Chapter 20: The Pole Islands
【Northwest Sea Expedition to the Pole Islands】
On the coast of the Rai Islands, a brown-haired teenager dragged a blonde boy step by step towards the interior of the islands, Ace turned into a teenager in order to be able to drag this guy, although his methods were extremely violent, directly holding Ike's ankle with his hand, dragging him from the offshore all the way here.
As for the black dragon and those sharks, Ace directly asked them to be on standby, anyway, there are many waterways to go in the future, so they will be dismissed in no hurry, and the first task now is to find a doctor to treat this kid, I always feel that this kid is too troublesome, after he uses up the Nightmare Song, he will fall into a long period of weakness, and now he has to pull this kid to see a doctor, and he has to take the opportunity to restore his strength, which is very troublesome.
Although Ace thought so, it was not easy to find a town in this archipelago, and he made a decision in an instant, leaving Ike here first, going to find the town himself, and then calling someone to carry him away. However, when he saw the figures of the two fishermen, he dispelled this idea.
"Hey! Fishermen, come and help! There's a guy who's going to die! Ace shouted loudly, and as soon as the two figures heard that someone was going to die, they hurriedly ran over, they were two very simple-looking fishermen, wheat-colored and very healthy, both wearing straw hats, and they looked very anxious.
"What's wrong, where is anyone hurt?" One of them, a bearded uncle, asked, and Ace pointed to Ike who had fallen to the ground, feigning horror: "That's him!" Hurry up, save my son! Ace was too deep into the play, and couldn't help but call Ike his son, the two fishermen were stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that now was not the time to talk about this, so they carried Ike on his back and hurriedly ran in the direction of the town.
When Ace and them ran to the clinic in the town, it happened that the toxin effect of the highly poisonous stinger dolphin had subsided, Ike returned to a slow heartbeat and weak breathing, his collarbone was still broken, and the muscles on his body still had a lot of strains, and the most important thing was blood, he still lost too much blood, even if Ace activated his blood cells to make blood quickly, it could not be replenished in a short time.
"My God, how did he suffer such a serious injury, his collarbone was completely broken, and there was basically no good place in his body, he lost too much blood, his heart and lung function were extremely weak, and he could survive this situation, God bless." Hearing the doctor's words, Ace couldn't help but glance at him, is he God, this kid's life is all saved by him.
"Leah, bring me a scalpel, I have to take out his broken bones, or he will cause damage to his muscles when he moves!" The doctor said to a girl, the girl had pale green hair and big eyes, Ace looked at them and walked out of the clinic, the work below was not his responsibility, if the doctors couldn't save him, he could only say that the kid was not lucky enough, but he would still take the kid to the duke, maybe the powerful guy would be able to save him.
Ace glanced at the mountain outside the town, tilted his head sideways, and walked in that direction, originally a child of about one meter, but now suddenly became a handsome young man of one meter and seventy-five, attracting everyone's attention on the street, he reluctantly turned into a soul body and disappeared from people's sight.
【Northwest Sea Expedition Lu Xihai】
Gina, who was sitting on the side of the boat, looked at the undulating waves on the sea level, and couldn't help but think of the scene she had seen in the lake at the foot of the Eternal Mountain, which was not as magnificent as the sea, she thought that she would not have any bond with humans, but who knew that she would be saved by such a person.
Gina thought, she thought too much, Ike was hit by a sword, pierced the collarbone, the underwater fish-man will run crazy to eat his body, whenever she thinks of this, she will always break out in a cold sweat, her heart is extremely worried, she hopes that a miracle can happen, so that this young man who is not very likable to her but did save her can survive.
"What's wrong Gina, she looks preoccupied?" Vivien came up to her and asked, she threw herself into Vivian's arms, whispered, Vivian stroked her pink silky hair, comforted her: "Don't be afraid of my dear, you know, he is not a man who will die so easily, with the Apostle of Dreams, he will be safe and sound." ”
Despite what Vivien said, she was also very uncertain, after all, it was the bottom of the sea, and no one knew what would happen. Cruise was standing on the deck, he hadn't rested well in the past few days, and he was always worried about the kid. Mars and Narissa were the same, they were both shocked by Ike's actions that day, and the decisive choice to hurt himself and save others was unimaginable.
"Damn it, what a bastard to take away the spirit bead of the county lord and pretend to be nothing! I'm so angry, Bai Fenghou, when I return to the East, I want to ask Emperor Cao to search this sea area, and I want to see people dead and corpses! Lord Lan shouted very angrily, and Lu Yunhou on the side kindly reminded:
"County Lord, the princess who looks like an elf clan is also going to be searched...... This will be done to the elves. As soon as he finished speaking, Lan picked up a pillow and threw it towards Lu Yunhou.
