Live Action Murder Mystery

The system broadcast continued: "Don't worry, players, the fire in the camp will be extinguished by the NPC. After the fire is extinguished, the player has 2 hours of free exploration time. Friendly reminder, for the safety of the players, all cave entrances have been closed and no entry is allowed. .”

"After the exploration, the discussion time will be 5 hours. Since the camp has been burned, we will not set up a separate discussion room this time. Players are invited to discuss in an open-air environment, and the NPC will send drinking water and energy bars."

"At 12:15 midnight, the "Fifth Man" case-solving session is completely over, and everyone will usher in a 561-day rest period. Since the script site has been burned and is in a state of repair, for the sake of the health of the players, this place will not be used as a rest place. The clothesman led everyone to the public rest area XX[-] to rest and adjust."

"Okay, please continue to work hard to solve the case! I wish you all a happy game!"

After 30 minutes, the fire was extinguished by several men in black.

I don't know if the system has adopted any special method, but the air is quite fresh, and there is no burnt smell after the fire.

Gu Liang and Professor Wang walked side by side into the almost burnt camp, and as far as they could see, there was only a piece of scorched earth—their tents and all kinds of equipment were all scorched.

In addition, the three bodies were all burned to nothing, and all the materials they had found before, such as student ID cards and diaries, were all gone.

Gu Liang remembered the notification from the system just now - the inside of the cave is no longer accessible.

This means that players can no longer go back there to check for missing evidence.

As a result, the situation seemed a little hopeless - before they even figured out the plot of the script, all the evidence, together with the corpse, was completely destroyed.

At this moment, Dr. Xu knocked his head and was a little dizzy, so he sat on the open space 50 meters away from the burned camp to rest, and did not enter the camp to investigate.

And all kinds of burnt things in the camp are still very hot, and Professor Wang and Gu Liang haven't been able to do an in-depth investigation for the time being.

After a brief look, they went to Dr. Xu's side for a short rest.

After sitting down on the snow, Professor Wang looked hopeless and sighed again and again. "The belongings of the three corpses, schoolbags, student ID cards, diaries... and the corpses themselves, have all been turned into carbon... all have been burned to black charcoal, what a fart!"

Dr. Xu seemed to have not recovered, and he didn't have the strength to speak. He just hugged his knees and sat on the snow with a serious face.

Gu Liang also looked down at the snow in front of him, seemingly lost in thought.

So for a while, no one paid attention to Professor Wang, and he was even more irritable. "The system also pretended to let me investigate for two hours, and the whole thing was burned. Let's investigate the fart. What is there to investigate in a pile of black charcoal?"

"Caves are not allowed to enter, and other places...there is no way to bury things in the snow. Although the place surrounded by thick fog is not too big, but it is only two hours, and I can't cover the mountain. Turn over all the snow! What kind of endless plot interpretation!"

A gust of wind blew, Professor Wang shivered, looked left and right, and finally focused on Gu Liang.

Seeing that Gu Liang seemed to be in a daze, Professor Wang waved his hand in front of him, and said, "Now I find that you are quite prescient. I am sleepy and hungry now... We have to stay here for 7 hours, and we have to stay up late. It would be fine if I slept like you in the afternoon."

Gu Liang still didn't speak.

After a while, Dr. Xu slowed down a bit.

She sat up, glanced at the pitch-black, charred camp from a distance, and frowned visibly. "All the evidence was burned?"

"No." Professor Wang said.

Doctor Xu frowned even tighter. "We have 2 hours of investigation time. But there seems to be nothing to investigate. We still have 5 hours of discussion time. But what are we discussing? I don't even know the situation. Who is the dead? Who is the murderer? Detective Who is it again? This... this script is too strange."

Indeed, the lack of information may be the difficulty of this script.

After Gu Liang came to this game, he experienced not many scripts, only three.

In those three scripts, it is nothing more than to investigate the murderous intent and timeline of each character, and then solve the case by restoring the plot.

Among them, the setting of "Immortal City" is very complicated at first glance, but as long as you pay attention to details and verify each character's timeline, it is not difficult to find the murderer.

In any case, during the investigation stage, Gu Liang was able to know the truth.

This script is different.

This was the first time that the site for free exploration was directly placed in front of Gu Liang, but Gu Liang didn't know where to start.

Not only that, he hasn't even figured out the plot of the script yet.

Regarding this game, Gu Liang is good at restoring the plot, clarifying the relationship between the characters, and solving the case based on the behavioral logic of the characters.

But this time the system gave too little plot information and character clues.

