Inside the lounge.
Yang Ye saw a faint expression similar to pity in Gu Liang's eyes.
Gu Liang looked at Yang Ye and said, "Now I'm not sure whether every doll has a spirit body, everyone is protecting Rong Mingyuan, or everything is done by a doll. But I can be sure that the real Feng The boyfriend died before, and he was possessed by the spirit of the doll."
"Think about it, every time a spirit body protects a lady from damage, the doll itself will suffer the same damage. It can be deduced from this that once the spirit body possessed by Boyfriend Feng is hurt, Boyfriend Feng's body will be hurt. Same damage."
"The doll on the back of Mingyuan in the photo is the oldest one. At that time, Mingyuan was very young, so it is possible that the doll has the strongest spiritual power. Other spirit bodies can only rely on the doll, but it can reach Feng. on the boyfriend."
Yang Ye nodded: "It's reasonable. So, the spirit body was burned by the pentagram, and boyfriend Feng's physical body was also burned. As for where the doll went... Maybe it was also burned. Such evil spirits and other things, Generally, its original body must be burned to completely destroy it.”
"However, it doesn't matter if we guess wrong about the whereabouts of the doll's body. The most important thing now is to find flaws."
Gu Liang took out the notes he had taken along the way, looked at them, and concluded: "So, after leaving the restaurant at 8:30, the housekeeper began to clean the room. After 10 o'clock, Rong Mingyuan was burning dolls in the vegetable garden. Manipulated each doll in the accommodation area."
"If the housekeeper finishes cleaning the room before 10 o'clock, then go to each room after 10 o'clock to chop off the doll's arms and stab the knife, take the arm to the vegetable garden to burn, and finally come back with the ladies before 11 o'clock, it is completely in time .”
Yang Ye nodded: "Yes, it must be so. So, in fact, we pushed the wrong place before."
Gu Liang also noticed that mistake, and immediately took out a pen and made a cross somewhere.
"Well. We said at the time that if everything was done by the housekeeper, then he must have cut off the doll's arm first, and then went to the vegetable garden to burn it. He would have missed a doll, which was in the room of Feng's boyfriend. Because Feng's boyfriend Death must have happened after the magic circle was activated. And it is impossible for the housekeeper to do this while Feng's boyfriend is alive."
"So I said at the time that the housekeeper probably cut off the arm of the doll in Feng's room when he called her boyfriend to the wedding at noon. I was wrong. It's impossible."
"If he chopped off the doll's arm at 12 o'clock, he didn't have time to burn it in the vegetable garden, and we didn't see any doll's arm elsewhere. This means that this must not be the last thing he did. did. So—”
Gu Liang raised his head and met Yang Ye's gaze: "What do you think, how does the accomplice play?"
Yang Ye: "I don't know. But it is possible. When it is absolutely necessary, the accomplice can help the real murderer to take the blame. In this way, the good people also voted for the wrong real murderer. The real murderer can escape, and they may win. See the system rules for details." .”
Gu Liang: "Therefore, Housekeeper Hao may help Rong Mingyuan to bear the crime as a last resort. In this way, the point we just mentioned is one of his flaws. If he insists, the magic circle, He did everything from cleaning the room, disposing of all the dolls, to killing people. He couldn't close this loophole."
"That's the truth, but it's not absolute."
Yang Ye thought for a while, and said to Gu Liang, "If I were the housekeeper, I can definitely say that when I went to deliver breakfast in the morning, I helped boyfriend Feng tidy up the closet, and when he wasn't paying attention, I took his arm or something."
"It's the same with Rong Mingyuan. When changing the sheets last night, he can also take advantage of the opportunity to do something."
Yang Ye paused for a moment, then continued: "Accordingly, the story given to us by the script is that when we see the characteristics of the doll, we will think of the doll as a stand-in to protect the ladies. But the housekeeper can tell that he lives in He has been here for a long time, and he already knew that the baby was alive. He would have known that the baby would protect Rong Mingyuan and so on. So he had already set up the murder and blame. "
"We can deduce from the timeline and logic that the butler must be the murderer."
"But the story itself has a lot of room for the murderer to play. These loopholes are not enough to bite him to death for lying."
Gu Liang thought for a while and asked him: "When we discuss together later, do you have any specific strategies?"
Yang Yedao: "Pretend not to know about the accomplice first, kill him as the murderer, relax his and Rong Mingyuan's vigilance, and then press the story to find loopholes. You don't need to tell Li Xiaoyu and Lao Mengtou about this matter, you have to act Be real."
Gu Liang looked down at the record in front of him again.
When his gaze stayed on a date, his eyes lit up.
"There is no time for other clues and evidence."
"As for the time of the wizard's visit, the year is specially written here. There must be a purpose."
"Perhaps, I have found a breakthrough. What we thought to be a logical thing before may actually be preconceived and entered a misunderstanding."
After a while. One-on-one interrogation room.
Meng Qiancheng looked at Gu Liang who walked in, and coughed a few times uncomfortably.
