On the way to the bulletin board, the outline of that "X" in Lin Sanjiu’s mind beca clearer and clearer.
Commanding the personal twelveities, collaborating with Gong Daoyi, targeting the Munitions Factory, and for so reason, wanting to kill her... There was clearly a trace of a will behind all of this.
Lin Sanjiu needed to find out the mastermind behind this will.
For now, she would call him "X" like in detective novels—of course, using "him" was just for convenience, as X might not necessarily be male.
Although she couldn’t fully trust Twelve, X was most likely not Twelve. Part of Twelve’s antisocial personality indeed seed charming and charismatic, capable of deceiving and misleading unsuspecting individuals. However, the other eleven personalities knew him inside out. If Twelve wanted to do what X did, he would need to have overwhelmingly superior power—which didn’t seem likely based on his constant constraints and manipulation.
He and the Chicky brothers seed to be coerced by X as well, which explained his unusually cooperative and docile attitude.
However, let’s set aside how X knew that Bohemia would bring the Chicky brothers onto the spaceship. What was his purpose for Exodus?
As she pondered, Lin Sanjiu absentmindedly arrived at a dark tal door. Sensing her footsteps, it silently slides open.
"We’ve arrived at the bulletin board," said the man with the dark face, who looked like soone perpetually owed money. He only managed to squeeze out a few words each ti.
"What should I call you?" Lin Sanjiu asked.
"Octo," the man with the dark face replied, promptly closing his mouth.
There are people like that in the world, as if saying one more word would result in a beating.
As Lin Sanjiu stepped inside, before she could clearly see where she was entering, a cheerful voice rang out in front of her.
"May we divide your attention!"
Along with it, a burst of light and shadow suddenly appeared. Lin Sanjiu, accustod to battles, nearly jumped back in reflex. However, she quickly realized it was an advertisent.
The advertisent projected in the air, flickering and displaying changing images, showcasing the services provided by the "Settlers of Ocean Voyager" that were "just like those on the ground." Then, like a bubble in the water, it disappeared.
It disappeared, and Lin Sanjiu was imdiately engulfed by a torrent of dazzling light: countless texts and images composed of pale blue rays surged towards her in layers. Each "slice" represented a ssage, rapidly scrolling past her eyes, beside her, and at her fingertips, too fast to be easily discernible.
Caught in the whirlpool of information, Lin Sanjiu was montarily unsure of what to do. She glanced back at the man with the dark face, who had lowered his eyelids and pursed his lips.
"Is it your first ti here?"
A voice called out from behind the layers of shimring pale blue light, sounding like a lifeline to her. "Grab one with your hand and swipe it gently!"
Grab it with her hand?
Lin Sanjiu tentatively reached out her hand towards one of the "slices" of information—each ssage neatly arranged within a rectangle, as if written on an invisible transparent board, just wide enough to be grasped by her fingertips. As her fingers touched the ssage, it imdiately beca docile, like a tad animal, staying motionless in her hand.
She gently squeezed it and swiped to the left.
Like this?
When she lifted her head again, the rolling waves of pale blue text had indeed slowed down. Words, images, numbers, and symbols leisurely swam past her like fish, and now everything could be seen clearly.
After the speed slowed down, the pale blue light also beca sparse and faint. Through each ssage, Lin Sanjiu greeted a person not far away. "Thank you!"
"You’re welco! You’re more polite than the woman I encountered last ti," the posthuman surrounded by the sa blue light responded from a distance. He casually complained, "There are quite a few who have turned into savages since the apocalypse, but this is the Twelve Worlds!"
Just by listening, it was clear that he was a resident of the Twelve Worlds.
Lin Sanjiu smiled at him and looked around after he walked away. The pale blue ssages floated and drifted like threads in this empty room. At first glance, it seed as if she was in the midst of flashing, network-like veins. Only when near a person, the luminous threads would suddenly intensify.
She looked up and casually grabbed a ssage that was passing by from above, pulling it closer to examine. "A powerful old-fashioned gentleman seeking a future partner." Lin Sanjiu imdiately let go of it, but it didn’t leave. It continued to float in front of her. She thought for a mont, reached out and gave it a push. Unexpectedly, the pale blue light faded and disappeared quickly.
"That ssage won’t appear again in the future," the man with the dark face suddenly spoke, for so reason, there was a hint of appreciation in his eyes as he looked at Lin Sanjiu. "What are you looking for?"
"I want to learn more about this ship... Lyanna ntioned that there are many types of information here."
"Here," Octo grabbed a ssage and tapped on the bottom right corner of the pale blue screen. Imdiately, the words "Ocean Voyager Ship Service" appeared. When she opened it, she could see information such as the map, passenger capacity, destination distance, landing precautions, and crew list. Lin Sanjiu thanked him and said with a smile, "Feel free to explore around, I’ll stay here and take a look, not going far."
Octo nodded and hesitated for a few seconds before slowly walking to a side not far from her and pulled up a few ssages.
The Ocean Voyager ship was divided into three levels: upper, middle, and lower. The upper level was for residential activities, the middle level housed so machinery rooms, control rooms, entrances and exits, and a small spacecraft docking port. The bottom level contained the engine and anti-gravity device areas. Lin Sanjiu carefully studied the map and found that the Night Wanderers had sealed off the two lower levels. Except for the temporary opening of the middle level during boarding and disembarking, passengers were not allowed near those areas at other tis.
While pondering whether Luther or X might be on the lower levels, she opened the "How to Publish ssages" section.
Speaking of which, she actually got this idea from Puppeteer. Like the "Peppy Lil Sesa," she needed to craft a carefully constructed lie... a lie that would lure out one of the twelve personalities from their hiding spot. She didn’t know what Luther looked like now, and she didn’t know X. The only one who could be the target, perhaps hiding here, was Twelve.
She looked up and glanced in the direction where the "powerful old-fashioned gentleman" had disappeared, slowly forming an idea.
After she published the ssage, she casually opened the crew list and browsed through the faces—one by one. Considering the size of the Ocean Voyager ship, the crew mbers were relatively few, and soon she found Octo’s face on the fourth page.
Just as she was about to turn to the fifth page, Lin Sanjiu paused.
She looked up at the man with the dark face not far away, who was engrossed in reading so ssage. She quickly flipped back to the fourth page and carefully examined the profile of the dark-faced man again.
Next to the sa face, the na was written as "Stan Smith."
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