After closing the chat panel, I checked yesterday's surveillance footage but didn't find anything strange. I went out for a walk since I had nothing to do; staying in the room was quite boring.
Around 10 a.m., Jiang Yue saw the Jiang family crying tears of joy on the surveillance footage, and the doctor next to them trying to strike up a conversation. However, they remembered that Jiang Yue had said she couldn't reveal anything, so they left without lingering.
With the monitoring turned off, Jiang Xue's matter came to an end. She could now focus on her own mission. It was the second day on the ship, and Jiang Yue still hadn't discovered any problems. The cruise ship was too big, and there were many areas where tourists couldn't enter, which made her investigation much more difficult. For now, she could only be extra careful.
During lunch, we checked the chat channel. The number of people hadn't changed or decreased, but we also couldn't find any clues. Everyone was completely baffled.
After lunch, Jiang Yue went to explore the areas that the tourists had entered. She carefully avoided the crew members and used her small size to move through the narrow passages. Suddenly, she heard a slight mechanical sound coming from behind a closed door.
Just as she was trying to open the door, a low growl came from behind her: "What are you doing here?"
Jiang Yue was startled. She turned around and saw a young crew member. On a whim, Jiang Yue pretended to be pitiful and said that she was lost. The crew member was skeptical, but still took her back to the tourist area.
On the way back, Jiang Yue became suspicious. Although the room was tightly closed, she could still smell formaldehyde and, upon closer inspection, a stench of decay. How could a cruise ship smell like this?
With someone specifically guarding it, this room was clearly not simple. She wondered if it was related to Jiang Yue's mission. Thinking of this, Jiang Yue opened the panel, contacted the national team, and told them what she had discovered. She couldn't come over again to avoid being suspected.
After returning to her room, Jiang Yue turned on her computer and checked the surveillance footage. However, she found no surveillance cameras. Jiang Yue clearly saw several cameras, and based on her intuition, there were more than just the ones that were visible.
After reporting this situation to the national team, he sent a message to Jiang Yue:
[Red Star]: Can you view the ship's surveillance footage? Could you grant me access so I can conduct my investigation?
[Traveler]: Sure, I'll install a program on your phone. The password is weird and nonsensical. You can see for yourself.
[Red Star]: Thank you.
[Red Star]: Are you sure that's the smell of a corpse over there?
[Traveler]: I'm pretty sure, but I may have alerted them by going there unintentionally today. I can't rule out the possibility that they moved the body.
[Red Star]: Okay, thank you. I will share the follow-up information with you.
After closing the panel, Jiang Yue checked the other surveillance footage and finally discovered that the footage had been tampered with. Several hours of footage had been spliced together. Unfortunately, Jiang Yue couldn't reconstruct the situation at that time; the other party had handled it too cleanly.
This clue might not be what Jiang Yue wants, but since there are no other clues for now, let's investigate it for now, since we have nothing else to do anyway.
Hongxing sent a message that evening, saying that he originally wanted to find someone to approach the place to take a look, but now there are two people guarding the stairwell, and no one is allowed to enter this floor. His people have also been counter-tracked. Two people have accidentally entered the place in one day, which seems to have completely alarmed people. He told Jiang Yue to be careful at night.
After ending the conversation, Jiang Yue stroked her chin and then switched the surveillance footage to several kitchens. There were surveillance cameras at the entrances of these kitchens, and even inside one of the kitchens. According to Hong Xing, there should be quite a few of them; they must need to eat eventually.
Jiang Yue then wrote a small program to record the appearance of all the waiters in the cruise ship lobby, and then recorded the appearance of the people who entered the staff canteen to eat. In this way, she could use the process of elimination to find out the extra people.
Of course, some of these people may be in other positions and can only be used as a secondary option.
The main problem is that no evidence has been found yet. Otherwise, Jiang Yue would have called the police directly. The world order is still intact, and there are a lot of celebrities on this cruise ship, so calling the police would be a powerful solution.
Jiang Yue thought she would only call the police if she had evidence, but Hong Xing didn't think that way. He already had connections with the Dragon Kingdom in this world, and now that he had some clues, he directly told the officials who came up with them. Now, the professionals have also started to move.
Not long after, Red Star sent another message to Jiang Yue informing her that the authorities had decided to conduct a secret search operation at night and hoped that Jiang Yue could help with the surveillance footage. Jiang Yue expressed her willingness to cooperate.
As night fell, the officials quietly approached the target room. Just then, the cruise ship's alarm suddenly sounded, and the lights flickered. Jiang Yue was startled, fearing it was a trap. A group of uniformed crew members rushed towards the officials' location as if they had been prepared. The two sides instantly became tense.
Jiang Yue saw on the monitor that several crew members were carrying some large boxes and moving quickly in another direction. She had a feeling that there was something important in the boxes.
She hurriedly contacted Hongxing to tell him about the situation. He sent several people to chase after the crew members. At first, Jiang Yue was monitoring the surveillance footage to report their movements, but later they probably realized something and destroyed the surveillance cameras, so Jiang Yue lost sight of them.
Jiang Yue changed her clothes and walked out of the room toward her destination. After chasing around, she saw the people carrying the boxes at a corner. Taking advantage of their inattention, Jiang Yue tripped one of them, and the boxes fell to the ground and scattered, revealing a series of mutilated corpses. At this moment, the officials who arrived witnessed the scene and immediately took control of the crew members.
Everyone gasped at the sight. Jiang Yue took the opportunity to examine the corpses and found strange marks on them, as if they had been eaten by animals from the Northern Gate.
Officials quickly interrogated the crew members, but they remained silent, their jaws clenched. Just as the standoff was about to begin, the cruise ship suddenly began to rock violently.
"Could there be some other conspiracy?"
Jiang Yue frowned.
Hongxing shouted, "No matter what, ensure safety first!"
Jiang Yue suddenly recalled the scene when she first discovered that room. There were mechanical sounds at that time. Could this be related to it? With this thought, Jiang Yue pulled Hong Xing and several officials to the original room.
When they arrived at the location, the back door was locked. In the heat of the moment, Quan Jiangyue kicked the door several times. After the door was kicked open, many people vomited upon seeing the scene inside. There were many dismembered limbs that still looked fresh. So many people had died in just a few days.
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