Xu Wenlong made up his mind, and immediately waved his hand to summon a waiter, gently handed her some information to Liang Shiqi, and then hurriedly followed Captain James to the command cabin of the mail ship.

The command cabin was busy, with many crew members at each table, working together to control the huge "Polaris". First mate Tony stood in front of the center console with a solemn expression, motionless and looking at the blue sea in front of him. When he saw Captain James and his party coming in, he immediately greeted him and reported to him bluntly: "Mr. Captain, the results of the investigation are out." It's just that...... Just ......"

"Just what? Didn't he fall into the sea? Captain James raised an eyebrow and looked at First Officer Tony fixedly.

Xu Wenlong and Captain Jack also froze, and both pricked up their ears and listened quietly to Tony's first mate.

First Officer Tony shrugged his shoulders, pointed to the huge screen wall with a difficult face, and said, "Let's take a look at the surveillance video." With that, he snapped his fingers at a headset information analyst.

The analyst nodded, reaching out and cracking on the keyboard. So in a moment, dozens of surveillance images popped up on the screen wall, all of which were deck videos from different angles and different floors. One of the images zooms in so much that it takes up almost the entire wall of the screen.

Xu Wenlong Dingqing took a look and found that the picture was the surveillance video of the top-floor suite where he lived, which belonged to a high-angle overhead shot, covering the entire stern, and the clarity was particularly high, without any blur. Looking at the time again, it was 0:15 last night. At that time, the huge boattop playground was deserted, except for a few people chatting and strolling, all that remained was an empty pool, lonely flowers and trees, and dozens of very bleak beach chairs with parasols.

At this time, Tony's first mate gently reminded everyone: "Attention, Mr. Zhou is starting to appear!" ”

So everyone was in good spirits, and their eyes were more and more wide and they were staring at the screen.

Sure enough, in just a few seconds, Zhou Jiuhua, who was wearing casual clothes, walked out of the passage of the suite. He had a cigarette in his hand, walked and stopped, his gait was unsteady, he swayed from side to side, apparently having drunk too much.

Zhou Jiuhua staggered to the edge of the pool, sat on a beach chair, took a cigarette and smoked a few puffs, and after looking around for a while, he suddenly stood up and kicked the chair next to him without warning.

A large male tourist was probably frightened by his crazy behavior, and quickly trotted over, and after some finger-pointing negotiations, the male tourist shook his head and left helplessly.

After the male tourist left, Zhou Jiuhua kicked the chair wildly, danced wildly with both hands, and then lit a cigarette again, swayed and staggered to the end of the mail boat. But he didn't go halfway, probably seeing a few people talking in the stern of the boat, so he turned back the same way and swayed back to the suite passage.

The screen then switches to channel monitoring.

Not long after Zhou Jiuhua entered the passage, a waiter with a hand-cart happened to come across from him. At the moment when the two crossed their shoulders, Zhou Jiuhua suddenly reached out and took a glass of wine from the dining car, and after raising his head to drink it, he slammed the cup on the wall, and then under the stunned gaze of the waiter, he stepped into the elevator and slid down to the shopping hall on the A floor.

There were slightly more people in the shopping hall, but most of them looked hurried and kept moving, either passing by or buying some urgently needed supplies, and there were almost no people wandering around.

Zhou Jiuhua looked around the hall for a while, perhaps feeling bored, so he quickly walked out of the hall with his hands dangled, and slowly swayed along the side deck to the aft platform.

Video conversion, into high-angle and large-area overhead shots.

There was no one to be seen on the aft platform except for a girl. The girl's behavior is strange and incomprehensible. She faced the sea for a while, jumped and shouted, and then picked up the big bags of things under her feet and kept throwing them into the sea......

