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Chapter 100 The cruise ship under complete control
Before trying this stupid method, he planned to explore the structure of the entire cruise ship first.

Zhou Ze took out a small notebook and a signature pen from the bedroom, first drew a side cross-section of the hull, and drew the hull and deck layers according to the rough outline seen in the opening scene.

From the introduction and appearance, this cruise ship is for passenger sightseeing, and does not have many fancy entertainment facilities... However, it still has all the basic facilities such as theaters, restaurants, movie theaters, pool decks, bars, and chess and card rooms.

There are a total of five decks above the deck, and the number of cabins below the deck is uncertain.

In order to better familiarize yourself with the environment of the entire cruise ship, it is inevitable to pass through most of the monitored areas during the game.

'Thousand Faces' would be exposed at a glance under the surveillance...so he simply took off his mask, and wandered around the cruise ship with his original appearance, so that it would not be easy for people to find his abnormality.

There are thousands of passengers on the cruise ship, and most of them are Asians. Who can find out if he got in?
As for whether someone will find out through surveillance in the future that he is the mysterious knight?

Zhou Ze wasn't worried at all.

The save file he showed his face was only used for exploring and detecting enemies, and he would definitely not choose to upload it. After he figured out the structure of the entire cruise ship and the location of the enemies, at worst, he would put on a mask and start over again.

Manipulate characters aimlessly around the cruise ship.

Since the game screens and NPCs are actually real people, this process is actually not boring, but has a sense of being on the scene and hanging out on a luxurious cruise ship.

How real?
It may be that his appearance in the dark dress and top hat is too unique, or that the personal charm added by wearing the title of 'Guiding Light' is so great, there are several good-looking ladies who talk to him along the way.

Lucky MAX!

Ahem, it's a pity that he has such a heavy responsibility to save the world, and he has no way to communicate with these young ladies in depth, so he can only press every option [Gently refuse to leave quickly].

All the way down from the top deck.

He clearly remembered that the blood mist spread from bottom to top.

Nine times out of ten the problem is the location of the cabins below decks.

Above the cruise deck is usually the guest activity area, such as guest rooms, restaurants, shops, theaters and other entertainment facilities.The cabin below the deck is the employee activity area, such as dormitories, restaurants, warehouses, machine rooms, etc...

The cultist was able to start the blood sacrifice not long after his identity was revealed. This speed of obtaining information that controls the overall situation has probably controlled the monitoring room at the bottom of the cabin.

Rather than struggling to find suspicious persons among nearly two thousand tourists, it is better to start from the bottom cabin.

"Let me see if I have any cards in my hand that I can use."

Zhou Ze manipulated the protagonist to walk all the way to the bottom deck, while skillfully opening the storage bar.

There were not many items available in the storage bar, so he quickly fixed his gaze on the essence of the Yang Array.

"In the future, I really took out the essence of the Yang Formation from the Sumeru Secret Realm in advance. Well, this is also inevitable. To do big things, I must turn out all the cards... Let me see, I really brought the Sumeru Stone gone."

It wasn't in the storage column, but he saw the shadow of the 'Meru Stone' in the column of belongings. This black stone with its own small world inside was lying in his jacket pocket.

It also gave him another option.

If it is really impossible to prevent the occurrence of cult sacrifices, he can also consider transferring thousands of passengers on the entire cruise ship into a secret place for shelter. Of course, this is by no means the best choice, and it is only considered as a guarantee that is not a solution.

As for whether it can directly load the entire cruise ship?He guessed that it was impossible. The entrance and exit of the Sumeru Stone needed to use contact as a medium to wrap itself, and then it could trigger the entrance of the Sumeru Secret Realm.

Living things are fine, as long as they touch the Sumeru Stone, they can be sucked in.

Items that want to enter the Xumi secret realm must be carried by people, or the entire object must be wrapped by spiritual power to trigger the entrance of the secret realm.

This giant steel beast weighed tens of thousands of tons...Anyway, Zhou Ze asked himself if there was anyone who could wrap it with durable spiritual power.

Take the Sun Array Essence from your storage slot.

At the beginning, Zhou Ze expected that the essence of the Yang Formation would be able to respond to the Blood Sacrifice Formation or cultists like it did in detecting demons.

But soon he was disappointed. Not only did the essence of the sun array in his hand not move at all, but even the pure sun power inside seemed to be suppressed as extremely weak... After all, it is too close to the area where Cthulhu sleeps , the evil aura overwhelmingly prevented the essence of the Yang Array from taking effect.

Continue to go all the way to the bottom of the cruise ship.

Zhou Ze occasionally used his 'Abyss Gaze' to stare at a few staff members or tourists who seemed to be acting suspiciously, but the information he got was all normal ordinary people, and none of them were awakened people or cultists.

When he was about to reach the lower deck, he was stopped by the staff.

The staff member said to him in a respectful tone: "Sir, the following is the work area. Visitors are not allowed to enter without special circumstances. Please forgive me."

