Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 336 Three Stars
Staring at the place where the logbook disappeared, Adele's expression became solemn.

"What happened?" Tracy noticed that her expression was not right and asked quickly.

"The diary is gone," Adele said quickly. "Let's search the room again, just in case."

Adele didn't stay in the storage room for a long time. How much preparation did the hidden murderers make during this time?
Just thinking about it made Adele feel a little overwhelmed.

“Is this ship a ghost ship?”

The first thing that came to Adele's mind was this legend that had been circulating on the sea for a long time. As far as Adele knew, Mr. "The Hanged Man"'s "Blue Avenger" was a ghost ship built in the Tudor era.

If this was a ghost ship and the perpetrators were ghost sailors, then it all made sense.

However, if this ship is a ghost ship, then Constantine, as a mentor of the dead, cannot have no reaction. After all, being able to see and command the dead is his sequence characteristic.

Although he is not as good as the "spirit witch" of the Night Path in driving this pure spirit, it is impossible for Constantine not to see that this is a ghost ship, and he will definitely remind Adele and others of this in advance.

In addition, it is also possible for mid-sequence Extraordinary people to hide on the ship. What Britton could do, others could do as well. Through the careful cooperation between multiple Extraordinary people, it is not difficult to create a perfect murder.

Adele glanced at Tracy and realized that her guess was similar to hers. She relaxed a little and motioned for her to look for the notes carefully with her.

Adele flicked out the claw on the back of her hidden blade and used it to roughly pry open several locked cabinets in the captain's room.

According to common sense, she would not put the notes in a place where she herself did not know how to open them, but the current situation obviously did not conform to common sense.

Different parts of the "Survivor's Hidden Blade" have different side effects. The side effect of using the grappling hook is that random mistakes may occur when climbing buildings. Compared with the sword blade that will make people sink as soon as they enter the water and the crossbow arrows that consume luck, this side effect is relatively acceptable.

Due to the ingenious mechanism of the hidden blade, as long as the used part is ejected, the side effects will begin to accumulate. However, except for the blade, other parts take time to deploy. In the current passive environment, it is difficult to change the form leisurely when engaging the enemy.

The hook on the hidden blade was quite easy to use, and Adele pried open the cabinet without much effort, and was surprised to find that there was almost nothing inside.

There were no clothes of the captain, no hidden private money, and no fine wine collected by the captain. In the dusty cupboard lay a piece of paper, face up, with the words on it as red as blood.

On the curled-edge white paper, there were three bloody five-pointed stars drawn, and below them was a brief Intis text written in the same unknown liquid:

"On the first night, three stars rose."

"What does this mean...a star represents a person?"

Tracy guessed that although Adele was reluctant to accept it, this explanation obviously made sense.

"So, there are two more bodies we haven't found yet?"

Tracy's face was gloomy. "Do you want to mobilize the sailors to look for it together?"

"No, let them stay in their rooms."

Adele grabbed a handful of hair in frustration. "Take the paper, let's go back and tell Wendy and the others, and then we'll patrol the entire ship and make sure to find the remaining two people."

"And then, what are you going to do after you find it?"

Tracy stood up and asked casually.

"It's unclear at this time, but something has to be done. I might abandon ship if necessary."

Adele made a decisive decision. After all, it was a matter concerning the lives of everyone on the ship, and she could not afford to be indecisive.

When there were no obvious signs before, Adele had already doubted the safety of the ship, but due to the lack of direct evidence, she was unable to stop her men who had not yet been completely subdued.

Now that three people may have died, it is enough to make those sailors whose minds have become a little confused by returning to their old jobs reweigh the pros and cons.

Although this may sound stupid, once there are many people, there will be many different ideas and disagreements, which will make it difficult for decisions to be executed on time. Even if Adele was an instigator, she cannot influence everyone's ideas immediately like mind control, and requires a certain opportunity to guide.

And now, Wagner's death is the opportunity...

Adele couldn't tell whether she was depressed or relieved. At least now she had a reason to order the sailors to abandon ship.

……

Soon, Adele and Tracy greeted Wendy and the others and began to check the cabins one by one.

Of course, Adele did not forget to light a black flame inside the door as a signal before entering, and informed the sailors inside that something unusual had happened on the ship, asking them to take turns to keep watch and gather on the deck early tomorrow morning.

The assassins were also very sensitive to death and blood, and operating in the dark did not reduce their efficiency.

They soon found the navigator's body in the beer storage cabin. Compared with Wagner's death, his death was much more bizarre.

Before Adele and Tracy found his body with a purple face and wrinkled skin, he was burying his head in a barrel full of beer, and the floor was covered with stains of beer left by his struggle.

"The phantom scales on his body haven't disappeared yet..." Adele said to Tracy after a careful inspection.

The blue-green phantom scales on the body are one of the characteristics of the Sailor Path. Different from the dragon scales of the Audience Path, the scales of the Extraordinary of the Sailor Path are more like fish scales.

"An assassin was stabbed to death, a sailor was drowned in a wine barrel... What does the other party mean by this? Is it a provocation?"

Adele suppressed her anger and said in a deep voice.

"Those who were killed were all alone..."

Tracy didn't answer, but muttered to herself, as if she had discovered something.

"If the attacker is a member of this ship, does that mean that he is not confident in his own strength and cannot deal with multiple crew members at the same time?"

“I don’t think that’s realistic.”

Adele looked back at the body lying on the kitchen floor. They had already left and were ready to continue searching for the third victim who had 'turned into a star'.

"Whether it's Wagner or the stoker, they are both Extraordinary. Their combat power should not be weaker than the combination of any two or three ordinary sailors. Even if we start with the weaker ones, there is no reason to leave the weaker ones alone and pick on the Extraordinary ones."

