Live Action Murder Mystery

Meng Qiancheng hurriedly covered his mouth, but it was too late, and he immediately regretted it.

——He was too excited because he found important clues, besides, he really didn't see anyone when he came here just now, he was negligent for a while, and even forgot to make sure that Li Xiaoyu was the only one present.

When Gu Liang passed by Meng Qiancheng, he looked at his melancholy face, thought for a while, and said to Yang Ye: "Sorry, I heard that too."

It's already embarrassing enough, you husband and wife are entertaining my old man, aren't you?

Meng Qiancheng said rather resentfully: "Forget it, let's come and see together."

Gu Liang followed Meng Qiancheng, from the lake in the north, through the peach grove on the right and the fruit grove on the left, all the way south to a vegetable garden.

The vegetable garden is square, with a few wooden stakes on the westernmost side.

At this moment, Housekeeper Hao, Mingyuan Rong and Mei Design were standing not far behind the wooden pile.

Butler Hao didn't speak and kept silent.

Mei Design was discussing something with Rong Mingyuan.

Gu Liang walked up to the stake and saw a pile of scorched, almost burnt to ashes there.

This ball of ashes is not out of order. Although it may have been blown out of shape by the wind because it has been placed here for a while, it can be vaguely recognized that this ball of ashes was placed in a certain shape before it was burned to ashes. kind of formation.

Li Xiaoyu was the first to speak: "Hey! I know this! This is a pentagram! I played Onmyoji before, and Abe Seimei drew this! A five-pointed star in the middle, a circle outside, a pentagram!"

Gu Liang took a step forward, looked at the formation carefully, and immediately said: "Well, it's not bad to have a pentagram. It is generally believed that the five vertices of a pentagram represent earth, water, wind, fire, and composition The fifth element of human spiritual power. These five elements are the origin of everything in the world."

"Japanese Onmyoji, ancient Egyptian religion, Greek mythology, etc. all have pentagrams, but the meanings are not exactly the same. In this game, there should be other clues as to what the pentagram is for."

Li Xiaoyu was surprised: "How do you know everything?"

"I saw it when I was reading, but I don't understand it deeply, it's just superficial."

Gu Liang replied, then looked at Meng Qiancheng, "Where is the burnt doll you mentioned?"

"It's here with me." Dong Wan said, "Come and have a look."

The doll was indeed burned almost entirely, to the same extent as Feng's boyfriend who was burned to death.

It's just that her eyeballs weren't too damaged.

For a girl from a family like Rong Mingyuan, even the doll's eyeballs are made of genuine diamonds.

The fire burned the doll's beautiful face, but it could not destroy the pair of royal blue diamond eyes.

At this moment, the sapphire blue diamonds reflected mottled brilliance, lying quietly in the burnt black eye sockets, looking very weird.

A gust of wind blew, and the scorched eye sockets that had been burnt into filaments were directly shattered, and the diamond fell a little further, making it look even weirder.

Aside from the eyeball, there is one small part of the doll that is almost intact — the shoe on her right foot.

She was wearing red high-heeled shoes with ribbons. Probably when someone was holding her, they accidentally rubbed against her shoes, causing the shoe on her right foot to fall off.But the shoe didn't come off completely because of the ribbon that was attached to the instep.

When the fire spread, it burned her calves, feet, and most of the ribbon, but there was still a small strand of ribbon that was not burned, and the half-hanging shoes were relatively intact and were not affected by the fire.

On the side, Butler Hao was carrying a lot of evidence, one of which was the handbook recording which guest the doll was assigned to.

Meng Qiancheng took the manual from the housekeeper, and said in the direction of Gu Liang and Yang Ye: "Rong Mingyuan treats the dolls very carefully. Each doll has different hair color, diamonds for eyes, clothes and shoes. Now the hair and clothes are different. It’s hard to see things like that, but judging from the eyeballs and shoes, this doll belongs to Yang Ye’s room.”

"Yeah. I understand. It's just...why don't you want him to know about it?" Gu Liang asked Meng Qiancheng.

"This..." Meng Qiancheng coughed twice in embarrassment, "Don't you think he's a bit suspicious, and I want to trick him later."

"I really don't know why the doll in my room came here." Yang Ye said.

Meng Qiancheng: "When I played chess with Gu Liang, didn't you go to Taolin? It's just that you went to the lake in the north or the vegetable garden over there, so we couldn't see it. You may have come The vegetable garden burns dolls."

"I've only been to the lake in the north, and I was knocked out later." Yang Yedao, "If you suspect that burning dolls is related to Feng's boyfriend's death, then you should find the person who knocked me out."

Meng Qiancheng: "But you may also lie. You may have indeed come to the vegetable garden to burn dolls."

Yang Ye nodded: "Well, of course."

"The burning of the doll, the death of Feng's boyfriend, the relationship between the two, and the meaning of the pentagram, we still don't know. Next, why is the doll missing the right arm? Why is there a wound on the chest? I think, in figuring out On the basis of these, it makes sense to go to the timeline."

