I don't know how long it took, the sound of "clang" opening the door woke Ning Ke up from his cultivation.

"Give!"

A vicious middle-aged man came in from the door of the room, and threw him a fat and bloody leg of lamb as if he were feeding a wild animal, and said, "If you win today, I will give you a leg of lamb......

Ning Ke guessed that the meaning of the middle-aged man's unfinished words was that he didn't eat if he lost the fight.

In fact, the meaning of middle-aged people's words is: if you lose, you don't need to eat.

Later, Ning Ke learned that if he lost the game, if he was not killed by the other party, most of them would be dragged to feed the beasts......

When Ning Ke didn't enter the gladiatorial arena, he heard the noisy and noisy sounds in the arena from time to time, and the race racecourse was still lively.

Yesterday, he was sold to the gladiatorial arena by several petty officials patrolling Ascension Square.

He would never have dreamed that he would become a gladiator in his life!

He searched his stomach and recalled the history of ancient and modern China and foreign countries, when and where did gladiators appear?

It is known that professional gladiators appeared in the ancient Roman Empire about two thousand years ago. Its sources were mainly slaves, prisoners of war, and a small number of freemen. Armed with short swords, shields, or other weapons, they wrestle with each other to the applause of the audience.

From the historical jade slips copied from Liu Xizi's mind, Ning Ke once saw that in the Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period of China, there was a very short period of time when gladiators appeared. It was so cruel that it was banned after only a few decades.

Where did this hidden man learn this?!

The competition is divided into three categories: first, beasts kill each other, second, humans kill each other, and third, people kill each other.

If the beast loses in the game, as long as the injury is not very serious, the owner will continue to raise and train in order to continue the fight next time, and as long as there is a duel in which someone participates, the loser will feed the beast directly, and few will continue to feed.

There are three types of people-to-people competitions:

One is that the gladiatorial arena assigns its own gladiators to fight, for the nobles and celebrities in the hidden world to watch the competition, and the color head is naturally indispensable;

The second is that the major forces in the hidden realm compete with each other for cultivation resources, and they don't want to fight, so they often gamble on the ownership of resources through gladiatorial battles;

The third is that some sects and forces bring their own gladiators to gamble with the gladiatorial arena in order to obtain silver.

In normal times, the big sects will raise some gladiators to come in handy in such competitions.

In the first type of competition, in order to save costs, in order to be spectacle when fighting between people, there are rehearsals for fights in advance, and fake fights cannot be completely ruled out;

It is customary that the cultivation of gladiators shall not exceed the Xuan level.

In order to increase spectacle and give the bettor a basis, gladiators were ranked. In general, gladiators of the same rank will make the same bets or odds when they fight, but if they are of different ranks, the bets or odds are exactly the opposite of the rank.

That is to say, the lower rank fights the higher rank, and the lower rank makes fewer bets, and if he wins, he gains more and vice versa.

This is similar to the way many casinos set odds.

Ning Ke is just a newcomer, he has no cultivation, he is not even graded, and he is contemptuously called "cloth clothes", numbered Yiding.

Ning Ke was put into a circular gladiatorial arena with a diameter of more than twenty meters like a beast, and before he knew what was going on, a male wild boar weighing several hundred kilograms rushed over.

It's not fair to him!

The other gladiators also communicated with each other, and knew what to do and what weapons to use. He was brought out of the room where the beast was imprisoned, and without anyone telling him, he released a boar to fight him......

......

Early in the morning, Hu Zhenren took his apprentice Qingdu, bought a ticket and entered the gladiatorial arena. They found their seats and sat in the stands waiting to watch today's game. Hu Zhenren sat in the front row, and Qing Duan sat in the back row.

Today's match was a spectator match held in the Colosseum, and the audience was still full and the seats were packed. The game has just begun, and the odds offered are not attractive, and it is not yet time for the extraordinary odds to appear.

Each type of competition is played in two rounds, and sometimes the gladiatorial arena will be temporarily added depending on the situation.

As soon as the beast competition ended, Ning Ke was pushed and shoved into the field......

Qing Tan has been cultivating in the master door and rarely goes out. I was still very excited to come to the gladiatorial arena with Master today, and I felt that everything was fresh, and I kept asking Master this and that. How did he know? Master was also a rookie, and it wasn't until Master's face turned angry that he was too frightened to say anything.

During the two rounds of beast competition, he helped the master place a bet, and he actually won both. This made him excited! All the things that should be said and what should not be said came out.

The master scolded him for a while, and he was too timid to squeak anymore, so he sat on the chair and played with his fingers, and fell asleep.

The next one is a man-beast battle, and the waiter in the gladiatorial arena loudly tempts and urges the audience to hurry up and place bets, and the odds are 1:2.

Hu Zhenren is usually very fond of bluntness. He was the youngest in the sect, but he was the first cultivator to enter the yellow rank.

The hidden world has always been based on strength, and bluntness is obviously the hope of "Humen".

