"So what wish do you plan to make?" Shanshan looked at her father again.
"If you don't help mom become a god, she'll probably get really mad."
Charles walked over and gently touched the back of her head with his hand. "Don't worry about it. Dad will take care of everything."
"Really?" Shanshan looked at him with suspicion in her eyes, "Mom said you are very unreliable, and I think so too."
Charles looked at his daughter speechlessly. Aren't daughters usually close to their fathers? Why is his child different from others? "Don't listen to your mother. Stay with me more in the future."
Shanshan looked down at the dirt on the ground and muttered, "What were you doing earlier? Your rebellious period is over. Is it any use trying to show your fatherly love now?"
At this moment, there was a noise in the Foundation building in the distance. Norden controlled the green centipede's body to crawl out of the moss-covered glass door. There were some scratches on his body, and he was carrying two floor tiles with his four hands.
"What's wrong? Is there danger inside?" Charles asked.
Norden picked up the notebook and pen behind him and started writing quickly. "It's okay, Captain. It's not a big problem. The things detained by the Foundation have caused some minor troubles. Look, are these your eyes?"
Charles quickly took the floor and examined it carefully. There were two round spots on both tiles. Judging from the long trail of blood behind them, they were his eyeballs.
Probably due to drying and decay, the dug out eyeballs now look like two shriveled gray water stains.
"Sclera, lens, vitreous body, yes, this is my eye, flash, let's go!" With a flash of white light, the three of them disappeared on the island.
Back on Hope Island, the shriveled eyeball on the floor was quickly separated out with a cicada-thin scalpel and soaked in a pale yellow preservative solution by Linda.
Charles took out his diary and made a line on the word "eyeball" with satisfaction. This time the search was much easier than he had imagined.
Sure enough, any dangerous thing is not a difficult thing as long as you are familiar with its rules.
"Linda, how's the heart problem? Is there any progress?" Charles looked up at the ship's doctor who was putting labels on specimen jars.
"How long has it been? Please give me some time." Linda said, holding the jar and placing it on the cabinet next to her, next to Charles' stomach.
Charles ran his pen lightly over the remaining organ words, trying to choose the next target, but the remaining two were difficult to choose.
The broken arm must wait for the humans of Earthsea to find the god, but the skull buried in SITE6 is not yet in the right place. It seems that it will take some time to wait, but Charles does not want to wait now.
A slender white hand blocked Charles. It was a shining hand. "Didn't you promise me before?"
Charles raised his head and looked at his daughter, then he closed the diary and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
A rare happy smile appeared on Shanshan's face. She stretched out her hands, grabbed Charles' right hand, and dragged him towards the door.
After they left, only Linda and Norden were left in the office. After the ship's doctor straightened the crooked specimen bottle, he sank toward the floor, ready to leave.
But Nord's green arm reached out and grabbed him, and a string of words he quickly wrote appeared in front of Linda.
"Ship doctor, I need psychological treatment. I feel that something is changing inside me. I am gradually no longer seeing them as the same kind."
Linda looked at the eyeless green face with a complicated expression. "I had expected this day to come. Come on, I'll give it a try."
At this time, Shanshan and Charles were no longer on Hope Island. They were walking on an unfamiliar street.
There was something strange about this island, the roofs of all the buildings were pointed. The rows of houses were crowded together and looked like the back of a hedgehog, and the white beams of light from the lighthouse frequently swept across the roofs.
Most of the pedestrians on the road, regardless of gender, were wearing long cloth robes, holding oil lamps, and they spoke in deliberately low voices with their necks lowered.
"Where is this? It shouldn't be the North Sea, right?" Charles asked his daughter in front of him.
Shanshan in front of him turned around with his hands behind his back, and said as he walked backwards: "How can you be sure that this is not the North Sea?"
"Don't forget, I was a cargo ship driver before I became an explorer. I've known all the islands in the North Sea, and none of them are like this."
When Charles said this, he felt that he was being targeted by others, but it didn't matter. Now he had the right to pretend that those things didn't exist.
"You guessed it right! This is an island in the West Sea. How come you have never been here before?" Shanshan jumped over and lay on Charles' back, letting him carry her.
"I was wondering why I didn't see many mechanical products here. So this is the place for those magicians. What are you doing here?"
"I really like to travel alone to islands I've never been to, meet people I've never met, and eat food I've never eaten before."
Shanshan hugged Charles' neck from behind, her head tilted upward to look at the beam of light from the lighthouse, swaying with Charles' steps.
"I never thought my good daughter had this hobby. I didn't even know about it before."
When Shanshan heard this, he raised his hand and hit Charles' body lightly, "That's right. After all, you are such a responsible father. There is no other father in the world who can be as responsible as you."
Hearing the sarcasm in his daughter's words, Charles laughed, "You are just like your mother when you speak sarcastically."
As he finished speaking, the smile on Charles' face slowly faded, "Let's go to a remote place first and get rid of the tails behind us. There are more and more of them."
Charles quickened his pace and walked towards the dock area, smelling the fishy smell of the sea.
Seeing that their target was moving quickly, the followers behind him stopped disguising themselves and walked on the street wearing black cloaks, following Charles from behind.
This island called Lighthouse Island is not very big. Charles arrived at the dock area very quickly. What came into view was not only the muddy dock that smelled of urine and fish, but also the lighthouses on the sea in the distance.
Every island has a lighthouse, but here there are too many lighthouses, completely beyond their practical value. Perhaps this is the origin of the island's name.
Charles turned his gaze away from the lighthouse in the distance and walked into a dark alley with Shanshan. After a while, the road was blocked by a group of people.
"Do you think my daughter is too beautiful? You want to kidnap her? You dare to do it on the street. The security on this island is not very good." Charles looked at them calmly and said.
The hoods of the crowd were taken off one by one, revealing green heads. They looked like human heads, but their faces were covered with green scales and their eyes were amber snake pupils.
Tail after tail of thorns protruded from under the cloak. Whatever they were, they were definitely not human.
(End of this chapter)