Chapter 284: The Colosseum

Behind the hotel was an alley, and Lorist gently pushed open the window to make sure that the buildings on both sides were not moving, and then jumped down, and a figure flashed into the alley. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Perhaps it was the noise of the drinkers of the Flame and Blood Tavern every night that caused the houses on both sides of the alley to keep their windows closed in the direction of the tavern, and Lorist looked around to see that there was nothing unusual, so he straightened his clothes and walked in the direction of the Colosseum of the Royal City.

The camp of the Praetorian Guard was still lit with candles, and even the screams and laughter of women could be heard in the camp, and the members of the slave hunting group and mercenaries who were forced to form the Shame Legion had made the originally regular legion camp a miasma of smoke and smoke with the idea of being drunk today......

Lorist was now dressed as a dissolute mercenary, with a strong smell of alcohol, a cloak and a bottle of bad wine in his hand, muttering in his mouth, his steps were crooked, and he staggered towards the camp.

A sentry saw Lorist and walked over with a shiny look in his eyes. Of course, all his attention was on the bottle swinging in Lorlist's hand.

"Hey, man, you've had enough of it, are you okay?" the sentry gestured to help Lolist, but one hand grabbed the bottle and tugged at it, and Lorist grabbed it so tightly that it wasn't taken away.

Lorist grunted, "Congratulations to His Majesty, we're going to war, another bottle, vomit ......"

The sentry patted Lorist on the back: "Dude, if you want to vomit, go to the alley next to you and vomit, I'll help you get the wine, and I'll give it to you when you're done." ”

This time Lorist let go, and the wine bottle was taken away by the sentry, and the sentry was very satisfied with the wine bottle with more than half of the wine, and pushed Lorist again: "Go quickly......

He wiped the bottle with his hand and poured wine into his mouth.

Lorist stumbled into the alley next to the barracks and made a vomiting sound.

As soon as he entered the alley, Lorist was startled, there were a dozen or so drunken people lying on the ground, and the air was filled with a disgusting smell of vomiting, and the smell of vomiting dirt and alcohol was everywhere.

Lorist pinched his nose and walked quickly through the alley, and in front of him was the gladiatorial arena of the royal city like a silent demonic beast in the night, huge, majestic, and exuding a smell of blood. It was the distinctive smell of the blood shed by the thousands of slave gladiators who had died here over the decades, soaking the land of the gladiatorial arena......

In the darkness, there were faint roars of demonic beasts, which were the whistlings of those demonic beasts raised in the gladiatorial arena due to hunger......

The main entrance to the Colosseum was locked, and by the light of the four torches in the gate, Lorist saw two guards dozing off against the stone wall of the walkway inside the iron gate. Lorist made a quick turn around the Colosseum, and found that the back door and the four side doors were closed, and it seemed that there was no need to think about sneaking into the Colosseum from below.

Lorist spat on his hand, rubbed his hands together and climbed up along the uneven crack in the stone wall, and the whole person was like a gecko and quickly attached to the stone wall, and soon reached the top of the arched decorative wall above, and as soon as he turned over, he was in the gladiatorial arena.

The left and right spectator seats of the gladiatorial arena are very high, with more than ten floors, each one meter high, and rows of stone seats. The two ends of the middle are the lowest, but where the gate enters there is a tall tower, which is both a watchtower and a bell tower for alarms. On the opposite side of the tower was the rostrum and box, which was reserved for nobles and people of status to watch gladiatorial performances.

In the middle of the gladiatorial arena is a large piece of flat land, which has a height difference of five or six meters from the surrounding stands, and unlike the stone wall outside the gladiatorial arena that Lorist climbs, the stone walls inside the arena around the grandstand are all plastered with green cement, which is very smooth, which is to prevent desperate slave gladiators from climbing the stone wall and causing harm to the spectators in the stands.

Under the illumination of the silver moon, there was no hazy silver moonlight on the flat ground in the middle of the gladiatorial arena, but it showed a dull black. The smell of blood that Lorist smelled emanated from this flat ground, and the night wind swept through the empty gladiatorial arena, faintly bringing with it the clatter of swords, the wails of the dying and the roar of despair......

