Hearing his first mate's question, Charles laughed out loud, which was rare.
"Hahaha, what do you mean by not living past 40? That old ship's doctor lied to me. If I really couldn't live past that age, he would have urged me to hurry up with his hot temper."
"Really?" Bandage looked a little unconvinced.
Charles seemed to have thought of something, and the smile on his face gradually faded. He said with some emotion: "Yes, do you still remember the half-spoken secret of the old ship's doctor before he died?"
"I had Linda check my body a few days ago and it occurred to me that the secret he said he would blame me for was probably the forty-year-old curse, which doesn't exist at all. He was just trying to scare me."
"He's almost 100 years old now, but he kept this secret until the end as a joke. It's true that people get younger as they get older."
Bandage recalled the scene at that time, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised, revealing a stiff smile: "Haha. Really. Interesting."
Charles turned his head and looked in the direction of the old ship doctor's grave. "As a great doctor, he must have calculated the time of his own death long ago, but he didn't tell me in advance and kept it to himself until the last minute."
"He had calculated it and was trying to play a joke on me about his own death. I don't know if he didn't finish the last half of the sentence on purpose or if it was just an accident. No matter which one it is, it's really interesting. If I'm going to die someday, I'm going to do something like this, haha, to make that person anxious to death."
Just as Charles said this, he found that his first mate was staring at him. "What's wrong?"
"I find you look like someone now."
"who?"
"Your former. Lost. Personality Richard."
The smile on Charles' face gradually faded. He looked at the sea in the distance and nodded gently. "In fact, he is just me, an extremely cheerful me. Let me tell you a secret. In fact, when I was on the surface, my personality was exactly the same as Richard's."
Talking about the deceased, the atmosphere around us became a little sad.
"Forget it, let's not talk about the past. The people are all here, but I don't see the boat."
Just as Bandage was about to answer, a huge and strange island appeared in front of the dock. It was an artificial island made up of various abandoned ships. It was the former pirate island of Sodom.
"Hope Island has no warships, so I discussed with the Governor of Hefang Island and recruited her Sodom."
Looking at the rows of gun barrels, Charles nodded and said, "Okay, this thing is big. Let the people on the dock gather and prepare to board the ship. Oh, and the bandages. This time things are simple, so you don't have to come with us."
Bandage turned his head and looked at his captain. He said nothing, nodded silently, and turned to walk towards the second street behind that led directly to the center of the island.
For some reason, Charles felt that the gradually receding figure was a little desolate.
"Dad, what are you looking at?" Shanshan, who had just teleported Sodom, walked over to Charles and asked.
Charles shook his head. "Nothing. Let's get on the boat."
The two came to the original residence of 134. The pirates who controlled the operation of Sodom stood in a row, bowed their heads deeply to Charles with fear in their eyes.
When Charles came to the island to steal the chart of Hope Island, the pirates probably shot and threw bombs at Charles. But the current situation is reversed.
When Sodom was completely filled, with a flash of white light, the huge artificial island instantly disappeared at the Hope Island Pier.
Compared to the sun-heated air on Hope Island, the air here seemed too cold, so much so that white steam was coming out of the air next to Charles as he spoke. "The temperature is a little off, all the searchlights in Sodom are on!"
"Pah, pah, pah~!" More than a dozen huge beams of light pierced through the surrounding darkness, and a huge snow-covered iceberg appeared in front of him.
Charles looked at the new thing in front of him in shock. He had never seen this thing when he was in the foundation's territory.
He took out the nautical chart and looked at it quickly for a while, then turned to look at his daughter next to him, "Shanshan, are you sure this is the SITE6 I told you about?"
"Yeah, that's right. As for why it became like this, I'm not sure. Maybe something leaked in the Foundation."
When Charles ordered Sodom to slowly circle around the huge iceberg, he saw the body of the god suspended in mid-air. This is SITE6, yes.
Just as the people on top of Sodom covered their heads with their hands and looked in pain, Charles quickly asked them to retreat.
Charles looked at the huge iceberg in front of him, frowning as he thought about countermeasures. No matter where the ice came from, he had to clean it up first.
With a "splash", Charles jumped directly into the freezing sea water. The scene in front of him made his face even uglier. The iceberg was not only on the surface but also underwater. This iceberg was frozen directly to the bottom of the sea.
SITE6 is an underwater site, and a huge iceberg completely surrounds it. If you want to enter from below, you also need to melt the entire iceberg.
Just as Charles came up from the water, dripping wet, Shining raised his index finger and shook it, "Dad, wait a minute, I found a way."
Before Charles asked what the solution was, when he saw Shanshan asked everyone on Sodom to go into the cabin first, he immediately knew what the solution was.
Along with a flash of white light, an extremely dazzling huge halo appeared above the huge iceberg. It was the Dawn 1 hanging above Hope Island.
Charles squinted his eyes and looked towards it through the telescope. He saw the golden Lily floating in the inverted triangle board in the halo.
"Mr. Charles!" Lily flew down like a meteor and fell into Charles' arms.
"Can you control the full power of Dawn-1?" Charles reached out and grabbed her in his hand.
"Yes, sure. The light from this friend feels very comfortable on me. It's very similar to what's inside my body. I can borrow it."
After Charles whispered a few words to Lily, Lily returned to the center of Dawn 1.
When she saw Sodom had reached a safe enough place, Lily closed her eyes and felt the warm sunshine around her with her whole body and soul.
Dawn No. 1 trembled slightly and slowly landed on the iceberg. Then the ring-shaped body became extremely dazzling. The strong light was useless even if you closed your eyes. You had to turn your back.
Under such strong sunlight, car-sized ice blocks kept sliding off the iceberg and falling into the boiling sea.
(End of this chapter)