Six cards were placed on the quaint square table.
Correspondingly, there were six people around the table.
A deep and paradoxical voice sounded from the radio: "Welcome to the script deductive reasoning game. There are six cards in front of you, including [Murderer Card], [Detective Card], [Dead Card], and [Common Identity Card]. Please Everyone draws cards to obtain the roles they are about to play."
Gu Liang frowned slightly, and took away a card in front of him.
The card consists of two parts. The first part reads: "Today's deceased is named Boss Bai. Your name is Lawyer Zhang, male, 32 years old. You have an ex-girlfriend named Girlfriend Huang. Girlfriend Huang was raped by Boss Bai before. You lived with him under his coercion. In order to rescue Huang’s girlfriend, you pretended to be a lawyer and approached Boss Bai, waiting for an opportunity to murder him.”
A domineering president forces love? What kind of bloody script is this
Gu Liang raised his eyebrows and continued to look down.
The first part of the card is the character's plot introduction, and the second part is the character's timeline, that is, explaining what the character did in which time period.
The timeline that Gu Liang got was very simple.
"At 11:30 in the morning, you passed by the kitchen and found that there was no one in it. You took the opportunity to add a new type of oral insulin to the chicken soup, hoping that the non-diabetic boss Bai would die of hypoglycemia. You observed for a long time, and the boss Bai They will all drink chicken soup unshakably. So you think your plan will be successful."
Can insulin be taken orally
Is this reasonable
With doubts, Gu Liang saw the key point prompt at the bottom of the card.
"1. You may be the real culprit in this case, please be careful to hide your identity."
"2. This script is the simplest experience mode for beginners. If you survive smoothly, you will have the opportunity to experience the high-quality script with hell-level difficulty. I wish you a happy game!"
Happy fucking game.
Gu Liang squeezed the card tightly, his pupils shrank slightly.
Five minutes later, it seemed that everyone had finished watching the plot by default, and the weird broadcast sounded again: "Now announce the specific rules."
"First, Boss Bai is the deceased in this case, and he is about to die according to the script."
Just as the first rule was announced on the radio, a middle-aged bald man diagonally opposite Gu Liang had already collapsed.
His face was pale, as if he had fainted from fright after hearing the radio.
Broadcast: "Interrupt an emergency incident. The player who plays the role of Boss Bai is frightened and unconscious. The NPC will give him first aid. Please don't panic. It's not time for him to die."
The meaning of this broadcast is: I'm sorry, please wait a while before you die.
It's just... the player who draws the [dead card] must die? So unlucky
There should be a way to break it.
But how to break it may not be known until the rules of the game are thoroughly understood.
Gu Liang squinted his eyes, and immediately saw two men in black appearing out of nowhere, giving first aid to Boss Bai.
The bald man woke up quickly and was carried out of the room by the man in black.
It seems that these two men in black are the NPCs mentioned by the system just now.
They were all dressed in black, wearing cloaks, and a layer of black mist surrounded their faces, making it difficult to see their faces clearly.
They appeared silently, and even the temperature around them became lower, reminiscent of the black impermanence in ghost stories.
The broadcast continued to read: "Continue to read the rules of the game. Second, in the plot interpretation, please strictly follow the content of the plot, and those who violate it will be punished."
"Third, cards are very important to players, please keep them safe; in addition, it is not allowed to view the plot content on other players' cards through any means such as gifting, exchanging, robbing, or stealing, and those who violate it will be punished by the men in black." Take it away from the scene of the script."
"Fourth, there is a voting session at the end of the game for everyone to vote for the murderer. Each person only has one chance to vote, please be careful."
"Fifth, the person who received the most votes in the voting session, whether he is the real murderer or not, will be punished by death. Sinner! Pay for the dead! You are too bad! How can you kill someone! Go die with the dead! "
"Sixth, let the detectives work hard to solve the case and lead everyone to find the real culprit."
"If a good person is killed unjustly, the detective will also accept death punishment. I feel very sorry. But who let you make the real murderer escape? If the murderer escapes, who is responsible for the dead? Who is responsible for the unjust death of a good person? Detective, You will pay for your incompetence!"
