sincerity of lies

"To say 'the murderer is among us' is too evasive." A boss at the scene suddenly sneered.

"What do you mean?" Everyone looked at the speaker. At this time, everyone's speech had a different weight than usual.

The boss who spoke was a short boss—this is to be polite—in fact, he was only more than 1.5 meters tall by visual inspection. No matter when you look at it, this height is a bit eye-catching.

But although the boss is short in stature, he speaks loudly.

"I think this murder case has nothing to do with our boss. Either your bodyguard crew did it, or your Boss Jiang and Wu did it, or—Mr. Liu, it's unknown what you did!"

The bosses who can board the ship are all famous people, not to mention the level of education, how long the business has been ups and downs, and what kind of methods they have never seen or done.With the 'one of my own' taking the lead, my feverish mind immediately cooled down, and I immediately understood the meaning of the other party. The third boss on the scene chimed in:

"This brother is right. We boarded the boat two or three times a year. Except for knowing you, Mr. Liu, who knows Boss Jiang, Boss Wu, and the dead Boss Lin. We didn't even talk to each other. Kill him What are you doing! If you have a grudge against him, it’s not good to kill him anywhere, you have to kill your people in your territory!”

After the man finished speaking, the short boss raised his hand again, pointing at the bodyguard who was taking pictures of the corpse and sneered:

"We don't even deserve to have a mobile phone. It's a prohibited item that you locked in your room, Mr. Liu. How could it be possible to destroy all the surveillance and drive the hull overnight? You know, it's nothing more than a ghost plotting for a long time. Mr. Liu, you guys What happened on the boat is whether it is a self-interested revenge or an interest dispute to eliminate dissidents, but don't burn the fire on us innocent people, we are here to have fun, not to witness your internal conflicts."

Boss Jiang couldn't hold his breath.

The mask on his face was knocked off, and he didn't intend to bring it back. He simply spoke with his face exposed. When ghosts were not involved, his mind was still normal: "You really don't know the structure, but the eight escaped Women know this ship like the back of their hands, as long as you listen to their commands, you can do the same."

"Why should we listen to them?"

"The ancients said it a long time ago, 'Heroes are sad and beautiful people pass'. This gentle township has been a tomb of heroes since ancient times." Boss Wu was talking beside him in a non-yin or yang way.

"What about the signal jammer?" The short boss asked tit for tat.There were only three bosses on site, two from the presidential suite on the third floor, and he was the only one who came up from the second floor.Although he is single and weak, he dared to say it sharply, "The women on the ship can't hide the signal jammer, and we can't carry the signal jammer, right? Those women can destroy the equipment, but if they escape from the sea in a lifeboat , there must be someone with normal vision to guide them. Among you crew members, there may be a group of problematic ones. The murderer may not be alone!"

The third boss looked at the short boss with admiration: "Brother, I don't know your name, how do you call him?"

The short boss pointed to his own height: "Do you still need to ask? Your surname is short, short boss."

Even if the situation at the scene was very serious, the person who asked the question couldn't help but laugh: "It's not so good..."

Boss short: "Do you know me? Do I know you? Since you don't know each other, it's convenient to come here, isn't it good? Now everyone wears the same mask on their faces, so they can't recognize their faces or their names, but Just call 'Short Boss', you know you're calling me, and I know you're calling me, isn't that enough."

Society has framed too many collective aesthetics, and individual life can only be passively accepted. Those who are unified with society have become invisible shackles of ostentatious labels, and those who are different from society have become the source of inferior characteristics and troubles.

When you come to this place where no one knows anyone, instead of distinguishing between good and bad, you can simply face up to the unchangeable appearance on your body.

"That's fine. You can call me Boss Carrot." 'Boss Carrot' raised his hands, only then did everyone realize that the ends of his ten fingers were swollen, and it really looked like ten small radishes growing on his fingers." It's called clubbed fingers, a lung problem. Those of us who came up escaped the kidneys, but not the liver. If we got the liver, we couldn't escape the heart. Finally, thanks to Mr. Liu, we escaped a catastrophe, a new catastrophe It's coming again. This butcher's knife of the god of death is the doom of a person's life, and he cannot escape, but he has to escape."

This speech was both level and profound, and everyone was a little bit sad, which eased the tit-for-tat atmosphere just now.

