Chapter 123 The Admired Traveler
"! Beautiful job!"
The moment the king kicked the messenger away, Su Chen couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.
Too bloody! Too manly!
As the king of Sparta, facing a million troops with more than the entire Spartan race, Leonida was able to face the Persians with an attitude of "not being free than dying", which was like the difference between a mantis blocking his arms, an ants and an elephant.
In just one short sentence, the king had already explained his attitude and set an example for him as the king.
Su Chen was excited to watch from the side, and he just wanted to participate in it.
But he was just thinking about it. The Spartans are an extremely closed nation. If outsiders want to interfere in major issues of their nation, they will definitely cause trouble.
After dealing with the Persian messenger, the bearded king turned around and looked at Su Chen and asked, "Why is he still here? Gorgo, have you asked the child clearly?"
The queen gave a wink at the king, "He is a guest from afar, let's go back first."
Theron, who was beside him, looked as ugly as his parents. The king and the queen had no intention of paying attention to him and hugged each other.
Before leaving, Su Chen looked at Theron and said to himself, waiting and seeing, your good days are almost over.
The group came to the palace, and the king waved his hand and asked the guards to retreat. Only him, the queen, and Su Chen were left in the hall.
"Now you can talk about it. It seems that you have many secrets to say?" The bearded king's expression was not as serious as before. In fact, his personality was optimistic, just like he didn't want to turn against the Persians at the beginning, and he was still humorous about him.
On the way back to the palace, the queen had already whispered a few words in the king's ear, so Leonida was now anxious to find out some news from Su Chen.
"You probably already know. Your Majesty the King."
Su Chen spread his hands and said frankly: "A million Persian army is coming - of course, saying one million is definitely nonsense. But there are still 300,000 people. Since you refuse to surrender to the Persians, then there will be a life-and-death battle between Persia and Sparta... and even the entire Greek city-state. The question now is... what should you do?"
"Young man, do you want to teach me how this king should do things?" Leonida looked at Su Chen with some amusement.
Su Chen waved his hand, "No, of course not! You are the greatest king of Sparta in history - at least in my mind. What do you mean when you are about to lead the army to fight against the enemy, but you find a group of people behind you pulling your legs, what choice will you make?"
"The Spartans will not succumb to power!" Leonida suddenly shouted and his palm slapped heavily on the handrail of the throne. "We will definitely unite and declare war on the Persians!"
Su Chen covered his head and sighed helplessly: "Your Majesty, your idea is very good, but your words can only represent yourself, but not all Spartans! Yes, I know that you have a high prestige. If you decide to fight, the most elite Spartan warriors will definitely follow you, but what if the elders and priests do not agree? With Theron, the traitor. The Persians have long bribed the five elders with gold coins. If they are not allowed to fight with illness in the name of a prophet, what are you going to do?"
The Spartans are all good, and it is not easy to find a few Spartans who are afraid of death, but the elders sacrifice are different. These old monsters represent the will of the gods, which is completely different from ordinary Spartans.
Leonida looked solemn and said word by word: "If this is the case, I will take the King's Guard to fight!"
"What's the point of only three hundred people? Do you want to awaken the upper class of Sparta with your own death?" Su Chen sneered: "Don't be naive! The council and the elders are all a group of corrupt old guys. They will not wake up because of your death, unless they are forced to the dead."
Leonida's expression became more and more serious. "No matter what, this is the internal affairs of the Spartans. It is the law of the Spartans. I will not violate the rules of the Spartans! If it is really as bad as you said, I can only choose to lead the King's Guard to the battle!"
Su Chen curled his lips. In fact, he knew in his heart that this would be the result. Leonida was a good king, but sometimes it seemed a bit pedantic, especially for his own sense of national identity. It was because he wanted to maintain the dignity of this nation that he had put himself in an unfavorable situation.
"My Majesty King Leonida, forgive my rudeness."
Under the gaze of the king and the queen, Su Chen said bluntly: "If only you and the guards compete, the ending will definitely be dead, so I will kill Theron and the five elders, and expose their despicable and shameless side in front of all the Spartans! If the parliament still disagrees at that time, I will kill all these old guys!"
Leonida suddenly couldn't help laughing, "Ha! It seems that this kid likes me and my nationality very much... Gorgo what do you think?"
