Chapter 67: The Withered Flower
The matter of Twin Eggs Island is over, and the Sea King ships are free to cruise on the boundless seas. To tell the truth, the Einsatzgruppen is almost every pursuit of the Navy who doesn't want to eat and wait for death, and Nick is naturally unwilling to live up to such a position by chance.
Although he was on the sea, Nick's daily practice not only did not let go, but became more diligent. This made his strength increase slowly, and this gratifying harvest allowed him to practice Yu Fa hard, thus achieving a virtuous circle.
Until the twelfth day after the Twin Eggs incident, Nick had almost patrolled the waters of the G6 defense, but suddenly received an order from the headquarters to go to Gran Island to investigate the case of missing people.
Gran Island is an island in the G6 defense zone, and the investigation of Gran Island should be settled by Chuan Jidi. Puzzled, Nick contacted Chuan Jidi to figure it out. It turned out that Chuan Jidi received the news that Hawkins had appeared on Grant Island afterwards, so he wanted to give this errand to Nick, and he also wanted to give Nick a chance to earn credit, so he reported to the headquarters and asked Nick to go.
After learning the news, Nick was ready to hold an impromptu meeting on the Sea King ship, and after determining the plan to go to Gran Island to investigate, the Sea King ship immediately turned around.
A day later, the most deserted east coast of Koh Gran was rarely inhabited due to the dense reefs and cliffs dozens of feet high separating the island from the sea. The Sea King dropped anchor behind a large reef.
Nick and Flor are in a group, and Xia and Rowan are in a group that begins to land on the island. It's not appropriate to group it like this, but Flor is still not familiar with Rowan and Xia, so she has to do it as a last resort.
The east coast is difficult to climb, and the cliffs that are tens of feet high and 90 degrees Celsius make Flor think a lot. But when you actually reach the top, you can see the surging blue waves crashing on the immovable black reef, shattering into white flowers, white seagulls circling, and silver sea fish leaping, everything seems to be vibrant.
"It's magnificent." Nick took a deep breath, the endless sea really can't get enough of it.
"There's a woman here who's unconscious." Flore's sudden words interrupted Nick's view, and Nick turned around, and about thirty meters away from him was a large tree with a diameter of more than two meters, and under the tree there was a stone table, and on the stone table lay a woman.
Nick raised his eyebrows slightly, and walked forward quickly.
At a glance, this woman's hair was dry and yellowish abnormally, and gently helped her up, Nick was startled, and the unconscious woman was pale, with skin and bones on her face, sunken eyes, and high cheekbones.
"Why are you hungry like this?" Nick shook his head, and even picked up the woman, it was not heavy, it could be said that Nick was holding a handful of bones.
Before jumping off the cliff, Flor refused to go back with Nick and landed on the island alone.
Returning to the ship with the woman and leaving it in the care of Rowan's trainee doctor, Nick was about to land on the island again when the soldier came to report that the woman had woken up.
"Get out of the way, I won't eat anything other than Pete's cooking." Before he could arrive, Nick heard the woman's weak cry.
"If you don't eat it, then inject it." Nick lightly ordered, and the soldier who took care of the woman immediately took out the energy-replenishing medicine and injected the woman, and the woman lay on the bed with a painful face, and a tear slipped from the corner of her eye.
"Don't eat it now, if you just starved to death on the front foot, and Pete on the back foot came to you with delicious food, how would you call him?" Nick dropped a sentence and strode out the door.
"You...... Wait a minute. The woman's anxious and weak words came from behind, and Nick hesitated for a moment but stopped, turned and walked back.
The woman struggled to keep her eyes open to Nick, stretched out her withered hands to grab Nick's coat, and pleaded, "Pete must come back to me, please take me under the tree." ”
"You rest, as for the scene under that tree, the lookout at the top of the mast of my warship can see it, and when you are well, you can go up to the mast to observe it yourself." Nick was telling a serious lie, and the woman was bluffed, and her eyes suddenly had a little more light.
"That's right." Looking at the woman who was stuffing food frantically, a smile rose on Nick's face, and he turned to leave.
"Can you please help me take a look, Pete is a hunter and lives in the woods, he is tall and mighty, very handsome, and usually ......"
Nick interrupted the woman as he walked out, "When you get your body well, go find it yourself."
"Don't go, I promised Pete to wait for him under the tree, I can't go, what if he can't find me under the tree." The woman's anxious and helpless voice came out, and Nick couldn't help but sigh.
"Alright, I'll help you find it." Nick said casually, he didn't have the energy to look for it, he was here to investigate the disappearance.
Suddenly, Nick raised his eyebrows, and realized that this matter may not be simple, according to the woman's trust in that Pete, Pete is unlikely to have missed the appointment and may be missing.
"Hawkins, are you playing tricks?" Nick clenched his fists and walked off to the island.
Following Flore's trail, Nick quickly pursued, unknowingly walking onto the main road and losing all traces of Flore. Knowing that the prosperous land of Gran Island was in the west, Nick was in no hurry to go west.
The forces hidden in the shadows usually choose a deserted place as a base, but this time the opponent may be Hawkins, a cunning man, Nick is a little unconfident, but still walks in the dense forest.
I spent most of the day wandering in the dense forest, except for several bags of mosquito bites on my body, I didn't get any gain, and I didn't even find Pete's house that the woman had said before.
I had to come to the town in the west, walk through the streets, and the people were not panicked on their faces, because the disappearance of the population had not broken their peaceful life.
Walking into a tavern, Nick prepares to listen to the conversation at the table of those idlers, and maybe there will be an unexpected surprise.
Ordering a bottle of rum, a plate of senbei, and a barbecue, Nick sat down at a random table next to the table, put his ears pointy, and carefully watched the small talk of the crowd around him.
Suddenly, Nick was disturbed by the smell of perfume over his head, and as soon as he looked up, a pair of huge breasts appeared in front of him, and a beautiful woman with a proud bust was leaning over to look at him.
"What's the matter? I don't have the money to buy good wine, so I don't have to sell it to me. Nick gave him a casual look and looked down again at the senbei, this kind of woman was not his type of person.
"Yo yo, sir, you may have misunderstood what I meant, I came to invite sir, our boss thinks that sir, is his old friend, so please me." The beauty chuckled softly.
"Call him here." A smile flashed at the corner of Nick's mouth, and he said casually.
"Sir, you can't do this, our boss invites you to come and meet us. If you don't go, he'll blame me. The beautiful woman looked at Nick with a pitiful look.
"Okay then." Nick stood up happily, but he was very cautious inside, his old friend was either a pirate sent down by him, or an active admiral, and this "old friend" must be a fake.