Chapter Eighty-Three: Humanity
These appear to be the natives of the island, and Charles has found out from the library that the natives of the wild island are not all malicious, and some can be exchanged and even traded.
"We have no ill intentions, can you let us out?" Charles said slowly in Earthsea language.
The nasal creature remained motionless, as if it could not understand, and stood in the distance like a dead thing.
Looking at the strange scene in front of him, Charles waved his hand back, intending for the others to step back. Since you don't understand, let's leave first.
As soon as Charles's feet were raised, all the nasal creatures jumped up with twitching noses, their black claws sticking out of their dry driedness.
"Attack!!"
The gunshots instantly became one, and the nasal creatures were quickly shot and fell into the water under the rain of bullets, and their numbers seemed to be endless, and they were densely surging towards this side.
There was a mess all around, and the muddy water on the ground was stained with the purple blood of the nasal creatures, but no matter how many dead or wounded they were, they just didn't retreat.
Seeing these strange things getting closer and closer, Charles simply took out the lightning-shaped short staff in his arms.
"Sting!!" a large arc swept straight over, and the nasal creatures twitched and fell into the water.
They died, Charles and the others were also uncomfortable, and the powerful electricity was directed down the muddy water under the water to everyone's bodies, although they were far away, but the crew members were still very injured, and everyone couldn't help but convulse.
Charles was the first to recover, and when he looked up, he saw that all the nasal creatures in front of him were floating on the water, and they were finally dead.
He leaned his back against the wall, gasping for air, the relic was powerful, but the side effects were really uncomfortable.
Regardless of what these monsters are up to, the problem is solved for the time being.
"Take a three-minute break and continue to blow up the wall. Charles's deep voice echoed through the empty labyrinth.
God knows if these things have any companions, and they must get out of this place as soon as possible.
At that moment, a pipe almost level with the water floated silently towards this direction.
The underwater thing didn't seem to want to disturb anyone, and slowly touched the corpses of those nose-walking creatures, but in the eyes of Charles, who had night vision, he saw it clearly, and raised his hand directly in the direction of the tube to shoot it.
The tube sank rapidly, and scarlet blood bubbled out of the water. The red blood quickly turned its head and quickly swam into the distance.
Whatever it was, Charles couldn't let it escape, his right foot lifted from the muddy water, and with a hard slam on the wall, his whole body soared into the air, and the black blade in his hand threw himself straight down at the pool of blood.
With a "poof", the black blade plunged into something underwater, and there was more red blood in the muddy water.
Charles pushed his wrist upwards and jerked it with the back of his knife, and the underwater thing was lifted.
It was a man, a blind old man with the same white eyeballs, and the wounds on his naked body made his expression look very painful, but even so, he didn't mean to make a sound, and his trembling hands grabbed the hilt of Charles's knife and pushed it outward.
Seeing that it was the same kind, Charles did not attack again, turned his head and shouted in the direction of his companion: "Doctor, come and help him treat, don't let him die." ”
Everyone gathered around and looked at the old man in front of them curiously, no one thought that there were still living people in such a place.
"Can you understand me?" Charles asked the old man who was being riveted by the doctor.
As if he was frightened, the old man hurriedly put his finger to his mouth, "Shh~!!!
Charles carefully looked at the strange old man's appearance, he was very thin, very thin, thin like a skeleton wearing a human skin, and his neck was shrunk and he looked timid, as if he was ready to escape.
Richard's voice sounded in his head. "Dude, you don't look like Gollum in the Lord of the Rings, the one who bit off the protagonist's finger in the finale. ”
"Be quiet. ”
At this time, the doctor had already healed the old man's external injuries, and he limped to Charles's side.
"I just checked his body, it's a person, judging by his teeth, he is only in his forties, his body is severely malnourished, and his skin has signs of long-term soaking, he must have lived in such a bad place for a long time. ”
Charles's heart moved, doesn't he say that there are aborigines on this island?
"Do you know where the exit is?" said Charles, the main question, to the old man.
When the old man heard this, his dirty face suddenly rejoiced. "You've just come in, have you brought food from outside?"
Charles didn't want to waste time, so he directly put the black blade against his neck and threatened: "What do you answer when I ask, understand?"
Feeling the killing intent between Charles's words, the old man stiffened and nodded hurriedly.
"Who are you, and why are you here?"
"My name is Blake, I'm here to hear the sound of you fighting with Stai, come here and want to steal some food from Stai, don't worry, Stai is all yours, I don't want any of them. ”
Charles glanced at the corpses of the nosewalkers next to him, and it seemed that this thing was the Stelle in his mouth.
"Where's the exit to this labyrinth?"
"There is no exit, and the people who come in have never gone out. ”
"No one has ever been out?"
"I don't know, I've been in for more than 20 years anyway, and I haven't seen anyone go out. ”
"What torture were you talking about earlier?"
"A monster, it's the most powerful monster here, and it can never be killed, it gets into our mouths whenever it catches us, it torments us in our stomachs, it feeds on our screams of pain. ”
"How big is this labyrinth?"
"It's big, no one has touched the border, at least it's bigger than the British Isle. ”
Hearing this, Charles frowned slightly, he had checked before approaching this island, obviously this island is smaller than Coral Island, how could this labyrinth be bigger than England Island, you must know that England Island is the largest island in the North Sea, with a resident population of nearly 7 million.
Coupled with the thousands of kilometers of walls, Charles felt more and more that something was wrong with the labyrinth.
Looking at the trembling blind old man in front of him, Charles didn't think he would lie to himself.
"How many people like you are trapped here?"
"Thousands, no, tens of thousands, I don't know very well, most of them were tortured and caught, a small number escaped, and there were more than a hundred people in my residence. ”
"Did you see a man around here covered in bandages?" Charles asked about his disappearance of the first mate, perhaps his disappearance had something to do with the humans here.
"Stretch...... I can't see I don't know what the bandages you are talking about, but half an hour ago I seemed to hear something moving in the direction of where I lived. ”
Charles looked around at the open area, turned Blake around, and gave him a nudge. "Let's go, take me to where you live. ”