After Pannonax left, the little slave girl was still resentful.
"What kind of person is this? We didn't owe him any money. Why did we put on such a stinky face? Look at that Klinder before, how polite he is."
"Um."
"Clinde clearly told you that you can choose the area independently, so why did Pannonax arrange it for you on his own?"
"Um."
"I think he must have evil intentions. He didn't find a good place for you. This guy doesn't look like a good person. Don't let him give it to you, give it to..." The little female slave racked her brains.
"A plot?"
"Yes, plotted against you. He must have plotted against you. I heard that the people in these palaces are not simple. They think a lot, and they like to plot against others." The little female slave felt that she had performed super-level this time , To see through Pannonax's tricks at a glance, I can't help but feel that everyone is drunk and I am alone, feeling that at least at this moment, I am standing on the top of the truth.
"Um."
"Apart from um, don't you have anything else to say?" The little slave girl was speechless.
"Then what do you think I should do?" Zhang Heng asked back.
"At least go find Klinde and tell him the good things Pannonax has done. Klinde will definitely not let him go."
"uh-huh."
"What does uh mean?"
"Do you think Klinder doesn't know what Pannonax did?"
"What do you mean?" The little slave girl was a little confused when she heard the words, "But wasn't Klinde not there at the time, he had something urgent to leave."
"You are quite right in what you said. We have no grievances with Pannonax, and we don't owe him any money. Why does he treat me so badly, even at the risk of being beaten up on purpose? To provoke me? Especially considering that I am likely to become a celebrity in front of His Majesty the Emperor in the future."
"Yes, why?" The little slave girl was puzzled.
"Because Klind asked him to do it." Zhang Heng said with a smile.
"Ah?" The little slave girl always felt that something was wrong, and she finally grasped the key point after thinking about it, "But we don't have any enmity with Klinde, and we don't owe him any money."
"But I might block his way." Zhang Heng said lightly, "The rights of our small group come from His Majesty the Emperor, and although His Majesty the Emperor is the supreme ruler of the empire, the rights he has It is not unlimited. In other words, if one more person joins, more rights will be shared. Of course, if this is the case, Klind may not need to be so anxious to target me, but it is probably because His Majesty the Emperor once visited in private and personally He came to me and made Klind feel threatened."
The little slave girl opened her mouth wide, as if she was listening to a story from another world.
Now that we have come to this point, Zhang Heng simply explained clearly, "If he goes to fight me in person, it is easy to say if he wins, but if he loses, he will become very passive, and he will have an extra enemy. It’s not a good deal for a mature politician, so he chose to treat me with a smile and let Pannonax be the bad guy who targets me everywhere, so that if the situation is not right, he can abandon Pannonax , and I won’t bother him after I win. Instead, I may have a good impression of him because he once reached out to help me when I was in trouble. The worst guy in this way is just that he has an extra political ally .”
"Is this... like this?" The little slave girl stammered, "Then Pannonax, is Pannonax willing to be used as a shield?"
"Of course I'm not reconciled, but if I want to climb up, it's a routine operation to blame the boss. If he helps Klinde solve my troubles, Klinde will naturally benefit him in his future. What you love and what I want, for a person of his level, you have to take some risks if you want to get benefits." Zhang Heng picked up the unfinished bread while talking.
"At that time, he was provoking me on purpose. He probably wanted me to do it, so that he could create a stain on me. Commodus had a good first impression of me, but I was just a gladiator before, and he didn't know me. Whether I can take on the big responsibility, the first job is actually his investigation of me."
The little slave girl couldn't help shivering, she never imagined that people's hearts could be so complicated.
The person who smiles with you on the surface is likely to want to kill you behind the scenes, but what makes her even more unexpected is that someone is still in the mood to eat the breakfast he didn't finish before.
"Working for the emperor is so dangerous, so why don't you do it? At worst, I'll work in the laundry room, and we can make money." The little slave girl said worriedly, "Or let's leave Rome and find another place. How is life in Syria? When I was in the gladiator school, I knew a friend from the province of Syria, and she described the scenery there to me.”
"If it's just to make money, I'll earn more from performing in the Victor Arena." Zhang Heng finished eating the bread and peeled another fig, "Ann, it's just a trivial matter, I can handle it, we are in Rome , not going anywhere."
"But... but according to what you said, that guy named Klind has already attacked you. Even if he failed this time, he will still cause trouble for you in the future."
"Of course, the area he asked Pannonax to choose for me must not be simple."
"Then what should we do?" The little slave girl looked sad.
"Let's go and have a look first," Zhang Heng said after finally finishing his breakfast and wiping his mouth.
He didn't wait until dark to report to the patrol.
The main reason is that Zhang Heng is not familiar enough with the city of Rome and needs to do some homework in advance, which can effectively prevent the patrol team from being controlled by Klinder and providing him with wrong information.
But this time Zhang Heng was a little over-concerned, because the patrol team in charge of this area wants to improve the law and order here, but the problem is that they really don't have the ability.
Because this is almost the most chaotic place in Rome, most of the residents are Jews, and there are many other minorities. They look different in appearance, but one thing is the same, that It is poor, and because of poverty, this is also the place where crimes occur most frequently.
There are murders almost every night, and there is more than one. Those criss-crossing alleys become invisible at night, which is an excellent place to kill, and after the murder, the murderer directly finds a place to kill , I can’t find it at all. With the patrol team’s manpower, it’s a fantasy to check this place out. In fact, once it’s night, the patrol team members dare not go out alone.