On the snow-colored wasteland.
Professor Wang followed Gu Liang's imagination, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this imagination might be true. He slapped his thigh hard and said, "Yes! It must be so! This is much more reasonable! If Xiaocao's The soul just got angry at random, just happened to be bumped into, he will definitely attack two people, he has no reason to only attack Li Xuexue, but not Dr Xu!"
"Doctor Xu is possessed by Xiao Hua. Xiao Hua is the girl Xiaocao likes, so he won't attack her! All this is logical!"
"Awesome. Awesome!"
When Professor Wang said this, he gave Gu Liang a thumbs up.
Compared with Professor Wang's excitement, Gu Liang seemed much calmer. "It's just a guess. Even if the two of them are possessed, the whole story is still unclear."
For example, where Madoka went, it is still unclear.
Next, why did Xiao Hua and Xiao Dong possess Dr. Xu and Li Xuexue respectively
Why didn't Xiaocao find someone to possess her? Why is he wandering in spirit form? Where is he now
If the murderer he was looking for was the one who killed the three college students back then, could the murderer be one of Xiaohua and Xiaodong? What happened back then
Gu Liang exhaled lightly, and looked in the direction of the cave again.
Then he chose to walk the path in the northeast direction, and then climbed to the cave halfway up the mountain.
"Hey! What are you doing?" Professor Wang stopped him, "Be careful of the fog."
"Come with me." Gu Liang said.
Professor Wang said: "Don't you think there is something hidden on that mountain? There is so much snow, even if there is really something underneath, we can't get over it."
"Isn't there something here?"
In front of Gu Liang, on the way to the cave, a glass bottle reflected the moonlight, lying quietly on the snow.
When Professor Wang heard this, he quickly stepped up and followed. "Oh, a glass bottle. But I can't see anything for the time being."
Gu Liang didn't answer, stepped forward to pick up the glass bottle, and walked slowly all the way to the entrance of the cave.
He stopped and looked at the entrance of the cave quietly for a moment, then turned around and headed towards the area to the east that he had never been to.
"You just walk? No more digging around? What if you can dig something else?" Professor Wang asked.
Gu Liang said lightly: "Didn't you say that such a big snow mountain cannot be dug out?"
Professor Wang: "Didn't you find a glass bottle unexpectedly? It seems like something is going on... Then it's not a problem for you to wander around."
Gu Liang paused for a while, and followed the chaotic footprints in front of him, looking at the snow-capped mountains under the moonlight.
The moonlight is like frost, and the mountain is even colder.
After a while, Gu Liang continued to move forward, saying: "The 'evidence' we thought was burned. But the system gave us two hours to investigate. Then... maybe the topography and landform of the entire mountain are what we have The evidence we are really looking for."
"Don't worry. Let's take a look. Maybe you can find something."
Professor Wang followed Gu Liang up the mountain step by step.
Strictly speaking, they were not heading due east, but east-northeast.
The north-northeast slope leads to the cave they visited that day, and it is also the place they explored along the road just now.
Now they are going to the east-northeast, and they are climbing another slope.
All the way to the highest point of the slope, there is also a cave here.
The entrance of the cave has been covered by thick fog, making it difficult for people to see its appearance.
Gu Liang walked to the entrance of the cave, walked around the entrance, and came to the back of the cave. There were two towering stone walls. Walking between the two stone walls and looking overhead, one could see a beautiful view of the sky.
Professor Wang followed Gu Liang all the way to the two stone walls, and couldn't help asking: "Why do you seem to have been here before?"
"I did come here." Gu Liang said, "It's not that I didn't encounter anything that night. I met Xiaocao's soul, and then I was chased all the way here."
"Huh? Then you didn't say anything at that time?"
After Professor Wang said this, he realized, "Oh, you are waiting for our timeline. Did that grass attack you?"
"No. The situation I met with him was exactly the same as yours. Therefore, the three of us all met Xiaocao's soul. But only Li Xuexue was attacked."
"Furthermore, according to Dr. Xu's description, at first Xiaocao simply asked him about trust. It was Li Xuexue who turned his head and Xiaocao saw his face before attacking him. In any case, Li Xuexue was Something weird."
At that moment, Professor Wang followed Gu Liang all the way through the two stone walls to the exit on the other side.
