Chapter 32: The Commotion
The captain's son, who suddenly appeared, was once a mysterious person who haunted the corridor in the middle of the night, and everyone wondered if the two people who died before could be killed by the captain's son, after all, although he had been locked up on the ship, he was much more familiar with the rules of the ship's movement and the terrain than us outsiders. [I love to read]
Of course, no one will respond to our words reads;
The captain has been staying in the control room and not showing up, although this son is a little born stupid, but after all, he is his own flesh and blood, and now he is dead in front of himself, it is impossible not to be sad.
After a whole morning of discussion, everyone's concern gradually changed from whether the captain's son was a murderer, and now that his son died suddenly, whether the ship would depart normally after it was repaired.
Pingtou once tried to pull a crew member to ask the question of whether he would leave, but he was sarcastically ridiculed by the crew: "The son has just died, and none of you care about greetings, and your mouth is full of departure, and you want to go?" Swim through it yourself. ”
Pingtou was choked like this, and we didn't dare to ask any more, so we had to wait patiently for the captain to speak.
This is the next day at noon, we have just eaten, some of us have already disembarked to the dock to hang around, although this small dock is not guarded on weekdays, and often dangling out one or two walking corpses, but after all, everyone has practiced, so many people deal with one or two walking corpses, is not it like playing.
When the captain came out of the cabin, a group of us were thinking about whether to go down for a walk, and when we turned our heads, we saw the captain walking out with a haggard face, waving his hand to the crew next to him.
The captain seemed to have aged ten years overnight, and although he was not young in the past, he was full of energy, and after the night passed, it was as if the spirit of his whole body had dissipated with the death of his son, and there was not a trace left in him at all.
Looking at him at this time, he was full of images of a little old man buried in the soil to his neck.
The captain asked the crew to inform everyone that as long as the ship was repaired and sure that there was no problem, they would leave immediately, and there would be no delay in everyone's journey.
But on this night, another incident happened on the ship, which finally broke the atmosphere that had been enduring on the ship for several days.
Another person died.
And the person who died this time was none other than Xiao Qi, who had been with us all along.
It was the person who went down to the river to catch fish and was bitten by a snake before, making a big oolong.
His popularity in our team is very good, including Chen Yuan, everyone gets along with him very well, one is because Xiao Qi is kind, loves to laugh, and is always willing to help others.
His death made our team, which had been temporarily stable because there were no casualties, instantly agitated.
Xiao Qi's body was found in the ship's women's toilet, and the person who found him was none other than Chen Yuan himself.
According to Chen Yuan's description, when she found Xiao Qi, Xiao Qi was sitting on the floor of the women's toilet cubicle, and there were blood stains everywhere on the ground, as if all the blood in her body had flowed out.
Chen Yuan is not a person who will exaggerate one thing, since she said so, she can almost explain that Xiao Qi should have died of excessive blood loss.
The cause of death was that Xiao Qi was deeply slashed on the ground of his neck, and there were no wounds on the rest of his body.
Chen Wei squatted beside him and looked at him for a while before he spoke: "One blow kills, the wound is very deep, otherwise it is completely undefended, otherwise the other party is a master." ”
When the first two people died, Chen Yuan didn't have half a reaction, this time it was Xiao Qi who died, although Chen Yuan also didn't have a big reaction, but he still opened his mouth and asked a few words: "Xiao Qi never provokes people, how can he be targeted?" ”
Hearing this, Chen Wei stood up from the ground, looked left and right, and said, "It shouldn't be deliberately targeted." ”
"What do you mean?" Chen Yuan asked.
Chen Wei pointed to Xiao Qi's corpse: "I was dead for almost three or four hours, it should be early in the morning, and at that time, according to Xiao Qi's temperament, I wouldn't run out to do anything else, it should be to go to the toilet." ”
Chen Yuan wrinkled his brows and thought for a while: "So, do you mean that when he went to the toilet, he happened to bump into someone or something, so he was killed?" ”
Chen Wei didn't answer, but his expression was noncommittal.
