Chapter 64: The Shell
The branches kept slapping against Charles's face, but his eyes were fixed on the back of 096 in front of him.
The intricate branches of the tree could not stop the two of them from being strengthened, and the two of them stretched and jumped from tree to tree.
"Hahahaha!!" 096 let out a maniacal laugh without stopping.
"Dude, you can't run like this, the two of us are at the same speed, and if we run again, God knows where he will take us. Richard rings in his head.
"Don't talk nonsense, of course I know that!"
Charles kicked hard with his feet on a tree trunk, the revolver in his hand had been replaced with bullets, and this time he didn't aim at Cha 096's fatal point, but aimed directly at his lower limbs.
"Bump!" a shot rang out, sawdust flew and a piece of the bark next to 096's right leg was sliced off by a bullet.
With the rapid rush and the variety of tree trunks, even Charles's eyesight is amazing, and it is very difficult to aim now.
"I'll run, you shoot. "Richard took control of part of his body.
The gunfire rang out again, and after several rounds in a row, suddenly 096 burst into blood on his left leg, and his leg was hit.
The body was still running on crutches, but the speed slowed down.
Charles's body pounced like a cheetah, and the black blade in his hand was neat, and his head flew directly into the air.
Regardless of the corpse that was still spurting blood, Charles activated it with a tentacle ring, and the transparent tentacles quickly rolled the skull over.
Then when he looked at the skull's face, his black pupils suddenly shrank slightly.
The body wasn't any one of their crew, and the 096 Clown mask that was supposed to be hanging on it had disappeared at some point, replaced by a terrifying face
The skull, which was supposed to have eyes, nose, and mouth, was empty, except for four perfect holes in pitch black, shaped like a skeleton but with some kind of weirdness.
Charles turned his head to look around the woods, but found no sign of the mask, which he apparently had escaped from the chase at some point.
"Dude, that mask is playing a new trick, and it can eat the host's facial features?"
"I don't know, let's go back first, so as not to leave the mountain. ”
Charles didn't delay any longer, wrapped his tentacle around the corpse, and the corpse quickly returned.
When he returned to the ruins and saw James' massive body next to the campfire, all the crew members woke up.
Seeing that his captain was back, the crew came up one after another, Charles nodded quickly, and after comparing it with the strip of cloth on his shoulder, he found that his crew was not less, and this body was not one between them.
"Could it be that this corpse is indigenous to this place?"
The natives on the island are strange, and Charles is not sure.
After thinking for a few seconds, Charles walked with the body to the doctor who was treating him.
Hearing the footsteps behind him, the doctor continued to connect to the wound without looking back. "Don't worry, in fact, most of the ruptured tracheas are choked to death by their own blood, as long as I am here, they can't die. ”
Charles looked over to the second mate, Knona, who was lying on the ground, a tube the thickness of his little finger stuck in his Adam's apple, whistling slightly as he exhaled and inhaled.
The doctor turned to look at his captain. "How's it going over there? Did you catch that thing?"
"Let it run, but I've got his host back, and you'll see if there's any clue to it. ”
"Hmph, it's not easy to be your ship doctor. ”
Looking at the corpse on the ground, the doctor twisted the little thumb of the iron hand, and a sharp scalpel flicked out in an instant.
While the doctor was dissecting the corpse, Charles touched the black clothing on the corpse with his hand, the tentacles were very smooth, a bit like a diving swimsuit, but the clothes seemed to be aging, and under Charles's tugging, they began to tear.
"There are no clues on the clothes. Charles looked to the ghoul-like doctor next to him.
"Well, it's impossible!" the doctor's voice of confusion sounded.
"What's wrong?"
"Come and see for yourself, he doesn't have any internal organs in his stomach, are you sure this thing is just moving?"
When Charles heard this, he also crouched down on the corpse, turning over the knife cut by the doctor with his hand.
I found that it was really empty, and there were no organs in the chest and abdominal cavity of this thing.
He was sure it was still alive when he cut off its head.
"I'm more concerned about who made this thing, look here, touch it with your hands and see it. ”
The doctor's hand poked into the black hole in the skull and spun around.
"There were no scars in it, it healed so well that even I couldn't do that, and if the shell was man-made, it would be a perfect work of art. ”
Seeing that there was nothing to gain, Charles clapped his hands and stood up with some disappointment.
The corpse didn't help him in any way other than to make his mind more confused.
At this time, the crew members did not have any sleepiness on their faces, and they all stared at him in unison, waiting for the captain's next order.
"You can't sleep, can you? ”
Lily, who was holding half a loaf of bread in her hand, walked up to him and said nervously, "Mr. Charles, what if that thing still comes?"
A cold light flashed in Charles's eyes, "Don't worry, there won't be a next time." ”
Hearing the captain's order, everyone began to prepare their things, and there was a constant noise in the makeshift camp.
"Big man, your socks are put away, why did you run into my bag. ”
"Damn, who saw my flask!"
Although the ruins were not easy to walk, they were much better than the woods, and Charles and the others stood up and continued to set off.
At this time, Charles was not idle, and quickly drew a stick figure map of the island in his notebook
He and his crew quickly headed towards the center of the island, which was the most likely to obtain valuable information, since there were traces of human life.
The white shadow flashed behind the ruins of the crowd, and 096, crawling in the darkness, once again controlled a body, staring at Charles's back viciously.
By the evening of the next day, Charles had already explored the island for the most part, and except for the sudden activation of 096, there was nothing unusual about the island, as if it were an ordinary island.
In a cleared clearing, everyone else was sleeping, except for the crew who were keeping vigil.
Dipper, who was keeping vigil, watched the campfire in front of him and enjoyed his future. "If I become an islander, I'm going to have 10 wives! ”
"Can you stand it?" said Frey, the chef next to him
"Why can't you stand it?"
"Forget it, when I get off the boat this time, I'll take you somewhere and you'll know. ”
"I'm not going, it was because of you that I was caught by a vampire last time. ”
Deep's shadow was long illuminated by the glow of the campfire, merging with the darkness beyond the firelight.
096 held a rusty blade in his hand, crawling on all fours like a spider, and he silently approached the shadow.