Live Action Murder Mystery

The players stood in the flower bed and looked at each other when they heard the system announcement.

The sun was shining brightly at noon, and under the sun, everyone looked a little anxious.

After a while, the broadcast continued: "It's 7:24 p.m. on July 1th. Please listen to the specific game rules for the first stage of the script "Blood Tarot"."

"The game no longer distinguishes the time for centralized discussion and free exploration. Players can discuss and decide on their own according to the actual situation."

"Today at 5:[-] p.m., the first round of voting will be held. All players need to take out their cards to vote on time, and there is no need to enter the centralized discussion room. In other words, the first stage of voting does not restrict the voting place."

"Because the Magic High School is located on a hill, the only bridge leading to the city was damaged. Workers are rushing to repair it, but the police cannot arrive in a short time."

"Therefore, the murderer elected by everyone will be detained in Room 201 on the second floor of the teaching building, and will be apprehended and disposed of after the police arrive."

"But please note that if the murderer is still in custody and a murder occurs the next day, the suspect value of the murderer will drop and he will be released."

"If the real culprit is wrong, of course a new vote will be required. Therefore, tomorrow, at 7:25 pm on July 5th, there will be a second round of voting."

"To sum up, the voting on the real culprit in the first stage is different from the past. The real culprit will not be taken away directly by the system, but will be temporarily detained in the classroom. Please try to find the real culprit. If you don't find the real culprit , The murder is still going on, which means that you have caught the wrong person. Of course, this method can actually help you send out a wrong option."

"Hee hee, everyone may die because of the wrong vote. So, in order to survive, please try to find the murderer!"

"Remind again, starting today, every afternoon at 5 o'clock is the voting time. If you miss the voting time, it will be regarded as abstention."

"If the real culprit can't be found, the first stage of the game will last for many days. Guess when... all this will end?"

"Among the 14 characters in this script, the head teacher [Teacher Yang] is a returnee hired by the principal with a high salary. He has never been to this city before, and he does not know any students in Magic University. Teacher Yang is responsible for leading the students in Class [-] to sprint for the Olympiad. , as long as a student wins the prize, he can get a rich bonus."

"To sum up, in the first stage of the script, the suspicion of Mr. Yang killing the students is very small. Therefore, the key to classroom 201 where the suspect is detained will be kept by Mr. Yang. Mr. Yang, please keep this key close to you."

"Now, the game begins, I wish you all a happy game!"

After the sound of the broadcast fell, someone among the crowd asked, "Who was the last to see the deceased Zhao Xuexue?"

Hearing this, Gu Liang said, "I met him at 12:10 noon. I share a dormitory with him, and we live in 102. After lunch, I went back to the dormitory to say hello to him, and he left."

Li Xiaoyu immediately said: "I saw him in front of the dormitory building at 12:15. He was walking outside, probably in the direction of the flower bed."

After Gu Liang and Li Xiaoyu finished speaking, no one admitted to seeing him for the time being.

Yang Ye looked at the expressions of the players, stepped forward and said: "According to the meaning of the system broadcast, I can be regarded as a hidden detective in the first stage. This time the game rules are quite special, and the players who are cast will not accept it directly." death penalty'."

"Then correspondingly, if the cast is wrong, the detective will not be punished. Therefore, even though the system does not expressly state it, my character can basically take on the duties of a detective."

"We only have 4 hours to solve the case. Time is tight. Anyway, the teaching building is very close. I think we can go back to the classroom first and talk about our respective timelines."

"For the time being, we can temporarily set the death time of the deceased between 12:15 noon and 12:55 noon when Aunt Guan found him. Let's focus on the timeline during the noon period later."

"After briefly talking about the timeline, let's search for evidence. First search for an hour. After an hour, we will meet in the classroom and have a brief discussion before deciding on the direction of the next reasoning. What do you think?"

The players had no objection to this, and all went towards the classroom.

This time, there were not only students sitting in the classroom, but Aunt Guan who managed the dormitory, Cleaning Ma who cleaned up the dormitory, Principal Li, Director Xiang, and the cafeteria Gao were also sitting in the classroom.

In the corridor before entering the classroom, Gu Liang tugged on Yang Ye's sleeve.

So Yang Ye deliberately slowed down, and asked Gu Liang in a low voice: "What's wrong?"

Gu Liang stopped, pulled Yang Ye to the side of the corridor, and whispered: "Except for the timeline during noon, I will ask them about the timeline of last night later. After listening to everyone's speech, I will Tell me what's on my mind."

Yang Ye nodded, and then entered the classroom one after another with Gu Liang.

Gu Liang sat back in his seat.

Yang Ye was still standing on the podium, but this time he was not a teacher, but a detective.

