Chapter 635 9.58

Chapter 635 58

The bathhouse is not unfamiliar to the Viking pirates from Hanshui Village.

Although the bitterly cold Scandinavian Peninsula has low temperatures all year round, there are many hot springs hidden underground. After the death of the old village chief "Manggus Starlag", the first thing Loki did when he took power was to dig up the castle's underground palace, introduce hot spring water into it, and build a bathhouse hidden in the castle.

Whenever they returned from looting or hunting, they would take off their dirty clothes and jump into the hot spring water to take a bath. This was the happiest moment for the tribesmen who had been tired all day.

The bathhouse in Sartre and Guraul's minds was a hot water bubble where they took off their clothes and jumped in. They never thought that in the Roman city, there was a bathhouse that was even bigger than the palace.

What's even more exaggerated is that this building is open to all citizens for free.

1,300 years ago, the founding emperor of Rome, "Romulus", had already known what kind of power the word "trade" would have. As the kingdom expanded, the speed at which some citizens accumulated wealth was bound to be beyond the reach of others. Over time, their lifestyles would be greatly different.

There would be an insurmountable class gap between the nobles and the common people. In the eyes of outsiders, they were even like two creatures living in the same world.

But this was the only way for the kingdom to develop.

Romulus could not think of any way to change the situation.

Based on this consideration, he summoned the most skilled architects in the kingdom to build a great building, the Great Baths, which was large enough for all the people in the city to enter and bathe together.

Only in the Baths, everyone was naked and bathed together.

This was the only place in the Roman city-state where classes could be completely abandoned. It allowed everyone to abandon their status and talk freely under the cover of thick steam.

The two doors were pushed open, and the thick white steam rushed towards them like a wall of air. All the rooms in the Baths were shrouded in thick white steam. Waves of conversation and laughter were heard through the marble walls.

The city was already shrouded in twilight. After entering the bath palace and just passing the second pool, Gulaul could hardly see his hand in front of him.

He could only vaguely feel that he was in a huge hall. In the pool in the distance, nearly a hundred people were sitting or standing, enjoying the burning and roasting of high-temperature steam.

Looking back, the other companions who came with him had disappeared.

Hesitantly, Gulaul identified the direction of advance through the dim candlelight on the wall.

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The "Great Bath Palace" is a huge building with a magnificent scale.

The one built in Rome 1,300 years ago covers an area of ​​5,000 square meters.

When the Eastern and Western Roman Empires split, the Western Roman Empire was renamed Byzantium, with Constantinople as its capital, becoming the new commercial center of the Western Continent.

The newly built Great Bath Palace is not only larger in area, but also three stories high. The bachelor's degree students use the principle of steam expansion and rise to transport hot water to higher floors, so that some more private spaces on the top floor can also have hot water supply.

There are no less than 70 pools of different styles in the entire bath palace, which can be explored by all citizens who enter.

The white mist and the constant whispers from the empty walls make the sense of direction in the Great Bath Palace extremely vague. The ubiquitous water vapor even acts as a natural barrier.

Step by step, Guraul walked to the higher floors, and saw the more private side of the Roman citizens.

Are there naked men and women hiding in the corners or by the baths to have the most primitive intimate conversations of human beings, and men and men, women and women hugging each other are not rare.

This is a phenomenon that will never appear in the society of Slavs or Vikings.

The barrenness of the land and the sparse population make every cold-land lord need his subjects to give birth to as many offspring as possible. In the ice field and frozen soil, same-sex people living together as partners are absolutely not allowed.

In the eyes of the Slavic lord, this is an unforgivable disease. If it is not discovered, it will be immediately tied up in front of the lord and beheaded in front of all the residents.

Mortals who died of this "disease" could not even rest in peace. Their bodies had to be baptized by fire to ensure that no trace of the virus remained in the world.

But this was obviously not a serious problem in Rome.

In this country that first promoted the concepts of "democracy" and "republic", every councillor, tribune, and sheriff were freely elected by citizens in the jurisdiction. In order to maintain the votes they could get, every councillor needed to do his best to meet the needs of citizens.

Any artificial suppression of citizens could cause councillors to lose many votes and be replaced by competitors in future elections. The Byzantine Kingdom became a paradise in the eyes of the residents of the West Road, because in this country, mortals could also dominate the fate of the upper class to a certain extent.

Although a vote seems insignificant, gathering sand into a tower can also change the world.

Although Gulauer still looks like a young man in his twenties, his real age is close to 40. In this not-so-short life, he has been a slave, a general, died in Paris, and then lived in the underworld for a not-so-short period of time.

He had seen invincible undead swordsmen, wild beasts hundreds of meters tall, twelve lizardmen clan leaders, and Osiris, the Egyptian god of the underworld.

He deeply understood that not everything in the world can run according to the inherent thinking in his mind.

Therefore, he calmly stepped over the pairs of men hugging each other and walked deeper into the bathing palace.

Entering the third floor, the steam was obviously thinner than the first two floors, and the temperature was slightly colder. Obviously, there were not many people gathered in the bathing palace on the third floor. Putting the palm into the bathing pool, it can also feel that the water temperature is much colder than the first two floors.

Right here, at least there are fewer people.

Taking off his clothes one by one, Gulaoer just wanted to jump into the pool, and a big hand suddenly stretched out from the darkness behind him.

In a thick white fog, a spark suddenly lit up between the two people.

Gulaoer saw a very unfamiliar face.