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About two hours ago.

"Captain, we have arrived at the designated coordinate point." On a small ocean-going ferry, the chief mate, who was always staring at the radar system on the console, said to a big man beside him, "It's just that the detection radar didn't detect any islands. signal of the existence of the species."

The big man known as the captain just nodded when he heard the words, holding a pair of binoculars close to his eyes, looking at the endless sea where nothing exists.

On the other hand, a man next to the big man whose painting style is incompatible with this ship, who looks more like a secretary running errands in the office than a crew member, said sternly to the first officer who just called "captain": "You are treating Mr. Anassis If you don’t want to be disrespected, you should at least call Mr. Anassis 'Chairman'!"

"What's the matter, Socrates, I actually prefer the title 'Captain' to 'Chairman'," Anassis, who found nothing and put down the binoculars, laughed boldly , "When I inherited the family business, I often sailed with my subordinates. No matter how long I lived at sea, I was still so excited. Just hearing the word 'Captain' made me feel young. How old are you?"

"Mr. Anasis..." Looking at the willful world ship magnate in front of him, as his secretary, Socrates reluctantly chose to give up, "Since it's your idea, well, anyway, you can't be willful." Not once or twice."

"It's like saying this time, 'an island far away from the hustle and bustle that doesn't exist on the sea chart'. This kind of unrealistic fantasy can't exist at all, but you still insist on coming."

"It can't be helped, Socrates, what do you mean by that sentence? I wanted to refuse, but Kagemaru-san offered too much, that's all."

Anasis laughed hahaha, turned around and looked at the other two figures in the room, "However, Mr. Kagemaru, we have arrived at our destination now, but neither radar nor naked eyes can find it." To the existence of the island you mentioned."

"Compared to the meager trading benefits for you today, isn't it more to satisfy your own curiosity?" Behind Anassis, Socrates whispered helplessly, The first officer also stared at the radar map silently, while nodding in agreement.

They have been following Anassis for decades, and their curiosity about Anasis, who never wants to be restrained, can be said to be very clear. At the earliest, they liked the secret treasures and cultural relics of the seabed, and later fell in love with the world. Rare props such as "curse" and "magic" in various places. Some time ago, because of that global incident, I became interested in things like "lost civilization" and "mysterious land".

At first, he was not interested in the famous entrepreneur Kagemaru when he heard that the famous entrepreneur Kagemaru wanted to rent a large expedition ship from his company, but he suddenly became interested again when the other party revealed that he was going to find "islands that don't exist on the map" He even came with him on the boat.

At the back of the room, an old man on crutches heard what Anassis said, smiled and said: "Don't worry, Mr. Anassis, if you can find an island that doesn't exist by simply sailing the boat near here, then It is impossible for this island to be hidden for so long."

"In order to enter that island, you need a little trick." While talking, the old man named "Kagemaru" turned his head to look at the young man standing beside him, "It's your turn, Amunaeru...or should I call it Your other name now?"

"Well, in the face of the truth, human beings are so insignificant, names and so on are just mere titles, as long as I know that Mr. Kagemaru is calling me."

The man in the mask said casually, but he spread his hands: "I still have to explain to you, Mr. Kagemaru, that I'm not sure how far my friend's project has progressed, and whether he still regards me as a person who can Friends who share knowledge, it's all uncertain."

"No matter how uncertain I am, I have to give it a try." Hearing what Amunaeru said, Kagemaru didn't mean to be discouraged in the slightest. After all, I've come here, so why don't I try, "And, you know Well, I'm 90 years old this year."

"Looking at my strength disappearing from my body bit by bit, and the spirit of my youth is failing every day, the more my life comes to an end, the more unwilling I am, the more unwilling I am in this world. The moment that became wonderful, I had to be buried and left behind as part of an old era that was abandoned."

As he said that, Kagemaru coughed twice, glanced at the long black hair outside Amunaeru's mask, "That's great, you are almost 90 years old, if your technology can be used by me, I won't Is there no need to come here anymore?"

Hearing Kagemaru's lament about getting old, Amunaeru shrugged and said, "I can't do anything about this kind of thing. To be honest, it is already a miracle in alchemy to be able to complete a human body refining achievement. Even among all the alchemists I know Among them, I am probably the only one who has completed the human body, even so, the current 'I' is still full of flaws, and I must cooperate with another project."

"However, although I knew at that time that the 'Philosopher's Stone' was actually achievable and not just a dream, but who would have thought that the truth of the 'Philosophy's Stone' is actually..."

"The purpose of coming here this time is not only to confirm whether there are other possibilities to complete the 'Philosopher's Stone', but also to repay Kagemaru's kindness for supporting me for decades."

Without saying what was in his heart, Amunaeru sighed, greeted, turned and walked out of the room, "Anyway, Mr. Kagemaru, and if you want to explore the island together, you too, Mr. Anassis, come with me .”

"To go to that island, we'll have to take a boat instead."

As we all know, corresponding to different uses in many professional fields, ships can be freely customized and transformed into different ships considered in different use scenarios, such as icebreakers that are specially used to open roads in polar regions and strengthen the bow and power system, and specially designed to protect equipment and samples in the ship. Scientific research ships with chemical stability, etc.

The so-called "expedition ship" is of course specially designed for explorers to sail and explore around the world. It is generally a tasteless product that "the poor can't afford it and the rich can't use it". Yes, including small speedboats specially used for landing on islands.

In addition to Kagemaru and Amunaeru, Anasis and Socrates also left the expedition ship together on this speedboat, while the chief mate stayed on board to manage the moored expedition ship with dozens of other crew members. , Waiting for the four to return.

