Chapter 287: The Secret Path

The four guards at the entrance of the passage saw Lorist coming over with a muttering voice. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Hey, what's wrong?" asked one of the guards.

"Don't mention it, it's disgusting, Benag Great Swordsman is so ruthless......" Lorist knocked on the thick iron barred door, "Big Brother Stam wants me to get some tools to clean up there, and I will have to carry the corpse later." ”

A guard soldier came over and opened the iron fence door and said, "You are stupid, why do you do it yourself, just go to the first floor and find a few slave servants to come and clean up, anyway, the corpse will be transported to the monster pen to feed the monster ......"

Loris nodded: "I think so too, but Big Brother Starm told me to move quickly, if the next layer takes too long, maybe the Great Swordsman Benag will be unhappy again." ”

The other soldier laughed, "Count you two unlucky, just when the Great Sword Master Benag was in a bad mood." By the way, how many died just now? I shudder a little when I hear the echo of the screams, and I guess those slaves must have died miserably......

The door opened, and Lorist walked in to find a good bearing, and replied with a smile, "Four." ”

With the flickering of the sword, the lives of the four guards were frozen at this moment. The four swords, all of which had a crack in their throats, threw themselves to the ground without even letting out a scream. As soon as Lorist raised his hand, El in the dark led seven or eight family soldiers to rush over, and ripped the corpses of the four guards into bare pigs. In addition to El, three more family soldiers of similar stature were found to wear these four sets of Praetorian Legion soldiers' standard equipment.

The rest of the family soldiers dragged the four corpses back. Lorist looked El and the three family soldiers up and down, and nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, fortunately, the enemy is equipped with this kind of antique bronze helmet, and it is really difficult to distinguish if he is not an acquaintance." You are here to watch, and if any enemy wants to come in and inspect and cannot recognize you, let them in and clean up, and if they find that you have a problem, do it immediately, and don't let them flee back and report it......"

El nodded: "My lord, I understand. ”

Lorist took the key and walked back, there was El He was very relieved, the soldiers left here by the Praetorian Legion were just the fighting spirit of the bronze and black iron rank, and the one who might lead the team was the silver rank, which was not much different from the soldiers of the Norton family. A dozen or so patrolling soldiers came over to meet El, a silver three-star soldier, plus with the help of three family soldiers of the Black Iron Rank, there should be no problems.

"Thanks, his name is Jeders, this is Mason, this is Senderhank, and his name is Prom. All four of them are at the Golden Rank, which is why they are locked up here with me. Well, what do you call you?" the slave swordsman Hus took the bronze key that Lorist had brought back, opened the four cells next door, released the four golden gladiators, and introduced Lorist as he removed the shackles from them.

"Norton Lorlist, you just call me Locke. Lorist nodded at Theseus and the four golden gladiators.

"Our Lord is the Northland Roaring Bear, the head of the Norton family, and an earl. Shi Fatzi stepped forward and introduced very seriously.

However, the Great Swordsman Xiusi didn't take Lorlist's status as an earl in his eyes, and nodded casually and replied: "Okay, let's call you Lord Locke or Lord Earl." Jedus, Prom, here, you guys get the key and get the guys out of the back. ”

"Just call me Locke, that's what my friends call me. Lorist watched curiously as the two golden gladiators, Jade and Prom, disappeared into the darkness: "Is there anyone else?"

"Well, originally the three underground floors were for the slave gladiators above the silver rank, and there were twenty-seven in the innermost place. Your people are mainly too tightly huddled, so they are also locked up here, and they have become the targets of strict precautions. Hughes said.

"My lord, you just said that our family forces have occupied Nubit Harbor?" asked Fat Shi beside him.

"Yes. Lorist gave a brief introduction to the current situation: "...... It's because I'm worried about you that I sneaked into this royal city, but fortunately it was just in time, otherwise I wouldn't have seen you in this life. ”

"My lord, you shouldn't risk it alone, it doesn't matter if we die, you are responsible for the family. If something happens to you, we'll die. Jim, Teucer, and Klimbo and the other knights of the family were moved to tears when they heard that Lorist had come to the gladiatorial arena for them.

"That's right, my lord, you shouldn't take such a big risk...... "Shi Fatzi also sighed.

"Nonsense, although I am the head of the Norton family, I am also your friend and brother, and you have fallen into the hands of the enemy and become a prisoner for the sake of the family, and I will ignore it...... are you still human," Lorist said.

"Well said, of course you did well, there are very few nobles like you now. Lord Locke, what are you going to do next?" asked the Great Swordsman Xius next to him.