After the players spoke in turn, Yang Ye also recorded everything on the blackboard with chalk.

Yang Ye first asked about the timelines of the students.

From 11:12 am to 11:[-] am, everyone's timeline is basically the same - after class at [-]:[-] am, everyone leaves the classroom to go to the cafeteria to eat, and the time to leave the cafeteria after eating is slightly different.

The timeline after leaving the cafeteria after lunch, according to the classification of dormitories, 102 lived in the class leader Gu and the deceased Zhao Mathematics.

Squad leader Gu returned to the dormitory at 12 o'clock after eating, and then slept until 12:50 when he woke up, tidied up, and when he was about to go to class, he was told that someone had died.

The two boys living in 101 are Qian Huahua and Gu Fuban.

Qian Huahua said that he has been sleeping in the dormitory. Last night, he was worried about the mock test results and stayed awake. Today he found that the results were not bad, so he was able to sleep well all afternoon.

Deputy Gu said that he didn't go back to the dormitory at noon, but returned to the classroom directly, because his mock test results were not satisfactory, and he was reflecting on the wrong questions, and reflected on the whole noon.

There are two girls living in 103, Li Yingying and Meng Yuwen.

Li Yingying is Li Xiaoyu, and she returned to the dormitory at about 12 o'clock. She rested for a while, washed her face, and went out to the library. On the way to the library, at 12:15, she met The deceased Zhao Mathematics.

Meng Yuwen said that he has been resting in the dormitory.She didn't sleep well last night, so she had to make up for it at noon.

There are still two girls living in 104, Zhu Physics and Wu Biology.

These two people were both sleeping in the dormitory, but according to their accounts, they slept very soundly and were woken up by the voice of the aunt.During this period, if someone goes out to kill someone and comes back after killing someone, they may not know it at all.

In this way, each student has no real alibi.

In other words, everyone has a chance to start.

After asking the students, Yang Ye asked Aunt Guan again. "Have you been in the hall of the dormitory building at noon today? Have you seen the students coming in and out?"

Aunt Guan replied: "It's basically the same as what they said. After everyone went back to the room... I saw Zhao Mathematics and Li Yingying coming out. Therefore, if the real murderer killed someone, he either didn't go back to the dormitory and claimed that he stayed in the classroom all the time." Reflecting on the Gu deputy class who made a wrong question. Either—”

"Either they jump out of the window and come back through the window. Everyone lives on the first floor, and the height of the building is not an obstacle."

After Aunt Guan finished speaking, Yang Ye took advantage of the situation and asked Ma Qingjie, who was in charge of the sanitation of the dormitory building.

Ma Cleanliness said she had been taking a break at noon.Her rest room is next to the No. 104 dormitory where the girls live.

However, Ma Cleanliness mentioned a rather crucial piece of information.

She said: "I didn't go to eat until 12 o'clock. The cafeteria must first ensure that the staff and students eat. After they finish eating, cleaners like us can go to eat."

"When I came back to rest after eating, it was already 12:[-]."

"There are a lot of cleaning tools in my rest room. Aren't the dead man's hands tied behind his back? I think the rope that tied him looked like it was in my room. I can go back and make sure later."

"Therefore, the real murderer should have been to my room first before killing someone."

Yang Ye asked her: "Where do you keep the key to your house? Anyone can enter?"

Ma Qingjie said: "My key is hidden under the fire hydrant."

After asking the two staff members related to the dormitory building, Yang Ye asked Gao Canteen.

The timeline of Gao’s cafeteria is very simple. He cooks and serves meals for everyone, and after everyone finishes eating, he washes the dishes and cleans up the cafeteria.

He was busy all afternoon.

Finally, Principal Li and Director Xiang held a swearing-in meeting for the students in the morning, and went to the cafeteria for dinner at noon.After dinner, the two of them went back to the principal's office together and discussed business matters all afternoon.

Therefore, after temporarily confirming the timeline at noon, Yang Ye asked everyone: "Can you briefly talk about what everyone did after class yesterday?"

It took almost 30 minutes for the players to quickly finish the timeline. Including the time spent on the flower beds and the road, it is now 1:50, and it is only about 5 hours before the 3:[-] pm vote. .

The players left the teaching building and immediately took action.

Some went to check the corpses carefully first, while others went to the dormitories of various students to check.

Before everyone dispersed, Director Xiang handed Yang Ye the key to 201 upstairs. "This key was with me before, and it will be kept by you later."

After leaving the classroom, Gu Liang and Yang Ye went to the flower bed first, intending to check the corpse carefully before exploring.

However, the two walked very slowly, deliberately lagging behind others, so that the discussion between the two of them would not be heard.

