Ch 70
Ge Xiu felt as if his head had been smashed by a heavy hammer, his consciousness drifted in waves, severe pain came from his body, and all his muscles and bones were overworked and creaked under the pressure and the sutured wound on the back of his neck was especially painful.
The faint sounds of weeping came from all directions, buzzing in his ears and making him dizzy.
Ge Xiu frowned, his dry and painful throat contracted, and he barely squeezed out two words through gritted teeth.
“—Shut up.”
As soon as his voice came out, he realized that his voice became hoarse as if it had been polished with sandpaper, and it was shockingly rough.
The crying around him suddenly fell silent.
A ragged, covered in dust boy blinked, looked at him timidly sobbing and asked in a low voice, “You, are you awake?”
Ge Xiu propped up his upper body with his arms and sat up with difficulty. As he looked around, he asked in a hoarse voice,
“Where is this place?”
In the next ten minutes, Ge Xiu patiently extracted some useful information from the boy’s trembling and fragmented words.
He was now on a starship called Marauder.
It was a notorious thief ship, doing the dirty work of reselling stolen goods and human trafficking.
The powerful reproductive ability and aggressiveness of the Zergs make the Zerg swarms almost invincible, but after all, they had low intelligence. Whenever they occupied a planet, they would destroy it like pests, then leave with a new huge swarm, to colonise and invade other planets further away.
And the Marauder often took this opportunity to go to those planets to carry out a comprehensive search, and enrich their pockets.
A fertile omega was a sought-after commodity, and if it was beautiful and slender, and had not been marked yet, it could sell for a lot of money.
All the other teenagers in this cage were omegas as well. Some of them have been resold several times, while others have been looted by Marauder from the shelters of the planets that the Zergs have passed through, waiting for being auctioned off or privately and anonymously being bought by some big figures with special interests.
Although their clothes were ragged, their faces were clean, obviously they were deliberately washed so that they could be sold according to their beauty.
Even if he didn’t look, Ge Xiu knew that the cleanest part of his body was probably his face.
Looking at the dark and damp cage in front of him, he sneered softly.
—This is the third time he has been treated as a cargo.
He doesn’t know if they can achieve anything this time.
Ge Xiu thought nonchalantly, and glanced down at himself—the combat uniform he was wearing before had been destroyed in the operation and in the explosion, like a rag stained with muddy blood, it had formed a hard shell on his body at this moment and the serial number on the uniform had been scratched as well, so the original appearance could not be seen at all.
It’s better like this.
At least nobody recognised he was from the army.
Ge Xiu leaned back his head, resting against the cage behind him and closed his eyes.
“…You, you look good, maybe you can be sold to a better place, they, they will definitely treat you well…”
The teenager on the side was still sobbing and comforting him.
But his voice was completely ignored by Ge Xiu, and he didn’t hear a word.
He knew very well that his wounds were not healed yet, and he couldn’t face it head-on, so the best way for him now was to do nothing—just stay still and wait for the opportunity.
There was no light in this cage, and there was no way to know the passing of time.
The cries in the cage were becoming vague, intermittent, and gradually stopped because of the loss of physical strength, only a few faint choking sounded occasionally in the silence.
He didn’t know how much time has passed.
A sound of chaotic footsteps came from a distance, boots hitting the metal ground with a dull sound.
A dazzling light shone from the direction of the sound and fell into the cage.
Omegas started crying once again, shivering and shrinking towards the farthest place from the cage door, only Ge Xiu remained in his original position, leaning on the spot motionless.
Several tall and strong men came over. The pheromone on them was mixed, strong and weak, but obviously all of them were alphas.
With a few harsh metal friction sounds, two mechanical arms stretched out above the cage, firmly locking Ge Xiu’s wrists to prevent him from struggling.
These people were obviously coming for him.
Ge Xiu lifted his eyelids and looked over.
The two people in the lead talked as if nobody else was there:
“This is the new product I’m talking about.”
As he spoke, he reached out from the gap in the cage to squeeze Ge Xiu’s chin, exposing his face to the light, and turned it slightly to reveal it to another person.
Ge Xiu didn’t struggle, just raised his head obediently.
