Chapter 9: The Tree Lives
Charles pulled the bandage, pulled out the black knife stuck in his leg and used it as a mountain knife, and kept chopping the branches with the bandages hanging in front of him.
The spiky branches were easily cut off, but the fractures were empty.
The two broke into the depths of the forest, and soon Charles saw the other people in the bandage mouth, and the scene in front of him shocked him.
In front of him was a strange low tree, with a trunk with long thorns wrapped around the boy's body, and the unconscious human was hanging in the air like a piece of bacon, swaying slightly from side to side like the fruit of this strange tree.
There is more than one "fruit", and the strange tree is full of fruit.
"Get them down. Charles clenched his black knife and rushed forward.
A teenager fell to the ground and snorted in pain, waking up slowly. He looked at Charles, who was frantically chopping tree trunks, and his head was a little confused. "Who are you? See my captain?"
Charles didn't have time to care so much, and frantically chopped the branches with his knife in his hand, saving everyone, but this time there was something in the hollow branch, a short cluster of constantly vibrating pink tentacles, falling out of the crosssection.
"Click......" The trunk of the dwarf tree suddenly moved, and everyone present looked away at the dwarf tree.
The rust-red trunk slowly cracked, and several solid gazes shot out of the cracks in the tree and swept over Charles.
A thought flashed through Charles's mind, "Is this thing alive?"
The movement of the dwarf tree grew louder and louder, so big that Charles could already see the twisted flesh and the yellow-brown eyeballs in the cracks of the trees, and the monstrous anger in the eyeballs.
"Run!!" The living people present moved instantly, and even if they didn't understand the situation, human instinct tended to them to flee for their lives quickly.
They didn't take a few steps on their front feet, and with a loud "bump", the dwarf tree exploded directly, and the twisted flesh creature crawled out.
They look like starfish with black hair, but upon closer inspection, they are thick, dark, slender tentacles, with orange-yellow one-eyes and a large mouth full of fangs in the center of their bodies.
The monster opened its mouth and twitched its tentacles, frantically chasing after the fleeing food.
Fortunately, Charles opened a way before, and the distance between the two sides is still narrowing.
"Click~" All the tree trunks around trembled and cracked. Charles: They seemed to have touched some kind of mechanism, and all kinds of deformed creatures stretched their disgusting strips of flesh as if they had been awakened from sleep.
They shook and let out a high-pitched roar that caused headaches, turning the entire island into a living hell.
All kinds of evil eyes swept over them, making everyone feel chills all over their bodies and their limbs stiff.
"Hurry, hurry!!" Charles, holding the boy to run for his life.
Not only did they run for a long time, but the situation became more and more dangerous, and now not only the flesh and blood were surging behind, but even the strange trees in front of them began to shake
At this moment, the wriggling tentacles in front of them formed a large net, and they were surrounded!
At the last moment, Charles suddenly remembered something, and directly pulled his hand to his waist, and touched a ball of hard texture, which was the explosives he brought over!
"Boom!!" Flesh splattered, and the blocked intersection reappeared.
The explosives helped everyone clear the way, but as everyone had less and less explosives on them, everyone's faces became more and more ugly.
Just when Charles still had the last pack of explosives left in his hand, the sound of waves crashing on the beach came from afar, and the exit was ahead!!
Everyone knew what that meant, and the speed under their feet increased a few points again, desperately squeezing the potential of the body in it.
The last pack of explosives was ignited and thrown, and the hard ground was finally replaced by soft sand. They came out.
The seven of them frantically rushed towards the wooden boat by the sea, followed by the meat-striped monster behind them.
In the afterglow, Charles saw a flash of golden light next to him, which was the statue of Photan that he had thrown on the ground earlier.
Charles ran a few steps to pick up the idol and jumped directly onto the wooden boat, and the others swung their oars desperately, and finally returned to the sea before the flesh-striped monsters caught up.
The monster seemed to be afraid of the sea, and after a slight touch, they shrank back.
When the group was completely back on the Mouse, the breath in their hearts relaxed, and everyone collapsed on the ground, panting like old dogs.
Although all the muscles were protesting, Charles still stood up with the pain, the danger was not yet out, and he had to leave the island.
"The big tube is on, the sailor pulls the anchor, the first mate is at the helm! ”
"Yes, Captain. ”
Seeing the crew quickly carrying out their orders, Charles suddenly felt a little surprised, and felt that something was wrong.
He sifted through his memories and was surprised to find that the crew had returned, and he could call them by name.
It seems that both the island and those monsters have modified their memories, but as long as they get rid of the island memories, they can be restored.
With his hands propped up on the edge of the boat, Charles looked out towards the distant island, and in the darkness, the fleshy monsters were blurry.
They stretched out their tentacles and swayed rhythmically from side to side, as if they were holding some kind of ritual, and they looked extremely terrifying under the support of darkness.
Under Charles's watchful eye, black smoke came out of the Mouse's chimney again, and the group slowly moved away from the strange island.
It wasn't until dinner time, when all the crew members learned what had happened, and they were shocked by the situation.
"Oh my God, are unexplored islands so dangerous, no wonder the rate of missing ships is so high. ”
"My memory is gone, and you're coming back, Captain, are you going to lie to me?"
After taking a sip of the soup, Charles coughed lightly, and the discussion quieted down.
Charles glanced at each of their faces and said, "Everyone began to report their names and job titles, checking each other's memories to see if there were any contradictions. ”
The strange island made him really careless, silently made the crew disappear, and could also erase his own memories, this power made him feel very taboo.
"Bandage, duty...... First Officer, assisting the captain and organizing the work plan...... , responsible for the preparation of cargo stowage plan, 12~24 ...... Helmsman. ”
"James, the chief engineer, is responsible for maintaining the normal working order of the turbo furnace, as well as maintaining the propulsion and ancillary equipment, the boiler, and the lubrication and cooling and fuel oil. ”
"Frey, the duty cook, is in charge of the crew's catering. ”
"Deep, the boatswain, is responsible for instructing sailors to do the maintenance and repair of anchors, cables, and loading and unloading equipment, and leading sailors to do paint, sail cables, and high altitudes. ”
"Walter, a position of water: Perform steering, sailing watch duties and daily deck department maintenance. ”
"Jack, Duty Two Water: Perform various craft work on ribbon cables, retracting and retracting ramps, and decks. ”
"Anna, the ship's doctor, is responsible for the treatment of the crew's illnesses, as well as the daily medical examination. ”
After comparing the memories in his head and finding that there was no abnormality, Charles was completely relieved, he was really worried, and the matter finally passed.