48 Hours a Day

Probably only in a bathroom where everyone is equal can Varo temporarily forget his slavery and recollect his old life.

Especially when he walked into the hot tub and soaked his body completely in the hot water, each pore stretched, and Varo couldn't help but sigh contentedly.

He closed his eyes in the sink, but after a while he didn't see Zhang Hengshui, so he opened his eyes again. “Come on, it will be a little hot at first, but when you get familiar, you will feel tired and taken away by this warm stream of water. Before, when I opened an antique store, I would often ask old customers to come to the bathroom to take a bath and talk business...”

As Varo spoke what seemed to have been remembered, his face was filled with nostalgia, but soon the pain coming from the bruise on his chest pulled him back to reality.

That was left over from his battle with Habitus. Although Zhang Heng's plan for him was successful, it also provoked Habitus, who did not save his hand and cut his chest directly with a sword, gaining the physiology of the battle. Fortunately, after the doctor's examination, it was confirmed that his ribs were not broken.

Zhang Heng did not say anything along Varo's lines, but pointed to a corridor on the south side and asked, "Where does that lead? ”

Wallow looked up and said, "It must be a hot air bathroom. ”

Similar to a modern sauna, the hot tub is the hottest place in the entire bathroom, with temperatures reaching sixty degrees and constant heat coming out of the gap between the walls and the floor, making it easy to burn without sandals.

“Did you see anything suspicious when you came in?” Zhang Heng then added.

“What does it mean to be suspicious…?” Varo has some doubts.

There are not many gladiators who come to bathe in the bathroom at this time. Apart from Zhang Heng and Varo, there are only two other people in the hot tub, but Varo knows that Zhang Heng is not asking those two people.

Zhang Heng also didn't explain much. He saw that the other two people were keeping their eyes closed. Zhang Heng didn't ask them, and walked directly towards the hot air bathroom.

He has been very observant, especially after living with Holmes in a copy of the interpretation, but this is also the first time he has doubts about what his eyes see.

Because just now, Zhang Heng instantly saw a woman disappear into the access to the hot tub.

According to Varo, Roman bathhouses used to design different routes for men and women, but few adhered to them, and famous politician and speaker Cicero ironically felt that it was morally corrupt, but that still did not stop the enthusiasm of women and men entering the bathtub.

However, this does not happen in the gladiator's school bath, because this is where gladiators and trainers are supposed to take a bath, whereas women slaves who work in gladiator schools take a bath outside.

Therefore, Zhang Heng could not reasonably see any woman here.

Not to mention the strange look of each other, wearing a black robe, wrapped himself tight and solid, and not a schoolman at first glance.

How did such a man pass the checks of the doorman guarding the bathroom gate, and how did he get through the pool in front of him and the yard, walking right under the eyes of the gladiators who were wrestling to exercise?

Zhang Heng can't imagine the possibility of this.

If it was the average person who might have left the matter behind, but Zhang Henginstinct noticed that the other person was most likely coming towards him, so he didn't walk into the hot tub like Varo, but towards the hot air channel where the black robe woman disappeared.

“Did you go straight to the hot tub? Why don't you get used to it in the hot tub?” Varo shouted behind him, "Beware of being passed out by heat. ”

“Thank you for reminding me to take a bath yourself, leave me alone.” Zhang Heng walked into the corridor on the south side as he spoke.

He could clearly feel the temperature rising as he walked in, and compared to the heat waves coming out of the hot tub, the little water vapor in the hot tub was nothing, and even a little cooler.

This is a real sauna, which works just like the previous gym, and the ancient Romans seemed to believe that sweating can drain away venom and disease, so whether it's wrestling or this hot tub, it's all about getting more sweating for people who take a bath.

Zhang Heng crossed the narrow walkway and entered this round room because the floor was overheated. If he lay here, he would be burned shortly. In order to allow the bathers to rest, the craftsmen who built the bathhouse opened many walls in the middle of the wall.

But on the other hand, these walls block the sight of the outside world, but Zhang Hengneng can judge whether there is anyone in the walls from the legs that stick out.

He walked to the first person's wall, where he sat a gladiator, who probably felt that he had enough steaming. Before Zhang Heng walked in front of him, he got up and left the wall, and walked towards the hot tub outside. When the two of them were beside him, he also slammed Zhang Hengwei slightly down and said hello.

Zhang Heng also gave him a gift and then went to the next place.

However, this time the leg stretched out in the wall doesn't look like the target Zhang Heng is looking for. It is a pair of somewhat lean and dry legs, which also heralds that its owner is an old man.

And Zhang Heng didn't know why, although he hadn't seen that face under the black robe, he seemed certain that it was a young woman.

Why is that? Zhang Heng frowned and always felt something was wrong. He seemed to have missed something.

And then an old voice rang, “Did you leave something here? ”

Zhang Heng took another half-step forward and finally saw the person in the wall.

The old Greek trainer he met when he first entered the gladiator's school, somewhat invisible and shallow, who was dressed just like him, wearing only a bundle of waists all over his body and sitting in the walls, as if to merge with the stone walls behind him.

Since they spoke, Zhang Heng asked politely, "Have you been sitting here before? I wonder if you've seen a woman in a black robe? ”

According to common sense, a woman in a black robe is such a prominent target that if she really enters a hot tub, the person inside will certainly not be blind, and if she does not see someone, she will probably ask him if he is blind at this time.

However, the reaction of the old trainer in the walls was strange, he neither said he had seen nor suspected Zhang Heng's eyes, but calmed down, "Can you describe her? ”

“I can't see her face. ”

“And elsewhere, for example, what was in her hand, besides that black robe? ”