spartan ancestor

The information revealed in Jacintos' words made Aizhi and Norm lose the mood to continue chatting.

The two left in a hurry, expressing that they would go back immediately and agree to General Oss' invitation. Fortunately, General Oss stayed in the barracks from morning till night, and was not afraid of being missed.

Hyacinthus didn't take this matter to heart either, he has too many gods to worry about now.

His Majesty Una consciously delegated part of his official duties to him, and suggested that Yacintos could move back to the settlement when he had time. On the one hand, he would show an attitude of "decided to return to the center of power", and on the other hand, it would be convenient for him to enslave Yacintos. Toss.

Hyacinthus seriously suspected that there was also a father's reason for his brother's reluctance to go home.

He turned around for five days, and when he went out in the morning of the sixth day, he almost felt that he was not on the path leading to the meeting hall, but the road leading to the underworld: "Be careful, okay? Don't go out today , I have something urgent to do. If I go out for a walk with nothing to do like Aka, I may not have the energy, and I won’t have time to protect you. Also, Aka hasn’t come back yet, please take care of Apo.”

Hyacinthus checked the iron chains connecting Apollo and the other helots - because he was afraid that some people would not look down on this golden retriever who wanted to be free, he prepared a chain for almost every helot. Dogs... iron chains, if you don't believe it, you can't hold Apollo.

The chain was fine, and Hyacinthus yawned again, rubbing his eyes and stepping into the morning light outside.

inside the room.

Apollo stared at Hyacinthus as he left. As soon as he lost sight of him, he cheered, "Oh! Who wants to hear me sing hymns?"

"I think!" Little girl Tana was the first to respond, and she had already come over with the small bench, "Tell me the story about Artemis! I want to listen to it again."

Other Heiroshis also sat down and circled around:

"I want to hear the story of Hercules."

"The story about Zeus stealing sex behind Hera's back and Hera forcing Hermes to take her to catch her is also very interesting!"

"What's so interesting about that? If you want me to say, it's better not to catch it. The girl was not willing to be with Zeus, but after Hera forced Hermes to take her to rape, how did she persecute that poor girl?" ..."

"It's so strange. In other people's stories, Hermes is Zeus's most loyal pimp. In Apo's case, Hermes actually deceived Zeus for the girl at the beginning, and showed Zeus a portrait of an old woman. , said that girl was old and ugly."

"In the end, he was the one who helped Zeus deal with the aftermath, and helped the poor girl—but this is nothing new. In other people's stories, he was also the one who helped Zeus clean up the mess."

Apo coughed: "Do you still want to hear it?"

He couldn't help being complacent, "Look at how bad your attitude towards me was before, how is it now?"

Tana put her face on her face and said seriously: "That's because you were lazy and inactive before, and you always complained about your unlucky luck. ? Now that you have shown your strengths, of course you will be loved! Sing quickly, the bone broth has been stewed for you."

"..." Apollo wanted to refute but couldn't find anything to refute, so he had to bend over for the bone soup, "Wait, when I went to the market yesterday, I bought a good thing and brought it back secretly just to prepare a surprise."

He turned around excitedly and went back to the small bathroom, took out a lyre from inside, and just stepped out the door, he saw the faces of the black laborers who were still looking forward to it change: "? Have you never seen a lyre? This It's an instrument—"

"We know." Even the oldest cook couldn't sit still and stood up, "Where did you buy it?"

"..." Apollo didn't know why, so he lowered his head and looked back and forth at the lyre, "Is there something wrong with this lyre in the hands of a Heroes? I think it's very good——"

"Heiros?" Tana couldn't help calling out, "How could Heiros have a lyre in his hand? In Sparta, musicians have almost the same noble status as priests. The position of musicians is in some ancient families. It has been passed down from generation to generation in China that they are responsible for playing music during battles and sacrifices, how could you buy a lyre from a helot, and who would sell the lyre to a helot with chains tied to his feet?"

"..." Apollo was asked so that his brain went blank for a moment, and he subconsciously said, "This, there shouldn't be any problem, right?"

It is such a coincidence that the last syllable of Apollo has just fallen.

"Snapped!"

The sound of the loud leather whip mixed with the noise came from far to near.

"..." The blood on Tana's face faded to pale as paper in an instant.

The leather whip seemed to be lashing the hearts of every black laborer in the yard, and the noise that gradually amplified should be clamored together with the accelerated heartbeat.

"Despicable Heiroshi! Where else do you want to take us? Ask you again, where is the piano you stole?!"

"In... ah!!! Just, just in this courtyard, please don't hit me, don't hit me... I was just fascinated for a while, and I regretted it after selling the piano, and I followed here... Then, the black laborer who bought my violin must have a problem! How can a black laborer have so many iron coins?! Please forgive me! For the sake of my meritorious service!"

"Bang!"

The sound of the door being kicked hard interrupted Apollo's simultaneous anger and fear, and he trembled instinctively when he was startled by the deafening sound.

He wasn't the most humiliating one, there was even a cowardly Heiroshi in the room who was so frightened that he jumped like a rabbit.

