The moment Joey finished speaking, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly fell into deathly silence.
Mi Pang opened his mouth wide, and his eyes suddenly looked astonished.
Joey waved his hand in front of him and comforted him sincerely: "Is Fatty okay?"
"Ugh~"
Before he could even react, he saw Mi Pang swooping out, squatting on the ground not far away and vomiting, beating his abdomen with one hand, and reaching into his mouth to clasp his throat with the other hand.
The rest of the people looked at each other with ugly expressions.
Chris and Anderson took off their clothes and threw them into the fire, as if they were contaminated with viruses.
Not satisfied with this, the two of them hurried back to the cabin, presumably to change clothes.
Ignoring everyone, Joey buried the fish together with the fire, but he could still see white smoke coming out of the sand, along with the lingering fragrance.
He had no choice but to bring another basin of water and pour it on, finally getting rid of the smell.
After everything was done, he breathed a long sigh of relief.
The three girls gathered together, looking at their expressions as they had not yet recovered from the information Joey revealed.
He walked over and said softly: "It's finally done, why don't you come and help me?"
The three girls turned their heads to look at Joey blankly, and Margaret was the first to speak:
"You're not scared at all?"
She admitted that she had been practicing medicine for several years, but she still had trouble calming down and could not understand Joey's calmness and calmness.
Joey said in a joking tone: "What's the matter? I've seen scarier ones, do you believe it?"
Others may not believe it, but the way Anne looked at him was very strange.
She said, "It's all your fault. You couldn't have said it more tactfully. Even if you said the fish was poisonous and you shouldn't eat it, it's okay. It's fine now. Everything makes me sick to my stomach."
The other two girls stared at him with their beautiful eyes angrily.
Joey yelled that he was wronged, but then he thought about it, really, why didn't he think of this earlier. He scratched his head in embarrassment and whispered: "I didn't expect that just now."
At this time, Mi Pang came over with a pale face. Seeing him looking exhausted, Joey could only express his deep sympathy.
Comforting: "Is Fatty okay?"
"It's okay, uncle. Fatty just almost took out his stomach and washed it."
Professor Remo suggested at this time: "How about we change camps?"
Before Joey could speak, a series of approval sounds rang in his ears.
So, after a day of exploration, the exhausted people pushed the camp thousands of meters to the southwest.
Despite this, Mi Pang still insisted on moving forward and would not give up until the old camp was completely out of sight.
After all the physical exertion, the nine people were sweating all over.
I didn't feel it when I was busy, but now that I'm taking a break, someone's stomach suddenly starts growling.
Everyone looked at Mi Pang.
"Don't look at me, I feel like vomiting as soon as I enter the kitchen."
After what happened just now, if it weren’t for the excessive physical exertion, no one would actually have much appetite.
9 people sat together and looked at each other.
Is the affordability so low? Joey thought to himself: I saw a lot more disgusting things than this when I was in Senegal.
Days without sunshine, I have to say, really temper the mind.
He stood up and walked silently to the kitchen.
Mi Pang asked loudly: "What are you doing?"
"Wait, let me show you my skills as a chef today."
Mi Pang looked at Joey's back, then at the people who were left behind, and said, "I must have heard right, right? Joey said he wanted to cook?"
Everyone had weird expressions on their faces. Only Chris kept giggling: "As long as you have something to eat, I don't even have the energy to go back to the room now."
Thanks to the training of the strange things in Senegal, Joey has developed a unique set of cooking skills.
The quality may not be good, but it is definitely strong enough to restore physical strength to the greatest extent.
Half a moment later, Joey came out with a pot of clear soup.
At first glance, it looks like water porridge. The gugu is steaming, but it has no aroma at all.
"It's easy to deal with tonight"
"Can this be eaten?" Mi Pang stared at Joey with a suspicious look.
"Why do you care so much?" Chris filled a bowl and drank it. "It's quite delicious!" He poured another full bowl.
"Really or not, get me a bowl too."
"Don't push me"
"Don't grab it"
. . .
It was the first time for Joey to experience this feeling, and a satisfied smile appeared on his lips.
