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After Atobe enjoyed what was probably the most miserable breakfast in his life, he silently patted off the residue on his hands, and began to think about the next plan: "We can't judge when the rescue will arrive. If there is any accident, we will be on this ship." The longer you stay on a cruise ship, the less you can guarantee your safety."

"So the top priority is that we should still obtain the means to communicate with the outside world. Both ordinary mobile phone communication and Internet access are cut off on the high seas. We need to find a place inside the cruise ship that can use satellite signals, but now we are penniless... ..." Yukimura rested his right hand on his chin lightly, leaning on the shelf and thinking. "Even if you have money, if you go to such a public place, the possibility of identity exposure will increase."

With an idea, Atobe began to look at the shelves behind him. Everything on the shelves was sealed in individual boxes and labeled. There were only vague descriptions such as "painting" and "vase", which roughly distinguished the types of items.

"There must be a casino on the cruise ship. There will be no restrictions on pawning in this kind of place. Although they searched all the communication equipment, they didn't search everything else." After thinking for a moment, Atobu stopped at a four-four In front of the square flat box, "Compared to that, I think we need to understand the environment here first."

Yukimura nodded, leaned over to him and asked, "What did you find?"

Atobe was not sure, he replied vaguely: "We may need to check the things on it first." He opened the box in front of him first, and saw an oil painting inside, with a signature of JW in the lower right corner.

Yukimura then opened the box next to it. It was an exquisite pastel vase. It seemed to be an antique, but he couldn't judge the age and value.

The two worked together to open up all the products on this shelf. Yukimura did not get any effective clues, but Atobe frowned slightly, looking at the auction items in front of him inexplicably.

"What did you find?" Yukimura was puzzled, "These auction items don't seem to be anything special."

Atobe nodded, "You are right, the shelves here should be numbered according to the value of the goods, and the auction box on this floor is not even locked, which means that their value is limited, which is not surprising , the key lies in the commodities themselves...they are indeed not very expensive, but based on my knowledge of antique paintings, I can't tell the origin of more than half of them, which is a bit strange."

"I don't understand. Since their value is not high, isn't it normal that you can't tell the history? After all, most of them only pay attention to the sources of the top and most precious collections."

Atobe shook his head and looked at Yukimura seriously: "Seiichi, you didn't understand what I meant." He paused, picked up a painting next to him and commented, "This painting is of a good standard, I don't know any painters who can paint. Generally, the auction items that can be listed in this kind of secret auction need a certain threshold, so they are basically high-quality goods. It is not surprising if I can't identify the source of one of them, but here Among the twenty or so boxes that were opened, there were more than a dozen that I couldn't identify."

"You mean, I don't know from which channel these collections were collected." Yukimura savored the meaning of Shimojibe, and continued to ask, "No matter how valuable the auction items are, people who know the goods are needed, but the customers of the auction Most of them are rich and wealthy merchants, and they don't necessarily have high artistic accomplishments and attainments to identify them. Therefore, they should try their best to choose representative and well-known auction items... In this way, the situation we see now is really weird .”

Atobe agreed with his thoughts, and followed the serial numbers of the shelves all the way to the front: "The auction item with number zero one is missing here."

Yukimura stepped forward to check in surprise, and sure enough, the shelves were empty. He calmly analyzed: "According to the porters, an auction was held last night, so it is possible that the goods here have already been auctioned. But since From the perspective of business logic, since we have determined that the smaller the product number, the greater the value of the product, as the most precious collection, No. [-] should not be sold early in the morning or in the middle, but should be kept to attract popularity and finally be auctioned as the finale. Obviously The status quo doesn't seem to make sense."

Atobe agrees with Yukimura's judgment. He caresses the tear mole on his face and observes the shelf intently, falling into deep thinking.

At this moment - there was a strange movement from the door of the storage room.

Yukimura and Atobe hurried back to the original path, but the opened goods had not been put away, and people who came in could easily notice that something was wrong here.

Yukimura looked around. There was an integrated storage cabinet in the corner that should have been equipped with the storage room of the cruise ship. When he opened the door, a small amount of sundries had accumulated inside, but the space was still spacious. Yukimura hid inside without discussing with Atobu.

At this time, the door of the storage room was finally opened, and Yukimura and Atobe could observe a corner of the outside through the looming perspective of the shutter door.

The visitor did not turn on the light, but took out a flashlight instead. This action made Yukimura realize immediately that they were a group of uninvited guests.In an instant, his heart beat like a drum, and the violent beating brought an urgent sense of suffocation.He thought to himself that the cruise ship was full of dangers, and there were gangsters with evil intentions one after another.

Atobe could see Yukimura's discomfort. Although the two were thin enough, it was not a pleasant experience to be squeezed into a small closed space and forced to maintain a close distance.He could only try his best to give each other room to breathe, so he had to maintain a difficult movement and find a reluctant fulcrum among the messy debris.

