Seeing these weird things, everyone's face looked bad.
Before Charles could come up with a solution, other noises suddenly occurred behind him.
When they turned around, they found that the rope men who had just been peeking at them had stopped behind them in a disorderly manner, and they were completely surrounded by them!
One of the sailors finally couldn't hold it anymore, and hysterically raised his gun and kept shooting at the rope man in front of him.
The bullets hit the ropemen and brought them to the ground, but facing so many ropemen, a few bullets were completely ineffective, and no one knew how many ropemen were still in the forest.
"Stop! Did I tell you to shoot?" Charles reached out and snatched the gun from his hand.
"Charles, how about using fire? Just burn them directly. Ropes should be afraid of fire!" Odrick began to give advice.
"Mr. Charles, how about I go and communicate with them? Maybe they are good monsters?"
Charles had no time to listen to the crew's advice at this moment. His extremely sharp ears heard the sound of the huge hemp rope wall behind him moving towards him.
The ropemen in front of him also showed no intention of stopping. Hundreds of ropemen moved towards the crew members in an extremely strange way.
The ropeman, who was ten meters away just now, disappeared from the crew's sight for just one second. When they looked again, he was only three meters away from them.
"Line of sight... movement... line of sight..." Charles' mind clicked suddenly, and he suddenly figured out the key to the rope man's movement.
"Everyone listen up! Keep an eye on them. As long as we keep our eyes on these things, they can't move!"
Under Charles' command, everyone quickly divided into several pairs and looked at these strange rope men to ensure that none of them moved.
A dozen pairs of human eyes might not be enough, but Lily's mice came in handy. Hundreds of pairs of mung bean-sized eyes stared around, and all the rope men immediately showed no signs of movement.
"Don't panic. Everyone, move slowly to the left. These things can't move if you stare at them. When your right eye gets tired, switch to your left eye. Take your time."
The crew of the Narwhal followed the mice and formed a ball, slowly moving between the rope-man sculptures.
Everyone's eyes were wide open, but fortunately the hard work paid off, and they were moving away from the center of this strange sea of rope people.
"Thump thump thump!" The sound of messy footsteps continued in the colorful forest, and Charles and his crew quickly fled.
Everyone was running as fast as they could, fearing that the things behind them would catch up.
When Charles saw some weak guys were almost foaming at the mouth from running, he ordered them to stop and rest.
Charles had no time to sit around; his anchor shot into a tree trunk overhead and pulled him up.
He jumped quickly from tree to tree around the crowd.
After walking around for a long time, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. Those strange things did not follow them and they were safe for the time being.
"What are those things? Living relics of the Foundation, or local island natives?" Charles kept guessing in his mind.
This place was still unsafe, and Charles didn't dare let the crew stay any longer. After a short rest of ten minutes, he prepared to move to other locations.
Charles held a compass in one hand and a freshly drawn map of the island in the other. After quickly determining the direction, he rolled up the pen with his tentacles and drew a cross at the place where he had just encountered the rope man.
"Whatever they are, they don't look easy to deal with. The best option is to just avoid them and not provoke them."
In order to avoid having to confront that thing again, Charles sent all of Lily's mice out to act as scouts.
Let them retreat and warn as soon as they encounter the rope man.
As time passed, the mystery of the island was revealed to Charles.
In addition to the rope men, there are other living things on this island, but these things are either hidden in the soil, underground, or in tree trunks.
Most of these things are insects. The insect sounds mentioned above were made by them. These insects are all dark in color.
In addition to various insects, there are also various strange plants, such as dark basket mushrooms that are bigger than humans, spiral pink flowers, and short purple bamboo that looks like grass.
With the appearance of these things, the colors of the forest began to become brighter and brighter.
The forest roads were difficult to navigate and it was a dangerous place. After only four days of exploring the forest, everyone was exhausted both physically and mentally.
Although everything was fine during the day, I couldn't sleep well every day, for fear that those strange rope men would suddenly rush out and break everyone's neck.
Just when Charles was hesitating whether to return to the ship to rest, they made a new discovery. This time it was not a person, but a tree hole.
A giant tree as big as a house was completely hollow, and a neat door was hanging abruptly on the bark.
The flashlights were out of battery, and now they were holding torches in their hands. The flames flickered, and half of a human face suddenly appeared, scaring everyone.
When the crew saw the captain walk straight in, they immediately realized that there was no danger inside. It was no secret that the captain had dark vision, and since he went straight in, it meant that there was no danger inside.
Charles walked into the tree hole and looked up at the murals on the wall. Human heads of all sizes were hung on the wall like portraits. The one just illuminated by the firelight was one of them.
These murals were very simple and looked not much different from those painted by cavemen. As a painter, Charles could clearly see that the painters had never learned any basic knowledge and were just painting randomly.
There are 43 portraits in total, including both men and women.
"Captain... there's another one here..." Bandage said, holding up the flashlight.
Charles turned his head and found that the painting over there seemed to have a certain continuity. The strokes were very simple and very easy to understand.
The very first starting point was obviously a ship, and Charles immediately thought of the wrecked ship he had seen before.
Some people got off the boat, and they met some people when they entered the forest. The people on the boat began to run away, and then some of them... were dismembered
Charles moved closer and observed carefully. The person on the wall that was broken into several sections did represent a broken human body.
Charles' gaze shifted from the mural to the area around the tree hole. The four-meter-long bed made of leaves in the corner indicated that many people had lived here.
"It seems that this was left by the people on the ship. Did they also encounter the rope man?"
Just when Charles was watching intently, he suddenly heard the squeaking of a mouse outside the door. After being together for so long, Charles had already understood the sound of mice. It was the sound of a warning.
(End of this chapter)