Live Action Murder Mystery

At four o'clock in the afternoon, after coming out of the piano room on the fourth floor, Yang Ye and Gu Liang went to the room where the Oriental warlock was again.

After being searched and verified by everyone yesterday, the mess here has remained to this day.

Paints, brushes, and various spell books were scattered on wooden shelves, beds, and floors.

Gu Liang roughly flipped through these spell books yesterday, and they basically talked about various spell formations.

Yesterday, Gu Liang focused on the relationship between oriental magicians and murals, focusing on the brushes and paints, and did not read the books very carefully.

When they came back, Gu Liang and Yang Ye picked up these books and looked them up one by one.

He found a book among them, which was devoted to illusion.

Gu Liang opened the book, flipped through it page by page, and found that the illusion mentioned here was probably of this type—a rabbit emerged from a hat, a butterfly appeared in a glass bottle, and a stone turned into a watermelon...

It is specifically mentioned in the book that the so-called illusion is that seeing is not believing.

For example, if you really eat a watermelon turned from a stone, you will hit your teeth, but it does not mean that you can really turn a stone into a watermelon.

The so-called illusion can only create some kind of illusion for people.

When Gu Liang was watching, Yang Ye sat side by side with him on the ground and looked it up together.

Yang Ye's comment on this is: "In fact, this is a bit similar to magic, but it is an advanced version of magic with a bit of magical nature."

"Yes. That's right." Gu Liang said, "When I saw it yesterday, I didn't have any idea about the connection between illusion and this story. But now I feel... Yang Ye, look, this page is folded .”

Yang Ye looked at the illusion book in Gu Liang's hand. Sure enough, there was a page in the book that was specially folded. It should have been folded by the oriental magician himself for marking.

This means that the content of this page is very critical.

The two of them read this page carefully. The magic trick taught on this page is how to make paper butterflies fly, making everyone think that paper butterflies really come alive.

Yang Ye looked at Gu Liang: "What do you think the effect of this illusion is?"

After a while, Gu Liang looked into Yang Ye's eyes and said, "Fudge. The oriental warlock may be Duke Dale who used illusion to fool you."

The Oriental warlock is a knight-errant character who has traveled all over the world and is knowledgeable and talented.

When he passed a village, he met Ai Meili and taught her some foreign language.

Maybe it was because Ai Meili was still young, maybe the warlock still had a heart to continue wandering, so he didn't stop at that time, and continued to travel after a brief stop in the village.

Years later, Duke Dahl came.

The villagers respect him as a god and are willing to obey his orders.

But gradually, everyone discovered his true colors.

—He's a vampire.

Duke Dahl has killed too many people, and his behavior is heinous and frightening.

His cruel deeds spread slowly, and everyone got it and punished him.

The owner of the castle, Duke Dar, is a powerful vampire.

Many capable men and soldiers tried to kill him, but all failed.

This matter later spread to the ears of the oriental warlocks.

He rushed back to the village without stopping, only to find that the people here were almost dead.

Including Emily, she was also taken away by the owner of the castle.

He stayed to inquire, and found out that Duke Dahl fell in love with Emily.

The two were not really married, but everyone already respected her as the hostess.

The oriental warlock also inquired that Duke Dahl wanted to decorate his castle so that his wife and princess could live happily and see beautiful paintings every day.

However, the Duke has never found the painter he wanted.

So the oriental warlock pretended to be a villager and was taken into the castle.

One time when the Duke was about to suck his blood, he knelt down and begged for mercy, saying that he could paint and know many spells, and that he must be useful to the Duke, so he asked the Duke not to kill him.

The Duke heard that he could paint oil paintings, so he asked him to try painting a few.

The duke first asked him to paint sunflowers, and the sunflowers he drew were really vivid, as if they had really attracted sunlight.

Moreover, after the servants presented the painting to Ai Meili, they fed back to the duke and said—the lady who hasn't smiled for a long time, she actually smiled.

The Duke was so happy that he spared the warlock's life and let him continue painting for his wife and princess.

But in fact, Ai Meili may not be happy because the sunflower is well painted.

That's just because she read the code word from the painting.

When a painter paints, he usually leaves his own signature or mark.

Ai Meili saw the painting and knew he was coming, so she smiled.

After gaining the Duke's trust, the oriental warlock took a chance to meet Ai Meili.

The warlock said: "I have a way to kill the Duke, and even the vampires in the entire castle. The Duke likes murals, and I will paint murals in various places in the entire castle. The murals imply my magic circle, and they will slowly condense the grievances. When all the magic circles are activated, as long as you are in the place where the mural is, the vampire will die under the mural."

