Live Action Murder Mystery

Chapter 36: City of the Undead (5)

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The wind blows, and the dark clouds hang low, covering the moonlight.

It looks like it's going to rain again.

The only thing that can still illuminate is the floor lamp in the yard.

The white light fell vertically, and if you look carefully, you can see the floating dust floating in the air.

Yang Ye stared at the white light for a long time, and finally there was movement from the nearby yard.

— Gu Liang went out.

Yang Ye silently stared at him and walked towards the long street, then got up and followed him calmly.

It was 8:20 in the evening.

Gu Liang started from the back door of the coffin shop, walked around the long street, and then went to neighbor Liu's house.

Neighbor Liu lives in the apartment building next to the No. 7 Middle School, which is the same building as Senior Sister Feng and Principal Cha.

Going to this apartment, you will pass the barbecue stand and No. 7 Middle School.

When Gu Liang passed by the barbecue stand, neighbor Liu's body was lying on the snack table. Opposite him, Senior Feng played by Li Xiaoyu looked up and saw Gu Liang, and couldn't help but sighed.

Gu Lianglue nodded towards her and walked straight towards the apartment building.

Gu Liang knew in his heart that when Boss Meng was going to the apartment building, he was bumped into by Sister Feng. This incident must also be a prescribed situation in the script.

Because only Senior Feng saw that Boss Meng had left, so she could hide the corpse in the coffin shop while he was away.

10 minutes later, 8:30.

Gu Liang arrived at the door of Liu's neighbor.

The experience of the script this time is very mysterious, not to mention that people will lose their memory, for the old acquaintance Xun Feng, what Gu Liang saw was his corpse first, and now he came to see his real person.

When he reached the door of neighbor Liu's house, Gu Liang paused for a while, but went forward and knocked on the door.

Gu Liang knocked on the door three times with even intervals, as if he had a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Soon someone came to open the door.

The door opened, and Gu Liang saw Xun Feng at a glance.

It's just that Xun Feng at this time is very unusual.

He was wearing a dirty shirt, his eyes were bloodshot, as if he hadn't slept in many days.

At the same time, he smelled like he had just been drinking.

His scruffy appearance is really far from the usual image of a serious and rigorous psychiatrist.

"Great, you're fine... No, I'm going to kill you later... Wait... Are you..."

As soon as Xun Feng opened his mouth, many intermittent words came out of his mouth, but it seemed a bit incoherent.

Gu Liang had to pat him on the shoulder. "Xun Feng, calm down. Go in and talk."

Walking through the entrance, there is a restaurant on the left. Gu Liang noticed that wine and peanuts were placed on the table next to him. This was required by the plot—Neighbor Liu asked Gu Liang to talk on the pretext of discussing business, and killed him when he was not prepared. .

On the right is the living room.

The living room is quite messy, especially the coffee table, with many sheets of white paper spread out on it, with traces of random writing and drawing.

Gu Liang picked up a piece of paper casually, and frowned when he saw the words on it.

It was Xun Feng's handwriting, he recognized it - in the past half a year of diagnosis and treatment, Xun Feng would record Gu Liang's condition in neat and beautiful block letters every week.

Xun Feng's handwriting has always been neat and rigorous, but this time it was different. He wrote "I killed Gu Liang" and "I killed Gu Liang" many times...

In the end, the handwriting was too scribbled to be recognized.

Xun Feng walked up to Gu Liang, followed him to look at the words, and said, "I woke up about half an hour ago. When I first woke up, I didn't remember anything, I only remembered the card settings. .I quickly realized that I have died once."

"Then I came to the living room and saw... Seeing my own writing, I thought you were really dead, or was killed by me—"

Xun Feng sat on the sofa and let out a long breath. "Fortunately, you're fine. I just couldn't hold back and drank a lot of wine. I lost my composure, I'm laughing at you."

Gu Liang didn't answer, Xun Feng thought of something and asked him: "The script told me to kill Boss Meng tonight. Now you are here, and I wrote these words on a white paper before I lost my memory, so you are Boss Meng, and I... did I kill you yesterday? And I have to kill you again today?"

Gu Liang only said: "You didn't kill me. Neighbor Liu killed Boss Meng."

Xun Feng didn't speak. Seeing that he didn't move, Gu Liang went to the restaurant and sat down. He poured himself a glass of red wine, took a sip, and said, "Is the time almost up? Let's do it."

Xun Feng stood up from the sofa, followed Gu Liang into the restaurant, sat opposite him, and looked at him with bloodshot eyes. "It's impossible for me to touch you."

"I know, in reality, you are my doctor. Doctors treat diseases and save lives, not harm others. But now we are in the game—"

"Nowhere!"