"The rules have been read out. Now there is ten minutes for questions. You are welcome to ask questions!"
The sound of the broadcast was temporarily stopped, and the hall fell into an eerie silence for a while.
After a while, a girl about 18 years old raised her hand. Her face was pale and her arms were trembling.
From this point of view, she is the kind of child who is serious in class, sensible and obedient. Even if she is afraid of this, she still raises her hand to ask questions.
"I... I have a problem."
Broadcast: "A child who knows how to ask questions is a good child. Ask!"
The girl asked: "If I were a murderer, would I have to kill people as written in the script? Do I really want to kill people? Not acting?"
Broadcast: "Of course! Please strictly follow the script!"
The girl trembled all over: "I... I don't want to! Let me out! I didn't take part in this game voluntarily! I don't know why I came here! I don't want to be a murderer!"
After saying this, the girl immediately ran towards the door.
The door was opened smoothly, but there seemed to be a strange wind blowing outside the door.
As soon as the girl ran out of the gate, she was suddenly swept into the air by the strong wind.
She had no ability to resist, her body whirled in the air like a dead leaf, and then fell straight to the ground after a while.
After falling to the ground, her neck tilted, and her whole body was motionless.
A pool of blood flowed out from the back of her head soundlessly, still looking warm.
Now Gu Liang understands - within the specified script game time, as long as he leaves the villa, it means death.
Just now, in response to the violation of looking up other people's cards, the broadcast stated that the violator will be taken away from the script venue by the man in black. In this script, this place refers to this villa, of course.
It seems that if a player directly checks other people's cards, it means courting death.
That's right, if you read the card plots with each other, you will immediately know who is the real murderer, and what games are you playing.
"Hey. People died before the game started, what a pity!" The broadcaster sighed, "There is a lack of a player, so we have to temporarily arrange an NPC to come over to replace it. This is a bad behavior of wasting system resources! Your rewards will be deducted! "
After the radio finished speaking, an NPC appeared.
She walked down the stairs, her demeanor was a bit like the girl who died just now.
The NPC walked up to everyone and said hello: "Hi, I'm Boss Bai's maid! My name is Maid Liu!"
The radio asked again: "The ten-minute question time is not over yet. Are there any questions?"
Gu Liang raised his hand.
Broadcast: "What's your question?"
Gu Liang: "The setting of the script is reasonable, and there is no need to consider realistic factors, right?"
— Oral insulin, which is unreasonable in the real world, not only exists in this game, but can also be used to kill people
Broadcast: "Of course, all reasoning should be set according to the script."
After a pause, Gu Liang asked again: "Can you kill the detective?"
Broadcast: "…"
other people:? ?
The sound of the radio sounded even more eerie. "Of course you can freely play with the content that is not mentioned in the script. But your behavior must conform to the character design."
"This script is a low-difficulty entry-level script, which does not require immersive role-playing, lines and acting skills, and temporarily does not constitute a key point to trigger OOC determination; however, once the player has a behavior that has a serious impact on the plot, the system will separately Judgment; if a player is judged OOC, there will be dire punishments."
Gu Liang understood the meaning of the broadcast.
He also had to take one step at a time.
"Okay. The question time is over. Please perform the script interpretation. After the interpretation session is over, the game will enter the stage of centralized discussion and voting. Please wait for the broadcast announcement at that time."
"The following is a public plot. It is 9 o'clock in the morning, and everyone is resting in the room on the second floor. Please strictly abide by the script and go back to your room immediately. Violators will be punished!"
After the broadcast sound fell, the hall was silent.
For a moment, no one spoke, some were immersed in the shock of a living little girl dying in front of their eyes, some seemed to have not realized what happened at all, and just stared blankly at the card. pace.
"Clang clang clang!"
It seemed that no one was moving, and an urgent reminder sounded on the radio: "Please act immediately in accordance with the public plot, otherwise everyone will trigger violation punishment!"
Gu Liang was the first to act.
After the little girl died, there were four players alive besides himself.
