Chapter 3 is ruthless

After Ah Jin entered the cellar, he and William looked at each other, and the two of them asked in unison, "What's wrong?"

William asks if something is going on outside, and Ah Jin wonders what's going on in the cellar.

Ah Jin paused slightly, and then replied first: "I just heard the gunshot...... ”

"It's nothing," William said, looking at Aramis as she walked towards the little girl, "there's just a few people hiding in there." ”

At this time, the little girl who pretended to be an ostrich finally couldn't pretend anymore, and cried loudly, trying to escape, but was grabbed by Aramis and tied up.

"Mommy!" the little girl's hoarse cry was a little harsh in the narrow cellar, and the woman whimpered, but her mouth was choked by Alamis, and she could only keep crying.

Ah Jin was not moved by this scene at all, the ocean of this world, in addition to the unpredictable weather that makes people who beg for a living at sea fearful, there are all kinds of things, William had never heard of it in his previous life, and the unseen sea beasts were waiting for the opportunity to attack the living creatures on the sea, in the eyes of William as a traverser, Ah Jin's previous life was like being a fisherman in horror movies such as "Jaws" and "Piranha", not to mention death?

When you encounter pirates, you can communicate with each other more or less as a kind of pirate, but you don't even have a chance to beg for mercy when you encounter a vicious sea beast.

Since he was a child, Ah Jin, who has been struggling to make a living at sea on a simple wooden boat every day, has a fierceness in his bones that does not take his life seriously, and naturally he will not be a soft-hearted person.

Ah Jin's face did not change, but William frowned, Ah Jin had been with him for a while, and he knew his habits somewhat, so he whispered: "William, if you can't bear to let them fall into the hands of others, just ......." ”

Ah Jin said, a hand made a knife and wiped it through his throat, the meaning was self-evident.

William didn't respond, in the past few months of pirate life, he has also participated in several naval battles, but either with pirates, or with the navy, fighting on the battlefield, and killing civilians after the war are two different things, William was an ordinary person before he crossed over, not a serial killer.

But William couldn't bear to hand over these people to the other pirates, he lived with the pirates on the ship for a short time, and knew their virtues well.

Perhaps, in this world's pirate group, there are righteous thieves, or heroes who are eager for justice and righteousness, but in essence, pirates are composed of a group of illegal bandits as the main body, when they choose to put their lives on the gambling table of the sea, and live a day with no tomorrow today, the laws and morals of a peaceful society have very little constraints on them, and being able to self-restrain themselves and not kill innocents indiscriminately is already a rare quality among pirates, and the focus is the word "rare".

No one would overestimate the morality of a group of people who live by robbing property.

William knew that on the ship he was on, in addition to the few young pirates who had just been on board, including him, who still had a sense of morality that had not been completely extinguished, the other old pirates who had tasted the pleasure of plundering were not far from each other, if not all evil, and their captain, "One-Eyed" Denton, was even better.

According to the old pirates on the ship, it is said that Denton went to sea at a similar age to William, but his bad luck was not good, he was captured by the enemy ship pirates, and forced to ask Denton about the whereabouts of his other companions, Denton has not succumbed, and was tortured so much that he was gouged out of one eye, but after he escaped, he found that he was left behind by his fellow pirates, and since then Denton's treatment of enemies and captives has become more and more cold-blooded, regardless of men, women, old and young, falling into his hands, death is the easiest relief, which makes the pirates on the ship feel respectful and afraid of him, on the one hand, they are in awe of his strong will to endure torture, and on the other hand, they are afraid of his ferocious methods。

Denton never hesitated to use brutality to deter ship pirates, nor was he worried that this management method would provoke negative effects, so the woman, the boy and the little girl, any of these three kinds of people fell into the hands of Denton, I am afraid that except for the young man who was of some use and might be taken on the thief ship, the other two would not want to live, and would die a miserable death.

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

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

William didn't know if any of the threats in his words worked, or if they all worked, and the woman quickly fell silent, just looking at him in fear.

"I don't want to hurt women and children, but I can't guarantee that the rest of the people outside will follow my code of conduct, we won't come here if we move the wine here, you hide here, no other pirates will come here again, and when we're gone, you'll be safe." ”

The woman did not react when William finished speaking, as if she did not believe in such good luck.

"Do you understand what I'm saying?" asked William, getting up.

The woman's eyes were always on his face, so she also raised her head blankly, and after hearing this, she nodded subconsciously.

William tore off the cloth from the woman's mouth, looked at the young man who had been knocked unconscious by him before, and had not yet woken up, and was tied up by Alamis, and said, "You'd better make it clear to him when he wakes up, I just don't want to kill you, but if you attract other pirates to embarrass me, I'll still do it." ”

The woman had already been frightened, and still did not dare to speak out, for fear of provoking William's displeasure, but she kept nodding her head with a pale face.

William can't tell if he is really just a verbal threat, I don't know if he will be a killer when he really arrives, people often say stick to the moral bottom line, the word is stick, which shows that the moral bottom line itself is not an easy stronghold to keep, if you are not careful, it is easy to be defeated by others, outsiders, or yourself.

Most of the pirates are a group of short-sighted bastards who are afraid of the weak and afraid of the hard, and in their worldview, compassion equals weakness, and William is unwilling to show his mercy in front of these people.

William said no more to the woman in the cellar, and motioned for Aramis and Akin, who were with him, to move the wine out of the cellar.

The three of them went out of the cellar, and William didn't say anything about helping the few civilians left behind to loosen their bonds, what he said before was actually to prevent them from trying to break free from the restraints, and he was not naïve enough to think that if they were untied, they would definitely stay in the cellar obediently.

When he arrived in the courtyard, Aramis suddenly said to William: "Even if you do this, they will not be grateful to you after they are rescued, you should understand if you are so smart, William, I really don't understand you." ”

William did not hide the disgust on his face and responded: "I don't need their gratitude, I just hate this locust-like life, we live a really annoying life." ”

Ah Jin, who had been silent, said: "Pirates are like this. ”

Aramis didn't speak, just shrugged his shoulders in agreement.