No wonder Mi Pang is the last one to use the chopsticks every time. That’s how it feels. It feels good to see the food you made being divided up.
Suddenly, Joey felt like there was a gaze looking at him from behind.
He turned around and looked around. The people behind him either lowered their heads or were looking elsewhere. He didn't notice who was looking at him.
After turning around, that feeling appeared again.
This time, Joey turned around suddenly and met a pair of bright eyes.
"Is something wrong?"
Margaret Ritter looked like she was hesitant to speak, and stirred the clear soup in the bowl with a small spoon.
“There seems to be residue of medicinal materials inside.”
"As expected of a doctor, you can see all this," Joey said with a smile, "Even though it's just clear soup, I added a lot of things to it."
Mi Pang said: "I didn't expect you to have this skill. Let me tell you, I've drank two bowls and I don't feel nauseated at all."
"That's not what you said just now."
Mi Pang smiled dryly and scratched his head.
Joey thought that the feeling just now seemed not to be Margaret.
Who could be peeking at me?
His gaze passed through the crowd, suddenly met Annie's amber eyes, and then quickly looked away.
is her?
Anne is transcendent, in a sense, and the two share a secret.
Joey stood up and said, "I went to the kitchen to take a look. I didn't expect you guys to be quite good at eating."
When passing by Annie, he touched her shoulder lightly and imperceptibly.
Annie may not be aware of Joey's intentions, or she may not want to pay attention to him.
Joey waited in the kitchen for a while, but before Annie came, he had to go back with the remaining food.
In the following time, everyone shared today’s harvest.
The faces of Anderson's group were all ugly. They thought they would have a full meal after putting in a lot of effort to get the food back, but they didn't expect such a result.
Everyone gathered around the bonfire, and the firewood made a "sizzling" sound in the silent night sky.
Mi Pang asked: "Joy, have you seen that thing before?" This is what everyone has always wanted to ask.
He had nothing to hide about this. He didn't say anything before because he was afraid that everyone wouldn't be able to accept it for a while, leaving everyone enough time to digest it.
He said in a calm voice:
"That thing is called a deep diver"
After waiting for a moment, his eyes wandered around again. He was filled with surprise, and then he looked at Anne and asked:
"You don't know the Deep Ones"
Annie shook her head.
He turned his attention to Remo, the old professor of mysticism, and said, "Teacher, haven't you heard of it?"
The answer I got is still that I haven’t seen it before.
He raised his brows slightly and said secretly: "Is the information blockade against extraordinary people in the outside world so serious?"
Think about it when we were in Senagal, not to mention low-level sequences, even demigods and extraordinary beings were no secret.
Having said that, it would be disrespectful to keep everyone interested.
He said bluntly: "The deep diver is the sequence 9 of the Poseidon pathway."
After everyone had digested this information, he continued: "Before I met you, I was following an investigator from the church to investigate extraordinary events about heretics."
"That extraordinary event and the magic ritual involved came from an organization called the 'Mermaid Forest'. Of course, they also have another name, 'Poseidon Believers'"
"The fish you see are the deep divers who failed to advance."
Under the black church in another space in Port Lia, there are many such irrational deep divers.
If Nomu hadn't sacrificed his life and used the pollution of the Supreme Mother Goddess to fight against it, I am afraid that the entire Port of Leah would have been submerged in the sea by now.
"Why does this kind of thing appear here?" Chris asked puzzledly.
"If you ask me about this kind of thing, who will I ask?" Joey rolled his eyes at him angrily.
This incident undoubtedly had a big impact on everyone present.
Ordinary people are like a lonely sail in the ocean, weak and helpless in the storm.
No one asked any more questions, and the atmosphere fell into an eerie silence.
I don't know how long it took, but at Mi Pang's suggestion, I decided to take a rest first and talk about it tomorrow morning if anything happened.
Joey also went back to his room, not in a hurry to rest, but looked at the ceiling and pondered.
In fact, when the information about the deep divers was thrown out, his attention was always observing the other eight people, not letting go of any details.
In the outside world, it seems that no one knows anything about extraordinary beings. Ordinary people only know about the church and do not know about the existence of investigators in the temple.
