Grace was slightly stunned. She didn't expect the captain to ask such a question.
She thought for a while and then said, "I hope the current life can continue forever. I like this kind of life. Everyone is happy. There are no more wars on the sea. Finally, no one dies."
Charles reached out and stroked her bumpy face, "I thought you wanted to heal your wounds again. To be honest, I let you be a bomb before, do you hate me?"
Grace shook her head and denied it. "No, if my injury can help others, I won't regret it at all! And..."
Grace paused as she spoke, a hint of bitterness showing in her smile, "When I was in the Western Seas, no boy liked me anyway, so it didn't matter if I was ugly."
Charles looked at the young girl in front of him, she was still so self-deprecating. "Don't be so unconfident, you are now a member of the Narwhal, you can pick any man on the island, as long as you choose one, everyone will help you get it."
Hearing this, Grace's face suddenly turned red and she seemed very shy. After all, she was still a girl.
"Captain, I have something else to do. I'll leave first." She turned around and ran away in panic.
"Wait, you and Lily are good friends, do you know where she is now? Why didn't I see her after walking around the island?"
Grace, holding the book, turned around and pointed to the square hole in the ceiling above for lighting. Warm sunlight shone in from inside.
"Lily was up there recently, and she said she met a new friend up there."
The New Territories City above Hope Island is still as hot and dry as ever. The ruins of the former Hope Island are being cleared and new buildings are gradually being built.
Some of the buildings were already in use, and the men in black rubber saluted Charles.
The altar that the Church of Light once used for sacrifices was still there, and Charles found Lily giggling on it.
"Mr. Charles! You're here!" Lily flew over and stood on Charles' shoulder, rubbing his cheeks affectionately.
Charles looked up at Dawn 1 above his head and said, "Is this your new friend?"
"Hmm! It talks so interestingly! We are very good friends now."
The huge dazzling ring above his head began to speak. "Mortal! What do you want from the great God of Light?"
Charles grabbed Lily and left, "Don't get in touch with this kind of thing too much, or you might learn bad things."
"Mr. Charles, do you have something to talk to me about? Are you worried about me because I haven't been home for a long time?" Lily asked with a smile, lying in Charles' palm.
Putting the glowing mouse in his hand in front of him, Charles looked at her and asked, "Do you want to change back to human form?"
As a former human being, it's no wonder that Lily has always wanted to become human again one day.
Lily's ears stood up instantly, and her pea-sized eyes were full of excitement, but she quickly restrained this emotion.
"I do want to, but if Mr. Charles is put in danger again because I become a human, then forget it. Besides, I'm used to being a mouse now."
Charles' heart was slightly touched. He gently stroked Lily's soft hair with his hand, "Let's go, let's go down."
"Mr. Charles, I asked the exploration ship that was looking for our parents to call them back. What Shanshan said is right. Maybe I shouldn't be so selfish. I love my parents, so I should give everything for them. Instead of letting them give everything for me."
"Since it's better for everyone if I don't show up, I won't go back."
After saying this, Lily raised her head and looked at Charles in front of her with a hint of bitterness in her eyes.
"Mr. Charles, can I stay with you forever after I can't go back? Just like now, you must need a pet."
As they were talking, they had returned to the huge pit connecting to the Earth Sea. Looking down from above, they could see that Hope Island looked like a toy.
"Let's go home." Charles said, and then he lightly kicked the ground with his feet, jumped up with Lily in his arms, and jumped towards the Island of Hope.
That night, Charles, who was lying on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes. He looked at Anna, who was sleeping with her arms around him, and then he took her arms off and walked out.
As soon as he left, Anna opened her eyes.
Charles' destination was the roof of Hope Island, which had become a grassland because no one had cleaned it.
He bent down and began to draw some kind of concentric circle, the kind Swann had used to summon the revelers in the Isle of England.
Charles walked in, and the magic circle began to light up. "Tell your master that I have thought of it."
The next second, a voice sounded from Charles' mind. "Well, it seems you have figured it out."
He turned around and looked at 005 who appeared behind him.
"I told you before that these two wishes come with a small condition. Did you remember?"
Seeing Charles nod, 005 held the cat in his arms and walked slowly around him.
"In addition to this, I also need to talk about the restrictions of wishes. First of all, you cannot choose two identical wishes, and you cannot wish for me that is beyond my ability."
"If you want me to make you stronger than the god Futan, then I can only merge you with Futan."
"What's the small condition you mentioned?" Charles first asked about the thing he cared about most. Although it was a small condition, it couldn't be small no matter how you looked at it.
"Simple, I need you to find back everything that was lost."
005 raised his right hand and pointed first at Charles' broken arm, then at his one eye, and then at his head.
"Whatever you lost in Earthsea, you must find it all back. No matter if it rots, dries up, or turns into something else, I need it all."
Charles never expected the other party to make such a request. "Why?"
"No reason, I just want it. As long as you complete this small condition, whether you want to return to the surface or re-establish a new foundation, I can satisfy you."
Charles was silent. Standing in the sun, he began to think, thinking about the wishes that everyone had wanted before.
Half an hour later, he folded his thumb and pinky finger into his palm and raised the other three fingers to 005, "Three wishes. I will exchange everything I have ever discarded for three wishes."
"Ho~!" The black cat in 005's arms stood up instantly, raised the hair on its back and made a threatening sound towards Charles, as if fighting back against Charles' disrespect to his master.
Although it might seem funny to see a cat intimidating a person, Charles knew that it was all an illusion and the real reveler was definitely not a cat.
The arm wrapped in black bandages gently stroked the bristling hair on the reveler's back. "It's really interesting that you bargained with me."
(End of this chapter)