"My dear, you have more injuries on your body..." White fingers with dark red nail polish stroked across Charles' chest.
Charles reached out and grasped Elizabeth's fingers. "Time can heal wounds, no matter how many there are, the trouble is those that cannot be healed."
"And your left arm..." Elizabeth felt distressed when she saw Charles's iron hand. After not seeing him for three years, he seemed to have suffered too much.
"It's okay. Come to think of it, prosthetic limbs are better than original arms. Ask them about your eyes. Maybe they have replacements." Charles stretched out the prosthetic limb on his left hand.
Elizabeth shook her head gently and lifted the blindfold on her face. Under her long black eyelashes, a pair of eyes with black background and red holes looked at Charles.
"What is this? Is it a relic that can replace the vision of eyes?" Charles asked in surprise.
"This thing comes from the East China Sea. It's very rare, but very useful." As Elizabeth spoke, a red circle in her eyes trembled slightly and emerged from her eye sockets.
It was a spider-like insect with more than a dozen legs. It crawled around Elizabeth's face several times and then drilled back into her eye socket.
"Isn't it a little scary? You won't dislike me, will you?"
"How could that be?" Charles lowered his head and kissed her softly. They lingered for a while, and Charles raised his head to look at her again.
"Thank you for the activation box. It is very useful for my exploration."
Elizabeth's mouth curled up slightly, she put her arms around Charles' neck and leaned her face against his chest. "Don't be polite, half of my island belongs to you."
Charles stroked Elizabeth's silver-white hair and asked curiously, "How do you control 1002? I never thought you could use it for your own benefit."
Elizabeth was proud. "This is all thanks to Finn. His sealing array can perfectly control the radiation of 1002. It was a good decision to spend 30% of the cost to keep him. He was also the one who developed the activation box."
The face of the old wizard flashed through Charles' mind, and he nodded in understanding. The power of the spells in the Western Sea might be increasingly inferior to the updated steel cannons.
But in some specific places, they can be very useful, and maybe I should find a way to recruit such a crew member.
Elizabeth looked up at him with adoration in her eyes.
"Charles, before you said that everyone in the Association for Finding the Land of Light thought you were joking, but no one thought that you actually succeeded in finding the Land of Light. You are really amazing."
Charles patted Elizabeth's back. "I don't care what others think. I just want to do what I want to do."
Elizabeth's eyes moved slightly. After a moment of silence, she said, "Since you are back and have become the new governor of the island, how about..."
As she spoke, her arms tightened a lot, and Charles could even feel her heartbeat gradually accelerating.
Charles knew what she wanted to say, but he shook his head firmly. "I'm sorry, I can't settle down for the time being. We are not in the bright place above. I haven't found the place I'm looking for yet."
A trace of disappointment flashed in Elizabeth's eyes. "Where exactly is the place you are looking for? Is returning there really better than the life of the Governor?"
Charles put his arm around her smooth and delicate shoulders and put her in his arms. "Stop talking, let me be quiet for a while."
On the messy big bed, two people who had known each other for a long time closed their eyes and hugged each other, enjoying this brief peace.
The next morning, Charles and Elizabeth enjoyed an exquisite breakfast at the Governor's Mansion, during which the two governors quickly determined the cooperation between the two islands.
The two have a close relationship and don't care too much about various interest chains.
After breakfast, Charles began his essential work as governor.
First he received all the waiting island messengers.
The island envoys brought greetings from the governors, and they blurted out free words of congratulations without even opening their eyes. This made Charles, who was not used to such occasions, feel a little uncomfortable.
"Actually, what these people say is nonsense. They just come here to express their attitude." Elizabeth, who was sitting sideways on the desk, reminded.
Charles rubbed his head with his hands. "My place is so far away from other islands. Is it necessary for them to curry favor with me like this?"
"Your island is more powerful than you think. The special crops from the Land of Light are in great demand on other islands."
"Besides, it's always a good thing for the governors to communicate with each other. If you don't send someone, others might conspire to capture your island."
"Are there anyone else behind you? Just come all at once." Charles asked Leonardo next to him.
The administrative minister quickly flipped through the files in his hand and said, "Governor, the only envoy left is He Fang, but for some unknown reason, she left in a hurry last night."
In fact, he could completely delegate these matters to his subordinates, but he must seize the opportunity to show his face in front of the governor.
Seeing that he was done, Charles breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, you can go down now."
It doesn’t matter if there is one more or one less, they are just polite words anyway.
"Governor, there are some important matters on the island—"
"You have to take care of all these things. This is what I hired you to do." Charles waved his hand and motioned him to leave.
Seeing this, Elizabeth frowned slightly, "You can't just ignore everything like this. You'd better make the key decisions about the island yourself."
“Don’t worry, I have my own way of managing the island.” Charles tapped his tongue lightly on the table.
Several mice crawled out from under the table and ran outside.
Soon, a large group of mice, led by a red mouse, rushed into Charles' office.
With small gray eyes, furry bodies, and sniffing noses, the mice filled the classroom-sized office.
The rodents running around all over the ground made Elizabeth feel uneasy. Even though she could easily get rid of the mice, she was still afraid of these things.
She pulled her legs back and placed them directly on Charles' legs.
Charles patted her slender legs. "It's okay, these are all my crew members."
"Are these your crew members?!" Elizabeth's voice rose.
Lily was sent to Charles's table by the mice. She looked up at Elizabeth in front of her. "Hello, Ms. Elizabeth, long time no see."
(End of this chapter)