Live Action Murder Mystery

After the system broadcast ended, the first thing Yang Ye did was to go back to Housekeeper Hao's room, open the closet, and then, without avoiding suspicion, took off his shirt in front of Gu Liang.

Gu Liang was facing Yang Ye at that time, and he was caught off guard, seeing Yang Ye's strong but not exaggerated waist and abdomen muscles.

Gu Liang froze for a moment, then immediately lowered his eyelids and looked at the key in his hand. "……What are you doing?"

"Change clothes."

Yang Ye glanced at him with a smile, pretending that he didn't notice anything, "Wearing this distinctive medieval men's evening dress, everyone will know that I am a vampire."

Yang Ye changed into the butler's clothes, put them back in the cabinet, and took out some butler's clothes. "I'll put these back to the scumbag, and I'll decide whether I can continue to play the scumbag according to the situation."

"Row."

Gu Liang nodded, thought about what the system said just now, and then said: "Just now the system mentioned a very critical point, this time the characters in the script include the famous actors of the two nights, the mysterious guests who came to visit the castle, and after the talk Boss Rong who returned to business."

"This means that from last night to now, I should be the only person living on the 6th floor. So we have to smash the remaining mirrors before the other players come over."

"Those bats will attack you, and leave the rest of the room to me. You go to the elevator to guard, observe the number of floors the elevator stays on, and give me some wind. See you at the elevator in a while."

As Yang Ye said, he took the housekeeper's key from Gu Liang, and quickly left with some clothes.

Gu Liang quickly walked to the elevator and waited.

Indicates that the elevator stops at the first floor.

Gu Liang knew it well - if there were no accidents, it meant that the guests other than himself left one after another last night, the boss left, and after the housekeeper and the ladies went to the vegetable garden, no one returned to the sixth floor.

In fact, Gu Liang also knew that his act of smashing the mirror just now was a bit risky.

But in the case of receiving limited information, he could only do it in a simple and rude way first.

Otherwise, if someone suddenly enters Yu Zhanan's room and directly sees the situation in the mirror, it can be said that he and Yang Ye's side mission directly failed.

Of course, that person may question whether he and Yang Ye caused the mirror fragments in the trash can in the room, but there is still room for lying.

In addition to the rooms and storage rooms of the eight characters in the previous script, there are seven unused rooms on this floor.

Seeing that Yang Ye first went back to Yu Scumbag's room, then went to Rong Mingyuan's and Rong's room, and finally took the key to open the remaining seven rooms next to each other, went in and smashed the mirror, and then walked out , lock the door, all in one go.

During this process, Gu Liang felt something strange in his mouth.

Then he found himself growing fangs.

It seemed that it was nine o'clock, and he, too, had become a vampire.

Gu Liang recalled the structure of the castle. Some areas on the first floor and areas from the second to fifth floors were not opened before.

He didn't know about the mirrors in those areas.

But there is no lobby.

As far as the main hall is concerned, there is a mirror in the toilet on the terrace, and a large mirror in the chef's lounge.

That mirror, which he had seen before he went on stage to sing the night before, was placed by the housekeeper in the make-up room in the make-up stage for the singer.

Gu Liang thought, so for a while, no matter whether he is in the state of a vampire or a human, he should avoid approaching those places with other people.

Because he didn't know whether the person who looked in the mirror with him would be a human or a vampire.

So did Yang Ye.

Yang Ye quickly smashed all the mirrors and came back.

Gu Liang noticed the card at 9:20.

During this period, the elevator has not been moved, and it seems that no one went up and down during this period.

Gu Liang looked at Yang Ye: "What's your plan next?"

"Spend 15 minutes to finish breakfast, go to the back kitchen to look at the corpse, and then check other places." Yang Ye said, "Your stomach is not good, you need to eat breakfast on time."

"Okay. But before we go to have breakfast, let's briefly understand what's going on. Let's start with your identity."

Gu Liang asked Yang Ye: "What is your role this time? Do you have any information? Are you related to Yu Scumbag?"

"Well then, you come with me first, I just found something."

Yang Ye turned around and led Gu Liang to the room of Boss Rong.

On the way, Yang Ye told Gu Liang about his role.

"I received a message telling me that I am Earl William. There was a battle between werewolves and vampires in my hometown, and I failed. So I ran away. I came to this castle from thousands of miles to find Duke Dar."

