"Thank you." Looking at the gift his daughter bought for him on the bracelet, Charles felt warm in his heart. This kind of warm feeling in his heart was the first time for him.
Shanshan smiled slightly, "Dad, actually Mom has been waiting for your gift, but she has been waiting for you to mention it first."
"What?" Charles looked at her in surprise.
"You wouldn't have forgotten, would you? The wedding ring! You promised her with your own mouth, wouldn't you have forgotten?" Shanshan's face was full of surprise.
"No, of course I didn't forget. How could I forget such an important thing?" Charles turned his head to look at the crystal clear heart beside him.
Shanshan was helpless. She knew without guessing that he must have forgotten.
"Actually, I know that there are some hidden conflicts between you and mom that have not been resolved. In fact, mom doesn't need anything. She just wants your attitude."
Charles looked down at the watch on his wrist, thought for a few seconds, raised his hand and rubbed his head. "Don't think too much, your mother and I are very good, there is no conflict."
There was a trace of worry on Shanshan's face. Although what Charles said was too fake, she did not expose it.
She grabbed Charles' mechanical fingers with both hands and shook them gently, and said with a worried tone: "Dad, I know you are not good at expressing yourself, but if you don't say something, others won't know it. Many small conflicts can be solved as long as they are talked out."
Obviously, Shanshan was taking this opportunity to resolve the grudge between Charles and Anna, which was difficult for outsiders to detect. He knew everything that Anna did behind Charles' back, but he just didn't say it.
As she gets older, Shanshan not only considers herself, she also considers her family.
She not only explained some things to Charles, but also discussed them with her mother. Her father once implicitly suggested that her mother should be more restrained, but as far as Shanshan knew, her mother did not restrain herself at all.
Charles nodded and patted Shanshan on the shoulder. "Don't worry, I will take care of it. I like your gift very much."
Seeing that there was a crack, Shanshan breathed a sigh of relief, "Well, I'm glad you like it. The heart problem has been solved. I should be fine tonight, right? Why don't we call mom back and have dinner together?"
"Okay, you have the final say."
Shanshan nodded, and with a flash of white light, she instantly disappeared in front of Charles.
Raising his hand and looking at the watch again, Charles recalled what Shanshan had said. He smiled lightly and walked out briskly.
As soon as he came out of the office, Charles saw his butler standing there waiting with Lily's black cat in his arms.
"Governor, I am too old. I don't have the physical strength and energy to manage the entire Governor's Mansion." Butler Charlie, with a haggard face, said solemnly.
People outside always say that the Governor of Hope Island is moody, paranoid and crazy, but as someone who works silently in the Governor's Mansion, Charlie doesn't think so. The Governor is not cruel to the servants and maids in the Governor's Mansion.
If one had to use one word to describe his attitude, it would be "ignore". The Governor was too busy. He was always thinking about things that were far more important than these trivial matters and had no time to pay attention to them. Rather than saying that they were serving the respected Governor, it would be better to say that most of their time was spent serving this Governor's Mansion with 72 rooms.
Working in a place like this is actually very easy, otherwise Charlie would feel that his body couldn't take it anymore and he wouldn't want to retire.
Charles looked at the old man in front of him with some surprise, "Is there anyone taking over your job?"
"Well, yes. Butler Mark will take office tomorrow."
Charles glanced at the black cat in his arms, nodded, and walked towards the door.
"Where are you going, Governor? The driver is waiting in the garage." Charlie had some difficulty keeping up with Charles's fast pace.
"No need to follow me, I'm just walking around."
Of course, Charles was not just walking around casually. This time he went to find his first mate's bandages. He wanted to see how the other's injured body was.
Soon at the Savito Hospital on Hope Island, Charles saw bandages in the intensive care unit. Lying on the bed, he looked no different than before, except that the bandages on his body were newer.
A half-grown boy was sitting next to him, peeling an apple with a knife. That was Bandage's younger brother.
"No, I've recovered a long time ago. It's my mother who forced me to stay here." Bandage's words were full of helplessness.
"Captain, do you want to talk to me about something?"
Hearing the other party's question, Charles nodded, took out his diary, opened it, and prepared to start recording.
"I heard from Linda that you saw what 004 looked like? And she also said that part of the memory you recovered about Him? She said that you had seen that thing before?"
Hearing this, Bandage nodded silently, and he slowly told Charles what he knew.
When everything was over, Charles looked at everything he had just recorded in his diary with a frown.
Project Number: 004
Project Name: (Undecided)
Object Hazard Level: Divine
Item Description: A strange snake with its head and tail intersecting. The scales on its body are very brightly colored and change over time. According to the bandages and the crew's experiences, it has the ability to distort time and pass through walls within a radius of 50 kilometers.
Its strength is currently unknown, but judging by what happened to the Foundation, it is far more powerful than the average god.
Moreover, I also learned from Bandage that 004 has the tendency to devour other gods. For now, I cannot analyze whether this is an ability of his or a common habit among other gods.
"Captain, what are you recording?" Bandage looked curiously at the incomprehensible boxes of text in the diary.
"Nothing, just recording some unimportant things." Charles put the diary away and put it back into his arms.
Charles did not explain to Bandage why he wanted to record the information from God, but changed the subject directly.
"Do you remember to keep the notebook I gave you? It's not easy to recall a memory, remember to remember it quickly, otherwise it will be troublesome if you forget it."
"Remember, I used to be the high priest of the giant bird of suffering." Bandage knocked on the drawer of the bedside table next to him.
"Ha, your experience is really amazing. You can be seen all over the earth and sea." Charles said jokingly. He had long been accustomed to the origin of the bandage. Even if this kid recalled one day that he had traveled through the surface of the earth before, he would not be surprised at all.
After sitting next to the bed and talking with the bandage for a while, Charles pulled his quilt and walked towards the door. "Have a good rest. I'm leaving. Come to the Governor's Mansion to have a drink with me when you have time."
Watching Charles walking away, Bandage's eyes were filled with thought. He seemed to have some questions in his mind, but he didn't ask them.
"Brother, the Governor has seen you lying in bed, he probably won't let you work anymore, right?"
Bandage took the apple and nodded, "I guess he won't let me go again. He must be planning to keep us safe on the island and not take any more risks."
"Really?" The young man perked up.
"Probably. I've followed him for a long time and I thought I knew him very well. But now I don't know what he is going to do." There was a trace of confusion in the eyes of the bandaged man.
He could understand that Charles had hidden some things from him, but there was one thing he couldn't figure out now.
No matter how crazy Charles's goal was, he always had a clear goal. But this time it was different. He felt the other party's hesitation. The goal always changed.
"Isn't it better not to take risks? When you and the Governor were fighting on the surface, my mother and I were always worried, fearing that the person knocking on the door that day was the postman delivering the black letter. Now that life is better now, let's live a good life on the island."
Bandage nodded silently, opened his mouth and took a bite of the peeled apple in his hand.
After chewing it gently for a few times, he turned his head to look at his brother. "It's so sweet."
(End of this chapter)