sincerity of lies

When Ji Xun and Lingling returned to the banquet hall, the first dance of the dinner just started.

On the floor of white jade tiles, couples of men and women are whirling, the fluffy skirts are unscrewed and then closed, like flowers spinning on the white jade, it seems that all life is only for this momentary brilliance.

Halfway across the banquet hall, he saw Meng Lingshan leaning against the corner of the hall with folded arms.

Meng Lingshan looked at him from a distance, and then moved his gaze to the side.

Ji Xun looked over and saw the gate where they came.Those two palace-style doors have been closed tightly at this time, maybe... no, obviously, these two doors have been completely locked.

You can't go back to the corridor directly from here, and you can't go directly to the life jacket placement point, so you have to find another path.

Needless to say, the ideas of the two have been communicated at this moment: first record the monitoring installation location, find out the law of security patrols, and then determine a new route to the life jacket placement point.

Ji Xun took Lingling to a resting corner of the hall, and said to her, "I'm going to the bathroom."

Lingling nodded obediently.

Ji Xun turned around and walked to the bathroom.If you want to escape surveillance in a strange and dangerous place to do something private, there is no doubt that a public restroom is a good place.

He entered the compartment, checked up, down, left, and right, and after confirming that there was no hidden pinhole camera, he took out a pen from the coffee shop, and wrote down his observations on the internal structure of the hull, the appearance of security guards and other information on the paper. The number of people, the location and number of cameras seen, and the passages that have not been visited but are speculated to exist are all drawn on a piece of paper.

Finally he flushed and left the stall.

Back in the banquet hall, the song has changed, and the people in the venue have also changed.What remains unchanged is the skirts that open and gather. These complicated and luxurious skirts are too gorgeous, sometimes taking away the brilliance of people, making every woman who wears them become as cute as a hanger. Dispensable, faceless things.

Lingling was still sitting in the original position, apparently not moving at all. He came to Lingling's side, coughed lightly, and stretched out his hand again.Lingling seemed to have practiced thousands of times, then raised her small hand, took his arm, and asked, "Do you want to dance, sir? There is also a gambling area next door. It's just that the game is very small now."

Ji Xun had already heard about the gambling on the boat from Meng Lingshan, those inhumane things...

"No need." Ji Xun said, "Eat something."

They come to the food area.

There are a wide variety of delicacies on the buffet food table. Everything you have eaten, what you have not eaten, what you have heard, and what you have not heard, can be found here. They are complete and precious, precious and caring. There are deep sea lobsters with arm length There are also authentic side dishes from hometown, as well as molecular cuisine in the high-end gourmet world.

Ji Xun has no appetite.

He scanned the food counter, picking up only an orange cocktail from the neon cocktail section.I remember when I met Huo Ranyin for the first time, he exchanged a glass of Tequila Sunrise for the drugged Ocean Star.

The glass glistens under the light, and even the ingredients smeared along the rim of the glass glisten.

It was a mixture of golden, blue, and off-white particles, giving people the feeling that on a golden beach, the sea water turned into broken diamonds and dived into it with shells.

Just with the naked eye, I can't see what it is.

Ji Xun took a sip, and tasted the flavors of sea salt and pineapple on his tongue. With the addition of these two flavors, the cocktail became extremely refreshing, but it was more than that.There is another taste dancing on the tongue, a mellow taste that Ji Xun has never tasted before. It makes the light and light cocktails that are only for daily parties become different from those that cost tens of thousands of dollars. Like red wine and whiskey, the aftertaste is long...

The sea salt is off-white, the pineapple is golden, and the remaining mellow taste comes from the blue powder.

What is blue powder?Ji Xun thought casually.

The song stopped again.

The men and women in the field scattered around, and a large number of people came to the food area.Meng Lingshan was caught in the crowd, rubbing shoulders with Ji Xun.

Through everyone's resistance, they exchanged things openly.

