Hearing Feuerbach's notice, Charles quickly walked towards the door. Of course, he did not forget Lily who was watching the show next to him.
"Lily, hurry up and follow us. We need your rat to get to the island."
"Mr. Charles, can you help me check if I have lost hair on my back?"
"Who told you to dye your hair every day? Hurry up."
When Charles grabbed Lily and came to the deck, he saw the target. Under the illumination of the searchlight, the huge island looked like a giant turtle crawling in the darkness.
Inside the beach is a barren rock formation with towering rocks standing straight in a row, which does not look like they were formed naturally.
As the Narwhal circled the island, Charles discovered that it was a gourd-shaped island similar in size to Hope Island.
He also discovered that the Narwhal was not the first ship to come to the island. At the waist of Huludao lay a large passenger ship with a length of 120 meters.
Judging from the anchor covered with a thick layer of rust and the unusually broken cabin, this ship has been here for a long time.
Lily's mouse rushed in and took a quick look around, saying that there was no living thing inside, and any soft objects had completely rotted away, leaving the ship with only an empty metal shell.
The crew of the Narwhal pointed at the ship, constantly wondering what had happened to it in the dark sea.
"Let's go. Ignore that ship. Whether they landed on the island or jumped into the sea, it's none of our business. Don't forget the purpose of our visit. Odrick, go and observe the entire island first. Don't get too close. Use the longest sound wave to detect."
The blind vampire nodded, turned into a bat, soared into the sky, and began to scout around the huge island.
Just half an hour later, it came back again, turned its head and said to Charles accurately: "The outer part of the island is also made of rocks, but the inner circle, judging from the reflection of the sound waves, is a forest."
"Are there any other human structures? Or other living things?"
"I've been observing from above and haven't found anything so far. The island is still very quiet."
Charles frowned as he analyzed the information. Since the Pope said that the so-called "door" was found from the information in the New Territories City, there couldn't be no trace of the Foundation here.
Of course, Charles couldn't just go back like this. It was also possible that the foundation's building would be underground, just like when he explored Icha Island before, so he had to climb up.
"Lower the landing boat, prepare your weapons, drop anchor, and land on the island."
Under Charles' command, the crew of the Narwhal rowed their oars and moved towards the shore.
Walking among the stone pillars, Charles seemed to have come to a scenic spot he had visited before on the earth, the Guilin Stone Forest.
Except that it was a little dark, it was not much different from there, and of course there were not as many people as in the scenic area.
"Audric, didn't you say there was a forest? How far is it?"
The blind vampire felt around the rock walls with his hands and said, "These rocks are half a kilometer wide. We will reach the destination after we walk past them."
He was right, and soon Charles saw the so-called forest.
Maybe it's because vampires use sound waves to detect and can't see that these are the colors of the forest, otherwise they would never think that these are forests.
These things look like trees, and the colors of both the trunks and leaves are extremely strange, as if someone had eaten all the colorful paint and then spit it out. If I had to use one thing to describe it, it would be a rotten rainbow.
The first mate suddenly stepped forward and gently pinched a leaf with his hand. "It... is not... a plant..."
"What is that? Is it alive?" Charles asked with a hint of solemnity.
"I don't know... at least it's not a plant..."
Looking at the thing in front of them, everyone showed a trace of uneasiness on their faces, and West's palms began to sweat.
Lily's mice were the first to rush into the "forest" to explore the way and make sure there was no danger inside.
To be honest, Lily's mice are really useful for exploration. If the boat was not too small to carry so many things, Charles really wanted to release the mice to explore the entire island.
"Squeak~squeak~!" The mice came back quickly, and Lily, standing on Charles' shoulder, quickly translated. "Mr. Charles, there is no danger inside for the time being."
Led by Charles, the crew slowly walked into this strange forest.
The forest was unexpectedly not quiet, with the sounds of different kinds of insects rising and falling.
Charles felt a little relieved when he saw a fluorescent mushroom emitting mist.
Although this place is very strange, from the current point of view, the special plants on this island seem to have formed a special ecology, and that tree may really be a tree.
With an uneasy mood, the crew continued to move inside. At the beginning, everyone was extremely nervous, but as hour after hour passed, everyone began to relax reluctantly.
After six hours, Charles ordered to rest on the spot because he had gained nothing except seeing plants of various colors.
"Linda, bandage, Feuerbach..." Charles looked at the strips of cloth tied around his shoulders and compared them one by one.
Although Anna's tentacles were in his brain, and she said they could block most of the mind control, it was better to be safe than sorry, and Charles believed more in what he wrote down.
"Captain, let's eat." The chef brought steaming canned meat and fruit soup to Charles.
Under such circumstances, Charles was in no mood to enjoy the food. He swallowed the food without hesitation while looking warily at the strange forest around him.
Seeing that Charles had started eating, the chef Plank walked towards the bushes nearby.
"Stop, what are you doing? Don't you know that strange islands are dangerous?"
"I... I'll let it go."
"Just turn your back to us and don't go into the forest."
"Well, actually I wasn't planning on going in there," Plank said as he walked over to the bushes and started unbuckling his belt.
It’s certainly not a good feeling to hear someone peeing while eating, but compared to feeling disgusted, life is more important.
Charles looked away from the cook's back and continued eating his food.
"Ahhh!!!" Suddenly the chef screamed in fear. He didn't even have time to fasten his belt and ran towards everyone.
All the crew members were startled by his shouting and subconsciously reached for their weapons, with the sounds of reloading guns audible one after another.
Charles threw the can in his hand and rushed over like a cheetah.
"What's wrong? What did you just see?" Charles went straight in front of the chef and looked warily into the strange forest in front of him.
"Monster! There's a humanoid monster!! He wants to eat me! He looks so scary!" Planck tied his belt in shock.
“What does it look like?”
"He... has horrible green scales all over his body, his eyes are white and have no eyelids, and his mouth is full of horrible fangs! And he's wearing a wet suit."
Charles felt the descriptions were more and more familiar to him. Then a trace of anger appeared on his face, and he shouted at the forest in front of him: "What are you doing here! Get out of here!"
The sound of footsteps on fallen leaves was heard, and a dark shadow slowly walked out of the forest.
Seeing the man's appearance, the terrified fat chef kept pointing with his fat finger. "Yes, yes, that was him just now!!"
"Captain, this is the Narwhal's boatswain Dipper reporting in!" Dipper, who looked like a merman, walked out of the strange woods.
Thanks to Lemming for the 10,000 starting coins reward, and thanks to Pseudo Buwei for the 50,000 starting coins reward! 24+5=29
(End of this chapter)