In the morning, the sun was still shining, but at this moment, dark clouds suddenly arrived, and the weather became humid and hot.
One corpse after another, the unstoppable killing, plus the dreary weather...
Everything seemed to be getting heavier.
Yang Ye glanced at the sky, then looked at Gu Liang.
Gu Liang stood leaning against the handle of the stairs, his brows were furrowed, and he looked a little gloomy.
Yang Ye wanted him to relax and didn't want to continue discussing the case, so he proposed to take him to dinner so that the lunch would not be cold.
As soon as Li Xiaoyu heard that there was food to eat, her eyes lit up instantly, and she raised her hand and said, "I'm going too! Chef Yang Ye, did you cook it?"
Yang Ye glanced at her with "you are so ignorant", but still took her there.
A moment later, in Old Wang's shroud shop next door.
Yang Ye brought the dishes to the table, and Gu Liang volunteered to go to the kitchen to serve the meal.
At this moment, Yang Ye poured himself a small glass of beer, then glanced at Li Xiaoyu: "Do you drink water?"
"Anything is fine." Li Xiaoyu looked at Yang Ye's displeased expression, glanced in the direction of the kitchen, then moved closer to Yang Ye, and whispered, "I'm not here to be a light bulb, I'm here to be an assist."
Yang Ye choked on her: "Assist what? Your eyes glow green when you stare at the ribs, you're clearly here to eat."
Li Xiaoyu: "Hey..."
Yang Ye: "Powder-steamed pork ribs are not allowed, they belong to Gu Liang."
Li Xiaoyu: "..."
In the middle of the meal, Yang Ye remembered something and asked Gu Liang: "Since Li Xiaoyu will attack Neighbor Liu again tonight, you may die a second time tonight. Have you received any new information?" Plot? For example, who will you meet at night? The person you want to meet may be the murderer who wants to kill you."
"No. Haven't received it yet."
As soon as Gu Liang finished speaking, the card vibrated.
Yang Ye immediately put down his chopsticks and looked at Gu Liang, his expression was a little nervous.
Compared with Yang Ye's nervousness, Gu Liang, the person involved, seemed calm throughout the whole process.
He watched the plot with a dull and emotionless face, and then silently put the cards back.
Yang Ye has been waiting, and when Gu Liang finishes watching the plot, he will tell himself the plot and discuss it with himself.
But to Yang Ye's surprise, after Gu Liang put away the cards, he picked up a piece of steamed pork ribs with rice flour again with his chopsticks, and continued to eat them lukewarmly—first slowly eating the soft and glutinous outer shell , and then a little bit of meat.
Seeing him like this, he didn't intend to take the initiative to talk about the plot at all.
Yang Ye waited patiently for him to eat a spare rib slowly, and then tapped the table with his index finger. "How to say?"
Gu Liang was surprised and asked back: "What do you say?"
Yang Ye asked: "Of course it's the plot of the night. How about it, who will kill you?"
Gu Liang paused for a while, and replied: "I don't know yet. I haven't received the plot about my going out at 8:20 in the evening. I have received other things."
Gu Liang's two replies have clearly revealed one thing - he is unwilling to say what the newly received plot is.
Does he not believe me, or is there some other reason
Yang Ye's eyes narrowed immediately.
His eyes are narrow and long, and his brows are sharp. When he squints like this, he is a bit bluffing.
So at this moment Yang Ye looked cold and serious, and the surrounding air suddenly froze.
On the side, Li Xiaoyu obviously felt the strange atmosphere, she blinked her eyes, looked at Yang Ye, then at Gu Liang, finally asked the question for Yang Ye. "What plot did you receive? Can't you tell us?"
Gu Liang glanced at Li Xiaoyu, and finally looked back at Yang Ye calmly.
"I'm not sure about some things. I'll tell you when I'm sure."
Yang Ye keenly grasped the word "you", and said to himself—Gu Liang had expressed his belief in himself before, so he didn't believe in Li Xiaoyu, so he had some scruples, right? Then I will secretly ask him for a while.
Yang Ye let go of his hanging heart and picked up his chopsticks again. "Okay, let's eat and eat."
Congealed air resumes its flow.
Gu Liang picked up the ribs again, Li Xiaoyu looked at the two people with a dazed expression, and finally had to lower his head to eat quietly.
After eating, as usual, Gu Liang took the initiative to wash the dishes.
