Red Moon Returns

"First of all, we need to find out how the other party stole the things." Lin Qi knocked on the box and said thoughtfully, "You just said that this evil god's power includes teleportation?"

"Yes, but I have been holding the box and never left my body. If someone uses the ability on the box, it is equivalent to using it on me. They must go through a confrontation with me first, and I cannot be unaware of it."

"I see, but it did happen. Did you really never leave? Not even for a moment?"

"Huh? Please don't question my loyalty to the goddess?"

Rick Knight's expression became serious:

"I swear by my loyalty to the Lord, I will never lie to shirk responsibility. I followed the escort procedures throughout the entire process and never loosened the goods."

"You misunderstood, Mr. Knight, I didn't suspect you were lying. In fact, I have only been a soul shifter for five days, and I don't have a deep understanding of the knowledge in the mysterious world, so I can't say anything about it. I just Analyze it according to normal logic," Lynch said, looking at the big ship at the dock. "My investigation method is to pick out all the unreasonable details, then find out the reasons one by one, and finally string all the reasons together to form a case. The final answer. For example, I am thinking about the attack just now."

Rick Knight frowned and looked at Lynch with questioning eyes.

"The possibility of two groups of people targeting this ship at the same time is not too high. Theoretically, the attack just now and the theft of the goods are probably the same incident, but if they plan to steal the items quietly, there is no need to make a fuss. There was such a big movement, and dozens of seabirds and three finless porpoises were dispatched. The explosives alone were not cheap. Even a crazy cultist would not be willing to do anything when faced with the real rand pound problem. So this is why. Attacks should not exist unless..."

"Unless it's essential?"

Rick Knight looked at Lynch with surprised eyes, and after realizing the other person's few words, he straightened out his thoughts.

"Yes, this is my judgment. Then the next step is to re-organize the experience just now and see where there is a problem. But unfortunately, I don't know anything about attacks, water thefts or escorts. I'm afraid there is nothing I can do. Help you find the key to the problem, what did you think of...?"

Lynch noticed that Rick's face suddenly turned livid and his breathing became rapid.

"I betrayed the goddess's trust. I did loosen the transport box."

Rick clenched his fists and lowered his head, his voice trembling and low:

"When I hid the ship, because it was transporting sacred memories, the level of mystery was too high. If I integrated with the sacred memories, my ability would be interfered with by the sacred memories and would not be effective at all. So I just I was able to let go of the box, cut off the connection with the sacred memory, and hide everything with the ship in a roundabout way. During this period, the cargo was always at my feet, but, in these few seconds, I did let go of the cargo.”

It seemed that he was right. Lynch and the Archbishop looked at each other and nodded to each other.

"You should have found the answer to the first question. The other party investigated you and learned about your abilities, so they forced you to use your abilities through several fire attacks and took the opportunity to steal the goods. Then the next question is, how did the other party catch you? These few seconds of opportunity..."

"No, not a few seconds." Rick Knight said with certainty, "Once my ability takes effect, they will no longer be able to find the target, so they want to take action only during the period from when I put down the box to when the ability takes effect."

"about how long?"

Knight Rick thought for a moment, then suddenly picked up the empty box, knelt down on one knee, put the box down, and then slapped his palms on the ground.

"That's it, less than a second."

"You just said that if the other party teleports you while you are controlling the goods, it will definitely cause a reaction. Therefore, the other party's time must be very accurate. It is impossible to make any action in advance, otherwise you will find out, right." Rick Knight confirmed, and Lynch pursed his lips, recalling the knowledge he learned when taking the first subject in his hometown, "There is a limit to how human vision reflects consciousness and then reacts. In less than one second, the reaction limit has been exceeded. , even if you are watching closely, it is impossible to react. I don’t know, can this kind of accuracy be achieved with the ability of prophecy?”

"Impossible. Maybe someone can increase the accuracy of prediction to 100%, but it is impossible to be accurate to the second, because there are too many interfering factors involved in the specific time, and it is impossible to have accurate results. Even the oracle cannot It can only be specific to the hour.”

Lin Qi frowned, held his chin and thought: "If prediction is impossible, is there any other way to measure the time so accurately? Accurate to the second..."

"No, there is another way." Rick suddenly widened his eyes and almost shouted, "After the ability takes effect, the target does not exist from the outside world, but the ship is an exception. For the people on the ship, except that the surroundings become a little Everything is normal outside of illusion, and the goal is always there.”

"I see. Although a few seconds is still very short, it is much longer than less than one second. And the other party knows exactly when it starts and when it ends, so you don't have to worry about being discovered by you in advance." Lynch pointed He tapped his palms and squinted his eyes, "So when the incident happened, at least one person on the ship was a mole, but it's also possible that he was teleported up temporarily."

Rick hesitated for a moment with a sullen face, then shook his head and said, "I would rather believe that someone teleported here."

"Um?"

"The escorts are all senior priests, and the sailors involved in the transportation are all devout believers. Their faith has been tested and it is impossible for them to be false." Rick explained, "Besides, during the time when the accident happened, the sailors were on the deck preparing to dock. You should have seen it. They couldn't have time to do anything else. I... is not right."

Rick seemed to remember something, his expression suddenly changed, and he called the officer who gave orders when docking and asked a few questions in a low voice. The officer's expression also became nervous, and he immediately pointed a few sailors, and a group of people ran towards the long bridge.

Lin Qi knew something was wrong, and when he saw Archbishop Trinlais signaled him to take people here to guard the goods, he followed him with confidence.

"Did you find anything? Sir Knight." Lynch ran all the way and barely kept up with the pace of these sailors and Rick.

"Not everyone is on the deck." Rick ran back to the deck along the gangplank, saying without looking back, "Two people are still in the infirmary."

"Huh?"

"Two sailors had diarrhea for unknown reasons last night, and finally fainted. The captain placed them in the infirmary to rest, and prepared to ask the priests of the Hall of Suffering to help diagnose them later, so they did not participate in the battle just now. If there were people on the ship who were secretly sabotaging, it could only be these two, especially during the battle just now, no one had time to pay attention to their behavior."

The group quickly got into the stairs under the deck, and the door of the infirmary was at the entrance of the stairs. The officer kicked the hatch open, and then everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The two patients had already sat up and were looking at the intruders in surprise.

"You two..."

Just as the officer was about to walk over, his arms were grabbed by Lynch and Rick at the same time. The next moment, the heads of the two sailors suddenly exploded like water melons, and blood gushed out like a fountain in the infirmary.