The breakfast time ended with casual chatting. After the two of them spent some time together, Charles walked towards the successfully repaired Narwhal.
The dented hull has been completely repaired, and the streamlined silver hull looks particularly beautiful.
No matter what, it is better to have your own boat. When I was exploring 068, I was driving someone else's boat. Although I didn't show it, I felt uncomfortable.
All the crew members were already on the deck waiting for their captain.
After hugging Anna's waist and giving her a deep wet kiss, Charles was about to say something when she stopped him, "Hey, don't try to set a flag for yourself."
Charles looked at her with amusement, "What nonsense are you talking about? Take out your phone and let me take a look. I'll leave after I finish looking at it."
His old mobile phone appeared in front of Charles again, and he clicked on the video to watch it again.
The screen opened, and Charles was stunned for a moment. The person inside seemed a little different from before. "Don't doubt anything anymore! The memory has been deleted for the fourth time! Remember not to doubt or pay attention!! Keep doing your work! Don't think about what's next."
"The fourth time?!" Looking at himself in the video, Charles felt a chill on his back.
"Have I ever modified or deleted my memory again? When?"
Charles quickly reviewed his memories from the day before yesterday until now, but found nothing unusual.
"What? Did you find out something?" Anna asked in surprise.
After seeing the information recorded in the phone, Anna was also stunned for a moment. "It's really interesting. You deleted it several times. Husband, it seems that you finally couldn't help it and went to find something."
"Looking? Impossible! I haven't been looking for anything from the beginning to now. I gave up after seeing the reminder from myself and did nothing at all!" Charles immediately retorted.
"Um, that's not right. Your memory and my memory have been modified. They are all false in order to cover up some real memories." Anna retorted.
"If that's the case, then I didn't sleep at all yesterday. This is the fourth time my memory has been modified. My past self modified my memory into a false memory that I slept all day!"
On the deck of the Narwhal, the crew looked at Charles and Anna below in confusion.
"What is the captain talking about with his monster wife? Why doesn't he come up? Wasn't he the most active in exploration before?" Dipper asked confusedly.
"He took sleeping pills from me the day before yesterday. I was worried, so I asked Odrick to follow him. He hid in the room and yelled something excitedly. I think it is necessary to make a comprehensive assessment of the captain's mental state."
Lily climbed up Linda's trouser legs and onto her shoulders, nodding her head in approval. "Hmm~hmm~Charles has been acting strange lately. The day before yesterday, he even cut his own hand."
Under their gaze, Charles and Anna talked to each other for a while, and then they both climbed the rope ladder to the deck at the same time.
"Anna will accompany you throughout this exploration." Charles announced the temporary transfer to his crew.
The crew members looked at each other for a few seconds, nodded, and started walking towards their respective posts without saying anything.
Since the captain trusted this man-eating monster, they had no right to object. Over such a long time, Anna had gradually gained the trust of others, even if they had hostility, they kept it in their hearts.
The Narwhal left the Giant Pit Fortress again, but unlike his previous expectation, Charles was in a very bad mood now.
Because the problem explored last time has not been resolved yet, it is still following behind and may appear again at any time.
The atmosphere in the captain's room was a bit depressing. Charles, who was sitting on a stool, and Anna, who was sitting at the table, looked at each other in silence. Finally, Charles broke the silence.
"How to do it? You can't do anything now. How can you guarantee that it wasn't you who recorded the fifth video in the case of contact?"
Anna's words made Charles fall into deep thought.
"Charles, just do what you say in the video. Don't do anything and don't think about anything. Just focus on exploring. Go explore the darkness." Anna said, staring into Charles' eyes.
"But we clearly did everything before—"
"No, actually you did it. It is precisely because what you did caused very serious consequences that our memories of the past were modified. The memory of you not doing anything now is false."
The captain's room returned to calm again, and after a few minutes, Charles spoke again.
"Then we can infer what we are facing. This trouble is very special. First of all, we have to rule out that it is not a monster. Otherwise, with so many people in the Giant Pit Fortress, how could it only stick to me?"
"Secondly, I have to delete my memory every time to get rid of the crisis temporarily. That means my memory will cause this trouble. As long as I understand it deeply, the trouble will arise."
Anna thought thoughtfully, "Hmm, maybe, but what next? How can you solve this situation? You only know its nature, you don't even know what it is."
"Let me think about it, let me think about it... There must be a way to solve this problem."
Anna took off her high heels and stepped on Charles' knees with her white jade-like feet. "Don't think about it. You can't figure it out."
"The problem must be solved. God knows whether this trouble will only harm me or more people. If we really don't take care of it, maybe everyone on the ship will suffer—"
Anna suddenly pounced on him and kissed Charles madly and passionately, putting her hands into his clothes and touching him randomly.
Facing Anna's sudden action, Charles couldn't help but widen his eyes. "Ann... not... now."
Before Charles could finish his words, he was blocked by Anna's slippery tongue. A dozen tentacles stretched out from behind Anna and tightly wrapped around his limbs. "Don't move. Close your eyes."
At noon that day in the cafeteria, Charles, who was a little disheveled, ate his food while looking at Anna next to him unhappily. "Are you feeling better?"
Anna shook her head with a snicker. "Not yet. Anyway, we have nothing to do in the afternoon. We can play the second half."
"What's the matter? Are you suddenly addicted to this?" Charles was stunned for a moment, and then his face changed. He stretched out his hand to Anna, "Give me the phone."
"what happened again?"
"Stop talking nonsense and give me your phone."
Taking Anna's phone, Charles clicked on the video with trembling fingers. Charles looked extremely ugly in the video.
"This is the sixth time you've deleted it. I know you can't help it, but please don't think about it anymore. The moment you know the truth is the beginning of a new cycle. I don't want you to be the seventh one."
(End of this chapter)