Yang Ye glanced at Gu Liang who was busy in the kitchen, then glanced at Li Xiaoyu who was spread out on the sofa. "Everyone knows that if you don't participate in the cooking, you have to wash the dishes. Are you just doing it like this? Aren't you going to help?"
"Yes." Li Xiaoyu had an expression of nothing after eating, "So it's normal that I don't have a boyfriend."
Yang Ye: "..."
Li Xiaoyu looked at him: "But in fact, it is you who should help. Do you have the heart to work alone?"
Yang Yexin said, why can't I bear it? What is my relationship with him
Li Xiaoyu speaks earnestly. "Daughter-in-law is for pain, not for abuse."
Yang Ye: "..."
Li Xiaoyu: "By the way, you don't want to do this. During the meal just now, I thought you were a little fierce to him."
Yang Ye: "? Why am I so fierce?"
Li Xiaoyu: "You have sharp eyebrows and eyes, and you can be bluffing when you have a straight face. With his personality, you have to be gentle. The more you go against him, the more he will explode and get farther away from you. Be gentle, wave your hand, he I ran towards you. So, smile softly at others."
Yang Ye: "..."
Yang Ye always felt that Li Xiaoyu's description was not a good one, but he couldn't help but follow his mind. He gently waved at Gu Liang, and Gu Liangliang ran towards him wagging his tail, how docile, how docile, how docile. How cute and how cute.
Eh... Will there really be such a day
What do I think, he is a straight man.
Li Xiaoyu saw that he made Mr. Yang Ye happy, so she didn't need to listen to the lesson, and she took the time to escape after the meal.
Sure enough, Big Boss Yang Ye was so busy paying attention to brain repairs that he didn't even notice when she left.
After a while, Gu Liang came out from the kitchen.
He took off his apron, folded it slowly, and put it on the shelf next to him. When he looked up, he saw Yang Ye smiling at him.
Gu Liang subconsciously frowned. "why are you laughing?"
Yang Ye spread his hands. "Am I not smiling softly?"
Gu Liang glanced at him up and down. "Well, it's very gentle and abnormal. If you continue like this, I will think that you are the murderer who killed me, and you are planning some black-bellied plan."
Yang Ye: "..."
—He felt that he had believed in Li Xiaoyu's evil.
Saying goodbye to Yang Ye, Gu Liang went back to the coffin shop alone.
After he closed the front door, he also closed and locked the back door.
Then he walked to the center of the hall, looked at the coffin in the middle, and frowned tightly.
Gu Liang stared at the coffin for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking.
After a while, he walked up to the coffin, raised his arms and pushed open the coffin lid.
After the coffin lid was pushed open, the situation inside was fully revealed.
It wasn't empty inside.
The bottom of the coffin was covered with layers of straw mats, as if hiding some secret.
Gu Liang bent down and leaned into the coffin, and raised his hand to lift up the straw mats one by one—this coffin has no bottom, the straw mat is directly on the ground, and there is a hole in the center of the ground, and there is a stone ladder connected to it below the hole. I don't know where it leads.
Gu Liang stared at the hole for a while, and finally jumped into the coffin as the plot said, and walked down the stone ladder.
After noon, Yang Ye saw Gu Liang again, and it was four o'clock in the afternoon.
During this period, both the front door and the back door of the coffin shop were tightly closed, making it impossible to guess what Gu Liang was doing inside.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the front door of the coffin shop was finally pushed open.
But at this time, the sun is setting, and the shop will not be open for long before it has to close again.
At this moment, Yang Ye saw a little beggar in rags appearing.
Yang Ye knew that he was the beggar Ding.
Compared with others, Ding Beggar's acting skills are very natural.
He is most likely the NPC, not the player.
This point is not difficult to guess.
Beggar Ding walked to the door of the coffin shop, knocked on the door politely, and held up the rice bowl in his hand. "Boss Meng, I wish you a prosperous business! Can you give me a few dollars?"
After a while, Gu Liang walked out the door, revealing half of his face.
I don't know what he did alone in the afternoon, and now he looks a little weak, his face is so pale that there is no blood at all.
Afterwards, Yang Ye noticed that Gu Liang did not dismiss Beggar Ding casually, but instead had a conversation with him.
"You want to collect money to buy a guitar for Senior Feng, right? How much money is there?"
"It's still two hundred! But how do you know this? I..."
"I heard what you told Li BBQ last night."
"Huh? Li BBQ? I haven't seen him last night, why don't I remember this incident. I... I obviously woke up in the next city today. We don't sell guitars here. I went to the next city to find a piano store. Guitar prices go."
