This means that everyone must stay in their rooms and wait for the monster to finish hunting new people. Only after the sun sets the next day can they come out of their rooms.

Seeing this, Josh didn’t insist any further. He just scattered spider silk around himself and sat cross-legged on the bed to meditate and train.

In the middle of the night, screams pierced the silence again.

This time, the sound was relatively far from Josh; it was a woman’s voice.

It should be that a female player from another team was killed.

She held her breath and listened, and sure enough, she heard that peculiar sound again—strange and sticky, as if something was crawling on the ground, or like many legs were moving along the wall.

By the next day, as the sun slowly set, the room’s restriction was lifted.

Josh came out of his room and joined the main group at the entrance of the victim’s room.

Yuze and the others appeared closely behind.

Inside the room, the girl’s death resembled the man’s from the previous night exactly: her organs had been meticulously removed, a trail of blood extended from under her, halting abruptly at the wall’s edge.

Recalling the footsteps from last night, Josh frowned slightly.

Perhaps they shouldn’t use common logic to imagine this creature.

So many sea creatures are exotic, with hardly any species having a normal appearance.

Moreover, the diversity underwater means there are many species they might never have seen before.

Trying to deduce the unknown killer using known biological forms would make it terribly hard to identify that thing.

Josh’s eyes lit up; they were all trapped in their fixed mindset!

Why must they venture out personally to find the killer?

In this era, with such advanced technology, what can’t be solved with technology?

Doesn’t their team have a high-tech genius?

*

"Do you mean to have me install surveillance here?"

Yuze glanced at the items in her hand.

Josh nodded with a smile: "Yes! You’re quite skilled; installing some surveillance shouldn’t be a problem for you, right?"

She exchanged for a complete set of computers, cables, surveillance cameras, and so on from Pinduoduo.

As long as there’s electricity, everything will be fine.

And luckily, this sea area has electricity.

These are not problems.

Yuze took the items from her hand: "Installing this isn’t difficult, but it’s uncertain if it will work." 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Rob looked at her, puzzled: "Why go to all that trouble? Can’t your spider silk serve as surveillance?"

Josh shrugged: "I tried last night. It didn’t work; after a certain time, the spider silk gets scorched when extended out and can’t be used."

Yuze took the items from her hand: "Alright then, where do you want it installed?"

Josh thought for a moment; she wasn’t sure of this monster’s route, but the only thing she could know was it’s between the yacht and the egg base.

If it travels back and forth between these two places, installing surveillance along this path and near the egg base should suffice.

Yuze glanced at the equipment in her hand before installing it.

Luckily, the underwater base also uses electrical wiring; otherwise, this thing might not be useful.

They can’t possibly build a power station just for installing surveillance, right?

Josh thought for a while and exchanged some powder from Pinduoduo.

With Yuze and Rob’s keen sense of smell, they sprinkled this powder along the path. If luck had it, and the thing got some on it, finding the location might be easier.

After finishing these tasks, the few of them stopped.

They only had to wait until night for everything to be revealed.

Josh returned to her room and saw a card on the table blown down by the wind.

She picked up the card, a peculiar light flashing in her eyes.

This card and that sound before, they don’t seem to fit the style of the Mermaid King.

But whoever it is, the thing behind the scenes wants to lure them to this beach, which means there is something valuable on this beach worth bringing them here.

As night fell, the sound indeed reappeared.

Josh focused intently on her computer screen.

The screen was divided into different zones, each displaying different footage.

The corridor outside the yacht’s room, the open space around the egg base, the entrance to the egg base, the vast area between the yacht and the egg base—almost everything was under surveillance.

Josh vigilantly watched the screen.

Just now, nothing appeared in the open space between the base and the yacht, yet a sound emerged inside the yacht.

She couldn’t help but frown slightly, intently watching the footage of the hallway.

Soon enough, something indeed appeared in the corridor.

A tentacle swiftly passing by, full of eyes and numerous appendages.

To describe it more vividly, the creature resembled a centipede with a worm’s head, covered in feet and dotted with myriad tiny eyes.

Moreover, this thing moved with astonishing speed, capable of clinging to various walls, even hanging in the air.

No wonder the bloodstains from previous victims kept disappearing at the wall corners.

The sound in the corridor was a plopping one, caused by the monster’s sticky tentacles pressing against the walls.

A scream rang out.

Another player had died.

While pondering, Josh suddenly saw all the camera screens get filled with the monster’s eyes.

She instinctively recoiled, feeling as though she was staring directly into the monster’s eyes, the hair on her back standing up.

The monster kept approaching the camera.

Josh quickly relaxed; she was using this surveillance because it was inherently inanimate, devoid of any spiritual power.

Even if the monster noticed something unusual, she wasn’t afraid.

It was, after all, just a combination of plastic casings, cables, chips, and lenses.

Sure enough, the monster suddenly opened its mouth and bit off one of the cameras, causing a section of the computer screen to go black.

The monster must have found this newly appeared thing suspicious and bit one off just in case.

After chewing and swallowing, the monster probably realized these objects weren’t anything peculiar, not posing a threat, then turned and left.

Josh stared at the screen.

The monster seemed to vanish into thin air, retreating from the yacht, but the cameras outside the yacht didn’t capture any footage of the monster’s departure.

There was only one possibility—that the monster wasn’t traveling along the ground.

So cautious?

Even with every player locked in their room, unable to go outside, it still doesn’t appear on ground level?

If that’s the case, then it’s very likely accessing through the underground pipeline.

Josh carefully scrutinized the footage, finding nothing.

It was very likely the monster had already gone back.

She pulled up the previous footage from the computer, diligently watching the scenes outside the yacht.

Soon, a small detail caught her attention.

In one corner of the yacht, seaweed was slightly swaying. Three seconds after this movement, the monster appeared in the yacht’s corridor.

And three seconds after the monster vanished from the screen, the seaweed swayed slightly again.

That area should be the yacht’s drainage outlet.

Josh squinted her eyes, immediately standing up to pull open the bathroom door.

If it really is the drainage...

She looked at the spider silk in her hand, gritted her teeth, and probed it inside.

The spider silk extended downwards along the drainage.

Josh breathed a sigh of relief; the drainage was much cleaner than she had expected, very clean indeed.