As professional explorers with much higher mental strength than ordinary people, Sean and Moonlight would not lose their minds and have hallucinations due to the impact of a murder case.
What is seen is not false, which means that no matter why the dead Vivian appears again, it shows that this bizarre murder has slipped into the mysterious realm in an instant.
If an ordinary person witnessed the scene of the deceased resurrecting in front of him, he would definitely be frightened and lose his mind. He would probably hide in his cabin instantly, thus turning what he just saw into permanent terror and confusion.
But Sean and Moonlight's surprise lasted only a moment - their careers dictate that when something mysterious happens in front of their eyes, the best choice is to rush forward.
"Evan!" Sean simply shouted. The clown hermit who was the explorer had already rushed out of the cabin, and the three of them rushed towards Vivian.
Sean threw out his ectoplasm hook and wrapped it around the railing in front, instantly closing the distance like a leopard crossing a cliff.
Vivian, who was walking slowly, saw Sean from a distance, with a surprised look on her face.
"It's not a phantom." Sean frowned.
Just as Vivian was about to say something, a gunshot was heard behind her.
The girl's expression was frozen in surprise and confusion, and she fell forward to the ground. The back of her white dress was quickly stained red with blood.
A figure holding a revolver rushed to Vivian's side, roughly pulled off the emerald necklace, and turned to run away!
There was a sound of flapping wings, and a flock of white doves rushed out of the gangway and flew quickly in the direction of the murderer.
Behind the murderer, Ivan instantly condensed into a human form, threw out a black whip in his hand, and wrapped it around the opponent's ankle.
The fallen man raised his gun in fear and wanted to shoot. A flying knife burning with will-o'-the-wisps knocked the gun away and fell to the deck in front.
The sound of gunshots attracted people around. Someone opened the cabin door a crack and boldly stuck his head out...
Ivan subdued the murderer and looked at him coldly with his light blue eyes.
Sean ran next to Ivan.
The man was lying on his back, holding the emerald necklace in his hand.
Sean suddenly remembered something and turned back to Vivian.
Vivian had lost her breath and her body had become cold.
Sean opened her left hand, which was still stiff, and saw the same corpse marks as before.
Only this time, the mark changed to "4".
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Solomon arrived again in his pajamas.
After seeing the body for the first time, he came to the same conclusion as Sean: the ship of events had sailed into mysterious waters.
The detective looked at the explorer Ivan with a pale face - obviously, the famous detective from Leon would need the help of the explorer in the future.
At this time, the attacker, who smelled of alcohol, had his hands tied to the railing behind his back, and Sean also tried to interrogate him.
However, the other party was like a demented beast, his eyes were red, his mood was irritable, and he could not communicate with him at all...
Because things were so weird, everyone spent a long period of silence in the sea breeze.
The girl who died twice, the crazy tourist, the weird numbers on the palms...
Sean rubbed the bridge of his nose.
Emotional uneasiness is not simply due to premonition experiences.
What's even more frightening is that the premonition of disaster has not disappeared, but has become stronger and stronger...
Detective Solomon, who was slightly tired, went through the previous process at the scene again.
Comfort, persuade, investigate...
However, there were no conditions for questioning here, so he suggested that after the body was placed, he could go to his temporary office to discuss it in detail.
The people who had moved Vivian before moved the innocent girl's body again.
Sean had a sense of "déjà vu", and this sense of déjà vu gave him a chilling feeling.
"Why do corpses come back to life?"
"Is this a curse?"
"Why can't I detect any strange aura on Vivian's body?"
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Thinking about these questions, Sean followed everyone to the cold storage room on the fourth floor.
When the refrigerator door was opened, everyone, including Sean and his party, was stunned.
They couldn't believe what they were seeing.
The crew members had no strength and could only put down the carried body in a somewhat embarrassed manner...
Then he stared blankly at another body placed in the refrigerator that was exactly the same except for the wounds.
In the cold storage room, there are now two bodies of Vivian.
"No...not resurrection..."
"One more, one more!"
All the non-searchers present, except Solomon and the deputy captain, all fled the cold room with pale faces.
The deputy captain, who was in his forties and had participated in the First World War, was standing at the door of the cold room, his eyes switching between the two corpses in disbelief, holding his forehead with one hand.
