sincerity of lies

correct……!

It all makes sense, Mr. Liu's purpose is 100% to use Chen Jiashu to escape!

What he cooperated with Chen Jiashu was not only Chen Jiashu's business, Chen Jiashu's waterway, but also Chen Jiashu's life!

Because only the dead can shut their mouths at critical moments and not talk nonsense and cause more problems.

After sorting out the front and back, Meng Lingshan was excited at first, but the excitement immediately cooled down.

He thought more carefully about everything in front of him:

The plan arranged by Mr. Liu is indeed sinister, but there is an unavoidable loophole...

As for Chen Jiashu, I will tell him this... No, there is no need... Chen Jiashu won't believe it... I can't produce evidence to prove my reasoning, all my reasoning is based on my trust in Ji Xun ...

"Crack."

The back door opens.

Meng Lingshan, who had been lingering in the corridor for a long time, turned his head and saw Chen Jiashu's door open.

A woman came out from the door, it was Chenchen; then a man came out, it was Abin.

Chen Jiashu is about to rest, so Abin sends Chenchen out.

The woman who was walking in front tripped over the carpet when she went out, staggered and almost fell, but Abin behind her grabbed her arm in time and helped her up.

The woman in the white dress has long black hair. Under the long hair is a fair and small face. Perhaps because she is on a boat and hasn't been exposed to the sun for a long time, her skin feels transparent. , the cyan blood vessels are faintly visible, like the wings of a cicada, lonely and fragile.

But the master's appearance and personality don't seem to be similar.

Meng Lingshan looked at the supported Chenchen and directly pulled his arm out of Abin's palm, without saying a word of thanks, he pressed his hand against the wall and walked forward.

She has limited mobility, like a blind person...

Why does every woman here wear ribbons?

A certain idea emerged from the depths of Meng Lingshan's mind, and he shuddered.

At this moment, Abin saw Meng Lingshan, he nodded lightly to Meng Lingshan, and turned back.The door of Chen Jiashu's room was closed again. This closed door revealed a truth - who is one of them and who is an outsider.

Everyone has someone they trust.

I trust Ji Xun, and Chen Jiashu trusts A Bin.

If you want to persuade Chen Jiashu not to cooperate with Mr. Liu, you must first persuade Abin to influence Chen Jiashu.

However, Abin is just a shield without thought, how can the shield affect its owner?

Chenchen walked through the corridor.

She pressed her fingers against the wall, year after year, month after month, and the positions of the picture frames and animal heads on the wall were tacitly understood and familiar.No matter how the decorations above are changed, they will not cut her fingers and hinder her steps as before.

She deftly walked in this corridor that she had walked through countless times, entered the elevator, and pressed the floor.

This is the 3rd floor. The 3rd floor is where the distinguished guests come here. Each room is spacious, sunny and breezy.They come here from time to time, but this is never their place.

Their location is on the -1 floor.It was a cramped place below the deck, where there were windows, but the windows were not arranged in their rooms.It seems that if the eyes are blind, people no longer need sunlight.

She entered and groped all the way down, walking on the road she walked every day, and finally came below the deck.

The unnatural ventilation makes the atmosphere here always turbid and oppressive, urging the people living here to go up as much as possible, to go up at all costs, to breathe the fresh air, to listen to the waves beating against the side of the ship... to know where they are.

As she was walking, she was suddenly pulled aside by a huge force.

She didn't resist, although the other's sharp nails pricked her arm a little.She already knew that there was someone beside her.The human sensory system is balanced. Once vision starts to fail, the senses of hearing, smell, and touch will be greatly improved.

She heard heavy breathing from the side and smelled a familiar fragrance.

It's Mimi.

Chenchen thought.

Mimi likes to spray a strong fragrance, unlike most people here, most people here spray very light perfume, so light that they are lonely, like a mouse, they would rather cling to the wall and blend into the shadows than Willing to be noticed by others.

Only Mimi.

Her perfume is domineering, strong, and she announces her existence to people from a long distance away. After walking for a long time, the perfume lingers, as if she is still standing by your side.