Xiao Qi's death caused a lot of commotion in our team, and at the same time, it finally made the crew who had been suppressed unbearable.
Perhaps understanding the captain's age and the death of his child, the crew was embarrassed to go directly to him.
But it is not difficult to see from the fact that they are no longer working, and have gathered on the deck all day in worrying heaps, that they have faced the successive deaths of four people with us, and that they are already in fear in their hearts, and everyone is afraid of being the next target.
I thought that the captain's son was the real culprit behind the scenes, and Xiao Qi's death directly overturned our speculation, the murderer is still hiding on this ship, that is, one or several people around us, we are in the light, they are in the dark, they may appear anywhere on the ship at any time to kill.
And the method of killing seems to be indiscriminate, even the captain's crazy son does not let go, and even deliberately leads us to transfer the suspicious gaze to the dead man, if these things are done by one person, then this person is definitely not simple.
And if it's a group, then everyone on our ship is in danger.
After one after another, Chen Wei seemed to be a little annoyed.
This time, his attitude was completely different from before, and he obviously looked very concerned.
At dinner in the evening, a few of us sat down to eat together, and my grandmother asked about Xiao Qi, and none of us sued her, but everyone on the boat was discussing that it was impossible to completely hide it, so we could only fool around at will.
After a meal, my grandmother sighed and left first.
I wanted to get up and leave, but I was secretly stopped by Chen Wei.
His eyes quickly swept around, and then he whispered, "Don't sleep at night." ”
"Huh?" I was quite puzzled by this sentence, and just as I wanted to ask, I was interrupted by a fat man squeezing his eyebrows.
Including Sun Miao began to wink eyes at me, and I noticed that there seemed to be something wrong.
Pulling Chen Huan's hand, I drew a question mark on his palm, and Chen Huan paused for a long time before he quickly spoke: "Don't sleep." ”
I left the table before Chen Wei and them, and I didn't dare to go to the deck to stand and eat again, and when I returned to the room, I was still thinking about what Chen Wei had just said.
Why is it emphasized twice in a row not to sleep?
Da Bai and Xia Xia on the side were fighting to the death for a bottle of soda, and they didn't notice that I was stunned on the side, and suddenly fell asleep, defenseless, and almost rolled out of bed.
Fortunately, my grandmother on the side quickly grabbed me back.
As a result, I suddenly had a white light in my head, and I thought of something very obvious but that we had ignored for a long time.
That is, this ship has three floors, and we have been operating on the first floor, and the second floor has never heard of any other use except that it is for the captain's crazy son from the crew.
The partition between the first and second floors must be very strong, especially on this luxury cruise ship, the quality and safety must be more reliable.
But if someone deliberately touches the ceiling, then for us who don't know, the other party is as meaningful as having the ability to teleport.
Thinking so, after staring up at the ceiling for a long time, I jumped out of bed and moved the stool up, put it on the bed and let Xia Xia and Dabai help support it, I climbed up tremblingly, and reached out to push the ceiling baffle.
This was just a very ridiculous guess on my part, to be honest, deep down I really didn't intend to push the ceiling open, but when I pushed it up, there was resistance at first, but then I used a little bit of force, and the partition made a click and was easily moved aside.
Leaving us in a room, four of us stared at the black hole in the pitch-black ceiling for a long time.
After staring at the hole for a long time, my grandmother took my hand and motioned for me to come down and stand on the ground before asking, "Why did this open with a push?" ”
I also stared up for a while, shook my head, and said, "I don't know." ”
Da Bai smashed his mouth, obviously not thinking about anything else: "Tut-tut, you look at this tofu scum project, how chilling it is, the outside looks so magnificent, and the inside is full of chaff, it is really gold on the outside, and it is ruined on the inside." ”
Only Xia Xia thought of it with me: "I said, this shouldn't be empty, right??" ”