Chapter 69: Lost cruise ship (7)

After the steward gave the order, the players began to move freely.
Experienced players could not care about being tired and went out to search for information, while some players, unable to bear the sleepiness, returned to their rooms and prepared to sleep.
Ruan Bai didn't go to rest, so did Xiaoxue and Ning Rou.
As early as Ruan Bai guessed that the murderer’s time was
fixed
, she knew that everyone was safe for the rest of the time.
For this reason, in the third round of the game, they directly found a place to sleep.
Although more than three hours is not enough for them to relieve their difficulties, it is also enough.
In escape games, sleep is itself a reasonable sacrifice.
Anyway, this world only has 48 hours, as long as it passes, it will be fine.
In the past time, Ruan Bai was not thinking about the special abilities of the murderer, but also thinking about how to catch him before the voting time and the murderer's hands.
As for the origin of this cruise ship, its history, its owner, its purpose... Ruan Bai knew nothing about it.
According to her initial order, Xiaoxue and Ning Rou were required to investigate these things.
All her energy is devoted to the game of catching the murderer.
Ruan Bai did not expect those who have been murderers to stand up and help. After all, the manager said that players who have been murderers should not expose the special abilities and methods of murder.
If they helped other people, it would be equivalent to exposing the killer's ability.
However, no matter what, this game is over.
Ruan Bai didn't stop for too long, so he went out and went to the women's toilet where she had communicated privately with Ning Rou Xiaoxue.
The location of the women's toilet is remote, and each player has a separate toilet in the room, so almost no one will come here.
Xiaoxue and Ning Rou were both secretly passed on by her, and when Ruan Bai arrived, they were both waiting for Ruan Bai inside.
Ruan Bai cautiously looked around and confirmed that there was no one, so he closed the toilet door.
She walked in and asked in a low voice, "How is it, have you found anything?"
Both of them nodded slightly.
"I went to a lot of places during the second round of the game," She Xiaoxue said, "I found out that the owner here likes all kinds of myths and stories, and strange talks about ghosts and ghosts. "
This cruise ship has five floors, and the owner seems to be at the top.
Except for the fifth floor, She Xiaoxue has visited the rest of the places.
She Xiaoxue discovered one thing, that is, the layout of this cruise ship is obviously not very modern.
Although there is a TV here, there is no internet, no signal, and even the TV cable is disconnected.
In addition, the common entertainment venues on cruise ships are obviously desolate, and there are not many signs of people coming.
She went to the bar to see it, and the old age inside was quite far away. Many wine bottles and barrels were covered with ashes, and they looked like nobody cleaned them for a long time.
In this case, if a person wants to have fun, he must read a book.
She Xiaoxue went to the study here and found several books that had obviously been read repeatedly.
The contents of these books, without exception, are all related to some maritime legends and private conversations.
"The one that the owner likes the most is related to the mermaid." Xiaoxue said.
"Mermaid?" Ruan Bai's heart moved slightly.
Her instinct told her that this similar name should not be a coincidence.
Ever since Mermaid Bell led her to see Father Du in the copy of the game in the castle last time, Ruan Bai knew that the bell had a wrong origin.
She witnessed that the bell would glow and dispel the black mist in the air.
When she first got this bell, she thought it was the heart of the mermaid grandma, but now she knows that its secret is definitely more than that.
As she expected, Du Wenwen's death at the beginning is not so simple.
This time, she used the mermaid bell again.
It brought itself into this game, what did it want to tell her?
"Yes, it's a mermaid," She Xiaoxue nodded affirmatively. "He reads those chapters the most, and the corners of the pages are all pinched up."
After speaking, she briefly recounted the plots related to the mermaid.
She Xiaoxue has a strong memory. Although she only glanced at the books, she can remember the general plot.
"In this, most of the plots are mermaid saving people," she said. "Usually it is the night of a shipwreck. The cruise ship or ship is lost in the sea. The helpless people have no food and are struggling to survive. The luck is..."
Fortunately, they all met mermaid in the story without exception.
Mermaids are kind. They are human in the upper body and fish in the lower body. They look very beautiful.
They can swim freely in the sea and know where the shore is.
In those stories, the mermaid selflessly helped the people trapped in the sea, sent them back to the shore, and also gave them food and pearls, allowing them to live a prosperous and happy life.
"Is there only these?" Ruan Bai asked.
She always felt that She Xiaoxue seemed to have something in her words.
