Just after Lily said goodbye to her three companions one by one, a group of ground mice crawled out from the dark corners around them. Their colors were still colorful, but they began to wear some simple clothes.
"Everyone, I'm sorry, I can't take you away. I'm not from this world, but you are. You have to behave here."
Hearing this, the mice gathered around and kept squeaking at Lily, their voices full of anxiety.
"Don't be like this. It's not that you did something wrong. It's my fault. I'm your leader. I was too willful before and didn't think about you."
"If you have any problems in the future, go find Bandage, he will help everyone, but everyone can't do bad things, we are good mice, right?"
After saying goodbye to the group of mice, Lily finally walked onto the deck of the passenger ship with her suitcase. The people who were seeing her off at the dock began to wave to Lily.
Lily also raised her right hand and swayed. She kept swaying until the entire ship was completely immersed in the darkness in the distance.
Seeing that Lily was really gone, Linda let out a sigh of melancholy. She turned her head and looked at Nico beside her. "Charles means a lot to Lily. I'm afraid it's not just a matter of dependence."
"Who says it's not? But I think it's better this way. Lily deserves a better life instead of being with someone like the Captain." Nico showed a hint of envy in his eyes.
Grace, who was standing next to him, looked up when she heard this and said, "Maybe the captain didn't let Lily go to the island because he had the same idea. He still cares about Lily."
After Linda glanced at her, she turned to look at Nico beside her, "What are you going to do next?"
Nico pulled out a thin white filter cigarette from his pocket and held it between his lips.
"Well, what else can I do? Of course I should go back to my coral islands. My husbands are not qualified rulers. I don't want the islands I explored with great effort to be ruined by them. What about you?"
After thinking for a while, Linda said, "I didn't have time before, but now I'm finally calm. I plan to get pregnant."
Nico was a little surprised, "I thought you vampires reproduced by biting people, but it turns out you can reproduce normally?"
"Of course not under normal circumstances, but that doesn't mean I can't perform surgery on myself, some experimental surgery." Linda touched her abdomen.
The waves gently hit the sandy beach, and the entire island was extremely quiet, without any of the bloody and horrific appearance from before.
In the house where Dipper and the others were before, the brown leather sofa slowly rose up from the center, and then Charles' body slowly appeared.
He sat there again, closing his eyes and resting like a normal person. With a flash of white light, Shanshan's sexy body appeared in front of him.
She bent her shiny white legs slightly and sat down on the sofa next to Charles.
"What's going on?" Charles asked with his eyes closed.
"It's not a big problem. They have all arrived safely at Hope Island. Judging from their attitude, they probably won't bother you again."
"That's good." Charles slowly opened his eyes, but his eye sockets were dark and empty. It was just an empty shell like before.
"Dad, it seems like they don't understand how much you've sacrificed for them."
Charles shook his head slightly. "It doesn't matter. I didn't intend to let them know. Winky, do you know what they look like in my vision now?"
"All obstructions and closures disappeared. When everything about them was exposed, I could see all the bones and internal organs. I could see the bone marrow in the bones. I could see the blood flowing between the heart ventricles and the opening and closing of the valves. I could even clearly see the structure of the eye lens when I looked into Lily's eyes."
"I can instantly sense an amount of information that is 10,000 times greater than that in the human world. This massive amount of information allows me to predict anything they are going to do. They have no secrets from us."
Charles paused for a moment, "I finally understand why the gods didn't contact humans before, because humans are too simple, whether in terms of body structure or way of thinking. I even think that communicating with you through sound vibrations is very inefficient."
Hearing this, Shanshan frowned slightly, "Dad, have you noticed that your tone is a little bit off? It's a little cold."
Charles nodded and admitted calmly, "This is obvious, because receiving information all the time makes me grow continuously, not physically, but in terms of thinking and character."
"So the human part of me is disappearing, and I'm trying to slow it down, but it's not working, and I'm losing my humanity."
"So my time is limited. I have to do something before my humanity disappears. Because I am not sure now whether I will still be considered myself after the last bit of humanity disappears."
Shanshan moved over, gently rested her head on Charles' shoulder, and said faintly: "Dad, is this sacrifice worth it?"
"It's worth it, of course it's worth it. I don't agree with the Foundation's approach, but I agree with his point of view. Some things in the Earthsea are too dangerous. Such dangers are disorderly, whether for the surface or the Earthsea."
"Existences like us can easily destroy everything. For the sake of my family in the sea and my family on the surface, I must make an insurance policy for this."
"What if we fail?" Shanshan asked again.
"Failure? So what? I've already made up my mind. There are some things you'll never accept unless you try." Charles' face was full of calmness.
"In fact, since the moment I accepted 005's wish, I have prepared for the worst and bet on only one possibility."
"Luckily, my bet was right, so I can continue."
"So what are you going to do next?" Shanshan asked his father again.
"First, I have to keep improving. Fortunately, the road is not difficult. The foundation has paved the way for me."
As Charles said this, the entire ground began to crack into a bloody gap, and as the tentacles continued to wriggle, a large rift appeared underground.
At the deepest part of the Flesh and Blood Rift, there lay a strange corpse covered with black holes. It was the corpse of the god Paide.
Countless mouths stretched out from all sides, biting the corpse madly. Charles was now doing the same thing as Anna.
At this moment, perhaps influenced by Paide, there was a constant howling sound in the forest outside.
"Alas. Why do you keep them here? Why not send them away? They are in the way."
"It's lively. But otherwise it would be too lonely here with just the two of us." said Winky as he looked at Pad being swallowed below.
(End of this chapter)