"Okay..." Detective Solomon is from Europe, not New Zealand, where supernatural beings are rampant. Having experienced various murder cases, he also feels a little helpless at this moment.
However, he seemed to be an optimist and said with a wry smile: "At least I am sure that this is definitely a supernatural case!"
This sentence was said as a joke, but it did not elicit a single laugh.
Sean, who had witnessed many strange events, was relatively calm at this time. He walked between the two bodies and examined the differences.
Ten minutes later, Sean said firmly: "Except for the differences in the wounds on the body and the numbers on the left palms, one is 5 and the other is 4, there is no difference between the two corpses..."
"5...4..." The mentally sensitive deputy captain said with obvious panic in his voice: "Is this some kind of countdown?
"Could it be..." His eyes were wide open, and his eyeballs seemed to be bulging out. His expression looked particularly terrifying in the dimly lit cold room, "Could it be that there are three more of the same women on the ship, and they will all be killed?"
Sean shook his head, partly to stabilize the people present, but also to advance his thinking: "Impossible. If five identical people appeared on the ship, we would definitely notice it...
"That is to say..." As the only explorer in the eyes of others, although he doesn't like to take the initiative to speak, Ivan still decisively assumed his role and began to think forward, "That is to say, the last Vivian died. , will a new Vivian appear?
"Every Vivian will have the bad luck of being murdered again?"
After listening to Ivan's speech, the brains that were speeding up fell into chaos:
Why is this so?
Why is this happening?
The girl reappears and is murdered again. What is the significance of this incident?
Everyone was a little tired from the logical extension that hit a wall everywhere, and finally decided to lock the two corpses in the cold room, transfer them to the detective's room, and try to interrogate the man who attacked Vivian.
The attacker's name was Eric. He seemed to be under a spell and was in a state of madness, unable to communicate effectively at all.
After Solomon tried to ask about the motive for killing Vivian, the man chuckled:
"Keke..." He said in a low and hoarse voice with a weird expression on his face that was not humanly possible...
"Everyone on this ship will die!"
The crazy eyes and words made everyone in the room feel more or less hairy.
"God gave instructions..." Eric's mouth watered as he spoke, "There is only one ticket to survive.
"Whoever grabs it belongs to whoever grabs it!"
When it was discovered that the interrogation could not be carried out at all, the man had to be kept in isolation.
In the ensuing discussion, Sean drew his attention away from the man's crazy words and the two strange corpses, and focused on the emerald necklace: "The two murders have one similarity - the murderers both tried to take away This emerald necklace..."
At this moment, the emerald necklace was placed on the desk.
It reflected the light of the electric light and showed a somewhat eerie color, as if it were the smiling eyes of a devil.
“It is currently unknown whether the murderer of the two murders is the same person.
"However, it is obvious that the murderer received some strange suggestion, so that he must kill Vivian and snatch her necklace.
“It’s just that once the necklace was successfully taken away, once it was broken into the scene, the necklace fell into our hands.
"Perhaps, this murder is a symbolic scene..." Sean thought of the scene in the Arkham Museum - before the black meteorite, he decided to help Curator Turan or the fragment of Naia.
Sean pointed to the necklace on the table: "If the emerald necklace is still missing, there may be another Vivian and the next murder against her.
"So, we have to find a way to put the necklace away and make sure it's in our hands."
For cases involving supernatural beings, reasoning within the scope of rationality has become somewhat feeble, and in the end everyone can only temporarily accept this statement.
Edward, the deputy captain who had lost his mind in the cold room, finally returned to his usual state: "There is a safe in the deputy captain's room, which contains important items related to navigation. Only the captain and I have the key and password...
"I suggest that we lock this strange necklace into the safe and don't open the safe again until we arrive at Lipson!"
Everyone agreed to the plan. Detective Solomon and Sean followed Edward to the vice-captain's cabin and watched Edward lock the necklace with their own eyes.
For some unknown reason, maybe the thick safe gave Sean some sense of security. The moment the safe door closed, Sean felt that he had grasped the core of the incident.
"This treatment should be correct!" He clenched his fists and thought silently, "If we pay too much attention to the strange phenomenon of the two Vivian, we may miss the focus and cause us to not realize the problem of the necklace...
"The key should be this emerald necklace. Once you lock it, you can cut off the weird chain!"
