Why it never ends

Chapter 495 The Past
Tasia heard sighs of relief from around her.

In just a few days, everyone's expectations for the rally seem to have quietly changed. At first, people exchanged news here, waiting for new clues and solutions, but this is not the case now.For most people, the most important thing is to determine whether their names are on today's "death list".

After a long period of entanglement, the meeting finally came to an end.

Gustav was always looking for an opportunity to state the third rule in public, but Adams and Fiance did not give him a chance to speak—they needed Hester to explain or refute.

Hesta obviously had no such intention.

After the meeting ended, many people walked towards Helen, and more people hurried back to the cabin—in any case, today will be another safe day.

The waiter at Bishop's restaurant approached at this moment and said that there was a phone call from Su Lei at the counter.

"Jane, is it over with you?"

"ended."

"Come on, I have something important for you to see."

"The captain's cabin?"

"Yes, you and Rico come here together."

"Did you find any clues?"

"I can't tell on the phone..."

Su Lei's voice sounded a little hasty, and his mood was not calm. Hesta put down the phone and went upstairs with Lico.They bypassed the crowded elevator and walked up the emergency passage on one side.

In the captain's room, Su Lei and two crew members were waiting.

"What's wrong?" Hesta asked.

"Come and see this."

Hesta and Lico looked at the screen. The color monitor showed every corner of the Shengming. Su Lei had already selected part of the screen, and all the recordings were in a paused state at the moment.

"Did you see any suspicious people?" Hesta asked.

"Yes and no." Su Lei pointed to the screen, "Look at this, it shows the screen that started at 6:49 last night..."

Su Lei pressed play.

Hesta and Rico looked up at the same time, and they were very familiar with the picture on the central monitor. It was the elevator entrance on the sixth floor. One side of it led to the Bishop restaurant, and the other side led to the Grace Theater.

The red carpet was empty.

After about six or seven seconds, nothing changed, Li Ke glanced at Si Lei, "This is to..."

"coming."

There is a slight fluctuation in the picture, as if the signal is disturbed.Soon, a woman wearing a large tutu appeared from the lower left corner of the picture. She was wearing long gloves reaching to the elbow, holding an ivory folding fan in her hand. Turning back cautiously, it seemed that someone was calling her behind her.

The woman disappeared briefly and reappeared soon. This time, there was a man in the group. The man looked more casual. Although he was also wearing a suit, the neckline was open and the sleeves were rolled up, revealing the fluffy backs of his hands. .

A man wearing a pure white mask talks and laughs with a woman.

Immediately afterwards, two more women entered the picture, each dressed in a different style, but generally solemn, and one of them was also wearing a white mask.The three of them followed the masked man, quickly passed through this corridor, and appeared on the screen of another monitor.

"Is there a sound, what are these people talking about?"

"There is no sound, only pictures."

"The radio is broken?"

"It's not a problem with the radio, it's just pictures in this episode."

Before Hesta could ask, more passengers soon appeared on the screen. It seemed that the four elevators on this floor got off at the same time, and the corridor gradually became lively.

A waiter walks through the room holding a tray with many champagne glasses in one hand, and keeps passing the glasses.Everyone is smiling, everyone is not in a hurry, chatting and saying hello to each other.

Hesta scanned the faces of the women one by one. Although the picture was not clear, she could still vaguely recognize the facial features of these women—there were not many female passengers on the Shengming, and the few existing ones she had already The faces are familiar, but every woman in the video makes Hesta feel strange.

Keep watching, and things get even weirder. As the elevator keeps opening and closing, the number of passengers in this corridor in the picture has far exceeded the total number of passengers on board.

Occasionally, a few young men in suits and leather shoes walked through the crowd. They looked around, but they didn't seem confident.

In the lively atmosphere, everyone's eyes suddenly focused on one place - the door of Bishop's restaurant not far away slowly opened.

The crowd on the screen is walking towards the restaurant, only a few people are still standing on the edge of the corridor.The elevator is still running, and newcomers continue to appear, leading their female companions to the restaurant...

Lico and Hesta turned their heads at the same time and looked at the surveillance screen in Bishop's restaurant, but it was always empty.

"What about those people?"

"There is no one, the surveillance in the restaurant is just a still picture, which is played repeatedly, and I have sent someone to check it." Su Lei looked at Hesta, "You are really right, most of the surveillance on the ship is now This shit—can you explain to me why?"

Hesta was speechless for a moment. Just in case, she would deliberately avoid the monitoring area, but considering that Anna was very bold and moved around these days, the possibility of the monitoring being modified or even damaged was greatly increased... But How to explain this to Su Lei.

Hesta scratched her forehead with her hand, she stared at the screen, "...can we go back and look at it?"

A crew member stepped forward to help with the operation.

Hesta leaned forward slightly, and the screen of the monitor was reflected in her eyes.

"Okay, stop here...can you zoom in on the lapel of the suit?"

The screen changed according to Hesta's instructions, and everyone's eyes quickly focused on the chest of one of them - there was a thumb-sized pin on his suit lapel. Unfortunately, due to the limited image quality, everyone could only roughly see this The shape of the tie pin is a cross, made of metal, and other details can no longer be judged clearly.

"Continue to step back, okay, about six or seven seconds forward." Hesta continued.

The picture continued to recede, and a man who had turned his back to the camera turned around again, and the expression on his face quickly changed from indifference to enthusiasm——

"stop."

The picture froze, and they immediately noticed that the man had the same pin on the lapel of his suit.After repeating this many times, all the men who had shown their faces in the screen were suspended for observation, and finally they fixed the time on a man who was closest to the surveillance.

The picture continued to zoom in, focusing on the same collar pin that appeared many times.

Li Ke stared at the picture with the edges of pixels in front of him, and suddenly said: "...is this St. James' Cross?"

Hesta nodded, "Well, it really is."

Su Lei thought this thing looked familiar at first, but now he finally realized it.

"...Isn't this the emblem of the Thorn Monk?"

(End of this chapter)