"Crash!"
After widening the hole in the wall enough for one person to pass through, Lin Yu led Li Nian inside.
It was an airtight room that seemed like a secret chamber. There were no lights, only the eerie glow from numerous monitor screens.
The monitors showed various parts of the cruise ship. There was also a control console covered in buttons on the table, with a pair of headphones beside it.
Li Nian was somewhat curious. "Is this the security room? Wait, no, that's not right. Why do these monitors even show the various VIP suites?"
"Why would they make the security room so well hidden?"
Lin Yu looked at Li Nian, slowly approached the monitoring station, picked up the headphones, and studied the screens. Seeing the flashing "180s" in the lower-right corner, he remarked casually,
"I don't know. Maybe it's just some kind of secret security..."
As he spoke, Lin Yu seemed to sit down in the chair casually. The next moment...
He swiftly and skillfully shut off every button on the control console, and the images on the monitors went dark one by one.
Li Nian was caught off guard by Lin Yu's sudden change in pace. "Huh? What's going on?"
"Let's go! We only have three minutes!"
"You'll understand what's happening once you listen to this!"
Lin Yu tossed the headphones to Li Nian. She caught them with a bewildered look, but still ran after Lin Yu.
The entire ship was terrifyingly quiet, yet Li Nian sensed an invisible tension.
A crackling sound came through the headphones.
"We can see that after they left the last room, they began discussing how to respond at the end of the corridor..."
A voice came through the headphones intermittently. Li Nian's expression shifted slightly as she realized something as