"Because you've already died once."
"What?! What does this mean?"
"You are dead, and your senior sister Feng is also dead. Even if you collect the money, it is meaningless. You have no way to save her."
"I don't believe... I..."
"Come on, come in, let me tell you."
At this point, Yang Ye couldn't hear what was said later, because Gu Liang led Beggar Ding into the house.
Before closing the door of the coffin shop, the other half of Gu Liang finally stepped out of the threshold and glanced in Yang Ye's direction, as if he knew he was always there.
Yang Ye slightly frowned and waved at him.
Gu Liang nodded slightly, then turned around and closed the door.
Yang Ye frowned immediately.
- Gu Liang's gaze just now...is very wrong.
His look of no one allowed to enter was almost back to the time when I first met him.
Half an hour later, when it was getting dark, Gu Liang did not open the door of the coffin shop, but sent Beggar Ding away through the back door.
Beggar Ding left, and Yang Ye appeared at the door on the back.
The sunset glow is like maple red, outside and inside the door, the two looked at each other for a long time.
Finally, Gu Liang said slowly: "What do you want me for?"
Look at the words are unfamiliar.
I used to bother you every day, and you didn't ask me what I wanted you for.
Yang Ye stared into Gu Liang's eyes and asked, "About the plot you received at noon, Li Xiaoyu and I asked you. You said at the time that you have to think about it before telling me. Now that Li Xiaoyu is not here, you are alone again. One afternoon... so now, have you figured it out? Can you tell me the details?"
Gu Liang fell silent.
After a while, he said, "I haven't figured it out yet."
When Yang Ye heard this, his eyes sank.
But soon his expression returned to normal, and he stepped forward and said, "If you don't think about it, don't think about it. Let's go, go to my house for dinner."
Gu Liang was stunned for a moment with his eyelids down, then raised his eyes to look at Yang Ye. "dinner?"
"Are you free?" Yang Ye raised his eyebrows.
"Yeah. Free. I don't have a timeline until 8."
At noon, Gu Liang said that he hadn't received the evening timeline yet.
It now appears that he has received.
Therefore, Gu Liang would indeed go out to meet someone at night and be killed by him.
Yang Ye's expression became serious again - how could he watch Gu Liang go to die
The old Wang next door is obviously not a rich man, and the refrigerator is a little out of stock. For this dinner, Yang Ye can only cook crucian carp tofu soup and a few vegetarian dishes.
"I don't know where to eat in the next few days." Yang Ye asked Gu Liang, "There is only one meat dish, will you not be full?"
Gu Liang shook his head, and then said, "Aren't there two meatballs?"
Yang Ye was surprised and asked back: "Where did the two meat come from?"
Gu Liang pointed with his chopsticks. "Here, tomato scrambled eggs."
Yang Ye: "Eggs don't count."
"Oh." Gu Liang smiled lightly, picked up a piece of egg and ate it.
Yang Ye put away his smile and stared at him deeply.
Gu Liang didn't need to look up, he knew that Yang Ye had been looking at him.
But he just ate in silence and didn't take the initiative to say anything.
The silence between the two lasted until Gu Liang finished his meal.
Gu Liang was about to stand up to clean up the dishes, but Yang Ye had quick eyes and quick hands, and held down his wrist before he got up.
Yang Ye was very precise, he just held down his pulse so that this movement would not look too ambiguous - although even if it was ambiguous, the straight man Gu Liangliang might not feel it.
Gu Liang raised his eyes, his brown pupils looked at Yang Ye, but he didn't speak.
Yang Ye looked into his eyes and said, "There's no rush to clean up, there's still a long time before 8 o'clock, let's talk about the plot?"
After a while, Gu Liang nodded, and Yang Ye finally withdrew his hand.
Then Gu Liang stood up, moved the chair to the window, and sat down.
"You can see the situation of the barbecue shop from here. Come here to chat."
On the second floor of the shroud shop, by the window.
Gu Liang and Yang Ye sat on two shabby chairs, with beer and boiled water on a small broken coffee table in front of them.
It was almost 6:30 p.m.
At the barbecue stand opposite, Liu Ran, who once played the role of Brother Bai, now, as Li BBQ, began to prepare for the night market in the evening.
After setting up the tables and chairs, he was about to wash the vegetables when Senior Feng, played by Li Xiaoyu, came over.
It can be seen that Li Xiaoyu's expression is a little nervous and uneasy.
