There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game

The time spent drifting at sea wasn't long. It was right after Xu Shuo had put away the Alpha Character Card, while pondering which card to play next, that the entire Illusory Realm suddenly dissipated. Then, the duo's team list also vanished. When they opened their eyes, they found themselves inside a tent stationed by the river, and the dark matter that had been enveloping the humanoid object in the center of the tent had disappeared too. It wasn't a monster. It was just an ordinary fisherman who had died a rather gruesome death from having his belly carved open by accident while out at sea. "Did we successfully extract the script?" Xu Shuo reacted and asked. "Huh?" Luo Kai looked even more bewildered than him, still holding a card in his hand. The card had a green lace border, featuring an image of a book standing askew, with a cover depicting a shabby little boat buffeted by wind and rain, underneath which the script's title "Ship from the Nautical Legend" was written in cursive. Luo Kai put the card away and, scratching his head, said, "I thought we had to deal with that giant monster under the ship for it to be over, but as soon as Xu was rescued by the people on the shore, the script was fully extracted." Xu Shuo was silent. —Because the monster died rather early, after all. He asked nonchalantly out of curiosity, "What happened on Xu's end of the story?" Luo Kai replied, "Not much plot there, she followed the guidance of the Water Compass all the way north and was discovered by a ship in the coastal waters and then got rescued." "So... the story of this script didn't need to wait until Daping Hao sailed into the river to end?" Xu Shuo mused. "Oh oh, I almost forgot!" Luo Kai continued, "After Xu was rescued by the passing ship and before she went ashore, she threw the compass into the sea, and then my side was considered a hundred percent extracted. Could it be related to this thing?" You should know, their original purpose for coming here was not only to deal with something suspected to be eroded by the Abyss but also to investigate the "Ghost Ship incident" on the Entering the Sea River in the Xinnan District. Even though it turned out to be a script in the end. But there was another question, why would Daping Hao appear on the Entering the Sea River, drifting precisely from such a distant place? It seemed to be a possibility... Xu Shuo silently gazed at the corpse lying on the ground, then stepped forward and crouched down beside the body for a closer look. "Did you find anything?" Seeing this, Luo Kai also leaned in to observe. "Did you bring anything?" Xu Shuo suddenly asked him. "What do you mean?" "Just search." Xu Shuo pointed at the corpse. Luo Kai: "..." After a silent exchange of glances for a while, Luo Kai finally realized what he meant—the reluctance to dirty his hands by touching the corpse. He pursed his lips, took a pair of white gloves from his backpack, and put them on. Then, Luo Kai began to search the body, starting with the outer coat. When he reached a pocket in the pants, he paused for a moment, then pulled out a blood-stained cellphone. The scene fell silent once more. But obviously, this cellphone was unlikely to be a crucial clue. Luo Kai put the phone aside, but after he had finished searching the person's clothing, he hadn't found anything else of use. Xu Shuo watched from beside, his examining gaze resting on the corpse's chest for a moment. "Inside," he directed. "..." Luo Kai gave him a wordless glance. Then he raised his hand and pressed it on the corpse's somewhat deflated belly, where a hole had been made, and began to probe around. Suddenly, his finger paused over his chest. Luo Kai squinted his eyes slightly, reached into the bloody hole in his stomach with his left hand, and after groping around with a squelching sound for a while, he pulled out a rusty iron plate smeared with blood. The diameter of the plate was about ten centimeters, and the characters and lines etched on it had already become indistinct. Even the compass needle in the center had vanished. "It's that Compass," Luo Kai said. "Could this be the reason they were attacked?" Xu Shuo raised an eyebrow, referring to the modern ship. "It must be this, after all, it was found inside his stomach, and his cause of death is also quite strange up to now." "Take it out to show those fishermen." ... The police officers standing guard outside the tent looked straight ahead, faintly hearing the conversation of two people inside. Then, they saw one of them come out holding a Compass, his hands covered in fresh blood. "Take me to those two fishermen," Luo Kai ordered bluntly. The officers here had already received related orders and naturally complied, taking the two men to another tent. The two surviving fishermen were held in isolation, as it was unknown whether they had any 'source of infection' that might affect others, so they were treated not much differently from the fisherman shrouded in darkness. The 'source of infection' was the official explanation for things originating from the Abyss; whenever similar incidents occurred across the country, they were locked down as a kind of contagion and dealt with accordingly. Though this also caused panic on a small scale, it was at least more manageable than an "unknown thing." Unknown and unsolvable is the most terrifying. For the world's officials at present, the Abyss represented such an unknown and unsolvable fear, for which they had no means to cope. Therefore, the existence of the Abyss could not possibly be made public. The two fishermen had been reassured that the infectious disease was highly treatable, so their emotions were relatively stable for now, at least not causing any outbursts. Of course, faced with numerous gun barrels, they probably couldn't have made much of a fuss anyways. "Have you seen this thing?" After entering, Luo Kai displayed the Compass to the two men. The "cold expression + hands full of blood" intimidated the two fishermen, who just stared dumbfounded at him until Luo Kai repeated the question. Finally, one of them came to his senses. One of the fishermen looked at it a few times before exclaiming in surprise, "Isn't this the junk that Jie hauled up? He thought it had a sense of age and pulled it aboard, planning to take it back as a collectible souvenir." Luo Kai frowned, "How long after hauling it up did your fishing boat have the incident?" "How long... I don't quite remember, probably about ten minutes or so?" "What ten minutes? It was clearly right after he stored it away that we saw the Ghost Ship!" the other fisherman suddenly interjected. "What are you talking about? Didn't we haul in another net of fish after he pulled it up? That would've taken at least ten minutes!" "You're the one who remembered wrong!" "You're the one who's mistaken!" The two fishermen immediately began to argue. The one claiming they saw the ship very quickly turned red-faced, glancing occasionally in Luo Kai's direction, his fear almost too hard to contain. The officer beside them looked at Luo Kai, and seeing that the commanding presence had no intention of stopping the quarrel, they did not separate the arguing fishermen. At that moment, Xu Shuo suddenly said, "Did you see that ship much earlier?" He was looking at the fisherman who was eagerly arguing. As the words fell, the fisherman's face stiffened, and his eyes flickered, "I don't know... I haven't seen anything, I don't know anything..." "If you don't tell the truth, you'll die right away." "I saw it!" the fisherman immediately admitted. ... ...