"If you really want to get ahead, go to Hearst. "That's what the boss told me.

The boss is a good person, right...... I called him boss because I used to be a slave under him.

"It's just that the tuition fees there are very expensive, and the salary I give you is probably only enough for you to pay for one semester of tuition, not even enough for living expenses," ...... boss told me.

Slavery, as the name suggests, is a complete loss of freedom, not even the right to life...... Brute......

Slaves are not people. This is the first time I met my boss, he told me personally......

"You are very good-looking, and you can definitely make a lot of money for me, because there will be a lot of rich women for you in my field...... But you must remember one sentence, in front of them, you are not a person, you are just a toy, a ...... Brute ......"

Then there was a fierce whip and a demonstrative whip on my back......

So far, I haven't figured out what Master means.

He...... Probably a very good person, but his values may be very different from mine.

"Ah Yu, do you know? This world is made up of poor people. Master used to be very poor, so poor that he even lost his underwear, and only got half a steamed bun in exchange. You are my heir, and everything about me, you have to go through...... So, everything that happens in the future, you can think that it is me...... "These are the words that Master left for me when he left...... There was also a big bag of gems that I don't know how much they were worth......

Master taught me many things, such as martial arts, hunting, how to play dead, how to spy on women taking baths...... And stealing...... Many, many ......

Master said that his only regret was that he could not teach me how to cherish life. I think he probably doesn't need to teach me, I should know too, after all, my own life will still be cherished......

I am an orphan...... If it weren't for Master, I'm afraid I would have frozen to death in the wilderness...... Master said that when I was first picked up, he was going to feed me to the she-wolf he had raised, because I looked like I was dead at all...... Fortunately, the she-wolf rescued me, and she used her warm body temperature to make me, a baby, wake up and find its ** in a furry field......

My life is big...... Master once said, "You dead boy, you never knew what you were doing? Do you think the teeth of poisonous snakes are fun? If I hadn't found out in time, you would have become a pile of rotten meat......

My life is also cheap...... A large bag of gems left by Master to me fell into the hands of Dumb who had been serving Master the next day.

"You are really good, I have followed that dead old man for forty years, and he has not even given me a decent thing, you have only been with him for more than ten years, and he gave you all his things...... But now it's time for me to take everything that should belong to me, hum...... "The look of dumbness at that time was so strange...... It's so hideous, and it's so hateful......

"You don't have the strength to resist now, so you don't have to struggle anymore, I don't think you even have the strength to speak...... I know everything about you, how could I have been able to get my stuff back so easily if I hadn't poisoned you......?"

I could only keep my eyes open and look at him fiercely...... I don't care about the pile of gems, or the so-called sword that sharpens like clay...... I just hope he doesn't make me really hate him...... I can't bear it......

Unfortunately, all my thoughts seemed so naïve...... Dumb not only robbed me of everything, but also left me with nothing for all......

"I've already sold you to the owner of the martial arts arena, so I'm going to put your name on your forehead...... A mark that can't be erased for a lifetime, making you a slave for the rest of your life...... Hahaha...... You know, I was going to let you die, maybe I'll be safer, but unfortunately two hundred silver Luke saved your life, people like you are exactly the kind of people they need......" Dumb smiled as he took out the blue potion, carefully dipped a little with a thin wooden stick, and then wrote it on my forehead......

I don't think I'll ever forget that scorching touch...... A blue word "feather" will be written on my forehead forever, and even if I scrape it off with a knife until my face is blurred with flesh and blood, I will find that it has been written deep into my skull...... What will never be erased, that represents the mark of slavery......

Now I wear a mask...... A mask that only shows the lower half of the face. This mask cost me half of my savings, bought from an old woman who looked like she was dying. She sat outside the arena, as if she had been sitting there, waiting for me......

"Young man, this mask is not ordinary, I think you will need it...... It doesn't hinder any of your senses, but it can hide your true colors for you...... Only you can take it off, except for you, no one with a pure heart can take it off your face......" The old woman's shriveled mouth with only two teeth, and the words that came out leaked so badly that it took me a long time to intermittently understand some of the words that moved my heart......

So I didn't hesitate to buy it, even if it would cost me half of my savings......

This mask fits my face perfectly. There is no embellishment, just a faint blue ...... It's much lighter than the blue on my forehead...... The smooth surface and soft lines fit perfectly on my face. I couldn't feel it because I couldn't touch it every time, and I only touched its silky coldness when I wanted to take it off......

I need this mask so badly. Without it, I might not have been fifty steps out of the arena before I was fenced up again and sent to a slave camp to be sold.

So, although my life is not very good, sometimes, I am really lucky......