She Xiaoxue's expression changed slightly when she asked her.
She looked at Ruan Bai, with a rare hesitant look on her face: "I just...I'm just not sure, what I think is the same as the situation in this game."
The only person who can read a book on this cruise ship is naturally the "master" in charge.
He repeatedly looked at the story about the mermaid, and on the slightly yellowed paper, he almost left his fingerprints.
Normally, these marks should indicate that the owner likes the content of these chapters.
But She Xiaoxue didn't think so.
She felt that the master did not like these chapters, but hated them.
He dislikes the content here so much...so that as long as he turns over here, he will be unable to control his strength and leave handprints on it.
But these speculations are too vague.
She Xiaoxue is a very sensible person. She trusts intuition, but when the amount of information is insufficient, she will not take these guesses out and disturb other people's minds for nothing.
Ruan Bai saw She Xiaoxue's hesitation, blinked, patted the little the head, and didn't force it.
"The things on this cruise ship are obviously from a long time ago. It should rarely dock." She Xiaoxue changed the subject when she saw this, and began to mention other things. According to the date in the newspaper, calculate the approximate time of the ship landing."
There are a lot of newspapers, and every time the owner arrives ashore, he basically buys newspapers for a month.
She Xiaoxue looked around and found that the time interval between each stack of newspapers was about ten years.
And these newspapers, without exception, belong to a certain coastal town.
"The identities given to us by the game were related to the owner of the invitation letter in the past," Ning Rou added next to him. "I looked through the previous newspapers and found one of the reports."
That report is not very special, roughly, there is a school where the teacher organized the children to take a boat to watch the sea during the holidays.
As a result, their luck was quite bad. The sky was still clear that morning, but in the afternoon there was a severe storm. The boat carrying people was overturned by waves. There were more than 200 teachers and students in the school, all of whom were unknown. .
The occurrence of such a major accident naturally shocked many people.
Government departments have sent personnel to rescue them, and even newspapers have been reporting the progress for seven days.
Countless parents wandered along the coast crying, trying to find traces of their children from the sea.
Finally, on the seventh day, the survivors were found, a total of 18 children.
The newspaper ten years ago just stayed where the child was found, and then disappeared.
How did they find it? The newspaper did not say that they appeared directly on the coast and were discovered by fishermen going out to sea.
"This number is very subtle," Ruan Bai understood what she meant. "Do you think that the identity of our player is the 18 children ten years ago?"
Xiaoxue nodded.
"18 children, 12 boys, and 6 girls, it's totally right," Ning Rou nodded and said, "Maybe the master and we are old acquaintances because of the shipwreck."
They survived, 80% because the master saved them.
Ten years later, all the children who were rescued became murderers.
This is really a coincidence.
At present, 13 hours have passed since the game, and the owner has not yet appeared. That's probably all the information they can control.
After getting enough news, Ruan Bai nodded and didn't stay here much.
"Be careful," she said. "It's dangerous here. Try to be cautious."
She Xiaoxue and Ning Rou both nodded.
Although the previous game of catching the murderer was dangerous, the rules were obvious after all. As long as the rules were discovered, there would be no danger.
And now, they are in danger all the time...No one can tell whether they will take a wrong step and die in the game.
Next, the three people still pretended not to know each other, left the toilet in batches and returned to the hall.
At this time, many players have begun to try to team up.
Since the game of catching the murderer has passed, everyone no longer needs to guard against each other. Considering that there may be danger behind, multiple people need to set off each other. Many players are trying to find companions.
And Ruan Bai has become the target of others.
What Ruan Bai didn't expect was that she was stopped by someone before she took a few steps.
She looked up and found that it was a female player.
This female player is very simple in dressing and dressing, and she usually tries not to speak as much as possible, trying to reduce her sense of existence.
Ruan Bai knows that this kind of female player is a veteran of the game at first glance, and she may have more experience than herself.
Although the lotus mark appears on women's heads and can be signed by the white lotus system, Ruan Bai is not able to pull it.
Especially in such a difficult game, no matter how high profile she acts, she will easily die.
Ruan Bai’s experience tells her that such low-key and silent old players, especially women, are usually very smart and very, very difficult to approach.
But now, this female player took the initiative to appear in front of Ruan Bai.
"You caught the murderer in the third round of the game, right?" The female player smiled at Ruan Bai in a friendly tone, "I think you are very good, or let's form a team together."