"Girls, who taught you this nursery rhyme you recite?"
The little girls all turned their faces and looked at the tall man walking over.
"Who taught it?" The tallest girl in red clothes seemed to be the leader of the group of friends. She recalled it for a while and said, "My friend taught me when I was in school."
"I learned it before boarding the ship, not on the ship..." Sean narrowed his eyes.
"Has this weird story happened before? Who created this nursery rhyme?"
While Sean was still thinking, he suddenly heard a scream from ahead.
With his heart sinking, Sean turned around, pushed aside the crowd and walked forward.
Before he had taken a few steps, Sean saw it through the pointing people.
On the thick foremast of the bow deck, a body in white clothes hung swaying.
The corpse swayed slightly on the mast, and from Sean's perspective, it occasionally blocked the sun in the sky.
A crew member with obviously bloodshot eyes seemed to hang the new Vivian with some kind of pulley.
He was climbing up the mast with a look of enthusiasm, with an obvious purpose——
It was the necklace hanging on the newly appeared Vivian's chest.
Sean quickly subdued the opponent, got the necklace in full view of the public, and summoned the core members to assemble
Ten minutes later, Yueguang and others arrived at the location designated by Sean - the restaurant on the third floor.
"Gentlemen," Sean said with a very bad look on his face, "our chances are running out."
The crew members have placed the fourth body with the number 2 on the palm in the refrigerator.
"Next, I want to design a mechanism." Sean said straight to the point to all the core members, "I want to design a mechanism that can ensure that no new Vivian will appear and be murdered."
Everyone was silent, waiting for Sean's instructions.
Sean arranged in a calm voice and said what he needed.
Soon, the crew members found everything Sean needed from the Bronze Giant's warehouse.
A huge locked birdcage with two heavy chains.
At Sean's request, people placed a table covered with white cloth in the middle of the empty hall. A birdcage was placed on the table. Two chains crossed through the birdcage and were tied together under the table to ensure The cage cannot be lifted away.
During this process, some crew members were also bewitched by the necklace, but they were all subdued by Ivan.
After the arrangement was completed, Sean opened the birdcage and placed the terrible thing that had always affected him and wanted him to wear it on a silver tray in the birdcage.
After doing this, he threw the only key to the birdcage into the sea in front of everyone.
After seeing Sean's actions, Solomon nodded with understanding: "He made the action of 'getting the necklace' more difficult.
"When someone is tempted to snatch the necklace, he must find a way to open the birdcage..."
"And this process will be very obvious and long."
Sean said under the gaze of people: "Gentlemen, guarding this necklace will become a common job for all of us.
“I will divide people into several shifts, each with three people, and I will arrange the staffing.
"Then, several shifts take turns guarding the necklace, supervising each other and ensuring that no one will damage the birdcage.
“Not only the people present, we also need to recruit volunteers and those who are determined to join the team to resist this necklace.
"We need to use human sea tactics and direct confrontation to dilute the mystery of this thing."
Ivan and Solomon looked at each other and nodded slightly.
Judging from the current situation, it seems that this is the only way.
If this method does not work, then the appearance of corpses with palms of 0 will become inevitable.
The first round of mutual watching began. Sean and two other ordinary people stood in an equilateral triangle two meters away from the birdcage, supervising each other.
The other standby personnel, except for those assigned to eat and sleep, all stood on the periphery, supervising more easily to prevent all three people on duty from being bewitched, or the bewitched person appearing in the rest area.
The necklace cannot affect everyone present at the same time - this is the core understanding of Sean's design of this "human sea tactic".
What Sean didn't explain to others was that he also set up a hidden insurance for this watch mechanism.
Based on previous observations, Sean discovered that, as a masterpiece of precision alchemy, Vivian Wind Chime seemed not to be affected by the necklace.
Therefore, Vivian, who has the characteristic of passive forgetfulness, will always stay at the scene as a last line of insurance and observe the surveillance situation.
If everyone present loses their minds, Vivian will snatch the necklace and find a way to restart the watch.
Of course, Sean also thought about the strategy of letting Vivian carry the necklace and run around on the ship.
However, there were too many uncontrollable aspects of that strategy, so Sean did not adopt it.
This strategy came about because Sean took advantage of two of the Emerald Rules he wrote:
"There is a certain pattern in the effect of the necklace on the people around it: it affects the people with the weakest mental power first. If the people around it have strong mental power, this rule will still take effect."
"The number of people affected is limited, and there is no situation where everyone goes crazy at the same time."
Based on these two points, the watch system designed by Sean will have a fixed phenomenon.
In other words, ordinary people who are watching together with their own explorers will be bewitched.
When this happens, the explorer only needs to subdue ordinary people and then replace them with two sane ordinary people.
This is a "war of attrition" that uses the rules of emerald itself, and those who are consumed are ordinary people with normal minds...
Although this system is somewhat inhumane, it is obviously more sensible to adopt this strategy in the face of the terrible events that may occur after the countdown reaches zero.
I just don't know, Sean narrowed his eyes: "How long does it take for ordinary people who are bewitched to recover from that state..."
Sean has arranged for crew members to recruit volunteers from the outside and set up a care system. Those who are subdued after being bewitched will be cared for to ensure that after returning to normal, they can return to this hall and participate in the care.
"If the rules change, there is a risk of failure in the watch." Sean thought silently, "In that case, we can only act according to circumstances."
However, things seem to be moving in a good direction.
After two hours of watching, the Sean team replaced three people and then replaced the Moonlight team.
After walking out of the hatch, Sean felt a little hope in his heart.
Because for the first time, the threat posed by the necklace became manageable...
Standing outside the hatch and looking into the distance, Sean silently watched the crew members telling the passengers what happened.
Although things were a little weird and scary, the passengers all joined the ranks of watchers and caregivers.
There are more and more people available...
Sean silently calculated the interval between ordinary people being consumed and the remaining length of this journey...
He narrowed his eyes: If the bewitched can regain consciousness after a period of time, if no other accidents occur to this mechanism...
Then, it is possible for them to reach Leon safely.
"There are also powerful explorers in Leon. As long as they can get ashore, they can solve the necklace crisis."
