The darkness receded like a tide.
Before Zhang Heng opened his eyes, he heard deafening cheers and screams. The sound came from the top of his head, and it was mixed with the roar of wild animals. However, the roar was very close to him, less than one meter away. distance.
Even the usually calm Zhang Heng was taken aback.
What is the concept of one meter? For ferocious beasts like lions and tigers, it is just a pounce. The specific location of the beast, and with the end of the countdown of 5 seconds, it will take a certain amount of time for Zhang Heng's eyes to recover their vision. Although this time is not much, any delay at this time is fatal.
If the situation is really as he imagined, this can be regarded as an open door with an infinite death rate.
Logically speaking, dungeons, especially ordinary dungeons, even if survival is the main line, should not have such a dangerous opening.
The next moment, Zhang Heng regained his vision.
The first thing that came into view was the lion in front of him. The previous cheers seemed to stimulate it, and it also stood up and let out a low growl. It seemed that it wanted to attack Zhang Heng, but it couldn't get out of the cage where it was locked. out.
Zhang Heng heaved a sigh of relief when he saw this, and then he found himself standing in a dark and smelly room.
Those cheers continued to come from above his head, and there was another person beside him, holding a pottery bowl containing raw meat, looking at the lion in the cage in fear.
Judging from his clothes, he should be a slave, wearing a short-sleeved long coat and a pair of slippers.
And Zhang Heng found that he was also dressed similarly.
Before Zhang Heng could say hello to the buddy beside him, a man with a whip rushed in from outside, waving the whip in his hand while yelling something in his mouth.
Zhang Heng had to be thankful that he had spent a long time learning languages in the Black Sail dungeon, among them Latin, and the official lingua franca of ancient Rome was Latin.
Of course, after more than a thousand years, there are still many differences in pronunciation and final accents. For example, the ancient Romans pronounced a and e separately, and they sounded It's very similar to k, and a lot of cadences will be added to it.
Zhang Heng felt like he was listening to a dialect, and basically guessed that the other party was asking why they hadn't finished feeding Kunta.
Needless to say, Kunta was naturally the name of the lion in the cage in front of him, so Zhang Heng took the bowl of meat from his companion, poured it into the cage, and served Kunta a meal.
The lion named Kunta finally stopped roaring after eating the meat.
But the guy who looked like a supervisor seemed dissatisfied, he yelled again, and made a gesture to slap someone, Zhang Heng's companion immediately shrank his head, and hurriedly ran out of the house, Zhang Heng followed behind him, waiting to leave The supervisor then took the initiative to ask, "Hey, what's your name?"
The other party didn't seem to understand, so Zhang Heng repeated it again.
"You can speak Latin?" The guy finally understood this time, with a look of surprise on his face, "I'm Varo, how about you?"
"My name is Zhang Heng." Zhang Heng also made a brief self-introduction, then paused, "Please slow down when you speak, my Latin is not very good."
"Okay, okay...Zhang Heng, nice to meet you, no, I should say it's unfortunate to meet you here." Walo said with a miserable smile.
"Are we in the arena now?"
"Yes, more precisely we are now underground in the arena."
"Oh, no wonder you can hear these cheers, what are the people above cheering for?"
"Don't you know, they are executing death row prisoners. I used to sit there and cheer with them." Valo couldn't help but look sad when talking about the past, "But now..."
"Did the Romans execute prisoners in the arena?" Zhang Heng asked.
"Yes, this is a tradition, they will sentence the death row to the beast, and then those unlucky guys will be brought here, by the way, let's talk as we go, Perdita asked us to clean up the mess, If we delay the subsequent gladiatorial performance, we shall be flogged again."
Zhang Heng noticed that there was a flash of fear in Valo's eyes when he mentioned the gladiator performance, but now is not the time to ask such things, he still followed behind the other party, and the two quickly passed through the tunnel lit by oil lamps Came to the ground.
The arena they were in was not too big, obviously not the famous Roman Colosseum in later generations.
But the stands also have several floors, with almost six or seven thousand seats. Almost all seats were sold out, which is where the cheers and screams came from, the audience yelled to kill him! kill him! ! ! Everyone's faces were filled with excitement, as if they were enjoying a big show.
And one of the two protagonists in this big play had his throat bitten off, and the leopard even cut open his stomach with its claws, and began to tear his internal organs. The blood pooled under his body and formed a stream. The entire face was bloody and bloody, the nose and eyes were gone, and the bones of the face were clearly visible.
Although the other condemned prisoner was still alive, he was completely terrified after witnessing this scene.
He is sitting slumped on the other side of the arena at the moment, and it can be seen that he was living a good life before he was caught. All the fat on his body was shaking together, and he watched the cheetah eating in horror. Not feeding the cheetah for a period of time will increase the aggressiveness of the cheetah and the entertainment of the show.
Although the audience in the stands just witnessed the death of a person, they were obviously not satisfied, because the fat man on the other side was still alive, so they began to urge the animal trainers, and the two animal trainers poked the leopard with long poles when they saw this , interrupting the leopard's feeding and driving it towards another condemned prisoner.
Seeing this, the fat man wanted to get up and run, but probably because his legs were weak, he couldn't get up from the ground after trying twice. Instead, it caused a burst of laughter, and there was a happy atmosphere everywhere in the stands.
Finally the fat man stood up, but unfortunately the leopard also came not far from him at this time, the fat man turned around and started to run away, but the speed of the two families was not comparable at all, and the fat man's escape stimulated The cheetah, the latter almost threw himself on the fat man's back, and Zhang Heng didn't think there was any point in watching the scene after that.