The Grim Reaper Can't Be Tricked

"The magic painting knows the whereabouts of the golden treasure is just your guess, even if it knows the whereabouts of the treasure, how do you make it speak?" Ding Yiqing asked behind the internet celebrity.

The Internet celebrity anchor turned his head with a stiff neck, his face pale as paper: "Just feed it."

Cen Jin lowered his eyes and saw that the Internet celebrity's scratched palm was still sticking to the magic painting: "It swallowed the blood of 20 people 37 years ago but failed to make it speak. Do you think your blood alone will do?"

"So," the Internet celebrity anchor showed a pale smile, stood up tremblingly, holding the weird magic painting in his arms, and whispered: "I hope you can help me."

He raised the painting over his head, covering his head to his chest. The strange magic painting seemed to replace his upper body. The magic painting became extremely bright. Achilles in the portrait suddenly turned his head, his hair was messy, and his eyes became two holes. Black spots appeared on his body and face, like a corpse that had been dead for a long time and began to rot.

Bright red blood slowly oozes from the heel with the iron arrow inserted, tick, tick, falls to the ground and gathers into a pool of thick blood, gradually forming a whirlpool. Cen Jin sees it, and suddenly thinks of the conch that is full of boxes.

The densely packed conch shells seem to be impossible to kill. They move rustlingly, making the sound of bubbles bursting. If you accidentally press or step on it, you will hear the sound of the fragile conch shell cracking. You can see it when you look down. to a large amount of exposed soft flesh.

The soft flesh was even wriggling, like a fat leech crawling out of a puddle.

Then one hand covered his eyes, and Ding Yanqing whispered in his ear, "Don't look."

Cen Jin grabbed Ding Yiqing's wrist, breathing unsteadily: "That painting has the ability to confuse the spirit."

Ding Yiqing: "I see."

Cen Jin took a deep breath: "I'm fine." He signaled Ding Yiqing to let go, and looked at the Internet celebrity who was holding up the magic painting with clear eyes. "Take away the magic painting or destroy it on the spot?"

Ding Yiqing: "You and I can't kill people for it to suck blood, and the gold treasure is useless to us, we should destroy it."

"My thoughts are the same as yours, but to correct me, the golden treasure is useful to me." Cen Jin approached step by step with a bone machete.

Mohua sensed the danger, and bewitched the internet celebrity anchor to run away.

It seems that it only has the ability to confuse the human spirit. Cen Jin, who was sure of this, ran after him. When he rushed to the door, the Internet celebrity anchor suddenly let out a super high-pitched scream, and turned around. Achilles in the magic painting had a hideous face , and roared suddenly in Cen Jin's face.

Cen Jin seemed to be sprayed by the sea breeze, and was stunned for a moment. The Internet celebrity anchor took the opportunity to run to the side and rushed to the depths of the gallery room. The blade leveled off and slashed towards the magic painting.

The Internet celebrity screamed in horror, hurried to dodge, and accidentally smashed the window above her head.

The thickened cabin window was shattered by the touch of the magic painting frame, and the moonlight streamed in. From the corner of Cen Jin's eyes, he noticed something was wrong. When he turned his head, he saw two bright moons meeting each other in the night sky. The red moon swallowed the white moon. The red light is flourishing.

Frightened, the Internet celebrity ran away in a panic, and slammed into Ding Yiqing's Tang Dao. With a puff, his head rolled off. When the red light disappeared, only the head was left in place, and the Internet celebrity's body and magic painting disappeared completely. .

But in just a moment, the staggered red moon and white moon are staggered, and the white moon disappears.

Cen Jin: "It's time and space intertwined, but I don't know when it will be teleported."

"Maybe it's fixed-point teleportation." Ding Yiqing was thoughtful: "I just saw the resplendent and brightly lit cruise ship from the red light, and vaguely heard the noisy and lively voices of people."

Cen Jin squatted down and used the tip of a bone chopper to pry open the head that was left behind 20 years later. He suddenly felt blessed: "The first headless corpse in the gallery room."

