When Yang Ye heard these words, his heart was sour.
He tried his best to control himself and put a relatively peaceful smile on his face as much as possible.
Gu Liang's hands were still holding his face, so Yang Ye raised his hand, touched the back of his hand with his palm, and held it tightly again.
When Yang Ye spoke, his voice was deep and hoarse. "I know Gu Liang. I've always known."
Gu Liang looked at him: "But I don't seem to have said this to you formally. I think I should tell you."
Yang Ye grabbed his hand tightly. "You still have a lot of opportunities like this in the future. When you come back to reality, you tell me about it every day. Then you can't get bored."
Gu Liang: "Do you really think we have such an opportunity?"
Yang Ye nodded: "It depends on human effort. We have experienced a lot in this game. From my point of view, at least this system is not an evil force. He wants to harm us, and he is fully capable of destroying us all. It has no reason to go through such troubles."
What Yang Ye said, in fact, Gu Liang is not ignorant.
Even though he didn't fully understand what the system wanted to do through a short conversation with Mingyue, he also had some feeling.
But he couldn't be sure after all.
Gu Liang knew that if he wasn't in this script, Yang Ye would be very beautiful as a murderer.
Even if the line related to him is a sub-question, he has always been able to come up with some ingenious ideas, so he will definitely try his best to figure it out for himself.
But now because of his own reasons, he gave up struggling directly, which almost meant that he recognized the murderer.
He didn't intend to do anything to clear himself up, and he didn't even try to think of some heresy, because he was worried that if he did anything unruly in this system, the one who would hurt the detective Gu Liang would be in the end.
Even if his actions would only cause Gu Liang to be punished, he would not be willing.
So considering Gu Liang's situation, Yang Ye would definitely not take any risks.
But Gu Liang believed that Yang Ye was right when he said, "It's up to people to do it." He was absolutely unwilling to hand Yang Ye over to the system like this.
Gu Liang stared at Yang Ye for a long time, finally kissed him and got up.
This is the second time that Gu Liang took the initiative to kiss Yang Ye.
Yang Ye put his index finger on his lower lip, as if he was feeling the warmth left by Gu Liang.
Then he followed Gu Liang to his feet. "Liang Liang, where do you want to go to collect evidence next? I must help you find the murderer who killed Xiangu Feng. As a detective, you have to get both murderers right."
"Yang Ye—" Gu Liang turned his back to Yang Ye, his voice sounded a little downcast, "I know, you want me to accept the reality. I can't think of a way to deal with it now, it seems that I really have to accept it. I have to accept it."
"But I'm not happy. I don't want to find a murderer. Who killed Feng Xiangu, or even which time and space she came from, has nothing to do with me. The system can play by itself. I don't want to deal with it. I think Go back and rest."
Yang Ye frowned, and asked Gu Liang: "Then you go back to your room to rest? Shall I continue to look for clues?"
"You are running around because of me. I said I don't want you to look for it. It seems hypocritical and ignorant. It's a waste of your kindness... But I'm really not in the mood to solve the case."
Gu Liang's voice sounded very weak, "You can do whatever you want. I will stay by myself for a while."
Yang Ye intuited that the case with Feng Xiangu was not easy.
So he has to race against time to solve the case.
Otherwise, even if the murderer of the evil apprentice is found, Gu Liang may still accept the death penalty if another murderer is not found.
If they were really in a place similar to hell, Yang Ye knew from experience that suicide was a felony and a deep sin.
So Yang Ye wasn't sure how much Gu Liang's guilt score would reach.
Even if Gu Liang survived, the punishment he received would be very uncomfortable.
Now that Yang Ye thinks about it, when he sees Gu Liang come back with bloody hands in Huangquan Inn, he will still be terrified.
Therefore, at this time, he has no way to comfort Gu Liang's emotions.
He had to help Gu Liang find the murderer first.
So Yang Ye watched Gu Liang go back to the bamboo house in the back mountain, thought for a while, and went to Feng Xiangu's residence.
After Gu Liang returned to the bamboo house, the dejected expression on his face disappeared immediately.
He didn't go back to his own house, but came to the bamboo house of the evil apprentice.
There are many celadon jars on the wooden shelf in the evil apprentice's room, and the things inside are the peach blossom honey that Qingqiong abounds in.
And under the bed of the evil apprentice, some wine was secretly hidden, and he planned to drink it secretly without his master's back.
Gu Liang opened a can of peach blossom honey, poured the wine into it, and shook it evenly.
He smelled it, and sure enough it only smelled like nectar, without any smell of wine.
After finishing all these, Gu Liang went to Qianshan with the peach blossom honey.
Along the way, Gu Liang kept an eye out for anyone.
Players who have never been to the Nine-Storied Pagoda before have all gone to the Nine-Storied Pagoda now, and Yang Ye is not in the front mountain.
So Gu Liang came to the kitchen behind everyone's back.
There are a lot of pastries in the kitchen, which were originally prepared for the sacrificial ceremony at midnight on the night of the incident.
Gu Liang took a look and found that the pastries were still fresh. He found chopsticks and spoons, slowly and carefully added nectar to various pastries, and found some powdered sugar to sprinkle on them.
Judging from the map of the card, the west side hall of Qingyun Temple is the centralized discussion room of this chapter.
After ordering the nectar with wine for the cake, Gu Liang went to the discussion room.
There are still many lounges in the focus discussion room this time, and there are snacks such as mineral water and biscuits in the lounges.
Gu Liang opened a box of mineral water and a box of biscuits, put water and biscuits on each seat, and then went back to the kitchen to bring all kinds of snacks and put them on each seat.
In this way, in addition to a few snacks on each seat, there are also mineral water and biscuits to match, all of which will look more natural.
