Chapter Seventy-Seven: Bloodshed

"Who moved the body?" The locust was so angry that it slammed its fist on the wooden door, and Li Yi heard a crackling sound coming from the door. The locust pierced its fist directly into the wooden wall of the aisle, and its fist was cut by the broken wood, and blood came out.

The first object of the locust's anger was the cleaning girl who had followed them all the way here.

"You were the first to find out, weren't you?" The locust picked up the girl as if it were a mouse. The girl was so frightened by the locust's brutal and cruel behavior that she muttered in her throat that she could not speak, so she had to nod.

"Where did the corpse go?" The locusts were stunned word by word, and these words came out of their throats and eyes.

The girl had tears in her eyes and shook her head desperately. But it is clear that the locusts do not believe it.

Li Yi stood aside, calmly watching the locust's movements, he observed intently, and froze in place. The locusts looked so angry that their necks were so red that none of the people around him dared to squeak.

"Let's go." Li Yi didn't think so, he gently pushed away the huge body of the locust, and put the girl aside by the way. He squeezed into the room, crouched down, and began to observe the layout of the room.

This series of actions was carried out in one go, and the eyes of several people around them were straight, and they never thought that someone would dare to make such a frivolous move in front of the boss.

The locust didn't have the slightest intention of refuting or blocking, he leaned against the doorknob, his face was still red and purple, very ugly, but he didn't trouble Li Yi and the girl, just leaned against the wall on the side, silent.

This expression probably frightened the people around the locust, they had never seen their boss look so angry, and they all retreated.

As if to answer everyone's doubts, the locust muffled its mouth.

"Mr. Li Yi is a detective I hired, you listen to him."

Li Yi entered the room lightly, the layout of the room was very simple, not much different from the layout he was in, only a simple bed, a square desk, and a small low table squeezed in front of the bed, this low table was also used as a cabinet.

The room is only about 5 and a half square meters in size, although it is indeed not large, but it is also a relatively luxurious suite on the ship, and the bed looks very clean.

From the front of the bed to the aisle, less than two meters long, Li Yi frowned, he noticed the shocking fact that the red blood that spread like a gel on the wooden floor seemed to exude temperature.

Li Yi squatted down, two fingers dipped lightly, the temperature of the blood has not completely cooled, but the state of adhesion looks very strange, usually the blood in a short period of time will not show such a state.

Li Yi tried to search for the "corpse" from the direction of the extension of the bloodstains, but the bloodstains seemed to appear out of thin air, spreading from the side of the bed to the center of the room little by little, and there was still a considerable distance from the door, so it naturally disappeared.

Neither truncated nor sudden, the traces of these bloods, without any dragging or unnatural features, seemed to be right here.

Other than that, there are hardly any anomalies in the room. If it weren't for the locusts mentioning "corpses", no one would have imagined that there would have been a murder here. But even if this is a fact, for Li Yi, it is no longer a shocking truth.

He crouched down and looked up, the pane was the same as the one in his room, about a foot long, and he looked out of the window at the turquoise sea level outside the ship. It's just that this window is facing the opposite direction of Li Yi's room, and the sea breeze is blowing into the room in a surging manner. Wet and fishy.

On the wall on the edge of the pane,

A wooden board was nailed, and several books were placed horizontally on the board. Li Yi stood up, bypassing the bloodstains, Li Yi picked up a book, the brown book cover rubbed against the edges and corners of the ground was not so clear, and the words on the book were also a little missing.

Although he couldn't see the title of the book, Li Yi only glanced at it, and he understood the general content of the book, which seemed to be just some amorous impurities and travel guides.

Maybe it's a tourist. Li Yi didn't come to this conclusion, and the somewhat eccentric atmosphere made him unable to convince himself.

"Have you cleaned up?" Li Yi turned around and looked at the cleaning girl on the side. The girl's face was pale, and there was no part of her body that was not frightened and frightened, only staring at Li Yi with a pair of amber eyes, not knowing how to reply.

Li Yi looked at the girl, approached quickly, with a kind smile on his face, and put a hand on the girl's shoulder gently, silently calming the girl's emotions. After a while, he calmed down, and his tone was very soft.

"Don't be afraid, here." Li Yi raised his head, glanced at the locust, and continued: "It's all your own people here, you don't have to worry, what's the situation, what questions, just tell the truth." ”

Li Yi saw that the girl was still trembling, one hand was in front of her heart and she didn't dare to move, and the other hand covered her mouth and nose, and tears were about to come out. He sighed, put one hand lightly on the girl's back, leaned forward slightly, and gave the girl a hug sideways, along the back of the girl's head, Li Yi seemed to comfort a frightened cat, until the girl's whispered sobs gradually stabilized, and then he let go.

"Are you alright?" Li Yi half-squatted and looked at the girl with a smile.

The girl nodded, took a deep breath, and her voice was a little hoarse.

"My name is Lisa." She forgot about Li Yi, although she only said her name, she finally made progress.

