Suddenly there was a small scream in the corridor.
Immediately afterwards, a louder scream came from the same direction.
Gu Liang poked out the door and walked over there.
It was Li Xiaoyu who made these two screams.
Everyone talked about dolls during breakfast, and Li Xiaoyu had made up her mind at that time—never look at the dolls in her room.
But when she returned to the room, the more she thought about it, the more curious she became. After hesitating and struggling for a while, she chose to open the closet.
This time, she saw the doll missing an arm.
The doll's face was pale, and her lips were bright red in contrast.
She stared straight at Li Xiaoyu, making Li Xiaoyu cry out directly.
Li Xiaoyu immediately closed the door of the cupboard, and when she looked back, a man in black appeared silently behind her, almost like a ghost.
So Li Xiaoyu quickly let out a second, louder cry.
After screaming, she came to her senses, leaned against the wall, took a breath, and took out the card. "I accidentally clicked on the help button when I was scared? No way? No, big brother, make a sound after you appear, don't be scary!"
The man in black didn't speak, and disappeared from the house out of thin air.
There was a knock on the door immediately.
Li Xiaoyu let out a breath, stepped forward to open the door, and saw Yang Ye and Gu Liang outside the door.
Gu Liang was Yang Ye who met in the corridor.
Yang Ye was obviously startled by the screams, and came to see how Li Xiaoyu was doing.
After opening the door, Li Xiaoyu invited two people in, opened the closet, and picked up the doll with the missing arm.
With her eyes closed, she held the doll up in front of Gu Liang and Yang Ye. "The doll's arms are gone somewhere."
In order to confirm a certain conjecture in his mind, Gu Liang didn't care about anything, he walked straight past the doll, looked at her chest immediately, and said: "The dolls in my room look different from this one, but the state is the same, they all have chests. There were stab wounds and both were missing a right arm."
Hearing this, Yang Ye couldn't help but ask, "How did your doll become like this? She had good arms and legs last night."
Gu Liang shook his head: "I don't know. I just found out."
At this moment, Housekeeper Hao came in the corridor.
Steward Hao walked to the door of Li Xiaoyu's room and asked them, "I heard screams just now, are you okay?"
"It's okay." Li Xiaoyu said.
Housekeeper Hao: "Okay. At 12:00 noon, the wedding banquet starts on time. It's in the same place as yesterday's welcome banquet. I'm here to inform you that it's almost time, so you can go down."
"Okay, I got it." Li Xiaoyu said.
"Then I'll call the others. I'll see you in the main hall later." Butler Hao nodded and turned to leave.
When Gu Liang walked to the elevator entrance with Yang Ye and Li Xiaoyu to wait for the elevator, Su Lan and Meng Qiancheng had already arrived.
The five of them took the elevator to the first floor together, and then walked to the main hall.
Compared with the welcome banquet last night, the main hall has not changed much, that is, there is an extra catwalk, and some flowers are decorated on both sides. According to the routine process, the father will hold the bride's hand, walk across the catwalk, and hand the bride to the groom.
After arriving at the main hall, actor Ming, Yu Zhanan, Mei Design, and Ai's best friend sat at the main table, and the bride-to-be, Rong Mingyuan, arrived in her wedding dress.
There was a temporary lounge at the end of the catwalk. Mingyuan Rong and Big Brother Rong entered the lounge, and after being notified by the master of ceremonies, they would walk onto the stage arm in arm.
After arranging the bride and Mr. Rong, the almighty housekeeper Hao who served as the emcee of the wedding, walked to the side of Ai's best friend played by Li Xiaoyu, and asked, "Have you kept the ring?"
After Li Xiaoyu nodded, he stepped onto the stage and waited for the wedding to officially begin.
Sitting in the main hall and waiting for a while, Gu Liang turned his head and looked at the Western clock, which showed that it was 12 o'clock in 5 minutes.
The wedding is about to begin, why hasn't the groom appeared for so long
Never... the dead is him
The time slowly came to 12:15.
