Chapter 931 The Eve of the Storm
As time went by, the fifth day after the cruise ship set sail came on time.
However, what worries Cliff is that although the containment operation triggered by induction last night confirmed the identity of a saboteur, it completely failed to curb the emergence of surveillance blind spots.
After the four of them had a delicious breakfast that did not make them happy, the mysterious man who had contacted Carlo many times sent a message when they were deciding on their actions for the new day.
"Mr. Carlo, how were you last night?" The weird and distorted male voice that sounded on the phone sounded awkward, but the words were pronounced clearly enough that Cliff and the other three could hear him clearly.
"It's not bad." Carlo looked at the hands-free mobile phone he put on the table. His face darkened and he was very unhappy, but his tone seemed relaxed and indifferent: "You know, the service on the ship is very good, and the guest rooms are also very good.
Comfortable.”
"Of course, I would sleep better if there weren't those rats running around chewing the wiring on my equipment."
"I'm sorry that our activities disturbed you." The twisted and strange male voice said casually without any apology, and then smiled and said: "I heard that Liu Zhengjun's behavior of sabotaging surveillance last night was discovered by you?"
Carlo, who was attentive and alert, glanced at the faces of Cliff and others, and smiled without hesitation: "I don't want to use my rest time to do these meaningless things. What? I feel that you are very nervous about this matter.
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Facing Carlo's temptation, the strange male voice admitted openly: "Yes, after all, he is one of our members. You can find us by following him, so naturally you have to be nervous."
The frank and unhesitating admission made Cliff and the others suddenly suspicious, but before they could think about the truth or falsehood of this sentence, the strange male voice spoke again: "But I am not contacting you, Mr. Carlo, today for any reason."
this matter."
After hearing this, Carlo put aside his distracting thoughts, frowned and asked, "What do you want to say?"
"Some very interesting things." The weird male voice sounded cheerful and seemed to be in a good mood: "From now on, we will not send anyone to deliberately destroy the monitoring equipment."
"The main reason for doing this is because not only Mr. Carlo and your three companions are investigating us, but other people involved in the auction are also working hard to trace it."
"In view of your efforts, we decided to put all our energy into hiding ourselves. Therefore, if you want to get the coins in our hands, you have to work harder."
The content contained in the cheerful tone made the four Cliffs change their expressions. While looking at each other, they heard a strange male voice continue: "Also, I want to remind you."
"While hunting us, don't forget that you are also prey in the eyes of others. If you lose your vigilance because you pay too much attention to us, you may fall into someone else's trap."
"After all, we all need coins, and people like you who carry coins in your pocket and swagger around in other people's eyes are perfect targets."
Carlo's expression changed again, but he said disdainfully: "Instead of worrying about us, it's better to be careful about yourself. Compared with others, you are the biggest piece of fat."
"Thank you Mr. Carlo for your advice, we will try our best to hide it." The strange male voice laughed, and suddenly said mysteriously: "The last thing is my personal advice."
"The library's surveillance is indeed still sound, but the corridor outside the library door is already a surveillance blind spot!"
"So, take care, everyone! Hahaha..."
Amidst the laughter, the communication was hung up by the other party, but the faces of the four Cliffs became uglier than the last.
"I'm going to check it out!" Carlo left a word, then stood up and walked out of the library door.
"Carlo!" Bethel Pat stood up helplessly, took out his mobile phone and turned on the camera function and followed him, obviously worried that Carlo would be attacked.
And the moment Carlo and Bethel Pat walked out of the library door, Natalia, who was frowning in thought, suddenly reached out and grabbed Carlo's cell phone that he left on the table!
Snapped!
Suddenly, a strong hand grabbed Natalia's white wrist, but it was Cliff with a stern face!
The pretty Natalia turned her head slightly to look at Cliff, with a hint of inquiry in her innocent eyes.
Cliff pointed at the phone and slowly shook his head. He gently but firmly put Natalia's hand back on the armrest of the chair, then withdrew his hand and continued to think about the meaning of the strange male voice's words.
When Natalia saw this, her snow-white shoulders shrugged slightly, and she rested her cheek with one palm and continued to frown in thought.
After a while, Carlo, who looked gloomy, and Bethel Pat, who frowned, returned to the library.
"He's right!" Carlo quickly and covertly glanced at the cell phone he left on the table. After sitting down, he gritted his teeth and said, "The means of destruction are exactly the same as those of the person who took action on the first day. It was this guy who did it!"
"And I'm sure that he has definitely sold this information to others!"
Bethel Pat, who still frowned after sitting down, took a deep breath and said nothing, but his eyes moved towards Cliff.
"In this case..." Cliff thought: "Either the four of us don't separate, or everyone hides the coins in a place only they know."
"I personally prefer the latter, because we currently have no way of determining which locations in other public areas besides the library that we don't yet know have become surveillance blind spots."
Carlo, who quickly calmed down, nodded, reached out to pick up his cell phone on the table and put it away, and said nonchalantly: "There is still something I haven't had time to say, but it's not too late to say it now."
"After I learned yesterday that Ryu Jung-jun was surrounded by people, I went to investigate the surveillance equipment that he had destroyed, and found that the destruction method was almost exactly the same as that of the person who took action on the first day."
"Almost?" Natalia looked at Cliff, then at Carlo, and asked curiously: "Does it mean it was done by the same group of people?"
"Not sure." Carlo shook his head and sighed: "I can't find any trace of deliberate disguise, but I can't find any trace of deliberate imitation either."
Carlo's seemingly vague answer clearly explained his struggle on this issue and caused everyone to fall into silence.
"If I remember correctly, Liu Zhengjun only harvested three coins last time." Cliff suddenly asked: "What kind of person is he?"
