Ch 297: Dead Fight Arena
The bone dagger was raised high, quickly slicing a cut on his left arm.
Fresh red blood slowly oozed out, emitting a faint bloody smell.
The snake-shaped white bone became even more agitated at the sight of that red, not because of the bloody smell, but because of the scent of a living soul!
The young boy was deliberately provoking the snake-shaped white bone to attack.
Could this slave have some hidden tricks? Yun Ming was also slightly intrigued by the boy’s actions.
The snake-shaped white bone could no longer resist the temptation of the living soul, its body twisted a few times, and then it shot towards the human boy like an arrow.
From beginning to end, the boy appeared very calm, without a trace of fear.
The four sharp snake teeth gleamed with an unusual light. Based on his understanding of skeletons, the boy judged that the snake-shaped white bone’s bone technique was mostly concentrated in those four snake teeth.
The “hiss~” sound was very piercing. The boy aimed the dagger at the opened snake mouth, flicked his finger, and the bone dagger shot out, firmly lodging itself in the snake-shaped white bone’s mouth.
The unexpected attack stunned the snake-shaped white bone, and its offensive momentum faltered.
The boy seized this opportunity, grabbing the snake-shaped white bone with one hand, while the dagger in his other hand had transformed into a long bone spike, continuously stabbing at the snake-shaped white bone’s triangular skull.
After a dozen stabs, the boy casually discarded the snake-shaped white bone’s limp body. At this moment, enthusiastic cheers and shouts erupted from the audience.
Yun Ming glanced over those “frenzied” spectators, and it was more like they were venting their emotions than cheering for the boy.
The boy was clearly aware of this, and the overwhelming enthusiastic emotions did not affect him. He simply calmly picked up the things thrown down from the stands.
Most of the audience gave the victor shouts and applause, but some more excited or generous spectators would also give the victor some things, as a kind of reward.
Besides betting on the slaves in the arena, rewards were also a characteristic activity of the Dead Fight Arena.
The boy’s battle was clearly to the taste of some of the audience, and they threw things at him one after another.
There were many things, but most of them were useless. They were basically broken bone fragments and moldy, rotten food. The boy picked out some useful things and walked towards a corner to sit down and rest without looking back.
Thinking about it, the war bones were short on cash, and they certainly wouldn’t be willing to take out soul water or soul orbs. Although the humans watching the match were basically free, they could only make a living in this Royal Bone City. Being able to watch a Dead Fight was already a rare expense.
The boy could only pick out some food that he could still eat for emergencies, and some bone pieces of good quality to make some “small things,” such as the bone dagger with the hidden bone needle that the boy had made himself.
According to the rules of the Dead Fight Arena, each slave had to participate in a match once every three days to get supplies.
Don’t think that the Dead Fight Arena was being kind to the slaves; in fact, it was a necessary regulation to ensure the slaves’ survival rate.
Otherwise, the mortality rate of slaves in the Dead Fight Arena would have to increase a lot more.
Even so, the Dead Fight Arena would lose at least a hundred slaves a month, so the Dead Fight Arena’s slave caravans never stopped.
The food and soul water obtained from a Dead Fight every three days could only maintain the most basic survival.
Slaves who had gone through fierce Dead Fights needed to get a sufficient energy supplement, their injuries needed to be treated, and even the replenishment of other supplies was extra.
This extra required the slaves to participate in more Dead Fights to obtain. Otherwise, even if they were strong, their bodies would collapse.
This was forcing the slaves to participate in one Dead Fight after another. Otherwise, if they were surpassed by other slaves, they would only be waiting to die.
At this time, the battle between the two white bones had just ended. The horse-shaped white bone finally killed the pig-shaped white bone and became the final victor, limping towards a corner to rest.
Half an hour later, a middle-aged man with graying hair walked out from behind a door in the corner. He was the boy’s new opponent.
He didn’t look like a human from the Skeleton Continent. He should be a slave captured from the Fengyuan Continent.
Yun Ming guessed correctly. The middle-aged man was originally a veteran soldier. He was lucky to survive in the hands of the skeletons after losing a battle and became a slave. He was transported to the Dead Fight Arena a month ago.
“I’ve heard of you, kid. To be able to survive in this Dead Fight Arena for so long and kill more than a dozen white bones, you’re really something!”
The middle-aged man said with some excitement, his voice not daring to be too loud, for fear of being heard by the surrounding skeletons.
Little did he know that this distance was nothing to a rider bone, and Yun Ming still heard what the middle-aged man said.
Seeing that the boy did not show any hostility towards him, the middle-aged man slowly walked closer two steps and continued, “Little brother, we are both humans, but we have to fight to the death and kill each other in front of the skeletons. Do you really want to continue like this?”
The silent boy finally spoke, “What exactly do you want?”
The middle-aged man lowered his voice further, “I have a plan, but it’s not convenient to say it here. I’ll tell you after it’s over.”
“After it’s over?” The boy chuckled, “When people are dead, what’s the use of even the best plan!”
The middle-aged man shook his head, “Of course, it’s for both of us to live.”
“You mean a draw?” The boy seemed to have thought of something and asked.
