Chapter 14: Room
The huge cruise ship was sailing on the vast sea. In a bathroom inside the cruise ship, Dorothy's miniature corpses wandered in through the ship's ventilation system and presented the scenes inside to Dorothy.
This is a common bathroom located in the living area below the deck of the ship. It is used by several mid-range cabins around it. The bathroom is not too big and the decoration is ordinary. Apart from being clean, there is nothing special about it.
Of course, this was nothing special on the surface. After Dorothy used the Seeking Talisman to detect, she found that there was an obvious smell of blood in the bathroom. The smell was concentrated on the toilet in the bathroom. Although the toilet was clean now and there was no trace of blood, in Dorothy's eyes it seemed that a lot of blood had been poured into the toilet and then flushed away not long ago.
'Here... the residual smell is very strong, it smells like blood... Such a strong residual smell of blood, was it poured in after squeezing out all the blood from a whole person? And the bloody smell... mixed with the overly strong smell of medicine, blood with a high concentration of medicine... what on earth was poured in here...'
Sensing the scene in the bathroom, Dorothy thought seriously in her heart. It was obvious that the substance with a high content of cup drugs discharged from the sewage outlet should have been sent from this bathroom to the sewage system of the ship. Someone poured it into the toilet and flushed it away, and then cleaned the scene. And the thing that was poured out should be something with a stronger taste of "cup" in Dorothy's opinion.
After finding the residue in the bathroom, Dorothy immediately noted down the strange bloody smell in the residue, and then asked the miniature corpse to search for such smell throughout the ship. In Dorothy's opinion, the extraordinary person who was doing the work in the bathroom was most likely to have the smell on him, and as long as she followed the smell, she should be able to find him.
So, Dorothy began to quickly search the entire ship for the recorded bloody smell. However, after searching the entire cruise ship, she did not find a similar smell anywhere else. This made Dorothy think that the target she was looking for might have deodorized himself after leaving, and the smell he had in the bathroom might be very obvious.
After failing to find the target further by using smell, Dorothy changed her mind and used the ventilation ducts to conduct a detailed search of the cabins around the bathroom. Soon after the search, Dorothy made some discoveries.
Opposite the bathroom, in a cabin numbered 417, Dorothy discovered something unusual. It was already late at night, and the tourists in other cabins had basically had enough fun and went back to rest, but cabin 417 was empty, and the owner was nowhere to be seen.
Not only that, Dorothy also saw through her corpse vision that this cabin was extremely messy, with the quilts and wardrobe all messed up. It was obvious that this was not an empty room. Someone must have lived here not long ago. If no one came at this time, they must be drunkards or they might not come...
After seeing this scene, Dorothy sent a small corpse doll in to search, trying to find some clues. Soon she made a discovery. In a corner of the cabin, Dorothy smelled a hint of blood. The bloody smell was a little faint, and was eight times similar to the strong bloody smell in the nearby bathroom. The difference was that the bloody smell here did not have a strong smell of medicine.
"It seems... this is it..."
Looking at the situation in the cabin in front of her, Dorothy confirmed in her mind that there was an unusual connection between this place and the bathroom outside. The blood in the bathroom might have come from here, from the owner of this cabin, and he might be in danger now.
After finding the bloody smell, Dorothy was completely sure of the problem contained in this cabin. Then she began to use the small corpse doll to continue searching the messy cabin, trying to find items related to the original owner and confirm his identity. But to Dorothy's surprise, no matter how hard she looked, she couldn't find any related items left by others. Except for some cigarette ashes on the ground and the bloody smell in the corner, Dorothy did not find any other traces of the original owner in the cabin, which made Dorothy frown slightly.
"There are no related items? Have all the things been taken away? Is this why the house is so messy? The things were disposed of after the owner of the house died..."
Looking at the scene in front of her, Dorothy's expression was thoughtful for a moment, and then she continued to search the house and when she found nothing, she temporarily stopped searching the cabin and instead began to collect most of the small corpses on the ship, leaving a small number of corpses in the vacant cabin 417 and other nearby cabins. After no one came, Dorothy took a rest and slept until the morning of the next day.
Sitting in her cabin, Dorothy, who had just woken up, stretched out her body towards the rising sun outside the porthole. After rubbing her eyes, she continued to connect with the small corpse dolls scattered around the ship, and began to observe the situation in cabin 417 again. She found that there was still no one in the cabin, and every detail was exactly the same as Dorothy had noted before going to bed, which meant that no one had been in this cabin all night, and the owner of this cabin seemed to be really dead.
After a night, Dorothy's investigation had not made any substantial progress, and the entire investigation process seemed to have come to a standstill. This situation made Dorothy want to give up for a moment, but when she remembered what happened on the White Pearl, she dismissed the idea.
'No... Now is not the time to give up. The missing passengers, the cup medicine, the bloody traces... If you put these things together, most of them are related to the cult of the cup. On the sea, it is likely to be related to the Haiyuan Cult. If they are really planning to sacrifice the whole ship again, it will be terrible if we don't find someone to stop it in time. We must take this matter seriously and not take it lightly...
"Besides, fighting cults is not really a way for me to make extra money. I'm a bit short of money recently, and I need to supplement everything..."
Dorothy thought so in her heart, and after making up her mind to make another contribution to the cause of eradicating the cult, she took out a coin from her body, and then threw it after saying the prophecy.
"The guest in room 417 on this ship has been killed."
After putting the coin on her hand and removing it, Dorothy saw the front side, which showed that there was no problem with Dorothy's divination. Then Dorothy took out paper and pen and accurately drew a layered map of the entire cruise ship. She used the pendulum divination to determine the exact location of the murderer. However, this divination failed because the murderer's own information was protected by anti-divination.
"Anti-divination?... It seems at least it's not just a small fry..."
Looking at the failed divination scene in front of her, Dorothy muttered to herself, and then after thinking for a while, she took out her magic box, opened it, sensed the humanoid corpses inside, and then spoke.
"It seems that now is the time to use the same old trick again..."
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In the morning, the tourists who had just finished breakfast began to play on the ship for the day, and the crew members on the ship also began their busy day. In the cockpit of the cruise ship, the captain William, wearing a white uniform and a gray beard, was standing by the window of the cockpit, holding a nautical chart in his slightly haggard hands. William was looking at the chart while confirming the current course.
At this moment, hurried footsteps were heard outside the cockpit, and a young man dressed as a waiter ran into the cockpit in a panic. The noise was so loud that everyone in the cabin turned their heads to look at him, and the young waiter looked around the cabin and shouted hurriedly.
"Mr. William... Where is Mr. William?"
"I'm here, what's the hurry?"
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