Butler Hao said with a microphone: "Everyone please be safe and don't be impatient. The groom may be delayed by something. I'll call him."
Butler Hao ran off the stage, then rushed out of the main hall at a faster speed, heading towards the elevator.
About a quarter of an hour passed.
Butler Hao came back and said, "The groom is dead. Boyfriend Feng... Boyfriend Feng is dead... burnt to death!"
The system announcement sounded.
"Ding dong. This is the end of the storyline. Let's move on to the investigation."
"It's 12:30 now. Everyone can go to the room of the deceased Feng's boyfriend to conduct an on-site investigation. The time limit is half an hour."
"After 1 o'clock, Feng's boyfriend's room is closed, and the game enters the free investigation session, with a time limit of 4 hours."
"The intensive discussion starts at 5 pm. The intensive discussion room is located on the second floor of the castle. Please follow the map instructions to arrive on time."
"9pm is voting time. So you have four hours to discuss."
"Boss Rong left the castle last night and went back to the group for business negotiations. After returning to the castle this morning, he has been playing chess with actor Ming in the garden restaurant. He is the detective in this case!"
"Thus, the suspects are locked in Hao Steward, Ming Actor, Yu Scumbag, Rong Mingyuan, Mei Design and Ai Girlfriend."
"I hope Boss Rong can lead everyone to find the real culprit! I wish everyone a smooth game!"
"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot an announcement. Floors 1-5 are not within the explorable scope of this script and are always closed. The elevator cannot be reached, and players do not need to check. The discussion room on the 2nd floor is only available after the investigation is over. Temporarily open."
Gu Liang's first reaction after finishing it was - I'm not a detective.
So, this time I'm really just an ordinary soy sauce character
10 minutes later. All players gathered in the room of the deceased Feng's boyfriend.
Except for the different murals, the structure and furnishings of Feng's boyfriend's house are similar to those of other guests' rooms.
At this moment, Feng's boyfriend was lying on the ground, his body was completely charred, and his whole body was in a "fighting posture", which was caused by the solidification and contraction of human muscles when exposed to high heat.
There were a lot of drops of water on the corpse, and the surrounding carpet was completely soaked, and it looked dark from a distance.
Li Xiaoyu evacuated automatically the moment she saw the corpse, standing in the corridor and not wanting to enter the house.
Dong Wan stood far away at the door, obviously not intending to go in for the time being.
Meng Qiancheng had no choice but to turn his attention to Yang Ye and Gu Liang: "The three of us go in and check the corpse? I guess the girls are hopeless?"
"Who says you can't count on girls?" Su Lan took a step forward, but stepped into the room first.
The burning smell in the room was strong, before Su Lan checked the corpse, she pushed open the sliding door leading to the balcony to let fresh air flow in.
Gu Liang and Yang Ye then walked to the corpse.
Yang Ye squatted down and moved the corpse first, so that he could clearly see a hole burned in the carpet under the corpse. Not only was the carpet burned through, but when the carpet was lifted, a large area of the wooden floor below could be seen scorched.
After seeing the corpse, the carpet, and the floor, Gu Liang looked around the corpse again.
On the right side of the corpse were mirrors, a dressing table and a stool. The legs of the wooden stool were slightly scorched, but the effect was not significant, and the dressing table next to it was basically unaffected.
On the left side of the body was the bed, and the velvet drapery beside the bed had been burnt in half, but no further damage had been done.
Gu Liang walked to the edge of the curtain and stretched out his hand to squeeze it, his whole hand was wet.
He pulled back the curtains and poked around on the bed, and the sheets and quilt cover were soaked through.
At this moment, Gu Liang raised his head again and looked at the fire sprinkler on the ceiling. "It appears that after the fire started, the automatic sprinklers sprayed water and stopped the fire from spreading further."
"This fire is strange, isn't it? Generally, the objects burn first, driving the furniture to burn, and then triggering a large-scale fire. People can't escape the house, and then they are burned to death. Or, usually, they are not Those who were burned to death were choked to death by the smoke."