Gu Liang's eyes slid over them one by one, and after a little scrutiny, he walked out of the hall first.
Gu Liang is like the first domino that triggered the chain effect.
As soon as he moved, the rest of the people finally walked outside one after another.
Outside the card drawing hall is a corridor. The door of a room next to it is written "Concentration Discussion Room", further ahead is the bathroom, and the outermost one is the kitchen.
At the end of the corridor is a rather spacious living room.
At the end of the living room is a garden balcony.
Looking back, the other side of the living room is the dining room and bar. Between the bar and the living room is a spiral staircase to the second floor.
Gu Liang went all the way up the stairs to the second floor.
He counted, and there were seven rooms on the second floor.
There are a total of six characters in this game, which correspond to six rooms. The name of each character is marked on the door plate, which is clear at a glance. As for the extra room, the word "utility room" is written on the door plate.
There are four previously known characters of Gu Liang, [Boss Bai], [Lawyer Zhang], [Girlfriend Huang], and one [Maid Liu].
Now, through the names on the door plate, Gu Liang knows the names of the remaining two characters, one is called [Bai Zi] and the other is called [Bai Ge].
The naming method of this system is simple and clear. It is not difficult to guess that Bai Zi is the son of the deceased Boss Bai, and Bai Ge is his elder brother.
It seems that all the characters in this script revolve around Boss Bai.
Gu Liang made up his mind, went straight to the room with the words "Lawyer Zhang", opened the door to enter, and closed the door immediately.
The decoration in the room is consistent with the house as a whole, all in the European retro style of the 19th century, from the bed, sofa, carpet, to the small plates for dessert on the square table, and the utensils for black tea...everything is very delicate.
If this is really a game, and these objects are game props, then this is really a luxury game.
But Gu Liang didn't have time to appreciate too much at the moment, but searched carefully in the house.
According to the script, the lawyer Zhang played by him will take insulin to the kitchen to prescribe medicine at 11:30.
But no character like NPC handed him any props on his own initiative.
Gu Liang pondered, then he probably had to find it by himself.
Sure enough, when he opened the drawer beside the bed, he saw a white medicine box inside, with the word "insulin" written on it simply and clearly.
At this time, there was a knock on the door.
"Who?" Gu Liang asked.
A man's voice sounded outside the door, his voice was deep and pleasant. "Your girlfriend."
Gu Liang: "I don't have a girlfriend."
The person outside the door paused for a while, and said, "I'm girlfriend Huang. I don't even want to get a female role."
In this way, a doubt in Gu Liang's heart was solved.
According to the script, there are two female characters this time - Maid Liu and Girlfriend Huang.
But just now in the card drawing hall, Gu Liang counted, and there was only one female player among them.
Now he understands that this role-playing can be reversed.
It's just that this girlfriend Huang came to find him now, is he fulfilling the requirements of the script, or is this his private action
If this is his private action, what is his purpose
With many doubts in his heart, Gu Liang closed the drawer and went to open the door anyway.
The man standing outside the door was tall and tall, with extremely prominent facial features.
He was wearing a well-fitting suit and a pair of silver single-rim glasses. At first glance, he looked very refined.
But not on closer inspection.
His suit jacket was not closed, and the top two buttons of his white shirt were left unbuttoned, revealing a section of his collarbone, and his whole person showed a little unruly and unrestrained.
Well, that makes him look less serious.
Gu Liang stood at the door, not intending to ask the person at the door to come in.
But the man bypassed him, walked into the house in a good manner, looked around, and then looked at him again and asked, "When and how do you plan to do it?"
This person's behavior was a bit rude, and he had a questioning tone, which made Gu Liang slightly displeased.
But with the idea of seeing what he wanted to do, Gu Liang didn't ask him to leave, but closed the door silently, walked into the room and sat on the sofa.
Gu Liang sat silently without saying a word, with an expression that made strangers not to enter.
"Girlfriend Huang" smiled like a spring breeze, and the contrast between the two was very sharp.
He walked up to Gu Liang, bowed down, and stretched out his hand, in a very polite gesture ready to shake hands. "My name is Yang Ye. What's your surname, sir?"