It can be said that he really has no clue at all.

Story no.The deceased is unknown.The evidence was all burned.

What do you rely on to solve the case?Pure imagination?

At this moment, Professor Wang thought of something, and quickly asked Dr. Xu: "By the way, after Liu Kan and I went to the toilet, where is Li Xuexue? Where did he go, do you know?"

Dr. Xu said: "After you left, I cooked vegetable soup outside the tent for dinner. Li Kexue said he went to that cave. That's the cave where we found the three bodies."

Professor Wang: "Why did he go to that cave? Is there some ulterior secret?"

"I don't know. And the timeline I was with him before was the time he was attacked by Xiaocao, what he said was very strange..." Dr. Xu stopped talking, "Forget it, I'll Don't talk about it. I'll wait and see..."

After a while, Gu Liang stood up. "Go to Li Kexue first. If Li Kexue is dead, the murderer to be found in this case should be the one who killed Li Kexue. If he is still alive..."

As soon as Gu Liang finished speaking, he saw a person walking halfway up the mountain. His walking figure was shaky, as if he had been injured.

Although the distance is still quite far away, it is not difficult to see that this person is Li Xuexue.

Gu Liang narrowed his eyes, watched Li Xuexue approaching step by step, and said: "He is still alive, he is back. So, we have only seen three corpses in the cave. The murderer we are looking for in this case should be the one who killed him three years ago. The one who killed all three of them."

After Li Xuexue joined, the four players sat on the snow and almost formed a circle.

Gu Liang noticed that after Li Kexue sat down, he kept rubbing his left wrist with his right hand, as if the pain had not been relieved, he frowned tightly.It looked as though his wrist had been badly injured.

"Are you okay here? Did you fall?" Dr. Xu obviously noticed this problem, and asked him, "Did you do it when you were pushed down by a ghost this morning?"

Li Kexue shook his head and said: "An hour ago, after they went to the toilet, I wanted to go back to the cave to have a look. I fainted halfway. The half of my arm was pressed under my body, and it was directly in contact with the snow. I guess I was frozen." It hurts a little. My character..."

"I'm talking about the characters in the script, not me. In the script, I have deformed my wrist since I was a child, so I have undergone many operations, and it usually hurts when there is rainy weather. When I come here and get a little cold, it will be even worse. "

"When I read the script, I didn't expect that the pain was real. My hand really hurt. The system didn't know how to design all of this, making it seem like I had a real wrist disability..."

When Gu Liang heard this, he also asked him: "Can you tell me about your wrist in detail?"

As soon as Li Xuexue saw Gu Liang, he turned his head away without a good face.

Doctor Xu seemed to be curious about this question, and asked: "Actually, I also think that the script currently has very few plots. Therefore, any small plot clues for the few of us are very important. Your wrist The script will never be written for no reason. Can you talk about it in detail?"

Dr. Xu asked softly, and Li Xuexue finally let go: "It's really nothing, it's just a congenital deformity. I have been undergoing corrective surgery since I was a child, and I have done it more than a dozen times. That's what the script said."

In this way, Gu Liang couldn't analyze for the time being that Li Xuexue's wrist injury had anything to do with the main line of the script and the murder case.

Dr. Xu asked again: "You just said that you fainted on the way to the cave. Then?"

"Then I didn't know anything. When I woke up again, it turned out to be behind the cave we went to last time. I woke up when I heard the system broadcast. It should be the murderer who knocked me out and knocked me out. Brought it back there."

Li Kexue said, "I got up, my legs were a little numb, and I walked a little slowly. It was a bit late. By the way, Xiaowan—"

Li Kexue stood up while rubbing his wrist. He walked up to Dr. Xu and said, "I don't believe anyone, but you. I have some clues, and I want to talk to you alone."

Dr. Xu also seemed a little strange about his sudden question.

She stood up, observed the expressions of Gu Liang and Professor Wang, finally nodded to Li Xuexue, and the two went towards the temporary toilet together.

Seeing Li Xuexue and Dr. Xu walking away, Gu Liang stood up and turned to look in the direction of the camp. "The man in black had special treatment before I saw it. The evidence and everything should be almost cooled. Wearing gloves, you won't be afraid of being scalded. I'll go and have a look."

"I'll go with you."

When Professor Wang heard this, he also followed Gu Liang. On the way to the camp, he glanced back at Dr. Xu and Li Xuexue from time to time: "They are going to whisper again. I don't know what secret they are hiding from us. I think, if they are in a team, we can do it in a team."

