Augustus Road

You've seen me without my clothes on, so there are only two ways you can go. Either you kill the king, marry me, and become ruler of Lydia; or you die here now.

——King Edolus of Lydia instigated his minister Gagezi to spy on his queen. The queen summoned Gagezi the next day and said so. In the end, Gagezi chose the former.

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Hebrida dragged the empty armchair and sat on it. Then she stared at the four noble ladies for a while with her mouth crooked, as if they were lifeless statues. Finally, he stood up and pushed one of them with his hand. The one who was indeed like a statue fell to the floor stiffly, shocking everyone present. The sissy slave even screamed lowly. .

"Sure enough, those who can speak Greek are poor people. Their performance on the battlefield is worse than that of prostitutes. They only waste their energy on some ridiculous sports games." Hebrida did not forget to tease, and then He took out a piece of amber with words engraved on it from the back of the noble lady's body, and threw it to the "sissy", asking him to translate it.

"Here, this lady's name is Roxana. She said in this post that she is the sister of the king of Pontus... and the wife of the king. When the palace was broken down, she had no time to escape with the king. In order to avoid falling into the rude and barbaric... …”

"Keep reading."

"Yes, in order to avoid falling into the hands of the rude Romans, the benevolent king left the chief eunuch, Baloud, to help them end their lives in a pain-free way. I praise my brother, in such a critical situation I will never be afraid of death, let alone live in shame and shame."

After listening to the words on the amber, Hybrida shrugged, then called Lepidus and Sissy, and in turn turned out the amber pieces tied behind the other three noble ladies, and learned their identities: Mithridates and others A sister named Stepana, the amber fragments she left behind were full of curses and injustice; Princess Berenesi of Chios, she said that the amount of poison she swallowed was not enough to make her die happily, Lepidus Looking at her face, she saw that her tongue was sticking out long and there were marks on her neck. It seemed that Baloud had used a rope to help her in a hurry.

Sitting in the middle is Monimee, the princess from Predos. Her amber piece did not leave any message before her death. It just said: "I hate this queen's crown. It can't even do the last little favor." He refused to help me. I was born a trophy, and I feel very lucky to die like this. The reality of life has been stripped away, and the real joy only exists in the world after death."

Lepida didn't understand what Monimee meant for a while, but Hebrida was very excited after hearing the "Queen's Crown". From behind the ivory armchair, he found what Monimee was talking about--embellished A small pure gold crown decorated with gems and agate, the band on it has been broken.

At this time, Lebida saw a ribbon wrapped around Monimei's white neck. Blood seeped out from it, dyeing her silk robe a large area red. He probably understood: the princess refused to take the poison, and maybe she Unwilling that her appearance would be swollen by the poison after death, she hanged herself with the band of the crown, but the band broke. This is what she said in the amber piece. Then in a blink of an eye, Lepidah saw a sharp knife dripping with blood lying on the desk - it should have been given to her by Baloud, or Baloud directly cut Monime's throat and ended this beautiful life.

While Lepidus was reasoning, Hybrida got into a dispute with several other decathurs over Monime's extremely expensive crown.

"This is worth at least one hundred thousand drachmas, which is enough for us to buy a luxurious villa for one person in Rome, Campania or anywhere in Africa." This is Heibrida's point of view.

The captain of ten named Fantu shouted: "Always low-level Hebrida, you are crazy. We are here to search for trophies suitable for our status. This kind of crown must belong to the commander, or We have no right to keep it privately."

Hebrida grabbed Fantu's collar: "Tuna Luculas? The reckless man Sekdelius? No, no, they already have enough, and we came to this damn continent It has been seven years, seven years - my wife is still waiting for me to send money back, my slaves are old or dead, and my salary is only 500 sesterces a year, you Fantu, only Three hundred and fifty, one year's income is not enough to buy half a slave in Gaul - do you want your wife to sell herself to those free slaves who open a shop to make a living? "

Another captain named Safano drew his sword, cut off Belinasi's arm with one blow, pulled off her bracelet, raised it and said to Hebrida: "This thing is worth at least three thousand Five thousand sestes is enough for us to buy ten slaves. Now Hybrida, please give up this crown."

Hebrida also drew out her sword and said: "You humble people have only these humble wishes! You deserve to be crowded in a small, dirty apartment without clean water, but I don't. "You are in this war to make a fortune, not like a hyena who likes a little carrion and keeps barking."

"I'm afraid that when Uterus finds out about this, you won't even be able to be a hyena. The actions of the Third Regiment tonight were a private action that deviated from the Legion's orders, and you tricked the other soldiers of the Sixth Battalion. We might be executed by having our throats cut, for sure." Fan Tu's emotions also became excited.

At this time, Hebrida saw the crowd was in a turmoil, and his tone became milder, "It's okay, Uterus is not in the barracks, I have direct command, you see Mithridates has already slipped away, they just delayed the military opportunity, the heroes of the war are us."

One of the older ones, a decapitator named Arminius, shouted in an urgent tone: "Throw this damn crown aside for now! The legion should have noticed what happened here, and there should be countless rooms behind this palace waiting for us to search, and time is running out. As the saying goes, take what you can get first."

Arminius' words resonated, Hebrida nodded, and said to Fantu and another one named Batiatus: "You two and this weird-looking slave from Asia stay in the hall, if anyone else comes, delay time." After that, Hebrida pulled the sissy slave, Arminius, and another decapitator through the hall and went to the inner room of the palace.

Now, there were only three people left in the hall: Fantu, Batiatus, and Lepidus, and four corpses.

The two centurions were sitting on ivory armchairs, Lepidus was standing far away, and Batiatus was sitting on Rosanna's chair, which he didn't mind at all. On the other side, probably feeling bored, Fantu tore off a piece of curtain and wrapped it around himself, then raised one hand in a pretentious manner: "Dear Attorney General Batiatus, do you think it is necessary to propose to the Roman Citizens' Assembly to legislate to strictly prohibit masters from having sex with slave children?"