My friends are all pirates

The former rowing slaves are already the most professional sailors in all nations, which highlights a high degree of organization.

At this time, they are the ones who can best understand the meaning of this moment.

The captain they are following will officially open fire on this ugly world on the big ship Wan Guo from today.

Even the shipworms on the Dreadnought know that Alsherid has no interest in fighting for kings and hegemony or big secret treasures. His greatest hobby is to earn money and sing songs, and then kill a slave owner.

The pedal was put down, and amidst the sound of untidy footsteps, the heavily armed Shandia followed Asherid to the dusty island.

The capital of this country was built by the sea, and its vastness and grandeur are impressive. For hundreds of years, it has repeatedly repeated between prosperity and catastrophic decline. Now is its dark period. The infertile land was utterly desolate, and the best aspects of the city were consumed in carnage and famine.

There are many colleges, hundreds of religious places, hospitals, parks, public baths and more than 200 hotels in the city.

But in this terrible state of confusion, where many great buildings have been destroyed, public facilities abandoned, and parks overgrown with weeds, the ingenuity of those who designed them can be seen in the ruins.

Only the palace belonging to the king is so eye-catching, the high wall stands proudly, and its uniqueness can be seen even in the port. Compared with it, all other buildings look ugly. According to the pirates who came back, the water flow there Pure, earth-scented, gold-dusted interiors and polished marble slabs.

It is out of tune with its surroundings.

But it wasn't Ya Sherid's first goal.

It is a slave camp outside the city. Of course, it has been controlled by the pirates of all nations.

When Asherid arrived at the camp outside the city, the pirates guarding the entrance immediately opened the gate for him, and pulled over a prisoner who was originally the manager here, shouted loudly at the prisoner, and ordered the prisoner to go to the camp. Ah Sherid explained the situation here.

This is a square building surrounded by high walls. It looks like a military prison. There is a towering watchtower at each of the four corners. The main gate is protected by a thick iron grille, which is extremely strong.

Asherid walked into the camp and found that its interior was composed of barracks-like buildings and fortified courtyards. Pirates from all nations encountered resistance when they attacked here, because it was protected by the king's most trusted elite troops, and there were The pirates who come here to trade are more powerful than the army in the city.

After the pirates of all nations captured this place, they found more than 4000 slaves.

alive.

This place is the place where Wangcheng centrally manages the slave laborers. The slave laborers go to work in the city or outside the city during the day, and are escorted back here for shelter at night.

Even when they return to the camp, they still have work. They have to pull a cart with goods on their shoulders with a rope, or carry heavy objects such as large iron bars on their shoulders, which can make people almost unable to stand up. If it is damaged, it will be beaten to pieces with sticks and whips, but at the same time, it lacks the most basic sanitary facilities, and even if there are, it is not for slaves.

The people here have no mercy on the sick slaves and beat them often, because the sick people can't work as hard as the healthy people, so that the managers of the camp are held accountable for failing to meet the king's requirements.

In order to avoid accountability and replenish healthy new labor force, the managers will regularly massacre those who are unlikely to recover their health, and then report it as normal attrition.

The captive’s narration also ended here, because Asherid felt that this was nothing new, so he twisted off the captive’s head and threw it into the black and stinking ditch next to it.

Asherid then ordered the pirates to bring all the living slaves to him.

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Antalas is the name of this royal city.

As a slave camp for the royal city, its capacity is of course more than [-] people. However, due to the arrival of the army of all nations, it cannot be replenished for the time being, and most of the original inventory has been pulled to the battlefield to fight or It is a normal "loss" out.

The number of slaves in the Antalas slave camp is usually maintained at about 3.

When the last survivors here were brought in front of Asherid, the square of the camp was still somewhat empty, but this did not affect the misery of these people in the slightest.

Pale, malnourished and debilitated by disease, these ragged survivors, a portrait of human misery, have seen a quick goodbye to their once-healthy state amid months of beatings, starvation and poor sanitation. Locked up in a dark cell to die.

They are not even used to sunlight.

But what frightened them most was that they were not beaten, nor were they dragged to the square by their hair like cargo, so most of them were trembling.

It was under these conditions that the guards of the camp slaughtered slaves who had been deemed unable to recover while they were still healthy.

Asherid looked at these people, raised his hand and fired a fire bomb into the sky.

The firelight made these people raise their heads.

Only then did they realize that, as if, things were different from what they thought.

