"My first mate was attacked by something and is unconscious. The situation is not optimistic. It is a miracle that he is still alive with all the wounds on his body. I am not sure if he can wake up."
Charles put the cap on the pen and put it back in his pocket. After a helpless sigh, he took out his diary and flipped through it casually. When he saw the content of one of the pages, his breathing became a little rapid, and for a moment he suddenly regretted reading the content of this page.
He closed the diary, chuckled nervously and shook his head.
"What happy thing did you see?" Anna asked curiously from a distance.
Charles stared at her for a few seconds, walked to the bandage, took the black knife from his hand, and pointed outside the door to signal Anna to come out.
"Aren't we supposed to stay together for safety? Why are you coming out again?" asked Anna as she walked out of the cabin.
Charles held up her fair face with his hands and kissed her gently. Anna opened her eyes slightly, seeming a little surprised.
When Charles let go, Anna, with a slightly red cheek, tapped him lightly on the chest with her hand. "Why did you suddenly go crazy?"
"Jia Jia, we have been childhood sweethearts. Have you only liked me all these years?" Charles leaned against the wall with a calm expression.
"What are you talking about? Of course, I recognized you the moment you handed me the shovel in the sand at the kindergarten." Anna came closer to him affectionately.
Charles held her in his arms and looked into the darkness. "Jia Jia, you are such a perfect wife, beautiful, delicate, and loyal."
Anna smiled and put her arms around Charles' neck. "I like hearing these cheesy love words. Don't stop. Say more."
"Do you remember which brands of lipstick you have?"
"Why are you asking this? It's been so long, how can I remember it?"
"Yeah, of course you don't remember, because I'm a straight man, and it's not in my mind."
The corners of Charles' mouth twitched slightly, and suddenly tears welled up in his eyes. He stretched out his left hand, and a revolver instantly appeared in his hand, with the black muzzle pointing at Anna's flat abdomen.
"Gao Zhiming, what are you doing?" Anna showed a hint of displeasure on her face.
"You even know my real name, why do you know yours is fake! Why?!" Charles, with a distorted face, pulled the trigger hard.
"Bang, bang, bang!" The impact of the continuous firing of bullets knocked Anna back repeatedly, and dark green blood splattered everywhere.
The woman's eyes were wide open, full of disbelief.
Anna slowly lowered her head with a slight tremor. When she saw the tentacles wriggling out from her abdomen, she collapsed and kept scratching her hair, as if she could not accept this fact.
"What is this? Why is there this thing in my stomach? Gao Zhiming, please save me!"
As soon as she finished speaking, her delicate face collapsed like a melted candle. A twisted meat monster covered with yellow-green slime appeared on the deck of the Mouse.
It was just like its counterparts on the island, twisted and terrifying, with seven or eight tentacles lashing around uncontrollably, like a deformed octopus out of water.
Looking at the monster in front of him, Charles' hands holding the gun trembled with tears in his eyes. It was fake. Everything about Anna in his mind was fake.
The next second, the monster opened its ferocious mouth and roared as it rushed towards Charles.
Charles rolled on the spot to avoid the attack. His eyes quickly became determined and he skillfully changed bullets with his hands.
"Bang, bang, bang!!" Green blood kept splashing on the monster, but this level of injury could not stop it at all. With a whistling sound, the tentacles covered with tentacles lashed Charles' hand and knocked it away.
"Why!" Charles gritted his teeth and instantly pulled out the black knife. With a flick of his hand, the tentacle kept twisting on the deck.
The meat monster retreated with a roar, and Charles rushed forward with a knife.
When the man and the monster rushed to the bow, the black tentacles on the monster's tentacles, as thin as hair, opened instantly, and the monster, like a fishing net, counterattacked and entangled Charles tightly.
"Crack~" The ribs began to break, one, two, and the severe pain made Charles groan in pain.
At this critical moment, the glass of the cockpit suddenly broke, and a bullet shot into the monster's giant yellow eye, and the eyeball exploded like a watermelon.
The screaming monster immediately let go of Charles and fled to the side of the boat.
The gunfire became more frequent and other people in the turbine room rushed out with guns.
No matter how powerful the meat monster is, it is still flesh and blood after all. Under the attack of the gun, the strange body was turned into a torn sack by bullets.
While waiting for the gunfire to stop, the monster that was so arrogant just now had already fallen in its own smelly blood, trembling and moving its tentacles slowly.
Charles walked towards it, pressing his aching abdomen.
Just as he raised the revolver towards the beast's mouth, the flesh and blood at the front of the meat monster condensed into the face of the ship's doctor Anna.
Anna laughed miserably, dark green blood dripping from the corners of her eyes. "Gao Zhiming, I'm sorry... I didn't know I was fake..."
These words pierced Charles' heart like a sharp knife. A painful expression appeared on his face, and he would rather this monster cursed him.
The others came up and stood behind Charles with heavy expressions.
"I can't control it. I'm just the bait it created. It's stalling for time. I'm hitting it below the eyes, which is its weak spot."
Looking at the memory of his partner who had been with him day and night, Charles felt that the revolver in his hand weighed a thousand pounds.
"Gao Zhiming! Hurry up!! It has a strong recovery ability!"
Seeing that Charles was slow to act, Anna turned to look at Dipper beside her, "Little guy, you come."
Just as Dipper hesitated, Charles clenched his teeth, raised his gun and pulled the trigger.
“Bang bang bang bang bang!!”
Seeing the bullet hit her, Anna showed a sad smile on her face. "Thank you... I really want to go home with you..."
As soon as she finished speaking, her face began to melt and merge into the completely motionless meat monster.
“Ha… Ha… Hahaha!!” Charles suddenly laughed crazily. He rushed forward, grabbed the monster’s corpse, and threw it into the sea with all his strength.
"Don't try to fool me again!! I won't be fooled again! You monsters who tamper with memories! You are all liars!! It's all fake! Fake!!"
James looked at Charles, who seemed a little abnormal, with concern. He said carefully, "Captain, are you okay?"
"It's okay, hahaha, what can happen to me? The crisis is over, and the man-eating monster is dead! This is great news! Chef! Prepare the food later so we can celebrate. Dipper and the sailors can clean up this place, I'll take the helm!"
For the whole day that followed, the crew of the Mouse was very cautious, fearing that they would upset their captain.
But Charles seemed to be normal. He was steering the boat and eating normally. However, his actions were completely different from usual and he was a little too active.
After finishing his meal, Charles returned to his own residence. He did not turn on the lights in the dark cabin. With a bitter look on his face, he took out the bottle of wine on the bottom shelf, sat on the bed, and drank it gulp by gulp.
"Anna, why do you want to eat people..."
"If you don't eat my crew, I can pretend I don't know..."
(End of this chapter)