Ding Yiqing: "So when the two months intersect, there is a space-time disorder, and the cruise ship in 99 and the cruise ship in 20 are teleported between the two time-spaces. Maybe it is this headless corpse that suddenly appeared and broke the uneven and weird hull of the cruise ship. It’s not necessarily a case of killing someone who smells blood.”

"Do you think there is such a possibility? The reason why the magic painting is brand new is because the first space-time stagger was shrouded in red moonlight and appeared in the gallery room 20 years later. Then what we just experienced happened, with the magic painting The headless corpse back in 99 will attract a group of media people to enter the house to check, and the magic painting awakened by the blood of the headless corpse killed 37 people, so there is a strange talk in the gallery room."

Cen Jin made such an assumption.

"Do you still remember the time of the first space-time intersection?"

"It seems to be exactly eight o'clock."

"The second time-space interleaving is at 9:22. If I guess correctly, there should be two more time-space interleaving tonight, but I need to know the time when the cruise ship stopped 20 years ago."

"why?"

"The four time points interlaced in time and space represent the past, present and future of the cruise ship. The hull repair and refurbishment report in Noren's safe records the completion time of the cruise ship's project and the first launch time, representing its past and present."

"There are still two time-space intersections... Could there be two results in the future?"

"The third Goddess of Destiny who controls the future has a capricious personality, which represents the capriciousness of the world, and there are countless possibilities." After a pause, Ding Yiqing added: "There are at least two possibilities, yes or no, pros and cons, whether or not, etc... …the opposite of the simplest things.”

"Can the future be changed?" Cen Jin squeezed his fingers, a little ready to move.

If it can be changed, I would like to see if I can change the ending of the 99 cruise ship that was almost wiped out.

Huang Mao, who was on the sidelines, couldn't help but thumped when he heard the words. The brain deeply inspired by the time paradox of later generations clearly understands that fate cannot be changed, and any slight change will bring about a butterfly effect.

Ding Yiqing said calmly: "The destruction of the cruise ship and the destruction of the crew is a predetermined outcome, involving the lives of more than 1000 people and their related fate lines. Even if we want to, there is a high possibility that we will not be able to compete with fate. The choices we make have certain consequences. Could be the push of fate."

Not possible, but certain.

Huang Mao, who was on the sidelines, complained like this. He came from the future two years later and knew that the result would not change, which meant that the choices made by Ding Yiqing and 'Cen Jin' in the past did not change the established destiny.

Or, the future he is in is already the result of interference.

This thought flashed through his mind, and Huang Mao strangely thought, if Ding Yiqing and 'Cen Jin' don't intervene in the incident of the head of the ghost ship, will the future change?

Ding Yiqing mentioned fate, the first strange place and the first murder case of the ghost ship originated from the magic painting in the gallery room, a painting that was rumored to be depicted by fate, the staggered time and space and the World Tree living in the turbulent flow of time and space for a long time ... All these made Huang Mao feel that everything is inseparable from fate.

Huang Mao even felt absurd. Perhaps the cruise ship was the place where Ding Yiqing and 'Cen Jin' first met their fate. It was the beginning and the culprit.

"That's right." Cen Jin was curious: "Speaking of which, why do you believe that the time-space intersect is related to fate? Because the creator of that magic painting is fate?"

Ding Yiqing: "The spiritual light came out of nowhere."

Cen Jin: "?"

Ding Yiqing looked at the bewildered Cen Jin, his eyes were black and white, bright and energetic, he rubbed his fingers, a little itchy, couldn't help but raised his hand to touch Cen Jin's cheek, retracted it after touching it, and said nonchalantly: " Stained with ashes and blood."

Cen Jin snorted, rubbed his cheeks indiscriminately, and urged Ding Yiqing with his eyes to tell him what he knew quickly.

Ding Yiqing sighed silently: "I guessed wildly. Anyway, it doesn't matter if I guess wrong. At least I have an investigation idea. If we can control the law of time and space interlacing, we can go back. Otherwise, we will continue to stay, and we don't know what will happen."