What kind of combination does the crime solving game do?

Gu Liang didn't reply.

Professor Wang added: "I always feel that the two of them have some kind of conspiracy. This Li Xuexue is especially strange. Could he be the murderer?"

Gu Liang didn't look back, but said: "There are two types of players in this game. The first type has doubts in his heart and wants to talk to someone alone, but he dare not make this request, because he is afraid that everyone will suspect that he is A murderer; the second type is to see someone communicating alone, and just rely on this to suspect that someone is a murderer. These two types of people are usually novices."

"Li Xuexue is not a novice. I know that everyone will not doubt him because of this matter, so I dare to be so aboveboard. You should not be a novice either."

Unexpectedly, Gu Liang scolded him.Professor Wang:"……"

Gu Liang said again: "Li Xuexue is indeed not friendly enough, but I can see that he has a high IQ. He may not trust us enough in doing so, so he has some ideas and just wants to communicate with Dr. Xu for the time being. Don't worry about it. Let them talk first."

Professor Wang: "Then can you tell me, so far, what ideas do you have for solving the case?"

Gu Liang: "Yes."

"First, what is the intention of the script to tell the ghost story at the beginning of the story."

"Secondly, we did meet a ghost, and his name is Xiaocao. Xiaocao asked you if you trusted him, which echoes the ghost story. But what does Xiaocao have to do with that story?"

"Third, three people died, but we only met Xiaocao's soul, what about the other two souls?"

"I think, based on the above questions, if we try to restore the whole story, we may be able to figure out the real plot. On this basis, we can speculate on the murderer."

After a long while, Professor Wang said, "You don't usually talk, and you talk about the key points when you talk. In your opinion, how do you think these questions should be answered? What ideas do you have?"

Gu Liang stopped and looked at him: "Why don't I tell you the answer directly after I find the murderer?"

Professor Wang: "That's good to be brave!"

Gu Liang: "..."

Gu Liang ignored Professor Wang, but looked up not far away.

About 800 meters north of the camp is the cave halfway up the mountain—the place where they found the three bodies.

But the road from the camp to the cave is not going directly along the road due north, but bypassing the path from the northeast to avoid the cliff.

At this time, it can be seen that the entrance of the cave has been shrouded in mist, and there is no way to enter it to explore.

Looking back, through the moonlight and headlights, I can still see the footprints on the snow.

The footprints were quite messy, and it was the four of them who stepped on it when they went up and down the mountain yesterday.

At this time, you can see that there are some deeper and clearer footprints, which are newly stepped on, and should be left by Li Xuexue just now.

Gu Liang looked in the direction of Zhengdong again.The footprints in this direction are even more messy.

The man in black came from here just now, and walked from here again after putting out the fire, so basically nothing can be seen from the footprints here.

It seems that it is impossible to analyze anything from the footprints in the snow for the time being.

Gu Liang finally retracted his gaze, stared at the pitch-black camp in front of him, then squatted down, lowered his head and rummaged.

Professor Wang sighed. "Don't waste your time, when you just stared at the mountain head, I turned it over, and there was really nothing. The tent was burned out, the sleeping bag was burned out, the solid alcohol was burned out, and some other hardware equipment was burned out. Charcoal. Here, here are a few boxes, but they haven't been completely burnt out, so they can be recognized. But it doesn't make any sense."

Professor Wang kicked the box that was burnt to the point where only one corner remained. "There are still some burnt vegetables in it. It's a pity that I don't even have to drink the vegetable soup."

Hearing this, Gu Liang squatted down.Through the gloves, the box is indeed not hot anymore.

When he opened the box, he did see a dark mass, which was charred vegetables before cooking.

Gu Liang's hand lightly touched them again, and they shattered into powder.

Withdrawing his hand, Gu Liang turned to push aside the two boxes next to him.

Here are two boxes for energy bars.

One box has not been opened yet, this is the energy bar that Gu Liang asked the system separately.At this moment, the box was burned together with the energy bar inside.

The box next to it was empty, with nothing in it. Gu Liang touched it lightly, and the whole box collapsed immediately.

In the end, there was one box left, and Gu Liang remembered that it was for vodka.

When camping in the snow, bring some of this spirit to keep out the cold.

At the moment the box is also empty.

There was no trace of the wine bottle, and it was unknown whether it had been blown into pieces and then melted into a scorched blackness.

Professor Wang said: "I'm afraid the system has limited funds. The equipment we prepared for us is very simple. We don't have many things in the camp, and they are almost burned. The only useful schoolbags are also burnt. Here, I put them Put it aside."