It was Su Lan who spoke. She stood in front of the sliding door leading to the balcony and said to everyone, "So, this person's state seems to be spontaneous combustion."
"Yes, what you said makes sense." Meng Qiancheng looked at Gu Liang subconsciously, as if based on Gu Liang's performance in the previous script, he trusted Gu Liang's reasoning very much, and immediately asked him, "Gu Liang, what are you doing?" What do you see?"
Gu Liang nodded: "I agree. The fire started on Boyfriend Feng. It's just that why he burned up is still uncertain."
Having said that, Gu Liang walked up to the wardrobe and helped it up.
Yang Ye walked up to him, "I know what you want to see, I'll drive it for you."
Gu Liang glanced at him and said, "I'm used to seeing it, it's not so scary anymore. It's really just a shadow of childhood."
Gu Liangxin said that it really wasn't possible, just now he picked up Li Xiaoyu's doll to check it out.
"If you're afraid, I'm not going to laugh at you." Yang Ye teased him, and raised his hand to open the cabinet door.
Sure enough, there was a doll in the closet, with blonde hair and blue eyes, but it still looked very different from the dolls in Gu Liang and Li Xiaoyu's room.
But the doll had a stab wound on its chest and was also missing a right arm.
"Hey? What's the matter with this doll?" Meng Qiancheng walked over, his face turned pale, "It's a bit scary."
Gu Liang only said: "Check the scene first. Let's check the dolls in other rooms together later."
"Okay, let's check other places." Meng Qiancheng walked to the bed, took a look at the sheet, and then removed the pillowcase, "Hey, there's something here!"
There was a piece of paper hidden in the pillowcase. Meng Qiancheng took it out and unfolded it.
Gu Liang stepped forward and looked at the paper with him.
[The moon caused trouble, made you fall in love with me] How to use the mantra: Say this mantra to your loved one on a full moon night, repeat it three times in total, and you will be able to win his heart. From then on, he will never leave you, even if you hurt him and let him down, even if he sees this spell, he will not abandon you. He will only love you and protect you until death.
Meng Qiancheng read this sentence aloud, and all the players inside and outside the room heard it.
After finishing the reading, Meng Qiancheng couldn't help but said, "Fuck, it's because he used this spell on Rong Mingyuan, so that Rong Mingyuan was determined to marry him, right? I'll just say, top class like Rong Mingyuan Bai Fumei, how could she marry such a poor man?"
In the corridor, Dong Wan listened to everyone's conversation in the house.
She took a breath, avoided the corpse and walked into the room, then said: "Yes, he used a spell on me."
Three months ago, Rong Mingyuan was dumped by Yu Scumbag.
Rong Mingyuan followed Yu Zhanan to a bar, saw him flirting with other girls, and drank a lot of alcohol in sadness and frustration.
Going out from the door of the bar is a bridge. When she got to the bridge, she had the idea of suicide and almost jumped off the bridge. She survived in the end because her boyfriend Feng saved her.
Afterwards, Feng's boyfriend often accompanied her, encouraged her, and helped her get out of the haze of broken love.
One day, on the night of the full moon, Feng's boyfriend asked Rong Mingyuan to go out, and the two walked on the bridge where they met.
The moon is reflected on the river surface, a piece of clear brilliance.
That night, Feng's boyfriend chanted a spell to Rong Mingyuan and confessed his love.
It was also after that night that Rong Mingyuan decided to marry him.
At the moment, Dong Wan told everyone the story about Rong Mingyuan and Feng's boyfriend.
Su Lan turned her head to look at her and asked, "So, could this be your murderous intention? You know about the spell, and you realize that you don't really love him, but you are bound by the spell. Do you think you killed him?" You can only be freed from the spell if you leave him."
Dong Wan shook her head: "That's not the case. Even if there is no spell, I still decide to marry him."
"Why?" Su Lan asked.