"This ......" Lorist touched his head, a little embarrassed and said: "I really don't have any plans, today I originally wanted to come in and have a look, find out the situation in the gladiatorial arena, and find them." Just now, the situation was urgent, and I couldn't help but make a move. If it's one or two people, maybe I can find a way to take them out, but now there are so many people here, I can't do anything, it's a big deal to kill all the way out, anyway, the Praetorian Guard Legion in the royal city has been on the march in the past few days, and the defense force is not enough, so it should still be possible to take everyone out of the city gate. It's just that I can't guarantee how many people will be able to rush out......"

The Great Swordsman Xiusi glanced at Lorist deeply, probably curious about why Lorist said that he could lead everyone out of the royal city. He groaned and said, "If you only want to get out of the royal city, then you don't need to kill it, I know a secret way." You come with me......"

Hughes turned and left, and Lorist followed with Fat Man and Teucer, leaving Jim and Klimbo and several other family knights and the family soldiers to wait here.

Walking through a dark passageway, there was a cacophony in front of me. When I got closer, it was the two golden gladiators who were helping a group of people unshackle their bodies just now. Seeing the Great Sword Master Xius and Lorist and the others greeting each other, they all greeted each other.

The Great Swordsman Hus led everyone to the door of the innermost room of this row of cells, and stood in front of the door for a long time before he ordered the golden gladiator named Jeders to open the door of the cell. When he entered, he removed the broken wooden bed against the wall and the rotting straw mats on it, and struck the large bluestone on the ground with his hand, and then lifted one of them, revealing a small crypt underneath, the mouth of which was just big enough for a man to enter......

"This secret passage, old Jones dug for fourteen years, and when he dug and was ready to escape, he fell on the gladiatorial arena......" The great swordsman Xiusi said with emotion: "That day, before going on the field, he told me very excitedly that when he got off the field to eat, he would hide two slices of black bread, and he could escape at night." But I didn't wait for him to happen...... His gladiatorial fight that day was one man against two saber-toothed tigers......"

If the slave gladiator wins, he will be rewarded with a feast of roasted meat, potatoes, brown bread, and bad wine, and he will be able to eat to his heart's content, and he will bring two slices of black bread back for supper in the evening.

"Where does this dark passage lead?" asked Lorlist.

"I don't know. Bigsword Theseus shook his head: "Old Jones told me that he dug into the underground sewer drain, and the last big bluestone was left untouched. As long as he gets rid of this big bluestone, he can escape. But old Jones has been dead for two years, and I haven't been in this cell, so I can't find out for myself. ”

After saying that, the Great Sword Master Xiusi rummaged through the back of the broken wooden bed, and found a small piece of metal and a thumb-long piece of wire: "This is his tool." This was a broken tip of a sword, which old Jones had picked up and hidden in the gladiatorial arena. He had found the wire in a broken basket. The most important thing is that these two things can be formed into swords through fighting energy, and old Jones used these two things to open the shackles late every night and secretly dig for fourteen years to dig through this dark passage. ”

Cow, Lorist remembers that he had seen a classic Hollywood movie in his previous life, called Redemption, in which the protagonist was wrongfully sentenced to a long prison sentence, and he spent more than ten years digging a dark passage to the gutter in his prison cell with a metal spoon to escape and gain freedom. This old Jones is really similar to the hero of that movie, but unfortunately he didn't have the luck of the hero, and died in the gladiatorial arena before escaping.

"My lord, why don't I go down and have a look. Teucer said and went down into the cave.

"Hey, wait. Shi Fatzi stuffed the torch in his hand: "Bring the torch down and see it clearly......"

Teucer went down for more than half an hour or so, and then crawled out of the burrow, covered in dirt.

"My lord, this dark passage is not long, only about fourteen or fifteen meters, but it is too narrow to turn around, and it is also very breathless. But in the end, there is a row of bluestone walls, and there is a small space. I smashed two large bluestones, sure enough, it was a sewer, in which two people could walk side by side, and I walked two or three hundred meters to the place where the wind blew is a drain, but there are also two rows of large iron fences erected at the drain, which is as thick as a bowl......"

Teucer gestured to show the thickness, hesitated, and said, "I looked at it, and found that this drain seemed to be in a recess, and there was a tower more than fifty meters away from the left and right outside, which was connected to the city wall. If we go out through this drain, we will easily be spotted by the enemies on the walls and towers, and if they launch a long-range attack with a crossbow, we will be unarmed and will only be beaten, and we will not be able to fight back at all......"

As he spoke, Teucer crouched down and drew a semi-circle on the ground, and drew two small circles at the top of the two semicircles to represent the two towers, and then dotted in the middle of the semi-circle arc to indicate that this was the drain.

"And where does the sewer lead on the other side?" asked Fat Shi.

"I didn't go there, but I felt that it was very dark and long, and I didn't know where it leads, and I was afraid that the adults would be in a hurry and came back. Teucer shook his head.