This was the second time that Gu Liang was surprised by Xun Feng in a not too long time since the incident of falling into the water.

Psychiatrists like him appear calm and self-possessed most of the time.

Such Xun Feng is really very rare.

But think about it for a second, we are all ordinary people.

Coming to such an inexplicable game world, one can completely let go of the social identities that imprisoned oneself in the past, and everyone does not need to pretend, so why can't Xun Feng show his true emotions.

Xun Feng didn't drink the red wine, but poured himself a glass of white wine, and gulped it down.

After a while, putting down the wine glass, Xun Feng sat up straight, looking into Gu Liang's eyes. "Think about it differently. If it were you, let you strangle me with your own tie. Would you be able to do it? Do you still remember how did you get your PTSD?"

Gu Liang: "... sorry."

"You don't need to apologize to me." Xun Feng frowned slightly, and continued, "You are my patient, and I should be responsible to you."

Gu Liang frowned, looking a little helpless.

This reminded Xun Feng of his desperation when Gu Liang fell into the water, and what he said to Yang Ye at that time—every word showed that Gu Liang was a lunatic.

Although those words were unintentional, they really pierced Gu Liang's heart.

Xun Feng said: "I'm sorry, that's not what I meant. I just think...if I break away from being a doctor and a patient, I don't know how to get along with you."

Gu Liang didn't understand. "I thought we were friends."

"You consider me a friend?"

Xun Feng's expression seemed relieved and somewhat regretful.

Looking carefully, under the light, he looked at Gu Liang with a little obsession.

Gu Liang was undecided, and just said: "I don't quite understand what you mean by asking this sentence. I thought that after I finished the treatment, having some contacts with you is not a violation of the rules of your industry? Or what you do to your friends? The definition is stricter? You don't consider me a friend?"

Xun Feng actually nodded. "Yes. What if I say, I don't regard you as a friend?"

Gu Liang was surprised: "Don't take me as a friend? Then what do you take me as? The subject of research?"

Xun Feng smiled helplessly, raised his head and drank half a glass of white wine, and looked at Gu Liang again.

Gu Liang'an sat there quietly, as if the sky was falling, he would always have this expression.

His appearance was exactly the same as when he went to Xun Feng's for treatment every Thursday afternoon for half a year.

Xun Feng misses him so much.

Because it seems that only during the diagnosis and treatment can Xun Feng feel that Gu Liang completely trusts and trusts himself.

At that time, Gu Liang was fragile and his own patient.

It was as if—the rocks collapsed, the river flowed backwards, the galaxy fell to the ground... Everyone was running away, only Gu Liang stood quietly, the magnificence or destruction of the world had nothing to do with him.

He didn't deliberately want to die, but he didn't have a particularly strong desire to live either.

Only myself can appear in front of him and save him.

The satisfaction of being needed is really wonderful and indescribable.

It's just that when the treatment is over, everything ends with it.

For a long time after that, no matter how many patients Xun Feng treated, he could no longer find this kind of satisfaction, as if he was sick himself.

So Xun Feng understood that his feelings for Gu Liang were unusual and had already surpassed the boundary between a doctor and a patient.

"There are some things that I can't think about when I'm treating you. That's a violation of professional ethics. After the treatment is over, it will take me a while to realize what my feelings are for you, so I didn't say anything."

"But if I don't say it now, I may not have a chance. When I thought I killed you today, I..."

"Just treat me as a coward. You'll forget all about it after a while anyway."

Hearing this, Gu Liang's eyelids drooped, and he raised his hand to hold the wine glass in front of him. At first glance, he seemed to be in a relaxed posture.

But the lines from his shoulders to his forearms are very tight, obviously he feels a little stiff.

Xun Feng saw all this in his eyes, but he smiled wryly and continued: "Do you understand what I mean when I say that?"

Gu Liang didn't say a word.

Xun Feng finally said bluntly: "Gu Liang, I like you. The kind of love."

After a while, Gu Liang replied calmly: "I understand what you mean. But I don't understand why."

Xun Feng said: "Because you are very good. You don't know how good you are."

Probably because the sound insulation effect of the model room at the script site was not good, Yang Ye, who followed Gu Liang, heard all of this outside the half-hidden door and in the dark corridor.

Yang Ye held his breath and concentrated. For some reason, he felt that he might be more nervous than Xun Feng.

Xun Feng always remembers the first time he met Gu Liang.

He sat in the consultation room and waited for Gu Liang.

Gu Liang arrived on time, knocking on the door three times evenly.

He was wearing a light brown windbreaker, with rare brown pupils, a straight nose, and deep eye sockets.

