Charles looked at the beard for a few seconds and nodded, "Okay, this is also a goal, but next time you express your opinion, wait until I finish speaking."
Charles then continued the previous topic, "But before dealing with these old gods, we need to know their details, what kind of existence they are, and the purpose of their existence. Only by knowing ourselves and the enemy can we win every battle."
A mocking voice came from the corner of the conference table. "Stop using idioms like that. Just speak quickly. We are all very busy."
Charles raised his right index finger in front of him. "Spy, we first need a spy to find out the current situation of 003."
"This mission is extremely dangerous and difficult, so we need to draw lots to select one of us to go."
The atmosphere in the room was slightly solemn for a while, and then everyone readily accepted the decision.
This could very well lead to death, but death no longer scares them now.
Three bone dice were thrown onto the table, and more than a dozen people took turns to roll. Everyone's strength was about the same, so cheating was impossible.
After the dice colliding sounded for a while, someone suddenly stood up.
It was a taciturn Charles. He said with an endless tiredness in his voice: "Let me do it, I can't hold on any longer."
Charles didn't ask what he couldn't stand. Since the other party was willing to go, there was no need to go through the trouble of drawing lots.
Seeing that no one expressed any objection, Charles stood up and lay down on the table.
The flesh and blood on his body melted quickly, forming a square mirror covered in blood on the table.
In the blood-red reflection in the center of the mirror, Charles saw an island.
That is Hope Island, but it is deserted and there is no one alive.
After a few brief seconds, accompanied by a trembling sound like the ground cracking, Hope Island emerged from the sea.
Under the island was a deformed mass of flesh and blood that was larger than the island. Everyone present could see that this thing was their true body.
Slowly, the flesh and blood began to change, gradually transforming into a human form. Deformed hands and legs with misaligned joints slowly grew out of the flesh and blood, stepping heavily on the water.
At this moment, he looked like a turtle carrying a huge shell. Charles in this dimension actually carried the entire Hope Island on his back.
Hundreds of eye stalks floated up in the center of the huge head. After taking a last deep look at the sunlight through the gap above its head, it plunged directly into the sea.
The images in the blood water flashed rapidly, and he soon arrived at the abyss trench. The key emitting bright white light was still floating in the grotesque green city.
When the seal was opened again, the sleeping body of God Futan 003 appeared in front of everyone.
All of Charles' breathing felt quickened. Even though it was just a projection, it felt so real.
"Everyone, I'm going. If I die, please don't let my sacrifice go to waste."
The next second, as the giant claw that was dozens of kilometers long paddled hard underwater, Charles swam into Futan's territory with the Island of Hope on its back.
Everyone instantly felt some movement in their ears. It used to be Futan's whispering. Before that, it was a maddening and meaningless sound, but now they could understand it.
This language is full of very profound knowledge. The moment they understood this language, all the taboo knowledge contained in the language instantly poured into the heads of all Charles.
Feeling the loss of humanity was being accelerated, almost simultaneously, everyone removed their recipient organs.
Charles in the picture was still moving. In front of Furtan, he was dozens of kilometers wide and looked like a toy car.
As the distance got closer, Charles' already deformed body began to melt.
"The god Futan has no entity. This may be wrong because my sensory organs are broken."
"No, I have to leave. It will be too late if I don't leave now."
"I can't do it anymore. The sound is completely unable to block out the vibration coming from the origin of matter." Words appeared in the blood mirror.
"Wait, what is that?" Charles in the picture suddenly stopped and listened to something.
"So that's what's going on? It turns out that everything we thought was wrong. I know all the truth."
The moment this line of words appeared, Charles' body in the picture exploded instantly, wrapping the entire Island of Hope on his back, forming a deformed, wriggling sphere with tentacles that continued to spread in all directions.
His humanity disappeared at this moment, and Charles completely became a new god.
The image in the bloody water suddenly disappeared, and the out-of-control flesh and blood was quickly swallowed up by the table. The members were silent with each other, and no one spoke.
Charles sighed slightly. Futan's power was beyond their imagination. With his current strength, he got such a result just by getting close to him. He didn't even have a chance to fight back. This kind of existence could not be compensated by numbers.
What should we do next? Charles was lost in thought.
This situation dealt a heavy blow to their confidence. Facing Futan, they were not much better than Charles was when he was a mortal.
"Let's ask 005. She is one of the old gods, maybe she knows some methods that we don't know."
I don't know which Charles came up with this idea.
This may not be a good solution, but in this case, it seems that there is no other choice.
Thinking back to his daughter Winky, Charles raised his head and said a new countermeasure, "Let's go to Earthsea and look for other allies. Maybe it's not just us who want to do this. It's very likely that other gods want to do it too. Find them and ask them to join us, or to assist us."
And just like that, the first operation ended with one person injured.
When facing Futan, they still knew nothing. They didn't know what kind of existence it was, whether it had intelligence, or what its purpose was in coming to Earth.
Futan is so difficult to deal with, let alone 002 in the center of the earth. Even 005 was defeated. If they go now, they will probably just die.
Charles returned to the living room and thought for a while. Then a magic circle to summon revelers was automatically carved on the floor in front of him.
As the revelers appeared before him, Charles saw what was behind the cat, the huge pillar of flesh connecting the sea to the land.
"Go and call your master." Charles said directly.
"Ha~!" The reveler turned into a cat, arched its back towards Charles, revealing its fangs.
"I said, call your master over!" As soon as Charles said this, the whole environment instantly put pressure on the revelers.
After hesitating for a long time, the reveler finally did not fight with Charles. Three seconds later, the cat it turned into was picked up by 005, who was covered in black bandages.
She was still the same, wearing a black robe and wrapped in black bandages all over her body.
But Charles was different now. He saw more things. 005 was not a person, but a collection of things.
(End of this chapter)