However, during this process, Gu Liang could not help but smell the peach blossom honey.
It seems that the taste of the pastry itself is not enough to cover the nectar.
Gu Liang thought for a while, then went to the evil apprentice's room and brought a can of nectar without wine, opened it, and put it on the chief seat where the detective was sitting.
In this way, when the time comes, if everyone smells peach blossom honey and sees an opened can on the table, they will not suspect anything else, thinking that the honey comes from this celadon jar.
As a detective, Gu Liang can still say that he used it as evidence.
Of course, in the end, Gu Liang also put some snacks on the main seat, and those snacks had no nectar added.
He just wants to keep others asleep during the voting period, but he has to stay awake.
He remembered that Fairy Xue ate some nectar in the afternoon and didn't wake up until after midnight. Therefore, even if everyone fell asleep at the beginning of the discussion, and fell asleep until the voting time was missed, there was no problem.
If there is an accident at that time, there is no way to get other players drunk. Then he could at least trick Yang Ye into eating nectar.
In this way, he tried his best to defend Yang Ye and clear his suspicions.
After finishing all this, Gu Liang returned to Xianjun Leng's bamboo house to rest.
In the process of doing this, Gu Liang was not completely innocent.
This guilty conscience was not aimed at the system or other players, but at Yang Ye's promise.
He still remembered that Yang Ye said to him in "City of Immortality": "I will teach you a little lesson. From now on, don't lie to me like this again."
He had promised Yang Ye.
But now he had to lie to Yang Ye again.
After a short rest, Gu Liang opened the detective's notebook and reviewed the case about Feng Xiangu that he and Yang Ye had sorted out before.
Yang Ye was right, he had to solve this case.
He has to be very aggressive with the other players so that they can lessen their suspicions.
If he really would shield Yang Ye because of his "love relationship", then he would have lost in the first place, and there was no need to find a second murderer.
But if he was relatively active when looking for the second murderer, the possibility of causing them to suspect that he would cover up Yang Ye would be smaller.
Having said that, Gu Liang couldn't be too active in front of Yang Ye.
He had to continue to hang his head down, making Yang Ye think that he had to accept his fate.
Gu Liang rubbed his face, feeling a little difficult.
But fortunately, he has a poker face and is often used to being frustrated, so he knows how to play the frustrated self.
After a while, Gu Liang heard some movement, opened the door, and saw Aunt Xue and Aunt Yun.
Gu Liang happened to have something to ask them, so he walked into the courtyard immediately.
Seeing Gu Liang, Xue Xiangu greeted him first.
Gu Liang beckoned, sat down at the stone table in the yard, and asked again: "Did you come out of the nine-storied pagoda? Did you see the corpse?"
Fairy Xue said: "I see, they are still inside. But we both felt that it was quite scary inside, so we came out to get some air."
Gu Liang: "Then is it convenient for you to sit down and chat for a while? I'm curious, the afternoon before the incident, that is, the afternoon when I was detained, were you drinking and eating nectar?"
Fairy Xue nodded, and Gu Liang asked again: "According to what Fairy Xue said before, you couldn't help but eat nectar after drinking, and that's why you got drunk? Did you get drunk yourself, or did Fairy Yun deliberately give it to you?" The nectar with wine, did it make you dizzy?"
Xue Xiangu said: "I did eat it myself. But... Yun Xiangu—"
Fairy Xue looked at Fairy Yun with some embarrassment, "I think you are trying to induce me a little too. You specially brought me a jar of nectar and said it was freshly made for the New Year. You only praised me after I drank the wine. This nectar is delicious, and it is said that the cook has made some improvements, and it is even tastier than the nectar from previous years."
Gu Liang couldn't help asking Yun Xiangu: "So have you ever stolen the Yuheng pen to rewrite the prophecy? When you first talked about the timeline, you claimed that you had never been to the waterfall. But when we focused on the discussion just now, you said that it was actually You also saw the prophecy."
Gu Liang stared a little more closely, and said: "You said two sentences like this at the time. The first sentence was 'After Jin Shouzuo saw the prophecy at 8:45 p.m., he went to my place to discuss this matter with me. '."
"Just hearing this, everyone thinks that you know the prophecy about the evil apprentice becoming the master. You heard it from Jin."
"But later, you also said a second sentence-'I was wandering around while thinking about what to do. I also saw the prophecy on the Xuanji Stone'."
"I guess, you still wanted to continue to conceal the fact that you had been to the Xuanji Stone, and push all the knowledge of the prophecy to Jin Shouzuo. But you accidentally said that you 'saw it'."
Gu Liang paused for a moment and asked her: "So, you have actually been to Xuanji Stone, right? When did you go?"
"The day before the incident, I did deliberately guide Xue Xiangu to drink and let her take a sip of nectar. After seeing that she was really drunk, I went upstairs and tried to find the Yuheng pen. But I didn't rewrite the prophecy."
Aunt Yunxian said, "It's strange that I've searched everywhere, but I can't find the Yuheng pen. I don't know who put it under the stone in the stone pond."
Gu Liang asked: "Can you tell me the specific time?"
Yun Xiangu thought for a while: "Around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Xue was drunk. I searched around the building for about 2 hours, but found nothing. Because Xue Xiangu does not eat much nectar, I am afraid that she will wake up at any time. So I quickly put my mess back in place and left. As for the prophecy..."
"The prophecy that the evil apprentice will be the next head, I saw it a day earlier than everyone else."
This answer was a bit beyond Gu Liang's expectation. "So, you are older than Mu Shouzao?"
Yun Xiangu nodded: "Yes, so I was actually the first to see the prophecy."