As soon as Odrick finished speaking, he seemed to have thought of something and looked at Linda beside him nervously.
Linda, who was reading a book, turned her head and looked at him. "You are right, he is a madman who kills people without mercy. Hundreds of millions of people died because of him. No matter what you say, you can't wash away his sins."
Grace held the peeled apple in her hand and looked at them nervously, not knowing what they were talking about.
It was at this moment that the passengers in the carriage stood up and stuck their heads out of the windows to look.
Then white smoke began to gradually come out of Linda and Odrick's bodies. They quickly put on the protective clothing that had been prepared long ago.
"Dear passengers, the train has arrived at Hope Island Station. Please take your luggage and line up to exit the station. Thank you for riding."
Walking out of the station under the black tower that pierced the dome, West took off the bandages on his body and walked towards his home. His steps became faster and faster until he almost ran.
But when he rushed to his home in the Governor's Palace, he found that the high-end villa had been divided into many small compartments where other people lived, and his family was not there.
With the help of the administrative staff, he soon found his family's residence. It was a small single room, and when he opened the door, he found his family of three having dinner.
Facing her son who suddenly returned home, Elena seemed extremely excited. She didn't even have time to chew the bread in her mouth. She rushed up with puffed cheeks and red eyes, stretched out her hands and touched him excitedly, fearing that there was something missing from his body.
"Brother, why are you back? Have you found the darkness?" Mark, who had grown into a teenager, came up to him excitedly.
West shook his head and gave a forced smile, "Almost there. Almost there."
"Don't stand at the door, come in and sit down." Elena excitedly pulled her son, whom she hadn't seen for more than a year, and kept asking about his well-being.
The family members who hadn't seen each other for a long time seemed particularly warm and West felt warm in his heart. He liked this feeling.
West told them about the various things on the surface of the earth. Of course, he only talked about the good things, and all the dangerous places were mentioned directly.
Hearing about the various strange anomalies on the surface, West's younger brothers and sisters couldn't help but ask for more details out of curiosity.
As they were talking, West noticed that they had not finished their dinner.
The dinner looked very simple, a few slices of bread per person with fried fish fillets, some ugly looking fruits, and finally a bowl of oyster soup with a few oysters. This kind of food was only slightly better than what we had at the port area of Hefang Island.
"What... happened?" West showed a rare trace of anger on his face.
"Brother, this kind of food is already very good. After all, all kinds of materials from the Earthsea have to be transported to the surface. This is the treatment only for the families of surface members. Others eat worse." Mark explained on the side.
West looked at the food in front of him in silence. In the taverns and restaurants on the surface filled with all kinds of delicious food, anyone could order as much as they wanted, and there was no sign of shortage of food.
But the materials on the earth's surface did not appear for no reason. Everything on the surface must be paid for from below.
West listened quietly to his mother's words. He didn't know who Hannah was that his mother was talking about, but he felt good just hearing her speak.
Everything in the past doesn't matter anymore. No matter what he has experienced over the years, he just wants to protect his family. They are all he has now.
The next morning, Alia wanted to leave Dipper's arms, but Dipper used his hands to exert some strength, closed his eyes and kept kissing the skin in an unknown place.
"I have to go to work. The Hope Island Bureau is very busy right now. James is gone, and now everything is on me." Alia said helplessly with a blush on her face.
"Your husband has finally come back, can't he take a day off to spend time with me? I haven't seen you for a long, long time. Whenever I'm up there, I think of you in my dreams." Dipp was very reluctant to let go.
"It really can't be done. At least so many people were killed on other islands, but not a single person died on Hope Island. Now there are too many people and too little space on the island, and coupled with this atmosphere, there are many more violent crimes."
After saying this, Alia felt Dipper's hand loosen and quickly pulled out of his arms.
She picked up the torn clothes on the ground and looked at them, then shook her head helplessly, opened the closet next to her and put on new clothes. "Why would your captain let you come back if he didn't find the darkness? He's not that kind of person."
Dipper dozed off on the boat for a while and then said slowly, "I didn't ask too much. He came down this time probably to talk about something about the captain's wife. That Anna."
Hearing this, Alia stopped putting on her clothes and said, "The informant on the island secretly reported special intelligence. I actually know some things, but in this situation, some things must be sacrificed."
Dipper opened his eyes and looked at her, "What do you know?"
"It seems that people on the island have been disappearing regularly, but the police station has not received any reports. Plus, she is the governor. I didn't ask anyone to investigate further."
"Yeah." Dipper put his hands behind his head and said calmly, "I only listen to the captain. If he pretends it doesn't exist, I will pretend it doesn't exist either. If he wants to kill that monster, I will be the first to do it."
"Captain, Captain, Captain again! Can you please consider our own family first? Is he your wife or am I your wife?" Alia grabbed the teacup next to her and threw it at him.
She picked up her high leather boots and sat down on a stool and began to put them on. "Dipper, let me tell you, I adopted a child."
"Child?" Dipper sat up from the boat. Although he was already in his twenties, he was not ready to be a father.
"Well, a boy. Three months ago, a patrol ship encountered a ship that seemed to be fleeing from another completely sunken island. Almost all the people inside died. He survived by eating human flesh."
"Poor him, just adopt him. Where is he now? Show me what he looks like." Dipper said as he sat up and started to get dressed.
"They are sent to school accommodation. To make it easier for parents to work, the school now allows students to live there."
126-1=125
(End of this chapter)