They didn't see the familiar guards in the past, and the people standing in the square now looked more like pirates.

"I'm a pirate." Asherid raised the simple loudspeaker to his mouth, and said first to test the effect.

The effect is still wide enough, it seems that the last row can also hear it.

"I regret what has happened to you here, and there is only one difference between the actions of the people you serve and our actions - they prey on the poor under the cover of the law, while we protect the poor under the protection of our own courage." Looting the rich, now you can be one of us, or beg for a job behind those people's asses, or get kicked like a ball for their favor, it's your choice .”

The scene was silent.

The pirate looked at the slaves, and the slaves looked at Al Sherid.

Acherid, who was not looking at anyone, was remembering.

"Unless it is beneficial to me, I am unwilling to help or hurt anyone, so before you choose, I personally have a doubt, maybe you can answer it for me."

He pointed to a man in the front row who looked like a farmer and said, "You plow, plant, and harvest."

Then he pointed to another one that looked like a worker.

"You use all kinds of machinery and tools to build houses, bridges, and ships."

He pointed to them one by one, pointing to all the people in front of him whose characteristics he could recognize, and said a word for each person.

"You use all kinds of metals, copper, iron, gold, silver."

"You may be able to write and count."

"You may have been a clerk before, perhaps a secretary."

Pointing to a row, he went on: "There may be lawyers, doctors, writers, and teachers among you, doing all the things that other people do, fishing in the sea, tending cattle and sheep on the hillside, knowing how to think, knowing to plan, In your original family, you were husbands, wives, and children, but today, no one will prove that you are human, you are just beasts."

"Perhaps you have seen slaves when you were free before. At that time, you just watched them being deprived of freedom, working for nothing, being beaten, and their limbs were chained. The master could hunt them down with dogs and auction them off. , to separate their wives, to smash their teeth, to sear their skins, to starve them into obedience, I think, I need say no more."

"Others rejoice, you wail, celebration is deceitful, freedom preached is unbridled blasphemy, and the greatness of kingdoms is the pomp of vanity."

"In the future, no matter where you go, no matter where you search, no one will prove that you are human. If you choose to be a pirate, it's not so good, because you will always be a pirate. Your Life is about taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor you care about most—yourselves, and from now on all the rich will want to hang you."

After saying this, Asherid handed the megaphone to the pirate next to him.

"The rest will continue as usual. Those who are willing to go to Ten Thousand Kingdoms will be treated and sent to the ship."

"Yes, Master Asherid." The pirate nodded, and then he looked at the slaves in the square who seemed to be agitated, and said, "But tell them so, in case these guy..."

"What they need is not light, but flames, but what we want are storms, hurricanes, and earthquakes." Yasherid waved his hand.

Are you kidding, do you understand slaves or do I understand slaves?

It looks like you don't understand.

"Are there any other slave camps around here?" Ashred asked.

According to his experience, it is unrealistic for such a large city to rely entirely on this slave camp, because the slaves here are only slaves of the royal family.

But in a country where slave labor is commonly used, slave camps must be blooming everywhere.

"No more, this one is just outside the city, but there are many small ones in the city." Said the pirate, "Many of them are the ones that can only accommodate more than 100 people."

"How is the city?"

"It's kind of messy, but it really doesn't matter to us, it's just like this when we came."

"Before the tea party, everyone has to go back, and if there is anything else that can be taken away as soon as possible, we have at most half a month."

"Okay, Lord Acherid."

Satisfied, Asherid turned and left, with the Shandians following behind him.

After leaving the slave camp, Acherid began to advance towards the city.

When he enters the palace of the royal family, he will first breathe the relatively fresh air in the garden. There is a rotten smell in the slave camp, and the plague is a frequent visitor there. According to the introduction of the captive who lost his head, they will kill them every year. A quarter of slaves to stop losses.

And when Asherid was moving towards the city, in a slave barracks in the city, someone was with more than 100 slaves, thinking about how to leave the city.

He looked scrawny.

Of course, this is fake, just using "life return".

But it's not completely false, and he hasn't eaten any serious food for several months.

Even though he was "skeletal," he still looked stronger than the other slaves—big-boned.

"Mr. Monk." A slave came up. "Here is your bread and water."

"Thank you, John." The man called "Monk" grinned, "Just give me the water, and keep the bread for yourself."

"Has your friend survived?" John handed the water to Monk, sat down next to him, and took a sip of the bread in his hand very cherished.