"Die! I don't care about any elves or Westerners! My Orb! Lan roared angrily, this county lord's temperament is too unstable, not like a normal girl at all, Emperor Cao is too fond of this young girl, and she is used to having bad problems.
Gina and Vivien found Cruise, who was drinking and looking haggard, and both elves couldn't bear it. Cruise forced a smile on his face and beckoned them to sit down, and ordered the sailors to pour tea, but everyone could see that Cruise was clearly pretending.
"Captain Cruise, you must be remorseful...... Gina asked, and Cruise was stunned and smiled.
"Little girl, aren't you different from me, forget it, if there is an apostle of dreams, the boy's chances of survival are still greater, this still doesn't need to be particularly worried, it's just ......"
"Just what?" Gina asked curiously.
"I wish it was me who fell, not the boy......" Cruise lit a cigarette, and the smoke ring floated in a lonely arc in the air, emaciating.
【Expedition to the Pole Islands】
After Ace walked through a forest, he climbed the mountain, which was not actually a mountain, because his height did not reach the concept of a peak, but everything here was indeed very strange, and he felt a strong smell of blood in the town, and as a result, on the mountain, he found animal corpse fragments along the way, which made him feel very cruel, and of course, there were also some human corpse parts, which seemed to have been chewed by something, diffusing a foul smell and rotting smell.
At the end of the mountain road, he saw a cave, the usual plot should be that there is a man-eating monster in the cave waiting for him to go in and kill, and then come out, but Ace feels that it is not so simple, first of all, this wreckage is not like eating anything at all, more like some kind of perverted quirk, just a simple quirk that likes to tear apart the body of creatures.
Because, outside the cave, there is a sentence about the corpse of a bear that has been completely torn open, and the organs and flesh of the whole body are basically intact, and they can be put together completely, but what makes him wonder what kind of creature has this quirk and likes to tear the corpse alive? It may be in the cave in front of him, but he doesn't want to go in, just like he doesn't want to go into the deep sea, there are too many unknown things there, and the horror of the unknown is very annoying.
"Kill...... Kill ......" came a miserable and terrifying voice from the cave, as the voice gradually approached, Ace gradually saw the comer, he couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth, his body became solid, looking at the figure who came out of the darkness, he responded with indifference.
"It turns out that this kind of pervert is this thing, the spirit eater, after so long, it hasn't been extinct, these beings who like to tear corpses and devour souls are really humble species." I don't know if the creature can understand Ace's words, but the creature's appearance is indeed very hideous, covered in green pus, and through the thin layer of skin, you can see the foul liquid in it—that is his digestive organs.
On this thing's body, there are no human characteristics at all, it is more like a bloated monster, its arms are down to the knees, its fingers are all sharp knives, its tongue is full of teeth, and the gums of the teeth are empty, he faces Ace like this, he doesn't move, and looks at him sluggishly.
"I'll get straight to the point, I need your guy's ribs, it is said that the ribs of the spirit eater are a good thing to nourish, I have a little brother who is not light, who is better than me is his eldest brother, so, you still have to do the duty of the eldest brother, right, you just contribute your ribs, oh just right, his collarbone is also broken, by the way, bring your collarbone too." After Ace finished speaking, the monster let out a roar, as if angry, and rushed towards Ace with the blade in his hand, his speed was not slow.
Ace let out a weird smile, clenched his fist and smashed the monster's body hard, the pus on its body was smashed by Ace and then flowed out of green liquid, Ace couldn't help pouting, showing his disgust, that creature couldn't cut Ace at all, he was too flexible, and, after Ace broke its three pus, he couldn't stand up.
"So, your race is humble and weak, exposing all your weaknesses to the surface of your body, so it is only a matter of time before your race is extinct," Ace walked over to the fallen creature and asked him in a cold tone, "Do you know where the lava is?" ”
As a result, Ace did not kill it, but left after removing its ribs and collarbones, not because he didn't want to kill this creature, but as an apostle, he understood the value of life better than any life, and the existence of no life is worthless, even ants are contributing their strength in this complex world.
But as the apostles, they have been asking for the world, which makes him feel uncomfortable, even though the world has allowed them to appear so that they can use the power they take from the world to help some people.
Ace, until he met Ike, didn't understand why human beings would summon up so much courage to help others, and only then did he know why, the death of his previous life was so tragic and dazzling.