On the vast Cat Island, Julio walked slowly along the Street of the Footworms, looking at the densely packed shops on both sides.
The lights in the shops illuminated the entire street, and there was no darkness at all. The street was busy with traffic, and there were bursts of noise in the air. The bustling crowd was busy with their own things.
A huge long beetle carrying various goods walked slowly past him.
Looking at the full harvest of edible centipedes on his back, Julio tapped their hard backs with his hands and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.
The damage caused by the death spree on Cat Island has begun to recover to a large extent, and the once dead and silent Cat Island has become lively again.
Julio couldn't help but feel proud of his previous wise decision.
When considering how to divide the East Sea ruled by Futan, he decisively did not compete with other governors for materials and islands, but chose the population abandoned by Anna.
The islands in the East China Sea are good and rich in all kinds of materials, but the problem is that they are too far away. Even if you send your own son to be the acting governor, he will eventually have second thoughts.
Instead of that, it would be better to grab enough population ourselves and let Cat Island follow Hope Island in industrialization.
The future does not lie in the number of islands or resources, but in the advancement of technology, which is the core of the future.
As he walked, Julio saw a young man carrying a strange mechanical device on his back, standing in front of a paint store, selecting the purple snail he wanted.
These are the people of Hope Island. The current trend on the island is to decorate themselves with some mechanical pendants. The more advanced, the better looking.
With his fingertips in the mittens, he quickly picked out his snails and threw them to the big tortoise shell next to him.
The clerk raised the hammer and smashed the snail thrown into the turtle shell in front of him into a dark purple mud, and then put it into an iron box.
This is a specialty of Cat Island. This purple is the purest purple. One gram of pigment is comparable to one gram of gold, so people on the sea call it purple gold.
"Hey, friend, you've come here with great difficulty, would you like some light green algae?" The shopkeeper smiled and picked up a green caterpillar as thick as his arm and squeezed it gently, and the emerald green internal organs were squeezed out.
"No need. We can already synthesize this color directly on our island. Once we can synthesize golden purple, I will never come to Cat Island to purchase goods again."
"God of Shining, there are too many bugs here. Last night, an ugly bug the size of a palm crawled into my boot."
"I was even reminded of your various parasites that can easily burrow into the skin. Hope Island is indeed the best in the entire Earthsea."
Hearing this, Julio frowned slightly, snorted coldly, and walked towards his residence on the high ground.
Although it is hard to accept, Cat Island is far behind Hope Island in terms of technology.
I must take advantage of my population and build a college and a relic research institute in order to win the competition over them.
After he took a few strong steps on the roof, his body returned directly to the platform.
Looking back at the brightly lit Cat Island under the dark dome, Julio turned and walked towards his huge palace.
Julio's footsteps echoed in the empty stone palace.
After being greeted by the other maids and guards, he walked straight into the living area in the back hall.
Julio was the only one in the 100-square-meter bedroom. As he turned a mural on the east stone wall, a two-meter-high stone sculpture appeared in front of him.
It was a human-shaped statue, with black bandages wrapped all over her body, and a cat lying quietly in her arms. It was 005.
He knelt on one knee in front of the stone statue, whispering something that only he could hear.
Julio's body tensed up instantly, and the walls and ground around him cracked and shot towards the direction of the sound.
A kind of vague bell sound was heard, and shadows from all around followed closely behind.
Faced with an enemy who had discovered his secrets, Julio directly activated all the relics in his body and began to kill.
But the next second, everything around became quiet, and both the shadows and the cracked walls returned to where they should be.
Julio was shocked to find that neither the relics buried in his body nor the abilities he acquired through other means had any response. Someone had cut off the connection between them.
"Don't be so impatient." Shanshan said as he walked over and looked curiously at the various murals hanging on the wall.
"You are... Charles' daughter?" Julio looked at Shanshan's fluorescent green cross pupils in disbelief.
The opponent's strength was so terrifying that even a fifteenth-level strongest man in the Earth Sea didn't have a chance to fight back in front of her.
When the image of the young boy, who was only as tall as his thigh, flashed through his mind, a strong feeling of powerlessness surged into Julio's heart.
At this time, Shanshan looked at him again. "I don't want to fight with you. I want to chat with you. I don't know many people, and there are not many people with whom I have common topics."
Although this reason was ridiculous, Julio could only do what she said.
Various specialties from Cat Island were quickly served to entertain this mysterious woman.
"Where is your father? Where did he go?" Julio poured her a glass of wine with a somewhat unwilling look on his face.
Looking at the little winged insect twisting in the wine glass, Shanshan picked it up and put it down again.
"Now that he's gone, don't worry that he'll come back to fight you for territory. Daddy has more important things to consider right now."
Julio didn't respond immediately, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.
As a man who had always been in a high position of power, he really had nothing in common with this woman.
Julio took a big sip from the wine glass, looked at Shanshan's delicate face, thought for a while, and then said, "Are you worried about something?"
Twinkle shook her head but nodded.
"Are you troubled?" Shanshan suddenly asked Julio opposite her.
"Yes, I can't find a qualified successor. They are so useless. Sometimes I wonder how they will live if I die."
Having said that, he raised his head and took another sip. No matter what the other party wanted to do, he would try to test him with words first.
"My dad used to like drinking, and whenever he was upset, he would get drunk, but he doesn't drink anymore because alcohol no longer has any effect on him."
Julio looked at such a powerful woman and asked again in a low voice: "Charles... He should be very strong now."
"Yeah, very strong. His strength compared to mine is like the strength between me and you now."
(End of this chapter)