Cui Zuojing told the captain of the bones found in the engine compartment.
The captain immediately sent someone to check, and at the same time to confirm whether anyone was missing.
The results came out quickly, and someone was indeed missing. Surprisingly, the missing person is not the crew, nor the show crew, these box NPCs.
He is a pilgrim.
The victims came from a four-person team, all of whom were middle-aged men, and one of them, Cui Zuojing, had a strong impression—that ferocious man had a female prisoner.
The mate asked, "When was the last time you saw Job?"
"A day ago? Or two days ago? I forgot." The team captain replied without seriousness, "After he was eliminated in the first round of the game, he went to play by himself. The ship is so big, who knows where he went. Go, I don't remember anyway, you can ask other people."
The other members of the team sat on the side, smoking cigarettes, and touching women, as if no one cared.
The first mate frowned. He was very dissatisfied with the captain's statement, but there were all distinguished guests on board, so he couldn't say anything.
Victor was lying in a blind spot on the balcony where everyone could not notice, and listened to the first officer's inquiry completely.
The white cat jumped from the railing to the windowsill on the other side, the window opened, and Cui Zuojing carried him into the room.
"How about it?"
Victor: "The one who disappeared is a pilgrim named Job. The exact time of disappearance is still unclear, but someone went to check the surveillance."
Dong Linhai was very puzzled: "Don't even his teammates know?"
Cui Zuojing explained: "Not everyone's team is as close as we are now. After all, there are only a small number of people who have a firm goal to go to the pilgrimage. There are still a large number of people who are only looking forward to being able to clear the box safely and get points. Go on. These people will team up with each other to improve their survival rate, but they will put their own interests first when encountering things, and the relationship with teammates is not so close. "
Victor smiled and said, "So it's really not easy to meet the right teammates. Everyone must cherish each other."
Back then, people in their team kept coming and going. After the team members died, they went to receive fresh blood. It took more than a year to finally stabilize and form the final staff composition, which was renamed the afternoon tea party.
"There is one more problem." Dong Zheng was the first to notice the strangest place, "Now one of the pilgrims on the ship died in his bedroom when they first arrived, and one's body was found in the power cabin, and the one who was alive, obviously 29 left."
When he said this, everyone was stunned.
"There are... 31 players on the boat?" Allen couldn't believe it. "But didn't we prompt when we came in that this is a multiplayer box 30/30? Could it be that you remembered it wrong?"
"Impossible, everyone I met on the boat remembered clearly, that is, there were 29 people left." Dong Zheng began to sort out, "On the first day of the luncheon, there were only 29 people present, except for those who died at that time. The pilgrim in his room was not there, and there was another person who did not come."
"Remember who it was?"
Dong Zheng shook his head: "I didn't recognize it at the time."
Lin Hangzhi said: "It's easy to handle, just check the surveillance, or ask the staff of the program team, it's impossible not to know who they invited to participate in the filming of the program, right?"
Cui Zuojing: "I'm afraid it's not that simple. I haven't entered the main plot of the box yet. From my experience, all the previous situations so far are for sending us to the island. rigorous."
Lin Hangzhi: "It's never wrong to ask, what if there are clues?"
The task of inquiring was handed over to him. Lin Hangzhi went to ask the planning team leader of the program group. As Cui Zuojing expected, the planning team leader gave him a negative answer.
"The guests of the show are all invited by sponsors, and we don't even know who you are before we board the ship."
Lin Hangzhi was speechless: "You don't even know who we are, so how did you get the script and program settings?"
"As long as you set up the game for each episode in advance, it's a reality show. If everything is designed, what's the point? Now audiences like to see the most authentic reactions."
Lin Hangzhi: "..."
There really was no gain.
Dong Zheng went to ask the captain if he could take a look at the surveillance camera. The captain was in the wheelhouse. Dong Zheng told him about the discovery of one more person, but replaced the word pilgrim with a guest.
The captain was devastated, and Dong Zheng helped him find the monster on the ship. He had a good impression of Dong Zheng and agreed directly.
Dong Zheng asked the location of the monitoring room, thanked the captain, and was about to go when he suddenly heard the voice of the sailor on the observation deck coming from the loudspeaker:
"There is an unknown island ahead, slow down and turn immediately! Slow down and turn immediately! Cab, please reply if you receive it, please reply if you receive it!"
island
This word made Dong Zheng's spirit stunned. He looked at the front window of the cab and saw only the vast, dark blue sea.
Immediately, he realized that the wheelhouse of the ship was at the stern.
The crew member who was staring at the radar on the dashboard thought he heard it wrong: "What island? There is nothing on the radar? How many times have we traveled this route, have you seen the island?"
"There really is an island! Turn quickly! 15° left!"
"Then offset the course!" Despite saying this, the crew still chose to trust their companions, turned the steering wheel, and adjusted the course.
Immediately afterwards, the panicked voice of the first mate also sounded from the speaker: "Oh my God, how can there be an island!"
Dong Zheng immediately ran out of the cab and went to the deck. The turbulence of the cruise ship starting to slow down and turn made him a little unsteady. He grabbed the handrail on the side to stabilize his body.
He looked towards the direction, and at the line where the sea and the sky meet, an island is located in the middle, and the rich green breaks through the dark blue and the light blue.
Finally got to the destination.
Dong Zheng breathed a sigh of relief. He had been on the ship for so many days and had not entered the main line, which made him a little anxious.
Although it won't be such a comfortable life when you get off the boat, it's not a good thing to stay in the box all the time.