"Because he saved me. That was the bottom of my life. Although he was poor, he had never seen the world, and he was not a gentleman at all... He didn't meet Rong Mingyuan's previous criteria for choosing a spouse. He was not even considerate and didn't understand Take care of people. But he is really honest and reliable, and he has been a great help to me."
Dong Wan walked up to Meng Qiancheng, took the piece of paper, and showed it to everyone, "Besides, it says, even if I know the spell, I will never leave him. Once the spell takes effect, no matter what happens Whatever, I'm not going to stop loving him. So, with or without the spell, I have no intention of killing him. I have no intention of killing him."
"Really? You don't know about him hooking up with other girls?"
Meng Qiancheng lifted the entire mattress and found a diary and a photo album.
There are many photos of boyfriend Feng hugging different girls in the album, it seems that he is really a scumbag.
Yang Ye stepped forward and opened the diary to read it. "The latest was written on November 7th, which is yesterday."
Gu Liang walked up to Yang Ye, and Yang Ye read the diary.
"Tonight is my engagement party with Rong Mingyuan, and I saw a lot of beautiful girls. So what about the handsome actor Ming? If you fall in love with him, he will be sprayed to death by his fans. So what if the scumbag is rich? He Girls won't believe his sincerity if his nickname is out."
"It's different for me. How honest and reliable I am, they will think that I am a person worth entrusting. Hehe, under the effect of the spell, Rong Mingyuan will not leave me. I can also use the same method, Trick a few more girls..."
Roughly flipping through the diary, Yang Ye said: "The previous content is similar, he recorded his experience of hooking up with girls. Tsk, the scumbag is clearly a scumbag, his so-called 'honest man' is a scumbag, Even scarier."
Yang Ye continued: "So, boyfriend Feng is probably a person who pretends to be an honest man to deceive girls. Many girls have the habit of going to bars to drink after they are sad. He hides nearby and fishes. The girls saw that he was drunk Now, he didn't take advantage of others' danger, but he came to comfort himself sincerely, and he would be hooked, thinking that he was really an honest man, the kind who didn't seek sex."
Gu Liang nodded: "Understood. He used this method to deceive many girls. Before those girls, he was just playing for fun and didn't develop further. It wasn't until he met Rong Mingyuan that he had the idea of marrying her. After all Her family is too rich. He may be afraid of missing this time, and there will be no next time. "
Speaking of this, Gu Liang looked at Dong Wan and asked, "You don't know anything about this?"
"I don't know, not at all."
The surprised expression on Dong Wan's face didn't seem to be feigned, "I really don't know what kind of character he is. From my point of view, he is that kind of...a big stupid guy who doesn't fit into the upper class society I live in. But to be honest, I didn’t expect…”
At this moment Li Xiaoyu also came over, she didn't dare to look at the corpse in the room, so she walked in with her back to the corpse.
She opened her mouth and said: "But since there is a spell... It doesn't matter whether Rong Mingyuan knows about it or not. Because the spell has been said, no matter what happens, she will still love him. She should treat boyfriend Feng No intent to kill."
"Hey, that's right. So I can't see anything now."
Meng Qiancheng scratched his head, "It's only half an hour to investigate the scene, let's look for other clues."
Half an hour later, the investigation of the crime scene was completed, and Feng's boyfriend's room was sealed off.
When investigating the case at the scene just now, Li Xiaoyu didn't enter the house out of fear at first.
Regarding her behavior, Gu Liang didn't think it was unusual, after all, in the script of Huapi, she vomited in the yard during the whole time of on-site investigation.
What's more, despite the fear in his heart, Li Xiaoyu finally entered the house and actively discussed the case with everyone.
As for Dong Wan, she didn't enter the room at first, but after Meng Qiancheng asked her, she came in, and her participation was considered high.
The only person who didn't enter the house from the beginning to the end, and didn't participate in the discussion was Butler Hao.
At this moment, he watched everyone come out of the scene one by one, and only asked: "Where are we going next?"
Li Xuexue, who used to be, has now become Steward Hao, and his performance from beginning to end is more like an NPC than an NPC.