After reading all the evidence that had been burnt to ashes, Gu Liang finally walked in front of the three charred corpses, squatted down, and looked over carefully.

These three specific corpses were completely burned, and they were all black and almost carbonized.

——The box containing dehydrated vegetable bags and energy bars, there are still residues, how did this corpse burn so thoroughly?

At this moment, the moonlight and snow scene complement each other, and the scenery is very beautiful.

But the various events that take place are less beautiful.

In the eyes of Professor Wang, Gu Liang continued to stare at the three corpses in a daze, and no one could talk to him.

Besides, he didn't know if the ghosts in the script would continue to appear to scare people, but he felt more and more panicked, so he couldn't help asking Gu Liang: "Why do you keep staring at the corpse? Charcoal, I can't see anything."

Gu Liang didn't raise his head, just asked: "How do you think this fire started?"

Professor Wang: "Perhaps... Dr. Xu's mishandling when cooking vegetable soup caused the gas tank to explode. She cooked the soup at the entrance of the tent. The explosion caused the tent to burn, and then the fire gradually spread, destroying everything that could be burned. Burnt, or so."

"There are two ways to detonate a liquefied gas tank. The first one is that the gas leaks and air mixes to a certain ratio and is defrauded by an open flame; the second one is that the gas tank itself is violently bumped, squeezed, or... heated by a fire .”

Gu Liang said, "This is an open-air camp. The first case can almost be ruled out directly. Therefore, I am more inclined to say that someone set fire to the camp, and the liquefied gas tank was detonated by the fire."

"That person... why did he set fire here?" Professor Wang asked.

Gu Liang said: "Look, there are still some remnants of the two cardboard boxes, but the three corpses were completely burned. I think the corpses are the source of the fire. I remember that none of us drank, but the vodka box was empty. It should be Someone poured alcohol on the body and lit it."

Professor Wang's eyes widened: "You mean, someone deliberately burned the corpse? The explosion was only caused by fire?"

"Yes." Gu Liang nodded, "Someone set fire to the corpse, the purpose should be to destroy the corpse."

"So... the person who set the fire just now may be the person who killed those three people three years ago?"

Professor Wang looked suddenly enlightened, and then he thought of something, and his expression became a little excited, "Hey, you and I went to the toilet. If Li Kexue didn't lie, he went to the cave. Who has the conditions to light the fire? It can only be Xu Doctors."

"It happened to be her who was cooking. She burned the corpse, causing an explosion, and then she made it into a false impression that she accidentally made a misoperation, causing the explosion of the liquefied gas tank, and then causing a fire. Then she is the murderer!"

"Not necessarily." Gu Liang said.

"Why?" Professor Wang asked.

Gu Liang stood up and looked at Professor Wang: "After going to the toilet, I passed out. You also have a chance to commit crimes. Li Xuexue's side is even more unclear. So everything is possible."

"Heaven and earth conscience. I fainted with you at that time. I woke up when the system was broadcasting. God knows what happened—"

When Professor Wang said this, he suddenly said, "Hey, let's talk about this ghost... Why do you think we both fainted for no reason? Is there a ghost... What kind of magic did you use to make us faint? Then the ghost released it Where is the fire?"

"If the ghost uses spells to set fire, he can just cast spells to set fire from a distance. Why did he make us dizzy?" Gu Liang asked back.

Professor Wang thought for a while and said, "Look, what about this Xiaocao, I bumped into him, and he didn't do anything to me. Li Xuexue and Dr. Xu also bumped into each other. Although Xiaocao said he beat up Li Xuexue, he also Didn't say kill him or anything."

"Xiaocao just asked some weird questions. But he didn't hurt anyone. So I think if he set the fire and he knocked us out, maybe he just didn't want us to go back to the camp so we wouldn't burn to death. .”

Gu Liang listened, and said calmly: "Then this ghost has a conscience."

Professor Wang: "Not really."

Gu Liang: "If Xiaocao started the fire, why would he burn the corpse?"

Professor Wang: "...I don't know..."

After saying this, Professor Wang looked back, and about 500 meters away, Li Xuexue and Dr. Xu were still talking about something.

The body language of the two people is a bit rich, it seems that they are arguing about something.

Professor Wang said: "Anyway, I think Li Xuexue is the strangest. Why do you say he went to the cave alone? By the way, did you mention a sentence in your script that we first went to this cave, it was Li Xuexue who proposed it."

Gu Liang turned his head and also looked at Li Xuexue and Dr. Xu.

