Man With Super Medical Skill (Matthew) novel Chapter 3421

Inside a small wooden hut, Matthew sat across from Tertius at a simple table. Tertius' junior, the young woman, placed two disposable paper cups in front of them.

"Mr. Larden, have you seen this symbol before?" Tertius asked, removing his jacket and rolling up his sleeve. His arm was thin, almost skeletal, but at his elbow, a tattoo of a snake-headed human figure was visible.

Matthew's eyes flickered slightly; it was the second time he'd seen this mark. The first time was on Boone's back.

A look of bitterness deepened on Tertius' face. He spoke in a low voice, "I originally planned to live off the grid, somewhere no one could find me. But one day, a van passed by, and the next thing I knew, I blacked out. When I woke up, I was locked in an iron cage. They branded us with red-hot irons, right here," he gestured to the tattoo, anger flashing in his eyes.

"We learned later that we were already out at sea, just a shipment bound for the gray zone of the West Montiria Islands. Those people were brutal—every day, some poor soul would be beaten to death or tortured. Then, one night, when they were dead drunk, a few of us managed to escape. We killed every trafficker on board, chopped them up, and threw them to the sharks. They freed the rest of us."