Codex Pirates

Chapter 3 Ruthless

After Ajin entered the cellar, he and William exchanged glances, and they asked in unison, "What's wrong?"

William asked Ah Jin if something happened outside, and Ah Jin wondered what was going on in the cellar.

Ajin paused for a moment, then replied first: "I just heard gunshots..."

"It's nothing." William looked at Aramis who was walking towards the little girl. "It's just a few people hiding here."

At this time, the little girl pretending to be an ostrich finally couldn't bear it any longer. She cried loudly and wanted to escape, but was caught by Aramis and tied up.

"Mom! Mom!" The little girl's hoarse cry was harsh in the narrow cellar. The woman whimpered when she heard the sound, but unfortunately her mouth was blocked by Aramis, so she could only keep crying.

Ah Jin was completely unmoved by this scene. In the ocean of this world, apart from the unpredictable weather that makes people living on the sea fearful, there are various other things that William had never heard of in his previous life. From the perspective of a traveler like William, Ajin's previous life was like being a fisherman in horror movies such as "Jaws" and "Piranha". It's just dead work!

When encountering pirates, as the same kind, they can communicate a little bit, but when encountering vicious sea beasts, they don't even have the chance to beg for mercy.

Since he was a child, Ajin, who has been struggling to make a living in the sea in a simple wooden boat every day, has a fierceness in his bones that does not take his own life seriously, so he is naturally not a soft-hearted person.

There was no change on Ah Jin's face, but William frowned. Ah Jin had been with him for a while and knew his habits somewhat, so he said in a low voice: "William, if you don't want them to fall into other people's hands, just ...."

As Ajin said, he made a knife with one hand and wiped it from his throat, the meaning was self-evident.

William didn't respond. In the past few months of pirate life, he also participated in several naval battles, but he either fought with pirates or with the navy. Fighting on the battlefield and killing civilians after the war are two different things. Before William crossed over, he was an ordinary People, not serial killers.

But William couldn't bear to hand these few people over to other pirates. He had lived with the pirates on the ship for quite a while and knew their virtues well.

Perhaps, among the pirate groups in this world, there are righteous thieves, or heroes who are eager for justice, but in essence, pirates are mainly composed of a group of law-breaking bandits. On the table, when there is a day without tomorrow, the laws and morals of a peaceful society have very little constraints on them. Being able to exercise self-discipline and not kill innocent people indiscriminately is already a rare quality among pirates. The point is the word "rare".

No one can overestimate the morality of a group of people who live off looting.

William knew that on the ship he was on, except for a few young pirates including him who had not completely lost their sense of morality, even if the other old pirates who had tasted the pleasure of plundering could not be said to be evil, Not far off, and their captain, One-Eyed Denton, was even better.

According to the old pirate on the ship, it is said that Denton went to sea at the same age as William, but his luck was bad, and he was captured by the pirates of the enemy ship, and asked about the whereabouts of Denton's other companions. Denton never gave in and was tortured. , so that one eye was gouged out, but after he escaped, he found himself abandoned by his fellow pirates. In his hands, death is the easiest relief, which makes the pirates on the ship feel both respect and fear of him. On the one hand, they are in awe of his strong will that can endure torture, and on the other hand, they are afraid of his fierce methods.

Denton has never been stingy with using brutality to deter pirates on board, and he is not worried that this kind of management method will arouse negative effects. Therefore, if any of these three types of people fall into Denton's hands, women, teenagers, and little girls, I am afraid that except for teenagers A little useful, and may be taken overboard, and neither of the other two will survive, and they will die horribly.

William glanced at the little girl who had been gagged and tied up by Aramis, and finally walked up to the struggling woman and squatted down.

At first William lowered his eyelids slightly, as if he was looking at the ground, but then he raised his head, looked straight into the woman's eyes, and said coldly, "If you don't want you and your daughter to die, just listen to me quietly."

William didn't know which of the threats in his words worked, but they all worked. The woman quickly quieted down and just looked at him in fear.

"I don't want to hurt women and children, but I can't guarantee that other people outside will follow my code of conduct. If we move the wine here, we won't come here. You guys hide here obediently, and there will be no other pirates Come here again, and when we leave, you will be safe."

The woman didn't respond after William finished speaking, as if she didn't believe that luck was so good.

"Did you understand what I said?" William asked after getting up.

The woman kept her eyes on his face, so she raised her head in a daze. After hearing this sentence, she subconsciously nodded.

William tore off the cloth stuffed in the woman's mouth, looked at the young man who had been knocked unconscious by him before and was tied up by Aramis, and said, "When he wakes up, you'd better be with him." To be clear, I just don't want to kill you, but if you attract other pirates and embarrass me, I will still do it."

The woman had already been scared out of her wits, and she still didn't dare to speak out, fearing to offend William, she just kept nodding with a pale face.

William couldn't tell whether he was really just a verbal threat, and whether he would kill when the time came. People often say stick to the moral bottom line, and the word they use is stick to it, which shows that the moral bottom line itself is not easy to hold If you don't pay attention, it can be easily defeated by others, outsiders, or yourself.

Most of the pirates are a group of bullying and short-sighted bastards. In their worldview, compassion is equal to weakness. William is unwilling to show his compassion in front of these people.

William stopped talking to the woman in the cellar, and motioned for Aramis and Arkin to move out the wine in the cellar with him.

The three of them left the cellar, and William didn't say anything about untying the few civilians left behind. What he said before was actually to prevent them from trying to break free from the shackles, and he was not so naive as to think that they would be untied. They will definitely stay in the cellar obediently.

In the courtyard, Aramis suddenly said to William, "Even if you do this, they won't be grateful to you after they are rescued. You should understand that you are so smart. William, I really don't understand you."

William didn't hide the disgust on his face, and responded: "I don't need their gratitude. I just hate this kind of life like a locust. We really hate the life we ​​live in."

Ajin, who had been silent all the time, said: "Pirates are always like this."

Aramis didn't speak, but just shrugged his shoulders with an expression of approval.