When he reached the location where the fireworks were floating, he saw a big hole in the middle of the road below, with four overturned cars lying around it. A policeman in a black uniform was lying on the ground with blood oozing from his right arm.
"Sir! The robbers are heading to Flea Alley!" the policeman looked up and reported loudly to Dipper.
Dipper quickly changed his position and rushed over there, and a moment later, he saw the robber in front of a flower vendor.
The woman, who looked only 1.4 meters tall, lifted up a car and threw it towards the surrounding sheriffs.
"Why are you arresting me? Your Governor owes me this! I have a part to play in saving Earthsea! Why should I be controlled?"
"I absorbed the relic with the determination to die for the sake of the entire Earthsea! I still have the badge at home!! And now you treat me as a potential criminal!!"
Just as Dipper was about to fall, a green afterimage rushed over and pounced on the woman, and tied her up tightly with its centipede-like green arms.
A sheriff nearby rushed up with a syringe filled with black liquid and stabbed it directly into the woman's body. Her angry eyelids drooped rapidly and finally closed completely.
Watching the sheriffs taking the woman away in a bundle, Dipper scratched his neck and said to the green centipede, "Noden, you're quick."
The green centipede's two rows of white sharp teeth collided with each other, responding to the conversation of the fishman in front of it.
"By the way, what have you been doing lately? I haven't seen you in a while?" Dipper raised his chin at him.
Norden took out a board from his back and wrote quickly, "Nothing, using Linda's method to treat the disease."
"Treat illness? Are you sick? It seems that Linda has inherited the old ship doctor's legacy. She can even treat a monster like you."
Norden didn't seem to want to talk too much about this issue. He pointed in the direction of his home and quickly crawled towards that direction.
When Dipper arrived at Norden's garage-like home, he was stunned by the scene inside. There was a pink cradle, and inside the cradle there was a sleeping baby.
Norden, like a centipede, crawled over, grabbed the side of the cradle with his green hands and rocked it gently. "Linda said, this is my medicine."
Dipper's pupils suddenly widened to their maximum. "Medicine? Can it cure your illness? Wouldn't it be bad to eat a living person directly? How about you go to the hospital and find a dead baby to eat?"
Hearing what Dipper said, Norden suddenly raised his head, quickly raised his pen and carved vigorously on the board. From the rough strokes, one could see his mood.
"Are you crazy? How could you be a cannibal? Did you forget to bring your brain when you went out today? It's about taking care of the baby! Linda asked me to take care of the baby to awaken my humanity! This is the real medicine!"
"Ah~ So that's what's going on. Why didn't you tell me earlier? You didn't say what disease you had. Suddenly pointing at a baby and saying it was medicine would make anyone think the wrong thing." Dipper smiled awkwardly.
"So do you plan to keep this child? Is it a boy or a girl?" Dipper reached out and touched the baby's face.
"It's so smooth, smoother than my wife's skin."
Feeling the cold scales against its face, the baby instinctively frowned and shook its head to open its eyes. When it saw the two terrifying heads in front of it, it burst into tears.
After Norden showed Dipper the curse words on the board, he quickly picked him up with his eight green arms, but judging by his clumsy movements, he wasn't very good at it.
The two of them suddenly became a little flustered. After coaxing the child for a long time without any improvement, Dipper started to call for help.
However, not everyone has experience in taking care of children. After going around the crew of the Narwhal, someone finally said that he could coax a child.
The charming Second Mate Nico gently held the crying and sweating baby in her arms, pressed his lips against her flat chest, the crying disappeared and the sucking sound began.
Nico's lipstick-covered lips opened slightly, "Tell me, where did you pick up this little guy? First of all, I know it's definitely not yours."
Dipper explained it in a few words, and then exclaimed in surprise: "Second mate, I thought you just looked like a woman, but I didn't expect you could do this. If you add giving birth to a child, you are no different from a woman."
Nico didn't respond to the other party's words, and asked directly: "Don't say these useless things. How is Charles? It's boring to stay in Hope Island. I want to borrow some people from him to take back Coral Island. I haven't been a governor for a long time. I miss that feeling a little bit."
"I don't know. The first mate is the one who usually contacts the captain. I asked him but he didn't tell me. Bandage is with James all day long now. I don't know what they are talking about."
"Hey, ever since we returned, I've felt like something is wrong. Everyone has separated and is busy with their own things. The day before yesterday, I asked others to come over for a drink, but not everyone showed up."
When Dipper said this, the expressions of the three people were slightly dim. Nico sat down on the bed beside him holding the child and sighed softly. "It's normal. No exploration ship can sail on the sea forever. It will eventually dock."
"But the captain obviously has something else to do, why doesn't he allow us to join the ship? If you think we are not strong enough, you can just say it to our face. We can find a way to improve."
Dipper flicked his right hand lightly, and a cloud of mist flew out from his palm and hit the mural on the wall. The portrait of the sailboat froze instantly and was wrapped in an opaque white substance.
Norden climbed up the wall and touched it with his hand, then wrote a word on the notebook with a pen: "wax"
Nico was a little surprised when he saw this scene. "You absorbed the relic again? This is risky. Besides, the captain didn't take us with him, not because he disliked our lack of strength, but because he was deliberately distancing himself from us."
"Distant?"
"Yeah, alienation. I am a person who is very sensitive to emotions. His alienation seems to be preparing for something."
Hearing this, for some reason Dipper's face began to show a trace of uneasiness, "What is it that requires distancing ourselves from you?"
"Who knows? I guess only Charles himself knows. I hope it's a good thing. Ever since he defeated the Foundation, I've felt that something was wrong with him."
"Then it's enough to distance yourself from you. Why are you distancing yourself from me? I'm his family!"
Just as Dipper finished speaking, the phone next to him rang. He picked it up and a look of ecstasy suddenly appeared on his face.
"Lily said the captain is back! He wants us all to come over!!"
(End of this chapter)