When a person with this appearance looks at others intently, it always makes people feel that he is very affectionate.

It's a pity that his pale face, coupled with his indifferent and distant demeanor, diluted this feeling.

"Can you tell me, why do you want to come to talk to me? What problems did you encounter?"

"I'm guilty. I killed two people."

"Who did you harm?" The pen held by Xun Feng's right hand pierced through the paper in an instant, and the tip of the pen almost broke.

Gu Liang said slowly: "Two people. One is my mother. The other is the mother of a little girl."

At that moment, Xun Feng poured himself another glass of wine and mentioned this matter to Gu Liang. "I don't know why. The first time I chatted with you, I felt very distressed. This is very unprofessional for a psychiatrist. Because every patient deserves sympathy, it's just—"

Gu Liang interrupted him: "Pitying someone, wanting to take care of someone, doesn't mean liking them."

Xun Feng smiled helplessly. "Yes, I was also confused at the beginning, confused about my feelings for you, confused about my sexuality... But today, I have recognized myself. Now, I just simply tell you my heart. I didn't expect anything."

Gu Liang raised his eyelids to meet Xun Feng's gaze. "Xun Feng, you are my doctor. It is because you know how bad things I have done that you shouldn't have such feelings for me. People like me don't deserve to be liked."

Gu Liang didn't worry about gender issues, nor did he worry about whether it's the right time to talk about this matter now.

He seems to simply think that people like himself are not worthy of being liked.

Xun Feng reached out and rubbed the center of his eyebrows. "Gu Liang, as I said, the reason you have such a low opinion of yourself is because you..."

"Well, because I have low self-esteem. You have analyzed it for me. I look noble, but it is actually because I have low self-esteem in my bones."

Gu Liang laughed at himself, "You also said that this has a lot to do with the family of origin."

Xun Feng took a deep breath and sighed: "It doesn't matter if you have low self-esteem, or you are noble... You don't care if you think you are unforgivable, don't you think that after I know everything about you, I still like you, is this kind of love actually more real? "

Gu Liang shook his head: "No. I just think you have mental problems."

Xun Feng: "..."

When Gu Liang was talking, Xun Feng kept looking at him.

Xun Feng knew that when Gu Liang said this, he didn't mean to offend him.

When Gu Liang said this, he was really not attacking Xun Feng, on the contrary his expression was very serious.

Because he really felt that there was something wrong with Xun Feng, and he was helping Xun Feng analyze the problem.

Gu Liangdao: "Usually, people will be tempted by a very bad person. It's because of some kind of sympathy or compensation. Let's not talk about the things I have done. I am neither good-looking nor have a good personality. So There must be something wrong with you."

Xun Feng: "..."

Yang Ye outside the door: "..."

Xun Feng smiled wryly, his face turned red from the alcohol.

He stretched out his hands, palms back and forth rubbing his cheeks. "Anyway, Gu Liang, you really don't have any feelings for me, right? I have no chance at all?"

Gu Liang replied firmly: "No. I never thought about it."

very good. At least the rejection was straightforward.

A person like Gu Liang can't even say the words "although you are a good person, but we are not suitable" in the scene, and he simply and completely rejects it.

Xun Feng didn't even get the good guy card, but before he lost it, the card started to vibrate.

Gu Liang looked at Xun Feng calmly. "It's reminding you that it's time to do something to me."

Hearing this, Xun Feng took off his tie, which was arranged by the script as his murder weapon.

After a while, Xun Feng walked behind Gu Liang with a tie in his hand, bowed his head and said something to Gu Liang.

Gu Liang seemed to be listening very attentively, as if he didn't notice when there was an extra tie around his neck.

According to the script, the business of Boss Meng's coffin shop plummeted because of the false news about the headmaster's walk.

Neighbor Liu invited Boss Meng to come here in the name of discussing business.

Gu Liang did not discuss business with Xun Feng as required by the script, but just asked him: "By the way, what is Neighbor Liu's motive for killing Boss Meng?"

Xun Feng said: "Neighbor Liu once chatted with Boss Meng, saying that he liked Sister Feng. Boss Meng laughed at him, saying that he was not as good as beggar Ding. Neighbor Liu held a grudge and wanted to kill him to vent his anger."

"Got it. Let's do it."

"Do you really think I'm going to hit you?"

Gu Liang was sitting on the chair, Xun Feng was standing behind the chair, leaning forward, wrapping his hands around Gu Liang's neck, and at the end of the sentence, his lips were almost close to his ear.

The two looked like close lovers.

Even so, Xun Feng might take Gu Liang's life at any time.

At this time, Yang Ye, who had witnessed everything outside the door, finally kicked the door open and broke in.