But to be honest, the first mate doesn't think it will take long from the bottom of his heart. I'm afraid that after the speedboat goes a short distance, the masked guy with Kagemaru won't be able to hold on to his mysterious tricks. .

But in fact, Amunaeru, who was standing at the front of the speedboat facing the sea breeze, was holding four test tubes containing unknown liquids, and was muttering something.

And after he finished singing, he dumped the test tube in his hand, the liquid in the test tube ignored the strong wind, and unexpectedly gathered into four circular arrays in front of Amunaeru, which continued to expand and overlap.

Immediately afterwards, Kagemaru, Anassis, and Socrates saw an extremely shocking scene—as if a curtain had been drawn in the air, and a cloud of mist that appeared at an unknown time enveloped the speedboat they were in. Inside, a boundary appeared in the sky, as if entering another world, a huge island suddenly appeared!

"Unexpectedly, it really exists!"

Socrates was a little dumbfounded, "'There is no island on the map', it is true!"

"Oh oh oh, I'm totally excited! I can't wait to land on this island to explore!" Anassis controlled the speedboat with one hand and continued to advance towards the huge island that suddenly appeared, with one hand on his head hat, with a happy expression on his face, "Although dueling monsters, especially the duel with Brother Hayato back then was also very interesting,"

"But as a man at sea, the excitement of discovering a new world is really different!"

When Socrates was excited, he couldn't help complaining: "The mysterious island in the Indian Ocean, if I didn't know that the movies were all fake, I couldn't help but wonder if this island would be tens of meters high. the gorilla."

Anasis laughed and said, "That's a shame, Socrates, we don't have a beautiful woman here who is worthy of that orangutan climbing the Empire State Building and jerking off (literally)."

Compared with Anassis and Socrates, Kagemaru was not as excited as they were, even so, Kagemaru's face with age spots was also slightly flushed: "Amunaeru, is this the island, I learned from you In the same place, where is the alchemist who mainly researched 'human body refining' different from you who mainly researched the 'Philosopher's Stone'?"

"As far as I know, he has been on this island for almost 50 years and has never left. As long as there are no accidents, we will definitely find him here. Well, you have to be mentally prepared in advance."

Amunaeru stepped down from the bow and glanced at Kagemaru.

What he didn't know was that there was a saying called: If there is no accident, an accident will happen next.

Just as the speedboat on which several people were riding was heading towards the island, Anasis at the helm straightened his hat, but out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of a flame in the sky.Subconsciously, he raised his head, but saw a plane falling towards the sea from the sky! ?

"boom!"

The speed of the plane crashing into the sea was so fast that Anassis had no time to react. He saw the plane hit the sea directly and hit a big fireball. Fortunately, the plane crashed far away from them. Far away, even outside the fog that enveloped the island, Anassis and the others were not affected by the crash of the plane, only slightly frightened.

"Really, it scared me to death, that's why I like ships instead of planes." Patting his chest, Anassis looked frightened, "Look how dangerous it is to fly, and see plane crashes all day long , why didn’t the cruise ship sink.”

"Probably because something like the Titanic is worth more than a dozen planes at a time." On the side, Socrates replied without hesitation, "Oh, not necessarily, even one plane like the Twin Towers Almost enough."

Amunaeru and Kagemaru couldn't appreciate the hell pair joke between Anassis and Socrates. After seeing a plane crash nearby, Kagemaru showed a regretful expression: "It's a pity, I don't know how many young people will To die on that plane just now, so many lives were wasted."

Instead, Amunaeru raised his head to look into the sky, and said after a moment of silence: "It may not be wasted, in fact, the people on the plane seem to have parachuted. No, there."

Kagemaru looked in the direction of Amunaeru's finger, and saw several parachutes being opened in midair, as if they were passengers who parachuted from the crashed plane just now.And judging from the direction of the parachute movement, those people seem to be coming to this island here?

As if seeing Kagemaru's confusion, Amunaeru spread his hands: "Probably because I just unlocked the domain that shields the idlers on the island. In order to enter this island, I exposed it for a short period of time, so those Those who had nowhere to go chose to land on this island."

"So, will those people affect us?" Kagemaru said with a frown.He was very concerned about this action, and he didn't want to see accidents happen.

"Well, I don't know too well, but I think my friend shouldn't care too much. Although, I haven't seen him for more than ten years. I don't know how he is now." Amunaeru's tone was very flat, which made Kagemaru feel a little anxious.

Thinking that the alchemist on the island might get angry because he and others brought too many irrelevant people in, he refused to exchange the knowledge of "human body refining" and "philosophy's stone" in a fit of anger, making himself Having lost the hope of prolonging his life, Kagemaru's breathing inevitably became a little heavy.

I have funded Amunaeru's alchemy research a long time ago in order to prolong his life, but this guy has not been able to come up with effective results for him for decades. First, he said that the "Philosopher's Stone" he focused on could not be completed Yes, he also said that the "human body refining" that has been successful once has no hope of success for the second time. Although he always feels that this guy is hiding and refuses to take out the real material for himself, but because he thinks he can't Let the investment in the early years go to waste, and Kagemaru can't tear himself apart with Amunaeru.

And when Amunaeru talks about having an alchemist friend, Kagemaru has a new hope, the last hope.If I can't get the possibility of longevity from the hands of today's alchemists, then I'm afraid I have no choice but to make a name "Phantom" based on the knowledge in the ancient book I once got, but I don't know the specifics of the so-called "Phantom". What exactly is it.

Amunaeru could see the gloomy eyes of Kagemaru, but he didn't say anything, but after the speedboat finally arrived at the shore, he took Kagemaru to the center of the island to find his "friend".