After the steward gave the order, the players started to move around freely.
Experienced players ignored their tiredness and rushed out to search for information, while some players couldn't bear the sleepiness and returned to their rooms to sleep.
Ruan Bai didn't go to rest, neither did Xiaoxue and Ning Rou.
As early as Ruan Bai guessed that the murderer's killing time was "fixed", she knew that everyone was safe during the rest of the time.
It was precisely because of this that in the third round of the game, they found a place to sleep directly.
Although more than three hours was not enough for them to solve their difficulties, it was enough.
In an escape game, something like sleep itself needs to be sacrificed reasonably.
Anyway, there are only 48 hours in this world, as long as you get through it, you will be fine.
For the past time, Ruan Bai was either thinking about the murderer's special ability, or thinking about how to catch him before the voting time starts and before the murderer makes his move.
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 should investigate these things.
All her own energy was put on the game of catching the murderer.
Ruan Bai didn't expect those who had been murderers to stand up and help. After all, the steward had said that players who had been murderers were not allowed to expose the murderer's special abilities and killing methods.
If they help others, it is tantamount to exposing the killer's ability.
However, no matter what, this game is over.
Ruan Bai didn't pause for too long, and went straight out the door, and went to the women's room where she had privately communicated with Ning Rou Xiaoxue.
The location of the women's restroom is remote, and each player's room has a separate bathroom, so almost no one will come here.
Both Xiaoxue and Ning Rou had been sent the news privately by her. When Ruan Bai arrived, they were all waiting for Ruan Bai inside.
Ruan Bai carefully looked around, and after making sure that there was no one else, he closed the toilet door.
She walked in and asked in a low voice, "How about it, have you found anything?"
Both nodded slightly.
"During the second round of the game, I visited a lot of places," She Xiaoxue said, "I found out that the owner here is very fond of all kinds of fairy tales, as well as weird stories like ghosts and ghosts. "
There are five floors in this cruise ship, and the owner seems to be on the top floor.
Except for the fifth floor, She Xiaoxue basically 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 or signal, and even the cable of the TV is broken.
In addition, the common entertainment venues on cruise ships are obviously desolate, and there are not many traces of people coming.
She went to the bar to see it. The old time inside was quite far away. Many wine bottles and barrels were covered with dust, as if they hadn't been cleaned 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.
And the contents of these books, without exception, are all related to some sea legends and secret talks.
"The one the master likes the most is related to mermaids," Xiaoxue said.
"Mermaid?" Ruan Bai's heart skipped a beat.
Her intuition told her that this similar name should not be a coincidence.
Ever since the mermaid bell led her to meet Du's father in the game copy of the castle last time, Ruan Bai knew that the origin of the bell was wrong.
She had witnessed that the bell would glow and dispel the black mist in the air.
When she got this bell back then, she thought it was the heart of the mermaid grandmother, but now she knows that it has more secrets than that.
Just as she expected, Du Wenshu's death back then might not have been that simple.
This time, she used the mermaid bell again.
What was it trying to tell her by bringing itself into this game
"Yes, it's the mermaid," She Xiaoxue nodded with certainty, "He reads those chapters the most, and the corners of the pages are curled up."
After finishing speaking, she briefly described the plots related to the mermaid.
She Xiaoxue has a very strong memory. Although she only glanced at those books, she can remember the general plot inside.
"In it, there are mostly plots of mermaids saving lives," she said, "usually on the night of shipwreck, cruise ships or ships lost at sea, helpless people have no food, struggling to survive, luck is..."
Fortunately, they all encountered mermaids in the stories without exception.
Mermaids are kind. Their upper body is human and their lower body is fish. 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 gave them food and pearls, so that they lived a prosperous and happy life ever since.
"Is that all?" Ruan Bai asked.
She always felt that She Xiaoxue seemed to have something in her words.
Hearing her question, She Xiaoxue's expression changed slightly.
