Chapter 73: The Reward of Helping

"Hey! Charles, long time no see, where have you been lately?" William, looking listless, raised his wine glass.

Charles looked at the ordinary-looking girl next to Elizabeth. "And this is...?"

"Charlie's daughter. Charlie died, and she has taken over her father's ship to become the new captain of the Exploration Ship," the plump man beside them answered enthusiastically.

Charlie? Richard immediately remembered the middle-aged man with a dark complexion and a hooked nose.

"How did he die?" Charles looked somewhat astonished; despite having been an explorer for so long, he still found it hard to get used to people dying all the time.

William burped and chuckled. "Dead is dead, why bother about how he died?"

Charles felt a tinge of sadness. It was Charlie who had helped him get to Sodoma and obtain the information about the sun; he had wanted to thank him, but unexpectedly, that turned out to be their last meeting.