What Ji Xun gave was a folded paper, and what he got, judging from the touch of his palm, was also a folded paper.

"Sir, you don't seem to have eaten anything." Lingling said suddenly, the crowds of people made her lean towards Ji Xun naturally, "Let's eat something more. The seafood on the boat is very fresh, and it was picked from the deep sea an hour before cooking. It was caught."

Ji Xun moved his fingers slightly, and the note slipped into the depths of his suit pocket.The only one who was close to him and could see all his subtle movements was Ling Ling.

However, Lingling couldn't see it.

"Okay, I'll try." He walked towards the seafood area with the bell on his arm.People are not unique.The women here are not only the objects of Mr. Liu's oppression and harm, but also have Mr. Liu's eyes, ears and tentacles. Then, while they serve as his obstacles, they can also become his misleading smoke screen and cover.

After dancing, the food has been tasted one by one.When the bosses at the scene were a little drunk and tired, the music of the banquet stopped suddenly.

Ji Xun noticed that the bosses who were lazing around in the rest area were all standing up.It wasn't just them, Ji Xun even felt that the shoulders of Ling Ling who was sitting beside him were slightly stretched.

If he felt it, he looked at the velvet curtains in the banquet hall.

The velvet hanging hanging in the center of the banquet hall is not the usual bright red, but purple-black, purple-black velvet, with golden tassel hooks. The hooks are thin, long and curved, not like they are used The curtains are more like... Oh right, more like a slaughterhouse, where live pigs and sheep are hung upside down, so that the warm blood in their bodies will be drained from the wounds pulled by the hooks. The ground dried up and solidified, turning from bright red to purple, black, and the color of the hanging curtain in front of it.

The hook pulls, the drape rises, and what lies behind...

Ji Xun thought that it might be a stage, or it might be a big screen.neither.That is a door.

A round golden heavy metal door, with a steering wheel-like turn button on the door, a living fingerprint lock, an auxiliary combination lock underneath, and the most advanced integral plate bolt.

A door comparable to the door of a bank vault—or maybe it was meant for a bank vault.

This heavy door easily crushed the frivolity of singing and dancing just now.

A simple bell rang.

Ji Xun and the others looked towards the direction from which the bell rang, which was where Mr. Liu was seated. When all eyes were on the curtain in front of him just now, Mr. Liu also appeared in the banquet hall.

This [-]-year-old man with yellow hair held a simple hand bell and shook it.

When he saw everyone looking at him, he smiled: "Gentlemen, good evening."

"Mr. Liu, good evening." Everyone responded kindly.

Ji Xun was among the crowd, said the same thing, and at the same time teased him meanly in his heart - he looked over as soon as he rang the bell, the bosses present here are quite like dogs wagging their tails when they hear their master's voice.

"It's that time of year again." Mr. Liu said, "Mazu's birthday. Our annual game is about to start. Our old friends already know about this game, but some new friends come here for the first time. We Give them some answers."

"This heavy door is located under the deck. Through this door, we will go to the world of the game."

Mr. Liu's cane tapped the ground.

Below the deck of the ship—that's where the women live.

"What are the rules of the game? The only rule of the game is that the guests are never allowed to attack each other. And this rule will be guaranteed by the security guards who enter the game. In the game, apart from the security guards, there are There are waiters, as well as doctors and nurses, who can guarantee all the needs of everyone inside. In addition, the game is only limited in time. Two days, at most three days, this closed door will open, and everyone inside the door , will also be invited out again and returned to the deck.

"So, what kind of game is this? What's the place below?

"This is an open place, you can kill people, you can save people, you can find weapons, you can find survival tools, you can do anything you can't do in the outside world, you can also have all the women you meet, and You can choose to help them all - but no matter what you choose, those women will probably try to escape from you. Because this is also a women's game. You want to keep them, and they want to leave you.

"As long as they can escape from below deck, to above deck, and then get the lifeboat on the side string of the second deck, they can escape the game, and even escape the ship.