But she still followed the plot, took out a wad of money from her bag, and handed it to Li BBQ.
Li Xiaoyu said something to Li BBQ, Li BBQ patted her on the shoulder and left with a smile.
Seeing Li BBQ going away, Li Xiaoyu put the dishes on the grate, salt, chili powder, cumin... After putting them one by one, she took out a blue medicine bottle from her pocket and evenly spread the medicine powder inside. applied to these foods.
Seeing this, Yang Ye said in a low voice: "So, the plot should be that Liu's neighbor, who Senior Feng wants to kill, likes to eat barbecue very much. So Senior Feng made an appointment with him at the barbecue stand. There is poison in the food, but it cannot be seen by Li BBQ, she just gave Li BBQ a lot of money, maybe in the name of a date, she booked the barbecue stall at night."
"Agreed. That's about it."
Gu Liang moved his eyes to the left and looked to the other side of the street, "Neighbor Liu is here."
Yang Ye also looked at Neighbor Liu.
It's about 6:50 now.
And when he sat down, took the barbecue handed over by senior sister Feng, and ate it, it happened to be exactly 7 o'clock.
For the rest of the time, he and Senior Sister Feng basically looked at each other, chatting awkwardly from time to time.
It seems that the poison does not attack immediately, but has a certain attack time.
Withdrawing his gaze, Yang Ye looked at Gu Liang: "So, who is the person you want to meet later? Or, who is the person who will kill you tonight?"
Gu Liang rolled his chin out of the window, and met Yang Ye's gaze. "It's him, Neighbor Liu. Neighbor Liu played by Xun Feng."
Yang Ye frowned, and Gu Liang said again: "Of course, it's not Neighbor Liu. Or to put it another way, Neighbor Liu was killed by Sister Feng and then resurrected. Then he will kill me."
This time, Yang Ye took out his small notebook, spread it out, made some additional notes, and then said to Gu Liang: "I stayed alone this afternoon, and carefully sorted out the plot. In addition, Senior Sister Congfeng and you I have some ideas about what I learned from my body, you can analyze it together?"
Gu Liang: "Of course. Tell me."
Yang Yedao: "First of all, let me confirm with you, are you sure that Beggar Ding was killed by Li BBQ?"
"Yes. I'm basically sure. Yesterday I saw him give the rest of the barbecue to Beggar Ding, and the script deliberately mentioned that his eyes were stern."
Gu Liang nodded, "Actually, it might be like this... Although Li BBQ took the money from Senior Feng to set up the barbecue stall, he didn't go far at all. He saw Senior Feng's poisoning in the dark. So later, When Beggar Ding was begging with him, he gave Beggar Ding the leftover poisonous barbecue. In this way, if something happened to him, he could pass the blame on to Senior Sister Feng."
"Senior Feng probably didn't expect that someone would eat leftovers from neighbor Liu's meal, or even half-bitten skewers."
"Okay. So it's actually like this—you saw yesterday that the barbecue that Li BBQ gave to Beggar Ding was actually the leftovers from Neighbor Liu's food. Because sister Feng yesterday killed Neighbor Liu with poisonous barbecue. So …”
Yang Ye's tone sank, "The exact same thing happened again today."
"The series of things about the barbecue stall seems to be the case." Gu Liang said.
Yang Ye took a step closer and said, "Okay. Then let me sum it up now. Li BBQ killed Beggar Ding; you, as Boss Meng, killed Principal Cha; sister Feng used poison to kill Neighbor Liu; Neighbor Liu wanted to kill It's you. We are basically sure about these situations."
"Yes. No problem." Gu Liang said.
Yang Ye continued: "Who killed Sister Feng, and whether Li BBQ was killed; next, check whether the principal and Ding beggar, these two characters, have anyone who wants to murder them. These things are up to us. Unknown."
"But despite some unknown elements, we can conclude a pattern."
Gu Liang didn't answer, but only faced Yang Ye with an expression of "I'll just watch you analyze quietly".
Yang Ye paused for a while, and then said: "The law is that, at present, everyone has conflicts with only one person, and has only attacked one person. That is to say, there is no such thing as one person being killed by multiple people, or one person being killed by more than one person. A situation where one person kills more than one person."
Gu Liang nodded in agreement, and Yang Ye said, "In this way, I can open my mind."
Gu Liang asked cooperatively: "Well, what kind of brain hole?"