The battle results in the Dead Fight Arena were basically one life and one death, but there were exceptions, that is, when both sides fought to exhaustion. The Dead Fight Arena would consider it a tie. That day’s battle could continue to the next day, and they would try to avoid arranging for the tied slaves to become opponents again.
However, this situation was difficult to occur, and the boy had only heard other humans mention it once before.
More often, slaves who wanted to get away with it were discovered on the spot and then all executed.
“I know this risk will be very high, but I can guarantee that my plan will be of great benefit to you,” the middle-aged man said anxiously.
The boy revealed a trace of hesitation.
The middle-aged man caught the boy’s subtle change and took a few more steps forward, seizing the opportunity to say, “To show my sincerity, I can tell you my identity first. My name is Zhao Zhen, I am from Xiaxi, and before becoming a slave, I was in the Xiaxi Wanliu War Zone…”
As he spoke, the middle-aged man’s right hand transformed into a hand blade, aiming straight for the boy’s throat.
The scene that the middle-aged man had expected did not appear. The boy dodged the commando’s sudden attack as if he had expected it, and crashed into the middle-aged man’s arms.
As a veteran soldier who had been on the battlefield for a long time, and even a martial apprentice, the middle-aged man immediately reacted after his strike failed and knocked the boy away, not allowing the boy to cause too much damage.
“What a cunning kid!”
Zhao Zhen looked down at the clothes that had been cut open on his abdomen, which was caused by the boy using a long bone needle.
“Likewise.”
The boy got up from the ground, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said.
If the boy hadn’t heard of similar things before, he would have really been tricked by this Zhao Zhen.
What “we are both humans” was all bullshit in the Dead Fight Arena. The boy understood one thing during his time in the Dead Fight Arena: you have to be more careful when facing humans than when fighting skeletons.
“I was originally going to save some energy, but since you’re looking for death, don’t blame me!”
With that said, the middle-aged man lunged out.
The boy only felt a blur before his eyes, and then a sharp pain came from his abdomen. His whole body flew out.
The boy half-knelt on the ground. Yun Ming, seeing this scene, was no longer optimistic about the boy. After all, the middle-aged man named Zhao Zhen was once a martial apprentice.
Even if there was no battle aura in his body now, his powerful physique and rich combat experience were far superior to the boy’s, and even if the boy had a weapon in his hand, it would be difficult to win.
At this time, the horse-shaped white bone also ushered in his new opponent, still a white bone, and at the same time, a new Dead Fight was added.
Different from the two Dead Fights that had already begun, the venue for this Dead Fight was the only water arena among the four venues. The entire fan shape was filled with water.
Two aquatic white bones swam back and forth in the pool. What was amazing was that the “water” in the fan-shaped pool was extremely clear and transparent, and the two aquatic white bones seemed to be floating in the air.
In this way, most of the audience in the arena could clearly see what the two aquatic white bones looked like.
One was a fish-shaped white bone, but it had a bone tentacle that curved forward on its head, with a bone ball similar to a lantern hanging on it.
The other’s form was even stranger. The whole was a five-pointed star-shaped soft bone, and important bones such as the skull and spine could not be seen.
It seems that the types of aquatic skeletons are really extremely diverse!
Yun Ming had never seen these two types of skeleton forms in the Bone Encyclopedia compiled by Elder Wo, and Elder Wo also specifically mentioned at the end of the chapter on aquatic skeleton forms that the forms of aquatic skeletons were far richer than the combined forms of land and air skeletons, and what he had included in the Bone Encyclopedia was less than one-tenth!
Interesting, Yun Ming became interested in the bone techniques of these two aquatic skeletons.
The “lantern fish” white bone’s bone technique was that hanging bone ball, and the white light emitted from it had the effect of interfering with vision, making it difficult for most of the audience to see what was happening.
But this naturally did not include Yun Ming.
Yun Ming saw that after the lantern fish white bone used the white light, the star-shaped white bone moved immediately, with extremely fast speed.
After leaving the range of the white light, the star-shaped white bone began to distance itself from the lantern fish white bone, and the lantern fish white bone immediately “extinguished” the light when it saw this.
After the two white bones confronted each other for a moment, the star-shaped white bone suddenly rushed towards the lantern fish white bone.
Before the star-shaped white bone could get close, a burst of white light struck, and the star-shaped white bone had no choice but to retreat and exit the range of the white light again.
It seems that there are no attack methods other than interfering with vision, Yun Ming saw the “predicament” of the lantern fish white bone.
The star-shaped white bone couldn’t wait to get close to the lantern fish white bone because his bone technique could only work at close range or even close to the body, but Yun Ming didn’t know what the specific bone technique was.
Because the lantern fish white bone simply didn’t let the star-shaped white bone get close at all.
Although he didn’t see the star-shaped white bone’s attack method, Yun Ming did discover another interesting point โ the star-shaped white bone’s swimming method.
Whenever the star-shaped white bone moved, Yun Ming saw a dozen tiny vortices appearing under the star-shaped white bone’s five “soft arm bones,” propelling the star-shaped white bone’s body to move.
This was different from the movement methods of the aquatic skeletons that Yun Ming had seen.
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