"Chenchen—"

Mimi opened her mouth to call her, and a sweet and over-fermented rotten breath came out.

Mimi loves to drink, and often drinks heavily with her guests. Over time, there is a lingering sweet and rotten taste in her mouth, probably the taste of overripe fruit.

"I found a good way out." Mi Mi said, giggling, "There is a kind person who wants to take me out of here. It's really boring here, and I'm tired of it. Do you want to come with me? Me and My well-meaning man told me that it would be no problem to ask him to take two beauties away, since he paid the price for one, are you afraid of paying the price for the second?"

Is she drunk, or awake?Chenchen thought.No, instead of thinking about this question, why not think about it, is she really Mi Mi?

The fragrance is very simple, just spray the same perfume on it.

Voices can be recorded and imitated.

The tone and body shape can also be camouflaged; even the face can be affixed with a simulated human mask to decorate the same outline.

Deception is really hard to guard against.

But she has a unique way of spotting deception.

Chenchen touched Mi Mi's face, followed Mi Mi's feverish neck that was throbbing with excitement, touched her chin, touched her nose, and then touched the cloth that covered her eyes.

This layer of blindfold is rarely taken off, and when it is taken off, it is often not out of the curiosity of those distinguished guests.

Those distinguished guests, perhaps feeling something, rarely took off the ribbons from their eyes.

It seems that what is covered under the silk belt is not the eyes, but Pandora's box. Once opened, more or less, you will encounter misfortune.

She untied Mi Mi's ribbon.

These ribbons are often untied by themselves and by each other.

She touched Mimi's eyes, touched the eyelashes and eyelids, pierced her fingers, passed through these two barriers, and touched the eyeballs.

The soft part is the pupil; the hard part is the white of the eye.

When I first touched it, the eyeballs were dry, but soon, the eyeballs secreted mucus due to the invasion of foreign objects, and the mucus wetted the fingers.

Through the mucus soaking her fingers, Chenchen finally saw Mimi's image clearly.

It was a distant blur of light in a narrow dark field of vision.

— is the only thing a blind man can see.

Mimi was still giggling: "Do you believe that I am me now? Chenchen, you will always be so suspicious."

Chenchen withdrew her hand: "Sister Mimi."

"You call me sister, don't say my sister doesn't take care of you." Mimi said, "What about my proposal just now? Among so many little sisters, I only think of you. Tell me, come with me."

Mi Mi's sweet voice carried a temptation that could not be ignored.

"No." Chenchen said.

"Why not?" Mi Mi asked.

Chenchen didn't speak.

"...Oh, I forgot." After a long time, Mimi said meaningfully, "You still have hope. A hope that you never tell anyone else."

Pinching the nails on Chenchen's arm and leaving, Chenchen heard the sound of high-heeled shoes clicking, which was the sound of Mimi's leaving footsteps, but her breath stayed for a long time, a burning aroma like fire.

The daytime of the cruise ship is nothing compared to the nighttime.

Meng Lingshan went out for a stroll during the day. Except for the floor that was said to be Mr. Liu's office, he didn't go up. He looked at the other three floors.

Huge cruise ships have everything.

All kinds of delicacies, all kinds of exercise, all kinds of leisure enjoyment.

But compared to all the entertainment items that are fully prepared and waiting to welcome guests, there are very few guests. Meng Lingshan walked around and met less than ten people other than the cruise ship waiters.It seems that the madness of last night has sucked all the spirits of the guests here like a devil.

It wasn't until four or five o'clock in the afternoon that I saw some masked men, Shanshan and their female companions, go up to the deck to watch the sunset, or enter the chess and card entertainment room for audio-visual entertainment.

At around 06:30 in the afternoon, Abin came to Meng Lingshan and brought Chen Jiashu's order: the three of them went to the revolving restaurant on the second floor for dinner.

"I heard that there is an interesting event, so I must arrive at six o'clock." In the elevator, Chen Jiashu frowned, "I also specifically explained that I can't bring a female companion."

It is already 06:30.