The two of them walked out of the exit for a few steps, but they couldn't move forward. It could be vaguely seen that going forward was another downhill road. But where it will lead to continue down, it is not known. Because the front has been completely shrouded in thick fog.
"Counting from the camp, go up along the northeast path, and when you reach the fork, to the north is the cave where the corpse was found, and to the east is another cave and the line of sky formed by these two stone walls. As for the camp to the south , it’s the toilet.”
Gu Liang made a conclusion, "At present, the map is basically this big. I'm done shopping. Let's go back."
"Okay." Professor Wang followed Gu Liang back, crossed the two sky-high mountain walls again, walked down the slope, and walked towards the camp. "Really... are you going back like this?"
Gu Liang paused for a moment, and said, "If you want, you can search for things in the snow. Maybe you can find something."
Professor Wang: "You young people let me dig snow like an old man? You don't know how to respect the old and love the young."
Gu Liang smiled lightly, didn't say anything, just wrapped up his jacket tightly, and went back to the camp.
Two hours of free exploration time ends.
Time for focused discussion begins.
This time the "concentration discussion room" is quite unique.
Two men in black came from the direction of the cave, and a white mist was brought up wherever they went. When they walked past the camp, the camp was completely covered by white mist.
In this way, Bai Wu circled the four players in an open space in front of the toilet, which was their "concentrated discussion room".
The two men in black came here, on the one hand to seal off the free exploration site, and on the other hand to bring them some food and drink.
A man in black put down a box of energy bars, another man in black put down a box of mineral water, and the two turned around.
Professor Wang yelled, "Can we talk about moving the place? It's near the toilet, so it smells a bit bad."
However, the men in black ignored Professor Wang and walked eastward together, their figures slowly disappearing into the snow.
After the man in black left, the four players sat around on the snow.
The moonlight moved a little to the east. It can be seen that it is getting late.
Dr. Xu looked bloody on his face right now.
She ate an energy bar that Li Kexue handed over, drank a few sips of water, and asked Gu Liang: "Liu Kan, you went to the camp with Professor Wang just now, did you find anything new?"
Gu Liang shook his head and asked her back: "Would you mind telling me about the situation at that time? How did the fire start? Was it your improper operation that caused the explosion of the liquefied gas tank and then the fire?"
When Professor Wang heard this, he immediately looked at Gu Liang with his eyes wide open. Gu Liang shook his head lightly, and Professor Wang realized that Gu Liang was talking nonsense. So he kept quiet and said nothing for the time being.
"I... I don't know. I passed out. I don't know anything."
Dr. Xu said, "Really, after you went to the toilet, I cooked vegetable soup at the door of the tent, and suddenly... I don't know why, it seemed that the wind was a little stronger at that time, and then I passed out."
Is it windy
Gu Liang recalled that before he fell asleep several times, he had encountered strong winds.
Last night, he was at the camp vigil.
He remembered that he was quite energetic at first, after all, he would sleep whenever he was free.
At that time, he was thinking about the case, when the wind got stronger, he wrapped his clothes tightly, and then fell asleep unknowingly.
When he woke up, he encountered Xiaocao's soul.
At the same time, the camp behind him disappeared.
He ran all the way, Xiaocao chased all the way, and the two ran along the east-northeast direction, up the slope, around the cave, and finally Gu Liang hid between the two stone walls.
After entering the stone wall, Gu Liang "finished talking" with Yang Ye, and then said a few words to Xiaocao.
Then the wind picked up again, and he fell asleep again.
When he woke up again, Gu Liang was already at the camp.
After careful calculation, Gu Liang fainted twice that night.
The third time Gu Liang fainted was when he and Professor Wang came out of the toilet.
As soon as he walked out of the toilet door, a gust of wind blew, and he fell to the ground.
It was 6 o'clock when he went to the toilet, and when he woke up, the announcement was broadcast, and it was already 7 o'clock.
He fainted for a full hour.
At this moment, Dr. Xu said again: "I just discussed with Li Xuexue that the liquefied gas tank should not explode due to air leakage in an open place. It should be that someone set the fire first, and the fire detonated the liquefied gas tank."
"But if you collapse in front of the gas tank, there's no chance of you surviving."