After Gu Liang said this, he returned to the pile of ashes and squatted down.

He reached out and touched it with his fingertips. The ashes were not hot, so he rummaged through the ashes with both hands.

It is not entirely accurate to say that the ashes describe the scorched black mass, because there are many charred black substances that have been burned into pieces, which are probably formed by the gelatinous things being burnt and then condensed together.

This kind of massive coagulation cannot be counted as ash, because it is relatively large.

Next, Gu Liang rummaged through it carefully, and he could still see some pieces of fabric that hadn't been completely burned.

Yang Ye also came over and squatted down at the moment, and turned over with Gu Liang.

Gu Liang glanced sideways at Yang Ye, then turned around and asked everyone, "Does anyone know the clue of the pentagram?"

For a moment, except for Li Xiaoyu and Meng Qiancheng, everyone else looked strange.

Seeing it, Gu Liang felt even more strange.

Everyone seems to have something, and a tacit understanding has been formed.

Soon Meng Qiancheng proposed to look at other places, and everyone dispersed one after another, leaving only Gu Liang and Yang Ye in this place.

"My intuition has come true, everyone seems to be suspicious of you." Gu Liang said to Yang Ye.

The vegetable garden became quiet, and Yang Ye whispered to Gu Liang, "I really know something about the pentagram."

Gu Liang: "..."

Yang Yedao: "But I can be sure that I am not the murderer. I have nothing to do with dolls or anything. So I didn't hide the evidence too much. The evidence is hidden in the sports car I drove. They will probably find it soon .”

"What kind of evidence is that?" Gu Liang asked.

Yang Ye: "My mother is a wizard, and there is a photo of her wearing a wizard robe with me in the car. On the back of the photo is a pentagram protection talisman drawn by her. The remaining clues of the pentagram are in my script."

"I mentioned in the plot that the pentagram can seal evil spirits. The specific method of sealing is-arranging items related to evil spirits in the shape of a pentagram, and then chanting spells or something."

Gu Liang asked him: "You didn't mention fire?"

"No." Yang Ye said, "It has nothing to do with fire."

Gu Liang squinted at him: "If it weren't for being familiar with you before... I would have suspected you. You are too suspicious."

"So this is one of the reasons why the script is so difficult. For a good person, not only to find the real culprit, but also to find a way to clear himself of suspicion."

Yang Ye lowered his eyes and looked at the black mass in front of him. "These should be items related to evil spirits. But where did the evil spirits come from? Could it be that the doll came back to life and became an evil spirit?"

Gu Liang couldn't answer Yang Ye's words for a while, so he just picked up a piece of charred black lump, looked at it for a while, and said, "What are these lumpy things that burnt and condensed? It's a bit like plastic. If the evil spirit is a doll, according to you It is said that to seal evil spirits, items related to evil spirits need to be placed into pentagrams. Then these things that were burned to ashes are related to dolls, maybe her clothes, small plastic houses, small toys or something? "

"Yes, it's possible." Yang Ye said.

"Who would have these things? Shouldn't it be Rong Mingyuan?" Gu Liang asked.

Yang Yedao: "Rong Mingyuan likes dolls so much, I don't think she will burn them. Next, the storage room on the 6th floor is the one I avoided. There are many things related to dolls in it. Anyone can go in."

Tsk, I went into the storage room and had a chance to get the doll's related items. I know the pentagram, my mother is a wizard, and I have been alone in the direction of Taolin for a long time...

Yang Ye's suspicion was indeed too great.

Things weren't working in his favor.

Gu Liang once again sighed in his heart, if this was the first script he played, he would be suspicious of Yang Ye just like everyone else.

Yang Ye clapped his hands, continued to stare at the ashes, and then fiddled with them, trying to restore them to the shape of a pentagram.

During this process, Yang Ye said: "I must not be the only one who knows about the pentagram."

"But first of all, Li Xiaoyu can be ruled out. She and Rong Mingyuan are plastic girlfriends. From the perspective of personality, they probably can't touch the pentagram. Unless you find other clues. Besides, she said just now about the game of Onmyoji, echoing her usual escape. Character, she dared to be the first to mention the pentagram, maybe because she really doesn't know the meaning of the pentagram in this script."

"Let's talk about Mei Design. She is a doll designer. Since there are evil spirits in this world, as a doll designer, she should know some related taboos in this industry. What is the relationship between spirit bodies and dolls? She should understand. My mother drew a pentagram on my photo frame to protect me. Then Meiji may also know that the pentagram can be used as a talisman."

"Finally, there are three people in this villa, Mr. Rong, Rong Mingyuan, and Housekeeper Hao. They know the reason for the pentagram, which is the same as the beauty design. Rong Mingyuan likes dolls so much. The people in this villa should We all know some taboos."

