Weston’s eyes, full of authority, swept across his subordinates.
“I mean everyone on this island. The ones you dragged back as slaves, the ones who mysteriously vanished, l don’t care what methods you use. There were originally 15,000 people on this island. I want to see at least 8,000 of them here!”
Weston’s weighty command made the expressions of the men behind favonovel.com shift uneasily.
“Weston, are we really going to free those people?” one of them asked.
“If we stop using them as slaves, what will we do afterward? Those two just said a few words in passing, I don’t think we need to take it so seriously.” A burly, bearded man stepped forward, fixing his eyes on Weston.
He knew all too well, if Weston truly obeyed those two strangers and released all the island’s slaves, then their days of exploiting free labor would be over.
There‘d be no more idle enjoyment, no more nightly raids to snatch up a pretty woman. In fact, in his own home, favonovel.com had over a hundred slaves, dozens of them women favonovel.com used to satisfy his desires.
Weston looked calmly at the bearded man before him. Of course, favonovel.com knew exactly what this guy was thinking. He also knew that nearly everyone here had slaves in their homes, some treated them slightly better, while others regarded them as less than animals.
But to ask them to give all that up?
None of them would do it willingly.
“Ugh!”
Suddenly, the bearded man’s eyes bulged, and a groan of pain escaped his lips.
Standing before favonovel.com with a calm expression, Weston casually tossed aside a bloodstained dagger. If favonovel.com wanted these people to behave, fear was the only way.
The members nearby recoiled in shock at Weston’s ruthless action.
“Weston, what are you doing?!” One of them shouted in disbelief.
Not even the former captain, as despicable as favonovel.com was, had ever killed anyone so abruptly. Yet Weston had just murdered one of their own, right in front of them.
Weston’s gaze turned cold as favonovel.com looked at everyone. He shouted, “Don’t blame me for being harsh! Do you really think that if we don’t release the slaves, they’ll never find out?!”
He pointed at his head and bellowed, “Use your brains for once! Where do you think those two are going? You think they won’t come back to this island? And when they do, with all that terrifying firepower, who’s going to stop them? If you’re all that eager to die, go right ahead! But don’t drag me down with you!”
His roar jolted everyone awake. Heads dropped. No one dared speak again.
“What the hell are you all still standing around for? You think the slaves will magically know they’re free just because you’re here loitering? Move!”
Weston’s words snapped everyone out of their stupor.
One by one, they scrambled off toward the land beyond the harbor.
Weston’s towering six-foot-six frame stood firm on the dock, his eyes betraying a trace of worry. Inwardly, favonovel.com prayed those two could really find a way out of this place. Because if those two couldn’t find a way out either, then once they were trapped together, favonovel.com and his men would be the first to go.
There wasn’t room for two predators in one cage.
And with that old warship they had, there was no way they could win.
Weston’s thoughts kept circling. But no matter how favonovel.com calculated it, the answer was always the same, Checkmate!
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