Live Action Murder Mystery

Gu Liang quickly realized what Yang Ye meant.

The premise of their reasoning just now was-according to the witchcraft clues Yang Ye had mastered, the pentagram circle was used to seal evil spirits.This evil spirit should come from the doll, so this magic circle is used to deal with the doll.

From this, Gu Liang speculated that the doll was hurt by Boyfriend Feng and wanted to take revenge on Boyfriend Feng, and killed Boyfriend Feng by manipulating humans.

Then, the person who used the pentagram circle is likely to be the one controlled by the baby, who is the real culprit who killed Feng's boyfriend.

The real murder of Feng's boyfriend was under the influence of the doll's control, and then he used the pentagram circle to kill the doll out of subjective consciousness and to save himself.

In this case, if the doll takes revenge on her boyfriend Feng, she needs to rely on humans, which means that her own strength should be very limited, even weak.

Otherwise, she can kill people directly with the power she possesses, without the help of humans.

Since she wants to use the power of human beings, she means that she can only influence people's minds and control people's behavior through certain methods, so the final method of murder must be the way humans can do, such as killing with knives and using ropes. Le wait.

But how did boyfriend Feng die?

He was burned to death in an instant, and he was also burned in a "fighting posture" in an instant.

This must be done by magic.

This creates a paradox: the doll cannot be weak enough to kill with the help of human beings, and strong enough to endow humans with powerful killing magic at the same time.

This paradox means - Gu Liang's brain hole is unreasonable.

That is to say, if no other traces of magic are found, and there is only a magic-related clue in this script, the pentagram circle, it is possible for the doll to kill Feng’s boyfriend by influencing humans, and then be killed by the pentagram circle , can be excluded.

Gu Liang rested his head on the bed and let out a breath.

"No one found the rest of the magic traces, only a pentagram. Then the magic elements related to Feng's boyfriend's death can only be related to the pentagram circle."

"So... if the pentagram circle is not used to kill dolls, then it must be used to kill Feng's boyfriend."

Gu Liang looked at Yang Ye, and said again: "Let's go back to that question, the pentagram circle, why is it related to Feng's boyfriend's death? Your story clearly said that the pentagram circle seal Evil spirit, isn't boyfriend Feng an evil spirit?"

Yang Ye was sitting on the sofa, with one leg on the other, his hands folded, his elbows resting on his thighs, and his sitting posture was very dignified.

He thought for a while, and said to Gu Liang: "If the absence of arms has nothing to do with magic, why do you think those arms are missing?"

Gu Liang thought for a while, and said: "If I were Li Xiaoyu, after I killed Rong Mingyuan with poison and found that she was not dead, but there was a pattern on the doll's arm, I might guess that the doll helped Rong Mingyuan ward off the disaster. First, in order to prevent Rong Mingyuan from knowing that I killed her, I might chop off the doll's arm. But..."

"Li Xiaoyu doesn't have a chance to do this. You slept in my room last night. We saw the doll before we went to bed. She was still in a normal state. She wouldn't come in and chop the doll without causing us two to panic." Notice."

"After breakfast the next day, you dated for half an hour, and then she went to the lake with you... By the time she returns to the castle, it should be nearly 10 o'clock."

"We went back to the dormitory at 11 o'clock. In one hour, she would go to all the rooms to cut off the doll's arms, which is impossible."

"By the way, when I came back, I found that the house had been tidied up. It should be the housekeeper who cleaned the room. If Li Xiaoyu did this, she might be caught by the housekeeper. So Li Xiaoyu can basically be ruled out. Then—"

Gu Liang looked at Yang Ye and replied affirmatively, "It's more likely that Housekeeper Hao did this."

"Actually, I think Steward Hao is more likely to knock me out."

Yang Yedao, "He hit me on the back of the head, and the timeline is not arranged for the time being. Just judging from the height, it is impossible for those girls to do it."