"Duke Dar and I are both vampires. I heard that he has a daughter named Princess Rose, who is also a vampire. But I haven't seen them since I came here."

"I received a message in advance from the Duke of Dale using magic, saying that he and the princess have gone out, and asked me to go directly to the sixth floor of the castle and find a room to stay in. After he comes back, I will hold a welcome banquet for me."

"So I stayed in the room indicated by the card. There was nothing in the room. I lay on the ground casually. After I fell asleep, I actually came to your bed."

"There is nothing in the room?" Gu Liang was surprised.

"Yes. Duke Dahl said that there was a banquet held in other places, and it was a mess, and there was no time to clean it up. Let me go to the sixth floor."

Yang Yedao, "Vampires are used to sleeping in coffins, so it's okay to sleep on a hard floor. Hmm... wait—"

Yang Ye recalled his experience last night, and said again: "I confirm that the room I stayed in last night has no furniture. But there are paintings on the wall, which are the kind of oil paintings that are directly painted on the wall. Um... I don't know about this aspect. It's too professional, but it should be painted with oil painting materials. In short, that painting is the same as the one on the bedside in your room."

Gu Liang frowned subconsciously, thought for a while, and then asked him: "So, what did the castle you went to last night look like?"

Yang Yedao: "It looks similar to this old castle from the outside, but it's completely different inside. For example, the lobby on the first floor of this old castle is resplendent and resplendent. The old castle I stepped into last night was very dim. It's all made of dark stone, it's not painted, and it looks very dark, like vampires really can't see the light."

Gu Liang: "According to the public plot last night, that Duke of Dar, he is the owner of this castle, and he seems to have lived 300 years ago? Is he the one who sent you the letter?"

"Yes, it's him."

Yang Ye nodded, "So the castle I walked into last night did not have electric lights, but there were torches on the walls. Of course, there is no elevator in the lobby. I took the stairs to the sixth floor last night. The stairs are made of stone. The rotating one is right in the middle of the lobby. According to this situation, my last night should have been 300 years ago."

Gu Liang asked him. "So, your story has nothing to do with Yu Zhanan at all? It's just that the system happened to let you play the role of an earl, and this earl lived 300 years ago. As an earl, you came to this ancient castle, maybe you just traveled through time and space ?”

Yang Ye nodded: "Yes, it seems to be the case at present. And I always feel that Mr. Rong is not that simple."

Gu Liang frowned: "Indeed. He and I are the only living people in the castle. He is the current owner of the castle. He must know more secrets about this castle."

Yang Yedao: "So when I smashed the mirror in his room just now, I took a second look. There is a notebook on his desk, and one page has been torn off. This means that he has written something, but only the one with something written on it. A piece of paper was torn away by him. You can use a pencil to draw on the next page to see the content."

"Why didn't you paint it just now?" Gu Liang asked.

"First, I don't know if other people will come up at any time. I have to smash the mirror first before talking."

Yang Ye smiled at Gu Liang, stretched out his hand to pluck his hair, "The second point is also the most important point, checking things is not as important as your breakfast."

Gu Liang: "..."

The two of them have already reached the door of Mr. Rong's room.

Gu Liang glanced at Yang Ye, took the key from his hand to open the door, and entered the room first.

There are no bats in Mr. Rong's room.

Gu Liang walked to the desk with peace of mind, there was indeed an open notebook, and on the open page, you could see the obvious imprint.

There are pencils on the desk.

Gu Liang picked up the pencil and carefully scribbled on the notebook.

The torn content of the previous page appeared immediately.

—That was four words: "Kill them."

"Kill, he, they..." Gu Liang read these four words slowly, and looked at Yang Ye, "What do you think these words mean?"

At this moment, Gu Liang is sitting at the desk.

He is holding a pen, a notebook in front of him, and a desk lamp on his right.

The desk lamp is a kind of warm yellow that doesn't hurt the eyes, shining on Gu Liang's face, it makes him very gentle and beautiful.

He looked like a well-behaved student who was doing homework. Now he encountered a problem that he couldn't understand, so he came to ask his teacher for help.

"Yang Ye?" Gu Liang reminded him.