"The murals are all over the castle, so all vampires will die."

"The only difficulty in this matter is that the magic circle needs the Duke's blood to open it."

"The undead in this ancient castle all died at the hands of the Duke. Only the blood of the Duke can arouse their anger and resentment to the greatest extent. In this way, the magic circle will exert the strongest power, so that it can kill the Duke .”

"I have to find a way to trick him into injecting his own blood into the mural."

The warlock was standing in front of the window when he said this, and a little sunlight filtered through the gap between the curtains, illuminating him just in time.

Emily looked at him.

At this time, he suddenly seemed like the boy who walked towards him in the light when he first met.

Ai Meili has completely become a vampire at this time.

She hid in the dark shadow covered by the thick curtain beside her, not daring to approach the light or him.

Don't go through the years.

Ai Meili never thought that when they meet again, there will be such a scene between the two.

Ai Meili said to him: "This is simple. You kill me, and then lie to him that the mural can take him through time and find me who was reincarnated."

Warlock: "I can't kill you. Besides, how can you make sure this is safe?"

Ai Meili: "Because I can be sure that he really loves me. For me, no matter what, he will definitely try."

Ai Meili said this sentence calmly, not noticing that the face of the Eastern Warlock became stiff for a moment.

Ai Meili continued: "If you use other methods, you may expose yourself. At that time, your painting will be in vain, and you will die yourself, and many people will die too."

"He is too powerful, and he will only reveal his flaws when he is frustrated and even collapsed by my death. Then you will have the opportunity to persuade him to put his blood into the mural."

The warlock looked at her, his hands trembling. "I came to save you, how could I kill you?"

Ai Meili looked at him quietly and said, "You are late, I am already dead."

"Like me now, neither dead nor alive, relying on human blood for a living...is even worse than death."

"Please help me out."

"Let's arrange it on November 11. Because he plans to marry me the next day."

"I won't let him do that."

"When he thought he could marry me, he saw my dead body. That was the only way to destroy him to the greatest extent and minimize his defenses. I will leave everything behind to you."

The sunflowers painted by Oriental warlocks are very vivid, as if they are really bathed in sunlight.

When the princess heard about this, she, who had always liked roses, asked her father to let the magician draw many roses for herself.

One day, after finishing painting for the princess, the oriental warlock used illusion to show her a butterfly.

It is really amazing that white paper can turn into butterflies and fly in front of the canvas.

For all this, Princess Rose likes it very much, which makes her feel that she has returned to the sunshine, and there are not only flowers but also butterflies in front of her.It's like she's a human again.

She couldn't help but kept praising Warlock in front of the Duke.

The Duke didn't believe it at first, until he saw the scene of the paper butterfly coming to life with his own eyes.

So he went to the warlock and asked him what was going on.

The oriental magician replied: "The east pays attention to yin and yang. Yin and yang depend on each other. There is me in you and you in me, just like life and death. The living can die, and the dead can be resurrected."

The Duke asked: "Can a person be reborn without a soul?"

The warlock replied: "Of course. It's like this paper butterfly can come back to life. The body and the soul, one is Yang, the other is Yin, which actually contains the principle of mutual transformation and birth. Therefore, the soul is still there and can reshape the body; the soul If you die, the body is still there, and the soul can be reshaped."

Therefore, after coming to this ancient castle, apart from painting murals, another thing the warlock did was to subtly tell the Duke about oriental metaphysics.

In fact, what he said was not entirely false.

But the so-called soul reshaping, he can't do it.He hadn't heard of anyone actually succeeding either.

Gradually, the Duke was fascinated by it, not to mention that he fully believed in this metaphysics, but he did not deny its existence.

Until that night that Ai Meili really died, no matter what, even if a dead horse is a living horse doctor, he still wants to try the legendary oriental metaphysics. No matter what the price is, he wants to save Ai Meili.

February 11, 7pm.

The oriental warlock went to Ai Meili's room in the name of sending paintings.

He was able to stab the cross into her heart in just 10 minutes, because this was what Ai Meili had acquiesced to.

Even under the blessing of his illusion, no one could notice that there was a cross hidden on her body.

At 7:[-] p.m., servant A tried to kill Ai Meili with a cross while she was changing clothes under the pretext of dressing her up.

At this time, she found that Ai Meili's chest had been pierced by a cross.

Ai Meili smiled and said to her: "Help me with makeup. Let me have a meal with him at the end. I will advise him and let him marry you in the future. Everything in this house will be yours. Don't worry. Actually ...We were all born as human beings, why should we be hostile now?"