After a pause, Yang Ye continued: "Let's continue talking about the arm. If Housekeeper Hao did this, the same question remains, why did he cut off his arm? What is he covering up? He will never help Li Xiaoyu cover up what she wants. The idea of ​​killing a famous lady? He likes Ai Biaomei played by Li Xiaoyu? I don’t seem to have seen any related stories so far.”

"If he's not helping Li Xiaoyu cover up his murderous intent, then he's covering up something else. There must be something else secret about the doll, not just as simple as what we see."

Gu Liang frowned and looked at Yang Ye, "If he was the one who chopped off your arm and knocked you unconscious, then you can infer his line of action - take your arm to the direction of Taoyuan to deal with it. Bury your arm in the soil, it is easy to be caught I found out that if thrown into a lake, the arm made of that material might float, so it’s best to burn it.”

"He was afraid that burning this thing would attract your attention, so he looked around. At that time, Mei Design and Ai's best friend left after arguing, but you didn't. So he knocked you unconscious, and then burned your arm. And At the same time, he can further blame you for this incident, because both the detective and I can see that you were the first to go to Taolin, and the last to go."

After hearing this, Yang Ye thought about it, and then said, "This line of action is fine. During the discussion, the key point to ask is Butler Hao. If he is not the real murderer, he should be able to explain these things clearly. If he explains If you don’t know, then the possibility that he is the real murderer is very high.”

"Row."

Gu Liang breathed out, picked up the water glass and took a big sip, "Go to another place. Oh, by the way, do you want to drink some water too?"

"Okay." Yang Ye picked up the water glass that Gu Liang drank, and drank the rest of the water in one gulp.

"Hey you—"

"Save time, don't talk about anything else. Let's go. Where?"

"..."

Gu Liang blinked his eyes, as if a little uncomfortable.

Normally, Yang Ye would say something unserious, and Gu Liang would concentrate on solving the case.

This time it turned out that it was Yang Ye who forcibly changed the topic to the case.

After a long while, Gu Liangcai answered him: "Two places. First, Rong Mingyuan's room, I want to find clues to find the doll again; second, your room. By the way, your room, in the stage of plot interpretation, from You haven't been back since last night?"

Yang Ye: "Really not."

"So you don't know the state of the doll in your room when the two of us were punished. For example, whether she was stolen or something at that time."

"Correct."

"Go back to sleep in your own room next time. It will affect the solution of the case."

"Then come to my room next time."

"..."

At this time, the two had just reached the door of Gu Liang's room.

Gu Liang suddenly thought of something. "Yes, if the doll was still in your room last night, there must be a clue. Go to your room first! This clue is very important. Go."

If so, after leaving Gu Liang's room, the two immediately went to Yang Ye's room.

In fact, Yang Ye's room has been looked back and forth several times, and there is no special clue.

His only clue to witchcraft is in the sports car he drives.

At the moment, Gu Liang walked to the closet, reopened the closet, squatted down, poked his head in, and searched carefully.

"Yang Ye, do you have a flashlight?" Gu Liang asked.

Yang Yedao: "There are in the storage room. Wait a minute, I'll bring one over."

The footsteps "dendenden" went away, and after a while, "dendenden" appeared.

After taking the flashlight from Yang Ye, Gu Liang aimed the flashlight at the closet, and poked his head in again.

"You want to see if there are traces of fire?" Yang Ye asked him.

"Yes. I was just thinking about dolls to protect against disasters, or to be a substitute for Rong Mingyuan. I suddenly discovered the problem."

Gu Liangdao, "Besides the weird arm thing, there are actually problems with your story. Do you still remember what Su Lan said?"

Yang Yedao: "Of course. She said that the sheets in Rong Mingyuan's room had scorched marks. And Rong Mingyuan was woken up by the water."

Gu Liang slowly moved the flashlight, and while carefully looking at the traces in the closet, he said to Yang Ye: "We speculated before that if magic did not exist, Rong Mingyuan should have died of suffocation caused by damaged respiratory tract. But this does not mean that , There is no trace of burns on her body at all. After all, even the bed sheets are on fire, but the situation is not serious."