Adele frowned. "This is most likely an extraordinary event, an extraordinary event based on a certain rule. And the condition of 'not being attacked' is most likely that you cannot be alone."

"If only it was like this..."

Tracy sighed, and the two continued their search, searching every remaining room on the ship, but they still couldn't find the third missing person.

"That's strange, could the words on that piece of paper have another meaning?" Adele was puzzled.

At this time, she and Tracy had already arrived on the deck. Because Adele's emergency notice was too hasty, the sailors did not have time to clean up the banquet scene, resulting in a mess on the deck. There were empty bottles and fish bones thrown aside by the sailors in the corner.

At this time, the sky was covered with dark clouds. The crimson moonlight had been obscured by the dark clouds when the two were searching in the cabin. Only a few storm lanterns were left on the deck of the ship. They were extremely eye-catching on the dark sea, echoing the "Yukikaze" not far away.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew away the clouds, and the scarlet blood-red moonlight shone directly down, illuminating the deck. The empty wine barrels rolled back and forth, making a rolling sound, and then fell into the sea with a splash.

Adele looked up subconsciously and found that above the observation deck, a figure with bulging eyes was hanging in the middle of the wrist-thick sail ropes. The knotted tung oil sail ropes were wrapped around his neck twice, strangling him in the air, forming a natural gallows.

"…It seems that this is the third one."

Tracy opened her mouth, swallowed back what she was about to say, and just repeated the facts in front of her in a daze.

"We have to find a way to get him down."

Adele quickly made up her mind, "I'll go up, you keep looking at me from below... No, you should go up."

The gap between the sail ropes is not big, and the observation deck is also very narrow, so two people cannot go up and operate together.

"That's right. My sequence is higher, so any problems that arise will be easier to solve."

Tracy didn't care about such things. As a pirate general, she had seen more bizarre scenes than the current one. She didn't bother with Adele over the possible dangers. In other words, she believed in her heart that she had a higher sequence and should do more dangerous things, which was in line with her status.

Adele nodded and watched as Tracy released white silk threads to pull her body upwards.

She suddenly changed her mind, certainly not because she wanted Tracy to take the blame, but rather, her purpose was exactly the opposite.

Because just now, Adele suddenly realized something:

During the divination process, I once tried to divine my own safety. I used the divination sentence "It is safe to stay on this sailboat" and got a positive answer.

Although Mr. Fool's citrine pendant cannot predict events that have nothing to do with him, when it comes to the safety of the holder, the prediction results of the citrine pendulum have never been wrong.

Adele recalled the existences she had seen in the old ruins that needed to be restricted by vision. If her guess was correct, the pattern of abnormal appearance on this ship was most likely related to "vision".

If this is true, then the people who are in danger are not the ones who climb up to the observation tower, but the ones who are watching below - at least, the people up there are absolutely safe until the people below are killed.

Now, I have no choice but to believe that Mr. Fool’s divination will not deceive me...

Adele took a deep breath and secretly wove a layer of stab-proof silk armor inside her clothes on the back with silk thread. At the same time, she concentrated her mind. Although her eyes were still fixed on Tracy who was rising, her attention was focused on her blind spot.

Tracy's figure rose rapidly, and the silk threads around her body quickly hooked the sail ropes and mast, pulling her to the highest point of the sailboat.

Then, she swiftly clasped and opened her hands, pulled out a small knife made of ice, cut the sail rope wrapped around the lookout's neck, and then slowly lowered the miserable dead body from the air with a thin line.

And during this depressing time, Adele was relieved to find that there was nothing unusual around her.

But why am I special?
Before Adele could figure out the problem, Tracy had landed in front of her with the corpse.

"I took a quick look at it. There were no other external injuries. He must have been strangled to death by the sail rope."

Tracy pointed at the body on the ground. She noticed Adele's expression and asked quickly, "From your expression, do you have any idea?"

"It's not a clue, just a guess."

Adele didn't look at the body, but turned to Tracy: "Although you are good at magic mirror divination, I still want to ask, do you know pendulum divination?"

"Understood."

Tracy answered briefly.

Regardless of whether this was Tracy's self-deprecating words, at least as a pirate general and a witch known for her high inspiration, her divination skills must be much better than those of the enthusiasts in the general divination club. And the test that Adele wanted to do was only at the level of a divination enthusiast.

"That's great, take this and try it."

Adele unwrapped the pendulum from her wrist and placed it in Tracy's hand.

"This is a magical item that can increase the success rate of divination. Use it to perform a pendulum divination, and choose the divination statement 'If I continue to stay on the boat, my life will be in danger.'"

Of course Adele would not tell Tracy everything, so she simply introduced the purpose of the topaz pendulum without telling Tracy its origin, and Tracy would naturally not be so tactless as to ask.

Tracy took the topaz pendant but did not start fortune-telling immediately. Instead, she lifted the topaz pendulum tied with a silver chain and brought it close to her face, as if she wanted to see it more clearly in the moonlight.

"What's wrong? Any questions?" Adele asked.

Tracy was stunned for a moment, and replied with a forced smile: "No...it's just that, maybe it's my illusion, this pendulum looks very familiar to me..."

"Do you know its original owner?" Adele was a little surprised. Could it be that Tracy and Mr. Fool were related in some way?

"...No, I must have made a mistake."

Tracy looked at Adele and felt a little funny about herself for being like a frightened bird.

Adele seems like an honest person, she shouldn't have anything to do with that annoying lunatic...

Thinking of this, Tracy picked up the pendulum, silently recited the divination sentence seven times as Adele said, and then opened her eyes.

The pendulum is rotating clockwise, with a small amplitude and slow speed.

(End of this chapter)