Cen Jin counted with his fingers: "I think the red light only lasts for four or five seconds. If you want to control the pattern of its appearance, you'd better be accurate to the minute and second. Therefore, in addition to the date when the cruise ship stopped operating, you also need a specific time, which is accurate. Just by the hour.

Secondly, return to the ghost ship itself. There is no doubt that the ship under our feet is the cruise ship we were on 20 years ago. Let me talk about the weird events and weird places related to it.

It is known that the root of the murder case in the gallery room is the magic painting, which may belong to Mrs. Leadman. It shuttled back and forth between the past and the present, resulting in the death of 38 people.

Now it's back to 20 years ago and the gallery room is safe until the next time-lapse arrives.

The second weird place is the fleshless monster on Art Street, which was killed by you. I suspect that monster is the same one that attacked me before, and it also traveled to the ghost ship 20 years later with the red light.

Now it's killed, Art Street is safe.

The third weird place is the corridor of the guest room area at the bow. The monster is temporarily unknown, but it is very aggressive. It is called the wall monster.The fourth weird place is the box room, called the box room monster, which is highly aggressive and powerful. "

Ding Yiqing added: "There is also the power cabin. Inside there is a tall monster wearing a butcher bib and dragging an ax around. It has been wandering around in the power cabin, and will go to the steam oven room to check every once in a while."

Cen Jin nodded: "The stern area has not been checked, so I don't know if there are any new monsters." After summarizing, he opened a new topic: "You said before that there are only ghost ships near the sea?"

Ding Yiqing nodded, and before Cen Jin could continue to ask, he said tactfully: "Open the safe and see the hull renovation documents inside, so I went to the sightseeing area on the fifth floor to check it, and the result confirmed my guess."

Cen Jin understood: "The original hull of the cruise ship in 1999 is of extraordinary origin, it was refurbished from other abandoned ships. The abandoned ships I can think of are the rumored Viking pirate ships, so they really found the Viking ship. A pirate ship? What was the purpose of the refurbishment? Didn't that ship lead them to the golden treasure?"

Ding Yiqing: "Maybe I found it."

"where is it?"

Cen Jin walked forward, kicked something under his feet, picked it up and found that it was a mobile phone left by an Internet celebrity, and the original owner of this mobile phone belonged to Colleen who died in the box room, which proved that the Internet celebrity went to the box room and saw Colleen's body And took away her mobile phone, which indirectly shows that Internet celebrities are not as harmless as they appear.

"Two ancient gold coins in the safe." Ding Yiqing reminded.

Cen Jin frowned deeply, thought for a moment and said, "Those two ancient gold coins came from Nolon's safe, and the year cannot be discerned. If they really belong to the gold treasure, it means that Noren, Mrs. Leadman and others hold the 'Fantasy Night' all the year round. The four of them successfully snatch the treasure from the Treasure Cave every year.

But for some reason, they couldn't take away all the gold treasures, or the gold treasures have something special that can be grabbed by people in an endless stream.

The conditions for knocking on the door of the golden treasure are: cage beast sacrifice and ghost ship.

Relatively speaking, the condition of caged animals is easy to meet, and the box room is the place to store caged animals.They have opened the golden treasure, which means that the conditions of the ghost ship have also been met, so the hull in the hull renovation document is the ghost ship.

Perhaps this can explain the origin of the wall monster in the guest room area. "

Ding Yiqing said softly: "There is a legend in the nautical industry that if the old ship in the ship mound is used as a hull renovation, it is likely to breed ship spirits. The ship mound must have a history of more than a hundred years and come from the deep sea, where countless lives are buried. The resulting ship spirits are ferocious, jealous, violent and bloodthirsty, and will become irrational monsters in the middle of the night when there is a storm."

"Do you think the wall monster is the spawned ship spirit?"

"Obviously only the ship spirit is the one who needs to meet the requirements of the treasure guide, and only the ship spirit can easily sense any events that happen in the cabin, so it blocks in front of the box room and guards its food."

