death of hope

Chapter 236 "Enterprise Warrior" (152) Young Pirates

As we walked, Captain Marcus Lynch stopped,

He looked in surprise at a young man in ragged clothes with a depressed expression, his small hands could almost stick out from the handcuffs.

It may be due to lack of nutrition. He is short and thin, and looks only fourteen or fifteen years old. He stared at his face and looked closer.
The boy was obviously terrified, but he tried his best to pretend to be a fool, covering up his fear with anger:
"Why? What are you looking at!"

"Why, do you want to fight too?"

"Hmph..." The boy turned his head, the shape of his mouth was obviously cursing.

"Hey! Look at me!"

Lynch pinched the opponent's pointed chin with his rough giant palm, and forcibly turned his thin neck around, forcing him to face up to his ugly face full of scars, and those immature bright eyes were full of fear.

"Boy, are you a pirate too?"

"Why don't you forget it!" The young man said bravely, "I...I messed with Brother Baron!"

"You're still pretty proud of it, kid, aren't you?"

"Of course! We are social people!"

Lynch smiled: "Oh? So, you are a ruthless person?"

"What are you laughing at! You silly big man!" The young man raised his neck, "Tell you, when the other brats were playing house games, we were already pirate apprentices! There is nothing we dare not do." thing!"

"How does it feel to be a bad boy?"

"Excellent! No less than [-] merchant ships and cargo ships were robbed, and all the disobedient crew members were slaughtered! Eat and drink hot food all day long, being a pirate is really cool!"

A haughty and proud look flashed across the boy's face, and then quickly disappeared, turning into a disheveled expression of despair:
"It's a pity that Brother Baron... is dead."

"The backer is dead, and you can't stand up, right?"

"I want you to take care of it! Stupid big man!"

"Boy, you should go to school at your age instead of being a pirate. Where are your parents?"

"died."

"What?"

"It's none of your business! Dasha X!"

"Oh? Dare you scold me again?"

Lynch squatted down, with an ugly face full of scars almost touching the boy's nose, his fierce eyes were staring, his teeth yellowed by cigarettes were sticking out, as if he was going to eat people, his voice seemed to be contained in the accumulation of rain Thunder in the cloud:
"Say, your parents, how did you die?"

The boy was so frightened that his whole body trembled, his calf twisted, he sat down on the ground, and swallowed:
"I said... that's not enough. My parents died in the... Battle of the Fitzclan Planet. My parents were both mercenaries. They stood on the side of the rebels and were killed by the first batch of airborne troops."

Lynch was shocked.
He participated in the Fitzclan planet's anti-insurgency campaign, which was a small military operation. Back then, he led the Spartan heavy infantry company to fight the first battle in the airdrop pod.

The Federal Parliament passed a resolution to decapitate Baron Bamstad, the leader of the rebel army who had defected to alien forces. Anyone who served the baron was considered a crime against humanity and would be killed without mercy.

As the ace arrow troop of the Federation, the Spartan heavy infantry in the airdrop pod was like a god of death. They captured the rebel airport within an hour and took control of the atmosphere before the large troops began to land.

The teenager's parents were most likely the mercenaries guarding the airport, and were killed by Lynch's comrades in arms, or even himself.

Lynch looked at his palm,
When a person's hands are stained with too much blood and cannot be cleaned no matter how much they are washed, the heart becomes numb.

How could the young man understand, just for a moment, what kind of manic waves arose in the heart of this vicious big man in front of him.

Lynch exhaled, leaned on his forehead, said calmly with a blank face;
"Boy, have you ever killed someone?"

"Killed... killed."

"When? Why?"

"Are you 13 or 14? Forget it. Brother Baron told me that the entry ceremony of the Ruby Parrot Pirates is to kill a crew member of a robbed cargo ship."

(Damn pirates! A bunch of bastards!) He cursed inwardly.

"How does it feel to kill someone?"

"Not good."

"Do you still remember what the victim looked like?"

"That man is a forklift driver on a mining ship. He wears a peaked cap, has soot scum on his face, and has an unshaven beard. He looks about forty years old."

"Remember it so clearly, it means you don't want to kill him."

"Yes... sir..." The young man's eyes were moist: "I didn't want to kill him... But at that time... dozens of pirates were staring at me...

Brother Baron took out his pistol, loaded the magazine for me, and opened the safety. When I was nervous, I didn't even aim. I pulled the trigger, and the gun went off. "

"and then."

"I thought people were shot like in the movies... I didn't expect it to be so bloody...

There was a big blood hole in the crew's chest, Bai Sensen's ribs were exposed, and blood gushed out of his mouth, nose, and eyes...

The pirates all laughed and praised me for playing well. Brother Baron took back his gun and patted me on the shoulder, saying that I passed the test.

The crewman was panting desperately, he looked at me... looked at me, didn't speak, just looked at me, after a few seconds, his pupils dilated, and he didn't move anymore. "

"Boy, have you ever thought that the forklift driver of the mining ship may be someone's husband, someone's father, who supports his family with a meager salary, and if you kill him, he may not be the only one who dies. "

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry! Sir, I don't want to do this."

Two lines of hot tears slid down the boy's cheeks and dripped onto the blood-stained floor:

"I have no other choice. If I don't do it, I will be thrown out of the cabin. I will suffocate to death in space and freeze to death. I don't like killing people... The smell of human blood is disgusting. I regret it."

"If regret medicine really existed in this world, then I would definitely line up to buy it all night with a bag in hand." Lynch's eyes calmed down: "Then, you joined the gang?"

"Yes, after killing the crew and moving things, we ate and drank until we got drunk and passed out. We gave as much meat and wine as we wanted, it was so cool..."

"You boy, can't you do some normal work? There are some planets where child labor is not illegal."

"I tried it before. I went to the factory to work illegally for a few months. At the end of the year, the boss didn't pay the wages and drove away a group of us children. We didn't sign the contract and couldn't sue him.

Wandering to another planet with a barge carrying garbage, to apply for a job as a community cleaner, only this does not require a degree.

The human resources company checked the information and said that I am the son of a traitor, and no one would take the risk of hiring me.

After wandering for a while, sleeping on park benches, looking for food in the trash cans of fast food restaurants, there are many people of my age who are like me, half of them froze to death in winter,

I survived because I found a cotton coat in a trash can, which was later snatched from me.

There was a kind beggar uncle who asked me to go to the black market to try my luck, and then... I happened to meet an interstellar ship recruiting apprentices. I didn't know they were pirates, so I boarded the ship in a daze..."

(End of this chapter)