Chapter Twenty-Three: Memories I
The reason why I want to fight is because I still have a reason to live.
It goes back a few years to the days when I met Tulip, and it was also the lowest period of my life.
In the past, I didn't want to live at all, and I didn't even have the most basic desires, but I was just dead, fearful, and insensitive.
In the year 328 A.D., I was captured by a group of black-clad slave traders and imprisoned in a dark and dilapidated old spaceship.
The gears of fate turn from that moment.
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In the winter of 328 A.D., after a long journey of half a month, the traffickers arrived at Floating City.
Their destination was the Great Hall of the Floating City, the center of the slave trade. This slave market is located near a square in the Floating City's Ghetto Street.
The reputation here is quite extensive, the reputation is also the best, and the slaves sold here are also the most expensive, and they are worth the money.
Since early in the morning, a large number of merchants, slave traders, dignitaries, and even high-class women with status and titles have gathered here one after another to visit. They also want to select their favorite slaves, exchange the cheapest price for the best labor, and each has a bad idea.
In an alley leading to the slave trading center, a tattered old spaceship is slowly heading towards its destination, and inside the spaceship sits several emaciated children, each of them wearing clothes that resemble prison uniforms, and each tattered garment has a code engraved on it, which is the symbol of slavery.
The atmosphere was a little depressing, but also a little dignified.
Of the slave children, the eldest was a boy. His eyes were hollow, showing no sign of life from a living person, he was like a walking corpse, he was unsociable, he crouched alone in a corner, did not speak or complain, and had not eaten for three days.
He was deliberately separated by a few other children, gathered around as if they were discussing something, and the children were going to escape from the prison, in short, they were going to escape from the spaceship, from the cage that bound them. One of the children, who was older, was supposed to take the lead, and he gathered several small slaves together.
"Listen, we'll get out of here if we get the chance."
The leader was a bald head, his eyes were very determined, and he never gave up.
"But...... It's useless to escape, sooner or later you'll be caught. ”
A thin little slave interjected, his speech slurred and he looked quite frightened.
"Yang Fan, what stupid things are you talking about, do you want to be a slave for the rest of your life? Want to be called back and forth by those fat people with fat heads and big ears? Do you spend the rest of your life like a dog? ”
The boy who took the lead glanced at Yang Fan, so frightened that he didn't dare to speak, Yang Fan also paused, and finally gritted his teeth and nodded in agreement. The child at the beginning had a very firm look in his eyes, and he was not afraid, and he was a very brave teenager. He was encouraging the other children.
Once they had the backbone, the slave children gathered together and began to discuss a plan to escape.
At this time, Yang Fan inadvertently glanced at the young man squatting in the corner, the young man didn't look much different from him, but the boy didn't plan to contact him.
"Don't worry about him as an idiot, he won't say a word, just like a fool."
"But will he snitch? Leak our plans. ”
The boy who took the lead snorted coldly, this guy who looked like a dead man would never talk nonsense.
He had been completely reduced to slavery......
In this spaceship, there is also the youngest girl, who should also be isolated by other children. A group of them only felt that this little girl was a burden, and if they took her with them when they ran away, they would definitely be caught, so they deliberately separated the little girl when they discussed it together.
Although the little girl is not very old, she vaguely feels that she is very unwelcome.
The little girl had no choice but to walk away silently, and squatted down beside the eldest boy.
She just silently bowed her head and didn't speak, the boy raised his head and glanced at the little girl at this time, her appearance was very cute, although her face was a little haggard, it should be the reason why she hadn't eaten healthy food for a long time, but her face was very delicate, and the boy just glanced casually, and then lowered his head again.
In this world, this kind of thing is very normal, the boy is numb, he no longer has the heart to sympathize with others.
His heart was utterly hopeless.
Suddenly, the little girl moved her ass closer to the boy, and she said softly.
"Brother, I still have half a bread left here, I haven't finished it, you eat it, I see brother, you haven't eaten for a long time, brother, you look very haggard."
Speaking of the word haggard, the boy was shocked, he never thought that the girl would say this, the little girl in front of him was obviously haggard to the point that her face was pale, and she could still say it to herself with a smile. In this ship, the amount of food obtained per day is very small, and the basic three meals are only the size of one meal.
The boy's body trembled slightly, but he remained silent and bowed his head.
The girl took out half of the bread from her back and handed him to the young man, and placed it in front of him, her thin little hands with bright red marks in many places, which must have been beaten by slave traders.
But the little girl still smiled strongly, and explained that the bread was delicious.
"I don't eat it, thank you, you can eat it yourself"
The boy's words were very cold, he didn't think that eating this piece of bread could change anything, for a person whose heart was rotten, eating was just a waste of food, and the boy had no intention of living.
"Brother, eat, I'm not hungry."
That smile was natural, she didn't mean to be discouraged at all, although she was now afraid that she might be trafficked to some strange place, but she was stronger than a boy, and she didn't lose her life easily.
The little girl was also tireless, twice if she didn't work once, and three times if she didn't work twice, until the boy began to accept her food.
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When the ship arrived at its destination, a very unexpected scene was staged, the ship did not make it to the time of the slave auction, and after discussion, they had to stay for a while and postpone it for three days.
And for the little slaves in the spaceship, these three days are their hope, their deadline, and the last battle to determine their fate, life or death.
At about 9 o'clock in the evening, while the slave trader guards on duty were lazy and napping, several slaves in the spaceship began to escape from prison, and they wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to fly out of the cage. The first thing they did was to use a document they had stolen a few days ago as a key, and on this document there were fingerprints to open the door, which was the only way.
In order to open the ship's door, the slaves had to pass through a mechanical door, and every time the slave traders opened it, they used their fingerprints and sometimes their retinas to scan it.
The structure of the ship is simple, with a passage between the slave and the cockpit, which has a vent to get into and jump out of the ship. The bald head has also figured out some ways in the past few days, and as long as there are no accidents, some of them may be able to successfully escape.
As long as you don't alarm the ...... on duty