He closed his eyes and felt the position of Cui Zuojing at this moment, and ran towards the billiards room.
The boat swayed suddenly, Cui Zuojing's arm crooked, the ball missed, the white ball rolled past the edge of the red ball, and bounced twice on the edge of the table.
He straightened up, put the club on his shoulders like a punk, looked out the window, and asked, "What's going on?"
Allen found the right position, hit a stick in the gap between the ship's shaking, and the red ball went in: "I don't know."
Wang Que didn't understand snooker, and Dong Linhai took Cui Zuojing Ailun's game as an example to introduce the rules to her.
Lin Hangzhi went looking for the program team and hadn't come back. Cui Zuojing felt a little bad. At this moment, he received a signal from Dong Zheng.
It was a strange mood mixed with many emotions, such as relief, eagerness, excitement, and so on.
Three minutes later, the members of the Wonton Splitter Squad saw their captain rush in from outside the door. Dong Zheng ran out of breath and waved his hand: "Get ready, we're going to the island."
- There is almost no mobile phone signal on the high seas. Apart from the walkie-talkie, oral messages have become the only means of communication.
"island?"
Everyone put down what they were doing and ran to the window to see what was going on.
Apart from them, there were only a dozen resting crew members in the billiard room. After receiving the news of the sudden appearance of an island, they all returned to their posts to ensure the normal steering of the cruise ship.
"Go downstairs first, it is estimated that you will have to use an unconventional method to get to the island later."
Everyone immediately packed up their things. They have been waiting for this moment. They have a lot of waterproof bags in their pockets, and put the necessities of survival from the boat.
The ship didn't turn as quickly as other means of transportation, let alone a high-ton luxury cruise ship, and although it had slowed down, the islands that suddenly appeared in the distance were getting closer and closer.
Many people have arrived on the deck. These days, all they can see is the blue sky and ocean. No matter how beautiful the scenery is, they still feel boring.
"How do you think we will land?" Cui Zuojing asked Dong Zheng in a low voice.
"Encountered a reef?"
"I guess not, do you want to make a bet?"
"Bet what?"
Cui Zuojing touched his chin and thought for a while: "I haven't thought about it yet, I'll talk about it later when I think about it."
"It's done." Dong Zheng agreed, and he found that Cui Zuojing particularly liked all things with gambling elements.
Dong Zheng was still concerned about who the extra pilgrim was, but obviously, he probably didn't have the chance to check the surveillance.
A group of people lay on the railing to look at the island, and the crew came over and politely told them not to stand so far out.
An island that was not on the radar suddenly appeared on a route that had been sailed hundreds of times - only professional sailors understood how dangerous and terrifying it was.
NASA once suddenly discovered a small island that had risen overnight in the waters of the Carolinas. For so many years, there has been no definite explanation. It seems that there is a mysterious force that created it at an unknown moment and placed it on the island. on the sea.
This once caused quite a bit of panic, but now it's even more bizarre - at least the island was detected by radar.
The first person to notice that the sea near the boat seemed to be a little deeper than the rest was the bark.
The girl who is particularly sensitive to light, shadow and color changes frowned, and she had an ominous premonition in her heart. She pulled Dong Zheng's sleeve, which was closest to her, and asked softly, "Brother Dong, do you feel that the color of the sea is getting darker? already?"
getting deeper
Dong Zheng took a closer look. At this moment, he suddenly felt a very powerful mental fluctuation, which spread rapidly from under the sea like ripples, and slapped heavily on the firewall of his inner world!
"Get down!" Dong Zheng roared, he pushed down Wang Que and Dong Linhai who hadn't reacted, and squatted down quickly.
The flesh-red tentacles tens of meters long pierced the sea with a bang and swung out, entangling the railing they were lying on.
boom boom boom -
The entire sea surface set off a tsunami in an instant, and the flesh-red giant tentacles were about to pierce the sky, rolling out the sea water from all around the ship, and instantly "holding" the entire bow tightly!
Allen Linhang's Dong Linhai Wangque screamed uncontrollably, and like everyone else, stooped away from the edge of the deck in a panic-knowing that something was going to happen, landing on the island and experiencing it firsthand were two completely different things.
Dong Zheng scolded and seemed to be relatively calm. Only Cui Zuojing knew how nervous and frightened he was when those tentacles appeared one after another.
wow-
The waves provoked by the tentacles poured down high, and the salty sea water poured down, pouring everyone into a chicken.
"I'll hide first, you guys pay attention to safety."
The small grass pattern on the back of Dong Zheng's hand flickered, Cui Zuojing dropped the sentence and disappeared beside him out of thin air, slipping away before things became more chaotic.
Victor was originally at the foot of Linhai, and the boat shook violently. It was too light, and even if it was clinging to the deck, it was almost thrown out. Allen took Victor, who was about to slip away, into his arms and shouted. : "Grab me!"
Lin Hangzhi and Dong Linhai pulled the fallen bird to get up together, and supported each other to find a relatively safe place.
The piercing siren of the ship sounded, and in the cries of fear and despair, the aluminum alloy railings were brittle like small wooden sticks, and they were broken one after another. More and more tentacles stretched out from the sea, firmly imprisoning the entire ship.
A tentacle swept across, and half of the people on the deck immediately disappeared.
Blood stained the sea.
The shadow of the ocean overlord's huge head slowly emerged on the sea, and it swam just below the big ship, its body clinging to the bottom of the ship.
In front of its huge body, the three-hundred-meter-long Gabriel II swayed helplessly like a flat boat.
- Like a curious child, it hugged this little toy that suddenly broke into the territorial waters.