"Are you happy after becoming a vampire?"

"Actually, think about it... everyone is just a poor person."

"You and I can't love each other, and we can't even go back to our real hometown."

Ai Meili's words reminded servant A of her bleak life - being forced to become a vampire, fleeing from a refugee, unable to return to her hometown...

Therefore, when she left Ai Meili's room, she felt a little sad and sad.

It never occurred to her that she would die tonight, too.

At 8:[-] in the evening, Ai Meili put on exquisite makeup, pretended nothing happened, and had a meal with the Duke.

It's been a long time since I saw her smile like this. The Duke was intoxicated by it, and with the blessing of illusion on her body, he himself was not afraid of the cross at all. In the end, he didn't notice any abnormalities.

At 9:[-] in the evening, Ai Meili went back to the house, lay back in the coffin, closed her eyes peacefully, and waited for a complete death.

That night, when the Duke saw her dead body, he almost went crazy.

He remembered the oriental metaphysics that warlocks usually talked about, and immediately found him and asked him if Ai Meili's soul could be reshaped, and if she could find her reincarnation.

The warlock said that her dissipated souls would slowly reunite during the circulation of heaven and earth.

But it will be 300 years before she can be reincarnated.

In the end, the Duke accepted the advice of the warlock and decided to use the murals to absorb grievances, and then use their power to achieve time travel.

So, that night, the warlock pretended to make so-called adjustments to the murals.

The next day, on November 11, he found the Duke and said that he had adjusted the mural, and the Duke could start using blood to activate the magic circle, so that the mural could absorb the grievances.

The Duke did not expect that when he cut his finger and touched his blood to the mural, the magic circle he opened was not a magic circle that could absorb resentment and then help him pass through it later.

The grievances on the murals had already been condensed in this month.

Therefore, the moment the Duke's blood touched the mural, the long-condensed resentment was instantly triggered, and the magic circle was activated.

At that moment, there was light shining through the mural, more intense than sunlight.

All the vampires photographed by the painting died instantly.

The moment before the magic circle was activated.

In the steward's room on the fourth floor, the steward is keeping a diary.

"My God, Madam is actually dead."

"The duke is heartbroken."

"I have an ominous premonition, as if I won't live long..."

After saying this, the steward felt that the paintings hanging on the wall were glowing.

——That was a portrait given to him by an oriental warlock.

He couldn't finish his diary because the moment he saw the portrait, he was wiped out.

fourth floor.In the room of the oriental warlock.

Gu Liang roughly imagined the outline of the story, and said, "Why didn't the other vampires cross over? How can a vampire reincarnate without a soul? The meaning of this folded page of the book Illusion; Ai Meili has a cross on her chest, but still looks calm The reason for attending the banquet; the reason why oriental warlocks started painting murals so early, as if they could have expected to use murals to travel through; why the manager's diary is unfinished to be continued..."

"All of this finally has a perfect explanation."

Yang Ye thought for a while and said, "I agree with this story. But we don't know what happened afterwards. For example, did Earl William arrive at the castle that night? What happened to him?"

Gu Liang said: "Actually, I thought about it just now. If there is no time travel, there will be no overlap between the two times, but there are indeed many ancient objects in this castle, including Ai Meili's body is also fresh. Then, we should be in In some kind of illusion. This illusion must be related to the magic circle on the mural."

"Folding the castle is not the overlapping of time, but actually the overlapping of illusion and reality. Yu Zhanan died in the real space, and a person was transformed into a person in the illusion, using Yu Zhanan's appearance, but the memory given to him was mixed. Earl William and Duke Dahl."

"This explains why you think you are Earl William, but you will have a lot of memories of Duke Dahl, including your failure in the war with the werewolves, including why you commanded bats."

Yang Ye thought for a moment, and then said: "If this is the case, we still have three problems to solve."

"First, 300 years ago, did the Duke die or not, and where did the Warlock go? If my memory of Earl William as a character is correct, 'Last night' Duke William came to the castle and saw that the lobby was in a mess, such as the current In the lobby, all kinds of sundries are piled up here, why?"

"Second, if the rest of the characters in this script are not themselves, then Su Lan is not actually Princess Rose. The current players can be divided into two categories, one is dead people, such as the scumbag, the beauty Design, AI best friend."

"The other category is you and Mr. Rong, are you two still alive? If you are still alive, it doesn't mean that the dead will enter this illusion. Then, how did the illusion kill us and keep us alive?" Are they all connected together?"

