Five people went down and only three were left when they came back.
They were covered in blood and kept shouting in fear. They were just like those pilots, their minds collapsed and they fell into madness.
The fog spread to the cabin door, and everyone hurriedly retreated. Everyone could vaguely see the weird limbs twisting in the gray fog.
"Molotov cocktails!" Josh directed his subordinates to throw lit bottles inside.
The fire started, and the thick fog wrapped the monster back into the bilge, but it didn't cause much trouble. In less than two minutes, the shadow of Mars was no longer visible.
"It can't be beaten to death, and it can't be burned to death. What the hell is this monster?" Thomas roared from behind.
Josh shook his head helplessly.
"Secret creatures cannot be treated with common sense, hey..."
The chief inspector sighed, and then said with emotion: "Father Sang is not here, there is nothing we can do to get the things next to us."
"Can we just wait to die?" Thomas scolded everyone, then picked up the gun on the ground, and continued, "Then go out and fight with them. Kill as many as you can, and maybe there will be a chance." Seeing Victor frowning in thought, Henry leaned over and asked in a low voice: "What are you thinking about?"
Victor came back to his senses, looked at the other person, and replied in a puzzled tone: "I was thinking...since someone arranged a ceremony in the engine room, it proves that he must have boarded the Kaleidoscope, so this person who sneaked in is now hiding."
Where?"
"Perhaps I would have jumped into the lake to join those boats." Josh heard the conversation between Victor and Henry and interrupted.
"But those gangsters didn't spare anyone who jumped into the lake. Everyone saw it. They didn't confirm the appearance of the person who jumped into the lake. They shot him immediately. So I think... the guy who arranged the ceremony is still there.
On the boat!"
Victor's words made everyone fall into thinking. After a while, they all nodded, feeling that Victor's guess made sense.
"If I were that guy, I would definitely be hiding in the engine room right now. No one can get in anyway." Weeden seemed to feel that Victor was stealing too much limelight, so he suddenly spoke and poured cold water on everyone.
"If you were that person, how dare you hide in the engine room?" Victor said sarcastically, doubting Whedon's courage, "Are you sure that weird thing won't tear you apart?"
"Maybe the other party has a way to control those secret creatures." Weeden continued to retort.
The two of them each hold their own speculations, but there is no way to verify whose statement is correct.
"Stop arguing! We have only two choices now, either to find a way to deal with the monster and enter the engine room to destroy the ceremony, or else we have to go head-to-head with the Conor Gang."
Josh glanced at the others, waiting for Thomas's answer.
At this time, Victor changed his thinking direction and immediately raised his hand to make fortune-telling to verify whether his guess was true.
Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao...
He put his hands behind his back so that no one could see it, and the final result of the hexagram was "Xiaoji!"
"People from Yang come to report the good news. The lost property is in Kun direction. Travelers will arrive immediately. It's really a good way to communicate with others!"
Victor recited the hexagram silently, and then returned to the casino alone.
He remembered that there was a steamship model placed in the corner of the casino, which was a scaled-down decoration of the Kaleidoscope.
On the wall behind the decorations, there is an oil painting hanging, which is a portrait of the ship's designer.
Victor quickly found the oil painting, but the steamship model was knocked over by the panicked gamblers and was smashed to pieces on the ground.
"Damn..."
"What are you looking for?" Henry followed Victor attentively, watching him stare at the model fragments on the ground, and asked in confusion.
"Do you know where there are blueprints for the Kaleidoscope?" Victor turned back and looked at Henry.
"There is a cab. I took a look there just now when I was looking for you. However, you have to pass through the outer corridor to get to the cab. If you are exposed now, you will definitely be shot into pieces by the boats on the water."
Hearing Henry's answer, Victor seemed a little annoyed, but Henry's last words gave him hope again.
"I remember the drawings very clearly. What information do you want?"
Yes... Henry's memory is quite abnormal. Victor was immediately overjoyed and asked quickly: "Based on the current direction of the gambling boat, what rooms are there in the southwest?"
Henry held his chin and thought for a moment, and then replied: "The restaurant, the guest room, the VIP box we just had, the billiard hall, the kitchen..."
Victor listened carefully, then thought about it based on his own hexagrams, and dug out the weird places on the Kaleidoscope from his memory. There was always an awkward feeling filling his thoughts.
But Victor couldn't tell where this awkwardness lay.
"Detective Henry, I think something is strange."
"Huh?"
"We assume that the ceremony really takes place in the engine room, so how is the scope of this ceremony determined?"
"I don't understand."
Victor rubbed his hands, picked up a piece of model debris from the ground, and explained to Henry: "Look, we are on the Kaleidoscope now, surrounded by lawless elements from the Conor Gang. Their purpose is to kill all of us."
They were all burned to death by the ritual. If the scope of this ritual is too large and these guys accidentally enter the danger of self-immolation, won't they die like us?"
With this explanation, Henry also figured it out.
"You mean, the other party clearly knows that it is safe for them to be near the kaleidoscope? Can they see the scope of influence of the ritual?"
"No..." Seeing that Henry had misunderstood, Victor continued to explain, "They are also ordinary people, they cannot all be seers, so I guess that from the beginning of the ceremony, it has only located the people on the Kaleidoscope.
, just like navigation radar."
"What navigation radar?" Henry knew nothing about the technological products of Victor's previous life.
Victor sighed and changed his words: "It's like a mark. Do you understand?"
Henry suddenly realized: "I understand. This ritual has secretly marked the people on the Kaleidoscope and will only affect us."
"That's right!"
Victor saw Henry understood and breathed a sigh of relief.
He walked to the window and looked cautiously in the direction of Party A: "Look at those people who were killed by bullets. They did not continue to self-immolate. This proves that people killed by physical means can get rid of the mark of the ritual."
"So when were we locked by the ritual?" Henry and Victor looked at each other.
Victor held his chin in thought and continued to ponder the hexagram he had just made.
He spent a lot of effort to interpret the hexagram this time. The hexagram was too vague. Only the word "kun position" could give him a clear clue.