Chapter 103 (1/2)
An old man with gray hair and a civilized stick appeared on the podium on the second floor, coughing heavily. Seeing that he had attracted enough attention, he was full of energy.
”This kind of behavior of the medical center without complaint has seriously infringed on our rights and interests, and has had a very bad impact on our fighting cause. According to the reaction of the people who have been placed in the Gladiator slaves, many gladiators have developed the feeling of war weariness. Some even want to be injured on purpose in the arena and leave the fighting industry with the help of the medical center.”
Since all the slaveholders who were hanging out in Soro, they knew this old man. This old man named bill, not to mention among them, was a great slave owner even if he was placed in the leader of the Manyu army and in the whole land of Ashan.
He has dozens of Gladiator training camps under his control, and thousands of gladiators at the highest peak. He also has an army of nearly 100 soldiers, which is completely armed by Knight gladiators. Although he is not of aristocratic origin, many small nobles will be courteous to him, which can be called Godfather level figures in Gladiator industry.
However, what he is most fond of is his Gladiator Dixon, who has the reputation of bloody storm. He is the champion Knight Gladiator as famous as Starbuck, and the two most popular champions this year.
Different from Starbuck, who was a freedom Gladiator, Dixon was a slave Gladiator. He was sold to the arena when he was a child. It is said that his body is full of the blood of Byron, leopard Odin Orc and Andes. Before he became famous, he also had the insulting Title similar to a hybrid. With the rise of his fame, this title was gradually forgotten.
The arena where dicklong first sold himself was not under Bill's name, but Bill's insight. When he was just emerging, he used a knight level Gladiator to exchange him for his hand at a price that seemed to be at a loss. Then he devoted all his resources to training him. Only then did he have the reputation of being brilliant in the arena and achieving the reputation of bloody storm.
It's not too much to say that he was brought up by bill.
Bill was also proud of this matter in his life. Several times in Ashan, there were few big slave owners who had this honor.
The bodyguard behind him, wearing a sealed horn helmet and simple leather armor, exposed most of his rock like muscles, was Bill's greatest pride in his life, the bloody storm Dixon.
Before dicklong became a champion knight, Bill had already given him freedom, and recognized him as his son and given him his surname. In return for his loyalty, dicklong became not only Bill's number one Gladiator, but also his bodyguard.
Of course, there's something to show off about. Using champion knights as bodyguards is an honor that many hereditary earls have never had.
Bill's words, however, let those slave owners below burst into a pot, and a burst of whispering.
”And such things?”
”What Lord Bill said is very reasonable. Even if there is no such thing now, it doesn't mean there will not be one in the future. Don't underestimate the cunning degree of those lowly slaves. Some cowards can do everything in order not to go to the arena.”
”No wonder I always feel that the recent fighting atmosphere is a little abnormal. If I think about it carefully, the problem should be here. Take the fight the day before yesterday as an example, it was a performance fight, and there was no need for casualties. But in the end, the Gladiator tried to kill himself and hit the sword. It should be that he wanted to get out of the fight through the self mutilation method described by Lord bill It's just that you don't know your strength. Self mutilation becomes suicide. ”
”It's terrible. It's really terrible. I thought that the so-called medical center was just a minor injury, but I didn't expect it was a big one. It planted such a terrible seed in our industry. No, we have to do something to protect our industry.”
”It's said that not long ago, the medical center has been relocated. Now it's called angabena hospital, and it's under the name of the witch's secret society.”
”It's too cunning to infringe on the interests of others no matter who his property is! Even his majesty has no such right! ”
”What's the use of anger? Is it hard for you to find a witch to reason with? Are you not afraid to be cast with witchcraft
”Even if the witches' secret society can't be unreasonable, we'll go to the Duke collectively, and he won't sit by and watch our fighting industry collapse! Every year, we pay a lot of taxes! ”
”It's not as serious as it is! Even if there is, there is an example of this kind of thing! ”
”Do you mean Lord bill is here to seduce people?”
”I don't mean that! I only say that the situation is not as bad as we think it is! ”
”This potential danger is the most terrible. Once the lowly slaves have other ideas, the whole arena will not be easy to manage, and it will be too late to say anything.”
”Prevention is the most important thing.”
”Lord bill, we will do whatever you say, and we will listen to you!”
”Tell me what you think, Lord bill.”
Bill naturally has his own supporters, and the chorus of voices has suppressed those weak doubts. If you want to mix in this circle, you are not willing to offend bill.Otherwise, if you are targeted by revenge, it won't take long for the gladiators in your hands to lose. Even if you are rich in money, you will have to become a pauper.
Manyujun has a famous saying: half of the battle is on the court, half off the field, especially life and death.
Bill made a deliberate pause for a while, and when they had digested the news, he began to follow suit.
”We must not allow such things to spread. We have just reached a consensus among a few old men with a little bit of experience that if we want to eliminate the influence of this matter, we do not need to ask anyone. We can unite ourselves.”
”What's your opinion, Lord bill?”
”It's very simple. No matter whether the gladiators are really injured or deliberately taking advantage of the opportunity to escape, we will end up with punishment if they are seriously injured. By doing so, we can not only make an example to others, but also ignite the atmosphere and bring more benefits. Of course, as compensation, the owners of those gladiators who are executed will get the profits from the game on the spot What do you think of 20% as compensation? ”
”Twenty percent, isn't it a little less?”
”Be content, this is an extra 20%, and you still have a lot of other money to take. If you are sent to a medical center and you are saved, you will not get any money, but you will have to redeem it with money, which is very cost-effective.”
”This method is good. It can not only guarantee the income, but also attack the other party. I support it.”
”I agree.”
”I agree.”
The people who came up with this idea had a good grasp of human nature, at least the characters of these slaveholders and slave owners. First, they showed their strength and then lured them to benefit. They easily took down the slave owners, and in the blink of an eye, they echoed.
Some of the conscientious slave owners felt that there was something wrong with doing so, which would further intensify the contradiction between the slave owners and gladiators. In such a situation, their voices were weak and they could not change anything at all.
This kind of semi public decision-making is not confidential at all. After only an hour, Sean and Angie Beina got the news. The whole process and decision-making of the banquet were transmitted to them in their original form, because it was one of the slave owners who informed them, and he was Angela's.
After hearing the news, Sean was stunned for a few minutes. Originally, he thought he knew enough about the cruel world, but the cruel facts told him.
What he contacted was only a little bit of fur. In this world of man eating, human nature was far more dark than imagined. Those slave owners holding high the fine wine and tasting the delicious food decided the life and death of innumerable people lightly in their talks.
In his previous life, Sean had seen movies and TV plays about gladiators in the ancient Roman era. He always yearned for this career full of male hormones. If the risk index was not too high, which was against his principle of life, he would like to join in as a free man and experience the feeling of cheering as a gladiator.
But after this period of time to treat gladiators, contact with them, found that is far from the case, the previous life of the film and television drama claimed to expose the cruel reality, in fact, still beautifies the profession.
This profession in the real world, from inside to outside, reveals a kind of twisted human cruelty, and some are just full of bloody teeth.