"Xun Feng, let go of Gu Liang. We still don't know who the deceased is. You might really kill him!"

Xun Feng turned his head, his eyes calmed down after a moment of surprise, and he asked Yang Ye: "Then what do you want?"

Yang Ye answered very simply: "Set fire to the venue."

At this moment, the cards of Yang Ye and Xun Feng sounded a reminder at the same time: "Repeat the plot—Neighbor Liu invited Boss Meng alone in the name of discussing business. Therefore, Wang Shouyi was present and did not meet the requirements of the script. Please leave immediately. Neighbor Liu is requested to act in accordance with the regulations immediately, otherwise both of them will be punished for violating regulations."

Gu Liang looked at Yang Ye suspiciously, not knowing when he came, nor how much he had heard.

But soon Gu Liang realized that he should have heard everything.

Since it was against the rules for Yang Ye to appear here, he was not performing a plot mission here, he could only follow him.

Therefore, he was outside the door from the beginning, and naturally heard everything.

Gu Liang didn't care about anything at this time, he just stood up abruptly and said to Yang Ye: "Get out quickly."

Yang Ye took a deep look at Gu Liang, walked straight to the kitchen without saying anything.

Kneeling down, Yang Ye opened the cabinet under the gas stove, raised his voice and said to Gu Liang: "You go first, and call the rest of the players in this house. I'll be in charge of detonating—"

"How do you want to detonate it?"

"I've been trained. Don't worry."

"Yang Ye, this is very dangerous."

"Know the danger and leave as soon as possible!"

At this time, the long-lost radio sounded.

"The following is a city-wide broadcast for emergencies: due to player misuse, the entire city has lost gas and electricity for an hour."

"This is also for everyone's safety. There have been precedents in which players violated the rules and caused the crew to be destroyed in flames. Therefore, the safety facilities of the script venue and Fuhua Road have been upgraded this time."

"Fireproof and explosion-proof, ensuring the safety of all players is the obligation of the system. I am very sorry for the inconvenience caused."

Yang Ye: "..."

Gu Liang: "..."

Xun Feng: "..."

Two minutes later, the broadcast continued: "Wang Shouyi violated the rules, and Liu's neighbor violated the rules. They will be punished."

At the end of the broadcast, four men in black appeared and took away Yang Ye and Xun Feng respectively.

Gu Liang sat back on the chair again, and sighed silently while holding his forehead.

The fifth man in black appeared immediately, picked up a tie, and strangled Gu Liang's neck...

The room was dark and humid.

Gu Liang woke up on an old bed.

He sat up, took a look at the card, and the time showed that it was 9:00 pm on August 7th.

After waking up, Gu Liang was the first to see neatly stacked props and underwear in front of the bed.

After a moment of daze, he went to the kitchen and saw that there were already egg shells in the trash can, and porridge sealed in a fresh-keeping bag in the refrigerator.

At this moment, he realized that he had lost his memory, and he might have died once.

Is this the first time I lost my memory

Have you recorded anything yourself

Thinking of this, Gu Liang drank some porridge in a hurry and went back to the attic bedroom.

He rummaged around and finally found a ledger by the bed.

It was originally a bookkeeping book, but he used it as a diary.

"August 7th (actually August 8th) at 9pm, I woke up, for the first time ever, and realized I had died once..."

"At 10:30, together with Yang Ye, we met the corpses of Beggar Ding and Senior Sister Feng..."

"At 6 o'clock the next day, my time shows 6 o'clock on August 8th. According to the normal time flow, it should be 6 o'clock on August 9th. I killed Principal Zha. This is the second time I have killed him."

"At 10 o'clock, Sister Feng came to see me, and I heard her talking to the man in black..."

Gu Liang saw himself punching a few crosses here, and re-wrote the main point: "In the coffin shop, we found the body of neighbor Liu. It was Sister Feng who killed him."

"At noon, Yang Ye treated guests to dinner. In fact, he also invited supper last night and breakfast today. The steamed pork ribs are delicious. Hmm... still has nothing to do with the case."

"I received a new plot this afternoon... Gu Liang, when you see this, you can burn this diary."

"Because now I am basically sure that I am the real culprit in this case."

"The following is a correction to the content of the diary. The first entry, I woke up and thought I had died once, and amended to say that I had died twice at that time."

"Tonight I will go to Liu's neighbor's house. He should be the murderer who will kill me at 9 o'clock. By then, I will die in this script for the third time."

"But it doesn't matter. I still won't die. Because I'm the real murderer."

"This is the diary you wrote yourself. Burning it should not be considered evidence of destruction. There is something hidden under the coffin in the middle of the main hall on the first floor. When you open the coffin, you will understand everything."