"Should... it should be fine, we just need to make it clear that the money is a salary from His Highness..." Apollo bit the bullet and puffed up his chest, just took a step forward.

"Don't open." Tana's small hands gripped his wrist, her fingers were cold.

The little girl may not even realize it herself, she was already trembling like a baby bird, squeezing herself to the nearest Apollo's legs, the trembling from her young body fully revealed the fear.

She was trembling, but there was more hatred in her eyes. She squeezed out words between her teeth: "This soldier's voice... I recognize it. He won't listen to your explanation, he just wants to Use the worst way to toss Heiroshi who fell into his hands to death."

But it's not that if they don't open the door, they won't be kicked open.

Accompanied by a few violent kicks, the door panel let out a shattering groan and fell down.

Amidst the rising dust, a group of soldiers with old armor stepped into the house. The leader wore a Corinthian-style helmet. A face that looked like he was in his 40s was exposed through the T-shaped opening in the middle, and his eyes were bloodshot. , looks like a hyena on the hunt.

On his hand was dragging the Heilaoshi who was still screaming and begging for mercy just now, and now it was drooping under his hand like a kite with a broken string, half of his head was sunk in by the heavy hammer, leaving a long trail where it was dragged. Long bloodstains.

"..." Apollo tried his best to restrain the desire to vomit. Just as he was thinking about whether the back door was open and whether he could escape, the little girl Tana, who was trembling against his legs just now, opened her arms and stood in front of him.

Tana said sharply: "Go and take out your quilt!"

"What..." Apollo couldn't react in a little panic.

He was a bit unable to turn the corner, obviously just a moment ago he was still celebrating the departure of the two mountains, Yacinthos and Akka, and was smugly preparing to show off his talents in front of Tana and the others. Noisy, chattering about what story to listen to today, why did things suddenly develop like this?

Being blocked by the chicks finally awakened Apollo's conscience, and he pushed the little girl behind him with trembling hands: "Stand, stand back."

The lead soldier smiled at them, looking ghastly and terrifying, his surrounding cheeks twitched nervously a few times, and he laughed hoarsely a few times in a voice that sounded chilling: "Ah, Tana. My dear Tana. You don’t need to be humble, you don’t need to be humble, what a perfect example... Arrest them all! A group of bastards who climbed on His Highness’s lap and thought they could do whatever they wanted with His Highness’s tolerance, how dare they Dirty hands and feet..."

Apollo retorted instinctively: "No! I bought the lyre, and the money is a salary from His Highness!"

"—"

Apollo discovered for the first time that there is a sound when the whip cuts the air.

It was a weird screeching sound.

The sound of the whipping was even louder. When a piece of clothes was shredded from the back of Tana who was hugging him violently with a "slap", it seemed that a whip was whipped on his eardrums, making his eyes go red.

He couldn't tell who was screaming in his ear, the group of soldiers strode into the room before he could recover, and mercilessly picked up these old men amidst the screams and shouts of the black laborers. Weak, sick, and disabled, it seemed that he couldn't hear the threat of "this is the private residence of His Royal Highness Hyacinthus" shouted by the black laborers.

The bone soup in the backyard probably boiled, and the aroma floated into the house from the window, but mixed with it was the bloody smell from the half-turned Helotes, which made people's stomach sink like lead. straight down.

Heroes fought with the intruding soldiers, and the cook yelled "The boiling water is coming" came from a further room, and then Apollo, who couldn't recover, looked at the fat cook in a daze Two soldiers were dragged behind, clutching a bunch of red things in their hands, their chubby faces were grim because of the force: "How dare you touch him?!"

Before being knocked down, the fat cook spread out the lump of red, and threw it at Apollo. The red cloth covered Apollo, and the cook's voice was heard through a layer of cloth, making Apollo In a trance, there is an illusion that there is a layer of separation from the real world: "That is the cloak given to him by His Royal Highness Hyacinthus! Do you dare to try to drop the whip on that cloak?"

Apollo felt Tana pounce on him in panic, her thin arms were surprisingly strong, wrapped the cloak around him, lowered his voice, and whispered in his ear quickly: "For the Spartans, behind the back His red cloak is his faith, his spirit and his glory. You wrap this cloak well, that wimp dare not whip the cloak of His Royal Highness Hyacinthus, he just wants to invite favors from his great noble masters That's all, dragging us away now, there is still an excuse to punish the evil slave, and the leather whip fell on His Highness's red cloak, even the great nobles can't come up with an excuse to excuse him."

The soldier who seemed to know Tana did not dare to attack the red cloak, but he dared to attack other people. The soldiers caught all the black laborers and dragged them outside the house like pigs and cattle. Apollo was dragged by iron chains He staggered and was forced to go outside.

How strange, when he stepped out of the threshold, he looked up at the sky in confusion. It was clearly the summer sun, which was so dazzling, but he couldn't feel a trace of warmth while bathing in the sun.

He took great effort to squeeze out the words from his throat, his voice was so hoarse that even he was startled: "...why...how dare he?"