Wen Li?! When Captain James and Xu Wenlong saw each other, they couldn't help but exclaim in unison, "Why is she?" Why is she still there at such a late hour? What was she doing there? ”

"Well, that's right," First Officer Tony quickly explained, "and she's there to summon her little white with food such as small fish and shrimp." ”

"Xiaobai? Who is Xiaobai? Captain James and Xu Wenlong looked at each other more and more, and they didn't know why.

"Dolphins, a silvery-white dolphin! That is, the cute dolphin who had been chasing the mail boat the night before, and had cost Mr. Hepburn an expensive coat! ”

"Oh—" Captain James and Xu Wenlong nodded, continuing to stare at the screen video with wide eyes.

For Xu Wenlong, after sailing at sea for more than ten or twenty days, he has long been accustomed to seeing some strange fish, crabs, dolphins, sharks and other aquatic creatures, not to mention Captain James, who travels between continents and oceans all year round. Moreover, Wen Li is stubborn and active, and she is curious, and she is attracted by a gentle dolphin that suddenly visits, which is also a reasonable and natural thing.

Zhou Jiuhua came to the stern of the boat and found Wen Li with strange behavior from a distance. Probably remembering Captain Jack's warning, he stopped more than ten meters away from Wen Li, and then made a big bend to avoid her, looked around and walked towards the pile of huge bulging objects, plunged into the shadow on the back of the objects, and disappeared in a blink of an eye, and there was no movement.

And Wen Li may have been too eager to see the white dolphin, so she ignored Zhou Jiuhua's arrival, and only focused on jumping and shouting at the sea and throwing food. It wasn't until a quarter of an hour later that she raised a pair of small fists in anger and waved them, and then, with a full sense of disappointment and frustration, she left the stern of the boat and turned into the shopping hall and disappeared.

The video freezes and doesn't play down.

"That's it," First Officer Tony spread his hands and said helplessly, "Mr. Zhou disappeared like this, disappeared forever, and never came out of there again, until we just sent someone to check on the scene, it was also empty, nothing." ”

Captain James's face was grim, his brow furrowed, and his eyes stared at the pile of objects motionlessly, and after a long moment, he said in a hoarse voice, "What is that pile?" How did it end up there? When did it appear? How did I not know? ”

When Tony's first mate heard this, he quickly explained: "That's the battery, the one that was blown up by pirates. We originally wanted to push it directly into the sea, but later the headquarters called and said that it must be retained, so that the relevant technical personnel could use it as a data voucher to improve and improve the quality of protection of mail ships after they were measured and inspected in kind. It's just that because of the urgency of time, we didn't have time to move it, so we temporarily stored it there. ”

"Were there any signs of fighting or tearing at the scene?" Captain Jack asked, pursed his lips, and asked thoughtfully.

"Nope! There is no trace of a fight, and all the discarded parts are exactly the same as when they were first placed! First Officer Tony replied categorically. In order to prove that he was right, he also snapped his fingers at the informant. As a result, several photos of the ruined fort immediately appeared on the screen: twisted barrels, deformed parts, all kinds of large and small extremely irregular iron and copper pillars, etc., which were scattered and miserable.

Captain Jack nodded frequently while watching, and then said to everyone in an inquiry-like tone: "In this way, Mr. Zhou has fallen into the sea, which is an accident, and the time of falling into the sea is uncertain, from 0:40 to dawn when tourists enter the stern of the ship, any point in time is possible." So now the only thing we have to do is to return as quickly as possible and strive to find Mr. Zhou in the shortest possible time. In this way, Mr. Zhou may still have a chance of surviving. I wonder what you think? Any other thoughts? ”

"I agree with Captain Jack's judgment." First mate Tony glanced at Captain James, who had a solemn and noncommittal face, and further explained, "After all, Mr. Zhou is drunk, and not ordinary, as evidenced by his footpath tracking video record last night. He had dinner with his girlfriend Zhu Hong last night and drank