Under the moonlight, above the snow field.

Excluding the supernatural and horror elements, as well as the exciting murder case, these two people seem to be very suitable.

The moonlight stretched their shadows very long, and on the snow, the shadows of the two were entangled together, like lovers with a close relationship.

The scene three years ago seemed to slowly emerge before Gu Liang's eyes.

Three years ago, four college students came here for an adventure.

Three boys and one girl.

This girl is as beautiful as a flower, and is held in the palms of three boys. Her name is Xiaohua.

Later, for some reason, all three of them died here, including this beautiful girl.

Those who died with her were Xiaocao and Xiaodong.

Xiaodong died holding Xiaohua in his arms, and Xiaocao died alone with his back against the mountain wall.

Three years later, Madoka disappeared.

And Xiaocao became a wisp of ghost.

——Then, what about the ghosts of Xiaohua and Xiaodong?

Professor Wang asked Gu Liang: "You are observing them too? What are you thinking?"

Gu Liang: "I suddenly have an idea. Maybe I'm not mature enough."

Professor Wang: "Let's hear it?"

Gu Liang: "You said this script, is there any possibility of soul possession?"

Professor Wang shook his head, and heard Gu Liang say: "When we entered the cave yesterday, the spirit bodies of Xiaocao, Xiaohua and Xiaodong were actually there. It's just...Xiaohua and Xiaodong found two suitable bodies, so Possessed."

Professor Wang, who was nearly sixty years old, jumped up on the spot like a young boy. His voice was both fearful and excited. At the same time, he lowered his voice, as if he was afraid of being heard.

"You mean...the current Li Xuexue is actually Xiaodong? Then Dr. Xu is Xiaohua! This..."

Professor Wang said, "It's very possible! Xiaocao didn't attack me, but suddenly attacked Li Kexue in anger after seeing him! Because he knew Li Xuexue was Xiaodong. He was jealous of Xiaodong because of Xiaohua's affairs! What Li Kexue said about fainting just now is a lie!"

XS007 control center.

Numerous screens are showing different images, which are about what is happening in the script field of "The Fifth Man" from various angles.

A man in black sat in front of one of the screens.

Through the display, when Gu Liang and Professor Wang discussed this point, the man in black couldn't help laughing, and then asked the person next to him: "I'm convinced of this brain hole. Is this the first time you come to observe the scene? You said this is called Will Gu Liang's players find the truth?"

The person next to him was still wearing a white robe costume.

He sat by the window, his eyes reflected the white snow and the bright moon not far away.

Hearing the man in black's question, he smiled: "Why can't I find it? It's not such a difficult script."

The man in black said: "Mingyue, you wrote this book. You have written the murderer's psychology in such a perverted way that it is difficult for ordinary people to guess."

Mingyue turned her head and looked at the man in black: "Do you know why I noticed Gu Liang for the first time?"

The man in black asked, "What's the matter?"

Mingyue said: "During my freshman year in high school, I failed in the test once."

The man in black: "How many points?"

Mingyue: "701."

Man in black:"……"

Mingyue said: "Gu Liang is number one in the school, two points higher than me, 703."

The man in black asked: "Then what happened next? You continue to compete, who wins and who loses?"

Mingyue shook her head: "Later, there were not many opportunities like this. When he was divided into arts and sciences, he had a very good grade in science, so he actually chose arts."

Man in Black: "Why?"

Mingyue said: "At that time, his parents had just divorced. His father was a homosexual who cheated on marriage. He hated his father very much, and would do everything against his father. His father was academic, so he chose liberal arts. Of course. , he is also very homophobic. Ah, that's not the point, the point is-"

"He will find the truth. I have no doubt about it. I need to observe from which angle he approaches the truth."

Mingyue turned to look at Gu Liang on the screen, with a perverse smile on her mouth: "After all, only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win a hundred battles."

Hearing this, the man in black suddenly thought of something funny, fiddled with the monitor in front of him, brought up the scene of Gu Liang pushing Mingyue's body down the mountain, and played it repeatedly several times. "I really can't see that you are classmates."

Mingyue held the corner of her mouth. "I didn't expect that he would be involved in this game."

The man in black stretched. "If he can go to the end like you in the previous round, I might be interested in your class teacher. I really want to see what kind of people with high IQs he recruited in the class back then."

"It's not uncommon to have a high IQ. Our class was originally the best class in the best school. It's just..."

Mingyue laughed again, "There are very few antisocial personalities like me. In the end, this game is not about IQ."