Yukimura noticed that Atobe's movements were a little stiff, and he saw Atobe's silent and considerate, but the people outside the door didn't know how long it would take to leave, and it was difficult for Atobe to maintain a difficult posture for too long.However, this is not an opportunity for communication. Yukimura had no choice but to hug Atobe in the dark without consulting Atobe, so that his head could rest on his shoulder to find a fulcrum, and at the same time he could block it with one hand. Cabinet side panels.

Atobe was taken aback by Yukimura's actions, but he quickly realized his current situation, and without making a sound, he adjusted his posture slightly.

The neck-to-neck gesture is too intimate.

Atobe put his hand on Yukimura's shoulder to prevent sundries from hurting him. At such a close distance, he even felt that he could hear the other person's heartbeat, feel his warm breath, and the faint arrows Chrysanthemum mixed with the aroma of jasmine and grass.

Atobe's cheeks were slightly red, but fortunately, the darkness covered up his vague gaffe, so no one noticed.

"Sister, the collections here are sorted according to their value. The painting we are looking for should be at the top, that is...here!" The person who spoke seemed to be a young girl. "Let me see, here are jewels, vases..." She seemed to be checking the labels one by one, and found nothing after a moment.

"There's nothing!" A second voice sounded, sounding slightly older than the first one.

"Xiao Ai, are you sure you found that painting on the auction list?"

Atobe raised his eyebrows in surprise. It seemed that they had a lot of experience. He didn't realize that the gang was composed of three women until they spoke one by one. It seemed that they were related before.

Outside the cabinet door, Lai Shenglei carefully inspected the traces on the shelves. She is the leader of the three sisters, with a calm and meticulous personality. The younger sister Lai Shengai is proficient in hacking techniques. The information she obtained should not be wrong. In this case, it means that the auction may What happened to cause their "prey" to disappear.

Second sister Lai Shengtong thought for a moment: "I didn't see this painting in the auction last night. It is impossible for it to be sold, and since it is used as a publicity gimmick in the auction, it is impossible not to take it out on purpose. .Could it be that someone stole it before us?"

Lai Shenglei shook his head: "Impossible, the forces behind this auction are very powerful. They control the entire cruise ship. As long as all the guests participating in the auction are clear-headed, they will not openly offend them, otherwise they will be directly punished if they are found out. Throwing them into the sea to feed the fish. It is precisely because of this reliance that they dared to lock these priceless auction items in a storage room without even sending anyone to guard them."

"Elder Sister is right, even we plan to take advantage of the next time the cruise ship docks to make a move. Find out the location and hit it right away." Compared with the two older sisters, Lai Sheng Ai has a much more lively personality.

"From the gray traces of different shades, we can speculate that something was indeed placed here." Lai Sheng tearfully pondered, "That is to say, something happened before the first auction that forced them to take away this painting. Painting, it seems that we need..." Before she could finish her sentence, under the illumination of the flashlight, she happened to glimpse some opened boxes on the shelf in the opposite corner.

The experienced Lai Shenglei softly booed the two younger sisters, turned off the flashlight, and searched the environment inside the storage room on tiptoe, and finally stopped in front of the locker integrated with the wall.

"Crack"——

The vigilant Atobe reacted in an instant, wrapped his arms around Yukimura's waist to protect him, and took out the self-defense knife that Kidd gave them, and Yukimura, who cooperated tacitly, also reached out to hold the tear gas in his pocket in an instant.

The Laisheng sisters couldn't help being startled when they saw the two handsome young men hugging closely in front of them. The intimate posture of the two was incompatible with the tense atmosphere in the arena, which seemed extremely inconsistent.

But as long as you see the offensive weapons in their hands, you can't mistakenly judge it as the scene where the young couple was caught "stealing/love".

Hitomi Atobe, the most skilled, first restrained Atobe's movements. Although she was unarmed, she was still able to withstand Atobe's well-trained attacks, and was even slightly better.

Lai Shenglei stopped Lai Shengai from watching the situation in front of him. There seemed to be no strong hostility. Yukimura and Lai Shenglei tried each other's movements, but no one took the initiative to attack. No matter how you say it, Yukimura knew very well that with the strength of the three sisters in front of him, three hit two They obviously don't have an advantage.

After trying Atobe's skills, Kaisheng Hitomi took the initiative to send out a truce signal. She lightly turned over and jumped beside Daisheng Lei: "Sister, these two children are not members of the underworld. They are very skilled, but they seem to have received self-defense. Rich kid in training."

"You are not gangsters, and obviously you are not insiders of the auction, why did you appear here." The carefree love of the next life was the first to attack, she folded her arms and looked suspicious, "Could you be some kind of young couple who elope secretly because the family doesn't allow you?" Bar?"