It was already dusk when Lu Jing boarded the ship, and he stayed on the deck and the first floor for a while, and it was already night outside.

The second floor was already spacious, and there were many things and things, and the most important gas lamps were extinguished by each other, and most of the whole room was immediately engulfed in darkness, and the sudden change obviously frightened the singers and dancers in the performance, and the music and dancing stopped, and the sudden silence conveyed an uncomfortable atmosphere.

The night breeze from the sea poured into the building, blowing up the tulle hanging on the pillars, making a "whoosh~" sound, which should have been a beautiful picture, but now it is a little weird.

"Little Er! Little Er, what's the matter with you, where's the lamp?"

Someone shouted in a panic.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm really sorry, there is something wrong with the gas pipeline, please don't worry, it will be repaired soon. ”

There was a rush of footsteps, and someone gasped and apologized to everyone, who should be the management of the ship.

After knowing that it was just a pipe failure and not other strange things, the originally quiet floor became noisy, and in order to cover up the previous panic, most people chose to reprimand to vent, and the person had to endure it, and kept bowing and apologizing.

"Hey, give me back the money bag!"

In the dark, the girl still looked at the money bag she had taken away, stared at her eyes and handed the knife in her hand forward, and said in a muffled voice.

However, in response to her, it was a palm that had been placed between her wrists at some point, and as soon as she grabbed it, the fruit knife in her hand fell to the ground, and the pain made the girl cry out, struggling to escape, but when she looked up, she saw a pair of flickering cold eyes staring at her.

Somehow, she chose to be quiet.

"Xu Xu, pay attention to your surroundings, something is wrong. ”

Even after receiving the explanation, Lu Jing's brows still showed no signs of loosening, and he reminded in a suppressed voice,

When the lampstand next to him went out, Lu Jing's perception caught a trace of unusual aura, but this was only a fleeting feeling, and Lu Jing's ability was not enough to support him to find the source along the vine.

"Bloody gas!"

Almost at the same time, the two looked at each other and said in a muffled voice.

The girl next to her also smelled the strange smell wafting in the air, and suddenly found that the bad man in front of her had let go of her hand for some time, and peeked at him to see that his attention was completely out of this way, and hurriedly turned around and fled.

Lu Jing deliberately let her go.

The reason is very simple, compared to this little thief, there are more existential existences in this house that need to be guarded against!

"Ah! there are dead people!"

The screams rang out the next second as the girl got up to leave, and only the dancers in the hall could be seen, and the musicians screamed and stepped back to reveal a woman behind her holding a lute, slumped on a bench with her head drooping, dark red blood running down her falling hair onto the carpet on the floor......

Seeing this scene, Lu Jing subconsciously looked at Xu Chu, and both of them saw confusion in each other's eyes.

You must know that from the time the lights went out to the present, it was only three minutes to be full, and when the deceased's lights were on, Lu Jing also saw her playing the pipa, which means that she died after the lights went out, the problem is that her position is between a group of dancers and musicians, and the light in the room is not so dim that you can't see your fingers!

"What now?"

Xu Chu adjusted from the previous sitting position to a half-kneeling posture where he could get up and move at any time, and turned his head to ask Lu Jing.

"Wait, there must be guards on this kind of large ship, wait for them to deal with it, we are not murderers, just watch from the side, there is no need to get involved." ”

Sitting cross-legged behind the wooden table, Lu Jing pinched the grapes brought by the female thief just now and threw them into his mouth, his eyes roaming the room,

"At such times, running around will be considered a prisoner who has absconded...... Tsk, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat this meal tonight, so let's eat some fruit to cushion my stomach first. ”

While Lu Jing and the two were eating the fruit, the other guests got up one after another and were about to rush downstairs, they didn't care if they would be suspected, they just wanted to escape from here quickly.

However, as Lu Jing said, the ship that gathers a lot of wealth and personnel dares to sail and do business on the sea, so it naturally has its confidence.

Bang! Bang!

Three gunshots rang out, and the guests who had just rushed down immediately retreated at a faster speed, and then a group of uniformed guards with torches in their hands, long knives and firearms at their waists, rushed up to the second floor, and at the end was a tall thin man wearing a moire coat on his shoulders and holding a short smoking gun in his mouth.

As soon as this person appeared, Lu Jing noticed the special momentum looming on this person, making it clear that he was not an ordinary person.

"Steward Zhou Qing, you can count it on. ”

The man who apologized before also rushed out of the corner at this time, and it was a middle-aged man with a rich body.

"What's going on, didn't I say it was just a problem with the pipeline, why did I suddenly die?"

Waving his hand to signal the two subordinates to check the situation first, Zhou Qing's face was not shocked, obviously he was used to seeing life and death, while listening to the report of the middle-aged man, he asked the other guards to get close to the crowd to control the situation, looked around, and said,

"Ladies and gentlemen, since something happened here, and it is still our people who died, so in order to find the murderer, we have to ask you to wait here first...... It's also for everyone's safety, I don't think anyone wants to be in the same boat as a murderer, right?"

"Boss, something is wrong with this man. ”

At this time, the person who had just come over to inspect the corpse said with an ugly face.

"A few of you guard this staircase, no one is allowed to go up and down without my nod, if someone breaks in, you will be killed directly as a murderer!"

Zhou Qing lowered his face and ordered, and then walked quickly towards the corpse.

Because of the intervention of the torches, the corpses that had been shrouded in darkness could already be seen, and many people peeked in, even if their faces turned pale with fright.

"The back of the corpse's head looked like something had been chiseled open...... It's weird, and it stands to reason that it's almost impossible to do this without making a sound. ”

Lu Jing relied on his tall stature and looked at the hideous wound on the back of the man's head, and after a while, he came to a conclusion,

"I'm afraid the murderer is not an ordinary person, or not a person at all. ”

At this time, Zhou Qing thought about the same as Lu Jing, staring at the hollow in the back of the corpse, his face gloomy.

"Steward Zhou! We've caught one out there who escaped!"

Suddenly, there was a report from under the stairs, and Zhou Qing turned sideways and answered,

"Bring it on!"

"Let go of me, I'm not a murderer, that person didn't kill me at all!"

The clear voice, Lu Jing is a little familiar no matter how he listens, and when he sees the guy who was forced up by the two of them at the staircase, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but pull.

"Captain, remember my 'curse', if the murderer wasn't human, I might be able to help. ”

Xu Chu reminded in a low voice beside Lu Jing.