Charles and Linda stared blankly at the bruised girl on the bed. They never expected that the other would say such words.
But after looking at the girl's scarred body, Charles shook his head. "No, you can retire now. You have fulfilled your obligations."
Grace struggled to stand up, and as Charles' heart moved slightly, transparent tentacles pressed against her back and lifted her up.
"If I go down, who will take over my position?"
"Don't worry about it, and I need to take care of some things next." Charles said calmly.
Whether it is the Pope or Anna, the matter must be dealt with thoroughly.
Grace shook her head stubbornly, "No, he'll die!"
Linda suddenly became anxious, fearing that Charles would agree, and stepped forward and said, "What about you? Aren't you going to die?"
"But!"
Charles waved his hands vigorously and said sternly: "Alright! No buts! You are useless now! Get off!"
After saying this, he turned around and walked out of the medical room without waiting for the other party to refute. Linda looked at his back in surprise.
After so many years of getting along, she could be said to know her captain very well, and he definitely didn't retire Grace just because she was useless.
At this moment, Swan cursed in a low voice from the bed next to him, "Selfish lunatic! Self-righteous fool! Extreme egomaniac! Even if you dig out your brain and give it to a dog, the dog won't eat it!"
Charles heard Swan cursing, but he ignored him no matter who he was cursing. He went straight to the cockpit, picked up the map he had drawn and looked at it carefully.
His finger moved down three spaces from the spot where the Pope was attacked, and he saw the large purple danger zone. He thought to himself, "If the Pope and Lily fell from the ship, then they are likely to have entered this large area. Judging from Grace's condition, the Pope must have been badly injured as well. Are they okay?"
Lily's smiling face flashed before his eyes, and his brows narrowed slightly. This was the second time this girl left him.
The thought of Lily being in the hands of the Pope made him anxious.
But he immediately suppressed his emotions. It was useless to think about these things now. Thinking about these things would not save Lily.
"Click, click!" A series of sporadic mechanical friction sounds and the sound of gears turning came from far away.
Two copper tubes connected to three bloody fingers pushed open the door of the cockpit. Swan walked in tremblingly with his waist hunched and his ragged body curled up. Now he looked like a hunchbacked deformed dwarf.
"What are your plans next? The Pope is not dead."
"He will definitely go to Earthsea. We just need to wait on the island below the door. I have some things to take care of down there."
Swan smiled disdainfully, "Are you afraid? Are you afraid that he will attack you while you are exploring?"
Charles looked down at Swan's deformed body, "The Pope is not dead. What are you going to do? Join me to deal with the Pope?"
"Huh~! Before this incident, do you think it's possible? If your woman had come here and worked together, this situation wouldn't have happened!! This situation is all your fault!!"
"I don't trust you now, and I don't trust your woman either. Water flows, boats sail, but I only rely on myself." Swan's chapped face revealed murderous hatred.
Swan sneered and shook his head. “No, no, no, although he has become younger, he is obviously weaker than before. A chosen one without God is like a captain without a ship. As long as I find Longka and find a suitable opportunity, he will be dead!”
Recalling the time when Swan attacked Guangming Island, Charles wondered whether he should take this opportunity to kill the still very weak Swan, otherwise once the Pope died, his next target would definitely be himself.
He glanced at Swan next to him again. As Charles' heart moved, the transparent tentacles instantly wrapped him tightly. "Sorry, you can't leave for the time being. There are some things that still need you."
Swann's pupils shrank slightly, and he looked at Charles in surprise, "What did you say...?"
"I said you can't leave yet. I need your help. And if nothing unexpected happens, if you really get rid of the Pope, you will come to kill me next."
"It's unreasonable!" Swan turned around angrily and prepared to leave.
However, the next second, transparent tentacles quickly stretched out from the ground and instantly wrapped Swan's broken body tightly.
"You—" Swann didn't finish his sentence before three tentacles blocked his mouth in an instant.
When the Narwhal returned to the base along the return route, Charles immediately reported the situation to the Pope via telegram, ordered everyone on the surface to be under martial law, and posted a wanted poster immediately.
Without staying in the base below the darkness for too long, Charles and the other crew members boarded the train back to the Giant Pit Fortress that afternoon.
In the chaos, Charles stood up. He looked blankly at the blood-red fog around him. Then he walked forward silently, as if looking for something.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Charles suddenly felt a huge shadow flash past from the depths of the fog. He became anxious and quickly ran towards that direction with both feet.
But he ran for a long time, all the way to the bottom of a mountain, but still couldn't find it.
However, just as he was about to rest his head by holding onto the mountain with his hands, a huge scarlet eye the size of a football field suddenly opened up on the mountain! !
"high"
Charles looked up at the huge eyeball that was staring at him, and slowly took a few steps back with shock on his face.
With a violent tremor, the mountain began to twist. It was not a mountain but a giant tentacle that reached up to the sky!
The red mist slowly dispersed, and Charles saw what was on the tentacles. Organs that grew exponentially and complex limb structures were spliced into a huge head of Anna! !
It was like a giant hand from the sky stretched out from the side, grabbing a mass of flesh and blood formed by twisting tentacles and liquid fluorescent cross pupils. It was his daughter Shanshan! !
Anna slowly opened her mouth that could almost swallow the world, and then threw Shan Shan into her mouth and chewed it. "Gao Zhiming~ Look! I've become a god!! As long as I become a god! All problems are not problems!!"
"No! Don't!" Charles, covered in cold sweat, suddenly opened his eyes, only to find that the other crew members in the carriage were looking at him in surprise.
"Clang, clang, clang" the train was speeding across the Gobi Desert. The purple light shone from the window onto everyone's faces, giving a hazy feeling of dusk.
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(End of this chapter)