Today, he and his disciples came to the gladiatorial arena by accident, and a small sect like them could only buy the cheapest seat tickets. During the beast competition, he was affected by the atmosphere of the scene, and when he was excited, he also wanted to fight for some luck, so he took some broken silver from the storage bag and let the apprentice be blunt to help place two bets, who knew that he won both times.

It was originally a happy thing, but who knew that Qingdu's excitement was a bit too much, which attracted disdain and cynicism from other audiences, especially those who lost money.

"Hillbilly!" a small bet is worth shouting about......"

"At first glance, he is a poor bastard! Dare to come to the gladiatorial arena to gamble......"

......

The cold words of the crowd, even the waiter who sold the chips cast a contemptuous gaze.

Hu Zhenren couldn't help but reprimand Qing Dut, who knew that the apprentice actually cried, which made his old face even more unbearable. Impulsively, he took off his storage bag and gave it to Qing Dut, saying that he would let the apprentice bet casually, but secretly gave the apprentice a look to make him stop.

He...... Even fantasized that he would win if he was lucky.

Celebrities in the hidden realm and cultivators with advanced cultivation generally use storage bags. This kind of bag is woven from silk, although the bag is small, but it is unique. It is equivalent to a small four-dimensional space, and there are still a few cubes. Although it is not as good as a storage ring, it is still very convenient as a general storage item.

The biggest advantage is that even ordinary people who don't have divine consciousness can use it as long as they have mastered the opening mind.

The silkworm and the ice silkworm are close relatives, and they also have to parasitize and grow in the human mind......

Hu Zhenren rarely comes to the gladiatorial arena in normal times, and the head of a small sect like him does not have the strength to spend or be capricious here. Originally, he didn't come here to gamble, and if he kept a low profile, he wouldn't attract the attention of others.

Who knew that as soon as the apprentice was excited today, he could only pretend to be forced once.

Qing Dut's mood was a little low, when he was playing with beasts, he won the two bets he made, but he was reprimanded by the master when he was happy.

Now the master asked him to bet again, and he made a look at him, making him confused, and he didn't know what to do. Master is a little capricious today, and he can't figure out Master's true thoughts. After hesitating for a long time, under the urging of the waiter, he bet on the cash and silver tickets in the master's storage bag to win.

The master originally intended to let him bet half a star, on the surface, his storage bag was given to the apprentice, and the apprentice was allowed to bet, but in fact he only wanted the apprentice to participate. In this way, he can somehow get some face, but who knows that his good apprentice suddenly bet all the money in the storage bag!

When Ning Ke was brought into the gladiatorial arena, Qing Dull immediately recognized Ning Ke. Although Ning Ke was wearing a gladiator's outfit today, he still recognized it at a glance.

"Master, that's him...... He's the stowaway!"

Before his master could see the appearance of the people in the gladiatorial arena, everyone's questions sounded in his ears.

"Who's the stowaway?!"

"Where's the stowaway?!"

"How can there be stowaways here?......

Qing Dull listened to the discussion, and hurriedly explained: "That 'cloth cloth Yiding' standing in the gladiatorial arena is the stowaway! I saw him climb over the chain bridge...... He's amazing...... I've staked all my money on him!"

In fact, Ning Ke hadn't played when Qing Dull was betting.

"What nonsense are you talking about?!"

Hu Zhenren listened to his apprentice's words, blew his beard angrily and glared, and really wanted to stretch out his hand and beat him to death......

The audience sitting in this area listened to the blunt words, and for a while they were confused, and when the wild boar was released, no one bothered to talk about it.

The boar was large, thick-robed, hairy like a hedgehog, and was specially trained to rush to the people in the field as soon as it was released.

only heard a miserable scream of "ah-yo", and one of the fangs of the wild boar pressed against the crook of Ning Ke's leg. Ning Ke was knocked over by a wild boar, and the flesh in the crook of his leg turned out, and the blood flowed like an infusion......

It's no wonder that Ning Ke is inexperienced, or that he doesn't even know "who" he's going to duel against. He was rushed from the cell where he was held down a passageway, and he stood still. He looked at the enthusiastic spectators sitting around him, and he was scolding in his heart who made such a bloody "game".

And the wild boar also came in from the same channel. When he noticed movement behind him, he hurriedly dodged, but was still stabbed by the long fangs of the wild boar.

Suddenly he became a gladiator who fought for people's amusement, amusement, and betting, and his heart could not accept it for a while! But at this moment of stunned time, his leg had been arched by a wild boar......

The gladiatorial arena is a circular vaulted building, surrounded by stepped stands, and the middle is surrounded by bluestone to form a circular gladiatorial arena. The whole building is not very big, it is about the size of a modern basketball stadium.

A modern man, the understanding of the word "competition" hurts him!

- In his impression, the game always has to give people time to prepare, and there are referees' orders, how can there be a direct beast to bite people?......