"Finally, we still have to find the stories about the two new players."

"Third, that is how this illusion came about, and how we can get out."

Gu Liang nodded: "Well. The follow-up plot, wait for the system to notify. Places like gardens have not been opened for exploration. Maybe we can have more detailed clues later."

"In the end, I think the timeline of the first morning is very important. No one can explain how everyone came to the castle. There must be articles in it."

night.

Yang Ye and Gu Liang went to the kitchen, and when they passed through the main hall, they saw Li Xiaoyu.

When Li Xiaoyu saw the two of them, she smiled rather doglegly.

Yang Ye saw through her little thoughts at a glance. "It's time for dinner, come to eat?"

Li Xiaoyu spoke righteously: "You can't say that, I have something important to share with you!"

"Okay, then you share." Yang Ye said.

Li Xiaoyu waved to him. "You go and cook first. Friendly reminder, I turned over the refrigerator, there are small yellow croakers in it!"

"You are so beautiful." Yang Ye raised his eyebrows.

Li Xiaoyu looked at Gu Liang and blinked: "Boss Gu, how about eating fish tonight?"

Gu Liang: "..."

Gu Liang scratched his ears uncomfortably and looked at Yang Ye. "You just watch and do it, see whichever is convenient, and do whatever you want."

Yang Ye smiled affectionately at Gu Liang, and then looked at Li Xiaoyu with contempt, the speed of his face changing was astonishing. "Look how considerate our Liangliang family is. If you can't get married in the future, you have to reflect on yourself!"

When Gu Liang heard this, he subconsciously frowned.

Why was Yang Ye describing him as a little daughter-in-law?

So he patted Yang Ye's shoulder, his eyes showing some dissatisfaction.

Yang Ye could see his dissatisfaction.

But Yang Ye misunderstood the meaning, thinking that he blamed himself for not being too aggressive with girls.

Yang Ye grabbed his hand and said seriously: "Liangliang! You can't forget the principle once a girl is cute. You are no longer a straight man, you now—"

Gu Liang pushed him away and helped his forehead. "Go ahead and go fish."

Li Xiaoyu made up the knife: "I have thawed the fish! I also like to chop the onion, ginger and garlic! You can just cook it!"

"Woooooo, the little yellow croaker my mother made for me is the best. I haven't eaten it for a long time when I come to this game—"

"Okay, okay, I'll make it for you. The condition is that you stay three meters away from my Gu Liangliang. Otherwise, you won't have any good fruit to eat."

After finishing the harsh words, Yang Ye went to the kitchen.

"It's over, Gu Liang, you're over. His possessiveness is so terrifying, he even eats my jealousy. If he can't keep it all in the future, what will he do with you?"

Li Xiaoyu "tsk tsk" twice, and sat down at the dining table with Gu Liang.

Gu Liang ignored her joke, and only asked her: "From last night, do you have any plot?"

"Yes." Li Xiaoyu said, "It's... a wonderful plot."

After coughing twice, Li Xiaoyu continued: "I said that the more I look at the big guy, the more I like him, and then I broke up with my fiancé, Boss Mei."

"You said how miserable my relationship line has been all the time. In the script of Huapi, the childhood sweetheart empathizes with the beauty in the top; in the Immortal City, Ding beggar died for me; in the doll, I met a scumbag man; this script, originally With a handsome fiance, let me have a relationship with Lao Mengtou now? It's simple."

"When did you come here this afternoon? Have other people seen it?" Gu Liang asked.

"It's 6 o'clock now, I came here at 5:[-] o'clock, I didn't see anyone else, they might be acting out their own plot."

Li Xiaoyu said, looked around, took out an old piece of paper, and said, "By the way, here is something I found in a servant's room today. I think it is very important. First give Look, you two, don't tell anyone."

Gu Liang took the paper and found that it was a map - a map of the castle 300 years ago.

Everyone has explored the internal structure, but there is nothing unusual. The focus is on the description of the garden on this map.

The location of the open-air garden restaurant today, including a small orchard around it, was a rose garden 300 years ago.

As for the current location of the vegetable garden, it was 300 years ago—the place where sunflowers were grown.

At this time, Gu Liang remembered the words written by Duke Dar on the piano score in the piano room: "If you leave, I will wait for you at your favorite place."

In the limited scenario of the script, it can only be inferred that Emily's favorite place is the place with sunflowers.

So corresponding to today, it is the location of the vegetable garden.

When Yang Ye finished cooking and the three of them ate together, Gu Liang showed Yang Ye the map. "Do you think it's possible that the Duke died in the vegetable garden?"