Don't the Seven Gods want to develop their own power and cultivate more extraordinary beings?
Joey thought about this for a long time but still couldn't figure it out.
Early the next morning, he was awakened by a quarrel.
After getting dressed, I opened the door and walked out. I thought it was still early, but looking at the height of the sun, it was actually not that early.
Joey yawned and walked over and asked, "What's wrong?"
The people arguing were Anderson and Chris.
Seeing Joey coming over, Anderson said coldly: "Tell me, have you two colluded a long time ago?"
Joey looked confused: "What does it have to do with me?"
"Don't think I don't know. You have suspected me a long time ago and asked Chris to stare at me." Anderson glared at Joey with an angry look on his face.
Joey rolled his eyes at Chris angrily.
I knew you were stupid, but I didn't expect you to be so stupid. How long ago did you get caught?
He stretched and said calmly: "So?"
Joey didn't have time to worry about why Chris was exposed. Now that the matter was clear, it was time to show off.
"Nine people, you dare to say that no one will doubt me?"
"I don't care, I'm going to quit now anyway." Anderson frowned, looking like a rogue.
I see! Joey suddenly realized: He had been doing this for a long time just to find an excuse to leave the team!
In fact, he also had this idea. After all, 9 people were too many, uncontrollable, and unstable.
If given the choice, he would be eager to break up the gang.
“I want out too” was said by Remo Lewis.
This actually surprised everyone for a moment.
An obscure meaning flashed through his turbid eyes, and he sighed: "I'm getting older, and even without this curse, I don't have many more years to live, so I don't want to bother anymore."
Anne's voice suddenly sounded:
"Anyone else want to quit?"
Joey was stunned for a moment, and just as he was about to raise his hand, he received a vicious look. He then put his hand down, feeling depressed.
The biggest problem in breaking up the team is actually only one from beginning to end, and that is the sailboat leaving the island.
Without Anne making a clear statement, only Anderson and the professor decided to leave.
After waiting for a while, Annie said:
"When I go out to sea, I have prepared enough kayaks and they are in the warehouse. If I want to leave, I will not stop me."
"No," Gur said coldly, "We can't let them go. What if they report us to the church?"
At the mention of reporting, the expressions on everyone's faces became very strange.
Anderson quickly expressed: "I am reporting to the church because I am afraid that I will not die quickly enough?"
In fact, ordinary people like them who are contaminated with the supernatural can only get one result from seeking help from the church. If they are lucky, they can get help.
There is only one bad luck situation, and that is to be purified.
The so-called purification means humane destruction.
Civilians are not qualified for the church to use its power to treat them. The best solution is to destroy them from the ground up.
Everyone present knows this.
Olivia pushed the black frame and said in a calm voice: "What if the information about Ghost Island is used as a bargaining chip?"
After Olivia said these words, Joey found that many people had their thoughts.
Annie snorted coldly and sneered: "You can rest assured about this. If Ghost Island was really that easy to find, it wouldn't be a legend. It would be impossible to come in without anyone to lead the way or coordinates."
Joey was stunned for a moment, feeling that there was something in Annie's words, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
Anderson lowered his head, thought for a while, gritted his teeth, and said in a deep voice: "I'm sorry, I still decided to leave."
"Don't worry, I won't take anything away from you. I just need to give you a little water to hold on to the shore."
Judging from the time of previous landing on the island, it is not too far from the shore.
"Today, we will rearrange the camp and not go out." After Annie finished speaking, she turned back to the boat with an expressionless face.
Soon, Anderson took out the kayak and inflated it enough to accommodate two people.
Bringing some water and bread, the kayak dragged a long trace on the sand.
Professor Remo was waiting on the shore, and Anderson was responsible for moving things.
"Joy, can I have a few words with you alone?" Anderson whispered as he passed by.
"Huh?" Joey was stunned for two seconds and nodded: "Okay!"
The two of them walked slowly from the camp to the beach.
Joey thought Anderson would question him about Chris, but unexpectedly he said:
“From the moment I stepped onto this island, I had a very bad intuition.”
Joey stared into his eyes and said word by word: "What do you mean?"
"This island gives me the feeling of being in a dreamland"
