Hearing 1068's hint, the three-headed flying leech that was spitting out mice quickly turned around, and its 18 eye stalks pointed at Charles in the corner.
“What the hell!!”
Charles leaped forward and rushed toward the door. Just as he was about to go out, he reached out with his left hand and a revolver appeared in his hand.
"Bang!" Half of 1068's bloody head was blown off. Amid 1068's screams and curses, Charles rushed out of the room and ran for his life.
This time the leeches no longer engaged in close combat with Charles. Three leeches gathered in the distance and continuously spit out corrosive liquid. Charles twisted his body and quickly evacuated in the "hail of bullets".
This was just the beginning. More and more leeches followed Charles, and the third laboratory, which had been silent for many years, became lively for the first time.
Chased by the flying leeches, Charles found the way he came.
When he rushed out of the laboratory with all his might, a bright red light appeared behind him. He turned around in horror and saw that the entire huge wall was lit up with red light. They roared and drilled out of the wall, staring at Charles with anger in their eyes.
Hundreds and thousands of flying leeches twisted their bodies and disappeared one after another.
Charles suddenly felt a chill rushing from his tailbone to his brain, and he turned around and rushed towards the shore as fast as he could.
"Am I stealing your wife? Chasing me like this!"
"Swish, swish, swish" Charles jumped directly to the top of a three-meter-high block in a few steps, and used his excellent body to jump between the rocks.
With dark vision, Charles ran very fast, but he did not feel safe at all. He looked around nervously, guarding against invisible leeches coming out from anywhere.
In the distance, he saw the bright searchlight of the Narwhal on the distant sea.
"The lights are on, which proves that the crew members are on board. I just need to rush back to the beach and I'll win!" Thinking of this, Charles took bigger steps.
"Buzz buzz buzz" flying leeches appeared in the air, and a large area of red light blocked Charles' way. They formed a pocket formation and moved towards Charles.
"You think so highly of me, right? You even use tactics to deal with me alone." Charles stood on a rock and gasped with a smile on his face.
Looking at the red light in the sky, Charles said with some emotion: "It's so beautiful. Compared with this, the drone show is simply weak."
"But, compared to you glowing bugs, I want to see drones more now." Charles hugged the few relics in his hands tightly, kicked his feet hard, and rushed towards the red wall in the distance without hesitation.
"Puff puff puff" all the flying leeches began to spit saliva, and acid rain began to fall from the sky illuminated by red light.
Charles once again went into the stone forest below and continued to move forward with the help of the rocks as cover.
The acid-corroded rocks above his head kept making crackling sounds, and Charles used his feet to pad the remaining space and rushed forward. The distance between him and the coast was getting closer and closer.
The leeches seemed to have already thought of what Charles would do. Countless mouthparts with sharp teeth emerged from the ground and bit his feet fiercely.
Charles, who had no leverage, pushed hard against the wall and returned to the top of the rock, only to be greeted by another burst of acid rain.
No matter how agile he was, and how many times he flipped and moved in the air, it was of no avail in the end.
Charles' collar was corroded with holes of various sizes, and thick phlegm-like acid dripped onto his body, emitting bursts of white smoke.
"Hiss~" Feeling the stinging and burning sensation on his body getting more and more, Charles, who was in desperate situation, knew that he could not hold on for much longer.
"Boom!" A loud noise suddenly came from the distance, and a large area suddenly appeared in the red light in the sky.
Charles, who was standing on one foot on one of the few open spaces, showed ecstasy on his face behind his mask when he saw this scene. "That's the deck gun of the Narwhal. My crew is helping themselves."
No matter how many flying leeches there are, they are still flesh and blood. They are no different from paper in front of shells.
"Boom!" A large piece of the red curtain in the sky was torn off again. The leeches seemed to be panicked at this time, not knowing whether to run or continue to intercept Charles.
After the pressure was relieved, Charles ran at full speed and finally reached the beach.
As he leaped forward, the cold sea water alleviated the burning sensation all over his body, and he swam towards the Narwhal with his limbs swinging wildly.
The first thing he said when he climbed up the ladder onto the deck was to sail away.
The Narwhal, which had been prepared for a long time, ran at full speed and quickly left the island.
Charles, who was lying exhausted on the deck, laughed excitedly when he saw the wet relics beside him. "Hahaha, you slugs, did you see that? I stole your things! I even escaped! I win this time!"
Dipper ran over anxiously and helped Charles up. "Captain, take off this mask quickly."
Charles was shocked, "How long have I been wearing this mask?"
As soon as this thought came to his mind, a strange voice suddenly exploded in his mind.
"I don't know either, but it's probably been at least an hour or two."
Charles took off the mask on his face as quickly as possible. The moment he took off the mask, everything around him suddenly dimmed several levels and the pain all over his body instantly increased several times.
But at this time, Charles focused all his attention on his own mind, constantly asking himself who the voice was.
Seeing his captain standing there in a daze, Dipper waved his hand in front of him, "Captain, what's wrong with you? Are you okay?"
Charles ignored him and sat on the ground as if waiting for something. When he found that he had taken off the mask and the voice in his head no longer sounded, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Charles then felt a wave of fear in his heart. "Fortunately, if I had worn it for a few more minutes, I would have had to fight with my other personalities for control of my body."
"It seems that I need to be careful when wearing this mask. The benefits are indeed good, but the disadvantages are equally alarming. Although I will not resist taking off the mask after wearing it, my personality becomes very impulsive."
Seeing that the captain had recovered, the other crew members also breathed a sigh of relief and rushed to the captain's room carrying Charles.
After a flurry of activity, the acid-corroded wounds on Charles' body were bandaged. At this time, Charles looked more like a mummy than the bandages.
He sat up from the bed weakly and looked at the crew members surrounding him. "Who fired the cannon just now?"
If it weren't for the help of the deck gun, Charles would definitely not have been able to come back.
"It's me! It's me!" The white mouse Lily crawled along the bed sheet to Charles' front.
(End of this chapter)