Right now, I'm standing outside the gates of Hearst Academy. The mood at this moment may not be described as excited. Even I can't figure out what kind of mood I'm feeling right now. Excited, nervous, worried, or hopeful for a better future......

It's just an extremely cruel reality, which has always reminded me: I only have three hundred silver Luke on me...... This is what I bought for Diru's life...... It can also be said to be half of all the totals that are exchanged for the boss's life......

To this day, I'm thanking that crazy Diru. He's a slave like me, and our fates are pretty much the same...... He was once an invincible knight on the battlefield, and his sword once drank the blood of countless enemies...... It's a pity that his wife betrayed him, gave him poisoned wine, sold him to the martial arts arena, and used the money from selling him to support Xiaobaimian......

In the martial arts arena, we have to eat the food provided to us by the boss every day, and the food is poisonous in it, so that we can't resist him...... The power of the poison is not overbearing, but it is very careful to gnaw at our bodies, so that we don't feel the slightest pain, of course...... I don't feel the slightest bit of power.

Only when we are in the arena will the boss give us the antidote...... The time is only five minutes, and the antidote is less than a tenth of our true strength......

Five minutes is a short time, but it's so long. I've faced mad lions, I've faced ferocious pythons...... He even faced a brutal hungry dragon...... The sword in my hand had pierced into the hot or cold body more than once, and looking at the surging blood, my eyes instantly turned into a sea of red......

The smell of blood makes me sick...... The thick fishy stench made my stomach contract violently, and my lungs kept coughing, trying to vomit out all the bad smell...... So every time I walked off the arena, I wouldn't be able to say a word for an hour or two......

And that day my opponent was Diru...... The slave who never lost except me. Countless cheers filled our surroundings at that time, and countless people were screaming. Bricks and bottles rained down on us from the stands, and the women screamed frantically, "Ah Yu, kill him......"

Deru and I slept in the same cell. We spent three months together. The similar fate between us gave us a kind of friendship that we had with each other.

"If one day, we become rivals, will you kill me?......" Diru once asked me. Because he knows that he is no match for me. Although he has a hundred times more combat experience than mine, and he is nearly twice my age, there is absolutely no way he can kill me. Because every time he went to the arena, he would come back with wounds big or small...... And even if I face a hungry dragon that is ten times bigger than me, I can come back unscathed...... If I can recover a tenth of my strength, I'm sure I'll be able to escape...... It's a pity that as soon as I get off the arena, I don't even have the strength to walk......

"If there really is such a day, I will definitely not kill you...... But the boss won't let us go, you know, if I don't kill you, he will kill you...... "The boss never needs a loser, let alone a slave to failure? Once it fails, it loses all the value of making money, and no boss will go to support a worthless brute......

So when Diru and I were standing on the stage, his eyes were full of despair...... That despair came out when he looked at me, and when he looked at the boss, his eyes were full of complete hatred and unwillingness......

So Diru screamed like crazy, raised his sword, and threw himself at the boss in the audience......

Thankfully, the boss was only concerned with collecting money and raising the odds, and completely ignored the danger in the arena behind him...... It's not a man-beast duel, and there's no high, high-voltage electrocrystalline that obstructs the audience's vision...... So he was immediately thrown to the ground by Diru from behind, and the crazy Diru swung the sword in his hand and slashed viciously at the boss's neck in a scream full of fear and excitement......

I won't let Diru kill the boss, the lives of hundreds of slaves are in the hands of the boss. If there is no antidote, we will all die...... So I didn't hesitate at all, and with a single sword in the air, pierced his armor and his heart...... Master said that true qi is not used to kill people, but to protect oneself...... I'm just protecting myself, really, Master......

Diru's blood did not gush out, there was only a narrow opening on the vest, and the blood exploded from his chest and sprayed onto the back of the boss's head...... When he died, he just opened his eyes and asked me blankly: "Why ......?"

Why didn't you let him kill the boss? or why did you kill him?

I don't know, and I can't answer...... I could only avoid his eyes, pick him up, and carry him back to the arena. His body was heavy, gradually cold, and lost all life......

"Oh......"

The howl of the victor came out of my mouth...... And my heart, at that time, was bleeding, drop by drop, from my heart, and then I swallowed it, turned into tears, and continued to flow out of my eyes......

Diru's death has brought me back my freedom. The boss said that his life was given to him by me, so he would also give me freedom. He gave me six hundred silver and told me where to go.

"If you really want to get ahead, go to Hearst. ”

"It's just that the tuition fees there are very expensive, and the salary I give you is probably only enough for you to pay for one semester's tuition, not even enough for living expenses......"

"The poison in your body, as long as you take this antidote, will slowly disappear. Ah Yu, take care of yourself......"