Chapter 553: Traces
On the cruise ship that was constantly cutting through the waves, Dorothy was standing on the rear deck, holding a plate of grilled fish and looking around with a frown. When she sensed the extremely faint trace of residual medicine in the grilled fish, she immediately found that something was wrong and immediately became more alert to her surroundings.
"Hey... Miss Dorothy, don't you like fish? If not, you can let me eat it... It's sold out over there..." At this moment, Nephnesse slowly came from behind Dorothy, holding a plate with only fish bones left. She couldn't help but speak after seeing the almost motionless grilled fish in Dorothy's hand, but her words were met with a solemn gaze from Dorothy.
"Don't eat it yet, there's something wrong with this fish..."
"Eh...problem? What's the problem?!"
Listening to Dorothy's words, Nephnesse showed a look of surprise, then lowered her voice and said, but Dorothy did not respond to her directly at the first time.
"Don't worry about it for now... Just remember not to eat those fish..."
Dorothy gave these instructions, and then she recalled the several seagull corpses that she had hidden on the roof of the ship just in case. She made them spread their wings and fly up into the sky. They circled in the sky and then rushed down to the crowd below, among those who were eating grilled fish. They grabbed several grilled fish and flew into the sky, including the grilled fish on Dorothy's own plate.
The crowd was thrown into chaos as the seagulls snatched their food. After a burst of screams and noise, many tourists cursed at the flying seagulls. Of course, there were also bursts of laughter. Dorothy also exclaimed and watched her grilled fish being taken away by the seagulls. She disposed of the fish in her hand without attracting any attention.
"There are trace amounts of drugs mixed in these grilled fish... Don't eat them anymore..." Dorothy said to Nephnis in a stern tone after controlling the seagull corpse to finish the grilled fish in her hand. Nephnis was slightly frightened after hearing Dorothy's words, and then quickly replied in a low voice.
"Cup... cup of medicine? What is that? Will it be harmful to my body after taking it? Will I... will there be any problems with my body?"
"This is a highly addictive drug, usually used by some 'cup' gangs as a means of gaining and controlling others. As for physical problems... they will only appear after long-term and large-dose use. The dose of the cup drug in this fish is very weak, and it should be far from having a negative impact on the human body." Dorothy whispered to Nephnis in response. Nephnis couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after hearing what Dorothy said.
"Huh... I guess everything is alright? That's good..."
"Even if nothing happens, we can't take it lightly. The key now is, who put a cup of medicine in these dishes, and why give so many people such a mild cup of medicine? In short, we have to be careful from now on. There may be other extraordinary people on this ship who are planning something." Dorothy continued to talk to Nephnis with a serious expression. Hearing Dorothy's words, Nephnis couldn't help swallowing and glanced around uneasily.
"What are the other Beyonders planning... Is this the same as the last time on the White Pearl? Are there more Cup cultists who want to sacrifice us all? How come we are encountering this kind of thing again so soon..."
Neveu said this nervously, and at the same time she was complaining in her heart why it was so easy for her to get into trouble when she followed Dorothy. Dorothy shook her head and replied.
"The situation is still unclear for now... We can't make a hasty judgment. We should not act rashly, attract attention, or touch the fish. We should do what we need to do and wait until we have gathered enough information..."
Dorothy said this to Neveu, who nodded silently after listening and walked aside to continue doing her own thing with concern. On the other side, Dorothy began to quietly release her corpse dolls in a deserted place and began to use the miniature corpse dolls to monitor the entire cruise ship.
Dorothy first focused on monitoring the anglers and the chefs, watching whether they added any extra ingredients to the fish during the process. However, after monitoring for a long time, she did not gain anything. Neither the fishermen nor the chefs seemed to be doing anything unusual, and Dorothy did not see them adding any ingredients to the fish.
Seeing this situation, Dorothy began to wait. She waited for the fish gathered by the boat to disperse, the anglers to close their stalls, and the fish caught to be grilled and the chefs to close their stalls. Then she continued to follow the two groups of people with the miniature corpse dolls. When they were resting, she used the miniature corpse dolls to quietly check their bait and seasonings, and even stole some back for Dorothy to check directly. However, she found that the bait was ordinary bait and the seasoning was also ordinary seasoning, nothing special, which proved that the fish were not fed by the anglers and chefs.
Dorothy was a little surprised to get this result. She did not expect that neither the chef nor the angler was a suspect, and they did not do anything else to the fish.
"It's not the fisherman... nor the chef? Interesting... then who put the medicine on the fish?"
After the brief accident, Dorothy quickly adjusted her strategy. While continuing to monitor the chefs and anglers, she expanded the scope of surveillance to include all crew members headed by the captain. Based on the experience on the White Pearl last time, if there were Beyonders plotting on the ship, the possibility that it was the crew would be very high. As long as all the crew members were monitored and their every move was closely followed, they would be exposed automatically in no time.
So Dorothy dispatched a large number of miniature corpses at once, and began to spread them throughout the ship with the help of the ship's ventilation system. After looking up the crew list in the captain's room, she implemented real-time monitoring of all crew members, determined to find out their suspicious points.
In this way, Dorothy lay under the parasol on the deck, resting while paying attention to every corner of the cruise ship, observing the actions of all crew members from the captain to the boiler. As time passed, Dorothy also took a comprehensive look at the full set of operating methods of the cruise ship. Until the sun approached the west sea and the sunset shone on the sea, Dorothy had learned how to drive a cruise ship step by step. Now even if she is alone, she can drive the cruise ship by controlling a bunch of zombies and vividly reproduce the full set of services.
Dorothy spent most of the afternoon learning how to operate a cruise ship, but she still didn't know where the drugs in the fish came from. Under Dorothy's monitoring, everyone on the ship, from the chef to the angler, from the waiter to the sailor, was operating normally without a single abnormality.
The captain and the steward were confirming the route and checking the work, the waiter was meeting the various needs of the passengers, and the boilerman was working hard in the dark cabin. There was nothing unusual with the entire crew, and in Dorothy's observation, they had not uttered a single word about the secret for quite a long time, and Dorothy did not find any esoteric items in their cabin. They were just like ordinary people who had nothing to do with the secrets. Dorothy felt a little embarrassed at this moment, and she couldn't help frowning and rubbing her temples while sitting in the chair.
"Hiss... Are there no abnormalities among these people? Are they all normal people? Then who put the medicine on those fishes?"
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