Gu Liang looked at Dr. Xu, "Could it be that the person who knocked you out saved you? After knocking you out, he took you to a place far away from the explosion. Therefore, you in a coma were only slightly affected by the blast wave." the impact, and was able to roll down towards the toilet."
The camp is small and located on a relatively flat snow field.
50 meters south of the tent, the road is uneven, and there is a slope leading down the mountain and towards the toilet.
If Dr. Xu is not lying, it can only mean that after she was unconscious, someone took her to the side of the slope away from the tent. In this way, after the explosion, she would just roll down the slope towards the toilet without being injured or burned.
This man is saving her.
Dr. Xu opened the mineral water bottle and took a sip of water, then said: "Yes, it should be like this, that's right. We moved the bodies out of the cave to bring them back to the base camp, and then go to the police station down the mountain to call the police. So the fire could have been set by the murderer. He could have just wanted to burn some kind of evidence, or burn the body, but he didn't want to kill me."
When Professor Wang heard this, he leaned into Gu Liang's ear and said, "She shouldn't be lying. She is possessed now, and she is Xiaohua. The three boys, Xiaoyuan, Xiaodong, and Xiaocao, all like her. Now that she's found a new body, they're not going to hurt her body."
If you follow Gu Liang's previous brain hole, what Professor Wang said is not unreasonable.
Back then, it was possible that one of the three boys killed the other two boys, and he accidentally killed Xiaohua in the process.
From then on, Xiaohua's soul wandered miserably in the snow mountain.
It wasn't until three years later that members of the expedition team accidentally walked into the cave, that Xiaohua finally found a suitable body, and she possessed Dr. Xu to live instead of her.
In the process of destroying the corpse and removing traces, the real murderer was afraid of hurting Xiaohua, so it was possible to take her away from the tent to prevent her from being burned by the fire.
Of course, the premise of all this is that Dr. Xu is not lying.
But there are still problems with this idea.
Since the real murderer has stunned "Xiao Hua", he goes to destroy the corpse without telling her, which means that Xiao Hua's ghost does not know that he is the murderer.
This means that three years ago, he not only hid the matter from Xiao Hua, but also hid it from her for three whole years.
is it possible
no. There are too many unreasonable places in the story.
Li Kexue pulled Dr. Xu aside before, what exactly did he want to say to her alone
The plot he concealed may be the key to solving the case, and he still needs to explain it clearly.
But interpersonal communication has always been Gu Liang's shortcoming.
Especially in this game, he completely put aside the set of social rules in reality, and after being completely himself, it is even more difficult to form any friendship with strange players.
Gu Liang felt that if it was Yang Ye, he might have had a good conversation with someone like Li Xuexue long ago.
But Gu Liang can't do it.
Especially in the case of the other party's bad attitude, Gu Liang simply felt that the words were not speculative, and the relationship between the two of them did not continue to deteriorate, which is already very good.
But... Fortunately, he can blackmail people.
So Gu Liang said to Dr. Xu: "In this way, the person who saved you and set fire to you can only be Li Xuexue."
Li Kexue's eyes immediately stared over. "What do you mean?"
Gu Liang looked at Professor Wang, "We were both in the bathroom at the time, so we could testify to each other, right?"
Professor Wang received Gu Liang's hint and nodded vigorously. "Yes. That's right."
"Professor Wang and I were in the bathroom, so the one who set the fire could only be Li Xuexue."
Gu Liang continued: "Everything makes sense. In our expedition team, Li Xuexue and Dr. Xu are lovers, and they are about to get married. Therefore, when Li Xuexue set fire, he should pay attention to protecting Dr. Xu. Works."
Li Xuexue's face was completely blackened, and the anger value of the whole person was accumulating, and it seemed that it would break through the critical point and explode at any time. "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Compared to his anger, Gu Liang seemed very calm. "Didn't we always wonder where Xiaoyuan went? In fact, Xiaoyuan might be Li Xuexue. Three years ago, Xiaoyuan killed three people and escaped. Three years later, he joined the archaeological team and became one of us. And got engaged to Dr. Xu. Now all he is doing is destroying the evidence."
"Look, I can rule out that I am Xiaoyuan myself. Dr. Xu's gender does not match. Professor Wang's age does not match, so only Li Xuexue is left. From all aspects, Li Xuexue is the murderer."