Like a dead soul hooked by the chains of death, he was led in the direction of the market in a daze.

There is a large square there. When I saw it a few days ago, there were many frontier residents selling vegetables and fruits, as well as all kinds of novelties. There were even Spartan girls with signs of fitness, rehearsing and praising the bravery of the soldiers. singing and dancing.

But now, that place of joy and novelty is occupied by all kinds of stretched and struggling bodies.

Yes, this is a festival, but it looks more like a microcosm of hell - those black laborers who were dragged to the square, some of them had their jaws pinched by soldiers, and they drank bad wine until they rolled their eyes and mouthed Wine spilled from his nose.

The adult soldiers pointed to the embarrassing and ugly black laborers, and taught the young children: This is the end of excessive drinking, stay away from alcohol!

Some black laborers were stripped naked and beaten with leather whips and sticks. The adult soldiers sternly instilled in the young Spartan children: They are born humble and inferior to us. In the future, you will also enslave and whip them like this , so that they can't bear any thoughts of resistance!

Behind those soldiers, there were still some black laborers kneeling. They hung their heads dumbly, and seemed to have no response to the screams of their compatriots. After some soldiers finished teaching, they walked to the group of black laborers. Heiroshi's first reaction was not to run away, or to cover his head in fear, but to hold water or a clean handkerchief high above his head, waiting for the soldiers to take it.

"..." Apollo suddenly realized the answer to the question he had just muttered—they dared, of course they dared.Because this is a very normal daily life for them, but——

It's just that he was in that small courtyard, and everyone was under the protection of Hyacinthus. He thought that the Garden of Eden was all the darkness Heiros could experience, but he didn't know that the real darkness could make the sun lose its temperature.

He never took seriously what Tana and the others always said, "You are ungrateful" and "You really don't deserve His Highness's kindness to you". Now that he has faced the real reality, he understands this sentence very clearly. What do you mean.

He suddenly realized another thing - he used to complain so many times, scolding Jacintos for his ruthlessness in his heart at night, and he could never leave the old feelings once he turned his face, but he didn't know that from the first day, Yacintos Toss left him a hole card to save his life.

This old cloak is Hyacinthos' confession of his past love, with a silent, unspoken demeanor.

The red cloak behind him suddenly became so stinging, as if thousands of needles were stuck on his body, he trembled under the red cloak, and suddenly felt that the complaints from Tana and the others were like a real whip, whipping on his heart, face On the road, he moved clumsily like a puppet that had just been injected with his soul, and threw himself at Tana, wrapping the little girl and himself under the red cloak.

Tana pushed him desperately: "What are you doing?! This red cloak can only keep you alone. What do we look like hiding under here? Don't give them the excuse that we insulted His Highness's cloak and took it away—"

Apollo tasted the salty taste when he opened his mouth, and realized that he was crying. I don’t know if it was because of fear, or because of the sting of the shoulder: "No. Did the soldier know you just now? What's wrong with you? It's true." Can't solve it?"

How old is Tana? How can such a small girl be able to withstand being force-fed with bad wine, stripped naked and whipped? For so long, Apollo has never hated himself for having no supernatural power like he does now: "If I... I have the power..."

"Don't be stupid." The little girl's voice was cold, interrupting Apollo's words, "Have power? What's the use of having power? Look at that wretch outside, he is my mother's half-brother .In the beginning, as a half-breed, he spent almost as little time in Sparta as we did. Later, he flattered his biological father. He participated in training and became a soldier. Now? The person who was once bullied, got How ironic it is to become a bully after gaining power."

"..." Apollo suddenly trembled.

He stiffly thought of his mother, who was forced to become pregnant by Zeus, but now, what did he do?

In a state of desperation, he felt Tana being dragged out of the red cloak, and the bright red cloth slipped from the top of his head. He saw the ferocious and proud face of the mixed-race soldier, as if he was intoxicated by the feeling of mastering the power over others. , Apollo saw his own reflection in the man's bloodshot eyes.

Like a thunderbolt through his soul, he shuddered at the sight of himself reflected in those hideous eyes.

Remorse and guilt flooded the top of his head like a flood, sealing his mouth and nose, making him unable to breathe. He seemed to hear a roar coming from his ears. Because of the excessive change of tone, he couldn't tell it was from the whipped Heroes His screams were still his own screams.

He only knew that his body moved before thinking, and the distorted and ugly face of the soldier who captured Tana in his field of vision continued to enlarge, before he bumped into that person without thinking——

"boom--"

The golden beam of light poured down on the square like a sword from the sky, shaking the ground.

Amidst the holy buzzing sound, the soldier holding Tana's eyes widened, and before he opened his mouth to let out a scream, he was annihilated by the scorching divine light.

Apollo jumped into the air, his legs were limp and he sat on the ground. The natural connection with the godhead made him look at the meeting hall in the distance against the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd.

A red figure stood at the top of the meeting hall, the Spartan red cloak behind it was flapped by the wind, and the spindle-shaped metal column tips under the feet refracted the bright light.

The wind and the sun are at his feet.

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