Gu Liang sized him up several times, and finally looked at Meng Qiancheng. "Detective, what do you say?"
Meng Qiancheng said: "Didn't you just talk about looking at the dolls, let's go to see the dolls first."
If so, after coming out of Feng's boyfriend's room, everyone went to the rooms of Ming actor, Ai best friend, Rong Mingyuan, Hao Butler, Mei Design, and Rong Daxie.
There is a doll in each person's room. Although they have different looks, hair and clothes, they have one common feature—the missing right arm and the marks of being stabbed on the chest.
The dolls in the detective's room were not spared either.
In the end, everyone came to the room of the scumbag played by Yang Ye.
By this time, everyone actually had nothing to look forward to, thinking that the doll in the closet in Yu Zha's room was nothing more than the same situation.
But when they opened the closet, they found that there were a few shirts hanging in his closet, but other than that, there was nothing else.
In other words, there were no dolls in the closet in Yu Zha's room.
Meng Qiancheng couldn't help asking, "Yang Ye, where's the doll in your room?"
Yang Ye spread his hands: "I don't know. I haven't moved."
Meng Qiancheng asked Gu Liang again: "What do you think?"
Gu Liang didn't say a word, only went to the bathroom once, then walked out from inside and walked to the balcony.
After a while, returning to the room from the balcony, Gu Liang searched around the mattress, pillows, bedside table, etc., but found no trace of the doll, nor did he find any other clues.
Li Xiaoyu suggested at this moment: "The house is so big, why don't we start looking for it separately? I think I only looked at the closets of each player just now, but I haven't searched the rest of the house. Maybe someone can find the doll there." Woolen cloth."
Meng Qiancheng nodded in agreement: "Well, that's a good idea. We don't know everyone's story yet, so let's look for it carefully."
"You check the house. I'll go downstairs first." Gu Liang looked at Yang Ye, "Together?"
"Let's go." Yang Ye smiled, walked out of the room, went to the elevator with Gu Liang, and then took the elevator to the first floor.
The main gate of the castle faces south, and you can reach the elevator on the left side after entering the main entrance, which means that the elevator is located in the west.
Walking into the main gate of the castle and going straight through the lobby is the main hall where the wedding ceremony will be held.
The door from the lobby to the main hall is the main entrance, which faces south, facing the direction of the main entrance of the castle.
Except for the main entrance, there is a side entrance on each of the other three sides of the main hall.
The door on the west side leads to the back garden and open-air restaurant.
Gu Liang walked out through the west door in the morning, but he only went to the open-air restaurant. He still doesn't know how big the entire back garden, including the peach grove, is.
But Yang Ye is obviously very clear, he intends to ask Yang Ye carefully later what happened to him in Taolin that morning.
The north gate of the main hall leads to the back kitchen.
The side door on the east side of the main hall leads to the toilet.
Toilets are not located indoors. Going out from the east side door is a large terrace, and the toilet is built beside the terrace.
Gu Liang stopped for a moment after entering the main hall, and saw Yang Ye walking straight to the east terrace.
After a pause, Gu Liang followed his steps.
Yang Ye looked back at him and smiled. "You also want to take a look here first? We have a tacit understanding."
Gu Liang was noncommittal, and said: "I just want to investigate the strange events in the order they happened."
From Gu Liang's perspective, the first strange event that happened in the castle was of course a power outage.
That night, Gu Liang was called into the backstage to change into costumes. He sat in the backstage to observe, and he happened to be able to see the direction of the east door.
At that time, Su Lan went to the bathroom through the east door.
Later, the power went out, and the housekeeper went to repair the switch, which was also in this direction.
At that moment, as soon as he stepped onto the terrace, several small black shadows flew past Gu Liang very quickly.
Gu Liang retracted his feet, squinted his eyes to follow the shadow, and said, "There are a lot of mice on this terrace."
"Tsk, I'm beginning to wonder if the food we eat here is clean."