Naturally, this was intentional. Obviously, Chen Jiashu was unwilling to follow other people's orders honestly.

Although I still can't guess what the so-called activities are, but listening to the content of the special exhortations, it always makes people have some intuitive associations.

Meng Lingshan: "Performance?"

What kind of performance, the man knows well.

Chen Jiashu also had associations, but he was noncommittal: "It's too early..."

Indeed, it's just dinner.

This kind of performance should always be at the later nine, ten, or even eleven o'clock, drinking wine, watching the flickering desires in the heart in the dim flickering lights.

The elevator stopped.

They entered the restaurant.

Mr. Liu is also there.Mr. Liu was sitting in the corner of the hall, enjoying his meal slowly. The plate of food on his table was as exquisite as a colorful art painting. It looked beautiful, and it shouldn't taste bad.

Rarely, Mr. Liu, the owner of the boat, is not the core of the revolving restaurant.

The core of the revolving restaurant is another huge LED screen, which is playing life-like TV programs. A man is sitting on the sofa with his back to the camera, flipping through a magazine in his hand.

It is strange, what TV programs are worth watching with great interest by these bosses present?

Meng Lingshan took a second look, and quickly realized his negligence in the first few seconds - what was shown on the TV was not a TV program at all, because another woman turned into the camera, and the face of the woman who entered the camera was shocked. Covered with a ribbon, at the same time as this woman appeared, the man on the sofa also turned his head, with half of the mask still on his face... He was dressed as the boss who came to play on the cruise ship!

Why do they appear on the TV screen at the same time?

Chen Jiashu seemed to have the same question as Meng Lingshan.He looked around, Yaoyao nodded at Mr. Liu's position, and then did not choose to sit in the past, but chose to sit in the center of the revolving restaurant, where other people sat together.

The waiter brings today's menu.

On the top are three set meals carefully prepared by French chefs.

Chen Jiashu picked a set at random, passed the menu to Meng Lingshan and A Bin, and then asked the waiter: "What's going on here? What's going on up there?"

The waiter just replied modestly: "A little sideshow."

"Or an immersive experience." The person sitting at the next table interjected.

Everyone wears masks here, and no one knows anyone, which saves the trouble of remembering each other's address.

"Immersive experience?" Chen Jiashu was full of doubts.

"Live performances, live performances, you can call them whatever you like." The next table said, "Don't you think the women here are too wooden? Although a few are more enthusiastic, most of them are like logs. , an action, this is not beautiful after all. So everyone thought of a way to arouse their enthusiasm. For example, fall in love. Love makes a woman reborn."

"seriously?"

"Of course serious." The table next door laughed, "Like Lily is my wife in city A, and Fangfang is my wife in city B. Both wives are as serious as my wife. But, after all, this place is too special , the love that is omnipotent outside is not so easy to work here. There—”

The next table pouted at the screen.

"More often, it's playing a real-life escape."

"Reality-scene-escape-life." Chen Jiashu repeated these four words.

"A lot of women want to leave here, and we can understand that, so we give them hope..."

"Can I leave?"

This was what Meng Lingshan wanted to ask, but the question didn't come out of his mouth. It was Abin who asked this question.

The taciturn A Bin spoke for the first time outside of Chen Jiashu's orders.

Chen Jiashu was very tolerant of this, and did not reprimand, but looked at the next table with the same questioning gaze.

"Of course not." The next table replied, "Since the launch of this ship, Mr. Liu has never let any woman leave this ship."

The appetizers are on the table.

There was no oil in the cold dish, but Meng Lingshan, who had guessed the truth from this few words, felt a churning nausea rising from his stomach to his throat. This nausea could not be vomited out, and it kept piling up in his throat. Turned to stone, the reverse heart hangs oppressed.

"...So." Chen Jiashu's voice was also deep, "You deceived those women."

"It's us." The table next door corrected, "That's not considered deception. In my opinion, isn't there a process in this world besides the result? Isn't it a way to give the hopeless people some hope and expectation, even if it's short-lived? kindness?"