"I don't have to go over this, I know where it is. "I heard a slave gladiator say before that the exit is on the Ring Road. In fact, this sewer is also a drain. There are many heavy rains in the Hanea Bada Islands, often for two or three days. The reason why the city does not accumulate water is because of these sewers, and there are such sewers and drains in all four urban districts. Every month, the 10th guard would go in and let the slaves clean up, and the slave gladiator who told me about it was originally a slave who cleaned the sewers regularly, but was sent to the colossum because he was a slave overseer. He died on the field after only three gladiatorial fights......"

"My lord, what should I do now?" asked Shi Fatzi.

Lorist was in trouble, although there was a secret passage to get out of the city, it was still to no avail, he had to bring not a few people, but more than two hundred, just through this secret passage It would take two or three hours, and everyone was hungry and cold. As they learned through Shi Fatzi just now, now they have no gladiatorial fights and have been locked in a cell for a day and have eaten a bowl of multigrain batter. Seeing that they came to save them was a little refreshed, but if they were in a hurry, they were afraid that everyone would not be able to hold out for long.

In addition, judging from the situation of Tokke's investigation just now, it is also very difficult to escape from the drainage, so many people will definitely alarm the guards on the city walls and towers, and without weapons and equipment, they are afraid that they will suffer heavy casualties if they encounter a long-range attack. If you want to take them to escape, you don't want to lead them to a dead end......

If you kill the enemies on the walls and towers first, and then let everyone escape, it is not a way. Although the guards on the walls and towers were not taken seriously by themselves, the current situation was that the enemy was very tightly guarding the walls, and killing the walls himself would definitely alarm the enemy. As long as the enemy dispatched a few great sword masters to pester him and then sent people to pursue Shi Fatzi and them, these escaped family soldiers would not be able to fight the enemy with their bare hands, and no matter how powerful they were, they would not be able to save everyone......

For a while, Lorist was also in trouble, and he couldn't think of any good ideas after touching his chin and hesitating for a long time.

"Lord Locke, I just heard you say that the Praetorian Guard Legion of the Royal City has set out in the morning, so do you know how many guards there are in the Colosseum now?" Archswordsman Xius's question interrupted Lorlist's musings.

"Oh, there should be more than two hundred soldiers of the Praetorian Legion guarding the gladiatorial arena, about two squads. Lorist replied.

"Great, can Lord Locke lend us some weapons? I want to free the slave gladiators on the second floor, and occupy the first floor as soon as possible so that we can have a chance to breathe. The Great Swordsman said.

"Huh?" Lorist was stunned, the Great Swordsman of Xiusi had something to say, what did he mean?

"Oh, Lord Locke, that's right. Seeing Lorist's expression, the Great Sword Temple hurriedly explained: "In fact, the more than two hundred soldiers of the Praetorian Guard you mentioned are only responsible for patrolling and guarding, and there are one or two hundred instructors and stewards living on the other side of the gladiatorial arena, and they are the real threat to us. Moreover, the other second-level great sword master in the Colosseum, Giruwitt, also lived there.

However, the underground cell where our slave gladiators are held is only one entrance and exit on the first floor, and if we occupy that entrance and exit first, and prevent those gladiators from teaching and stewardship, as well as the second-level great sword master, we will have time to arrange how to get out of here......"

"Where is the storehouse where the gladiatorial arena holds food and weapons?" asked Lorlist.

"It's over there, too. The Great Swordsman Xiusi squatted down and drew an oval on the ground in the same way as Teucer: "My lord, this is the gladiatorial arena, the underground cell where our slave gladiators are held is on the right, and the Warcraft Fence is also next to it. The quarters where the gladiators trained and stewards were on the left, as were the grain warehouses and arsenals. Every morning the slaves and servants went over and received the food, cooked it on it, and sent it down to the bottom for us to eat, and when they had eaten it, the guards and the gladiators taught us before they took us out and trained us in the gladiatorial arena......"

"Oh, Nashus Great Swordsman, is there a big difference in level between you and that second-level Great Swordsman?"

"This, generally speaking, I can hold on to him, if I try hard, he may not be my opponent, but even if I win, I will have to pay a big price, they still have a dozen gold-level gladiators on their side, and if I rush up, I will not be an opponent. Don't look at Jades Mason, they are also golden gladiators, but first, they can't eat enough, and secondly, they are weak and weak with such heavy iron chains, and they are not their opponents when they fight. That's why I said to kill first, and occupy the entrance and exit of the first floor while the guards are still relatively small, so as to gain time. The Great Swordsman replied very truthfully.

In that case, why not occupy the Colosseum first? An idea popped into Lorist's mind. Taking advantage of the fact that the enemy is not prepared now, he first packed up the remaining squad of more than 200 Praetorian Guard Legions, and then went to the other side of the gladiatorial arena to clean up the gladiator instructors and the second-level great sword master, wouldn't it give his family soldiers time to recuperate......?

"I have an idea...... Lorist said.

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