On the surface, he looks like a gentleman.
Gu Liang twitched his eyebrows on the right, and said lightly: "My surname is Gu. Gu Liang. Liang of Liangmin."
"Good people? By the way, in your opinion, if everyone is good people, would they be sent here?" Yang Ye asked.
When he asked this question, the glasses just balanced the sharpness in his eyes, and the smile on his lips could also be called gentle.
But Gu Liang still felt that he was very aggressive.
Probably because his brows and eyes are too sharp.
"What do you mean?"
Gu Liang's eyes became a little serious, but he didn't change his expression. He sank into the soft sofa, looking lazy.
Yang Ye's eyes curled up. "It's not interesting. I just believe in Buddhism a little bit and believe that everything has a cause and effect. I remember that I was in a meeting when I suddenly lost consciousness and woke up in the card drawing hall downstairs."
"You did something wrong, so you think you are being punished by being sent here?" Gu Liang asked him.
Yang Ye shook his head, but didn't answer.
Gu Liang said with a calm face, "Unfortunately, I have obeyed the law since I was a child, and I am really a good citizen."
"I went to work at 7 in the morning, and helped an old lady across the road. After helping her, I passed out in the dark. If I hadn't come here, I thought I had been tricked by her."
"..."
After a while, Yang Ye looked at Gu Liang. "Okay. It doesn't make much sense to talk about it now. Let's talk about the script this time. From the story I got, I only know that you have murderous intentions against Boss Bai. Because you want to save me."
Gu Liang also opened his mouth to explain a few more sentences. "This kind of game is called Script Killing. If you haven't played it before, I can explain to you the routine of this kind of game."
"There may be a lot of people who got the murderer card. They all had murderous intent on the deceased, and they all did it. For example, A poisoned, and B stabbed a knife. But in the end, who is the real murderer who caused the death of the deceased depends on the clues and evidence. The timeline of each character can only be determined."
Gu Liang turned his head and looked at Yang Ye: "I can confess to you now that I have murderous intentions for Boss Bai, and I intend to poison him. But what kind of poison did I inject, when did I inject it, how long did the poison last? Does death have anything to do with my poison...you have to find out by yourself."
"Yes. Got it. Thank you." Yang Ye nodded.
Gu Liang no longer looked at Yang Ye, but leaned on the back of the sofa, raised his head, his eyes naturally looked up, as if he was looking at the ceiling, and seemed to be just looking at the floating dust in the void for no reason.
After a long time, Gu Liang said softly: "Just now downstairs, the little girl who asked the question, the task she received might be to directly stab that boss Bai or something. She didn't want to do it, so..."
A living person dies right in front of him, and more people will continue to die in front of him.
Thinking of this, Gu Liang pressed his fingers on the armrest a little harder, and faint blue veins appeared on the back of his hand.
Noticing Gu Liang's movements, Yang Ye stood quietly, the smile on his face faded, and he began to look at him seriously.
Gu Liang was wearing a light brown windbreaker, sitting on the sofa, with his arms hanging down, gracefully placed on the armrests.
A red rope on the wrist is quite conspicuous.
His pupils are very shallow and brown. At this moment, his head is slightly raised, and it is illuminated by the light, showing a very beautiful color.
This color can only be seen when walking in the maple forest in late autumn, picking up a maple leaf of suitable shape and size, and holding it up to the sun.
—The maple leaves are penetrated by the light, showing a translucent golden brown color, which looks like a dream.
It’s just that Gu Liang is too white, sitting in a 19th century British-style building, he looks a bit like a vampire.
"You seem to be very positive about the game. So—"
After a long while, Gu Liang turned his eyes and looked at Yang Ye with some consideration. "Are you a detective?"
The author has something to say:
Some people have doubts about the setting of the dead card, so explain a few sentences in advance. It has nothing to do with luck that the player draws the dead card, it is a system arrangement; the specific reason for this arrangement will be discussed later, this is a suspense and foreshadowing.
Now it can only be said that drawing the dead card does not mean immediate death.