Live Action Murder Mystery

"Yes, I don't know."

The second senior brother opened his mouth when he said this, as if he hesitated to speak.

Yang Ye caught this detail and hurriedly asked, "Is there anything else you want to add?"

The second senior brother paused for a while, and only said, "No...it's gone. It's just...the corpse you photographed, can you give me another look?"

"Okay." Yang Ye took off the camera hanging around his neck, and transferred the photo to the second senior brother.

The second senior brother stared at the photo for a long time, frowning more and more tightly, but finally relaxed again.

"Okay." The second senior brother returned the camera to Yang Ye. "Then I'll look elsewhere."

"Is there something wrong with this photo?" Yang Ye half-closed his long and narrow eyes, and looked at the second senior brother with a slightly elegant look.

—— After reading the photos, you didn't say anything, and you planned to leave like this?

The second senior brother hesitated for a moment, and said, "Look, the dot on the top of the word '狗' and the cut on the bottom of the word '生' seem too deep? Is it different from the depth of other strokes?"

Yang Ye was very sensitive, and immediately asked back: "You mean, the knife mark was caused by two people?"

——Now ruled out, only you and the elder brother could have been stabbed, and now you are implying to me that both of you have been stabbed?

"I'm a student of painting, so I may know a little bit more about the structure of the human body than you. The deep point on the top of the word 'animal' is exactly where the lungs are, and the horizontal line at the bottom of the word 'sheng' is the abdominal artery. These two The wounds in his body may be the real cause of his death. I will say so much now, and the rest will be discussed later.”

The second senior brother wanted to leave after saying this.

Yang Ye called him again. "Wait, let me ask you one last thing."

"Well, tell me." The second senior brother said.

Yang Ye said, "Is there a 'Little Junior Brother' in your story?"

The second senior brother recalled it for a while and said, "Yes. He is related to this case? I just mentioned it in the plot. If you don't ask, I didn't notice him."

Yang Ye asked, "How did you write it in your script?"

The second senior brother probably couldn't remember this insignificant character to him, so he took out the card from his arms to check it, and then replied: "There is only one sentence above. It said that after the senior brother and I came a Junior brother, but he died within two years. I don't have much impression of him. We don't know each other well."

Yang Ye asked: "Is the senior brother familiar with him?"

The second senior brother shook his head: "I don't know. I came to the Xiaoyao faction as an undercover agent, and I have never planned to have a heart-to-heart relationship with anyone. According to the script, the senior brother has a deep personality. We live together, but we don’t know each other very well.”

After being questioned by Yang Ye, the second senior brother finished a bowl of porridge and left the kitchen to investigate elsewhere.

When the others left, Yang Ye and Gu Liang who stayed behind became more and more puzzled.

Gu Liang tapped the table with his index finger. "For a full 75 minutes, the two senior brothers acted separately. They both had time to commit crimes. I can't see anything about the little junior brother for the time being. But regarding the knife mark, what the second senior brother said was very strange."

Yang Ye asked, "What kind of strange method do you think?"

Gu Liangdao: "Why did he tell us that there were two kinds of knife marks on the deceased? Only he and the elder brother could stab the knife. He admitted indirectly that he had stabbed the knife. But he refused to directly explain the ins and outs of the matter. Be clear. Why?"

Yang Ye figured out some meaning. "So, how do you analyze the logic of his behavior?"

Gu Liang frowned, and said slowly: "He seems... not sure if he is the real murderer. For example, is it possible that he carved that word. He is actually not sure whether the act of carving the word himself killed the murderer. But he is afraid that if he admits, he will be directly identified as the murderer. So he threw this question to you just now, and listen to your analysis first. Maybe, after listening to your analysis, he will consider whether to take it or not. To tell you the truth."

"You mean, he's testing me to see if I'm a dog-headed detective?"

"Maybe."

Yang Ye smiled: "If this is the case, then it means that he first carved words on the counterfeit. But he failed to kill him. After him, the elder brother also went to the scene of the crime and found the counterfeit He didn't die, and he made two more cuts along the handwriting of his engraving."

Gu Liang nodded: "Yes."

Yang Ye's pupils narrowed. "But it's also possible that it's the other way around. Or, he made both kinds of knife marks. He made it to pour dirty water on senior brother and lead us to think in the direction of senior brother's repairing knife. He dare not say It was too direct to avoid revealing his scheming. He asked a question, let us follow the thinking he guided, and he would be much safer."

Gu Liang let out a breath. "Yes. What you said is also a possibility. Therefore, it is still impossible to determine who the murderer is. In the final analysis, there is a lack of key evidence."

Yang Ye picked up the bowl and was about to take a sip of porridge when he suddenly thought of something and stopped his movements, forming a posture of holding the bowl and about to drink but didn't drink.

Gu Liang looked at him for a while, and found that he had remained in this posture for a while: "What are you thinking?"

Yang Ye looked at him and said, "It's still the same sentence. Back to the title itself. This script is called "Painted Skin·Longevity". Let's take the title apart and see that 'Longevity' refers to Wang Bulao's immortality, but longevity Not old, what does it have to do with the story? Next, what does painted skin mean? Is it a human skin mask?"

Gu Liangdao: "Since there are counterfeit people acting as Wang Bulao, it is indeed possible that there are human skin masks."

