"We're going to leave for the island later. Hans said to Donner, "I told our head to let you join us, and our head agreed, Donner, you can go back to the island with us!"

Hearing Hans's words, Donner fell silent.

To tell the truth, he couldn't pay attention to it, although he had been in this world for almost a year, but the world he had seen was only the size of a mining area, and he still knew nothing about this world, and the only thing he had seen was from the mouth of the dead troubadour.

So far, he has no idea about the power structure, social classes, and various systems of this world, and he has no better way to go about the future.

But he refused to be a pirate.

As a five-good young man who grew up under the red flag, as for being a pirate who ties his head to the waistband of his pants and is precarious?

Are you kidding!

In Donner's opinion, as a modern person, he should be proud, get rid of the current predicament, as long as he goes to another place, not to mention the rich and noble, the power is in hand, but at least with his own insight and knowledge, it is no problem to mix food and clothing, right?

But Hans's next words shattered all of Donner's fantasies.

"Donner, do you still want to be a slave driven by the nobility?" Hans looked at Donner and asked, "If you don't want to be a slave, then going with our pirate group is the best choice, and you have no other choice." ”

"Why?" said Donner, smiling, "I could go somewhere else and live incognito." ”

"Ah!" Hans continued, "Donner, I've known you for a while, and in my heart you're the wisest man I've ever met, and I don't know why you became a slave, but there's one thing I want to tell you, if you don't want to be a slave again, you really don't have a choice. ”

"You touch the scar on the left side of your face, you look at the scar on their face. Hans pointed to the slaves around him and said to Donner, "Do you know why slaves have a scar on their faces?"

Listening to Hans's words, Donner couldn't help but touch the scar on the left side of his face, this coin-sized scar made him remember very deeply, it was the day he was caught by the mine owner's slave catcher, with a red-hot soldering iron, the kind of heart-rending pain, he thought he would never forget for the rest of his life.

Hans then said to Donner, "You may not know that this scar is the mark given to us by the slave owner, and this scar is their family crest, and as long as you have this scar on your face, you can only be a slave for the rest of your life. ”

"You see people with two scars that don't, it means that they were sold by a slave owner or nobleman to another nobleman. Hans then pointed to an old slave who had died: "See that the man has five scars on his face, indicating that he has been sold five times." Do you know how much that old slave is worth? Five copper plates, haha. ”

Hans sighed and said, "Donner, you are so clever that you should understand what I mean, with this mark, wherever you go, others will know that you are a slave as soon as they see the scar on your face." You should also know what happens when a slave escapes. Either they are killed or they are sold. ”

Listening to Hans's words, Donner was stunned, he never thought that this scar was actually a sign of a slave. He once learned from the troubadour that slaves in this world are the least human rights, and they are probably worse than animals.

It is not a crime for anyone to kill a slave who has escaped, and there is a reward for reporting a slave who has escaped, and the slave can be bought and sold as he please......

Donner opened his mouth to say something but was stuck in his throat, he turned his head to look at the slaves around him, at the few people who were following him, trying to get a different answer, but the response was silence, a nod and an affirmation, and they all acquiesced to Hans's words.

This...... Your mom sells batches......

Donner was almost desperate at this moment.

"Donner! Ed spoke at this time: "Didn't you tell us, there is a territory where there are no nobles, no slaves, no oppression, fair and free, and there will never be starvation?

Ed's words caused everyone around him to look at Donner with hopeful eyes, but Donner was silent.

Hans didn't speak, he wasn't Eddard and the other slaves, not so stupid. He had been a pirate for so many years, burning and looting everywhere, and he had never heard of such a territory.

No nobles, no slaves, fairness and justice, no hunger, too whimsical, even if it is a legendary sacred paradise, it is not so beautiful!

Hans stared at the pebbles under his feet, Donner's territory could bewitch a slave like Eddard, but he couldn't fool him, but he didn't debunk Donner's lies, just quietly waited for Donner's decision.

Donner smiled bitterly in his heart, where is there any territory of fairness and justice, he doesn't even know what the outside world looks like. He was far from expecting that in order to save himself, the territory he had made up would actually convince these slaves, and Donner wanted to tell them that it was a lie to you, but for now, ......

Donner looked at the busy pirates around him, and the pirate leader who was looking at this side, and then quickly adjusted his mood and smiled: "Ed, don't worry, I will definitely take you to this territory, but that territory is far, far away, and you need to cross the sea." ”

"You see we don't have a boat, and we don't have any food to prepare, so for the time being we'll go back to the island with Hans and the others, and when we're ready, then we'll set off together to go to the land where you won't starve, and where there are no nobles, do you think that's good?"

Donner had no choice but to continue weaving lies and rallying the slaves around him, which was the only way to get the pirate group to value him for now.

Ed's eyes turned from anticipation to disappointment, and he muffled, "Donner, I don't want to be a slave, and I don't want to be a pirate. ”

Donald patted Ed on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, we're just going back to the island with Hans for the time being, and when we're ready, we won't be pirates anymore." ”

"Really?" Ed looked at Donner with wide eyes and hope, and the slaves around him looked at him with the same hopeful looks.

Donner kept smiling, looked around, and looked at them with firm eyes: "Don't worry, I, Donner, will not lie to you, I swear, if I lie to you, I will die and go to hell and be a slave forever." ”

Donner made an oath to appease the slaves. In fact, for Donner from the 21st century, there is basically no pressure to make such an oath, he does not believe in heaven and hell at all, gods and ghosts.

But Downer didn't know that such an oath was already very vicious for these slaves.

Therefore, they firmly believed in Donner, and even Ed was a little embarrassed to say, "Donner, you don't have to be like this, we believe you." We will follow you wherever you go. ”

"Good!" Donner smiled and nodded, and then Hans said, "Hans, then let's get ready to go!"

Hans nodded, and turned to walk towards the pirate leader.