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Rex grew up in Shipwreck Village, scavenging fungus from a millennia-old starship wreck. While others hunted sand-rats, he studied hostage negotiation and toxicology from the Light-Brain—an AI that once tutored galactic elites. In a world of illiteracy, Rex is a reader.When the pirate syndicate Red Storm raids his planet, they don''''t steal cargo. They harvest children. Rex wakes in a stone warehouse with hundreds of prisoners, trapped in a brutal culling: fight for scraps, survive forty-eight hours, or die. The pirates call it cultivation. Rex calls it predictable.He doesn''''t form tribes. He doesn''''t bleed for bread. He memorizes guard patterns, maps blind spots, and trades his hidden food for silence. His weapons aren''''t fists—they''''re geometry, psychology, and acid bombs built from ancient textbooks.Rex isn''''t playing their game. He''''s waiting for the moment to break it. Statistics Overall Score This fiction has not received enough ratings yet to have a score. Total Views : 431 Average Views : 27 Followers : 3 Favorites : 1 Ratings : 1 Pages : 72 Advertisement Go to Table of Contents Mark as Not Interested Follow Favorite Read Later Fiction breaking rules? Report Advertisement Author