Li Xuexue stood up suddenly, looking like he wanted to yell, but he tried his best to bear it. "According to your calculations, is this script worth two stars? I can also say that you are the murderer. I fucking know that I am not Xiaoyuan. If Dr. Xu and Professor Wang are excluded, you will be left."
Gu Liangdao: "I just said that Professor Wang and I can confirm each other's time. We went to the toilet. I can't set fire."
"You!" Li Kexue was a little bit annoyed by Gu Liang.
Dr. Xu stood up and held him down as hard as he could, told him to sit down, and patted him on the shoulder a few times, which seemed to barely comfort him.
Dr. Xu glanced at Gu Liang, then at Li Xuexue, showing some hesitation. Then she said: "Otherwise you still..."
"No, Xiao Wan. You can't talk about this."
Li Ke took a long breath and said with a straight face, "Anyway, I'm not the murderer. Think about it for yourself, this case can't be so simple. Besides, if you judge me as the murderer based on this alone, it's a damn thing How do you explain it? What does Xiaocao's soul say?"
Gu Liang said: "You can tell your story completely."
Li Xuexue: "I have nothing to say."
Gu Liang: "If you don't say anything, we have no way of judging. I can only vote for you."
Professor Wang added: "I agree with Liu Kan's opinion."
Li Xuexue sneered: "There may be no detectives in the script of the four. You and Professor Wang voted for me, that's fine. Xiaowan and I voted for Liu Kan. It's a 2-2 tie at most. Let's see how the system judges then."
"Is that so..." Gu Liang twitched his right brow slightly, and looked at the only female voice present, "Then I'll convince Dr. Xu."
"What I said just now is that in the absence of ghosts, Li Kexue is very suspicious. Now let's imagine the situation with ghosts."
Gu Liangdao, "Let's start with what happened back then. Four college students died and three died. Xiaoyuan disappeared. I still tend to think that Li Xuexue is Xiaoyuan. Of course, it doesn't matter whether he is Xiaoyuan or not. Later inferences."
"Everyone saw the corpse. Xiaocao died sitting alone leaning against the mountain wall. Xiaodong died holding Xiaohua. I think the story should be like this. Faced with three boys who like her very much, Xiaohua is actually very difficult. Choice. On the one hand, she is afraid of hurting everyone's friendship, on the other hand, she has not figured out who she really likes."
Gu Liangdao, "For people, sometimes it is between life and death that one can see one's own heart clearly. Back then, perhaps for some reason, the three of them were trapped in a cave and froze to death. Just before death, It was only then that Xiaohua realized that she liked Xiaodong. So she revealed her feelings to Xiaodong, and the two hugged each other to death."
"Since we're thinking about ghosts this time, let's go ahead and speculate. All three college students have turned into ghosts. Ghosts may be possessed. After meeting the expedition team, through possession, Xiaohua became Dr. Xu, and Xiaohua became a doctor. Dong became Li Xuexue. At this time, it doesn't matter whether Li Xuexue is Xiaoyuan or not, because his body has been occupied by Xiaodong's spiritual body."
"Xiaodong likes Xiaohua. He designed everything back then. He killed everyone, but he didn't want Xiaohua to know about it. He had to destroy the corpse. He tried to make Xiaohua faint before releasing it. The fire was to prevent Xiao Hua from discovering that he was the murderer. At the same time, he loved Xiao Hua. So before setting the fire, he took Xiao Hua to a safe place."
After listening to Gu Liang's sorting out, Professor Wang was the first to agree. "I agree with the idea of ghosts. In this way, everything is clear. There is only one thing - how Xiaoyuan escaped back then. If Xiaodong committed the crime and murdered, why did he put Xiaohua and Xiaoyuan together?" He also killed himself, but Xiaoyuan ran away."
Gu Liangdao: "Yes. The lack of plot clues is the difficulty of this script. But although the specific plot is unclear, after sorting it out, no matter whether there is a ghost or not, regardless of whether Li Xuexue is Xiaoyuan from three years ago, Li Xuexue, the player most suspect."
"You are talking nonsense. I said Professor Wang, why did you get fooled by him?"