The queen also smiled, "You are right. I think he seems to have a good impression of Sparta. Where do you come from, the child?"
Because Sparta carried out late marriage and late childbirth, coupled with hard training and harsh environment, the king over forty and the queen under forty looked a little old. Judging from the appearance, they called Su Chen "child", which was really right.
Su Chen was a little speechless. Is this the time to say these words? Don’t get off the topic, okay? I have threatened to kill the elders and congressmen, but you, as kings and queens, are indifferent?
Is this really good?
"Your Majesty, don't think I'm joking. If you don't believe it, I can prove it to you!"
Let's talk, Su Chen's arm shook slightly, and two guns fell from his cuffs. The muzzle was instantly aimed at the torch beside him. With the "bang" sound, the palace suddenly fell into darkness.
Within a few seconds, a large number of guards broke in from outside, and soon someone relit the torches.
"Go down." Leonida and the queen frowned, and the scene just now scared them.
After the guards left, the king glanced at the torch fragments that fell on the ground and said in a deep voice: "Is this what you want me to see?"
Su Chen nodded, "That's right! As long as I think, there is no one in this world that I can't kill! What are the five elders? I think it's safe to hide on the cliff? I can blow their heads one by one at the foot of the mountain!"
"You want to go to war with Sparta?" The queen was also a little angry.
Su Chen shrugged, "What's the benefit of this for me? I just want His Majesty the King to take back his rights and lead the Spartans to fight. If anyone is in the way, no matter who he is, I will kill him!"
"What are you doing this?" Leonida was confused by Su Chen. He always felt that this child of unknown origin was inconspicuous.
"I am not a dirty politician, but just a traveler who admires His Majesty." Su Chen put his hand on his chest and bent down respectfully and bowed.
He is not lying. Judging from Leonida's personal charm alone, Su Chen really yearns to be such a man.
"Traveler?" Leonida couldn't help laughing, "I've never seen such a strange traveler. Can you tell me the weapon you just used?"
"You said this?" Su Chen raised the gun in his hand. "This thing is called a pistol. Each pistol has thirty bullets. One bullet can kill a person with an effective range of fifty meters. However, my two guns are specially made and can kill people even if they are a hundred meters away. If I want to solve a more distant place, I still have a very long gun with an effective range of five thousand meters!"
The king and the queen were confused when they heard this. The two had limited knowledge and could not tell the authenticity and power of this weapon for the time being. However, according to Su Chen's pistol just now, it seems that the power of this weapon is very powerful, even more terrifying than that of an archer!
After all, the bow and arrow can only shoot one arrow at a time, and it takes several seconds to shoot the second arrow. Su Chen just picked up the gun and kept snapping. Obviously, in a very short time, he fired many so-called "bullets" in his mouth.
"Is this weapon still there? Can it be sold to Sparta?" Leonida and the queen looked at each other and thought of the value of this weapon at the first time.
Su Chen was stunned when he heard this and said slowly: "It's not impossible, but your Majesty, you really decided to buy it? To be honest, this weapon is very powerful and rare. If the Spartans had it, there would be no need to bleed on the fighting field again. It will take more than ten years to train a qualified Spartan warrior, and a gunman - it will only take three months at most!"
When Leonida heard this, she hesitated.
Due to his vision and insight, he prefers more conservative attitude. In order to maintain ridiculous laws, he even dares to use his own death to awaken the Spartans. How could a man with such a personality abandon the foundation of the Spartan nation for an unknown weapon?
After all, the reason why the Spartan nation is so powerful is that it is the most important part of the Greek city-state. It relies on the rules passed down from generation to generation since ancient times. From birth, babies are soaked in spirits to eliminate offspring with weak constitutions. Then, they start training in the fighting field in childhood, until they leave the ethnic group in their youth and struggle to survive in the harsh environment in the wild...
It is no exaggeration to say that the entire Spartan nation is a natural fighting nation!
Compared with the jokes about the Russians being a combat nation on the real world, Spartans are the real combat nation!
It is harder for a nation like this to let them abandon traditional and outdated ideas than to kill them.
Naturally, Leonida did not mention buying weapons again.
But not mentioning this does not mean that he recognized Su Chen's remarks and ideas about killing this and that, let alone expose the true faces of the congressmen and elders in public. This is a very morale-damaging thing for the entire Spartan nation. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!