On the way, Gu Liang said: "There are bloody Tarot cards beside the corpse, which has a lot in common with the information I got from the library last night. There were five similar cases last year, and there were Tarot cards beside the deceased. There are really two possibilities for this."

"First, the murderer who killed those five people back then is also the murderer who killed Zhao Xuexue today. He is continuing last year's story and continuing his serial killing plan."

"The second possibility is that the murderer who killed Zhao Xuexue was not the murderer who killed those five people back then. This was a copycat crime."

"Let's talk about the first possibility first."

"I can't see the relationship between the two classes of students for the time being. In fact, in my personal story, there are no memories or clues related to the previous class of students. Suppose the other students in our class are the same as me. Then, the actual The students in our class have no intention of killing the students from the previous class."

"So in this case, those two faculty members are the most likely. They killed the students of the Olympiad class last year, and they are still doing so this year."

"But there is only one murderer, and there is currently no information clue of a joint case. The principal and the director have been together at noon today. So the two of them can be ruled out."

"In this way, the first possibility that the real murderer of last year and this year is the same person is temporarily ruled out."

"Therefore, this year's Tarot crime ... is likely to be a copycat crime."

Yang Ye nodded: "Understood. That's why you asked me to ask them about the timeline of last night."

"Yes." Gu Liang said, "Let's talk about the other ordinary employees first, Gao Canteen who cooks, Aunt Guan who manages the dormitory, and Ma Qingjie who is in charge of cleaning... I don't see any murderous intentions for the three of them for the time being. Find other clues from their room. So—"

Gu Liang concluded: "The real culprit who killed Zhao Mathematics, I tend to think it is one of the students in our class. As for the murder, it has something to do with the Mathematical Olympiad. After all, the Mathematical Olympiad is the only one in the story of all of us now." important thing."

Pausing for a moment, Gu Liang took out his notebook and looked at it, and continued: "Actually, after listening to the timeline just now, I can basically rule out the Gu deputy class. He read the wrong questions in the classroom all afternoon and never went back to the dormitory. Then In fact, the possibility of him committing the crime is very small."

"The rope on the deceased's body was very thick, but everyone's backpacks were actually very small. The heavy textbooks were placed on fixed seats in the classroom. I don't think that the real murderer came to class with the rope on his back in the morning. Even if he There is a rope in the schoolbag, and the rope must be full of the schoolbag, so when he opens the schoolbag, it is easy to be seen by his deskmate and the like."

"So the matter of stealing the rope can basically happen at noon, that is, a moment before the real murderer kills."

"So the real culprit will definitely rush back to the dormitory at noon."

"In this case, the real murderer first returned to the dormitory, and then killed people by jumping out of the window, and then came back through the window, creating an illusion that he had never gone out after returning to the dormitory."

"And this illusion has to be witnessed by Aunt Guan who has been staying at the registration desk in the lobby."

"But Vice Ban Gu said directly that he never went back to the dormitory. So, from his point of view, he has no point in creating this illusion."

"There is absolutely no need for him to sneak back to the dormitory from the window to steal the rope, and then leave through the window to create the illusion that he has never returned to the dormitory. Because he has never returned to the dormitory, it means that he has a chance to kill."

Yang Ye nodded: "Agreed. So now we can exclude the principal, director, cleaning, aunt, and cafeteria as suspects for the time being. Among the 8 students, you exclude, and the deceased himself does not look like Li Xiaoyu. Gu deputy class, so there are only 4 people left who are the most suspected."

Gu Liang frowned: "Let's talk about imitating crimes. The premise of being able to imitate crimes is because I saw the five cases last year, so I just asked you to ask them about the timeline of last night. I want to know, except for me Besides, who else might have gone to the library and read last year's paper."

Yang Ye recalled it, and concluded: "Yesterday, after class at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Meng Yuwen was the first library to go to. She said that she felt that she didn't do well in the exam, so she wanted to go to the reference book. Followed by the Gu deputy class. , He went there at 6 o'clock. Finally, Zhu Physics. You went to the library from 8:9 to 10:[-]. Zhu Physics went to the library at [-] o'clock in the evening."

"The rest of the people haven't been there. They have other timelines. For example, Qian Huahua went to see Director Xiang last night."

Gu Liang: "The person who has been to the library is very suspicious. But there is also a possibility that the real culprit concealed the information. He guessed the reason why we asked about the timeline last night. So he also lied about it. Having said that, The time to investigate this time is too tight—”

Hearing Gu Liang's tone getting more serious, Yang Ye couldn't help but stop and look sideways at Gu Liang.

Gu Liang's expression was extremely serious, his lips were tightly pursed, and his forehead was also wrinkled extremely tightly.

Looking at his body again, both shoulders are tense, forming a stiff line.

