The overhead lights have been completely blocked, making the streets of Hope Island appear very dim, and the straight and spacious streets are sparsely populated.
Running quickly in the darkness, Charles soon arrived in front of a dark-colored villa. The spacious outer courtyard was full of various green plants, which were lush and abnormal.
He didn't ring the doorbell or knock the knocker, but jumped over the wall and in. "Bandage?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the soft and moist soil beside him turned over, and the Narwhal bandages emerged from it. "Is there... something wrong?"
Charles said nervously, "Let me ask you, is there any way to save Lily in the various rituals of the Futan religion?"
Seeing the bandage nodded, before Charles showed a happy smile on his face, he said: "But... it's not... a good solution..."
Later, through the introduction of his first mate, Charles immediately understood that the ritual Hook was talking about was the method that Big Head used to resurrect his wife.
The souls of all drowned people belonged to the god Futan. If Lily was drowned in advance and then resurrected through that ritual, the current dilemma could be solved reasonably.
But according to Bandage, performing this ritual never ends well.
This is a mixture of bad and good news. The good news is that bandages can also perform this ritual, and it can be performed without the risk of betraying the Pope, but the bad news is that the effect of this ritual is not so good.
"Are you sure this is the only thing? Is it possible that Futan taught Liman a method you haven't seen?"
"Impossible... I have read all the ritual books... Even those that I cannot perform... I have memorized their functions."
Seeing Charles's face becoming extremely ugly, Bandage patted Charles' shoulder with his hand. "Destroying... is always easier... than repairing... There is little hope of turning a mouse... into a human..."
"It's okay. During this time, you should prepare the offerings for the ritual. If the worst comes to the worst, we can give it a try."
The next day, a series of circular iron tunnels were erected in the spacious front yard of the Governor's Mansion. To modern people, they looked a bit like iron support runways for four-wheel drive vehicles.
But this is not a racing track, but a mini roller coaster that Charles specially asked mechanical engineers to make. It may be difficult for people to sit on it, but there is no problem at all for a small thing like this one made of a mouse.
After conducting experiments on dozens of mice and confirming that there were no hidden dangers, Charles carefully placed Lily in the seat filled with lambskin.
Lily looked scared and excited, her eyes constantly looking around.
As Charles pressed the button, the sound of gears turning was heard, and Lily instantly disappeared in the circles of tracks, her screams echoing far away.
After one lap, before the car stopped, Lily excitedly slapped the guardrail, "This is so fun! Let's do it again! Let's do it again!!"
Lily's voice rang out again, and this time the scream turned into laughter.
Lily whizzed past Charles again, and a strand of white hair swayed and floated in front of Charles.
Listening to Lily's excited voice, Charles silently put the hair into his pocket and looked at her with a smile.
At this moment, outside the towering iron fence, a group of students ran over and looked inside with curiosity, seeing things they had never seen before.
Among this row of students, Charles saw a 1.4-meter-tall man. That was the human that the island ropeman had asked him to bring back. He looked at the runway with his eyes wide open and shining.
Linda, dressed in a white robe, walked by and took the bag from his waist.
Charles, who saw this scene, walked over and asked, "Are you adopting him?"
Charles was stunned for a moment, then asked her: "If we throw him into school, how long will it take him to learn to speak?"
"He can't learn it. He's too old. Although he's very short, that's because he was malnourished for a long time on the island. His actual age is estimated to be around 25. Humans' childhood is the golden time to learn language. If you miss it, you'll never be able to learn it again."
After Linda finished speaking, she turned her gaze to Lily on the mini roller coaster. "Captain, have you found a solution to Lily's problem?"
"Not at the moment." Charles' tone was a little melancholy.
"Then you'd better find a way to get Lily to teach you how to control the rats, otherwise the rats on the entire Hope Island will be in chaos."
Charles' pupils shrank slightly. "Lily is in danger, and you're just thinking about this?"
"Captain, I'm just reminding you, and this does not conflict with your rescue of her."
"Don't worry about this. Go to the prison and see if you can take over the doctor's experimental project. James has complained to me several times."
"Okay, I'll do my best." Linda pulled Salin, who was lying on the iron fence reluctantly, away.
Charles offered such a high reward that it attracted people from all walks of life, but the first ones to come were always the opportunistic scammers.
"This isn't fair!! Leonardo is a liar too! How could he be successful and do this to me!!"
Looking at the liar being carried out by the guards, Charles said to Leonardo beside him: "Take care of this matter. I don't want to see your colleagues again."
"Yes, Governor." Leonard, who was wearing gold-rimmed glasses, bowed slightly and walked outside.
As the noise outside faded away, he used his hands to support his eyes, a sneer on his face. "What a fool you are! You didn't even know the details of the scam, and you just came here to try your luck. The younger generation is getting more and more useless nowadays. Let me, your senior, teach you a good lesson."
Passenger ships kept stopping at the Hope Island Pier, and applicants came in an endless stream, but Charles felt more and more depressed because none of them were reliable.
It was rare for Charles to stay on shore for so long that two months had passed before he knew it.
In the warm sunshine, Lily lay on the black cat's soft belly, basking in the sun lazily.
In two months, Lily has tamed the two kittens. They now know that these mice don't eat cats.
Now Lily can no longer ride the roller coaster. Her body has gradually become shriveled, and her hair is missing in patches. She is no longer as cute as before.
Lily held a book the size of a human fingernail in her hand and read the contents of the book with her eyes wearing small reading glasses.
"Mr. Charles, it seems I have one last wish left to fulfill." Lily's voice was a little hoarse.
45-1=44
(End of this chapter)