Led by Bernard, the group arrived at a stone house in the town.

The stone house doesn't look very different from its surroundings.

Seeing this room, Baget, who had been following them, shook his head in disgust: "I'll go first." ”

As he spoke, he turned around and left.

All you can hear is the sound of his golden prosthetic leg hitting the stone, and he is drifting away.

"This is the mayor's house, and it's our leader." Berner said.

There was a knock on the door.

Then a slightly rough, bright voice came from inside.

"Bernard? Come on in. ”

When the words fell, the door was opened, and the people saw what was inside.

It's no different from a normal room.

The crowd got in, and Bororo bent his waist and squeezed in reluctantly.

The so-called mayor was also a skeleton, but judging from the size of the skeleton, the skeleton should have been somewhat strong during his lifetime.

He also wears simple soft armor.

There is a statue of a god in the room, which is supposed to be used for prayer.

The figure wore a hood, its clothes were tattered, and it held a wound chain in one hand and a Grim Reaper's scythe in the other.

Apparently not quite like some normal faith.

Looking at the emblem on it, Arka felt familiar, wasn't this the emblem of the Tomb Keeper they had seen before?

"Ah, stranger, how long has it been. Hello, I'm the mayor here, just call me Cod.

I hope my people didn't scare you, hahaha. ”

The skeleton looked at Arka and laughed.

Although I can't see their facial expressions, I can still roughly tell their emotions by their tone of voice.

"Alka, I'm not very focused on race and appearance. It's just that I didn't expect there to be such an island. Arka said with a smile.

"Can you tell us if you don't mind?" Sitting on Alka's shoulder, Lucilia asked.

She was genuinely curious about the island.

Hearing this, Cod nodded: "Of course, everyone sit down." It's not something to hide either. ”

As everyone sat down, Cod grabbed his skull and said with some embarrassment: "I'm sorry, there is no tea here for the time being, please forgive me." ”

"Of course, I understand." Arka said with a wave of his hand.

Cod nodded, and began to speak: "We woke up about five or six thousand years ago, and there was some confusion at that time. Later, it was told and understood by outsiders. It took a long time for us to come to terms with who we are and to know what the world is like now.

Of course, it was a chaotic time.

Some of us naturally want to leave, but unfortunately, as you can see, there is something clearly wrong with us in this state.

Although we were able to leave the island, we couldn't even get out of the fog on the sea. ”

"Can't get out? No wonder. Arka said, no wonder he hadn't heard of these races outside.

In other words, it is impossible for a person like them, who is half-alive and half-dead, to leave the area filled with white fog.

Of course, it is also possible that it is fake.

However, Arka is not easy to judge, so I believe it is true for the time being.

"Do you have to die if you go out? Or will it be pulled back? Lucilia asked, curious.

Berner, who was next to him, said: "It's like it's like it's dead, and then it's going to be dragged back." ”

Hearing this simple explanation, everyone nodded in understanding, which was easy to understand.

That is to say, for thousands of years, like the undead, they have lived without sleeping, eating or drinking, and they have not even been able to leave this place. It's not completely crazy yet, it's not right to think about it, although many undead have just gone all the way and seem to be in good shape, they have more or less all kinds of mental problems.

However, these various problems seem to be understandable.

"I'm sure you've seen all the way that these people of mine have begun to fall into madness under such torture."

Codd said suddenly.

When they heard this, they did not know what to say.

They don't understand, and they can't empathize.

Not to mention what they understood.

"Thousands of years of torture, it seems that Baggett is also out there just now? You must have been hindered by him, so please forgive him. ”

Speaking of which, I could feel a little embarrassment in Cod's tone.

"His ships are full of people who have gone completely insane, or almost insane.

Not all outsiders are as friendly as you, and we have received so many strangers over the millennia.

Some are as friendly as you, some treat us like monsters, some treat us like experiments, some speak ill of us, some try to purify, but these mean nothing other than to make us suffer more.

So his pirate regiment was out attacking all the ships that tried to get to the island, and we dead acquiesced.

The ships that can be driven away by them cannot bear our appearance and cannot change our lives. ”

With that, the mayor stood up and said, "If you want to buy goods or harvest supplies, forgive us, there is nothing suitable here.

If you're curious about the island and want to take a look, don't bother these afflicted people.

There are no secrets on this island, and you can wander around as long as you don't disturb the inhabitants. ”

As he spoke, he went straight to the idol and suddenly began to pray.

Watching this scene, Berner turned to look at the crowd and made a boo gesture. Then he quietly walked out of the room with them, and closed the door by the way.

"Please forgive him for his courtesy, he has been under enough pressure for thousands of years to need to pray for catharsis at times.