Fat Man, Jim, and the valiant family soldiers were forced to take up their swords and guns and fight other slave gladiators to the death to please the nobles and commoners of the slave kingdom and the royal city of Hamidas. They never treated slaves as human beings, and in this gladiatorial arena, the blood and lives of slave gladiators were impromptu by the descendants of these pirates......

In that case, they don't have to be human beings......

Lorist's eyes were flushed with a hint of blood, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of murderous intent when he touched the scene. Looking left and right, there was no one on the tower, and on such a night, no one wanted to blow the wind on the tower against the unmanned gladiatorial arena. Lorist hurried up the tower, and with a flash of his sword, the rope that bound the alarm bell fell.

After descending the tower, Lorist threw the rope to the flat ground of the gladiatorial arena, without the rope, and the alarm would not sound for a short time in case of an accident.

At the back of the tower there was an iron fence door leading to the interior of the gladiatorial arena, and Lorist had heard from Targer that the place where the slave gladiators were imprisoned was under the colosseum, where there was a labyrinthine underground cell, and it is said that at its peak more than 5,000 slave gladiators were imprisoned.

The iron fence gate has an iron deadbolt and a thick iron chain. This was difficult for Lorist, he drew his short sword, used his internal strength, and with two "clicks", the iron deadbolt and iron chain had been cut off. With a "squeak", the iron fence gate was opened, and Lorist listened to the lack of movement around him, and his figure flashed in, and then closed the iron fence gate, and rewound the iron chains, so that even if there were patrolling guards who did not look closely, they would be ignored.

After walking more than ten steps in front of a fork, Lorist thought about going to the passage on the left, and walked dozens of meters in front of three passages, this time Lorist is a little straight-eyed, there are so many passages before he goes underground, and if he doesn't do it, he will turn dizzy and lose his way.

Leaning against the wall and listening for a while, there were several sounds of conversation coming from the passage on the left, and Lorist felt in the darkness towards the passage on the left. There was a light in front of them, the light of two torches stuck in the wall, and in the light of the fire, two shirtless guards were wiping their bodies with sackcloths, and in front of them was a large wooden basin filled with water.

"Alright, don't wipe it so clean, go to bed early, it's our turn to be on duty tomorrow morning......," said one of the guards.

"No, tonight the great swordsman of Benag tortured and killed that slave gladiator, and the blood splattered all over my neck, and I feel so sick that I won't be able to sleep and have nightmares at night if I don't wipe it clean......," said another soldier.

The first guard soldier laughed: "Haha, who told you to slap the ass of the Great Sword Master of Benag so close, I know that there is nothing good to watch the excitement far away." You must know that the Great Sword Master Benag has always had a strange temper, and even if you please him, you will not gain much. “

"I didn't think of any benefits, I just hoped that the Great Sword Master Benag could say a word for me, you know that I have been in the Praetorian Guard for seven years, and I could have been promoted to the deputy position of squad leader, but the squadron leader's* mother has been pressing me, and I know that he wants to push his brother-in-law up. But his brother-in-law not only has three years less seniority than me, but he is still a bronze rank, and it is not that material at all. So the squadron leader pressed me and didn't report it, and I couldn't get promoted......" another soldier grumbled.

"Forget it, Stamm, who told you to offend the squadron leader before, he's a careful eye, and of course he won't make you feel better. But in the evening, I heard from Su Ruide, who was guarding the gate, that someone had already come looking for that martial idiot boy today. The squadron leader refused, saying that the kid had gone back. However, Su Ruide said that the people who came might not give up, and in a day or two, maybe a big nobleman would come forward to inquire. If you leak the news at that time, I will ensure that the squadron leader will not be able to eat and walk around, and obediently become a scapegoat......"

"It's not a good idea. The soldier named Stamm refused: "You know that the martial idiot boy is favored by the Benag swordsman, I don't understand what the Benag swordsman likes about that kid, although it is a silver three-star, but the understanding is really not very good, and the heart is soft-hearted, and those slave gladiators are reluctant to kill the sword, this is also the common problem of those big young masters, how can you understand the true meaning of swordsmanship if you are not ruthless......"

"Hehe......" The first soldier smiled: "You don't know, Benag Great Swordsman is interested in that kid's net worth, and behind him is the Peterson Chamber of Commerce, one of the seven giants of the Business Alliance." If the Great Sword Master of Benag becomes his swordsmanship teacher, not to mention anything else, there will be an annuity of two or three thousand gold fortunes a year.