"Yes. I wasn't there at the time, but according to the script, I actually poured alcohol in her face at first. When she woke up screaming, the alcohol flowed into her mouth, and at this time a burning match was thrown at her. , the burning alcohol entered her respiratory tract."

When Yang Ye said this, he fully understood Gu Liang's intention of checking the closet, "I know. According to my method, Rong Mingyuan's body, at least the mouth and nose, will definitely be burned."

"Judging from the fact that the doll will completely replace Rong Mingyuan's injuries, the doll's body should not be completely devoid of burn marks."

"Yes, look at the corner of the closet, there are some traces of burnt."

Gu Liang pointed the flashlight at a corner of the closet, and sure enough, the wood there was darker in color, probably in a state that had been scalded but hadn't really burned yet.

Yang Ye's voice sank: "If that's the case, the fire sprinkler might work."

Gu Liang came out of the closet, exchanged a glance with Yang Ye, and then the two of them acted tacitly—lifting the sofa, moving the bed, moving the cupboard...then lifted up the carpet in the whole room.

At this moment, the traces of the water that once drenched the room slowly appeared.

For example, the back of the carpet does not look abnormal, but it is wet when it is pasted by hand.

For another example, when the dressing table was moved away, there was a clear, undried water mark on the edge of the cabinet.

Gu Liang immediately went to Meng Qiancheng to take pictures of the evidence.

The moment the photo was taken, Meng Qiancheng was still a little dazed. "So, this means that this house also caught fire?"

"Correct."

Gu Liang took out the previous "Employee Must-Read: Castle Safety Manual" and showed it to Meng Qiancheng, "It says that guests should not smoke in the house, or they will be drenched all over. This means that even if it is a Any smoke will cause the sprinkler to spray water. So this clue means that as long as it senses the slightest flame and smoke, the sprinkler will spray water."

Meng Qiancheng blinked. "Then that means—"

"Did you sleep well last night? Didn't the room spray water?" Gu Liang asked him.

Meng Qiancheng was even more confused, but he still replied, "I slept pretty well. There's no water... I haven't had it all the time."

Gu Liang asked him: "When Yang Ye and I were not here, how did you discuss it? Do you have any ideas?"

Meng Qiancheng said: "Probably because the doll may have the function of a substitute. Because many people have done something to Rong Mingyuan. But Rong Mingyuan is not dead. So the murderer is not the murderer. Well...someone fished in troubled waters and killed Feng's boyfriend. .”

At the end, Meng Qiancheng glanced at Yang Ye, coughed twice, and stopped talking.

Gu Liang continued to ask: "Are all the dolls acting as substitutes at the same time?"

Meng Qiancheng thought for a while, and said, "Yes... right, all the dolls are missing arms, stabbed in the chest, etc., but Yang Ye is special. So, his doll...may not be used as a stand-in for a famous lady, but It was used to activate the pentagram circle to kill...to kill Feng's boyfriend."

"No." Gu Liang patted the table, "Sit down, and I'll explain it to you."

Meng Qiancheng looked at the messy room, and finally moved a chair and sat down.

During this process, he looked at Yang Ye and Gu Liang a few times.

Yang Ye is obviously taller, because he has been a soldier, his body is also stronger, and his facial features are sharper and tougher.

In comparison, Gu Liang looks much gentler.

But I don't know why, when he saw Yang Ye, Meng Qiancheng didn't panic at all, but being stared at so coldly by Gu Liang, Meng Qiancheng couldn't help but become obedient, and his heart felt cold.

"Yang Ye, you sit too."

Gu Liang said something to Yang Ye, sat on the side of the bed, and then looked at Meng Qiancheng, "At around 12 o'clock last night, Yang Ye's scumbag man went to kill a famous lady, did you know?"

