"Gurgle gurgle" the water cup on the table in front of Margaret suddenly began to roll violently. After a few seconds, an octopus eye with horizontal pupils appeared in it.
"Why did it fail? Everything was clearly prepared well!"
Margaret frowned and climbed up from the ground, enduring the pain all over her body.
"Someone notified the nearby exploration ship, and they gathered to rescue Charles. There is a spy among your people."
"Don't make excuses! My people are fanatically devout to the god Futan! They will never betray me! You know that for this plan, most of the secret lines I left in the Giant Pit Fortress were pulled apart! But Charles is still alive!"
"Charles is not a loser. What do you want me to do in that situation? If I stay here any longer, his reinforcements will only increase, and I will be dead too!"
"I'm telling you, you have no way out! If you want to survive, you must obey me in everything! Otherwise, when the end comes, you and your people will drown in the sea!"
Margaret gritted her teeth and finally nodded unwillingly. "Okay."
Seeing the other party give in, the tone of his eyes softened slightly. "You and your people should not return to the Giant Pit Fortress yet. Charles's people will definitely be on high alert. I will send my people to deliver supplies to you again. You should lie dormant outside and wait for the next opportunity."
"The confidence of a great man has begun to waver. As long as he sides with us, Charles will be dead, and no one will be able to stop the awakening of the Mighty One."
"Yes." Margaret lowered her head deeply.
The eyes in the glass slowly disappeared. Margaret walked forward silently, picked up the glass of water and drank it.
Then, she opened the drawer next to her, took out a silver needle, and began to sew the wound on her forehead in front of the mirror.
"Very good, you pretended very sincerely, and he didn't doubt you at all." Julio's voice sounded from the palm of Margaret's right hand.
She stopped what she was doing and rolled up her sleeves, and saw a deformed, swollen mouth embedded in her pale, thin forearm. "Does it have to be so real?"
"Of course. Only by being so truthful can the people of Futan trust you. Don't worry, Charles is not an ordinary person. You can't kill him."
"This is not for him, this is for the Hefang Island of the Wendish family. My island must be protected by myself!" Margaret quickly suppressed her emotions.
"Okay, but it's not over yet. You continue to hold him steady. I will move from below and let Futan's men take action again as soon as possible. Since it cannot be avoided, we must take the initiative in our hands."
"He just said that a big shot has wavered. You should pay more attention to the people down there."
"Humph, I know that many people are wavering. Some islands, including the governor, are leaning towards Futan. These beasts are not even willing to act like human beings in order to survive!"
“But next time, as long as we completely eliminate the remaining backers of Futan to show our tough attitude, they will come back again.”
Margaret thought for a moment and continued to sew up the scar on her head. "I have a question."
"I said, you can't tell Charles. There are people from the Futan sect around him, and even he himself has the mark of Futan on his body! There is no difference between telling him and telling the people of the Futan sect." Julio's voice was very firm.
"That's not what I'm talking about. What I want to say is that the monster named Anna probably already knew our plan. She could have killed me, but she held back in the end."
The deformed big mouth with swollen teeth paused for a moment before speaking again: "Let me handle these things. That woman has a lot of secrets. I guess she is not on the same page with Charles, but from what I can see so far, she is not from the Futan Church."
Margaret's pupils shrank slightly when she heard this. "Did you find out something?"
"Do your job well. As long as you can complete your mission, I can guarantee that He Fang will regain the dominant position in the North Sea."
"Saving Earthsea is the top priority first, and we can worry about other things later."
"You have to think of countermeasures in advance for everything. If you really have to think of a solution at the last minute, it will be too late."
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On the sunny Hope Island, Nini pestered Donna who was getting ready to go out, "Mom, is the factory fun? What kind of place is the factory?"
Dongna picked up her daughter and kissed her, then said with a smile: "The factory is a good place. As long as you work there, you get free food, and the money you earn in a month is more than what we earn in a year from farming."
"I am much better than them in there. I can lift things that they cannot lift with both hands with one hand. I don't know what's wrong with these little girls. Their hands are so soft after just eating that they have no strength at all. If they were asked to plant ryegrass in the world's crown, they would starve to death."
Nini nodded in approval. "Yeah! Mom is really good at farming."
After chatting with her daughter for a while, Donna put her down and went out to work.
Unlike when she first arrived, she now knew that Hope Island was safe, so she was not so nervous.
As soon as Dongna left, Nini quickly rushed to the kitchen, took out some food, and rushed out the door.
After jogging along the street for about five minutes, she slipped into an alley. The green-haired boy had been waiting for a long time. He took it impatiently and ate it in big mouthfuls.
"I'm sorry, my mom went out yesterday and I couldn't get it out, so you went hungry for a whole day." Nini said apologetically.
"I feel like you're feeding a kitten." Hearing the voice, Nini turned her head and saw the person coming. She smiled brightly and greeted him. "Shanshan, you're here too."
Winky took Nini's hand and came to the green-haired boy. "I found out about you. Your name is Bert, right?"
Bot didn't answer and continued squatting there eating voraciously.
"It's not a solution to keep feeding him like this. If we want to save someone, we should not give him fish but nets. We need to find the root cause."
"What should we do? Give him a net and let him go to the sea to catch fish?"
Shanshan gave Nini a cold look and dragged Bot out of the alley.
Nini looked at her good friend curiously. "Shanshan, some of the things you are saying now are so profound. I don't understand them."
Twinkle looked at her and sighed slightly, "You'll understand later."
Led by Shanshan, the three came to the bustling center of the island, and they finally stopped at a neat two-story villa.
Written next to it was the owner’s name: “Claude Feuerbach.”
(End of this chapter)