"This ship should be a special transport ship." Lawrence said, and everyone had already arrived at the bottom warehouse.
As soon as he got here, Lawrence discovered a completely different design on this ship from normal ships: the lowest deck of the ship was reinforced with a large number of steel bars, and there was also a small cabin wrapped in metal plates. Obviously, this ship
The ship should be prepared to transport certain special things, so the lower space of the hull was specially modified.
Those reinforcement steel bars are painted with black asphalt, just like the surrounding ship bottoms. It would be difficult to find it if Nora hadn't specifically pointed it out. And this is especially true for the small cabin. The entire cabin is hidden in the large cabin.
Behind the stack of supplies of grain and fresh water, it seemed that the other party had added a partition to the back of the warehouse to create a dark room.
The other party even prepared a thin layer of wood to cover the outside of this small cabin as a disguise. If Nora's silk threads were not able to penetrate almost every hole, they might just drag the ship back and clean everything on the ship.
Only then did you discover this secret cabin that serves as a mezzanine.
"It's no wonder that this ship is almost unarmed." Seifer also saw the characteristics of this ship, "If I guess correctly, this ship is one of those disguised transport ships. It may not be legal to transport some things at the same time.
There are some dangerous things. That’s why the lower deck is strengthened like this, but considering the total load of the hull, they can only give up those firepower.”
Obviously, this ship spent a lot of money to avoid being discovered by others. For example, it installed wooden fake cannons to balance the added weight of the bottom cabin, and added secret cabins in the supply cabin. These modifications made this ship look like
It is no different from an ordinary merchant ship of the same level. Nora did not find anything wrong with this ship even before she went down to the bottom of the ship to inspect it just now.
While Saphire was speaking, Lawrence took a few steps forward and pulled the door of the small cabin. It turned out that the door was not locked at all, so he pulled it open directly. Because
The entire cabin was only a dozen square meters, so after the door opened, everything in the cabin appeared in front of Lawrence.
"It was like this when I just checked." Seeing Lawrence turn his head to look at herself, Nora immediately pointed to the rows of empty shelves inside the room and said. "There should be some things on these shelves before, but they should be
These items disappeared at the same time as those on board."
"Can you tell what the missing things are?" Lawrence walked into this small secret room and inspected it. Unfortunately, even after using the identification technique, it could only show that this was a specially made secret room.
There is a thin layer of lead plate sandwiched in the wall to hide certain magical reactions, but there are no clues as to what was previously placed in this place.
"Sorry, brother, we can't. Because there have been a lot of things in this secret warehouse." Nora said with a regretful look. "So although there are a lot of traces in this house, due to the complex magic reflection, we
It is impossible to accurately determine what was missing in this accident.”
"It sounds absolutely terrible." Lawrence said as he began to summon a large number of phantoms of fire poisonous bees and earth ants, and then directed the phantoms of these monsters to disperse and search in all directions of the ship.
Then he walked to the upper gun position and opened the gun window, and then summoned a large number of molar fish shadows in the sea water to let them inspect the part below the waterline of the ship.
As usual, Lawrence summoned a large number of phantoms of monsters and dispersed them around and inside the ship in an attempt to make a final inspection. Theoretically speaking, constructs tend to be very strict when doing anything, and there will not be too much trouble.
Big omission.
But Nora is not that kind of normal constructed creature. From a certain perspective, she is more like a human being. So when doing some things, she will make omissions or even mistakes like humans.
However, because Nora is a constructed creature, there are many omissions that are completely different from those of humans. Therefore, after discovering this, Lawrence also developed the habit of having himself and the puppet inspect an item as much as possible.
.Because in this way, we can detect each other's weak points as much as possible and complete a perfect investigation as much as possible.
Nora's previous inspection was very careful. Lawrence's monster phantoms found nothing in the cabin. But the molar fish swimming in the water found something that looked a little unusual under the hull. After discovering
After finding these things, Lawrence immediately summoned several murloc figures and asked them to fetch the things he found.
A few minutes later, two murloc figures emerged from the water. At the same time, they were holding a stone object the size of a washbasin that looked like a volcano model. Then the two murloc figures struggled to lift the piece.
Something like a stone was struggled to be carried in through the open gun window.
"What is this?" After the wet stone was placed on the floor of the middle deck, Saphiel and Nora moved forward curiously, and found that this thing was indeed like a small
Volcano. What's even more strange is that there seems to be something alive in the groove in the middle of this thing.
"This thing should be a barnacle." As the one with the most knowledge in natural history among the three people present, Lawrence quickly recognized what the stone was. "In addition to this, there are other things under the boat.
There are three or four similar animals of similar size there, I just brought one up as a specimen to look at."
"You said this thing is a barnacle?" Saifei's eyes widened. Although she was born in the inland area of the White Eagle Federation, she spent her college years in a girls' school in the island nation of Briton. So in
During that time, she and her classmates went to the beach more than once, so she naturally knew the normal size of barnacles.
"This thing is indeed a barnacle, but its size is slightly larger." Lawrence explained, looking at the barnacle that was the size of a small washbasin. "And based on the condition of the bottom of the ship, it can be seen that the ship is not long ago."
It had just been maintained before, and there weren’t many marine organisms attached to it. So these barnacles must have stuck to the bottom of the boat from somewhere.”
"That is to say, the disappearance of the people on the ship is probably related to this abnormal-looking barnacle." Nora said immediately after hearing Lawrence's explanation. Although there is no connection between the two things for the time being, at the same time,
The possibility of two abnormal events happening at the same place at any time is really low, so Nora directly linked the two events.
"Where do you think this barnacle came from?" Now that he had found a possible clue to the disappearance of the people on the ship, Seifer immediately walked to the large barnacle, lifted it up, and then carefully
Check out this barnacle.
"By the way, Lawrence. I remember that you have a way to determine the previous location of an item by observing microorganisms. Can you use it now on this barnacle?"
"Let me try, but don't have too much hope." Lawrence said, taking out a series of experimental tools from the space bag and placing them on the ground, then took the barnacle from Saifei's hand and inspected it.
Got up.
"After all, it was possible to detect it last time because the items stored in the warp box were very stable, but these barnacles were always in contact with the surrounding seawater on the bottom of the ship. Therefore, the information left on it should not be as obvious as the last time."
Sure enough, after inspection, the microorganisms he isolated from this barnacle can be said to be common microorganisms in the entire Star Sea, and are not of much value in determining the source of the barnacle. However, Lawrence's subsequent analysis of the barnacle shell made great achievements.