Gu Liang glanced at him and sat down opposite him.
Meng Qiancheng always felt that his eyes made him feel that he was the detective and he was the suspect.
Sure enough, Gu Liang asked him very detective questions as soon as he opened his mouth. "How's it going?"
Meng Qiancheng said: "You and Yang Ye have been chatting alone for too long. I've finished chatting with everyone else."
Gu Liang said lightly: "You don't need to talk to Yang Ye alone. To save time, you can just ask me about him. So, what do you think now?"
Meng Qiancheng said: "The murderer is between Yang Ye and Housekeeper Hao, choose one of the two for happiness."
Gu Liang asked him: "Who still doubts Yang Ye?"
"I don't know about the beautiful design, she is a bit vacillating. Rong Mingyuan originally thought it was Yang Ye, but after my analysis, she seemed to be convinced that the murderer was the housekeeper. Ai's best friend voted for the housekeeper. Of course the housekeeper killed Yang Ye to be the real one." fierce."
"I see. But the murderer is Housekeeper Hao." Gu Liang said.
Meng Qiancheng looked at him uncertainly: "That..."
"Speak straight."
"You voted wrongly, so you can't get rewards. I'm going to die. You won't help your husband fool me, will you?"
"???"
Seeing Gu Liang's expression, Meng Qiancheng asked even more uncertainly: "Oh, I was wrong? Are you his husband?"
Gu Liang: "..."
After a while.
"I didn't fool you, the real culprit is the housekeeper."
Gu Liang looked at Meng Qiancheng, "But I suddenly have a question to ask you, how old is your daughter?"
Meng Qiancheng replied in surprise: "25 years old. Is there a problem?"
Gu Liang asked again: "How old is the housekeeper?"
Meng Qiancheng said, "20 years old."
Then my guess was right. Basically reliable.
Gu Liang nodded and asked, "You didn't show them the photo of the wizard's visit, did you?"
Meng Qiancheng: "No. Doesn't that mean that wizards came to the castle? This is consistent with the memory of the ladies. The ladies also frankly said that wizards came here. So there is no need to show them this evidence."
"That's good. Don't show it to them for a while." Gu Liang said.
"Yes, yes, but why..." Meng Qiancheng began to scratch his head.
"It's nothing." Gu Liang said lightly, stood up and walked out, "Just insist that the murderer is Housekeeper Hao. His method is the same as what I told you before. To save time, we can discuss it together."
This moment. There are still two hours until the final vote.
Meng Qiancheng, as a detective, started his statement first: "Let me summarize the case first. Ming is a soy sauce character, but he has been playing chess with me, let him be ruled out first."
"Among the rest of the people, Mei Design, Ai Girlfriend, and Yu Scumbag all want to kill Rong Mingyuan, and they have all done it, right? Then, based on the performance of the doll, there is a brain hole for a substitute It's because the baby helped Mingyuan block the damage, so Rong Mingyuan didn't die."
"Girlfriend Ai wanted to kill her out of jealousy, and Yu Zhanan was ordered by Mei Design. By the way, Mei Design, what is your motive?"
Mei Design said: "I don't know, I just said that I was instructed by someone to collect money to kill people. Part of the first floor of this castle, plus the second to fifth floors, have been sealed off. I think maybe there will be more people in the back." There is a story."
"Okay. Then we... ah yes, there is also a soy sauce character, isn't it?" Meng Qiancheng looked at Hao Butler, "Are you not murderous at all? Whether it's for Feng's boyfriend or the famous lady Rong?"
"I have no intention of killing anyone. But I have hurt Rong Mingyuan."
Housekeeper Hao said, "I chopped off her arm last night."
Meng Qiancheng was stunned, and so were many people.
Hao Butler: "Sorry, based on the experience of the last script, I don't want to trust people easily, so I didn't say anything from the beginning."
— After free exploration and 2 hours of discussion, you know that no one has checked the doll’s condition in the morning, and you can’t confirm whether the doll broke its arm at night, so you dare to say that
Gu Liang knew it in his heart, but he didn't change his face.
"Why did you cut off her arm?" Meng Qiancheng asked.
"Accident. In the middle of last night, she needed to change the sheets and asked me to help."
The housekeeper said, "She complained that I went too late, and that I didn't do a lot of things well. I was very tired after a busy day, and I was taught by her. When I got angry, I moved my hands."
"There was a small ax in her room. I put it there when I helped her build the doll's house. I picked it up and chopped off her right arm. She was fine."
There were a lot of question marks in Meng Qiancheng's heart, and finally he could only squeeze out an embarrassed smile: "Then who do you think the murderer is?"
"Of course it's Yang Ye." Hao Guanjia said, "Our actions against Rong Mingyuan are all reflected in the baby. But he is special."
"Why is he so special? Didn't you say that you went to help Rong Mingyuan change the bed sheets? This means that he let go of the fire at that time. Rong Mingyuan was the one he wanted to kill."