Yang Ye coughed lightly, came back to his senses, and said, "Yesterday, we found out the real murderer and the accomplice, but that was just a task in the game. Rong Mingyuan, as a player, we found the murderer. But in the plot story , especially in the story of Mr. Rong, Rong Mingyuan is not the murderer."

"In the eyes of Mr. Rong, those of us who have done something to his daughter are the ones who should be arrested. His daughter just killed an evil spirit. As for the housekeeper, he helped him maintain the family's reputation. .”

Hearing Yang Ye say such a paragraph, Gu Liang was actually a little surprised.

Because he could feel that Yang Ye was obviously distracted just now, and he didn't know what strange things he had imagined.

But, if you ask him a question, he can actually answer it well.

From this point of view, if this unscrupulous person is serious about solving the case from the beginning to the end, their efficiency will actually be higher, right?

Gu Liang complained about it, but soon understood what Yang Ye meant.

After the voting on the last script, before leaving the discussion room, everyone received a detailed restoration of the case from the perspective of the real murderer.

Before voting, Gu Liang actually thought Steward Hao was an accomplice, probably because he also liked Rong Mingyuan a little bit.

But after watching the plot, he realized that the motivation of the role of Butler Hao, or the starting point of doing things, is to protect the Rong family. He just doesn't want unfavorable rumors to spread in the castle, not because he loves Murong's famous ladies.

Who cultivated his sense of loyalty and conscientiousness?It should be the previous housekeeper.

But further speculation, the housekeeper's belief in protecting the Rong family must be inseparable from the owner of the Rong family, Mr. Rong.

The housekeepers are so protective of the family's honor, how can Mr. Rong not defend it?

For the sake of the Rong family's reputation, Mr. Rong will not do less than the housekeeper, but will only do more than the housekeeper.

After a long while, Gu Liang said: "So, the 'kill them' written on the torn piece of paper, this 'they' should refer to Yu Zha Nan, Mei Design and Ai Girlfriend. The three of them, last night It is indeed dead."

Yang Ye nodded: "The doll in the castle came back to life, Rong Mingyuan almost married an evil spirit, and the bridegroom-to-be died... These things must not be spread to Boss Rong. Otherwise, the reputation of the Rong family will be damaged." If it is damaged, Rong Mingyuan's happiness may also be destroyed."

"It's getting late, and everyone wants to go back the next day. But Mr. Rong only allowed the actor to stay. He sent a commercial vehicle to take the others, and lied to them that this car would take them back to the city. They killed. He wrote 'Kill them' notes, possibly direct orders to the driver of the van."

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and Yang Ye said again: "Of course, this is just a speculation, but I think this possibility is still very high."

"Yu Zha Nan, Mei Design, Ai Girlfriend, these three characters are dead. However, due to the consideration of player allocation and scheduling, the system still allows us to continue playing. So, if we meet Su Lan and Li Xiaoyu in a while, they should also have new role."

After thinking for a moment, Yang Ye adjusted his glasses and said, "The question now is, how did Rong Mingyuan and Hao Butler die?"

Gu Liang remembered a detail and asked Yang Ye: "Do you still remember that during the intensive discussion, the old Mengtou asked Mei Design about her motive for killing her. Mei Design means that she was paid to kill her. Then ..."

"Yeah. It's possible." Yang Ye quickly realized Gu Liang's meaning, and continued his words, "At this time, the people who really want to kill the famous ladies may have come to the castle. They may have come last night. Yes, it may have been lurking in the castle."

"In short, Jianmei's design failed, so they chose to do it themselves."

"It is possible that the development of the matter is... Rong Mingyuan was a little sad when she knew the truth about the doll's protection, so she went to the vegetable garden where she burned the doll to commemorate, but the housekeeper followed him worriedly. In the end, both of them were killed vegetable garden."

Gu Liang: "Then, this means that if we go downstairs in a while, among the players we meet, there may be murderers who killed the ladies and housekeepers."

"Yes. What exactly does this script want us to do? Let's see what happens."

Yang Ye patted Gu Liang on the shoulder, "Okay, let's have breakfast first, good student."

"student?"

"He holds the pen seriously and looks like a good student."

"So what were you thinking about?"

"Brain your cute looks!"

"I... forget it."

Gu Liang knew, so he shouldn't have asked.

