Chapter 120: Powerlessness
Chapter 120 Powerlessness
Teenager Alan woke up from his stupor, his mouth slightly open, his eyes staring blankly at the beams of the room in a daze, tears slowly flowing down from the corners of his eyes.
“Mom ……”
Despite the fact that many days had passed, he was still unwilling to face the reality of the death of his only loved one, and compared to the immense pain in his spirit, the wounds that kept adding to his body felt nothing in contrast.
More than half a month ago, the village where Allen lived was attacked by pirates, he and some people in the village behind the pirates captured as slaves, more unfortunate, Allen’s mother was killed because she tried to stop the pirates to take away her son.
The teenager was knocked unconscious and loaded onto a pirate ship with other unfortunate slaves and transported to a small island, a secret stronghold of the pirates.
Many of the sturdier, older men were shoved onto paddleboats to serve as oarsmen, while a few of the younger children, including Allen, were supplied as child servants for the chiefs to use at their disposal.
The boy thought of his dead mother every day, remembering that she had died protecting him, and he burned with bitter hatred for the pirates, hated his own weakness, and hated himself for his cowardice at the time.
He tried to escape, but every attempt failed, and once he had the opportunity to take a trip to the beach, after learning that it was a pirate far from the mainland, he realized even more that escaping this place would never be easy.
The scars on his body were from the first few times he escaped and was discovered, each time he was given a severe beating.
In the face of the pirate’s slavery, he resisted and refused to obey, and was rewarded with humiliation and torture over and over again.
“If it weren’t for the fact that you’re a handsome boy, I would have thrown you into the sea and fed you to the fish.”
Alan’s pirate “master” said to him after a severe beating.
When Alan was lying on the bed, the door opened, and the person who walked in he knew, it was Tom, the neighbor’s child from the village, many children in the village were taken by the pirates, even including that nuisance Pine, who was always at odds with himself.
“Alan …… you have a nightmare again?” Tom asked out of the corner of his eye as he noticed the tear stains in the corner of Alan’s eye.
“Well, I dreamed about mom again.”
Tom’s face also showed a look of sadness when he heard it, his own parents were not killed by pirates like Alan’s mother, but he did not know if he would ever see them again in his life. After a few severe beatings, he was now resigned to his slave status.
Resisting his own urge to cry, he went over and embraced his friend.
At this time someone else walked in, an old servant who had been a slave here for many years, seeing such a sight of the two teenagers, he knew that these two children were again missing their relatives.
“Alas!” The old servant let out a sigh and opened his mouth to remind, “It’s Alan’s turn to deliver the food today, hurry up and go, if you’re late you’ll upset those people again.”
Allen got up and got out of bed, went to the kitchen of the pirate stronghold and received a large food box, reluctantly carried it towards a courtyard.
The courtyard was a row of pavilions, partitioned into small rooms, each with a young woman imprisoned inside. At his age, he didn’t know why the pirates kept so many young women here and didn’t allow them to work; he had asked the old servant, who had replied that he’d know when he was older, and shook his head, “What a sin.”
Under the watchful eyes of the guarding pirates, he took food from his lunch box and sent it from room to room.
The last room held a girl not much older than his age, cute looking but with a wooden face at what should have been an innocent and lively age.
Alan placed the meal on a small table in the room and the girl nodded slightly at him, still no expression visible on her face.
Just as the boy was about to leave, a loud noise came from outside.
“Haha, finally it’s our turn to relax and unwind, I’m going to try a smaller load this time.”
“How true, running over here in the middle of the morning.” This was the voice of the guards.
“After standing guard all night, I haven’t slept yet.”
A pirate yelled loudly and barged in, seeing Allen who had not yet left, a brand on the boy’s body allowed him to recognize it as a slave, he waved his hand with a look of impatience and said, “Get lost, don’t disturb my lord’s pleasure here.”
Pleasure? What did he want?
Alan noticed that the girl’s wooden face showed fear, which made him instinctively feel that this pirate wanted to do something bad to the girl.
“What do you want?” The pirate was a bit surprised, and then put on a fierce expression, “What do you care what I do? Well, I’ll tell you, I’m going to ravage this little bitch, what? Do you want to watch from the sidelines?”
“Don’t you hurt her!”
The boy thought the pirate was going to beat the girl up, so he gathered his courage and opened his arms to block the pirate’s way, his small body contrasting with the pirate’s burly frame.
The pirate had an incredulous look on his face, this little slave who came over to deliver food had the guts to talk to him like that, didn’t he know his identity and what this place was?
He laughed hideously, ”Yo yo yo! Where did the little brave man come from, is this a game of heroes rescuing beauty?”
The vicious aura emanating from the other party made the boy unable to stop shivering, but he still didn’t retreat and blocked in front of the pirate with a stubborn face.
A large hand grabbed his clothes and lifted him up like a small chicken.
“It looks like you’re a newcomer who just arrived not long ago, let me teach you the rules here properly?”
“Let go of me!” Alan held the pirate’s hand with both hands and tried to break it, but the pirate’s hand was like an iron vice. In vain, he had to shout, “It’s just not right for you to bully people!”
“Bullying? Hahaha!” The pirate laughed openly, “You have to get it right, this is a pirate’s den, the strong can do whatever they want to the weak.”
With a swing of his arm, he slammed the boy’s head hard against the wall.
A sharp pain shot through Alan’s head, followed by a strong sense of vertigo and a feeling that everything around him was shaking.
The pirate asked him, “What? Want to keep stopping me?”
“You …… you …… are doing this wrong.”
The casserole-sized fist hit Alan in the face in one swift motion, and a nosebleed spewed outward.
The pirate was a bit angry, if not for the fact that slaves belonged to the regiment’s “public property”, he really wanted to end this little brat with a knife.
He was about to continue to teach this ungrateful little slave a lesson, when a small hand rested on his body, it was the girl.
The girl shook her head at the pirate, a pleading look on her face.
“Hmph! Forget it, I have business to attend to, so I won’t waste time with this little thing.”
Already seven dizzy, Alan was carried out of the house and tossed outside like a rag before the pirate kicked him in the head and the boy fainted.
When he woke up, he was lying on the bed in the room he had just been in, and a pain shot through the wound on his head, causing him to almost pass out again.
“Thanks!”
A voice reached his ears, he turned his head to see that it was the girl sitting next to him, it looked like she hadn’t been beaten by the pirates.
“You’re welcome!”
Alan said, the same people who had fallen into slavery to the pirates, he sympathized with the people who were locked up here, the people outside were still able to walk around the stronghold a little bit, while the woman here couldn’t even seem to get out of this courtyard.
He got up and out of bed, saying his goodbyes once he felt he had no problem walking.
What could he change now? He couldn’t change anything except express his displeasure in the same powerless way he had before.
I didn’t get home until 2:30 a.m., but this week’s feature was finally debugged, so I didn’t have to work late on the weekend. (^ρ^)/
(End of chapter)