Protect our prophets

After getting permission from the chief engineer, they walked into the cabin together.

The surrounding area was quiet, it was not a place where people often come, but now there are only a few people guarding it.The dull roar of the engine echoed around, and the friction sound of the gears could be vaguely heard.

Farther away, the waves hit the drain, and the salty smell hit the face.

Songxue took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

"If it really explodes here, I don't know if we will have time to escape..." Heiji couldn't help but sigh.

"Don't be crowed." The white horse coughed lightly.

Kaito sighed: "Sometimes, I almost forget that we just got on the boat this afternoon."

Everyone was silent, with lingering fear.

They turned a corner and glanced over, and there were figures shaking among the giant equipment

The man sat cross-legged on the ground, with his back to them, unable to see clearly, his curly brown hair was randomly tied into a knot behind his head.She was wearing close-fitting long sleeves and a small waistcoat. Under the sleeves were well-defined arms. She grabbed the wrench and twisted it hard, and there was another roar, even the cabin shook slightly.

Soon she stood up again to adjust the equipment, commanding the two crew members next to her to fight from time to time.She is tall and tall, her movements are neat, without sloppiness, and her every move looks pleasing to the eye.

It seemed that it was the critical time, and they didn't dare to disturb, so they stood by and waited quietly.

"Wait a moment." The other party said without looking back, completely immersed in his own world.

She spoke Japanese with a vague accent.Looking at the appearance again, the complexion is very fair, the eyebrows are deep and clear, the bridge of the nose is straight, and there are a pair of dark blue eyes.

Songxue thought for a while, it should be Russian.

Most of the staff on board are of mixed race, there are many Southeast Asians and Europeans, and there are also many guests.She recalled it carefully, but still couldn't remember seeing her on the boat during the day.

But since he chooses to appear generously in everyone's field of vision, it means that his identity passed the test and he boarded the ship through normal means, so he is trustworthy.

"Is it the person you saw before?" she whispered to Atobe.

"It was too dark, so I couldn't see clearly." Atobe pondered, "However, the outline is a bit similar."

……

After another half an hour, the hull of the boat shook for a while, and the sound of the water flow became louder and louder.

The boat sailed.

The boatmen let out a long sigh of relief, and looked gratefully at the uninvited helper.She had already packed up the tools she had brought, put them back in the mechanical box, straddled her waist, and wiped off the oil on her hands with a rag.

Until then, she looked at Songxue and nodded slightly.

"Let's talk about it upstairs." She paused, then remembered something, stretched out her wiped hands, and made a very brief self-introduction, "Katerina, I'm a mechanic."

Songxue held her hand.

"My name is Songxue...Guang." She lost her mind a little before finishing.

The mechanic looks a little cold, but his palms are very warm - just finished work, there is still a little wet sweat, with slightly rough calluses, but with a feminine softness.

Songxue couldn't help asking: "Do you know me?"

Catalina looked at her with deep blue eyes, nodded slowly, and mouthed a word.

"Searle."

Although the cafeteria on the roof was bombed, the advantage of the luxury cruise ship is that it has many restaurants.

After the explosion, the police came and went, and it wasn't until late at night that the Jacqueline really quieted down.Most of the passengers have returned to their rooms to rest.The lights on the upper floor were dimmed one by one, and the public activity area in the middle was still brightly lit.

Song Xue followed behind the mechanic, and the other party picked a billiards room, and when she came in, he closed the door, blocking the group of teenagers behind.

"...Hey." Kaito patted the door in slight protest, "It's too much."

"Women always have a lot of secrets." Baima said understandingly, and glanced at his watch, "It's getting late, let me buy everyone a drink."

Conan said vigilantly: "Underage cannot drink alcohol."

As soon as he finished speaking, his head was covered by the palm from behind. He struggled to raise his head, and Atobe smiled half-smile: "For you, of course you can drink Coke."

Through the glass window, Songxue saw the boys enter the water bar on the opposite side, and felt thirsty belatedly.

Katerina put the mechanical box on the table, walked to the small bar, and called the waiter: "A bloody mary, a glass of smoothie."

"It's not convenient for me to drink cold drinks." Songxue said regretfully.

She nodded: "Change to hot cocoa, thank you."

Songxue took a few sips of the hot drink, the whole night of thrilling finally passed, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Are you really a hunter?" She held the ceramic cup, carefully holding the ear of the cup to prevent her fingers from being burned, and then raised her eyes to look at the other party.

Looking through the hot mist above the mouth of the cup, Katerina nodded calmly.

"The captain said, something happened to you here, let me come and help."

"Captain..." She was slightly at a loss.

"Under normal circumstances, each task is checked and reassigned by the captain, so that it can be dispatched afterwards, such as this emergency." Katerina took a sip of her wine and said slowly, "This world is too unstable. "

The captain she mentioned probably refers to the man wearing the police badge that she saw when she received the mission.Is it the captain of their entire clergy camp?

Songxue pondered slightly: "The instability... is it because there are too many detectives?"

Katerina didn't answer directly, but shook her head: "Light and darkness go hand in hand."

Rather than saying that there are too many detectives, it is better to say that there are too many criminals.

"Like the hundreds of superheroes and supervillains in New York City?" Songxue put down her glass, seeming to understand, "The important thing is to maintain a balanced state."

Katerina concluded: "The world is out of balance now, but we still don't know what the problem is, so... the rest of the task depends on you."