The dense eyelashes drooped down like crow feathers, covering the deep look in his eyes.
The other person’s eyes flashed with surprise: “He looks good, is there any problem?”
The person holding Ge Xiu’s chin sighed regretfully.
He let go of his hand and controlled the mechanical arm to grab Ge Xiu and turn him a circle.
Under the short black hair, there was a slender, white neck and a slightly protruding slender spine. Although there were some small scars, it still couldn’t hide the delicate and exquisite skin —which also made the huge scar on it that had scabbed on it more shocking.
“This…” The other party was startled, as if he didn’t expect to see such a picture.
“It was like this when we found him,” the man said. “We don’t know who operated on him, but it was definitely not legal, and the glands on the back of his neck have been completely removed, according to the doctors on our ship—the work was done very cleanly, and there is no possibility of reversal.”
“Then…the value of the goods may be greatly reduced.” The man shook his head regretfully: “At most it is a B-class defective product.”
“Going to the auction?”
“How is that possible?” The man gave him a cold look and said, “He has no glands, and the aphrodisiac can’t work at all, so how can customers check the quality of the goods?”
“Then what should we do?”
“At least his face is pretty good, let’s see if the customers on the ship want to eat meat temporarily tonight, and sell it at a low price.”
In just a few short words, his fate was decided just like this.
Several other omega teenagers raised their eyes timidly, and secretly looked at Ge Xiu, who was hanging on a metal arm, with a look of sympathy for the other.
The fear, panic and despair they thought they’d see didn’t appear on the face of the omega that was locked tightly.
He turned his back to the alphas who were talking about his price behind him, and the expression on his face was unusually calm, almost frighteningly indifferent.
The long eyelashes drooped down lightly, making it impossible to see the emotions in his eyes, but the corners of the lips, who were slightly bleeding due to excessive blood loss, were very obviously raised in a slight arc.
He… Could he have been scared crazy?
How could it possible to laugh in this situation?
The omega teenagers thought in disbelief.
Shortly after the news went out, bids quickly appeared.
Ge Xiu was pulled out from the cage by the robotic arm, and had an electric shock collar put on him to prevent escapes, and then he was sent to a special place to bathe and change his clothes.
Twenty minutes later, he was sitting on the thick and soft bed with a body full of water vapour.
The young man lowered his eyes silently, his wet hair fell obediently beside his ears, and the clothes on his body were as thin as silk, they could hardly cover his body. The broken skin and scarlet scars that have not yet healed were densely distributed on his limbs and torso, bringing feeling a cruel and fragile beauty to him.
The buyer was a middle-aged man.
He was not ugly, and his body was well maintained at this age, but his face was quite vain, as if he has been emptied by a flashy life, and there was always a sinister and hypocritical coldness in his eyes whenever he looked at someone.
He was a high-ranking official of a certain planet, and he could be regarded as a person of honor, but because of some ulterior hobbies, he often came to auctions here to buy innocent omegas with no background. Nobody knew how many alphas have been played to death in his hands, and were directly cremated before he even left the ship.
The moment he saw the picture on the auction, he felt his heart beating.
The fragile omega was hoisted up by the steel arms in humiliation, and the bloodstains and wounds on his body spread from his neck to the rest of his body covered by the neckline—moreover, there seemed to be an unspeakable and strange feeling in him, which was hard to describe, but it just made people shudder.
Without any hesitation, he bought the omega.
And…
He was getting his money’s worth.
The middle-aged man’s eyes lit up with flames, he swallowed his saliva hard, and walked slowly into the room.
This time, he wasn’t going to treat this omega as a one-time consumable—after all, he was simply too charming and had to be properly treasured and enjoyed slowly.
He went to the bed.
At such a close distance, the young man in front of him became more and more fascinating. He couldn’t help raising his hand and reaching out to touch the other’s cheek.
However, before he could reach the teenager’s face, the hand he stretched out was grabbed by the other’s hand.
Omega’s fingers were slender and cold, with a faint moisture after bathing, and wrapped around his fingertips softly like a snake.
The man was stunned.
The next second, Omega raised his eyes and smiled—that smile was indescribable.