"It makes sense to think about it." Cen Jin manipulated the mobile phone and accidentally pressed the light button, which happened to turn off the flashlight when it ran out of power: "20 years ago at night, the ghost ship lost control and disappeared after the massacre. 20 years later Today, I don’t know who refurbished it and put it into use again to deceive a group of anchors? Or live broadcast? Anyway, a group of people who don’t know the truth to board the boat.

When the moonlight fell, the minds of this group of people were manipulated, and their memories were confused. They mistakenly thought that they encountered a ghost ship on a luxury cruise ship, but they didn't know that the ship they boarded was a ghost ship!

So they are likely to be sacrifices to the ship spirit? "

Speaking of this, Cen Jin was stunned for a moment: "Who did it?"

Then there was a shock, and it was difficult to dig out the memory that was almost forgotten from the depths of the memory. At that time, Ivan introduced himself and said which family held the live broadcast of the spirit exploration?

"...The Kroll family?"

"You're talking about the Kroll family, one of the board members of the head office? The family that got the board member seat through sponsorship, I'm afraid it won't be able to fall in a while." Ding Qingqing said.

Cen Jin shrugged: "This family may not know that there is a problem with the cruise ship, but it is a foul to blatantly use ordinary people to try and steal money. Please report back to the headquarters."

The Kroll family was indeed involved in the live broadcast of the 200 people being headed in 'Dead Shoreline'. Huang Mao, who has investigated the truth, is sure of this, but he doesn't know if the Kroll family participated in the ghost ship in 99.

The main messenger behind the Kroll family is Samuel. The former live broadcast anchor was decapitated for the purpose of earning money and traffic. Where is Samuel?

Did Samuel know about this live broadcast?Is he watching this live broadcast?

If he is watching this live broadcast, can he recognize Ding Yiqing?

If the answer is affirmative, Samuel might have rushed to the ghost ship to kill both of them in one fell swoop at this time, so as not to cause trouble for him in the future. However, Ding Yiqing and Cen Jin are barely alive after 20 years, so the answer is no.

Huang Mao heaved a sigh of relief, and suddenly thought that 20 years ago and 20 years ago, there was a "Ding Yiqing" sleeping in the underground reservoir of Sihai Grottoes. If he wakes up the other party at this time and makes him face another Ding Qingqing, he doesn't know what will happen.

Can the same life individual in two time and space exist in the same time and space at the same time?

Cen Jin and Ding Yiqing left the Art Street and went to the opera house in the middle and rear of the cabin, which led to the performing arts hall where the "Fantasy Night" was held.

Ding Yiqing: "The highlight of the cruise ship is the Fantasy Night. It is held in the auditorium. There are only two entrances, which are locked all the year round. There may be secrets to destroy the ghost ship inside."

Cen Jin thought about it and said: "There should be many living people on board who have been bewitched. Destroying the ghost ship early may save a few people."

Quickly discussing the action plan, the two rushed to the opera house. One of the entrances to the auditorium is in the center of the stage of the opera house. When you find the mechanism and open the floor, you can see a long downward passage.

Cen Jin: "How do you know so much?"

Ding Yiqing: "Money can make ghosts turn millstones."

He looked at the aisle, then looked around the stage, and suddenly looked up at the quartz clock embedded in the wall of the fence on the second floor of the Opera House. The time stopped at 3:07.

Maybe it was because he was too focused, which attracted Cen Jin's eyes to follow him. When he saw the quartz clock, he couldn't help frowning. A white light flashed in his mind, but he couldn't catch it in time. After a while, he patted his head and exclaimed: "3:07!"

He looked at Ding Yiqing: "The hour and minute hands of all the clocks on the ship are stuck at 3:07. Could it be the time when the cruise ship 'died' 20 years ago? The time of the third time-space interleaving?"

Ding Yiqing: "Write it down first."

Cen Jin responded, and then heard a crisp sound coming from the corner, looking down, a soda can was blown by the wind and rolled to his feet.

After two seconds of silence, Cen Jin reacted quickly and threw the knife over: "Come out!"