The deck master spoke at this time. He was a powerful man: "There is no need to bring the signal jammer up from under the ship. There are already two on the ship, but they are usually placed under the deck and stored separately."

"Mr. Liu's preparations are really thorough." Silver Mask praised at this time, "It's not enough to put away the mobile phone, but also to put this thing away. Seeing that it is all aspects, it has been defended."

Before this incident, what could Mr. Liu defend against?Nothing more than defending the boss of the scene.

Boss Short and Boss Carrot sneered slightly.

This guy... Mr. Liu glanced at the silver mask.He had to speak at this time, but it was meaningless to talk in plain language. If you can't explain it, don't explain it. If you repeatedly shirk responsibility, you will only fall into the quagmire of repeated suspicions.He simply said: "You are right. Judging from the motive and the way of committing the crime, we have a higher probability of internal problems. The very beginning of this case came from the damage to the hull last night. I can't hear the end at the top The movement downstairs, you are downstairs, didn't you hear any movement at night?"

"After the party last night, I drank too much wine and fell into a deep sleep..." The short boss pondered, "No, I didn't drink that much, but I feel more drunk than usual. Mr. Liu, you used a high-level liquor?"

Mr. Liu looks at the chief chef, the chief chef is the first person in charge of the meals on board.

The head chef stood up: "As in the past, there are all kinds of wine, with high and low degrees."

"And the captain's room, the monitoring room, these important places should be guarded on duty." Mr. Liu looked at the captain and the first officer again, "What's going on?"

The first officer quickly said: "I was on duty last night, but the strange thing is, I don't have much memory."

The security guard in charge of the monitoring room also nodded.

"Drugs were added to the food." Meng Lingshan said suddenly. He woke up the next day and was suspicious of this matter. "Drugs may have been added to the wine at the banquet and the staff meals."

"Sleeping pills?" Silver Mask.

"Dinner is eaten at seven or eight o'clock, but we stayed awake until eleven or twelve o'clock. This does not meet the characteristics of sleeping pills." Meng Lingshan said, "I remember I had a lot of random dreams last night... Now that I think about it, then Maybe it's not a dream, it's a hallucination. Some kind of hallucinogenic drug that confuses reality and illusion."

When it comes to prescribing food, everyone's first reaction is the head chef and assistant chef.

The two looked disheveled, so they could only explain nonuo: "It's not me, Mr. Liu, the ingredients are stored in a fixed freezer, those women must know. Besides, they would also participate in the work of some maids..."

"You can also put medicine directly on the lunch box, and the staff meals are packaged in a uniform disposable plastic box." Meng Lingshan added more ideas, "The security check on the ship is only for metal objects and electronic instruments, and there is no control over drugs. , if the gram count of the hallucinogen is low, it is feasible to take it on board as a standing drug."

The silver mask chuckled lightly: "It seems that the murderer didn't intend to kill people indiscriminately, otherwise it would have been enough to poison him last night."

If it's not indiscriminate, then it's targeted.

Boss Jiang and Boss Wu, who had calmed down at first, couldn't hold back anymore: "Isn't that coming at us?!" After saying that, they immediately looked at their own bodyguards.They came on board with bodyguards, but they gave the bodyguards to Mr. Liu before, and asked all the bodyguards to search the ship to find the signal jammer.

Thinking about it further, is the reason why Lao Lin died because there were no bodyguards and the emptiness around him?

Boss Jiang immediately said: "Mr. Liu, you have to stay with me as my bodyguard."

Boss Wu also followed closely, and he also made a suggestion: "The three of us stay together, let me and Lao Jiang's two bodyguards protect the three of us, and the rest continue to patrol the ship."

"Okay!" Mr. Liu snorted, "Don't mess around and make people laugh!"

The two of them saw that the short boss and the silver mask were indeed crossing their arms, looking like they were watching a good show, so they couldn't help but shut up, but they made up their minds to discuss it with Mr. Liu in private.

Of course, Mr. Liu could see the dissatisfaction of the 'distinguished guests', and he resolutely promised: "I understand everyone's concerns. Please rest assured that since everyone has doubts, then all crew members will be under unified management and collective action. Don’t let them leave alone—and thus ensure everyone’s safety. But the most important thing right now is to find out the case, what do you think?”

This is also what should be done.