Memories are not good for him. ”

Everyone nodded indifferently, the undead here are indeed more or less mentally abnormal, and they can easily get used to it.

And it's not rude at all, but these undead are a little too polite.

Jason looked at Berner, who spoke: "What about you, why do you feel like you seem to be the most normal we have ever met?" ”

On the contrary, this Berner, who had been walking around with them, did not show much abnormal behavior.

"Hahahaha, of course that's it." As he spoke, he shook the fishing rod he had been carrying on his shoulder. Very proud.

"I was obsessed with fishing when I was alive, and I didn't have many friends or even relatives at that time.

Fishing is all I have, I live by fishing. So I was already abnormal when I was alive, and what could be more abnormal when I am dead. ”

Berner smiled very freely.

At this time, Simon was very keenly thinking of something and asked, "Did the undead who were with you before have their own hobbies?" ”

Hearing this, Berner stared at him with skeletal eyes burning with soul fire: "You're sharp, that's right. Narissa is obsessed with painting, Sabog is good at sculpture, and Vali is deeply immersed in dance. ”

That is to say, if you have an obsessive hobby, after death, this hobby can be placed on your spirit to keep your mood in a good state.

Compared to other people's words. Simon said.

Berner nodded: "That's right, you guys found out so quickly, it's really amazing."

Yes, it's a pity that only a few of us have such obsessive hobbies, and even after death, we are still addicted to them.

A lot of people have given up in the torment of endless time, and those who have hobbies are either intact or completely insane. ”

As he spoke, he took a few people and slowly walked in other directions.

As he walked, he chatted casually.

Obviously, Arka, these rare outsiders, have become the objects of confiding in the skeleton in front of them.

He really needs some normal people to chat with and ease his emotions.

The crowd also needs to understand that it is not excluded at all.

"If it weren't for these hobbies, we would have gone crazy and become pirates on ghost ships.

So sometimes I really admire Baggett and Cord, although they always quarrel and disagree with each other, but it is most normal for them to rely on their own will. ”

"Is Baggett normal?" Jason asked with some uncertainty beside him.

"Of course, he's always been like this, isn't it normal?"

That said, it seems to be true.

This kind of personality has been abnormal from the beginning, and it has not changed much in thousands of years, and it is still an abnormal character, doesn't it mean that it is normal.

It's weird, but it's true.

It soon led them to an area with many houses but few undead villagers coming and going.

"Just find a few houses to live in here, and of course, I think you might prefer to live on your own ship.

After all, this is the residence of the undead, and although everyone used to be normal humans, many habits have long since changed over the millennium. ”

"Why are there so many empty houses here?" Natsuyo asked.

And these vacant rooms seem to be clustered together.

"It's all the crazy inhabitants who joined the pirates, and naturally it flowed down."

"By the way, if you need to find me, you can find me at the lighthouse and at the harbor, where I usually fish.

Of course, if you need some supplies, you can also come to me. Most of the fish I catch are released and you can take them if you need them. ”

After a few small talks, Bernard left with them all the time.

Of course, the people did not go into these houses to rest. After taking a casual look and making sure that it had been uninhabited for a long time, he retreated.

"What now? Want to draw a map of the island? Or do you want to leave? ”

Xia Daiti said, walking towards the boat on the shore.

Hearing this, Arka couldn't help but think. He wasn't sure for a while, it must have been strange for this place to become like this, but they now had their own things to do.

After thinking about it, he said, "Then let's draw a picture, I'm here anyway." ”

Besides, the island is really small, so it's easy to walk around.

And through the special vision of seeing through the secrets, Arka always felt a little reddened in the sky.

Xia Daiti nodded, and hung out with a few people, anyway, there was nothing to do now.

While walking, observing, and chatting.

"So what is it about this island that it is the way it is?" Jason asked, a little strangely.

"The chaos of the environment." Julia said.

Along the way, she didn't speak, and she kept perceiving the peculiarities brought by her surroundings by relying on her own perception.

At least I felt something different.

Looking at everyone's curious eyes, he said as he walked: "It's very simple, just like the extremely weak and chaotic space of the Broken Sea Sea before.

Here, death becomes extremely weak in this foggy area, and even disappears completely.

It is in this area that the concept of death may no longer exist. ”

"That is, there will be no real death here?" Jason asked with a frown.

Is there anything so outrageous?

Julia shook her head: "No, you can't say that, immortality represents the immortality of the soul, not the incorruptibility of the body.

When you die, your soul is still immortal, attached to your body. But your body is dead, so when you leave the fog, you will most likely suffer physical death and corruption.

Death doesn't leave forever, he will grab you in the right place and grab you by the throat. ”

"Or become an undead like them?" Lucilia asked.