If the masters had not been killed here, he would not have had white bread.

Even so, the food is still very tight. The slaves are unwilling to go to the street to be caught again, and they don't know where to go. They can only waste here. I hope the pirates will be more vicious. Better to destroy the country completely so they might have a chance to leave.

"No, he'll get through it," Monk said.

A dignified candidate for admiral, he will definitely survive.

Monk, no, thought Monch D. Karp.

Garp's injuries from the battle never had a chance to heal, after all they didn't even have time to seek a doctor.

These days, Lingling is really chasing after her too hard.

Karp and Kuzan, who have neither phone bugs nor pointers, wander into this country and don't know whether they are lucky or unlucky.

What is especially weird is that Charlotte Lingling can always chase after her.

Later, they finally found out, because there was a mermaid girl who was very good at divination under that Ah Sherid.

But after finally getting through Charlotte Lingling couldn't stand it anymore, Kuzan collapsed.

The city is full of pirates from all nations, and Garp had to take Kuzan to settle here temporarily. The slave camp is the only place where pirates from all nations will not break in and stay. What they are interested in is the house of the slave owner. Mansion.

Stop here without fear of being spotted.

Karp looked at Kuzan, who was lying on the haystack with his chest heaving slightly, his expression was not as lazy as usual.

In the era when Roger was still there, Kuzan was often by his side, but Kuzan has not seen too many dark sides. His understanding of the viciousness of this world is more on paper superior.

And the new world is more real than anywhere else.

That's why Sakalski and Kuzan are too young to be in charge of the new world.

Karp actually noticed that before he fell, Kuzan was deeply moved by what he had seen and heard along the way.

Kuzan never understood slaves.

But this guerrilla allowed him to penetrate into this organized and disciplined system at an unprecedented depth, so that he could truly see how this system exerted the physical ability of each slave to the limit.

Many slaves regarded Cap and Kuzan as newcomers who suffered the same misfortune as them, so they shared their stories with the "newcomers", telling their tragic experiences after becoming slaves. There are many free people who are really from non-confederate countries, and there are many ways to make them slaves.

Take John as an example. He was born on the Gold Coast of the West Sea. He was originally a free man and lived with his uncle. In a shipwreck, he was picked up by a warship from a non-member country and taken to the New World as a prisoner. But by chance, he I met a fellow countryman named Stapp, and asked for help from this fellow who seemed to have a lot of status in the local area. Stapp took him away by claiming that John was his property. When John reacted, he Knowing that the price of being rescued was to become Stap's slave permanently, after being sold to this place, he had escaped twice, but was caught back both times.

John said very emotionally that when he was Stap's slave, he was allowed to write letters to his wife in his hometown, but he dared not tell the truth, fearing that his fragile wife would not be able to bear such bad news.

Karp was very sure that if that Stapp had been there at the time, he would have been beaten into ice slag by Kuzan. Karp also had that kind of look when he was young.

What knocked Kuzan down was not necessarily a disease.

Pass the water glass to Kuzan's dry lips, carefully moisten his lips, so that he can subconsciously and instinctively absorb the water, after finishing these, Garp put the water glass beside him.

He has to bring Kuzan back, it's his responsibility.

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When Acherid stepped into Antaras, his view of the city changed.

When I was outside, there was a high wall blocking it, so I couldn't see it so clearly.

Standing on the King's Road now, it can be seen clearly.

This is not a magnificent city, but a magnificent royal palace built on the other side of a large area of ​​irregular buildings that are only equivalent to the level of a local market town.

Curious, he flew into the air and looked down.

It doesn't matter if you look at it, it's startling when you see it.

What he saw was a group of fortifications and palaces rising from the low buildings. Although he was used to seeing all kinds of awesome buildings on Blue Star, the scale still made Alsherid dumbfounded. The city walls alone Stretching for several miles, various closely connected palaces and wing rooms stretch in the surrounding hills and valleys.

There are more than one palaces protected by the city walls, and one of them is matched with a huge military barracks that can accommodate tens of thousands of soldiers.

Considering the intensity of the use of slaves in this country, the construction of such a large-scale complex would have to last for decades at least, and the number of dead slaves would not be less than 1 a year.

Now that there are so many slaves in this country, Acherid felt that he could tap into the potential.

Hanging the monarch to death and destroying the family of Zhongding Shilu, in this era, in the great channel, it is no longer once or twice.