"I know." Meng Qiancheng panicked from his staring eyes and couldn't help rubbing his hands.

Then he found out——he was the detective, why did he panic?

Then he straightened his back and tried to look directly into Gu Liang's eyes: "But I don't know the specific method. Su Lan said it might have something to do with fire."

"It is indeed related to the fire, mainly the burning throat."

Gu Liang held up the safety manual, and explained to Meng Qiancheng the working mechanism of the smoke alarm and sprinkler device, as well as Yang Ye's murder method last night. "Understand?"

Meng Qiancheng nodded obediently: "Understood."

Gu Liang paused and asked, "So you understand?"

Meng Qiancheng looked at Yang Ye with help-seeking eyes, "No... I don't understand."

At that moment, the scene seemed like——Gu Liang was the teacher in class, and he explained the topic to Meng Qiancheng many times, and asked him if he understood, but he still didn't understand, so he anxiously and worriedly asked his deskmate Yang Ye for help.

Yang Ye was amused by his expression, so he chose to watch the show by the side without making a sound or helping.

Gu Liang sighed, with a hint of hatred for iron and steel, and then he explained to Meng Qiancheng: "According to the imagination of you guys, if all the dolls are stand-ins, then the method of Mei's design will make all the dolls have breasts. Hit with a knife; Ai's best friend's technique will cause a heart to appear on the right arm of all the dolls...how about Yang Ye?"

Meng Qiancheng finally came to his senses and said, "I see, the doll's throat is burning, and the face, especially the mouth and nose, will also be burning. This will trigger the smoke alarm and sprinkler device to work, and there will be water spraying from the ceiling." come down."

Gu Liang asked: "Then, why only the sprinkler in Yang Ye's room works, but does your room have any?"

Meng Qiancheng thought for a while: "Because... only the dolls in his room were on fire."

"Yes." Gu Liang stood up and said slowly, "So, not all the dolls will be doubles at the same time, but one doll can only be a double once."

"Then why...why..." Meng Qiancheng started scratching his hairless head again.

Gu Liangdao: "Now we can roughly restore the murderer's methods."

"Let's make an assumption first, assuming that the doll in each guest's room only corresponds to the murder method of the guest in this room."

"So, the doll in Mei's design room will be stabbed in the chest. The doll in Ai's best friend's room will have a heart on the right arm. The doll in the room of the scumbag played by Yang Ye will have a knife on the body, especially the mouth and nose. Start a small fire and trigger the sprinklers to spray water."

"At this time, a real murderer appeared. The real murderer used a pentagram magic circle in the vegetable garden to kill Feng's boyfriend. We don't know the working principle of this magic circle for the time being, but at present, it seems that there is only one possibility."

"Afterwards, the real murderer began to cover up his killing methods and look for someone to blame."

"The real murderer went to each guest's room, found abnormalities on the dolls, and decided to use them. So he stabbed each doll in the chest, trying to give us the illusion that all the dolls are a substitute for Rong Mingyuan .”

"But the peach hearts on the arms of the dolls grew out of poison. The real culprit doesn't know how to fake them. He can't use paint to paint hearts on all the dolls' arms. That way his tricks can be easily seen through. He can only paint the hearts of all the dolls. His arms were all chopped off."

"Finally, let's talk about Yang Ye. The real murderer may have thought about making the appearance of partial burns on all the dolls. But there are problems in this way. Setting fire in the house will cause the sprinkler to spray water. If he goes to a guest room, He has to burn the doll once, then he has to change the sheets and duvet covers in all the rooms, and remove all traces of water, he doesn’t have the time.”

"Then maybe he could take all the dolls to an open outdoor environment and put them back one by one after they're burned, but it's also troublesome to do so, and he can't guarantee that all the dolls will have exactly the same burn marks."

"Therefore, he could only use Yang Ye as the target of blame. So he made Yang Ye's doll a special and discordant existence. He took the doll from Yang Ye's room, put it back in the vegetable garden and burned it. You Sure enough, he was tricked, seeing Yang Ye's baby in the vegetable garden, he regarded him as the murderer."