"I don't know, but maybe it's a possibility. It's more likely that you'll leave the area and die completely, and maybe not come back like they did. ”

"Don't forget, it took tens of thousands of years for them to wake up after they died." Arka turned his head to remind.

For tens of thousands of years, the devil knows what happened to this place.

In other words, if they die, they may have to wait so long before they can recover.

So basically dead or dead.

No one will try their own death, there is no point.

"So even if the death here disappears, it won't be like them. They were confined to the area, and there must have been some other reason. Julia said, then shook her head to indicate that she knew that.

"I'm more concerned about this thing than what you're talking about." Simon said, standing under a big tree and looking at it.

Maybe it's because the area is full of deaths that can't leave, or maybe it's because of something else.

The plants on the island are slightly dilapidated and dry, but they are still alive.

Just like the big tree in front of them, it was completely devoid of green leaves, and it was as dry as a completely withered tree.

But it was a living tree.

"What's wrong with this thing?" Jason leaned over curiously and asked.

"The Rebirth of Death." Simon said as he climbed up the tree, and then saw a sprout growing out of a large bunch of dry dead trees.

The shoots are about the size of a fingernail.

Looking at this young leaf, Simon had already begun to take out various devices and began to unfold them.

"What do you mean?" Jason was a little confused.

"That's the kind of material we need." Arka said as he recalled.

The material needed was the one they were working on a device that would allow the puppet girl to have a soul.

One of them, the material they don't know where to look for is very occult - dead life.

Very symbolic stuff.

Simon delved a little deeper than he did here.

Then, under the gaze of everyone, Simon cut the young shoot with a severed branch below, and immediately sealed it with magical protection.

Then he put the devices away and jumped off.

"Following the voyage of fate is indeed useful, isn't it?" Simon said with a smile as he looked at the buds in the vial in his hand.

Alka looked at the shoots in the bottle, his eyes slightly misty, he wanted to see more.

Then he saw that on the tender shoots were the brokenness and confrontation that carried death.

Life is pressed on death and stands out from death.

Then his eyes were slightly sour, and Arka closed his eyes rested for a moment.

When he sees something that he can't see more at this stage, there will be such a situation, which can be regarded as a warning.

"Then this thing ......" Arka seemed to think of something, and a leg bone appeared in his hand.

It was the bone that had been removed from the thigh of the undead that had been drilled out of the coffin, bearing the memory of death.

Thinking that those undead will be resurrected, I wonder if the skeleton will be missing a leg?

"Memories after death?" Alka was a little unsure.

But he did see something similar in this bone.

Talking about Arka and Simon, the two looked at each other.

The strange phenomenon brought about by this area may really give them something to gain.

Thinking of this, Arka said directly: "There may be materials we need on the island, by the way, pay attention to it, and take a look around." ”

Several people suddenly had some motivation and began to follow Xia Daiti to draw a map and observe the surroundings.

Exotic areas are naturally able to produce more scarce materials.

……

Time is running out of time.

Arka: They do boring things on the island.

"You're leaving?" Berner sat on a boulder on the shore with a fishing rod in his hand. He asked, looking at the person next to him.

And sitting next to him were Poloro and Jason, as well as Juan Lu.

They are the same look as Bernard.

"That's right, I might be leaving in a while." Jason said.

Then he seemed to feel that a fish was coming up, so he calmly took the fishing rod and began to pull with the fish, and then violently forced.

A big fish was dragged up by him, and the strength of this fish was probably around the second stage.

The moment it dragged up, Jason seized the opportunity to knock the fish unconscious and threw it into the fish box next to him with a punch.

It was a huge box with a layer of ice.

It was already filled with dense fish, all of which they had caught.

"It's a pity, I still have a lot of fishing tips to pass on to you." Berner said helplessly.

It's rare to meet like-minded people.

This time together is enough for him to remember for hundreds of years.

"What you've taught us is enough, let's figure out the rest." Juan Lu said solemnly beside him.

"Speaking of which, aren't your other companions ......," Berner said, gesturing to his own skull, clearly conscious.

This words and behavior made the three of them slightly embarrassed, and they didn't know how to explain?

"Uh...... Perhaps, or maybe they are just curious. ”

"yes, I haven't seen an outsider in years, so I don't know much about the situation outside, forgive me."

"It's fine, it's okay, but they do have some problems with their brains." Jason smiled and said nonchalantly.

At this moment, the drumbeat of music came from the small port in the distance.

Hearing this, the three of them got up.

"We'll take our leave, maybe we'll see you again later."

"Of course, if you can, you can find a way to free us."

(End of chapter)