Liu Bufan glanced up during a moment of leisure at the top-tier private boxes. Through his X-ray vision, he saw that seven of the nine boxes were completely empty. The occupants in the other two looked rather familiar—he seemed to have seen them in the news, high-ranking officials of considerable standing.
This reminded Liu Bufan of the Colosseum in ancient Rome, where dignitaries and nobles sat high up in the stands, placing bets and taking pleasure in the slaughter of slaves down in the arena.
How was the present scene any different from those of a thousand years ago? The structure of society had never changed; only productivity had advanced.
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