Meng Qiancheng was a little stunned when he heard that, and then clapped his hands: "Ah, yes. I understand what you mean. What the real murderer did was to chop off the arms of all the dolls, stab them, and then he replaced Yang The sheets and quilts in the room at night, wiped off the water marks in other places, and finally went to the vegetable garden to burn my arms."

"But after all, he couldn't completely clean up the water in Yang Ye's room, so you just asked me to take pictures of the water marks... so that's what it meant."

Gu Liang said: "Yes, he cleaned up the water stains in Yang Ye's room, so we didn't find out for a while that Yang Ye's room was also sprayed by the sprinkler device, so that he was almost fooled into thinking it was really a water stain. All the dolls are acting as stand-ins at the same time."

Meng Qiancheng rubbed his hands again, and then asked: "Then who is this person?"

"I think that the reason why he blamed Yang Ye is that there are other factors besides what he just said, which forced him to blame Yang Ye."

"Last night, Rong Mingyuan was woken up by the spray. She must find someone to change the bed sheet and quilt cover. So she contacted this person. This person helped her clean up the water in the room, changed the quilt and so on, and asked her again. After a few sentences, he will naturally know that Yang Ye has been here, and then he will know that Yang Ye may have caused the bed sheet to catch fire."

"There is alcohol and matches in the storage room diagonally opposite Rong Mingyuan's room. Of course this person knows. He has been to various guest rooms and knows that everyone's room does not have tools for ignition. These tools can only come from the storage room. So he guessed When Yang Ye came to the storage room, he took alcohol and fire."

"Let's talk about other people, Rong Mingyuan can guess that Yang Ye is related to fire, Mei Design also knows something, because Mei Design let him kill people, my soy sauce character has no timeline at all, so I can wander around at night, In fact, it is possible to meet him in the storage room, so that..."

"When everyone finds a pentagram array and traces of burning in the vegetable garden, it is easy to think that Yang Ye did it. Because in many people's stories, he is related to fire. He went to the storage room and saw Alcohol and matches, he can use them to burn famous ladies, or use them to burn dolls, and use them as a pentagram circle for killing people."

"Finally, there is one more important point. This person walks around all day and can clearly grasp the movements of everyone in the castle. He can see that Yang Ye went to the garden for a long time. So he can follow the past and beat him up." Halo, it makes his suspicion even bigger."

"Therefore, it is difficult for the doll in Yang Ye's room to be burned partially by the real murderer to make the same marks on other dolls; the garden where Yang Ye went first; Yang Ye used fire last night... All these factors make the Yang Ye has become the most suitable target for the real murderer to blame."

Meng Qiancheng understood everything this time, and slapped his thigh suddenly. Just as he opened his mouth to say something out loud, Gu Liang made a silent gesture for him. "Don't make the same mistake twice."

Meng Qiancheng swallowed his breath, swallowed his saliva, and said in a low voice: "Then...then this person can only be Butler Hao!"

"Don't say it... the more you think about it, the more likely it is!"

Meng Qiancheng continued, "In the last script, he was quite real as Li Xuexue. This has suddenly become like this... His acting skills are comparable to NPCs!"

"Let me just say, I was hurt by a woman, and it won't take so long to recover. How can I lose my nature!"

"So he was hiding himself on purpose!"

"more or less."

Gu Liang stood up, "There is less than an hour left, you can focus on the clues about witchcraft and Butler Hao."

"There are still three questions that need to be verified."

"First, why can the pentagram circle kill Feng's boyfriend?"

"Second, what is the motive behind Butler Hao killing Feng's boyfriend?"

"Third, confirm that Steward Hao can manipulate witchcraft."

Meng Qiancheng thought for a while: "The third question has actually been settled. Didn't we find the chef's record? A wizard came to the castle. I will ask Rong Mingyuan about witchcraft and the pentagram circle in detail later." Just do it. I will pay attention to my words."