Yang Ye stepped onto the terrace and stopped at a place next to the wall. "The switch is here."
Hearing this, Gu Liang walked up to Yang Ye and looked at the switch with him.
The electric switch is locked now, it should have been locked after the butler repaired the electric switch last night.
But there is a key on the switch box, which means that anyone can open the door.
Yang Ye took off the key and opened the switch box, and immediately frowned.
He leaned closer and smelled it, and then asked Gu Liang, "Did you smell a sweet smell?"
"Yes. The taste of cream cake."
Gu Liang took a closer look at the situation inside, "Look at this side, there is still a little white cream."
At this moment, the black shadow flickered, and a mouse rushed over and jumped directly onto the switch box.
With a wave of Yang Ye's hand, the mouse escaped.
Yang Ye closed the switch box again.
After thinking for a moment, Gu Liang said: "I know what happened to the power outage. It should have something to do with Su Lan."
Yang Yedao: "Before you sang last night, she told us that she went to the toilet. Did you see that too?"
"Yes." Gu Liang nodded, "The phenomenon just now shows that the mice in the castle like desserts. Someone knew this, so last night they put desserts on the wires to attract mice to bite. Su Lan left the table, and As soon as she came out, I found that the bag she was carrying was very conspicuous."
Yang Ye nodded: "Generally speaking, girls can bring a small bag for decoration when attending dinner parties or dances, but the satchel that Su Lan brought is a bit big, so people generally don't do this. It's not convenient for dancing or socializing."
After thinking for a while, Yang Ye said again: "When Su Lan went to the bathroom last night, the main meal was not served, but dessert and wine were served. I think she secretly hid a piece of dessert as an excuse to go to the bathroom, so she came here to make it. After leaving the office, go back to the restaurant."
"It stands to reason that she should have wanted to kill someone while the power was out. The person who destroyed the switch was the murderer. But when the power went out, she was not on the balcony. So she designed this mechanism to create an alibi for herself."
"The problem now is that she doesn't seem to be doing anything during the power outage. It looks like nothing happened."
"Again, is there anything else in her eye-catching wine red bag besides dessert?"
"I killed someone when the power went out. There was a dagger hidden in the bag."
Su Lan who said this.
Gu Liang turned his head and saw her stepping on the terrace in high heels, and said, "As a designer and a friend of Rong Mingyuan, I have been to this castle before. When I was eating dessert on the terrace, I accidentally dropped a piece of it." Buttercream, which attracted a lot of rats. That inspired me. So last night, while I was on the toilet, I opened the switch box and smeared cream in it."
"This method may not be successful. I didn't expect it to work once. I just tried it for the time being. I didn't expect that I succeeded. The dessert attracted the mice, and it really bit the wire. So I took it out of my bag when the power was out. A dagger stabbed Rong Mingyuan who was sitting on my left side."
"Before I took my seat last night, I kept observing how everyone was sitting. I tried to find a way to sit with Rong Mingyuan, just to kill her conveniently. I kept paying attention to her position so that I could stab her accurately at the moment of power failure. I confirmed that my knife had stabbed her in the heart. Then I threw the knife under the table and covered the knife with the floor-sweeping tablecloth."
"After throwing the knife, I sat down and took out the wet towels in my bag to wipe my hands. During the process, I covered my hands with a napkin to avoid any accidents. After that, I waited until the housekeeper repaired the circuit, everyone Rong Mingyuan was found lying in a pool of blood."
"I was sitting next to Rong Mingyuan. When the murderer killed her, it was normal for blood to splash on me, so I didn't care if there was blood on my body. When the power went out, everyone except the housekeeper was in the hall, and anyone could Her murderer. I don't have any particular suspicions. So I'll just sit and wait for the switch to be fixed."
"I didn't expect... After the butler repaired the switch, there was no blood on my hands or body, and Mingyuan Rong didn't die."
While speaking for a long time, Su Lan walked up to Yang Ye step by step on high heels, and said, "To be honest, I now suspect that you are the real culprit in this case."