Just when West didn't know how to respond to his mother, he saw Chef Planck waving at him from a distance, and he breathed a sigh of relief. "Um, mother, my friend is calling me, so I..."
"Go, go, you are an adult now, you should have your own friends, remember to come back early."
"Well! I will be back before 10 o'clock in the evening." West rushed towards the chef as if he was running away.
"Thank you for helping me out, Plank."
"What are you trying to help? We're having a drink at the Anchor Bar. Do you want to come?"
"Come! Of course I'll come!"
West followed Planck to the lively Anchor Bar, sat on a wooden stool, and felt very comfortable after drinking a glass of cold beer.
Surrounding the round wooden table in front of him were his companions, all of whom were sailors from the Narwhal and crew members who joined later, such as the kitchen helper.
A sailor named Buck put down his glass and said in a low voice: "Hey, do you know the news?"
"What news? News that the captain is blind?"
"That counts as news? The news I'm talking about is that the chief engineer has died, and the current chief engineer is going to be the new chief engineer, so there's a vacancy in the engine room. I secretly heard the first mate and the second mate discussing that they plan to pick one of us to join the turbine group."
"Don't captains recruit directly from the dock?" Wester said with a look of curiosity on his face.
"The turbine room is the heart of the entire ship, so of course we'll give priority to our own people. If we have to recruit, we'll recruit new sailors. Let me tell you, the salary of the turbine crew is twice that of our deck crew."
Upon hearing this, West's eyes, which had just been indifferent, suddenly lit up. Technical jobs are different.
Another sailor slapped the table hard, burped, and said, "Don't think about it. I guess our ship won't be out to sea for long. Didn't the captain say that he has found the exit to the Land of Light? The Narwhal might be retired soon."
"Another bright place? Do you believe it? I don't. Anyway, I will go out to sea four more times at most, and then I will quit. I will use the money I save to buy two houses. I will rent out one and live in the other. I want to enjoy a peaceful life." After the bearded sailor said this, he picked up the wine glass and took a big gulp.
West's thoughts gradually dispersed, and he said fancifully: "Hey, you say, is what the captain said true? Is there really such a place? An island larger than the ocean, then people living in the center of the island will never be able to eat fish in their lives, right?"
"When Lily was playing with the black mirror, I took a sneak peek. Many of the paintings inside looked just like the real ones. I believe the captain wouldn't brag. He's not that kind of person. Besides, didn't the captain say that he was from the Land of Light?"
"If I were a captain, I wouldn't bother going out to sea. There's no better life than being a governor."
As the crew members chatted, time passed little by little. The small holes in the shed used for lighting were blocked again by the islanders, and the night of Hope Island fell.
In the Governor's Mansion, Charles was sleeping peacefully on the bed. He suddenly woke up in the darkness. With his instinctive sixth sense, he felt that someone was staring at him.
Just as he felt that gaze getting closer and closer to him, his muscles suddenly tensed up, and the black blade popped out, pouncing forward like a cheetah.
With a "puff", the black blade penetrated into the opponent's body, and Charles' tentacles directly wrapped around his limbs.
As soon as the tentacles touched the other person, he realized that the other person was a very petite person, who looked only the size of a three-year-old child.
However, Charles did not let his guard down. An ordinary three-year-old child would not break through the blockade of the Governor's Mansion and suddenly appear in his bedroom.
"Sparkle...Sparkle." A babyish voice sounded, causing Charles' body to stiffen.
Charles reached out his hand with some trembling towards the person's face, but instead touched the head of a young little girl.
"Sparkling? Is it really you? Why do you look like this?"
"Of course. It doesn't matter whose daughter it is. It's as easy for my daughter Anna to transform as breathing. How about it, is your daughter cute like this? I made her look like this on purpose. Oh, by the way, I guess you can't see it now because you are blind."
Charles turned his head anxiously towards the direction of the voice and said, "You're here, why didn't you tell me earlier? Shanshan is injured!"
"Don't worry, scumbag. Your broken little knife can't hurt our daughter. She is very powerful." Anna walked in front of Shanshan, pulled out the knife nonchalantly, and put it back into Charles' hand.
Carefully touching his daughter's abdomen, Charles found that the wound disappeared in the blink of an eye. He then breathed a sigh of relief.
Charles touched his daughter's head with his hand and said to the side: "Why are you here?"
"Look at how blind you are, and you still ask me why I came. I really admire you." There was some disgust in Anna's voice.
Charles didn't care about the other person's tone at all. That was Anna's personality. He couldn't wait to share the results of his adventure.
He reached for his coat and took out the sea chart. He said with a hint of excitement, "Look, I found the surface exit."
A slender, soft arm reached out from behind Charles and gently pinched the paper.
"Really? It can't be another fake like the crack on Hope Island." Anna's soft voice was filled with hesitation.
"No, this place is most likely on the surface. The Foundation has sent people to the surface before, so they must have an exit to communicate with the surface."
Anna gave the man in front of her a complicated look, then patted his shoulder with her hand, "Call me when you go up. I'll go up with you."
"Of course, of course you have to come along. That's the world we used to live in." Charles' face was filled with excitement.
Anna stroked her forehead with the back of her hand, looking helpless. "What? I'm worried that if the surface doesn't meet your expectations, you'll go crazy again."
The smile on Charles' face froze, and then slowly closed. He gently stroked his daughter's head and murmured to himself, "No, never again. Even if the surface of the earth is destroyed, I will not go crazy. If that really happens, I will return to Hope Island and be my governor at ease. At that time, I will take you all here, and we will live a peaceful life together and never run around again."
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