Charles showed no expression when he heard James' words. He walked to the collapsed wall next to him, silently pushed it open, and picked out the jars containing various organs one by one.
Seeing the other party's emotions, the smiles on the crew members' faces gradually disappeared. It was obvious that their captain did not think the same as they did.
He took the bandage off Lily's shoulder, put her on the ground, and then pushed her back with his fingers.
"Mr. Charles, are you reluctant to leave that monster sister?" Lily, with her ears drooping, flew to Charles and asked in a low voice.
Charles shook his head. He looked at the cracking jar in his hand and turned to his ship's doctor and said, "Linda, get me some more jars and preservatives. This thing is broken."
Linda nodded, whispered a few words in her husband Audric's ear, and was about to turn around and leave, but just when her body was halfway through the collapsed wall, she turned her head and looked at Charles.
"Captain, you need to understand that your feelings for her are all fake and fictitious. And as you just saw, she has deleted all her memories of you. To her now, you are nothing more than food."
"You know what she did on the island even without me telling you. She has been using your feelings for her to increase her own power."
After Linda finished speaking, Charles immediately refuted, "No, you are wrong, she did not delete her memory. If she really deleted it, then everything about her in my mind would also disappear. She was just pretending."
After the crew members looked at each other for a few seconds, James, dressed in a suit and with a big belly, came forward.
"Captain, I know you feel very sad now, but you should cheer up. Although the biggest danger on the island has been eliminated, there is no guarantee that some of her people are still on the island."
"And now the Hope Island Navy is not back in the East China Sea! We must find a way to bring them back."
Charles sighed and turned to look at them, "You should discuss these things with Bandage. To be honest, I'm not good at these things." After that, Charles left with the broken jars.
Lily in the air looked around and quickly followed.
Amid the ruins of the Governor's Palace on Hope Island, a group of people stayed where they were. The atmosphere was strangely calm, which might be a little different from what they expected.
"Ahem~" Julio's cough broke the silence. "This is a private matter of Hope Island. We, the people from the outer islands, don't want to get involved. Now that the monster is gone, the allocation of the East Sea area needs to be changed, right? If your governor doesn't care, then who will negotiate with us?"
"Captain, in his absence, the first mate takes over management." Bandage walked out from the crowd.
Anna left, and she turned into a huge, terrifying, hideous monster. She didn't just leave, she also whizzed past all the islanders. Some weak-willed people were even affected by her and became a little crazy. The mental illnesses of the islanders suddenly increased.
That afternoon, all kinds of speculations continued to appear in the newspapers of Hope Island. People on the island were in panic, and some even predicted that a new doomsday was about to come again.
But soon an order from the Governor was issued, and all news about the incident was removed from all newspapers, followed by the official explanation from the Governor's Office at the same time.
Some sea monsters attacked the honorable Governor, but the brave Governor Charles drove away these horrible monsters with his powerful strength.
Many people did not believe this news, and many people on the island knew Anna's true identity from certain channels.
Inside the Hope Island Prison, Leonardo, the administrative minister of Hope Island, with dark circles under his eyes, stared straight at James in front of him, "Where is my master? What did you do to her?"
James looked at his colleague in front of him with regret, "Wake up, man! Your memory has been modified. She is not your master."
"Impossible! Don't try to fool me! Don't think you can do anything by arresting me. I will never betray her!" Leonardo raised his chained hands and slammed the table in front of him excitedly.
"Have you forgotten? You are a liar, a liar who tried to steal Hope Island. You are not even loyal to the captain. Why do you think you will be unconditionally loyal to Anna? This is the collected evidence. Take a good look at it." Some photos and documents were thrown in front of him.
"This is impossible! This is all fake! You are simply lying to me!" Leonardo became more and more excited after seeing the evidence, and James turned and left regretfully.
Anna's memory modification was far more powerful than he had imagined. Back then on the island, as long as the affected people noticed the contradictions, they could recover. But now, even if the evidence was placed in front of him, he was still like this.
There are more than one person like Leonardo, there are many in Hope Island, all of whom are affected by Anna. Looking at those people screaming in the cage, James felt fortunate and whispered to himself: "Fortunately, Anna was driven away, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous."
At this moment, Linda walked out through the wall next to her. "She wasn't driven away, she left on her own. She is now much stronger than we thought. If Anna really broke up with the captain, it would be impossible for it to end peacefully like this."
James took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it between his lips. "Maybe, but no matter what, her ability is too terrifying. If she stays on the island, we won't even be able to sleep peacefully."
James suddenly thought of something and turned to look at Linda next to him. "Ship doctor, what are you doing in the prison?"
"Let's do an experiment. I'll see if I can cut off some of their memories to restore them to normal."
"How's the effect?"
"It worked. Anna's modified memory was restored, but the patient suffered from limb paralysis and temper tantrums. I need more test subjects for control experiments."
"Are you trying to save people or harm them? Wait a minute. I've called He Fangdao. The wizards of the Gaunt family are also good at modifying memories. I'll ask them to come over and see if there's anything they can do."
"Well, sure. Where is the captain now? Is he lying on the roof?"
"No, he's in the captain's cabin of the Narwhal. Don't look for him yet. Let him be alone. He has gone through so many hardships and difficulties. I believe he can get out of this predicament too."
Things ended just like that. The entire island began to be cleared, and Hope Island completely returned to Charles' control. No one knew where Anna and Shanshan had gone. The only thing they knew was that the floating island docked above the Land of God's Descendants disappeared at the same time.
Under the control of public opinion by the Governor's Office, the islanders quickly forgot about the incident, and the topic of discussion turned to the recent addition of another channel on TV, as if Anna's departure was just a trivial matter.
(End of this chapter)