Charles pushed hard on the seaweed and continued to clear the otter rings in the air.
"What's the situation outside?" He asked Tuba anxiously.
"It's okay. They are all cleaning up the sea otters that are chasing them. With Winky here, the pressure isn't too great." Anna said to Charles.
"How come there are still sea otters? Aren't there no sea otters in that area?"
"Of course there are. We woke them up here, so there are already some outside. Do you think they only exist from this angle?"
At this moment, Charles suddenly felt something was wrong. He was shocked to see Anna cleaning the sea otter ring. "Anna?! How did you get in?"
"Do I need your consent to come here?" Anna waved her tentacles and knocked away a door frame that was flying towards Charles.
Charles wanted to say something else, but he knew now was not the time to talk nonsense, so he said unhappily: "Give me back the mirror first!"
Anna glanced at Charles with a half-smile and threw the Bat Mirror over to him.
The next second, a huge bat soared into the sky, and wherever it went, the sea otter rings quickly disappeared.
Although Charles was somewhat dissatisfied with Anna's risking her life, he had to admit that with her help, the speed of clearing the sea otter ring was much faster, and there were fewer and fewer buildings in the city below.
When only a small half of the Sea Otter Ring was left, the builders of the huge city finally could not sit still anymore.
With an earthquake-like tremor, the entire city cracked and collapsed, and a huge translucent worm several kilometers long crawled out from it.
Its head is covered with dark green beads that look like eyes, and its translucent body is filled with black, uncertain liquid.
As it emerged, the entire huge city quickly softened, like a cloak draped over the worm's body.
Such a huge worm was very oppressive. Charles didn't know how strong it was, but if it was going to catch up, there would not be enough time for them to remove the remaining sea otter rings. Then he made a decision instantly.
"I'll lead it away!" Charles spread his wings and flew directly towards the huge worm below that was as big as a mountain.
Soon, he came to a worm as huge as a mountain.
Hundreds of dark green eyes stared at Charles in unison, and the hatred in their eyes almost became tangible.
The hideous and terrifying mouth opened, revealing a mouthpart covered with densely packed spiral serrations.
Charles didn't know what it was going to do, nor did he want to know. The purpose of his coming here was just to restrain it.
The moment it opened its mouth, Charles spread his huge wings and flew directly onto the giant worm city coat.
That layer of urban outer shell is not just decoration, some things inside are constantly changing.
A carriage below Charles quickly transformed into a huge centipede-like monster, opening its mouth and biting towards Charles fiercely.
Charles quickly turned around and dodged it. He didn't bother with it for too long. He slipped through a gap in a wide road and continued to fly downwards.
The entire city ruins began to distort, but these were no longer useful to Charles now.
Charles quickly dodged these things and constantly used sound waves to detect the movements of the giant worm under him.
Seeing that the other party did not chase Tuba and Anna, but turned its huge head to stare at him, Charles breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he dragged it on like this, it would be fine. As long as he kept dragging it on—
Just as Charles was thinking of this, two figures suddenly rushed out from the ruins of the city and pounced on Charles.
This move caught Charles off guard. He was knocked away by the shock wave and immediately felt his body sink. Someone pounced on him, and the number of people was increasing.
Those were the citizens of the previous city. There was only hatred in their eyes like the worms. They had been controlled long ago and now they were just puppets.
"Sizzle~!" Electric arcs flashed on Charles' body, and the person on his body began to twitch continuously and fell rapidly.
Suddenly, the ground of the city below cracked rapidly, and an endless stream of seven or eight meter long white worms flew towards him, each of them having a dark red eye on its head.
At this moment, Charles finally understood why Tuba called this thing "they" instead of "it".
He quickly turned around in mid-air in an attempt to dodge, but as he was surrounded by these worms, his space to move became less and less.
Just when he was being attacked from all sides, Charles suddenly folded his wings, quickly transformed into human form, and began to shuttle quickly among the ruins of the city.
The pair of boots that allowed him to move anywhere helped Charles' gang, and neither the humans nor the worms could catch up with him.
But Charles did not feel proud at this moment, because he saw that the worm's huge head had turned back, and he could not let this thing attack Tuba and Anna!
Charles quickly turned into a bat again and opened his mouth. Extremely harsh sound waves quickly spread, and everything around him collapsed rapidly.
When he saw the giant worm's head turn back, he was suddenly delighted. However, when he saw that all the dark green eyes on its head turned red, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
From its mouth, something of an indescribable color instantly rushed towards Charles.
"Boom~!!" Charles' eyes went dark, and when he came to his senses again, he found himself flying. No, to be exact, only his head was flying, and his body had disappeared.
"Crack~" Charles' head hit a fallen electric pole and rolled to the ground.
The cracked concrete road slowly opened up, and the scarlet mouth opened silently, welcoming Charles, who was left with only a head.
"I'm going to die?" This was Charles' thought.
But he kept rolling and rolling, and it seemed like he would never reach the end. When he got stuck on a coral on the seabed, he found that he had fallen out of the worm's body and his stomach was leaking.
He saw that the huge city worm above him was rapidly dissipating.
It opened its mouth wide as if unwilling, but it was of no avail because there was no longer a single sea otter ring in the green seaweed forest.
Charlton was not the only person who fell down. Countless humans with their bodies frozen fell from the sky like raindrops. A human rain began to fall on the entire seabed. These were all people from the previous city.
Anna was the first to arrive. She slowly picked up Charles, carefully holding him as if he were a baby. "Thank you for your hard work."
Charles wanted to shake his head, but found that he couldn't do it at all. "It's okay, everything here is fake. As long as my body is outside, we can go out."
At this moment, the two suddenly heard a wild laugh.
Anna held Charles and looked over there, and found that Tuba kept grabbing the humans on the ground and stuffing them into his mouth. As soon as those humans touched his mouth, they seemed to turn into gas in an instant and were sucked into him.
He swallowed and laughed wildly, looking very weird.
43-1=42
(End of this chapter)