Looking at the bandage tattooing skillfully, Charles said with a hint of sarcasm in his voice: "Why, are you still afraid that you can't remember it?"
Bandage nodded as he tattooed. "It's better to get a tattoo of something so important. I've forgotten a lot of things that happened in the past."
Charles thought for a moment and then looked at his first mate. "How about I try to help you recover all your past memories? I can do it with my current abilities."
Charles hesitated for a moment and then said again: "I see a lot of shadows in you, a lot of good ones, some from the past and some from the future."
The tattoo needle in Bandage's hand stopped moving rapidly. Only he knew how important the captain's words were to him.
As an immortal human being, Bandage only knows his past and present, and all his memories of the nearly thousand years in between have disappeared.
He knew that he had been between the fingernails of gods and had once been the governor of a disappeared island, but he had no clue how and why he had gone there.
If those lost memories really return, then it means that I will no longer be the one who lost everything.
This was a decision of great significance. Bandage thought about it for a long time, but finally shook his head. "Forget it. I'm afraid that so many memories will turn me into another person."
"Besides... I like... my current... life... My family... is waiting for me... to come home..."
Charles agreed and said, "Yes, when a person's memory is filled with too many things, it is easy to change that person, just like me."
Bandage glanced at him, lowered his head and continued tattooing. "If you need our help, just ask. In fact, everyone is waiting for you to come back. The Narwhale is still at the dock."
Hearing this, Charles' heart was suddenly touched, and he thought of the crew members who depended on him for life and death.
Boatswain: Dipper.
Chief Engineer: James.
Lookout: Odric
Ship's Doctor: Linda
Gunner: Lily
First Mate: Bandage
Second Officer: Nico
Chef: Plank
Sailor: Norden
But Charles also remembered that his crew might be more than just them. After such a long period of exploration, there were already two ships buried in the cemetery.
If they were to be dragged into the current situation, the best outcome would probably just be a few more mounds of earth buried in the cemetery on Hope Island.
I am so far behind them. "This is not the same as going out to sea for exploration. My first mate, you can no longer help me."
Bandage disagreed with this statement, and pointed to the tattoo on his body. "Who said that? Isn't it useful now?"
Hearing this, Charles didn't know how to refute for a moment, and finally he could only pull the cheek muscles and zygomatic muscles on his face to make him laugh. "Okay, you win, you can tell them and let everyone think of a solution together."
"But forget about meeting each other. I might be gone someday, and everyone would be sad again."
"Speaking of cemeteries, you really reminded me. When you go back later, please build a tombstone for me, and place it away from Tuba."
The bandage nodded vigorously, but his hands didn't stop tattooing.
The tentacle covered with translucent mucus under the ear squirmed quickly a few times, tearing open the skin and drilling in, and it settled down on the back of the bandaged hand.
"The future is already determined. What are you going to do?"
Charles looked at the bandages and then at the ground, then he chuckled. "You have to try, right? Otherwise, you'll never give up. If you can, who the hell wants to be held down by something else for the rest of their life?"
Bandage nodded silently. He rolled up his sleeves and pointed at the narwhal tattoo on his forearm. "I'll help you!"
Charles looked at the 50 men and women with huge heads in front of him, and he said, "Thank you, brother. I'll leave this record to you. Even if I can't save others, it's good to be able to save you."
After that, accompanied by a flash of white light, Bandage and the fifty people were sent back to Hope Island.
The empty Governor's Mansion hall was instantly filled. A man stood out from among the 50 reformers and looked at the bandages with respect.
"Governor, through the few words between you and Mr. Charles, I have analyzed what your plan is. If possible, can we start working now?"
Looking at the fifty pairs of eyes in front of him, Bandage led them towards the Relic Research Institute, where all the technologies left by the Foundation were stored.
"Dad, when that time really comes, will they succeed?" In the forest, Shanshan said to his father with a slightly complicated expression.
"Probably not, so this is the backup plan. Even if the probability is very small, what if it succeeds?"
Charles said, then turned to look at Shan Shan beside him. "If that happens, if you are there, remember to help them and leave here with them."
Shanshan shook her head. "I won't leave. Besides, I don't have much time left. If possible, I want to stay by your side until the last moment of transformation."
Charles obviously didn't want to hear this. "Don't be so decisive. No one knows what other options there are until the last minute."
"Dad, this is all destined, there is no other way." Shanshan seemed particularly calm about his own ending.
Charles didn't think so. "Stand still and let me take a good look."
As he smacked the twinkling head, the sexy body expanded instantly, and a giant nodule of tentacles covered in fluorescent green liquid eyeballs instantly appeared in its place.
Thousands of flesh and blood limbs rose from the ground and drilled deep into the wriggling tentacle nodules, eventually forming a huge meat ball that was steaming.
Taking advantage of this brief opportunity, Charles wanted to carefully analyze Shanshan's body and find out if there was any way to slow down her rapid growth.
As a father, he didn't want his daughter to end up like that, and if possible, he wanted to change the outcome.
If it were an ordinary human being, with Charles' current abilities, it would be no problem for him to freeze his age permanently.
But Twinkle is his daughter, she is different from ordinary humans.
The huge ball of flesh and blood suddenly exploded, its glittering tentacles already spreading out and exploding everywhere.
More limbs grew out from the ground again, wrapping around each tentacle and carefully examining it from inside to outside.
(End of this chapter)