After getting off the elevator, the elevator door opened, and the lobby in front of us was still resplendent and magnificent.

But there were a lot of weird things in the lobby - a white half-used candle, a blood-stained skirt, a red high-heeled shoe, and even a very old loom.

These objects, if you look at them with dark rooms, dark walls, or weird lights, are very scary, and they are simply the standard configuration of haunted houses.

But in the bright lobby, on the expensive marble floor, they are only jarring and slightly eerie.

"These things..." Gu Liang looked at them for a moment, thought of something, and said, "It's the same in the butler's room, there are a lot of strange old things."

Yang Ye said to him: "I saw these things in the lobby of the castle I visited last night, and they were in almost the same position. I was still sighing that the castle was indeed a bit messy, and I didn't know what the duke and princess had seen before they left. what happened."

Gu Liang's pupils dilated, as if he understood something, and said in a low voice: "So, it's not just you who have traveled through time. Those bats, mouse corpses, and these objects have traveled with you for 300 years. No... not only these things, but also There are other vampires, they also crossed over."

"Yeah." Yang Ye nodded, "The original owner of this castle was Duke Dar. His daughter is Princess Rose. The two of them may have come here as well."

While talking in low voices, the two walked lightly, walked slowly through the lobby, avoiding those old objects, and walked all the way to the main hall.

The door of the main hall was ajar. Before opening the door, Gu Liang stopped by the door, put his ear on the door and listened. Then he turned his head and mouthed to Yang Ye. "There are people inside, many people."

Therefore, it is possible that other than myself and Yang Ye, when other players heard the system broadcast and heard that there was a chef's body here, they would come over to check the chef's body first.

Gu Liang thought for a while, and first pulled Yang Ye to a corner.

Yang Ye was pulled by his wrist all the way to a corner of the lobby. Gu Liang looked back, but those people didn't come out, so he pushed Yang Ye further to the corner, and put his arm on the wall, unexpectedly forming a "wall dong" pose.

Yang Ye cooperated very well during this process, as if his strength was completely outmatched by Gu Liang.

Turning around, Gu Liang was about to say something when he saw Yang Ye grinning and looking at him.

Gu Liang: "What expression do you have?"

Yang Ye asked gently: "I kissed you this morning, do you want to kiss me back now?"

Gu Liang: "..."

Yang Ye: "Come on, I won't refuse."

Gu Liang narrowed his eyes, his gaze was cold, and then he bent his knee and kicked Yang Ye's leg, but he didn't use any force, the movement seemed very light.

So Yang Ye was touched like this, raised his hand to pinch Gu Liang's chin, and said righteously: "Are you molesting me?"

Gu Liang slapped his hand away, this time with great force. "Give me some seriousness!"

"Good daughter-in-law!"

Gu Liang clenched his back molars tightly, restraining himself from wanting to kick him hard, and said: "There are mirrors in the chef's lounge and toilet, please avoid them for a while."

Yang Ye thought for a while, and said seriously: "Combining my script and the information we have found so far, if our speculation just now is correct, then there are two vampires who traveled with me, or at least two vampires. .Because there may be other vampires that I don't know about. So with me, there are at least three vampires."

"In addition, there is a 'new visitor' in this script, which is likely to be the person who killed Rong Mingyuan and Butler Hao. In the end, Mr. Rong returned to the castle in the morning after discussing business, and there is such a human as Mr. Rong."

Gu Liangdao, "So what do you mean?"

"I mean, among the other players in the script, regardless of whether they are humans or vampires, they may have received the same task-to conceal their identities. Of course, not all players should have side tasks. But they at least Possibly has -- mirrors reflect vampires, and vampires kill people."

"I understand." Gu Liang nodded, "Uncertain who is a vampire, ordinary people will not look in the mirror with others, lest vampires find out that they are human and be killed. So, everyone will actually avoid it. Look in the mirror together. Don't worry too much about the mirror."

"Yes. But we were right to smash the mirror just now, lest someone might break in suddenly."

Yang Yedao, "Now smashing the mirrors in other rooms can also prevent many contingencies. The only problem is that the mirrors are all broken. To a certain extent, it also increases the difficulty for the two of us to distinguish who is a vampire and who is a vampire." Human difficulty."

"In addition, the mirror in the bat room has not been dealt with, and what to do later remains to be considered. In short, we must be careful every step of the way."