After hearing Cliff's question, Bethel Pat and Natalia didn't speak, because they knew that although Cliff didn't name him, the question was actually for Carlo.
Sure enough, Carlo also knew that only he could answer this question. After thinking for a while, he said: "You all know that I will investigate all people who board the ship."
"The more senior the players are, the longer it will take me to investigate. I have been following you guys intermittently for two years. Ryu Jung-jun boarded the ship for the first time last year, so I will naturally start investigating after he disembarked last time."
"This person was originally a medical student, but he was expelled because he repeatedly misappropriated other people's papers and research results. As a result, he did not have a medical license and was unable to practice medicine and treat diseases."
"But he is still a smart man after all. He relied on his academic background to start a pharmaceutical sales business. With his relatively good professional knowledge and his unscrupulous style of doing things to achieve his goals, he became a salesperson for a pharmaceutical company in a short period of time.
The pillar of the ministry.”
"Later, he got carried away. Because of an oversight, the scandal between him and his female subordinate was exposed. In the end, although he spent a lot of effort and a lot of money to settle the matter, he lost his job."
"But who knew that this guy stole a lot of confidential research project information from the original company during his work? With these things, he directly defected to a rival company of the original company and became a senior executive."
Carlo paused here and looked at Cliff, who had the ugliest expression among the three.
"Cliff, stains can be found in every profession, including medicine and law." Bethel Pat waved her hand as if to ward off flies: "This is a man with greed and shamelessness engraved in his bones.
The villain, of course, also needs to be despicable and cunning."
"But rather than who he is as a person, I want to know what he is doing now."
Carlo shook his head and said: "He went out today pretending as if nothing happened, and it looks like he will keep pretending."
This answer left the three Cliffs quite speechless, and they all felt a little confused as to how to proceed.
"What about the other three suspicious women?" Bethel Pat frowned and changed the subject.
"We're checking." Carlo said, suddenly taking out his phone, shaking it, and said with a wry smile: "But even if we check, with the phone call just now, do you think we still have a chance to get the coins from them?"
For a moment, Cliff was silent, Bethel Pat shook his head in silence, Natalia frowned and curled her lips, and no one spoke for a while.
After a moment, Bethel Pat suddenly said with a bit of regret: "Now that I think about it, the moment we walked into the concert hall to participate in the auction, we fell into their trap."
The three Cliffs looked at Bethel Pat, only to see him minding his own business and saying: "Twenty-five coins attracted the attention of everyone present at that time, which caused us to never escape from the impact at that time.
come out."
"Later, when we investigated them and traced their identities, they used the twenty-five coins to lead us invisibly, causing us to ignore those people who had one or two coins in their hands."
"Do you know? These people are existences that we can easily control, but we have voluntarily given up the coins in their hands within the past two days. Is there anything more ironic than this?"
These words stunned everyone, even Cliff was not spared from being stunned for a moment.
"Not only that, they also completed their plans and arrangements." After more than ten seconds of silence, Cliff said: "They are gradually pulling everyone onto their preset stage."
"What do you mean?" Bethel Pat asked puzzledly: "Please explain it clearly."
"Now I have four coins in my hand, and each of you will definitely not have less than three in his hand." Cliff said slowly: "Added to the twenty-five coins in their hands, just the two of us have made a fortune.
Thirty-five people who were in urgent need of coins to turn themselves around."
"If you include other people holding two or more coins, half of the people on this ship have lost their coins. And each of these half of the people are very eager, but their chances are slim."
"And in this case, the surveillance equipment has been destroyed, and a surveillance blind spot has appeared where even if you rob it, you will not be discovered. What do you think these people will do?"
No one like Bethel Pat said anything, but everyone knew what the answer was.
Cliff sighed upon seeing this and continued: "They have already anticipated this situation and will definitely prepare in advance, but what about us who have been chasing them?"
"Do you want to say that we have to use violence to snatch other people's coins?" Bethel Pat said slowly and noncommittally: "But have you ever thought about it, maybe this is what they want to see."
"Think about it, all the invitees have been reduced to brainless people who use violence to solve problems, not to mention how chaotic it will be when the time comes. This will be a shame for every one of us who boarded the ship."
Carlo and Natalia couldn't help but be silent after hearing this, and looked at Cliff in unison.
"I know." Cliff waved his hand calmly and said: "They are trying hard to force everyone into brainless people who only know how to use violence to solve problems. They must have their purpose."
"But no matter what, the purpose will eventually fall on the coins in our hands. So what I want to know is, when the people on the cruise ship become violent, what means can they use to take away the coins in our hands?"
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Bethel Pat pondered for a moment and said: "Cliff, do you know what you are doing?"
"I know." Cliff nodded heavily and said, "Since the other party wants us to solve the problem with fists, then I will gather a powerful enough fist to smash all his plans."
"Cliff, you are an accomplice in pushing everyone into chaos!" Bethel Pat shook his head firmly and said: "I'm sorry, I can't approve your approach, I quit."
Cliff looked at Bethel Pat with burning eyes and said slowly: "If you quit now, you will be regarded as prey by everyone including me. You know what the final result will be."
"This is the difference between us, Cliff." Bethel Pat stood up calmly, adjusted his clothes calmly and said: "No matter what you think of me, I will continue to trace the other party's identity."
"Abandoning wisdom and becoming a beast who only knows how to swing his fists, for a gentleman, is a complete degradation from spirit to body."
After saying that, Bethel Pat raised his head slightly, walked out of the library firmly with a hint of pride.
When Bethel Pat disappeared, Cliff let out a long breath and sighed in a low voice: "I am very glad that he will never let go of his extremely pedantic gentleman style, otherwise, he will be a disgraceful person."
A feared opponent."
Chapter completed!