Li Kexue glared at Professor Wang, and then stared at Gu Liang, "There are too many loopholes in the story you made up. You said that the murderer was Xiaodong, that's fine. Xiaodong doesn't dare to let Xiaohua know that he killed everyone, but it's okay." .Then let's talk about his destruction."
"You said just now that he destroyed the corpses and wiped out the traces because he was afraid that Xiaohua would find out. There is something wrong with your logic. He didn't burn the corpses sooner or later. Why did he wait until this time? He was afraid that Xiaohua would find out that he had killed people, so he would burn them again after three years. To burn the body, is it possible?"
"Of course it is possible."
Gu Liang responded calmly: "According to the setting of the plot, this cave that may hide colorful crystals is very difficult to find. It is very likely that in the past three years, only our expedition team has visited this cave, and we are the only ones who camped nearby. Only we have the tools to set fire."
"Besides, now we are going to hand over the body to the police. The police will probably find out that the murderer was Xiaodong through investigation. Although Xiaodong already has the identity of Li Xuexue, he is not afraid of going to jail. But in this way, Xiaohua will know This matter. This is Xiaodong's motivation for destroying the corpse."
"With the motive, the conditions for committing the crime, alcohol, liquefied petroleum gas and so on, he can set fire to the corpse logically."
The questions raised by Li Xuexue were resolved one after another by Gu Liang.
Finally, Gu Liang looked up at the moonlight in the sky, and said: "It's still a long time. You have enough time to think about whether to tell the story you concealed. Otherwise, the murderer can only be you."
After Gu Liang finished all this, he walked to the other side and sat down alone.
Professor Wang glanced at him, turned around, and saw that Dr. Xu pulled Li Keke aside again to whisper.
Professor Wang looked around, but still had to go to Gu Liang.
He walked up to Gu Liang and sat down, "Actually, I was a little confused about the story. But after hearing what you said just now, I think it's almost the same. The murderer is that he didn't run away."
"Not necessarily. In this way, the script is indeed too simple. Whether he is Madoka, or is possessed by Xiaodong and becomes Xiaodong, he will be the player who will be voted and executed in the end. He is too ignorant." gone."
Gu Liangdao, "I said that just now, just to force him to tell what he was hiding."
"What do you think he's hiding?" Professor Wang asked.
Gu Liang thought for a while, and said: "I think he should be Madoka. There should be two reasons why he refused to admit it. First, this is his side mission, and he wants to get a rare reward card. Second, he I'm afraid that if he says it, we will think that he is the murderer who killed three people back then."
"According to your imagination just now, Xiaoyuan three years ago is Li Xuexue today. But no matter whether he is Xiaoyuan or not, he has become Xiaodong now after being possessed. Killing people, setting fire to destroying corpses and destroying traces All of them are Xiaodong. So if this is the case... then, this... "
Gu Liang said: "If this is the case, he only needs to prove that he is not Xiaodong, and he has not been possessed. But what he quarreled with me from the beginning to the end is that he is not Xiaoyuan. .It's very inconsistent."
"So it's possible that he really doesn't know the truth. He's just completing side missions, and he's afraid of being identified as a murderer."
"Then what the hell is going on?" Professor Wang sighed again and again.
"In short... no matter from which angle you look at it, this story is full of contradictions."
After Gu Liang finished speaking, he took out the glass bottle from his pocket, which he had picked up on the way to the cave.
That is not an ordinary glass bottle, it is a reagent bottle, and some kind of special medicine should be put in it.
After staring at the reagent bottle for a while, Gu Liang got up and walked further away.
"Hey... what are you doing? Don't think about committing suicide. There is fog over there." Professor Wang reminded him.
"I'm fine. Actually, I have some other conjectures. But before confirming this conjecture, I want to hear someone's opinion."
Gu Liang took out the card in his arms, his eyes moved slightly. "Anyway, I got a help card. Just try to contact a friend."
Professor Wang whispered: "Can you still make friends?"
— Li Xuexue is more difficult to get along with, I can't talk to him.
I'll always go to Dr. Xu, so that people don't think I'm a bad old man pestering pretty girls.
I'm really bored by myself, so I reluctantly follow your...
Gu Liang: "?"
"It's okay! I'm talking nonsense! You go!"
"..."