Chapter 3 Good People Are Useless, Les Miserables

Chapter 3 Good People Are Useless, Les Miserables

After his body reached perfect condition, Lu Kai, who lived a second life, clenched his fists and his whole body trembled with excitement.

In his previous life, Lu Kai was only 24 years old when he was swallowed by a sea monster and died. Only he knew how unwilling he felt in his heart in the moment before he lost consciousness.

In his second life, he came to the pirate world, but Luke had been dragging his dying body since he regained consciousness.

Although he survived, which gave him new hope, his life could be taken away at any time, causing his hope to be shattered bit by bit again.

Although he lived two lives, Lu Kai has only lived for thirty years. Having died twice, his desire to live is something that others cannot understand.

He was really worried that the body he traveled through might die at any time and say goodbye to this world at any time.

Now that he has recovered his body, Lu Kai can't control the ecstasy and excitement in his heart. All of this gives Lu Kai a strong sense of unreality.

Only the system interface that always appeared in front of his eyes and that Lu Kai was reluctant to hide could make him feel at ease.

It was not known how long it had passed before Lu Kai slowly came back to his senses. Then he shuddered all over and realized that now was not the time to be happy.

Although the king of Rafia claimed that the royal factory provided a large number of job opportunities for the people outside the city and gave them generous wages to support their families.

But all this is just a carefully woven lie to fool the world.

The truth is that the greedy royal families, in order to gain more profits, arbitrarily captured residents outside the city to serve as slave labor. The so-called rewards did not exist at all, and there was only inhumane slavery.

Once anyone enters the royal factory, there is only one way to get out, and that is death.

The cell where Lu Kai is now is called the processing room, which is a place where slaves who have lost their value are temporarily detained. It is equivalent to the execution chamber for slaves.

No matter whether the slaves sent here were dead or not, there was only one outcome, which was to wait to be taken out and cremated the next day.

Lu Kai felt as if someone had poured a large basin of cold water on his head. He no longer felt the joy of having fully recovered. Instead, he was left with a strong sense of uneasiness and anxiety.

After an agonizing wait, Lu Kai finally made it to the next morning. The sudden sound of footsteps in the corridor made Lu Kai tremble all over, and his heart instantly rose to his throat.

Lu Kai immediately stood up, huddled in the corner and stared at the cell door, as if only this could give him a sense of security.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, followed by the sound of a door opening, and then two figures pushed the door open and walked in. Seeing Lu Kai standing in the corner, both of them were stunned.

"No. 867, you are not dead? It seems that your leg is not broken." The one-eyed man looked at Lu Kai and smiled cruelly, saying, "That's great. It makes me happy again."

The person who spoke was the guard who beat little Lu Kai to death yesterday. When he saw Lu Kai standing in the corner, he immediately took out a short stick from his waist and walked towards Lu Kai.

"Stone, stop!" Another guard suddenly took a few steps forward and stopped the one-eyed Stone.

"Bahrain, what do you mean?" One-eyed Stone's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he said coldly, "Are you going to forcibly protect this slave?"

"I didn't mean that." Balin said in an unchanged tone, "I just want to remind you that according to the factory regulations, slaves are also part of the property. Except for natural damage, no one is allowed to destroy them at will."

One-eyed Stone smiled contemptuously and said, "I really didn't realize that you, Bahrain, are so abiding by the rules. But don't make a mistake, this is the processing room."

Balin's face changed slightly when he heard that, but he chuckled and made way.

Just as the one-eyed Stone walked past him, Balin suddenly said, “This is indeed the processing room. If you really want to kill this slave, I have no objection and I won’t stop you.

“But this slave obviously hasn’t lost his value, so I will definitely report this matter to the boss and tell him that you, Stone, deliberately brought a slave who had not lost his value to the processing room in order to satisfy your own selfish desires, and then tortured him to death.

"I want to see what will happen to you then."

One-eyed Stone suddenly grabbed Balin by the collar, glared at him fiercely, and said, "Balin, do you really have to go against me for a slave?"

"Rules are rules!" Balin refused to give in and stared at Stone, and the stalemate continued.

After a while, One-Eyed Stone suddenly let go of Balin and sneered, "Balin, you are a good person. I hope you can be happy every day."

After saying this, Stone strode away without looking back.

Balin, who had been acting tough before, almost broke down because of Stone's last words, and his face became extremely gloomy.

Good people are the least needed in this flour factory, and they are also the most miserable.

This place is a cage for the slaves, and it is also a cage for the guards like them.

The king would never let the secrets here leak out, so the guards could only stay in the factory until they died, but their lives were not as miserable as those of the slaves.

Once you become a factory guard, you either refuse to accept anything here, feel condemned by your conscience all the time, become depressed all day long, or end up with a mental breakdown, just like Bahrain.

Or you can completely accept everything here and become increasingly distorted, like Stone.

Seeing Balin's ugly face, Lu Kai was scared back the thank you he originally wanted to say. He didn't dare to make trouble now. It was better to have less trouble than more. He was soon taken back to Warehouse No. 5 by Balin.

The flour factory is very large. Warehouse No. 5 alone covers an area of ​​50 acres and has more than 10 slaves. There are at least shipping warehouses like this in the entire factory.

In addition to the shipping warehouse, there are also purchasing warehouses, processing areas, packaging areas, etc. There are at least more than 20,000 slaves in the flour factory alone.

There are at least ten factories as large as the flour factory in the Kingdom of Rafia.

The people outside the city were more like reserve slaves in the eyes of princes and nobles than common people. As long as there were not enough slaves, the soldiers guarding the factory would capture them.

Moreover, the security in the factory was extremely strict. Once you entered, you would be enslaved to death, and there was no possibility of getting out.

Inside the warehouse, hundreds of children ranging from six to ten years old were carrying sealed boxes with great effort. They all looked indifferent and said nothing.

Of all the factories, the work in the shipping warehouse of the flour factory is the easiest, so it is done by the children.

There were guards holding whips in every corner of the warehouse. If any child moved slowly or accidentally bumped into something, the guard would immediately and mercilessly whip him with the whip.

While beating them, the guards would also insult them with very ugly words.

Such situations can be seen everywhere in the entire warehouse. Almost all the children have numb expressions and keep moving things like machines. If they slack off for a moment, they will be whipped.

Just as Lu Kai was observing the situation in the warehouse, One-Eyed Stone came to Lu Kai's side without him knowing when, and whipped him without saying a word, causing him to grimace in pain.

"Bastard, who told you to be lazy?" Stone roared while beating Lu Kai.