Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 232 Gwen
Gwen carefully took out a dress from the closet.

The dress was a beautiful bright yellow color, and although it had faded due to washing, it was still Gwen's most precious thing.

This was made by her mother herself.

Gwen slowly took off her original clothes, which were already tattered and could barely cover her body.

Then she changed directly into the dress and tried hard to smooth out the wrinkles.

She originally wanted to take a shower and change into the dress cleanly, but she was too weak and probably couldn't hold out until she finished the shower.

After changing into her prettiest dress, Gwen turned around a few times. The dress was so light and thin, like the fluttering wings of a butterfly, and she giggled.

After admiring it for a while, she lay down on the only wooden bed in the house and slowly closed her eyes.

She was finally going to die.

Since her parents left, Gwen has been hiding at home for almost half a year, but she has not received any news from her parents. Instead, a war has broken out nearby.

The soldiers came and went. Fortunately, Gwen's house was dilapidated enough that no one would pay attention to it. She hid in the basement and watched the soldiers come and go quietly through a small hole.

This was originally a small village with many friendly villagers and several of her good friends. Now she is the last living person in the village.

After searching everywhere and not finding any food, Gwen looked at her wrists which were as thin as sticks and knew that she would soon meet her parents.

So she put on her favorite dress and lay quietly on the bed.

Today was the day she was going to die, so it should be a very important day. Adults would celebrate on important days, but Gwen didn't quite understand. She had no food to celebrate with, so she dug up some wild grass and put it on a plate, pretending it was a sumptuous meal.

She no longer felt hungry.

Gwen looked at the plate beside her, touched her skirt lovingly, and closed her eyes.

That's it, she's finally going to die.

Closing her eyes, her breathing gradually became fainter, and the biting cold air gradually became warmer. She felt herself slowly sinking, as if she had had a very long dream and was finally waking up.

"Mr. Jeremiah, do you understand what is going on?"

"I don't know. I suspect this is something related to the sea."

Gwen listened to the inexplicable noise in a daze, but she was too sleepy and just wanted to fall asleep. The world was too bitter and she didn't want to go on.

hum!
A vibrating sound rang out in her mind, like the sudden chirping of birds in the early morning, which made her much more awake.

"Hmm? Someone else is coming in? Mr. Jeremiah, didn't you say the crew couldn't get in?"

"Shut up, damn it, can't you feel that she is a woman? Use your brain, is there a woman on the boat?"

"Ah, yes, what shall we do, Mr. Jeremiah?"

Ken felt a chill on his neck, and Jeremiah's face appeared before him. The pirate captain glared at Ken with a murderous look on his face and said, "Don't say my name in that place!"

Ken was startled and subconsciously covered his mouth. He was just not on guard against others, but he was not stupid. After thinking about it for a while, he understood what Jeremiah meant.

"Then, what should I call you?"

"Call me Captain, and next time you do something stupid like that, I'll shove my boot up your ass!"

Ken nodded quickly.

The two men's attention returned to the strange connection. The connection was silent for a while, and none of the three spoke. Jeremiah patted Ken's shoulder, and Ken hesitantly said hello:
"Hello!"

Gwen felt a little confused as she felt the message coming from her mind. She didn't quite understand what it was, but her mother once told her to be polite to others.

"Hello, big brother, I'm Gwen, what's your name?"

"My name is... Hey, don't hit me, I know. My name is French Fries."

"Hello, French Fries Brother, goodbye."

"Where are you going?" another voice suddenly came. "How old are you?"

"I can't go anywhere. I'm going to die. Gwen is ten years old."

There was silence on the link for a moment, and then Jeremiah's voice came through.

"You can call me Captain, why did you say you were going to die?"

"Boat? I heard that boats are all in the river, but there's no river here in Gwen. I haven't eaten for a long time, and I'm sick and dying."

"Ah, then why did your parents hit me?"

"Gwen's parents are gone, and Gwen is going to look for them." Gwen said seriously, "I put on my prettiest dress, lay down on the bed, closed my eyes, and then—you guys came. Is there a war going on there too?"

"Captain, can we send her some food?"

On the other side, Zeus, who descended into the worker's body, also fell silent. This was also his idea, but he had no way to pass things on. If he could pass things on, he would first have to pass this body away and not stay at the bottom of the sea.

He just wanted to try to bring in a new person, but he didn't expect the result to be different from what he imagined.

He found Jeremiah and Ken's threads very easily and thought everything would go smoothly, but he found out it was just a coincidence.

These two people were close enough to him and were both on the sea, so Zeus could accurately select them, but what if they were farther away?
For example, if Zeus wants to choose Nora, he must first roughly locate himself near the North. He has many silk threads connected in the North, and it would be difficult to accurately pick out which one is Nora.

This time, Zeus pulled in the wrong person. He wanted to pull someone in from Isaac's intelligence organization, but the person who came in was a strange little girl, a little girl who was almost starving to death.

Well, her name seems to be Gwen. Apart from that, Hughes knows nothing about her and has no way to help her. He can only watch her die.

Only at this time would Zeus wish he were a god so he could provide bread and milk to his believers.

"Gwen, tell me about your surroundings." Jeremiah's deep voice sounded again in the link.

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"Gwen?"

".Sorry, I got distracted. I'm so sleepy."

In the captain's room, Jeremiah and Ken looked at each other, both with unhappy expressions.

The little girl seemed to regain some spirits, and she slowly began to reply, "I was lying in my own bed. My father had made it for me. Unfortunately, he's gone, and everyone in the village has left. Then a lot of people came and set fire to the village. Sorry, I accidentally said too much."

"Actually, I'm doing fine now. I prepared a feast for myself and placed it on a plate beside my bed. Okay, actually, it's grass I plucked from under the eaves, but I carefully selected it. There are some with diamond-shaped leaves, some with thorns, and even some with heart-shaped leaves."

"Wait, you said there's grass with heart-shaped leaves?" Jeremiah's voice suddenly rose.

(End of this chapter)