was very exquisitely constructed, surrounded by earthy yellow stone pillars, which looked like an ancient Roman gladiatorial arena. Lin Qiu could hear the hysterical cries of the Vikings from a long distance.
"That's the warden. ”
Sasha pointed to the fierce man at the entrance of the gladiatorial arena, and whispered in Lin Qiu's ear.
The Warden was second only to the Great Chief in the Vikings, and all matters relating to slaves and the Colosseum were under his jurisdiction. She had heard that the warden was so hot-tempered that killing slaves was a common thing for him, and that a considerable part of the skulls on the beach had died at his hands.
The warden armed with a great axe escorted a new slave into the arena without anger.
Sasha added: "Below the Colosseum is where the slaves are held. ”
Lin Qiu carefully looked at the slaves who walked into the gladiatorial arena with their heads bored, and the two knights in light armor were particularly eye-catching, and they protected a noblely dressed girl in the middle one after the other, without the slightest despair of being a prisoner.
As if sensing Lin Qiu's gaze, the girl turned her head and smiled faintly.
"You know her?"
Sasha wondered.
Lin Qiu shook his head, but through the girl's smile, he understood one thing. He leaned into Sasha's ear and said mysteriously, "You see, she's going to do something in a while." ”
He wasn't an ally of the Vikings, so he wouldn't have alerted them. Anyway, it's none of his business, hanging high, Lin Qiulai's only purpose is to find out what the true purpose of the deceased Bamian is, and if he is lucky, he may be able to speculate the real reason why Alyssa left without saying goodbye.
After all the slaves had been escorted into the gladiatorial arena, he took Sasha with him. When the warden saw Lin Qiu, he raised his left arm to salute him, and he took Lin Qiu and Sasha to the middle of the gladiatorial arena.
In the gladiatorial arena, the two middle-aged men with the upper body of **** stared at each other intently, and the spears in their hands seemed to be ready to pierce each other's throats at any time.
"I've been here once before, and I've heard the master of ceremonies say that if you win a month's worth of games in a row, you'll be free. ”
Freedom is undoubtedly the most tempting reward for these people who have been reduced to prisoners.
"But I heard that since the establishment of the gladiatorial arena, only a few people have been able to get out of here. ”
"That's not it, most of these people aren't even knights, and it depends on destiny to win or lose. ”
Lin Qiu glanced at the two men in the gladiatorial arena and said.
They have no scarring power fluctuations on their bodies, and they are probably just ordinary people who have been looted by the Vikings.
"You...... Can't you save them?"
Sasha's tone was a little hesitant, and her gaze was full of pity as she looked into the arena - most of the slaves were ordinary people who traveled between the North and South continents.
Lin Qiu shook his head: "If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan." ”
What's more, his instincts told him that this contest would be ruined by the mysterious girl.
"Drink!"
Finally, one of them couldn't take it anymore, he shouted loudly, and raised his spear. However, just as the two were about to face each other, the iron prison behind them was suddenly opened, and the previous girl slowly walked up to the stage under the escort of the Viking guards. After the two stopped fighting, there was a boo in the stadium.
Lin Qiu pointed at the girl and said proudly, "Look, she's going to do something." ”
Then, the master of ceremonies whispered something that Lin Qiu didn't understand, but there was a commotion at the scene.
Sasha lost his voice in disbelief: "He said...... This girl is going to challenge the Vikings! Is she crazy?"
Viking warriors, Vikings who belong to the captain level, each Viking warrior is an elite selected from a hundred. The girl looked weak in front of the Vikings, who were more than two meters tall, and after listening to the master of ceremonies, the boos at the scene were even higher.
"Why, don't you dare?"
The girl looked around the audience of the arena, and finally stopped her eyes on Lin Qiu and Sasha.
Although the Vikings could not understand the lingua franca of the mainland, the contemptuous expression on the girl's face was palpable, so at the instigation of a group of Vikings, a large man with a giant axe jumped down from the audience several meters high, with a bone necklace around his neck, and walked towards the girl with a sinister smile.
Seeing this, the two slaves had already quietly slipped back.
"Master, that girl's magic fluctuates strongly. ”
Deep Sea, who had been silent, suddenly reminded.
Lin Qiu deliberately teased Shenhai, he had already guessed that the girl was not an idle person: "How strong is very strong?"
"Hmm...... It must be similar to when the owner does not use the mark. ”
For this result, Lin Qiu was not surprised, the strength of the scoring force had never been his strong point, and the fluctuation was similar to his, that is, he had just stepped into the threshold of the royal knight.
However, even if you have just stepped into the threshold of the royal knights, it is enough to deal with the Viking warriors.
The girl's weapon was a rapier, which was extremely weak in front of the great axe, but it was this rapier that easily blocked the blow of the Viking warrior.
"I remember!"
Sasha on the side suddenly exclaimed, and Lin Qiu, who was watching with relish, was startled by her. Although each attack of the Viking warriors in the arena looked vigorous, they could not inflict the slightest substantial damage on the girl.
In fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the girl plays the Viking warriors.
"That sword is the sound of the wind, so to speak...... She's Lilith!"
Lilith?
Lin Qiu felt that this name seemed familiar.
When I first arrived at the sailor's house, I heard the name from the mouths of those bragging sailors, and because it sounded like a rich lady, he listened to it.
Lin Qiu swore that he was only a little tempted by the gold coins.
"What's the thing? Well, a knight from the countryside like me can't understand the slang of your city. ”
Not being ashamed to ask questions has always been Lin Qiu's virtue.
Sasha rolled his eyes at him: "It's a famous sword, I liked swords very much when I was a child, and my father gave me a book of famous swords, this sword is priceless." ”
Lin Qiubei didn't pay attention to it, but he heard the word priceless.
In this way, at that time, Ophelia was willing to pay as much as 100,000 gold coins for the deep sea, and this 100,000 gold coins was enough for ordinary people to squander for a lifetime. It seems that the knight of this world has an almost fanatical pursuit of the sword, and he sees some kind of business opportunity in it.
Capitalism of all evils!
If one day he runs out of money to spend, the deep sea will definitely solve his urgent needs.
After feeling the filthy thoughts in Lin Qiu's heart, Shen Hai immediately responded in a cold tone: "Master, if you have such thoughts again, I will suck your blood dry." ”
"Deep sea, I'm just kidding. ”
Lin Qiu immediately laughed, and when he was excited, he forgot that the deep sea could hear his inner thoughts.
"According to the illustrated book, Feng Ming is because the S-class magic core is embedded in the sword, so the owner can also control the power of the wind to a certain extent. ”
Before Sasha could finish speaking, the girl's eyes froze, she dodged the oncoming giant axe sideways, and raised her right hand, this dazzling action immediately attracted an exclamation from the audience.
Immediately afterward, a line of blood sprang out of the neck of the Viking warrior.