Gu Liang said: "Well. Be careful. Especially when you are one-on-one, I told you everything just now, so don't tell everyone bluntly."

Meng Qiancheng nodded: "Don't worry, I'm an old player!"

Gu Liang gave him a very distrustful look, turned around and walked out the door. "Yang Ye, let's go to another room to have a look."

After Gu Liang walked out of the room first, Meng Qiancheng stopped Yang Ye.

"Huh? What?" Yang Ye asked him.

Meng Qiancheng lowered his voice and said, "Your wife is too fierce and scary!"

"Tch." Yang Ye couldn't help laughing, after all Gu Liangliang was still not far away, so he could only cover up with a light cough.

Meng Qiancheng "tsk tut" twice, and looked at Yang Ye with sympathy: "You must be a strict wife. It's too miserable."

After finishing speaking, Meng Qiancheng muttered a few words: "It's still unreliable for a man to find a man, he should find a girl who is as gentle as water and caring..."

"It's so miserable. Others can't envy me. If I can be managed by him, I will be blessed in eight lifetimes."

After Yang Ye finished speaking, he turned and walked to the corridor amidst Meng Qiancheng's dumbfounded expression, and hooked Gu Liang's neck.

Gu Liang clapped his hands away. "What did you two talk about?"

"It's nothing, I'll praise you."

"Praise me? Then why are you behind my back?"

"I'm just afraid that your pride will swell."

"……real?"

"Really. I won't lie to you. Our Gu Liangliang is cute!"

"..."

At 5 p.m., free exploration time ends.

Part of the area on the second floor is temporarily open, and all players follow the card instructions to the discussion room on the second floor to conduct centralized discussions.

Like the centralized discussion room in "Immortal City", in addition to the discussion hall and one-on-one interrogation room, each player has a separate lounge, which can be used for private communication.

After the discussion started, Meng Qiancheng first called Rong Mingyuan to the one-on-one interrogation room.

Gu Liang reckoned that he wanted to be more specific before asking questions about witchcraft.

Gu Liang thought for a while, but walked up to Su Lan first. "Mei Design, let's talk alone?"

Su Lan seemed a little surprised, he glanced at Gu Liang, then at Yang Ye, and finally nodded. "Go to my lounge."

A moment later, Mei designed the lounge.

Su Lan looked at Gu Liang: "What do you want to ask me?"

Gu Liang: "During the dance last night, you left around 9:[-], after boyfriend Feng. Right?"

Su Lan nodded: "Yes. What's the problem?"

Gu Liang: "At 11:6, in the dormitory area on the [-]th floor, I opened the door and saw you coming out of the elevator. Why? Have you ever returned to the main hall?"

Su Lan readily admitted: "Yes, I went back to the main hall. Before 11 o'clock, I also opened the door and looked in the corridor. I saw you and Yang Ye talking for a while, you go back to the room He went to the storage room. Then I got into the elevator and went to the main hall on the first floor to get the knife."

Gu Liang understood: "You mean, the knife that you threw under the table after you killed Rong Mingyuan?"

"Yes. The tablecloth was dragged to the floor, hiding the knife."

Su Lan said, "Although I didn't kill Rong Mingyuan, there will be my fingerprints on the knife. If there is anything, I can't tell. I thought it's better to take the knife back. So After you all leave, I will go back to pick up the knife."

"Then what about the knife?" Gu Liang asked.

"It's gone." Su Lan said.

Gu Liang tapped the table with his index finger: "So, it is very likely that the butler picked it up after cleaning up the tablecloth."

Su Lan: "It's possible."

——So, this clue also points to Butler Hao.

He put away the knife without saying a word, and didn't say anything about it at all. Why?

Maybe he knew at that time that someone had attacked Rong Mingyuan?

Could it be that the culprit is really the housekeeper?

The overall picture of the whole story... What is it like?