After a whole large glass of liquor, I went to the bar alone, drank the most in the bar, and lasted the longest, and returned to the room at about ten o'clock, when Ms. Zhu had fallen asleep. According to the waiter who sorted out the housekeeping, he also drank a lot in the room. By the time he came out at around midnight, his mental state and movement were already very unstable, and he could fall at any time. Therefore, after he reached the stern of the A floor, it is very likely that he fell down while holding on to the side of the boat to recuperate and rest. ”

Captain James let out a "hmm", turned his gaze to Xu Wenlong on the side, and asked politely, "What do you think?" Manager Xu, do you have any different views or suggestions? ”

Xu Wenlong pondered for a while, frowned and replied carefully: "Although Mr. Zhou and I are not very familiar with each other, we know some of his details. So judging from the video recording just now, I think there is such a possibility? Did Mr. Zhou come out so late to go to an appointment or meet someone? Because whether it was on the top floor or on the A floor, he went directly to the stern of the boat, and did not hesitate to go towards the stern......"

"I know what Mr. Xu means!" When First Officer Tony heard this, he immediately interrupted Xu Wenlong's words and said, "You mean that someone made an appointment to meet Mr. Zhou in advance, and deliberately made the location vague in order to obstruct people's eyes and ears, first let him wander around the top floor for a while, creating a kind of boring and casual walk, and finally meet in the shadow of the abandoned fort on the A floor, and push him into the sea while he is unprepared......"

"This is just my personal speculation, and there is no reliable evidence." Xu Wenlong saw that everyone was looking at him with surprised eyes, so he quickly explained, "And to completely eliminate this suspicion, in fact, it will not be very difficult, just count the tourists who entered the stern this morning, and then check with the number of people who left the stern......"

"Clever!" Tony's first mate gave a thumbs up, and praised Xu Wenlong again and again, "Actually, I also said just now that there was an affair between Ms. Zhu and the supreme passenger Chen Ke, so the first time we received Mr. Zhou's disappearance, we preconceived that it would be handled as a murder case." When we found out where Mr. Zhou was going, we immediately approached Wen Li to find out the situation, but unfortunately, she didn't even know that Mr. Zhou had ever been to the stern. Then according to Mr. Xu's statement, the number of people entering and leaving the stern of the boat was checked, and the result was not bad, no problem at all. At the same time, they also checked the whereabouts of Ms. Zhu Hong and Mr. Chen Ke that day, and found nothing suspicious. Finally, we also made an appointment with Mr. Chen Ke alone and told him about Mr. Zhou's disappearance. After all, he also realized the seriousness of the problem, feared that he would be wrongfully accused of being a murderer, and deeply blamed himself for his frivolity and unruliness, and even repeatedly swore that he would never dare to provoke Ms. Zhu again, and he would not even want to see her. Therefore, Mr. Xu's suspicions are very pertinent and constructive, but we cannot find any strong evidence to prove them. In other words, the suspicion of Mr. Chen Ke and Ms. Zhu Hong can basically be ruled out, and the only conclusion left is that Mr. Zhou did accidentally fall into the water. ”

Xu Wenlong nodded, smiled and said: "First Officer Tony is rigorous and meticulous, and he handles problems meticulously and thoughtfully, I have no doubts, thank you." ”

Captain James listened, raised his wrist to look at his watch, and then turned his inquiring gaze to Captain Jack, and seeing that the latter shook his head without objection, he announced loudly: "Well, since everyone's opinion is unanimous, let's stop the ship now, first say hello to all the passengers, explain the reason, and then return to the ship at full speed to save people." Mr. Zhou was lost at about 1 a.m., and it is now 9 a.m., which means that if we were to move at the highest speed, it would only take eight hours to reach the farthest wreck. Of course, it is not excluded that Mr. Zhou can be found on the way first. And that couldn't be better. In addition, I had to trouble Captain Jack to find Ms. Zhu Hong. Because I think I should inform her of the outcome of the case first, so that she can have a peace of mind. Although this result is unfortunately very sad! ”