Charles sighed slightly. He should have been able to get in touch with the foundation, but given the current situation, there was no hope at all.
"Captain, do we still need to fly upwards?" Odric asked carefully.
Charles shook his head slightly and picked up the diary on the ground. "When the rats return, we will leave here and make plans after the main force arrives."
After hearing Charles' words, the crew members all breathed a sigh of relief. After exploring for so long, they had really reached their limit. After all, no one is made of iron.
With the return of the last mouse, Charles and others' guess was proved that there were no monsters on the island. The only one they had encountered before was the one brought on the foundation's ship.
"Let's go and retreat temporarily." Charles bent down and picked up the diary on the ground.
However, just as he turned to the latest page, his pupils shrank to the smallest possible size. There was another entry in the diary, still written in Chinese.
Lily, who was standing on his shoulder, looked at him curiously as he suddenly stopped moving. "Mr. Charles, what's wrong? Aren't we going downstairs?"
Charles shook his head slightly, and his words stopped the crew members who were preparing to retreat. "I'm afraid we can't leave now."
June 10, 808
I died, very suddenly. Just as I was preparing to go down with the other crew members, an arc of light like moonlight fell from the sky and chopped us into pieces.
Is this my final fate? I still feel unwilling to accept the fact that I have to die here. I’m sorry, Anna.”
It turned out to be a diary written in Charles' tone after his death.
The crew gathered around the diary again, and after listening to the captain's explanation, they knew what was written in it.
Now they were in a dilemma. Charles didn't know whether he should leave or not, and if he really left, would he really die.
"Maybe it's fake? Someone is trying to scare us and keep us on this island." Dipper said.
"It's... unlikely... This doesn't explain... why that person... used... the captain's words... and tone." Bandage retorted.
"I also think what the first mate said is right. As you saw just now, no one touched this diary at all. Could it be that this diary appeared on its own?"
The crew talked to each other and discussed this strange incident, but finally they turned their eyes to the captain again.
Whether to go or not, and how to go now, is ultimately decided by the captain. All lives depend on Charles, and a wrong choice will lead to eternal damnation.
"Pah!" Charles put the diary away. "Let's wait a day and see what happens. I'm curious about what will happen if the predictions don't come true."
The crew members waited patiently, looking around with vigilant expressions, waiting for time to pass.
But waiting was the slowest way to waste time, so the crew simply took out the cans and started eating.
They devoured canned meat and pickled fruit with great appetite.
But Charles had no appetite. He took out his diary from time to time to check if there were any new entries.
Just when Charles took out the diary for the sixth time, Odrick next to him suddenly stood up and scratched his back hard with his hand.
"What's wrong?" Charles asked warily.
"Nothing, just feeling a little itchy." Odrick scratched it with his hand and sat down again.
Charles didn't dare to be careless. He walked straight to his side, unzipped his collar and looked inside.
But apart from Audric's fair skin, nothing else emerged from it.
"Captain, it's really okay, just a little itchy. It may be because I haven't taken a shower for a long time." The vampire replied.
After hearing what Charles said, Linda thought for a moment and then said, "Captain, I just noticed something was wrong and I have been hesitating whether to tell you."
"What?"
"The pickled apples tasted even better, and the fish in the fish tank was also very delicious. I don't know if this is considered abnormal."
After hearing Linda's words, others expressed the same feeling.
Charles thought about it, reached out and took out a can of tuna, and pulled open the pull ring directly with his hand. He had eaten this kind of can before, and the fishy smell was indeed much less.
"This shouldn't be considered abnormal, right? Maybe the canning factory has replaced their equipment with new ones, and the food they make is tastier." Dipper said while half squatting.
Charles picked up a piece of tuna with his fingers and placed it in front of him, examining it carefully.
The tuna has a spindle-shaped body, a long and thin tail, a metallic blue back and a bright white belly. This is an ordinary tuna.
Just when Charles was wondering if he was overreacting, his eyes actually moved when he saw the gutted tuna carcass in his hand!
Charles stood up suddenly and looked around vigilantly, "Is it a hallucination, or am I being influenced? Or am I crazy again?"
"Mr. Charles, what's wrong with you?" Lily asked worriedly.
Charles shook his head, his eyes kept looking at the crew members, and finally his gaze stopped on Odrick who was scratching his body from time to time.
He rushed over quickly, and his prosthetic limb instantly turned into a chainsaw and slashed at him.
"captain!!"
"Audric! Run!!"
The next second everyone was stunned. The rapidly spinning chainsaw chopped on Odrick, but his clothes were not torn at all.
"Is this dress of yours a relic?" Charles asked.
"No, just ordinary clothes, what's wrong?"
"Stop talking nonsense and take them off quickly! Everyone take them off!" Charles' tone suddenly became very serious.
After he said that, he started to take off his clothes.
Orderic seemed frightened by Charles, and he began to unbutton his coat and cloak.
Just as he unbuttoned his clothes and was about to take them off, he was stunned. "My clothes... seem to be stuck."
Charles, with his bare chest, rushed over without saying a word, grabbed the collar with both hands and pulled it back hard. With a "swish" sound, blood foam splattered and Odric let out a scream.
The flesh on his back was torn off along with his clothes.
Charles turned his head and looked at everyone, and said anxiously: "Don't stand there! Take off all your clothes! Quickly!!"
"Captain, what on earth happened?" Dipper asked while quickly taking off his clothes.
"What's wrong? Can't you see? Everything we have has become a relic! Including my diary! And Audric's clothes!!"
Before, Charles was still wondering why the people from the Foundation had to wear such thick space suits and what they were protecting themselves against. Now he understood.
(End of this chapter)