Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 504 505. Temple of Apollo

There were no war horses available, and Lan En had to take care of Phob's leg strength, so the two men, one large and one small, did not arrive at the city-state deep in the hinterland of Megaris until nightfall.

"Megara! The first stop of the adventure! Woohoo!"

Standing in front of the city-state's outer wall, which was almost three stories high, Fubai gave a small cheer.

Next to him, Lan En muttered, "I don't see how risky this is," but the little girl ignored him beautifully.

The city-state is the essence of a region, and from Megara we can see the tug-of-war in the Megaris region between Athens and Sparta.

The waters off Megaris were towed by Athenian warships, while the beaches were choked by Spartans.

The Spartans robbed the farmland and crops of the local people outside the city-state, but within the city-state, Athenians were still serving as consuls and were defended by Athenian troops.

The forces of the two parties are intertwined layer by layer throughout the region.

Therefore, Lan En spent a lot of time before taking Fu Bai into the city wall before the night was about to darken.

There is no doubt that before the war began, the land of Megaris could still be called the most coveted land in the Greek world.

But after becoming a see-saw point in the war, the city-state's wealth is shrinking to an unimaginable extent.

By now, when Lan En and Furbo came in, they already felt that except for the larger area, this city-state was almost the same as the Sami town on Kefalonia Island.

The road surface is exposed to rocks and dirt. People's clothes are shabby and their faces are sallow and thin. While walking feebly on the streets of the city-state, Lan En and Fulbo could even feel the hopelessness that they had "no future."

Lan En is a promising warrior, and Fu Bai is a lively little girl who has just started traveling. The two of them can feel an obvious sense of strangeness in this city-state.

The mental state of both of them seems too 'lively' here.

But there is still something dazzling about this city-state.

——Temple of Apollo.

It was a longhouse style temple built of marble and red tiles. On both sides of the temple, there is a marble sculpture of a muscular male about four meters high with a golden snake wrapped around his feet. That is Apollo.

Due to the uneven terrain, the base of the temple is already two to three meters high. Coupled with the height of the marble columns, the height difference between the entire temple and the horizontal plane is more than ten meters, which is nearly five or six stories.

It seems grand and tall in today's era.

Many people with ripped and slit clothes knelt down in front of the temple to pray day and night.

"Let's find a place to stay first."

Lan En walked past the temple with a cold expression and said to Fu Bai.

The little girl raised her head, looking a little surprised.

"You still want to stay in a hotel? Can't we just find a place on the street?"

In fact, this was indeed a normal way for people in the Greek world of this era to rest while traveling. This is the case with the homeless people sleeping on the ground in the city-state streets.

"I don't want to have to watch out for petty theft during my break. We are different from those poor homeless people. You have to protect your property, right?"

Lan En spread his hands towards Fu Bai.

Just the bits and pieces of his equipment, such as iron buckles, small leather bags and other handicrafts, are all good things worth stealing here.

"Okay, let's find a hotel."

Fubo said easily, looking at Lan En.

But as she watched, she found that Lan En seemed to have no intention of moving at all, so the little girl showed an incredible expression.

"You want me to find a hotel?"

"I'll follow you."

"But didn't you say you would take care of me?"

"I mean to protect your safety." The shameless adult made supplementary terms to the child.

"But you also know, Phoebe. I am a foreigner, a foreigner who has come all the way from afar. I can't even figure out which is a private house and which is a hotel! No! Ever since I came to the Greek world, I haven't known anything about it at all. I’ve seen a hotel before!”

"So, when I brought you out of Kefalonia, I said, 'I need a guide.' Do you think I was joking? I really can't figure it out in this place!"

Lan En stretched out a finger and tapped Fu Bai's head with an expressionless expression, reminding the kid to pay attention to his identity as a 'guide'.

"Stop talking nonsense and lead the way."

Fu Bai's fledgling energy collapsed, her shoulders slumped, and she rolled her eyes to Lan En.

"Okay, okay you come with me."

She has been running errands for Marcos and Cassandra in Kefalonia for many years. In terms of her life experience in the Greek world, she is indeed infinitely better than Lan En.

Not long after, the little girl led Lan En into a hotel in a small alley.

Lan En couldn't figure out how Fu Bai found this place.

The hotel owner was a bald, bearded man. When the two came in, he was putting one hand into the creaking nest of the toga and scratching.

"Tongbu? Single room?"

He asked inarticulately while putting the hand that had just scratched the creaking hole under his nose and smelling it.

Fubo looked up at Lan En, meaning to let him make up his mind.

“Single room, plus two dinners.”

The boss nodded, then reported a number, and then Fubo jumped up like a puppy whose tail was stepped on.

"Are you robbing?! Three drachmas? This can buy a suckling pig!"

"If you don't eat and just stay, you won't even use a drachma, little thing."

The hotel owner said indifferently, and at the same time, from the stairs of this small hotel, several men wearing simple armor and holding short swords poked their heads out.

But after they looked at Lan En, these people immediately retreated upstairs.

This should be the guard hired by this hotel.

Seeing that the hotel guard didn't even dare to say a word in front of Lan En, Fubai could continue to question the boss with an angry and slightly proud tone.

"Ha! Two meals are worth more than two drachmas? Did you add sea bass to the rice? Or was it lamprey? Or was it beef?"

"Nothing, kid." Seeing that the guard he hired was useless, the hotel owner still looked indifferent.

He looked up at Lan En, whose hair almost touched the roof, and his tone became a little more polite.

"I myself can't afford sea bass, sea lamprey and other fish that only noble people can eat, and naturally I can't afford beef. All I can provide you is barley bread, salt-grilled sardines, and a small bowl of olive oil. Come and dip the bread.”

"But this is the best hotel meal in the entire Megara, I can guarantee it. Look at the hungry poor people outside, sir. They are willing to use everything they have to exchange for this food."

"War leads to hunger, I can understand that." Lan En spoke under Fu Bai's questioning eyes.

"But food is already scarce to this extent? I also saw a pile of flower petals as high as a person in front of the Temple of Apollo. Aren't those things rarer than food?"

The hotel owner looked at Lan En as if he had seen a ghost.

"The pile of petals is dedicated to God! How can it be compared with human food? There is no comparison."

Lan En was silent for a while.

In the end, he shook his head, separated out three drachmas that he had taken from the one-eyed man's dock, and handed them to the innkeeper.

I took Fu Bai upstairs.

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