"So, this is an interesting game in which both pros and cons actively participate, liberate the body and mind, and have absolute freedom without restraint."

Mr. Liu took off his single-sided lens, took out a handkerchief from the pocket of his suit jacket, and wiped the glasses carefully, as if he also left this time for everyone to taste carefully.

During this time, Ji Xunzai observed Mr. Liu carefully.

When the old man took off his unilateral eye, he finally saw clearly that the other dim and gray eye under the lens, which contrasted sharply with Mr. Liu's other bright eye, was a prosthetic eye.

With its unique inorganic light, it secretly looks at everyone.

Before being noticed by Mr. Liu, Ji Xun forcibly controlled the desire to continue observing, and moved his gaze away from Mr. Liu to his surroundings.

Next to Mr. Liu, there were three people sitting scattered.

They also wear the same silver masks as the guests here, but it can be seen that these people are about the same age as Mr. Liu... According to the results of Meng Lingshan's investigation, Mr. Liu is not the only leader of this organization.The three people sitting around Mr. Liu right now may be other leaders.

Mr. Liu clamped the lens back on.

"There are too many constraints on the ground." He smiled, "We have relatives, friends, subordinates and employees, and countless people rely on us for food. This is the disadvantage of success, but success sometimes wants to take a breath. So there's this boat, and the games in it."

He stood up.

"This is a non-responsible, happy hour!"

No matter how sweet the words are, it can't hide the selfishness and ugliness in the bones. This is not a free game to break free, but an extremely terrifying criminal game!

But all were incited.

With a good-sounding cloak that seems to fit, they can ignore the law and morality, and use the name of "happiness" and "freedom" to completely release the animal nature in their hearts. From this, human beings degenerate into beasts, even more powerful than beasts. more despicable.

Ji Xun sat in a corner, thinking coldly.

He also joined in the revelry, panting like a beast, cheering like a beast, drinking lots and lots of wine like a beast, celebrating the coming "freedom" and "joy".

The drunken guests were then escorted back to their rooms by the women and waiters who accompanied them.

The guests couldn't walk anymore, but they still firmly remembered the time to participate in the game: two o'clock tonight.

Those who are willing to participate can bring their female companions into the free world below the deck at two o'clock tonight.

Ji Xun felt that he was a little drunker than expected.

How could someone who was clearly counting the amount of alcohol get dizzy to this extent?

He returned to the room like stepping on cotton. Just as he lay down on the bed, the world had already started to spin.He seems to have been coerced into a torrent of time that cannot be felt in a normal state.

All the past, his sister, Meng Lingshan, all the people and things he knew, swirled in front of his eyes like a revolving lantern, being pushed back and forth with him by the rushing time like a wave.

He felt someone coming beside him, and someone put a washed hot towel on his face.There seemed to be buzzing noises beside my ears.

Is it Lingling?

He tried his best to open his eyes and saw Huo Ranyin's face.

The other party's fair face seemed to be glowing like a firefly in the dim room, and those dark eyes that almost merged with the night were surging, besides anger, there was also worry.

Huo Ranyin!

Ji Xun's limp body suddenly swelled up strength, and he strenuously moved forward, but Huo Ranyin, who stayed there, disappeared like a mirror in water, and his body fell to the thick carpeted floor after a short period of weightlessness. on the ground.

"Sir?" A voice rang like a wind chime.

"..." Ji Xun raised his head and saw the wide strawberry embroidered skirt approaching his eyes.

It's Lingling.

Only bells here.

"What time is it?" he asked dazedly.

"The clock in the room has just struck the time," said Lingling. "It's almost two o'clock in the evening. Sir, do you want to join the game?"

Ji Xun closed his eyes tiredly.

The weak illusion of nostalgia for tenderness was gradually wiped away from his mind, and he tried his best to get rid of alcohol and regain his sobriety.

He heard himself answering the bell's voice: "Of course."

I attended.