"It's possible. After all, he's powerful. Maybe he won't die immediately like other vampires. It's possible for him to go to the vegetable garden." Yang Ye nodded.

Gu Liang frowned, and said again: "The pentagram that killed the baby is placed in the vegetable garden. Rong Mingyuan and Hao Butler also died in the vegetable garden. In the timeline of yesterday morning, at present, Mama Ai, Boss Mei, and Sister Mei are all dead. Admit that you have been to the vegetable garden."

"Vegetable garden, this location must be very important..."

"Again, do you think it is possible for the Duke to be resurrected?"

"If he comes back to life, then Boss Mei who appeared in the vegetable garden is very suspicious."

Yang Ye thought for a while and said, "Forget about the fantasy or not, the role that Ai's mother will temporarily take on is Ai Meili 300 years later. Whenever she sees Boss Mei, she regards her as her fiancé. Who was Ai Meili 300 years ago?" Beautiful fiancé? Duke."

Gu Liangdao: "But first, Boss Mei doesn't recognize her as his fiancée, saying he doesn't know her at all. Second, now that Mama Ai has moved on and fell in love with Boss Rong."

"Hey." The development of the plot made Yang Ye happy again. He choked on laughter for a moment, then turned his head and covered his mouth and coughed a few times.

Gu Liang frowned: "I'm eating fish, don't laugh. Forget it, let's discuss it after eating."

"Yes. I will keep my daughter-in-law's concern in mind."

"..."

Li Xiaoyu was a little confused. "What illusion? What resurrection? Didn't the Duke time travel?"

Yang Ye pushed the braised small yellow croaker in front of her. "Eat fish."

After eating, Gu Liang washed the dishes, cleaned up the kitchen, and went upstairs and back to the room with Yang Ye.

Li Xiaoyu was going to help, but the card vibrated, so she left first to run the plot.

After returning to the room, Gu Liang sat on the sofa and thought about the case silently.

Yang Ye has been exercising, push-ups, squats... all the same.

"It's too uncomfortable to have no place to run." Yang Yedao, "I don't know when the back garden will open."

Gu Liang didn't answer, and continued to lower his head and meditate.

Yang Ye walked up to him and supported the sofa, the shadow cast completely covered Gu Liang.

He looked at Gu Liang condescendingly, and said: "You also relax a little bit, don't keep thinking. Does your head hurt? Do you want me to massage your head for you?"

Gu Liang shook his head. "It's okay. I'm just brainstorming other people's stories."

As soon as Gu Liang finished speaking, the cards of both of them vibrated.

After reading the cards, Yang Ye smiled, leaned on the armrest of the sofa, and knelt down in front of Gu Liang.

After a while, Yang Ye pulled the back of Gu Liang's hand to his lips, kissed it lightly, and then looked at him affectionately: "Will you marry me?"

Gu Liang had to read his lines. "I... cough, I would."

This seemed to be the first time that when he read his lines, his voice was a little hesitant and his emotions fluctuated a little, instead of the calm and calm tone he had before.

He turned his head away, avoiding Yang Ye's gaze, and the roots of his ears were obviously a little red.

Yang Ye smiled.He asked Gu Liang: "Hey, if you get married in the script, is it considered a marriage? Then according to the plot, at the wedding scene tomorrow, I will marry you."

I don't know why, when Gu Liang heard this, he remembered what Yang Ye said yesterday - "I won't mess around until I marry you in a big sedan chair."

So, what does he mean?

Is he implying something?

What does he want to do?

Gu Liangzheng turned his head, looked at Yang Ye, and immediately thought of something funny, smiled lightly, and then said: "Don't worry, I have a hunch that this marriage will not work out, something will happen."

——Those who tried to get married in this ancient castle, including Rong Mingyuan, Feng's boyfriend, Ai Meili, and Duke Dahl, almost didn't end well.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Yang Ye stepped forward to open the door, and there was Li Xiaoyu outside.

"Xiaoyu? What's the matter?" Yang Ye asked.

Li Xiaoyu handed something to Yang Ye in embarrassment, and said, "This is an invitation. Tomorrow at 8 o'clock in the evening, I will get married with Mr. Rong, welcome to join me. I will continue to send invitations to other people..."

Li Xiaoyu left with a sigh.

After Yang Ye closed the door, Gu Liang came over and looked at the invitation together with him.

The white paper, with the wedding invitation written on it with a black signature pen, is very sloppy, and the black and white writing on it... really looks very unlucky.