A Bin, who was sitting next to him, put down his chopsticks.

Chen Jiashu snorted, with a hint of sarcasm in his snort, in response to the shameless explanation from the next table.

However, except for Mr. Liu who really didn't care, and the restaurant waiters who focused on serving customers, everyone else, including Chen Jiashu and Meng Lingshan, were all paying attention to the big screen.

On the big screen, a woman is speaking.

The woman's voice was eager and fast. At first, under her voice, Meng Lingshan could hardly hear another man's voice. She was putting all her worries, all her fears, and all her despair of not being able to escape... Speak up.

As her voice became quieter, the man's voice began to grow louder.

Big, firm, loud.

He deceived this woman with an unquestionable tone... No, it's not just him.Meng Lingshan saw the rest of the people watching the "show", they were even interacting with the man on the big screen.They discussed with each other, analyzed the woman's mentality, and gave advice to the man. These ideas were directly written into notes and handed over to the waiter. The waiter would naturally pass the content to the man on the screen.

The next table sighed in an 'old man' tone: "This game has been played too much, and women are not easy to cheat. At the beginning, as long as someone is willing to tell them to leave, they don't say a word, they believe it completely, they are so cute and enthusiastic, let me Just do whatever you want, and then there will be another way to play. People who watch TV will write down the way they want to play on a note, and then give away chips—the chips can be given away, do you know?——If you play The boss of the TV has taken a fancy to it, so he will let that woman do as required, and get this little gift."

It is not enough to plunder the tangible physical life, but also to plunder the intangible emotions and mind, to plunder all the possible existence and all the only things in a woman.

How many parts can a woman be cut into?

How many men can a woman be robbed?

It was hard for Meng Lingshan to describe whether the scenes he saw last night were more insane and disgusting, or the ones he saw now were more ugly and desperate.

Meng Lingshan's eyes were glued to the screen, and it was difficult to move away.

A Bin next to him kept his eyes down, as if he didn't even bother to look at the screen.

At this time, a woman in a white suit walked into the revolving restaurant, came to Mr. Liu, and whispered in her ear.This is the foreman of each floor of the cruise ship. A handkerchief is placed in the upper pocket of their suit, and the color of the handkerchief is used to distinguish which floor they are responsible for.The foreman's handkerchief is purple.It wasn't any color that Meng Lingshan saw when he walked through the layers in the daytime.

He guessed the foreman, managing the women—because she was the only woman he'd ever seen in a male manager.

"It's Manager Zi." The next table spoke in a clear tone again, "It seems that something happened to those ladies."

Chen Jiashu listened, but didn't make a sound.

It's a pity that this overly reserved silent rejection was not taken seriously by the next table.The next table spoke out all it knew with great enthusiasm—the game needs players, and the more players there are, the better the game is.

Considering this, the next table naturally has no reason to let Chen Jiashu go.

"Manager Zi is the only female manager here, and she takes care of those young ladies. Every time she comes up to find Mr. Liu, there must be nothing good. Those young ladies must have been seriously injured...or died."

"Dead?" Chen Jiashu still spoke.

"Some people have heavy hands."

"Can?"

"Of course not." The next table said, "Your hand is heavy, and mine is heavy. Women don't grow out of nothing in a boat, so how can it be enough? Anyone with heavy hands will be punished by Mr. Liu... No There is no rule, and Mr. Liu said that one thing is right."

"Can you know what happened?" Chen Jiashu asked after thinking for a moment.

"Nothing is impossible." The next table said, "Mr. Liu will tell us. There are no secrets here, everyone enjoy themselves, cheers!"

He raised his glass to Chen Jiashu, and Chen Jiashu raised the cup to touch him.

The news from next door was accurate.Ever since Manager Zi appeared, Meng Lingshan's attention has been on Mr. Liu's side.He noticed that after Manager Zi reported the situation to Mr. Liu, he quickly understood, and then Mr. Liu finished the food on his plate, put down the knife and fork, and patted his palm lightly:

"Gentlemen."

The old voice was incredibly attractive, and everyone in the revolving restaurant turned their attention from the screen to Mr. Liu.