There is a long way to go.Songxue sighed.

She thought about it, then asked her if she knew anything about explosives.

Katerina shook her head bluntly: "Solving puzzles is not my field of expertise."

"That……"

"My task is to clear the fish that slipped through the net." Katerina stretched out her hand and spread her palm to her.

Songxue was stunned for a moment, then she came to her senses and handed the bullet she had put away to her palm.

"The hunter only has one bullet." The mechanic sighed softly and said that she had to leave soon.

Songxue realized that when she said leaving, she did not mean leaving the ship, but this "world".

"It means that in this world, you have already used up this opportunity..." She was thoughtful, "It doesn't matter if you encounter danger again?"

"Don't be afraid." The other party replied succinctly, "I have been in the mercenary army for a while."

"..."

Disrespect, disrespect.Songxue cupped her fists and said solemnly, take care of the heroine.

Katerina took a deep look at her, drank the wine in the goblet, and got up.

"Good luck."

……

Songxue sat alone by the billiard table, and after drinking the cup of hot cocoa, she stood up to look for someone.

In contrast, the water bar is much more lively.Although most of the passengers had been terrified by the previous incident and went to bed early, some were still fearful of the world.

When Songxue walked in, she heard a group of people in the corner chatting excitedly about the details of the "murder case" they had inquired from the waiter.

Some people were full of emotion: "I thought I was just going out for vacation, but unexpectedly there will be murders and explosions. It is simply the development of Hollywood blockbusters! This ticket is worth..."

"Also, we were almost buried in the belly of a fish, okay?"

Another rebuttal: "No, for a cruise ship of this level, within a few hours of the sinking, everyone can be evacuated to the lifeboats, and the Titanic will not be repeated."

Songxue was still distracted, her sleeve was pulled a bit, looking back, Conan smiled at her: "Here."

Atobe leaned on the sofa chair, swirled the crystal liquid in the wine glass, and under the dim night light, looked extremely lazy: "Why, the secret chat is over?"

As soon as he said a word, the others turned their gazes.

"Have you all been drinking?" she asked in surprise.

"Unlimited." The white horse gracefully raised his wine glass and gestured towards her.

Conan held the Coke glass in his hand and sighed peacefully.

"Well, there is no secret." Songxue sat down in the empty seat between them frankly, "She is indeed my 'companion', but... she has left now."

"She traveled thousands of miles just to spy on someone?" Atobe couldn't help questioning.

She shrugged: "No way, she is a hunter."

It was inconvenient for Songxue to explain the details to them, so she could only explain vaguely:

They belong to a special group organization, and the members aim to eliminate criminals, and are active in various fields and fields around the world... and so on.

The detectives were thoughtful after listening.

"Could this be the legendary 'partner of justice'?" Heiji asked with great interest.

"Probably understandable in this way." She nodded.

Baima pondered for a moment: "That is to say, it seems that all of us gathered on this ship due to various chances and coincidences, and went to Xia Zhile together... But in fact, it is not a coincidence, but someone behind the scenes to promote it?"

Having said that, he looked at Atobe and smiled apologetically.

"It's a pity that Mr. Atobe is here, and he will probably be implicated by us."

Atobe raised his eyebrows: "Why, you don't have confidence in yourself?"

"Of course not." Baima quickly replied, "But let's just say it, the things that happened around us in recent months are really unbelievable——"

He, Heiji and the others looked at each other, and Conan shrugged and said, "There's nothing to hide now."

"Yes." Baima smiled wryly, and began to talk about the difficulties of being a detective.

24-hour random standby, wherever you go, the probability of homicide, robbery, and extortion will increase hundreds of times, and finally swarms will come.

Baima paused for a while, and Tan raised his chin reservedly, saying that his best achievement was solving eight cases in one day.

This is a tactful hint that at the most exaggerated time, he can encounter eight cases a day.

From the moment he helped the old lady across the road after breakfast, there was never a moment for him to rest...

"Atobe-kun also thinks it's abnormal?" Baima said, looking at Songxue, "I don't know if Miss Songxue..."

"Uh, no." Songxue looked at them sympathetically.

After hearing this, Atobe's expression became even more unpredictable, and he didn't know where to spit out.

He glanced at Song Xue secretly, as if to say, I misunderstood you earlier.Didn't expect you to be the most normal?

Songxue: "...There is nothing comparable to this kind of thing, right?"

Atobe put down his wine glass, bent his index finger, and tapped on the table. He didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly frowned: "Could it be--Groundhog Day?"

The author has something to say: Hunters are very simple and rude, rely on intuition to guess who the criminal is, and then just hit it hard and it's over (.

There are benefits of force value!

I remembered that when I heard my friend Amway before, I mentioned that there are hundreds of super-reverses in New York... (or thousands? dbq forgot)

I was shocked: wait?hundreds of?

Her: There are hundreds (maybe thousands) of super criminals out of a population of tens of millions. Isn't it special?

I:……

Start to check the population of Tokyo (.

Whoa, more.

Looking at Conan again, there are so many murders, and many of them happened outside of Tokyo...

Is it normal (?

(Important spoiler→) In fact, I will secretly tell you why this world is abnormal, because... 73 has been serialized for too long!They've had many Christmases, Valentines, New Years...

So it's Groundhog Day! (Bushi

The appetizer is finally officially over, and the next chapter will enter the secret room link_(:з」∠)_