She looked at Ruan Bai, with a rare look of hesitation on her face: "I'm just... I'm just not sure if what I think is the same as the situation in this game."
The only person who can read books on this cruise ship is naturally the "master" in the mouth of the steward.
He repeatedly read the story about the mermaid, almost leaving his fingerprints on the slightly yellowed paper.
Normally, these imprints should indicate that the master likes the content of these chapters very much.
But She Xiaoxue didn't think so.
She felt that the master didn't like these chapters, but hated them.
He hated the content here so much...so much so that as long as he turned to it, he would not be able to control his strength and leave his handprints on it.
However, these speculations are too illusory.
She Xiaoxue is a very rational person, she trusts intuition, but when the amount of information is insufficient, she will not take out these guesses and disturb other people's minds in vain.
Ruan Bai saw She Xiaoxue's hesitation, blinked, and patted the little girl's head without forcing her.
"The things on this cruise ship are obviously from a long time ago, and it should seldom come to shore." Seeing this, She Xiaoxue changed the subject and started to mention other things, "I found out that there were newspapers in the study, so I According to the date in the newspaper, calculate the approximate time of the ship's docking."
There are a lot of newspapers, and every time the owner docks, he basically buys a month's worth of newspapers.
She Xiaoxue looked at it and found that the time interval between each stack of newspapers was about ten years.
And these newspapers, without exception, belonged to some coastal town.
"The identity given to us by the game was related to the owner of the invitation letter in the past," Ning Rou added beside him, "I went through all the previous newspapers and found one of the reports."
That report was not very special. It was roughly that there was 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 morning was still clear and clear, but in the afternoon there was a severe storm. The boat carrying people was overturned by the waves. The teachers and students of the whole school, totaling more than 200 people, all went missing .
The occurrence of such a major accident naturally alarmed many people.
The government departments have sent personnel to rescue, and even the newspapers have been reporting the progress for seven days in a row.
Countless parents cried and wandered along the coast, trying to find traces of their children in the sea.
Finally, on the seventh day, the survivors were found, a total of 18 children.
Newspapers from ten years ago stayed where the child was found, and then disappeared.
How they were found, the newspaper did not say, only 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 players is the 18 children from ten years ago?"
Xiaoxue nodded.
"There are 18 children, 12 boys, and 6 girls. They are all right." Ning Rou nodded and said, "Maybe the master and we are old acquaintances because of that shipwreck."
They survived, 80% because the master saved them.
But ten years later, all the children who were rescued at the beginning became murderers.
It was quite a coincidence.
Thirteen hours have passed since the game, and the master has not yet appeared. That's about all the information they can control.
After getting enough information, Ruan Bai nodded and didn't stay here any longer.
"Be careful," she said, "it's dangerous here, so be as careful as possible."
Both She Xiaoxue and Ning Rou 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.
But now, they are in danger all the time... No one can tell whether they will die in the game if they make a wrong step.
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 already begun to try to form a team.
Since the game of catching the murderer is over, everyone no longer needs to guard against each other. Considering that there may be dangers in the future, many players need to complement each other. Many players are trying to find companions.
Ruan Bai also became the target of others.
What Ruan Bai didn't expect was that she was stopped by a person before she had walked a few steps.
She looked up and found that it was a female player.
This female player dresses very simply, and usually tries not to speak, trying to reduce her sense of existence.
Ruan Bai knew that this kind of female player was a game veteran at first glance, and she might have more experience than herself.
Although the lotus symbol will appear on women's heads and can be signed by the White Lotus System, but Ruan Bai is not everyone can pull.
Especially in a game with such high difficulty, no matter how high-profile she acted, she could easily die.
Ruan Bai's experience told 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 appeared in front of Ruan Bai on her own initiative.
"You caught the murderer in the third round of the game, right?" The female player smiled at Ruan Bai with a friendly tone, "I think you are pretty good, why don't we form a team together."