The three bosses watched in silence as Mr. Liu sent two bodyguards to carry the body away and send it to the morgue.There are no fingerprint and DNA testing measures on the ship, but the corpses are kept and can be checked on the shore.

Meng Lingshan thought of the women who died innocently last time, they were just thrown into the sea when they died.

Probably due to the lack of corpses, the boldness, and the speculation that "the crew may be villains", the three bosses actively participated in the on-site investigation and found those door locks.

The first thing to understand is how the murderer entered the room.

"The rooms here also have master keys?" The short boss has seen security guards use public key cards to open empty rooms during searches.

"You don't need a key, you can just knock on the door." Silver Mask said, "Didn't we just open the door and let them in when we heard the knock on the door. If the people outside the door said to search at that time, Boss Lin would not be suspicious. Open the door and let people in."

"That is to enter the door and pretend to search around, then sneak around behind and sneak up on him, and then strangle him with a rope?" Boss Carrot raised the possibility, "Boss Lin is not young, and he must not be the opponent of the strong crew. "

"Perhaps this is the truth." Silver Mask laughed, "We three cobblers are the best of Zhuge Liang."

Boss Short and Boss Carrot were very happy, and they really found the joy of being detectives for a while.

Mr. Liu did not interrupt their interest.His eyes focused on the door: "Even if people were killed in this way, how did the murderer lock the door from the inside after leaving the room?"

"Using fishing line or something?" the short boss said, "Isn't it always done in movies and TV dramas?"

The deck master and the first mate went down to get the fishing line, and the short boss tried to tie the anti-locked lock, but it was not tied because it was curved.Not discouraged, he found a piece of tape and stuck it on, and pulled it along the bottom of the door.

Sure enough, it was locked.

Is this... the chamber of secrets cracked?

Several bosses looked at each other, as if it was broken, but it seemed useless if it was broken?

It's so simple, it doesn't require specific props, and it doesn't have any requirements on the quality of the perpetrator itself. It can be done by anyone, and naturally it can't bring new clues to lock the murderer.

"Uh, could it be some kind of psychological suspense method, making everyone mistakenly think that he left from the corridor, but actually did the opposite, walking from the deck..." Boss Carrot also felt that it was too simple, with a sense of accomplishment Insufficient, he ran to pull the lock on the deck with the thread. This is not easy to do, because there is a leak-proof airtight door, and the thread will be caught by the rubber circle, so it is not easy to use force.

In fact, this is completely nonsense in Meng Lingshan's view. The risk of being seen by knocking on the door in the corridor is no different from the risk of locking the door and leaving. Why bother to walk on the deck.The ship has a high building distance, and the outer deck is smooth. Is the murderer so skilled?Will fly over the wall!

But everyone accompanied Boss Carrot to study on the deck, and he followed him to the deck, searching around to see if he could find something new.

He looked to the left at the two unoccupied empty decks.

This ship has five special rooms. Boss Lin, Boss Jiang, and Boss Wu’s rooms all have their own style preferences in hard decoration, and the soft decoration is different everywhere, which is very personal.But those two empty rooms, as if no one had ever lived in them, were just empty standard decorations.

Why keep two empty rooms if no one lives there?

Meng Lingshan thought a little too far, and his thoughts couldn't help being a little loose.

At this moment, suddenly, there was a familiar sound of heavy objects falling from the sea!

Everyone was surprised.

Silver Mask immediately said: "Go down and have a look, maybe something happened!"

All of a sudden, he couldn't care about anything else, Mr. Liu immediately pointed out two security guards, and asked them to guard the room and watch the scene from being destroyed, and then ran towards the direction of the sound together with everyone else .

They ran to the second floor, and if something really happened at this time, it could only happen among the few bosses who didn't come up.

They knocked on the door one by one to call out, and finally only four bosses were called out.

And a boss...

The security guard opened the boss's room with a universal card. There was no one in the door. The door leading to the deck was open, so there was no need to enter the deck again. The dazzling crimson pool printed on the deck already showed the boss's identity. encounter.

Everyone lost their voices.

Meng Lingshan instinctively looked at Mr. Liu and the others, and saw Mr. Liu's strange expression, Boss Jiang's misery, and Boss Wu's trembling.

They explained with uncontrollable expressions and body parts:

This is another death method closely related to the story 40 years ago!