Don't you want to think about it, that kid came to our gladiatorial arena to practice swords with those slave gladiators, and the cost of a day was about twenty or thirty gold fords, plus the reward cost nearly a thousand a month, so many gold coins spent here The kid's face did not change, so the great swordsman Benag was moved. ”

Lorist was overjoyed to finally get El's whereabouts.

The two soldiers in the distance wiped themselves and turned into a room in the back, but the one named Stamm quickly came out and went into the opposite room complaining that he was snoring too loudly and too loud to sleep.

When it was quiet, Lorist covered up and took a quick look, and it turned out that the two rows of rooms door-to-door here were soldiers' quarters, and there were more than seventy soldiers sleeping in these rooms. Lorist went to the room where Stam had entered, and pushed the door in.

"Who?" said Stam who was already lying on the bed, not yet asleep, when he looked up and asked when he saw someone coming in.

The room was dimly lit, but it was still faintly visible that there were a dozen or so beds in the room, except that there was only one Stam lying on one bed now. It seems that Drey's message is accurate, and there are only two hundred of the original 1,000 guards in the Colosseum, so that so many beds are vacated.

Lorist silently arrived at Stam's bed, and with a flash of swords, the sword rested on Stam's neck.

Stamm was shocked: "You, who are you? what do you want to do, what do you ......"

Lorist opened his mouth: "You don't care who I am, I just want to know the whereabouts of our young master." ”

"How do I know where your young master is?" you, are you looking for the wrong person......" Stam asked suspiciously.

"I know you, our young master has entered the gladiatorial arena several times to practice swords, and you have been picked up and brought into the gate, and I remember that our young master also rewarded you. Lorist said.

"Oh. Stam immediately understood and breathed a sigh of relief: "Brother, are you the kind of guard of the young master of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce? You can't solve this matter, let the great nobles of the royal city come forward or let your chamber of commerce send a great sword master over. Your young master is indeed here, but he was favored by the Great Sword Master Benag and wanted to accept him as a disciple. The eldest young master of your family was too stubborn and refused to die, so he annoyed the great sword master Benag and was put under house arrest by him. ”

"Then why did the people from our Chamber of Commerce come to him in the evening, and your squadron leader refused to admit that our young master was here?" Lorist asked in a low voice.

"Hey, bro, that's none of my business. The main reason is that the Great Swordsman Benag has a strange temper, in case he can't control his anger and let your young master have an accident, the squadron leader can shirk his responsibility as soon as possible. If a dead person dies here, as long as he throws it into the monster cage, there will be no clues, and then he can die without proof. "Stam has a deep grudge against the squadron leader and will be busy throwing sewage on him. He thought very thoroughly, the young master who was secretly protected by guards by his side would definitely not have a simple family background, maybe the squadron leader would be unlucky because of this incident, so his chance would come.

"You get up and get dressed, and take me to see our young master. I have to make sure he's safe. Lorist slapped Stam in the face with his sword: "If you help with this, we will definitely have a big reward, this is a deposit." ”

The fire flickered, and Lorist had a small torch in his hand, which lit up the room. As Stam squinted at the firelight, a glittering gold dollar coupon fell on his face.

"You have two choices, one is to take me to see the young master of our family, and when the young master of our family goes out, he will be rewarded heavily, and the other is to refuse my request and be killed by me, and then I will look for someone who is willing to cooperate. There are sixty or seventy people here, and I'm sure someone will cooperate. Lorlist's dark voice rang in Stam's ears.

Stam gritted his teeth, grabbed the gold dollar coupon at the head of the bed, distinguished the real from the fake by the light of the torch in Lorlist's hand, and then kissed it on the mouth: "People die for money, I will accompany you on a trip, but you can't dress like this, you will be discovered." ”

Lorist pointed to the bed next to him, on which was a set of Praetorian Legionnaire equipment that Lorist had touched from the room where the soldiers were sleeping: "I'm ready, put on this set of equipment and it's your soldiers, this bronze helmet is still wearing a visor, just so that people can't tell it, you and I will take me to see the young master of our family and make sure that he is still alive." ”

...... (To be continued.) )