In the damp maze, Charles, with a gloomy face, ran wildly with his crew members.
"Mr. Charles, my friend can't keep up!" Lily, who was standing on Charles' shoulder, shouted anxiously.
"Tell them to climb on top of James! Quickly!"
The mice quickly climbed onto the back of the shrinking giant, and James was like wearing a black cloak.
“Ahhh!!”
“Ahhh!!”
“Ahhh!!”
The miserable screams from the front became louder and louder, but they could not stop Charles.
If what the bandage said is true, the island outside has sunk below the sea level, then if everyone cannot get out in a short period of time, they will sink into the deep sea along with the island.
No matter what lies beneath the deep sea, that place is not an area where humans can set foot.
The humid air was filled with depression, and everyone's face was solemn. However, when they saw Charles, the backbone, running in the front, no one panicked.
The crew members followed the bandages and ran around in the maze. The screams were getting closer and closer. Suddenly, Charles made a quick turn and the view in front of him suddenly opened up.
There was light in the area in front of me, which was rare, but what happened in the light was really creepy.
I saw that the space in front of me, which was the size of a football field, was filled with naked humans, both men and women, young and old.
They strangled their own necks with their hands, roared and screamed heartbreakingly, and rolled in the mud in agony, just like the graffiti seen on the wall before.
All around them were densely packed black, palm-sized strange insects that looked like centipedes with spider legs.
They stood on the water like water spiders, surrounding the screaming humans, trembling their bodies rhythmically with the volume of the sound, as if they were enjoying the humans' pain.
Seeing this scene, Charles immediately understood that this was torture. What the scarred man said before was right. This was the nest of torture.
When Charles saw them, the torturers also saw Charles.
In addition to the tortures on the water, some more tortures crawled out of the mouths of those screaming guys. The tortures began to move, they began to move towards Charles, trying to merge Charles and others into one of the screaming ones.
They travel in groups, and look like a black carpet.
Facing this scene, everyone's face showed a trace of fear, and Charles quickly carved on the wall with a knife. "Bandage, torture is over! Where is the exit you said? ?"
But at this moment, the bandage disappeared from the wall again.
"Damn it!" Charles exhaled and took out the thunder staff from his arms. This was the only relic that could deal with large numbers of enemies.
"Sizzle!" Bright arcs of electricity shot into the torture group, jumping between them.
But then a scene that made everyone despair appeared. Faced with the thunder that was enough to kill 1002, these tortures had no reaction at all, as if they were insulated.
"Da da da~" The torturers surged up and crawled along his clothes into Charles' mouth. In an instant, the severe pain that penetrated deep into his bone marrow spread throughout his body. The pain almost made Charles faint, and his throat involuntarily uttered a scream.
The other crew members were also hit and began to scream and convulse.
At this moment, Charles immediately saw the bandage on the wall appear again. He drew a box and made an opening gesture.
Charles reached for the backpack with trembling hands, but the intense pain made it difficult for him to even think. He instinctively held his neck with both hands, as if this would make the pain a little better.
"Mr. Charles, let me help you!" Lily's mice quickly jumped onto James' back and took out a mirror box from it.
The torture seemed to attack only humans, and the group of small rodents nearby didn't even bother to look.
The vampire who was also screaming nearby "saw" this, and his fear of the sun instantly overcame the severe pain, and he desperately buried his body in the mud.
"Click" the mirror box was opened by the mice, and dazzling light instantly filled the entire space.
Under the sunlight, all the torture around me melted away quickly like a snowman without leaving any trace, and the severe pain in my body also quickly disappeared.
Charles, exhausted, gasped for air and looked at the bandages on the wall. A thought occurred to him: how did this guy know that sunlight would be effective in torture
But at this moment, the bandage graffiti disappeared again, and his real figure emerged from the muddy water in the distance. "Captain... here!"
There was a faint white light moving in the muddy water next to the bandage. It was the searchlight of the Narwhal! That was the exit!
When Charles crawled out of the hole in the mud, the freezing cold sea water enveloped his whole body, instantly washing away the mud on his body.
Charles looked around and found that the flat-topped island was now under the sea, about seven or eight meters away from the sea surface above his head.
He did not surface immediately, but stopped at the exit point and quickly counted the crew members coming out.
Lily, Krona, Dipper, and the crew members crawled out of the cave one by one and floated to the surface of the water.
Charles soon discovered that one person was missing and his chief engineer James had not come out yet.
When Charles went in again, he found James standing there with a very ugly expression.
"What's going on? Hurry up and go!"
"Captain, I'm too big... I can't get in." James' face was filled with despair.
Charles was shocked. He realized that James' body had not shrunk completely, and with his current height of three meters, he could not get out.
James trembled as he handed the amethyst to Charles and said with difficulty: "Captain, please tell my wife that I... I will always love him."
Seeing James as if he was leaving his last words, Charles angrily hit the purple crystal in front of him back with his hand. "If you want to tell, tell it yourself. How long will it take for it to shrink back to its original state?"
"I... I estimate there are still five minutes left. The captain's time is not enough." James said painfully.
"Then wait five minutes. Don't worry, I'll stay with you." Charles took out a pocket watch from his arms, calmed down and waited.
As time went by, more and more seawater poured in from the hole. Looking at the muddy water floating on the ground, Charles finally understood how the swamp came about.
Just when James' height shrank to two meters and five, Charles discovered that the edge of the strange exit began to wriggle unsteadily, and the exit was about to close.
"We can't wait any longer, let's go!" Charles pushed the big guy straight to the exit.
As expected, James was stuck, and the edge of the exit slowly shrank and sank inwards towards his skin.
(End of this chapter)