After Yang Ye said this, he wanted to take his Gu Liangliang to eat breakfast first.

However, he found that Gu Liang was very serious, and seemed to be in deep thought again.

"Gu Liang? Are there any other questions?" Yang Ye asked.

Gu Liangdao: "I suddenly discovered a big problem."

"Huh?" Yang Ye looked at him.

Gu Liang asked him: "Let me ask first, besides mirrors, do you have other ways to identify vampires? For example, is it possible for vampires to be afraid of sunlight?"

Yang Ye shook his head: "At present, there is no such thing. However, I still have some information about the Duke and Princess. I should make judgments mainly based on the plot and imagination. I will tell you slowly in a while."

Gu Liang: "So, we will see other players right away. There are people and vampires in it. Vampires will travel over like you. There is a chance to find human clothes in the castle and change them into human beings. But people cannot disguise themselves as vampires. .”

Yang Ye also thought for a while, and then said: "It should be like this. Other players, I mean those players whose characters are ordinary humans, they should receive a clear plot description, or at least a hint, that is the ancient castle. There are vampires disguised as humans sneaking in."

"You can only pretend to be a vampire, not the other way around, otherwise this game can't be played."

Everyone looks like normal humans, but there are vampires hidden among them.

Ordinary players also know this, but they don't know who is the vampire.

Vampires must not be able to recognize each other. They only know that in a group of people, there are their own kind, but they don't know who the same kind is.

Only in this way can this game be relatively reasonable, otherwise ordinary humans would have no chance to play it.

Gu Liang: "Yes. I agree."

Yang Ye: "What are you worried about?"

Gu Liang: "In the morning... there are too many messy things, and my mind is a bit confused. I actually received three side missions, and I didn't have time to tell you in detail."

Speaking of this, Gu Liang told Yang Ye that he was in a transformation period, that is, he was sometimes a human and sometimes a vampire.

In addition, he was in the transformation stage and had to hide his identity as a vampire from humans; in addition, he had to hide the identity of others from vampires. He also told Yang Ye about these two sub-quests.

Gu Liangdao: "Apart from these two, the third task is to help you conceal your identity."

When Yang Ye heard this, after thinking about it for a short while, he silently cursed: "This system is ugly enough. Stupid players will directly fail the mission."

Gu Liang: "Yes. There are traps in the mission. It is impossible for me to complete three missions at the same time. I have to choose one side."

——This is the insidious part of the system. The side missions are not to be completed, but to be discarded.

If Gu Liang foolishly followed the mission instructions, the development of the story might be like this

——After roughly distinguishing who is a vampire and who is a human based on the information given by Yang Ye, Gu Liang will tell the vampire that he is a vampire when he meets a vampire; after meeting a human, he reveals that he is a human.

Then, during the centralized discussion, if there is a task that asks everyone to vote for the non-human non-vampire player who is in the transformation stage, Gu Liang will be directly exposed as soon as everyone compares the information.

At the beginning of the game, when everyone didn't know anything, a mission came.

Knowing such limited information, we have to do tasks, guess the plot, and guess the settings, and now even the rules of the game in the script have to be guessed by the players.

Sure enough, the difficulty has increased by another star.

"Okay, I have a clear idea, I will choose which line to complete according to the situation. Go to the restaurant and meet other players." Gu Liang took out the card and checked the time. It is now 9:40.

Back at the entrance of the main hall, Gu Liang and Yang Ye looked at each other and pushed open the door together.

The first thing that caught the eye was a corpse, and it was a corpse with very distinctive features.

——He was wearing a chef's hat, and his white chef's uniform had been unbuttoned. From this, it could be seen that he was simply a mummified corpse.

Near the collarbone at the lower end of the neck, there are two clear holes, where there is still a little red blood.

This is what vampires did.

This conclusion is almost beyond doubt.

At this time, Gu Liang knew that Yang Ye's guess just now was correct—ordinary humans in the player would definitely receive clues about vampires, knowing that there were vampires mixed in with humans.

It's just that this clue was not directly written to them by the card plot, but what they could deduce from the corpse.

"Yang Ye! Gu Liang! I was just wondering where you guys went! Great, we meet again, I have a thigh hug!"

——It was Li Xiaoyu's voice.