The game pops up with three options.

【①I'm looking for a friend (trying to get away with it)】

【②I'm looking for a friend (hand him a hundred dollar bill)】

【②Oh, forget it (leave)】

[③Get out of the way! (forced breakthrough)]

If you think about it with your toes, you know that forcing a breakthrough is not enough, otherwise the hidden cultists will be aware that the situation is not good, and they will fall into the endless loop of the opponent directly launching the 'blood sacrifice formation'?
Zhou Ze first tried to choose option ①.

"I'm looking for a friend," he said.

The staff member smiled and said, "Who are you looking for? I can convey it to you."

"I'm looking for a friend"

This time he chose to hand over the banknotes.

The staff member frowned: "Sir, what do you mean? If you don't leave, I will have to hire security personnel."

what's the situation?Could it be that one hundred dollar bills are too few?
Zhou Ze blinked his eyes in puzzlement, buddy, you are not guarding any secret area, are you worthy of being so conscientious and making trouble with money?

Seeing that the staff member's eyes were becoming increasingly unfriendly and he reached for the pager on his waist, Zhou Ze could only walk away. It seemed that this guy was determined not to let him go.

He is about to give up this road and find other passages or use 'Thousand Faces' to disguise himself as an employee to sneak in.

before leaving.

He accidentally cast 'Abyss Gaze' on the man in his thirties.

[Cui Yongzhe: An old servant of the human race, with a height of 172cm and a weight of 129 catties, in a state of recessive madness. 】

[Basic combat power totals 94 points. He has a knife hidden in his trouser pocket and has the tendency to hide attacks. 】

[Weakness: The mental resistance is weak, and there is a high probability of losing the will to fight when using the spirit. 】

Servant of old?Heretics!

Zhou Ze's expression flashed, he finally found his first cultist!
No wonder I gave this guy money and refused to let him go. I thought it was a stick of love and dedication, but I didn't expect the answer to be unexpectedly subtle... It is indeed love and dedication, but love is just like a normal person Not the same.

The basic combat power is close to [-]%, most likely because he has mastered some special ability, and his physical fitness is probably enough to defeat most ordinary people who do not have hot weapons in their hands.

Of course, in Zhou Ze's eyes, this is still a weak chicken.

Having such a powerful cultist guarding the bottom of the cabin is enough to prove that his guess is correct, and the gang of cultists who believe in Cthulhu are very likely to occupy most of the jobs on this cruise ship.

This also makes sense.

This large-scale blood sacrifice was obviously not a temporary initiative, but an action that took a lot of time to plan.

Combined with the rumors that Cthulhu was sealed in the South Pacific, it is normal for these cruise staff who have been drifting at sea all year round to be more likely to be spiritually polluted by Cthulhu. Maybe many cultists themselves are the crew of this ship.

"The worst expectation is that the number of cultists is more than a hundred, and they control most of the key positions on the ship."

Zhou Ze paused the game and analyzed calmly: "The opponent has taken advantage of the right time, place, and people. The game is indeed very difficult."

Time of day: The cult priests can trigger the blood sacrifice formation at any time, and two hours later it will be their chosen time for the sacrifice.

Location: The cultists among the crew must be far more familiar with the ship than he, a newcomer, not to mention they probably occupy most of the important positions.

Renhe: Needless to say?The whole ship does not know how many of their men are lurking.

It is difficult to break out from this absolute disadvantage where the enemy controls the overall situation!It's hard!Very difficult!
If you want to win, you have to reverse the situation step by step.

In terms of people and this, he, a lone ranger who is used to going alone, can't think of a move for the time being. Besides, the passengers on the ship are all ordinary people.

But he did have some good ideas in the other two areas.

The first is the location.

The most important strategic location must be the monitoring room that looks at the overall situation.

Such a medium-sized cruise ship does not know how many monitoring rooms there are... If you want to start cleaning up the cultists, you must first destroy the opponent's eyes and ears, otherwise how can you fight if the enemy is in the dark and your position is exposed at a glance?
Next is the weather.

More important than solving the monitoring is to find the cult priest and destroy the blood sacrifice formation.

As long as the cult priests can be resolved in advance or the blood sacrifice formation can be destroyed, it means that the blood sacrifice will be successfully destroyed and Cthulhu's recovery will be delayed.

Of course, considering that other cultists may also have the ability to trigger the blood sacrificial array, the safest goal is to destroy the blood sacrificial array, and the second is to deal with the cult sacrifices and cultists.

The first thing to do is to check the situation below the cabin.

He had an intuition that not only the blood sacrifice formation was set up at the bottom of the cabin, but also the cult sacrifices might be there.

Zhou Ze manipulated the game characters to find other areas leading to the bottom of the cabin on Nuoda's cruise ship.

But after wandering around for several times, he found that every necessary passage was strictly guarded by cultists. Most of these people were around [-]% combat strength. This made Zhou Ze wonder whether the bottom of the cabin had been fully occupied by cultists. Already?
(End of this chapter)