His lips are light pink, and the upper lip was slightly thinner, as if he was born with a three-point smile, and when the corners of his lips curved up, there was a sense of natural tenderness and elegance.
But the moment his eyes met his eyes, his back shivered subconsciously.
Like cold steel burning in fire, like a fallen star falling into a bottomless abyss, the madness and joy tempered in the rich blood colour.
—He was really happy from the bottom of his heart.
When he was stunned, the man suddenly felt a sharp pain from the finger that was clenched just now, and then, before he could react, the world was spinning.
He widened his eyes in horror, and subconsciously reached for his pocket.
However, the opponent’s speed was faster than him.
The last thing that remained in the man’s mind was the crisp sound of his own neck bone breaking.
Ge Xiu raised his lips contemptuously, let go of his hand without any fluctuations in his heart, and watched the man’s head droop softly at a strange angle, as if he had just crushed an ant.
He raised his hand and touched the pocket the man was trying to reach.
There was a small metal instrument with a shock switch that apparently controlled the collar around his neck inside.
But there was no cancel button.
Ge Xiu touched the structure of the collar on his neck, made a rough estimate and brought an idea into action*.
He walked to the electrical equipment in the room, skilfully removed the casing, and picked up the required parts. In just a few minutes, a simple current amplifier appeared in front of him.
Ge Xiu aligned the two ends of the wire with port on the electric collar, took a deep breath, and turned on the power.
The next second, he flew backwards and fell heavily to the ground.
Overly high electric current was instantly directed into the collar, making an ear-piercing crackling sound, and the high heat caused by the current overload instantly destroyed the circuit board of the electric collar.
“BUZZZZ…”
The harsh white noise buzzed in his ears, and the body that was hit by the explosion shuddered in pain again.
The wound on the back of the neck was burning hot again.
Ge Xiu took a deep breath and sat up slowly from the ground, world before his eyes darkened.
The collar fell loose on his knees, and thin black smoke rose from it.
Although he tried his best to control the intensity of the current, his own body injury was unavoidable—this was the price that had to be paid for directing the electric current into it.
His limbs began to tremble.
It was a sign that this omega body was about to lose its strength.
Ge Xiu has experienced it once, so he was very clear about it.
Must hurry up.
He got up from the ground with difficulty, walked to the man’s limp corpse, then bent down and quickly took off the clothes from the corpse and put them on.
The size wasn’t right.
The alpha’s skeleton was naturally far bigger and stronger than the omega’s and Ge Xiu had to fold inwards the sleeves and trouser legs to finally make the clothes fit a little bit more.
He opened the door and walked out.
No matter how complicated the starship was, the essential structure and basic distance were the same, and Ge Xiu knew this very well.
What’s more, he could see the trajectory of the energy, which allowed him to accurately avoid all the camera equipment and energy monitoring devices.
After a few short detours, Ge Xiu basically learned the internal shape of the ship.
He walked with ease towards the parking bay of the spare ship, and even when he passed by other customers or crew members on the way, he still did not change his face, as if he was originally a member of this ship, no different from the others.
Ge Xiu passed by three people.
As if the man at the front felt something, he suddenly stopped and turned his head to look at the back of the young man who was walking away.
One of the people behind him asked suspiciously,
“Captain, what are you looking at?”
The man slowly narrowed his long and narrow eyes, and the light in the depths of his eyes was as sharp as a falcon: “A runaway slave.”
The man was stunned. He quickly turned back his head to look, but the youth’s figure had already disappeared at the end of the corridor.
He frowned and asked, “Would you like to notify the captain of the Marauder?”
“No need.” The man said slowly, the light in the depths of his eyes was hidden deeply: “We are just here to retrieve what we lost before, the loopholes in Marauder’s management are their own business, I don’t care.”
He retracted his gaze, and his thin lips were slightly raised with interest:
“Also, I am very curious about how far he can go.”
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The author has something to say:
Congratulations to player Ge Xiu for gaining an achievement: Being trafficked three times in four worlds!
Earning the title: Most Popular Item!
Ge Xiu: “…”
(throwing arms)
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*心里有底 – pinyin is xīn lǐ yǒu dǐ, which means to know the bottom line or inner situation and be confident in the heart
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