With a clang, the bone cutter pierced through the curtain and embedded itself into the wall, revealing the terrified faces of Ivan and Susan. They both raised their hands and begged for mercy: "We have no malicious intentions, and we are not following you—we, we can't get out. !"

Cen Jin pulled out the bone-chopping knife and stared at the two of them, seeing that their clothes were stained with ashes and their hair was still clinging to foul-smelling liquid. He described them in a state of embarrassment, as if they had gone through a desperate escape.

"What do you mean you can't get out?"

Ivan’s crying expression: “We ran all the way from the guest room area, collecting fuel to blow up the ghost ship, thinking that the paint in the art area was not very powerful, so we went to the power cabin to find diesel oil, but we were dragged by an ax It was blocked by tall monsters and almost died inside, but we hid in the corner of the steam oven room and sneaked out when the monsters were resting."

Cen Jin: "Laughing to death, you are not afraid of seeing the headless corpses of your colleagues, and you still want to continue filming, but you have the courage to steal fuel and blow up the ghost ship? Do I look mentally handicapped?"

Ivan's expression was embarrassing: "We already knew that there were monsters in the corridors of the box room and the guest room area... It was enough to make money, and then the live broadcast was disconnected and there was no signal, so we wanted to escape, who knows We couldn't see our cruise ship in all directions.

Susan...Susan said that we could encounter ghosts blindfolded, be trapped on a cruise ship, see no way out, and be lost forever, unless we blow up the ghost ship. "

This reason sounds plausible.

Cen Jin glanced at Susan, who was hiding behind Ivan, with his head down, not daring to speak.

"The steam oven room is quite far from here, why did you come to the opera house?"

"That..." Ivan looked back at Susan hesitantly, and said through gritted teeth, "Because there is a way out of the opera house! Have you ever heard of Fantastic Night?"

Cen Jin raised his eyebrows, Ding Yiqing's face was the same, both of them seemed to be out of interest, Ivan deeply felt that these two people were not ordinary, he wanted their protection, but also wanted to save his life from being snapped by them, so Speak out in one go.

"After the ghost ship went missing, spooky stories have been told about it, the most legendary of which is Fantasy Night. It combines 'circus', 'freak show' and 'magic magic show' in one visual feast, It is only held at midnight, which is quite mysterious, and more importantly, the fantasy night here must be accompanied by blood.

In the last fantasy night 20 years ago, the winning 'caged beast' was said to be a mermaid that haunted the Norwegian Sea. Among the crowd watching the performance, someone suddenly shouted: 'Eating merman meat will never age or die! ', inducing the dirtiest desires in the human heart.

The audience went berserk, scrambling to climb onto the stage to eat the mermaid meat, and the unknown mermaid was eaten alive and turned into a skeleton... It was nothing at all, after all, it was just goods, and compensation was fine if it was lost. Unfortunately, the mermaid was sacrificed Cage beast for the ghost ship.

After eating the sacrifices of the ghost ship, they couldn't escape naturally, and were left behind to replace the mermaid as food—"

Cen Jin interrupted his pretentiously gloomy storytelling attitude: "What does it have to do with the opera house having a way out of the ghost ship?"

Ivan looked back at Susan subconsciously, and said angrily, "Fantasy Night is held in the performing arts hall. When the caged beast is sacrificed, the caged beast will be thrown into the sea, so you can dive into the deep sea from there and leave the ghost ship."

Cen Jin: "Isn't it enough to say so earlier?"

Ivan muttered, "Stupid Asians with no imagination."

Cen Jin: "I don't understand your language, and I will be irritable and think you are scolding me."

Ivan: "..." He made excuses with resentful eyes, glanced at the yellow hair, and then at the indifferent and taciturn Ding Yiqing, slandering a pair of boring and dull Asians in his heart.

"How many other living colleagues are there on board besides you?"

Ivan was vigilant: "What do you want?"

"Save people." Cen Jin said concisely.