"Lisa." Li Yi knew that the key information was probably hidden in this weak-looking girl, so he squeezed out a kind face. "How old are you?"

"Sixteen...... I. Lisa had tears in the corners of her eyes, she lowered her head, wiped away her tears, clenched her fists, shook her head, and corrected, "I'm fourteen, sir." ”

It seems that he is chatting about family life, but Li Yi knows that in order to find as much information as possible from such a little girl, it is obviously unreliable to rely on interrogation alone.

"Fourteen." Li Yi pondered for a moment, the fourteen-year-old was obviously a child laborer, but on the locust boat, Li Yi felt that this kind of thing should not be a special case, so he didn't ask any more. "What are you doing on the ship?"

"Cleaning...... Sometimes I help with the kitchen. Sally said, sobbing.

Li Yi nodded, this is reasonable, although Sally is considered a child laborer, but after all, she is still young, and she is a girl, and the work she can do on the ship is limited.

"Sally, how long have you been working here?" Li Yi grabbed Sally's little hand, put his palms on Sally's hand, and said in a more gentle tone.

Sally poked her head out in cringe, looked cautiously at the locust, and after confirming that the locust had no face, she reluctantly held out two fingers.

"Two years?"

Sally nodded, exhaling deeply. Li Yi stretched out his hand and rubbed Sally's white face, and the latter's tears rolled down, hot flowing over half of his immature cheeks, washing the oil and soot off the corners of his eyes.

"Okay, then you can answer a few questions from my brother." Li Yi squatted down completely, looking at the girl. "Don't be afraid, don't be nervous, I'm here, they don't dare to do anything to you."

Sally nodded, calmed her breath, took a few hard breaths, and coughed twice with a twitching throat.

"I...

… I cleaned on the boat as usual, and there weren't many guests today...... According to the boss's instructions, many colleagues went to other ships in front of the port, and I was in charge of this floor today as usual......"

Li Yi nodded, he knew that for such a child, nervousness and fear, it was not easy to be able to say it, and then ask them to say it neatly, this is demanding.

Li Yi patiently listened to Sally say frustratedly, the little girl looked at the locust's face from time to time, and after her expression calmed down, Li Yi even felt that this girl was a little unusual.

"You're usually in charge of this floor?" Li Yi looked around, this level refers to the cabin below deck. According to Li Yi's visual inspection, there are twenty or thirty cabins on the first floor, ranging in size, including the dormitory area, so that such a little girl whose height is no more than her waist can be cleaned.

"No, just today." Sally shook her head. "Usually there are several people together, but I am usually responsible for ......"

Halfway through her words, Sally secretly raised one eye to look at Li Yi, and there was an extra layer of shadow between her eyebrows.

"Is there anything inconvenient to say?" Li Yi tilted his head in confusion.

"No, no, no." Sally shook her head immediately, her hands shaking rapidly. "Generally, I am in charge of Mr., and the area where you live is the Shangbin area."

The guest area is located at the rear of the cabin. Li Yi himself lives in that area, compared with the more and denser rooms in the middle and front, the rooms in the Shangbin area are more luxurious, the facilities are also quite extravagant, and the rooms are reasonably distributed and will not interfere with each other.

"So, you're not usually in charge of cleaning this area?" Li Yi asked.

Sally nodded in confusion, then shook her head suddenly.

"Sometimes it helps." She explained.

"What's going on today?" Li Yi continued to ask, knowing that the next content was likely to involve corpses, so he deliberately avoided this key topic.

"My habit is...... From one side to the other, go around the cabin in a semicircle, since in the middle is the processing and power room, so it is most convenient to go around this way. ”

Li Yi nodded, the middle of the ship is divided into two parts, front and back, that is, directly below the dance hall where the locusts are located, which is a processing room that is not available on ordinary cruise ships, although Li Yi doesn't know what is "processing" here, but it really doesn't look like a place where Sally can go in.

The back room of the processing room is the power room, and Li Yi has been to the power room, which is mainly the core area for helming and controlling the cruise ship, and it is also the closest huge cabin to the Shangbin area.

So it's not surprising that the whole cabin actually walked around the edge of the cabin, and Sally's work path was to walk around the cabin.

"I started at the front of the processing room in the morning, and most of the rooms were actually empty, so it wasn't very difficult to clean, but when I got to number 104, this one."

Sally fluffled a few steps and ran past the crowd to the next room. Li Yi followed, the density of rooms in the ordinary cabin is very large, less than two meters apart is another guest room, and the place of the incident seems to be in room 105.

"In room 104, I heard a faint sound, it sounded like a milk carton had been crushed, and I thought it was a guest throwing a tantrum, so I wanted to go and have a look." At this point, Sally's face became darker and darker.

"And that's what you found out?" Li Yi asked cautiously.

Sally seemed to obviously know what the "that" in Li Yi's mouth was, but she shook her head.

"Actually, I haven't seen a body." Her face turned pale when she said this.