He was an old man with white hair, clumped beard and bloodshot eyes due to dementia.
His tattered clothes were completely soaked by the smelly juice in the barrels, making the smell on his body no different from the contents of the barrels.
The most noticeable thing is his head which looks totally out of proportion like a big-headed doll.
"Is this really Nini's father? Dad, did you find the wrong person?" Shanshan was a little unconvinced. Nini was so young, how could her father be so old
"Working day and night in a place like this, it's a miracle to be alive. It's normal to get older."
As soon as Charles finished speaking, a tall and thin man with a sinister look came up with a large group of people and surrounded him aggressively.
When he came to Charles' side, the coldness on his face disappeared instantly, and he lowered his head and knelt on one knee with piety in his eyes.
Charles asked bluntly, "What's wrong with this guy's brain?"
When faced with the stranger's first questioning, the old man told everything he knew without reservation.
"Master, his brain has been almost eaten by blood cysts. Only in this way can the slave not escape. Only the working instinct trained under the whip remains."
"My father found this bug by accident while exploring the island, and it became our family's secret to wealth."
"It is because of these slaves that our pork costs the lowest possible price, and canned meat is exported all over the ocean."
Charles was not interested in how the cysts in their brains came from. He just wanted to finish this matter quickly and go back to his own business. "Is there any way to solve it?"
"Sorry, there's nothing we can do. He can't even think right now."
Completely transparent tentacles in the air stretched out instantly and rolled up the man. The front end of one of the tentacles cracked instantly, revealing a row of sharp teeth.
The teeth slid down the man's scalp, which was almost stretched transparent, and the constantly twisting white thing inside was finally exposed in an instant.
This man's entire brain was pushed into a piece of rotten tofu by the bugs, and it was yellow in color. From the outside, it was obvious that it was completely unusable.
"Except for the brain stem, most of the other parts have been eaten by insects." As Charles' tentacles gently cut, the "rotten tofu" was peeled off.
Shanshan took it and examined it carefully. "It's so messy inside. The remaining fragments of memory are all mixed together. It's like a completely collapsed house."
Seeing Nini's father in this state, Shanshan seemed very regretful. He definitely couldn't be sent back in this state, otherwise it would only make her more sad.
"Don't be discouraged. Let me think about it. There is still a way to repair it. This is easier than making one out of thin air." Charles murmured.
After a few seconds, when he raised his head, a man waiting next to him instantly leaned over.
When his brain was extracted, Charles turned to look at his daughter.
"Come and help me empty everything out of here. I need a clean container."
Shanshan did it quickly, and after sorting and repairing the remaining memories in Nini's father's brain, they were sent to this brain.
The slender black tentacles on Charles' head began to wriggle and crawl onto the brain, and some muscle groups began to grow on the tentacles.
When he connected the brain to the old man's brain stem, the tentacles spread through his blood vessels throughout his body.
Shanshan now understood what her father was going to do, and she went over to help using her abilities.
The father and daughter are working together to do something. This scene is very heartwarming, just like the father and daughter cooperating with each other to complete the handicraft homework at school.
With their cooperation, the new brain replaced the old brain, and the memory in the brain was also repaired.
Some of these were his originals, but most were restored based on fragments from Donna's memory.
"What's wrong? Nini, why are you so quiet today? Did the teacher scold you at school?"
Nini, who was somewhat depressed, sat up straight on the sofa and smiled at her mother. "No, I study very well and my teacher likes me very much."
"What's wrong? Why do I feel like you're different today? Is the dinner not tasty?"
Just then there was a knock on the door. After leaving the Crown of the World for a long time, Donna had gradually adapted to the safe life on Hope Island and was no longer nervous when someone knocked on the door at night.
"Nini, go open the door and see who's here."
"Oh~"
The little girl walked to the door in her slippers, grabbed the door handle and turned it gently.
The bright light in the house shone on the face of the visitor, an old man who looked to be at least 70 years old.
He was hunched over, his lips trembling slightly, and his yellow eyes were filled with tears.
"Nini, who is it?"
Nini, who seemed a little restrained in front of strangers, leaned against the door and turned her head to shout towards the kitchen. "It's a grandfather. I don't know him. He's not a neighbor."
Donna walked over puzzledly, and when she saw the person outside the door, her body froze in place as if she had been struck by lightning.
"I'm sorry, Donna, I came back a little late this time." The hoarse voice was filled with all kinds of emotions that were difficult to express.
When Donna heard the man say this, she could no longer hold back and rushed over, crying and pounding on his shoulders with her hands.
Seeing her mother so excited, Nini seemed a little scared, "Mom, who is this person?"
"He, he is your father!"
The moment she heard these unfamiliar words, Nini subconsciously took a step back as if she was about to run.
But when she saw the white-haired father extending his right hand towards her, her mouth pursed slightly, and she finally leaned over and started crying with her parents.
At this time, the father and daughter, who were sitting on a bench under the street lamp, quietly heard the cry full of joy.
"Thank you, Dad."
"You're so polite. There's no need to say thank you among family members."
Shanshan tilted her head slightly, rested her head on Charles' shoulder, and quietly watched the warm scene in the distance.
Half an hour later, seeing the door in the distance close, Shanshan suddenly asked, "Dad, is there any hidden danger in doing this?"
They said they were repairing the entire brain, but in fact what they did was more like creating a parasitic monster, which was directly inserted into Nini's father's body to think for him.
Strictly speaking, the one controlling the body now is not the original owner, but the brain monster covered with tentacles.
"Don't worry. A person's behavior depends entirely on the environment they are in. As long as his current body is human, he thinks in a human way, and is in a human environment, then no matter what he was before, he will eventually become a human."
Hearing this, Shanshan's heart moved slightly, and something suddenly came to her mind, "Then is this also your plan to put Mom into a human body and send her to the surface?"
(End of this chapter)