The words that were on the tip of Shanshan's tongue were not spoken in the end. She gently held Charles' arms with both hands and quietly looked at the lights reflected in the windows of Nini's house.
Hearing the laughter inside, Shanshan narrowed her eyes slightly, leaned her head against Charles, and hugged him tighter with her hands.
Feeling the tug on his arm, Charles suddenly asked, "Sparkling, are you hiding something from me?"
It is very difficult to hide the current Charles. He no longer relies on any organs to receive information.
For some things, he could even guess 70% to 80% right.
This question made Shanshan's heart skip a beat. Just when she was hesitating whether to say it, Charles spoke again. "If you don't want to say it, you don't have to. I'm just asking casually."
After hesitating for a moment, Shanshan finally decided not to say it. It was his own decision.
She knew that her father loved her mother very much. If her father knew everything about her mother's past, he would definitely be more painful.
And for this goal, he will definitely not try to bring her back. If nothing changes, then telling him will only be a meaningless and unnecessary trouble.
"I'm sorry, Dad. I'll tell you when I have the right opportunity." Shanshan buried her head in Charles' arms guiltily.
Charles reached out his hand and gently stroked her waist-length back. "It's okay, it's just a small matter. Now that the matter has been resolved, let's go back."
The streetlight above their heads flickered slightly a few times, and when it returned to normal, there was no one on the bench.
Charles, who had returned to his residence, let go of his daughter and said with a hint of fatigue in his voice, "Shanshan, go and help Dad. During this time, my body has learned a lot of things instinctively. Sometimes being too good at learning is not a good thing."
Shanshan didn't ask what she needed help with. She nodded and walked out directly. After her body flashed several times, she came to a low-lying area on the island.
In the surrounding low-lying forest, there were faint lights of eyes. They were the shining brothers and sisters. Under Charles' influence, they were now more unrecognizable than before.
"Go away, don't look at it. It will become uglier if you look at it."
After hearing Shanshan's words, the dim light in the forest quickly disappeared, and the surrounding forest suddenly became silent.
Shanshan looked around and found that there was really no one around. Then she raised her right foot and tapped the ground lightly with her toes.
A thirty-square-meter plot of land was instantly teleported away, revealing the brain underneath, soaked in turbid mucus.
It was obviously not a normal human brain. It had a strange shape and a weird taste, and the brains were even stuck to each other.
The black wrinkles on the surface of these things kept trembling, and the emotions emanating from inside kept assimilating everything around them.
The entire brain seemed to have the ability to reproduce, constantly expanding with every breath.
Twinkle bit her lips lightly and jumped in. Then, everything she touched disappeared. These weird brains kept decreasing.
Within a few seconds, a huge pit of flesh and blood had been created in the previously crowded space.
"Thank you. I feel much clearer now." Charles' voice echoed from the pit of flesh and blood.
"You're welcome." Shanshan lifted her skirt and turned slightly, disappearing on the spot.
When she appeared again, she had arrived at an empty island, and the brain she had teleported here was constantly squirming in the center of the island.
In just a short while, they had grown gastropods and crawled towards Charles instinctively.
Of course there was no way Shanshan would let it do that, so she walked up to the thing and leaned down, revealing her sharp white fangs.
He held the thing in both hands and bit it gently, making a small hole in the black folds.
Shanshan closed her eyes and sucked gently, and all the messy organs and internal organs that had grown inside were sucked into her stomach.
She ate very cleanly, even the skin and water on the outside were not spared. Even if she ate a lot, her body was still so slim and there was no change.
After eating it all, she burped as Shanshan was full. Her body quickly opened up and then shrank back.
Shanshan felt that her power had become even stronger. This was different from the increase in power that came with growing up. This was the true divine power that she inherited from her father.
Shanshan knew a long time ago that her father's flesh and blood were connected to her own, and the two could even seamlessly connect to each other's bodies.
Since she tried and found the things her father had abandoned last time, it really made her stronger.
Shanshan ate everything he had.
She wanted to narrow the gap in strength with her father, or even better, surpass her father.
Compared to her father's noble goal, her wish was small. She just wanted her father to be alive. She didn't want her father to become another strange existence in the end.
If it really comes to the point of no return, she plans to try to save her father.
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In a strange space with intertwined planes, there was a long table, and sitting at the table were more than a dozen Charles with different expressions and appearances. They were obviously waiting for something.
Suddenly, a bloody hole appeared on the ground next to him, and a Charles crawled out of it.
"Hurry up and sit down. We are waiting for you."
"What happened? Why are you late?"
Charles pulled out a chair and sat in the middle of the long table. "Sorry, my daughter asked me to do something small today."
After Charles calmed down for a few seconds, he looked up at his own faces in front of him and the horrifying truth behind these illusions.
"Time is very precious to us right now, so I won't waste any more words. This will be our meeting room from now on. We can add more people later, but the dozen or so of us are the initial team of the Plane Alliance."
"Since we are all here, our goals are the same. For our families, for our shipping, and even for all mankind on the surface and in the sea—"
"For shit, what does their life or death have to do with us!" Charles, who was speaking, had a beard on his chin. He raised his head proudly, with a look of disdain in his eyes.
"I don't care what your purpose is. I worked so hard to become a god, but I am treated like an ant by others. I can't swallow this!"
"I have paid so much, why can't I become the most powerful god? I want to stand at the absolute highest point! I want to be more powerful than the God of Light, I want to be more powerful than 005, and I want to be more powerful than the God of Futan!"
(End of this chapter)