Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 835 817. Exchange of information

 Compared to Cassandra, who is physically strong and has excellent fighting ability, Lan En doesn't know what has happened to Phobbe in the past year and a half.

 For people like him, this plague is, at most, just a slightly polluted air.

  But for ordinary people, it is completely fatal.

Now he just hopes that this little girl who hopes to have a magnificent and adventurous life will not die in the city of Athens because of a plague.

Kassandra smiled at Lan En's actions, and then nimbly ran towards the houses on the side of the street.

 She can climb up cliffs with only the strength of one knuckle in front of her finger, supporting the weight of her entire body and equipment.

 Walking through the houses in the city is like taking a walk to her.

Flannel Ball followed behind, stood on the edge of the street and looked upstairs, and finally jumped up one by one.

 Cats are very good at climbing walls.

Two people and a cat were flying all the way on the rooftops of the houses in Athens, while Icarus chirped in the air from time to time to lead the way.

So in this warehouse-like workshop, the appearance of the semi-finished marble sculptures has undergone many changes.

 The placement of scaffolding, pulleys, and other tools is still the same as Phidias's previous habits.

"At least it's better than the frightened look you had when we last met. The plague isn't that scary, is it?"

 “What are you talking about? Have we met? Wait!”

 “Sir, I’m closed. Don’t come in! Find someone else.”

"If you insist on coming in, then I will have to find guards. They will perform their duties."

His voice echoed within the structure of the house.

 “Phidias!”

Lan shouted in the sculptor's workshop.

Lann glanced sideways at Cassandra and smiled.

 It just seems that one batch of orders from Phidias was completed and another batch was received.

Lan En called out the sculptor's name with emotion, and Phidias, who was on the second floor, seemed to feel the familiarity of the voice, and for a while he didn't make any more noise and drove people away.

 Soon, Phidias's studio was in sight.

 It seems that after he left, Phidias's life did not change much.

 Lan En stayed here for a few days when he first arrived in the ancient Greek world. Now it seems that the appearance of this studio has not changed much.

His voice was listless, wary and repulsive.

"Your current attitude of driving people out without giving up any ground is really refreshing at this terrible time."

The sculptor’s voice came from the second floor.

 “Ah, Phidias.”

Phidias’s hesitant voice came from the wooden corridor on the second floor.

“The world is not going well right now, so we should all be careful. After waiting for a while, I will lower the price to take orders, I promise.”

Lann's acquaintance, the Athenian sculptor with a beard who was almost driven mad and to death by the mental torture of the Cult of Kosmos, poked his head out from the second floor and looked down suspiciously.

　　 Immediately after seeing the tall and extraordinary figure, his eyes widened and he suddenly smiled in surprise.

 “Lan En?! It’s really you! Gods above!”

 “Come up quickly, hurry up”

But Phidias looked excited at first to reunite with his old friends, but as soon as he was halfway through his words, he became ashamed and hesitated. "But no, you two just came from outside. This, this is too dangerous."

“Yeah, it’s too dangerous. After all, there’s a plague outside.”

Lan En's tone was very natural. Keeping distance from others during the epidemic is not a matter of fate, but of reason.

"Haha, I'm so glad to see you're okay. Let's just talk like this. We just came here to ask you about the current situation in Athens. Cassandra and I just arrived today."

"Thank you for understanding, Lan En. And you, Cassandra. I'm so sorry, you were standing behind Lan En just now, and I just saw you now."

Cassandra waved her hand with a helpless and understanding expression, indicating that she didn't need to worry.

　　It seemed that because of Lan En's natural attitude, Phidias's tone softened slightly from his shame.

The sculptor quickly walked to the position facing Lan En on the wooden corridor, holding his hands on the wooden railing and looking down.

 Looks like he wants to be as close as possible to his friends.

“It makes me happy to see you the same as before. In this world, it feels like a luxury to see something the same as before.”

Phidias looked emotional.

It seems that although the plague has not affected his body, living in a city where the plague is rampant and where you can see dead people or patients in the process of dying at any time on the road is also very stressful.

Lane smiled, and this smile comforted Phidias.

"Your expression now makes me feel like I'm facing Alcibiades. You must not have been affected by his theory of **** and love, right? Phidias?"

“Ha, don’t joke with me about this. I just want to imitate you, not go to bed with you.”

 Under Lan En's atmosphere control, Phidias's spirit relaxed obviously.

 This is a state of mind that is very suitable for communication.

“Well, you two were very unlucky when you came to Athens.”

Phidias said with emotion after starting to talk about business.

"This plague seemed to me to have no beginning and no end, and then suddenly one day everyone got sick and died. I don't even know what to tell you. But Pericles said that this plague started in March. It started spreading in the city of Athens a few months ago, and there are traces of it."

 “I’m just a sculptor, I don’t know that much.”

Phidias smiled self-deprecatingly.

“Now the people in the city are in panic, and even the Spartans who are besieging outside are frightened by the plague.”

“But when I came, I saw that there were still Spartan troops destroying farmland and cultivated land outside the city.”

 Kassandra raised her head and asked.

"Those are all Spartan slave soldiers. There should be only a few Spartan citizens in total, right? I guess."

Phidias shook his head and added at the end. He explained that he was not sure and was just speculating based on rumors.

“And soon, the unstoppable plague may scare away the slave army. Haha.”

Phidias smiled dejectedly, reached down again, and pointed beside Lan En and Cassandra.

“Everyone thought that this was Athens disrespecting the great Apollo, so he, who was in charge of the plague, punished people to let people know the cost of disrespecting the gods.”

“Ever since people began to get sick, I have received many orders to carve Apollo, temple, private, and political”

“Those semi-finished products are the rough embryos after I finished half of them.”

“But now, many people who have placed orders have already entered the underworld.”

 (End of this chapter)