Yang Yedao: "This is a cycle of killing. For example, A kills B, B kills C, and C goes back to kill A. In this way, everyone's time will keep going backwards. Everyone is trapped in the August 7th."
"On the surface, everyone seems to be immortal. But in reality, everyone is trapped in a repeating day, a continuous cycle of killing. Of course, I am not in this cycle. This time I may still be a detective .”
It was getting dark outside the window.
The moonlight came in, outlining Gu Liang's cold but slightly supple face.
Gu Liang looked at Yang Ye quietly, and finally said after a long time: "This idea is very good. But there is one thing, you can't explain it."
Yang Ye asked: "What matter?"
Gu Liangdao: "If you are excluded as a suspected detective, we all know who most of the characters want to kill, except Principal Cha and Beggar Ding. We also don't know the murderer who killed Senior Sister Feng, right?"
Yang Ye nodded, as if he understood what Gu Liang meant, and frowned slightly.
Gu Liang continued: "If according to your imagination, killing is an end-to-end cycle, and there is no situation where two people kill one person, or one person kills two people, then the murderer who killed Senior Feng can only Among Principal Cha and Beggar Ding."
"However, Beggar Ding likes Senior Feng, and Principal Zha is also considered as Senior Feng's adoptive father. He cares about Senior Feng very much and even helped her hide her body. Neither of them can kill Senior Feng. This only shows that, If there is someone else who killed Senior Feng."
"In this way, the person who killed Senior Feng was me, Li Barbecue, and Neighbor Liu, one of these three people. And the three of us all have other targets that we want to kill. Therefore, someone must have killed two people .Your brain hole is not established."
After speaking this long paragraph, Gu Liang looked at Yang Ye, who held the armrest of the seat with both hands, and did not speak for a long time.
The time came to 8 o'clock sharp.
Gu Liang glanced out the window. At this moment, Neighbor Liu tilted his head and lay on the table, motionless, as if he was asleep.
Gu Liang knew that at this moment, the poison in the barbecue had taken effect.
—He ate barbecue at 7 o'clock, died at 8 o'clock, and the poisoning time was exactly one hour.
Yang Ye also glanced out of the window, but only for this one glance, then he stared at Gu Liang again. "I quite believe in my imagination. Why is this town called the City of Immortality? It's because of the killing cycle. Everyone is trapped on the same day, which makes everything continue. Perhaps, there will be a person who breaks the cycle in the end. People. This person is the real murderer we are looking for."
"Of course, the question you just mentioned is very important. Who killed Senior Feng may be the key to this case."
"Maybe."
Gu Liang stood up. "It's time. I'm going to go through my plot. I don't have time to wash the dishes, please."
"Gu Liang—" Yang Ye looked at him with sharp, serious eyes, and a trace of searching.
Gu Liang turned around and left with a calm expression, without saying anything more.
After Gu Liang left the shroud shop, he didn't immediately set off to find Neighbor Liu, but went back to the coffin shop first.
Yang Ye went downstairs to the backyard and found a small bench to sit on.
He frowned and stared at the pit where "Gu Liang"'s body was buried, with a dignified expression.
An hour later, it was 9pm.
When the time comes, Gu Liang will be killed again, and there will be one more body of him here.
Yang Ye pressed the center of his eyebrows, and then thought of the death conditions of the other three corpses.
Neighbor Liu and beggar Ding all died of poisonous barbecue.
But the former was killed by Sister Feng, and the latter was killed by Li BBQ.
As for Senior Feng... She was killed by broken wine bottles.
That day he analyzed with Gu Liang that she died of passion and murder.
Because the murder weapon was a fragment of a wine bottle picked up randomly from the ground, it means that the murder was a sudden incident rather than a long-planned plan.
and many more-
In this way, it is unreasonable to simply investigate the murderer's motive for killing from the story line, and then exclude Ding Beggar and Principal Cha.
No matter how much Beggar Ding likes her, and no matter how much Principal Zha takes care of her as his daughter, he may have killed her on a whim out of some sudden incident.
Yang Ye remembered that when he first saw the corpse last night, he and Gu Liang temporarily ruled out Beggar Ding as the murderer of senior sister Feng, which is understandable.
At that time, they had just seen the corpse, and they didn't know much about the plot of the characters.
But thinking about it now, that judgment is problematic.
According to Gu Liang's IQ, he should understand by now.
So why did he say that just now
Was he deliberately misleading himself
In the afternoon, he went back to the coffin shop alone. What did he see
Could it be that this time, Gu Liang... is the murderer