Ivan stammered: "There are more than 200 of us in total. We boarded the ship in batches before dark. They should all be scattered around the ghost ship. According to the danger on the ship, it is estimated that not many people survived."

Cen Jin: "I don't care what method you use, call them to the opera house as soon as possible. If there is a way to the auditorium, I will send you out safely."

"I refuse." Susan, who had been silent all along, suddenly said, examining him defensively: "How do I know if you are sincere in saving people or deliberately dismissing us? What's more, I don't even know where you guys came from."

Before Cen Jin could speak, a Tang saber was placed across Susan's neck, and Ding Yiqing threatened, "You can be suspicious, and if you don't cooperate, I can hack you to death on the spot."

Susan's face was pale, with cold sweat oozing from her forehead, and she forced herself to be calm: "You dare not."

As soon as the words fell, Ding Yiqing exerted a little force, and Tang Dao left scratches on Susan's neck, blood oozed out, Ivan's pupils constricted, and he let out a short scream, then quickly covered his mouth, pulled Susan's sleeve and hurriedly agreed their request.

"Susan, don't be stubborn, just agree!"

Susan was reluctant, reluctantly agreed: "Okay."

"Just to be on the safe side, he stays, and you go and gather the others." Ding Yiqing put Tang Dao on Ivan's neck with his backhand, and looked at Susan indifferently.

Susan looked gloomy, and stared deeply at the two people in front of her: "You will regret it—the ghost ship needs blood to soothe its hunger, and other people scattered all over the place can hold it temporarily."

Cen Jin: "I didn't expect you to be so ruthless." He glanced at Ivan who was restrained again, and his perception was slightly subtle: "The ruthlessness is not thorough enough."

Susan smiled wryly, turned around and walked to the door and turned her head suddenly: "...he is my friend, please protect him."

Cen Jin: "I will die after him."

Susan was relieved to leave after getting the guarantee. Ding Yiqing took back the Tang Dao and heard Cen Jin ask, "Take him to explore the performing arts hall together?"

Ding Yiqing lowered his eyes, thought for a while and said, "The auditorium is too dangerous. He will drag us down if he is powerless. Why don't I stay at the opera house and watch him, or you can stay here."

Cen Jin is obviously more interested in the performing arts hall, so he chose to explore the performing arts hall without saying a word.

They are not mother-in-law and mother-in-law, and they split up immediately after finalizing the plan. Cen Jin entered the passage, Ding Yiqing watched his back until he could not be seen, and the huge opera house fell into a terrible dead silence.

Ivan couldn't bear the silence, so he asked in a low voice, "Um, can you watch me in another place? My legs are sore and I want to sit down."

Ding Yiqing raised the Tang knife, pointing the tip at a place by the window: "Sit there."

Ivan murmured that the Asians were really rigid, and even the seating arrangements were boring. After sitting down, he wondered when Susan would come back and whether they could successfully escape from the ghost ship.

This industry is too dangerous. It turns out that there are really weird and unexplainable monsters in the world.

Ivan, who was immersed in his thoughts, did not realize that there were two bright moons outside the window facing his back, one red and one white, and when they completely overlapped, a dazzling red light erupted, enveloping Ivan and swallowing Ding Qing at the same time.

If you look carefully, you can find that Ding Yiqing's expression is calm from beginning to end, as if he had expected that there will be a red light that will cause the interlacing of time and space to appear at this time and this position.

One second, he was lamenting the precariousness in the dark and dead environment, and the next second, there was enthusiastic applause in his ears. Ivan's heart was beating violently, his eyes were absent-minded, and then the roaring heavy metal music exploded in his ears, shaking his heart out of order. , almost didn't pass.

Where?what's the situation?

Ivan looked around in a daze, and found that there were no empty seats, and everyone shouted loudly towards the front. The originally empty and dilapidated stage became colorful, and a group of bands played exciting heavy metal music, which attracted the full house to encore.

He grabbed the armrest of the seat, goosebumps appeared on his body, fear swept his body, his eyes searched for Ding Yiqing who was leaving, and he hurried after him.