Mr. Liu explained the situation in a few words: "A small accident happened. A gentleman coaxed the lady privately, saying that he could take the lady off the boat, but the lady reported it to the passing manager. Killed the lady...then, according to the usual practice, this gentleman who made a mistake will be publicized, and then he will be driven off the ship, what do you think?"

Meng Lingshan noticed that no one expressed objection, and they even showed great interest.

Although the mask covered the human face, the beast-like cruel eyes that watched the show had shot out from the eyes. In a certain group of human beings, there was unimaginable banter and malice towards the same kind.

After Mr. Liu's voice fell, the big screen flashed and switched to another screen.

The man in the picture was caught by two waiters in black suits. A manager in a white suit walked up to him, ignoring the man's loud scolding and struggling, and raised his hand to take off the mask on his face.

The mask was removed, and the man's true face was exposed to everyone's eyes.

A burst of exclamation sounded from the revolving restaurant, and the people in the restaurant seemed to be sighing "So it's you"!

Then, the two waiters led the man out of the casino all the way.

The person who was taken away cursed and struggled all the way, but the person holding his arms was merciless. He approached the door they came in step by step... When the door was close, the person who made the mistake suddenly collapsed , he began to cry, tearful, frantic like a drug addict who has been permanently deprived of his right to use drugs.

Gambling is not a drug.

Sometimes comparable to drugs.

The more he lost his composure, the happier the VIPs in the restaurant watched. When the man disappeared behind the door, they even applauded Mr. Liu, as if praising Mr. Liu for successfully eliminating a black sheep among them.

It's also coaxing, it's okay to do it openly in front of Mr. Liu, but it's not okay to do it secretly under Mr. Liu's nose.

Mr. Liu said exactly what he said.

Rules on board are not to be violated.

After a small episode, everyone continued to eat and enjoy the "show".

Meng Lingshan used "going to the bathroom" as an excuse, stood up from his seat, and followed Manager Zi who had left earlier.

Manager Zi, from the second floor to the first floor, walked out through a door of the casino, followed by Meng Lingshan, who followed for a long time in the winding, depressing and monotonous corridors, and finally saw Manager Zi stop, stopped at a closed door. In front of a stretcher with a white cloth.

Walking here, you can already smell a strong smell in the insufficiently ventilated passage.

The most pungent of them is naturally the smell of blood; besides this, there is also an aroma that cannot be ignored.

Very strong and strong, like a burning aroma.

It should... come from there.

Meng Lingshan's gaze stayed on the stretcher.

The stretcher is a simple stretcher. If you don't look closely, you can almost ignore the thin poles laid flat on the ground, but you can only notice the shadow of a human figure outlined by the white cloth in the void.

An undulating, woman's shadow.

In front of her was a stretcher covered with a white cloth. Beside the stretcher, waiters in black suits were already standing. Under Manager Zi's signal, one of the waiters opened the door behind him.

The door opened, and a gust of strong wind blew in, blowing a corner of the white cloth covering the stretcher.

The raised corner reveals a red lip raised on the stiff white face.

What the dead man looked like, Meng Lingshan couldn't see clearly in the blink of an eye, maybe he didn't see the dead man's appearance clearly at this moment, but he could clearly see the smile that remained on the dead man's face, the weird smile... …

A smile flashed across Meng Lingshan's retina, and the two waiters quickly lifted the stretcher and carried it out of the passage door.

There should be a deck outside the passage door, and you can feel the sound of the waves in the brackish sea breeze.

Then, with a "plop", something heavy was thrown into the sea.

It was the sound of dead bodies falling into the sea.

They throw dead women directly into the sea.

After figuring this out, he didn't dare to stay longer, and took a few steps back silently, preparing to leave here.

Just then, as he stepped back, out of the corner of his eye he spotted a small shadow on the floor behind him.

The light source comes from overhead, and the shadow is only under the person's feet.

What he saw, the shadow that appeared behind, meant...

There is a person who has been standing behind him and has seen everything he has done!