Gu Liang smiled helplessly when he heard this. "I really don't know. My role is too soy. Hey wait—"

Gu Liang stood up, remembered something, and said, "I have to go to the back kitchen again."

"The kitchen? What do you want to see?" Yang Ye asked.

Gu Liang: "Chef's lounge, I remember that there is a book that records the taste habits of each customer. The book is a bit thick, so I didn't read it carefully just now. But what you said just now makes me think I can take a closer look. For example... Have any wizards or the like come to the villa and mentioned things related to evil spirits?"

"Well, it's doable. But wait a little longer." Yang Ye said.

After hearing this, Gu Liang looked down and saw that Yang Ye had restored the ashes blown by the wind back into the shape of a standard pentagram.There is a five-pointed star in the middle and a circle around it, which is very regular in shape.

But upon closer inspection, some of the five-pointed stars, and the edge of a third of the circle, seem a bit too thick.

It's like drawing a pentagram with a pen, but in some places it looks like a few more strokes were drawn back and forth with the pen, resulting in uneven thickness of the entire pentagram.

Gu Liang frowned: "Why are some places thicker?"

Yang Ye destroyed the pentagram made of ashes, and stretched out his hand to push the whole ashes away.

At this moment, the pentagram pattern on the ground was immediately revealed.

This is the effect of the person who burned the dolls, who piled up doll-related items, clothes, small houses, etc. into the shape of a pentagram. After igniting, the soil below was also burned by high temperature.

Therefore, the land itself also has the shape of a pentagram.

"Are you a pentagram placed along the traces of scorched earth on the ground?" Gu Liang asked.

"Yes. Then I found that there seemed to be a lot of ashes. I arranged the excess ashes according to the principle of proximity, and all the edges of some were thicker."

Yang Ye picked up a scorched black thing glued together with his hands, and said, "This kind of thing especially. This kind of plastic... other than a doll's small house, what else could it be?"

Gu Liang thought of something, his pupils dilated, and immediately said: "It may also be the doll itself. This kind of doll is probably made of resin or something. So I have an idea..."

Gu Liang stood up and looked around at the surrounding land. Everywhere was flat, and the soil showed no signs of renovation.

Gu Liang continued: "If we search the entire castle in a short while and don't find the doll's missing arm, it means... the arm may have been burned as well."

"Okay. Let's go to Lao Mengtou first, let him, as a detective, take a good picture of the evidence and clues here, and then go to the back kitchen area to see the situation of the visitors."

After Yang Ye finished speaking, he stood up and looked towards the vegetable garden.

When they came just now, they came through the path between the peach grove and the fruit grove.

But there is a road across the vegetable garden, which can actually reach the direction of the main entrance of the castle.

Gu Liang followed his gaze, and at the same time took out the card map to check.

"At that time, the system asked us to go to the garden restaurant for breakfast. I noticed that there were two roads marked on the map. One was through the west door of the main hall where the banquet was held. That was the way we went to have breakfast; the other was from Go around the main entrance of the castle, go west through the main entrance, and then north, you can reach the restaurant. That road is separated from this vegetable garden by a fruit grove."

"So——" Yang Ye set foot on this road that no one seems to have taken so far, and said, "From here, you can go through the fruit forest and take the first road that leads to the restaurant you just mentioned. There are two ways, of course, you can also go to the main gate."

"That's right." Gu Liang walked along this road with Yang Ye, walked east through the fruit forest, and walked south for a while, and saw the main entrance of the old castle.

As Yang Ye expected, those players, including Meng Qiancheng, were surrounding Yu Zhanan's sports car to check.

Gu Liang thought for a while, and said: "So, I saw the direction where you, Ai's best friend, and Mei Design went to Taolin. The three of you may have been to the vegetable garden to burn dolls. But in fact, Steward Hao and Rong Rong Ladies and gentlemen may also have been to the vegetable garden, but they did not pass through the peach grove, but took another road. I don’t know if they have been there.”

"Yes. That's right. Except for you and Lao Mengtou, everyone may go to the vegetable garden to burn dolls."

After Yang Ye said this to Gu Liang, he took a few steps forward and called Meng Qiancheng, "Old Mengtou."

"Hey?"

Meng Qiancheng turned his head to look at the main entrance of the castle, then looked sideways at Yang Ye and Gu Liang, "How did you come out of here?"

Yang Yedao: "There is another road here. You can walk it with me. Remember to take the detective camera, and I will take some evidence for you."

"You still take me to take evidence?"

Meng Qiancheng muttered a few words, "You are very suspicious now, do you know what is in your car?"

"Yes. But I'm not the only one who knows about pentagrams. Come on."

Yang Ye held Meng Qiancheng's shoulders in a friendly posture, and led him to the vegetable garden.

Gu Liang didn't keep up with them, he just said: "You guys go to the vegetable garden, I'll go to the back kitchen to have a look. Save time."

"Okay. We will meet in the main hall later." Yang Ye said.

"Okay." Gu Liang nodded and walked towards the main entrance of the castle.