Yang Ye immediately put the bowl on the table, took out his cards and began to study the map. "The problem is that we haven't found any clues related to human skin or painted skin. It shouldn't be. The Xiaoyao Sect is so big, as a martial arts sect or something... Will there be a secret room for hiding martial arts secrets?"

After hearing Yang Ye's words, Gu Liang sat up straight.

Yang Ye asked him, "What did you think of?"

"A rockery. There is a problem with the route of the rockery."

Gu Liang answered affirmatively: "When I was looking for you last night, I followed a road on the map, and when I reached a place, I suddenly found that it was a dead end, and then I went around it. But there is clearly a line on the map. ...there may be a secret passage there."

"Understood. Let's go."

Yang Ye put down the bowl, pulled up Gu Liang's sleeve and ran away.

At this moment, Gu Liang had no time to stop him, so he had to be dragged all the way to the rockery.

Next to the rockery is a garden and a small artificial lake.

At this time, the eldest brother and Doctor Yu happened to be by the lake.

When Doctor Yu saw the two of them, he was a little surprised, a little pleasantly surprised, and a little proud. "Do you also think there is a secret passage here? But you came later than us. We thought of it before you!"

"You are amazing." Yang Ye praised her perfunctorily, and immediately asked, "Did you find anything?"

"There is a road here on the map, but it doesn't exist in the actual location. The road is blocked by a rockery. This is what I found out with the big brother just now, here——"

Doctor Yu raised his hand and pointed, "The door is there. But we haven't found the mechanism yet, so we don't know how to open it."

Gu Liang walked all the way to the stone wall and confirmed that he came here last night.He caressed the stone wall with his palm, and tapped again with his fingers. "Open the door? Let me look for it."

After saying this, Gu Liang first checked the raised stones around the stone wall, and pressed them next to each other, but there was no response from the stone wall.

Lowering his head, he saw some weeds in front of the stone wall, Gu Liang squatted down and pushed the grass away to look.

Doctor Yu said: "We have checked everything there, and there is no mechanism. So we thought, there are so many stones by the lake, is there any problem with one of them. Hey, is there something like Five Elements and Eight Diagrams? Do you understand this? ?”

Gu Liang searched around the stone wall, but found nothing, so he had no choice but to go to the lake to check the stones.

After a while, he had already run around the small artificial lake several times, and there was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead again.

Yang Ye stood aside and stared at Gu Liang.

The blush on his face became heavier, like rouge, and like peach blossoms in March.

At this time, he stopped for a while to take a breath, and looked up at the sky.

At this time, the light of the sky shone into his brown eyes. He was tall and tall, forming a landscape with the ink-like landscape painting behind him.

Although the atmosphere at this moment should be tense, because they need to race against time to solve the case.

Looking at Gu Liang like this, Yang Ye's impetuous heart can always be strangely quiet.

As if sensing Yang Ye's gaze, Gu Liang turned his head and met his gaze. "Detective dog head, why are you just standing there? Don't you want to find an agency?"

"Hey, let me tell you—" Yang Ye walked to the stone wall of the rockery and asked, "Have you tried it...just push it?"

After saying this, Yang Ye raised his hand to stick to the stone wall in front of him, pushed hard, and after a muffled sound, the door opened inward.

Gu Liang: "..."

Doctor Yu: "..."

Senior Brother: "..."

After the door opened, a long corridor appeared inside, and a faint light shone from the deepest part of the corridor.

Yang Ye turned his head and blinked at Gu Liang, his eyes were very smug, and he seemed a little unworthy of beating.

This person always seems to find a simpler and more effective way.

And my own thinking tends to complicate things.

Gu Liang was not particularly reconciled, but he had to admit it.

At the moment, he had no choice but to suppress the urge to beat Yang Ye up, and walked into the corridor first.

"Be careful, who knows if there are any ghosts and ghosts inside." Yang Ye continued to step forward to grab the sleeve of the man.

"This script is for people to solve the case, and it's not a big adventure." Gu Liang raised his arms early this time to stop Yang Ye's childish behavior, and walked straight along the corridor.

Yang Ye caught an empty hand, angrily withdrew his hand, and had no choice but to follow.

Doctor Yu and the elder brother looked at each other, and followed in one after the other.

The four of them walked all the way inside, and soon came to the innermost cave.

The cave was lit with ever-burning lamps, giving it plenty of light.

There is an old man on the left side of the cave, it should be an NPC.He was carving something on a stone platform, and there was a wooden barrel next to it, which contained something like flesh-colored batter.

As for the thing on the wall on the right side of the cave, it was enough to shock the four people present.

——The dark stone wall stands majestically, and there are rows and rows of neat grooves on it. In each groove, there is a piece of dough.

There are skins all over the wall, but each face looks different.

Gu Liang carefully looked at these faces.He didn't know most of them, they should be the disciples of Xiaoyao Sect.Each of their names is inscribed on the grooves below the skin.

Slowly looking at the center of the stone wall, Gu Liang was surprised to find that the faces of the characters in the script were also on it - those of Youyi Meiren, Master Hui, Senior Brother, and Doctor Yu.

But only two people were missing.

There are two empty grooves for placing the dough, and the two names engraved below are "Second Senior Brother" and "Wang Bulao".