——He seemed to be a little too nervous.

Seeing this, Yang Ye immediately took Gu Liang's hand, held it tightly, stretched out the other hand, pressed the center of Gu Liang's eyebrows, rubbed it a few times, and said in a relieved voice: "Liang Liang, don't be too nervous. Already. Relax."

Gu Liang exhaled lightly, and the wrinkles between his brows loosened a little.

"Well, I know, you said... If you are too nervous, you can easily fall into misunderstandings. I just—"

Before he finished speaking, Gu Liang frowned again.

In the end, he still looked into Yang Ye's eyes, and said what was in his heart: "This time you must survive to the end. If you are the real murderer, I must let you win, so that you can get all the gold coins. If you're a good man, I'll let you win too. You're one gold coin short. You have to win the gold coin, and then...then you can go home."

"Yang Ye, you promise me that no matter what, you have to win, okay?"

Yang Ye's eyes sank, and he didn't agree to Gu Liang immediately.

He always had some concerns in his heart.

Gu Liang continued to look into his eyes, and held his hand back.

The sun was not too hot this afternoon, and Gu Liang's voice seemed very soft.

He stepped forward a few steps, put his head on Yang Ye's shoulder, and put his lips close to Yang Ye's ear.

"Yang Ye, you know a little about the situation in my family. I'll tell you more about it now."

"My mortgage has not been paid off. If I am lying in the hospital and in a vegetative state, I will definitely need high medical expenses every day. Of course I have savings. In that case, the company may still give me out of humanitarianism. One month’s basic salary. But it’s hard to say later.”

"If the doctor said that the day when I wake up is uncertain, I will definitely not have a salary to pay the mortgage later. After all, the company is not a philanthropist. The house I bought is in a good location, and I need to repay 1 yuan a month. My monthly salary It’s about 2 after tax, and the deposit is not much after paying the down payment and decoration, and it’s only about 5.”

"If the bank knows about my situation and finds that I don't have enough savings to cover the outstanding mortgage, they will sell my property."

"What I am worried about now is my father. My house was bought early, and the market value is now estimated at 900 million. My mother left part of the down payment for my house. It was originally a house we looked at together, but My mother passed away prematurely. And my mother’s part of the money came from selling the old house. Part of the old house’s funds were paid by my father a long time ago.”

"He has been coveting the new house that my mother and I bought, saying that the value of the house has increased so much, but he has his share of the original funds. We should give him part of the money and treat it as his investment income. For this matter, he has asked Has passed me many times. Think about it, now that I am unconscious, what will he do?"

"When I bought this house, the market price was more than 300 million. Now if the bank sells it, it can be sold for 900 million. I have unpaid loans and interest payables, which add up to more than 200 million. Then there will be nearly 700 million more."

"It stands to reason that this part of the money is enough for my medical expenses. But my father must have thought of some crooked ways to get this part of the money. After that, he will not leave the money to me for my continued treatment."

"So... you have to go back as soon as possible. In this way, you can live. You help me keep an eye on my father, and help me pay the medical bills if necessary. I can live."

At this time, Yang Ye was basically unable to refute Gu Liang.

No matter how reluctant Gu Liang is in the game, he is worried that if he is not by his side, he will encounter danger in the game... But rationally, Yang Ye can only think that before worrying about his safety in the game, he must go back to Gu Liang. Reality helps him.

After all, ensuring that Gu Liang in reality is alive is the prerequisite for him to wake up and live well in reality.

During the course of the treatment, if something went wrong with his body, that would be the end of the game.

After a while, Gu Liang held Yang Ye's hand tighter. "Yang Ye, promise me, deal with this game well. You need to win gold coins."

Yang Ye finally stretched out his arms and hugged Gu Liang tightly into his arms.

His voice was deep and hoarse, but he finally said that sentence. "Okay. I see. I promise you."

Gu Liang closed his eyes, finally relieved.

But there was one thing that he had never told Yang Ye.

——That is the "Wang Chuan Shui" mentioned by Wang Kaikai in the script of "Dry Bones".

Those who leave the game will drink the water of Wangchuan.

That way, when they wake up, they won't remember the system and the game, and of course they won't remember the people here and what they've experienced.

Gu Liang knew that if Yang Ye forgot himself, he would not be able to help him.

Gu Liang explained his situation in such detail, of course, just to persuade Yang Ye to go back, not to really expect him to go back to help him keep an eye on his father, or help him pay for medical expenses when necessary.

Of course Gu Liang didn't want Yang Ye to forget himself.

But he wanted Yang Ye to live well.

This was actually the real reason why he must have wanted to stay with Yang Ye last night and hug him to sleep.

Every night spent in this script may be the last night that two people can be together.