"Ten years..." Charles held the skull and looked towards the forest where there was no trace of human life.
Since human skulls appeared here, it was obvious that humans had been here. When he was still struggling for life and death in the sea, there were already humans living on the surface.
Did the Foundation come here so early? Or is this skull really a human living on the surface? The reason why the surface is so desolate may be that they have already flown into the sky.
Charles looked at the moss-covered skull in front of him, thinking about various questions, and more mysteries now emerged in his mind.
Seeing that there were no more clues, Charles suppressed the mystery in his heart.
"Let's go and continue exploring upwards." Charles looked up at the almost straight inclined double-sided forest. He bent down and threw the skull back onto the mossy ground.
"Captain, don't you need to take this thing with you?" Dipper asked, looking down at the skull.
"No, no matter what this thing is, it is only a clue at the moment. If you want to get a complete answer, a single clue is not enough."
"Besides, it's extremely unsafe to carry this thing around. God knows if this skull has turned into some kind of relic with powerful side effects."
Charles and the rest of the crew emerged from the dense forest.
The four exploration airships slowly moved away from the dense forest and explored the upper levels.
"Emma, what was your exploration journey like?" Charles wanted to know more details about them.
"In order to avoid being caught by some kind of danger, we usually divide into three airships to explore at the same time, two of which are responsible for exploration and one is responsible for recording."
"According to the plan, when the other two airships stop on the island to explore, the other airship must follow from a distance and record what they encounter through telescopes and cameras."
"Originally this should have been the safest method, but the airships that went up earlier were all shot down without any surprise."
"We estimate that thing has very strong flying ability, otherwise they would not have spared even a single airship. But there is one strange thing, there is no body among the crashed wreckage."
The one-armed woman continued to tell Charles the above details.
"How many airships did you send up when exploring the third island?" Charles asked.
"Three groups, a total of nine airships. This is very strange. When we explored the second island, we only paid a much lower price and easily took it."
This is not good news. So many airships have crashed, which means that there is great danger on the third island.
"That is to say, you have no clue about the so-called third island now, right?"
"Uh... no, everyone died, with one exception. I am the only one who survived." The one-armed woman showed a trace of sadness on her face, and repeatedly thought of her dead companions.
Charles looked at her in surprise, "Has your ship ever been there?"
The woman nodded. "I'm the carpenter on the reconnaissance airship. The captain has already led us to explore the island."
"Because I was injured before, the captain asked me to go back to my cabin to rest. The ship's doctor is changing the dressing on my wound."
"In order to avoid pain, the doctor gave me anesthesia and made me fall asleep. When I woke up, I found that there was a fire all around and the doctor was gone."
"When I rushed to the tilted deck with my parachute, I saw that the airbag had caught fire and turned into a huge fireball. Our ship was attacked."
Looks a bit like mind control, maybe get Anna to come over for a bit.
As if she knew what Charles would be thinking, Emma immediately reminded him. "Governor Charles, it's not mind control. The second batch of exploration ships brought several relics to prevent mind control, but they still disappeared."
Obviously no one is a fool. The explorers are keenly aware of this and have prepared countermeasures, but the methods they came up with did not work.
Charles glanced at the exploration airship outside and asked, "So what is their solution this time?"
"Captain Locke once explored an island. For some reason, the brains of him and his crew were left on that island. He was confident that he could handle this problem. As long as anyone did not go to the sunken island, they would not be able to affect their thinking and consciousness."
Following the woman's finger, Charles saw a captain wearing a tricorne captain's hat on an airship not far away.
Seeing Charles looking at him, Locke took off his hat, put it on his chest and saluted Charles.
Charles saw his shriveled back of the head. Where the skull and head should have been, there was nothing now, only a thin layer of scalp.
"Explorers really have all kinds of talents. Even someone like this is still alive." Charles retracted his gaze.
As time passed, everyone's heart slowly became hanging.
The one-armed woman stared at the woods nearby, as if trying to identify something.
When she saw a small patch of charred woods, she immediately issued a warning, "Captain! We have arrived at the territory of the invisible monster! Be careful!"
Charles said nothing, and turned his head slightly behind him. The two vampires who had been prepared beside him quickly turned into bats and continued to emit sound waves around the Narwhal. Invisibility is completely useless for bats that use sound waves to detect.
Soon, various countermeasures appeared on other exploration ships. Some of the ships were filled with purple mist, while others were covered with powder. These were all ways to deal with invisibility.
For them, the unknown is always the most terrifying, because there is no way to prepare for it. As long as they know the other party's background, as explorers, they have dozens of ways to deal with it.
"They are coming! Three of them! On the right side of the chimney!!" Upon hearing Odrick's reminder, all the crew members on the deck immediately took out their weapons and shot in that direction.
A few blood-red spots appeared out of nowhere in the air, but disappeared instantly the next second.
At this moment, Dipper's body instantly turned into mist, covering almost half of the deck. After being blessed by Piper's flesh and blood, his abilities were greatly enhanced.
There are clearly several transparent spider shadows in the blue mist, and they are constantly changing their shapes.
Charles simply took out the black thorn and swung it, instantly nailing the thing to the ground.
Before long, these invisible creatures were easily dealt with by Charles and others.
Charles pointed to the forest nearby. "Besides this so-called invisible monster, is there anything else in there?"
(End of this chapter)