In the Governor's Palace on Hope Island, a half-dead spider was lying in a square magic circle. Anna was holding Charles' flesh and blood and a small piece of his soul in her hands, thinking deeply.
"Hurry up, what are you looking at?" Charles urged from the side.
Anna put the thing in her hand into her mouth and took a sip before spitting it out at the spider. "I find your soul is very strange now. It doesn't look delicious at all."
"Do you remember the castle from other angles of the sea otter? You ate a lot of people in there, and your soul became very fragrant. Your soul has changed since you came back from the Foundation. I think this must be related to what N8 disappeared from your body."
Charles looked at her with a headache. Although Anna no longer eats people, some of her ideas have not changed. "Hurry up, Julio is urging us."
As Anna raised her slender fingers lightly, the spiders in the magic circle floated in the air. "I'll take care of this matter. I don't believe that I can let others take over this area."
After a few brief seconds, Charles's vision was split, with one eye on his body and the other on the spider's back.
The black and red spider quickly crawled to the table, kicked its eight legs quickly, and jumped directly onto Charles' body. It crawled along his clothes to Charles' face, then slowly retracted its eight legs and drilled into his shriveled eyelids.
Charles blinked and adjusted to the huge change in vision for a while, then turned and walked out the door. "Okay, you can do whatever you want. If it's not a big deal, just ignore it."
When he arrived at his office, the others were getting a little impatient waiting.
"Governor Charles, I didn't expect that in addition to being paranoid, self-righteous, and extremely selfish, you now have another shortcoming of being unpunctual." Archbishop Ocot of Fortan said sarcastically.
Charles simply pretended he didn't exist and told everyone else the new information he had obtained. When the map was placed in front of everyone, they began to observe it carefully.
"I don't think it's necessary for everyone to discuss this little matter. Since the convert is now in the Land of God's Descent, we, the Futan Cult, will handle the rest."
After Ottoko, who was formed by fine sand, took a deep look at the huge sea chart, he dispersed directly.
Looking at the sand flying everywhere, Charles thought to himself, "This is the first card played. I hope these lunatics can be of some use."
I don't ask them to be of much use, but at least we can give the Foundation a certain counterattack and make them quiet down.
Although the people of Futan are all crazy, at most their way of thinking is different from that of ordinary people, and their thinking ability has not changed at all.
"Be careful, the foundation has also attacked me." Julio said with a frown.
"Old buddy, what happened? Why didn't I hear you mention it?" asked Jax, president of the Explorers Association.
"My most beloved son tried to persuade me to surrender. Although there is no evidence to prove that it was the Foundation who did it, I know that they have something to do with it!" Julio's voice was filled with suppressed anger.
Jax asked with a hint of surprise, "Could it be Frye?"
"Yeah, it was that traitor. I killed him and threw him into the sea." Julio spoke of killing his own sons as easily as crushing a stink bug.
This is not good news. It means that the Foundation has begun to take action. They are no longer attacking openly, but are changing their methods.
This covert method, even if Charles knew it was done by them, it would not be easy for him to use the god Futan to threaten them. It is like the matter of two countries sending spies to each other, and they usually would not use nuclear bombs directly to wipe out the problem.
"Governor Charles, please say whatever you want."
Charles coughed lightly and said, "I want to abolish the governor system."
Although Charles' words were light and airy, they were like a violent storm in the minds of others.
"Tell me again what you are going to do?!" Jax, the president of the Exploration Society, was extremely shocked.
"Abolish the governor system." Charles repeated again, "In the past, it was because of transportation and traffic that the humans in Earthsea were divided into small islands, but now it's different. We have the rock subway."
"With that thing, islands can be connected to each other and they can be pieced together to form larger territories."
"Just like the three islands that belong to you now?"
Seeing Elizabeth's extravagance before, Charles was thinking about this matter in his mind. The power of the humans in Earthsea was too dispersed, and not every governor was suitable for management. In the hands of those people, those islands became their private playgrounds.
This is no longer a annexation between governors, but a thorough reform at the political level.
"Governor Charles, do you know what the consequences will be if you do this? It's equivalent to offending all the governors!!" Jenny said with a very ugly expression.
The joy of being a governor is something that ordinary people can never imagine, and no one wants to take it away.
"I know, that's why I'm saying that most of the new governors have unstable foundations. Now is the best opportunity to take action. As long as we join forces, there is no place in Earthsea that we can't take."
Rather than telling them about the foundation's crisis and expecting them to help voluntarily, it would be better to just occupy it together.
Charles's words almost determined the life and death of many people. If you take the interests of others, others will certainly resist.
Everyone was silent and thinking, and finally Julio spoke again: "This involves too many things, I need to think it through carefully."
Jax continued, "And if the governor system is abolished, how will the exploration of new islands be solved in the future? Without a governor, there will be no explorers, and without the temptation of high profits, no one will be willing to die."
Charles knew their attitude from what they said.
"I'm just making a suggestion. Let's discuss it among ourselves. If we really want to do it, we have to discuss it carefully. How to fight against the Foundation is something we'll have to do for a long time. Let's work hard together."
Jenny asked hesitantly, "Should we discuss this matter with Church Futan?"
Charles shook his head. "That's not necessary. All the islands in the East China Sea are probably controlled by the Futan Cult. They have already accomplished what I wanted to do. If we really get rid of the Foundation, they will be our next target."
(End of this chapter)