48 Hours a Day

Seeing the intimate conversation between Zhang Heng and Lucilla, other gladiators showed envy on their faces.

This is the most honorable woman in the entire empire, and more importantly, although it is in its early thirties, Lucilla is well maintained, and although some gladiators are somewhat resistant to selling the likeness, perhaps no one can refuse it if it is Lucilla.

Zhang Heng himself, however, was wary of this brilliant flight, for the difficult reason that, according to the historical trajectory, Lucilla would be involved in the assassination of her own brother, Conmood, more than a year later.

Future generations have some incomprehensibility about this assassination. Lucilla, as a woman, is the daughter of the former emperor, the sister of the current emperor, the only blood relative of the current emperor, some of whom are basically there. It is unlikely that she will be able to become an emperor further. Her lead in this assassination will bring her little benefit.

And there are also a lot of setbacks in terms of planning. For example, she is hiding her husband, who is a powerful figure in the military. If she can pull him into a gang, both successful and defeated, there is a certain way back. Yet her husband Pompeanus is blindfolded from beginning to end, and Lucilla eventually chooses her cousin, Womidius Kovatratos, as her partner.

The latter, the senator of the House of Lords, ranks second only to Dior and affects more than a hundred seats, which is a political boost, but neither Nejo nor Lucilla planned the political assassination at a very good level.

The two men finally found Pompeanus' nephew, Quintianus, as the killer, and the biggest failure of the whole plan. This gentleman was in the late stage of severe secondary illness. He also greeted Conmood before proceeding, and shouted, "The Senate sent you this...”

As a result, nearby guards were shocked, missed and he was not interrogated, so Womidius and Lucilla were exposed and executed one by one. Another was exiled from Capri before being executed shortly afterwards.

This is also the real reason Zhang Heng doesn't want to go near Lucilla.

This woman is not only a lunatic, but also a brainless lunatic, too close to her is likely to be dragged into the water, but tonight's contact between the two, Zhang Heng finds that Lucilla does not seem as foolish as described in history.

Instead, the woman is smart and a little elusive, but that's more in line with her identity.

The daughter of the former emperor, two marriages married to the emperor and a powerful figure in the military, has always been at the top of her rights, how could such a woman be foolish?

Zhang Heng couldn't figure out why she planned that stupid assassination more than a year later, but that's why Zhang Heng didn't want anything to do with this woman.

The dinner lasted until late at night, in addition to the gladiator display, there were song and dance and bard recitations, but the latter matters had nothing to do with gladiators, considering that tomorrow's gladiator performance was about to begin, after the tour, the gladiators returned to their homes to cultivate the elite and prepare for tomorrow's battle.

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The next morning, before dawn, Zhang Heng and Bach and others were woken up on time and arrived in a donkey cart at the venue of the gladiator performance - the Flavi Circular Theatre.

All future generations can see is the wreckage of the Flavi Circular Theatre, with only half of the outer ring structure remaining, and only some brick-built ribs and floor-filled rough grass inside, so visitors can only hang their brains to make up for the glory here, but Zhang Heng really stands below it at this moment, looking up at the complete Flavi Circular Theatre.

Spectacular! This is everyone's first impression of it.

The early morning sun shines on Nero's gold-plated bronze statue, which is located in the middle of a plaza full of colored flags, behind which lies the mountainous Flavi Circular Theatre.

The Flavian Circular Theatre consists of four floors, at a height of forty and fifty meters, with 80 huge arches on the bottom three floors, with statues of various divine colours, each much larger than the one in Elder Dior's lobby, in addition to the arches hung with shields and countless ribbons, like the triumph of welcoming heroes.

Of course, the most fascinating is the top of the circular theatre, where a circle of hard bars is inserted, numbering hundreds of them, with long cables tied on the hard bars, which support a large circle of more than 100 metres from the ground, and a thin linen woven canvas is laid on this circle, creating a huge roof to cover the audience.

Given its size, this roof sheet also weighs at least twenty or thirty tons, and the Empire had to redeploy a thousand trained sailors to steer the roof up and down.

The stones that built the arena were transported from the Arbraye quarry on the outskirts of Rome, and each piece weighed amazingly, and the Romans at the time played with the arched structure to the extreme. Unlike the pyramid, the structure of the Flavi Circular Theatre was hollow, and its skeleton was like a bridge, a piece of it together, magically more than 2,000 years later, still standing.

You know, the Bernau Stadium can only accommodate 80,000 people, and the Flavi Circular Theatre 2,000 years ago can accommodate 90,000 people to watch.

“No wonder they all say this is a gladiator's temple," Bahram said, "and you have to admit that these Romans are pretty good at building it.” The Germans, though somewhat reluctant, had to praise their enemies.

It's still early in the morning, there's no audience entry, but you can already imagine what it will be like when this arena is full of seats. With 90,000 people watching, the cowardly ones will probably shake their stomachs when they hit the field. However, as long as you win, you can enjoy the cheers and cheers of the mountain shouting tsunami gang and let tens of thousands of people go mad for you alone.

This kind of sight just makes people bloody when they think.

In fact, it's not just the two newcomers, Zhang Heng and Bach. Even old gladiators like Habitus flashed a different color in their eyes when they saw the Flavi Circular Theatre. Apparently, they also felt something in their hearts. No gladiator can resist the temptation of fame except Zhang Heng. Sisnates has also retired for over a year, during which time, although the Brotherhood School of Fighters has introduced a number of powerful recruits, none of them, including Satonylos, can replicate the legend of Sisnates, becoming the first worthy gladiator, and now the opportunity to climb to the top is finally before all gladiators.