Chapter 8: A Person
"Found it!That's it!!"
Charles started to get excited, that thing was just left here, there wasn't even a guard nearby, just send it back to the Coral Islands, and the mission was done!
He raised his foot and was about to take it and then stopped suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind, it was a little too simple, right? If it was so simple, why didn't those people take it before, but all disappeared?
Just as Charles hesitated, the bandage next to him was lifted, and he walked straight over to pick up the statue of Fertan.
Then he returned to Charles's side and said in that slow tone, "We...... Let's go back...... The high priest is waiting......"
Although Charles felt that something was wrong, but since everything was in hand, he couldn't care so much at this time, so he waved his hand and quickly walked out with the crew.
"That thing looked a bit heavy, and we carried it for thirty minutes. ”
The bandage next to him nodded at the same time as James. They continued along the path towards the sea. The weight of the gold statue is not light, and even if it is carried in turns, it is very tiring.
Halfway through the path, Charles stopped to rest, and at this time, he couldn't wait until his physical strength was completely exhausted to rest, otherwise there would be a situation and he wouldn't even have a chance to react.
By the campfire, Charles, who was sitting on the ground, looked at the darkness around him with wary eyes.
If there is no danger in the time of progress, then it is proved that the danger only comes from the way back, and you cannot let your guard down yet.
After a break of more than ten minutes, Charles turned his head to the bandage beside him and said, "We can't stop for the next part of the road, we must go all the way to the end." ”
The bandage on the side nodded and paused for a few seconds, looked left and right, and then said, "I...... I seem to have forgotten something......"
"As long as the idol is in hand, everything else is the same, hurry up. Charles, who was a little impatient, grabbed the idol and continued to move on.
The bandage said no more, and followed in silence.
The strange forest appeared and disappeared in the light of the fire, and there was no sound in the silence except for the wheezing and footsteps of the two men.
When Charles returned to the beach to look at the Mouse in the distance, there was a glimmer of joy on his sweaty face.
"This adventure has been successful, as long as I go back, as long as I give this thing to the Photans, I can buy an exploration ship to recruit the crew and find my way home. ”
Just as he was running on the sand towards the Mouse in the distance, he stopped, the smile on his face slowly retracted, and a question appeared in his mind.
"I drove this big steamship by myself??"
An unknown fear suddenly enveloped Charles, and he thought back to how he had come here.
"I was invited by the Photans to look for their holy relics, I set off alone in the Mouse, I went to the kitchen alone to prepare food, I filled the turbine with fuel alone, I cleaned the deck by myself, I ...... I'm patrolling the deck alone, I'm ...... One person at the helm?"
Charles wanders back and forth on the beach with a golden statue in his arms.
"I used to have a crew, I sailed with the first mate John and the boatswain Deem, but before Dim was skinned by something underwater, John also disembarked in the Coral Islands, and after that I was alone on the Mouse, yes!!"
Charles had a pained expression on his face, and although his memory was very clear, what he showed was contrary to reality, which was not logical at all.
"This can't be! I'm not Superman, how can I do so many things by myself! Something must be wrong!!"
When Charles's gaze inadvertently swept over the footprints on the ground, he was shocked.
I saw a total of seven people on the ground, large and small, and the marks were very clear, proving that these were all left recently.
Charles hurriedly threw the statue in his hand, took off his boots directly, and compared them with a shoe print on the ground.
"The lines, the size, the curvature, these are my footprints! I didn't come alone, the memory in my head has been rewritten!"
Frightened into a cold sweat, he looked at the empty ships next to the Mouse, and now knew why there was no one on them.
Charles took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down, "The information now shows that I am not alone, I have a crew, they have disappeared, not only in reality, but also in my mind, they must be found, there is no going back alone." ”
But a new question is in Charles's face: how do he find six people he doesn't know and don't exist, who are they, what are their names, are they male or female?
It was at this time that a figure slowly walked into the light of the torch.
The moment Charles saw the man's appearance, his pupils instantly shrank, and he instantly took out a pistol and pointed it at the thing's head.
It was a figure covered in old yellow bandages, and the bandages on his body were cut and tattered, exposing the dark skin underneath.
"Stop!!Tell your name!!"
"I ...... My name is Bandage, no, I don't...... I don't call it a bandage, who are you? I seem to know you...... Do you know me?"
A quick glance at the mummy's bandaged feet, Charles searched among the seven pairs of footprints.
The bandage was clearly printed on the sand, and although it was a little hard to believe, this guy was indeed his own crew.
Charles put down the revolver in his hand and quickly explained what had happened to the bandage.
"Yes...... I don't remember exactly, who I am? Do you know who I am?"
"I'll talk about these things later, where did you escape, and are there anyone else there?" Charles hurriedly asked.
"Tree ...... Inside the tree... The tree doesn't like me...... The tree let go of me, and there were other people there. ”
Charles couldn't figure out what the bandage man was saying, but he seemed to know where the others were.
"Take me quickly, we will get them out. ”
Charles, with the remaining five pairs of shoe prints in his mind, returned to the strange forest with bandages.
The misty forest was as silent as ever, and the bandage led Charles back onto the footprint-strewn path.
With the previous reminder, Charles realized that something was wrong, the footprints on the ground became fewer and fewer, and it was obvious that they were all gone.
I don't know if it's a psychological effect, Charles began to feel that something in the forest was watching him.
After walking for half an hour, the shaking bandage suddenly turned around and walked towards the forest next to it. Charles now knew why the bandages on his body had broken like this.