Speaking of this, Meng Qiancheng explained Gu Liang's previous reasoning about fire sprinklers, "... Therefore, there is no possibility that the fire set by Yang Ye was transferred to Boyfriend Feng."
"This is Yang Ye's blindfold."
Hao Guanjia said, "Mei designed him to kill the famous ladies. But he didn't want to kill Rong. He wanted to kill Feng. He didn't kill Rong at all last night. He just poured a little alcohol on the bed sheet and ignited it, which triggered the fire spray. Spraying water, forming a false impression that the murder was unsuccessful, coincided with the doll as a stand-in."
"Usually speaking, one murderer won't attack two people. His murderous intention is Rong, not Feng. This is how he confuses us."
"He has been alone in the garden for so long, only he has the possibility to set up the magic circle."
Meng Qiancheng: "Why does Yang Yebai's pentagram circle work on Feng? What is his murderous intention?"
Steward Hao: "That's his story. How do I know?"
Meng Qiancheng didn't know what to say, and even he was a little swaying.
He felt that Butler Hao's words made sense.
After all, no one can prove that Yang Ye was knocked out.
When Meng Qiancheng was struggling, Gu Liang let go of the pen and put the pen on the table.
This sound made everyone's eyes focus on him.
Gu Liang first looked at Rong Mingyuan: "I have a question to ask you. The housekeeper said everything, do you agree?"
"Agreed." Rong Mingyuan said, "We did have an argument last night. But I don't remember cutting off my arm. I lost consciousness at that time."
"Last night, what did the scumbag man do after entering your room?" Gu Liang asked.
Rong Mingyuan's hands under the table were clenched into fists. She pinched her legs and said, "Just say some sweet words to lull me to sleep. I just fell asleep when I was awakened by the shower."
Gu Liang: "According to the butler, if you were not killed by Yang Ye, then you shouldn't be fragmented by a doll. But today, when Mei Design came to us, they said you were fragmented."
"I have a short fragment." Rong Mingyuan grabbed her leg nervously, and added, "I don't know whether to trust the housekeeper or the scumbag."
"But the housekeeper's words are also reasonable. I am broken, and it may be the cause of the antipyretics. I was able to fall asleep in front of the scumbag, and it must be the effect of the medicine. Ai's best friend can testify that I had a fever last night and left the meeting early. Then I took medicine."
"Okay. This is what Yu Scumbag did, right? Nothing else?" Gu Liang asked.
Rong Mingyuan said: "That's right. Since he only used up a little bit of alcohol, he still needs to save it for the next day to use the magic circle... Let's leave after burning the fire."
Gu Liang nodded: "Then let me sum it up. If the scumbag killed you last night, he didn't know that you would be protected by a doll, and he didn't know about the fire sprinkler. From his perspective, his actions would cause a big fire , so he will leave immediately, right?"
Rong Mingyuan nodded, but she was flustered because she didn't know what Gu Liang meant by asking.
Gu Liang said again: "Therefore, regardless of whether Yu Scumbag killed you or not last night, he left immediately without doing anything."
"Besides, you haven't seen him at all since breakfast this morning, have you? He's been in the garden, as you're saying."
Rong Mingyuan: "... yes."
"You've been in your room all morning?"
"Yes, after breakfast."
Gu Liang narrowed his eyes slightly, and raised his chin, giving people a strong sense of oppression.
"Among the ashes at the magic circle, there are some rags from the dolls, and some small houses. Where did they come from? Shouldn't they be in your room?"
"He left your room directly last night. Since you were in your room all morning today, he didn't have a chance to enter your room to get things. But after breakfast, and before breakfast, I can prove that he has been with me. Then , When did he take those clothes with the pentagram array?"
"I... I..." Rong Mingyuan looked at the housekeeper subconsciously in a panic, and then she said, "Then... maybe the housekeeper is lying. Yu scumbag is not the murderer."
On the side, Yang Ye laughed after hearing this.
—Actually, on the shelf in the utility room, there are also many small houses and toys belonging to dolls.
Rong Mingyuan obviously forgot this in her panic.
Gu Liang's expression was so calm and confident that Rong Mingyuan believed that if the scumbag had never entered her room, he would not be able to get the doll's clothes and toys.
Of course, another reason is that it is a win-win situation for the accomplice to take the blame.
That's why Rong Mingyuan dared to push the matter to the housekeeper.
Yang Ye stared at Gu Liang with obvious appreciation in his eyes.
Indeed, Gu Liang's questioning was very oppressive.
Under his persecution, people become nervous, which makes sense.
This is probably closely related to his professional experience.
Although he doesn't think he is suitable to be a lawyer, and seems to be very taboo about that past.
But looking at him now, Yang Ye could imagine how he looked like when he participated in the court trial in the past.
Su Lan said at this time: "The matter of antipyretics leading to fragmentation is too far-fetched. I think that the arrangement of fragmentation in the script is to make us associate with the doll's possession. Then, since there is no brain that the disaster is transferred to Boyfriend Feng Dong, I don’t think the murderer is Yu Scumbag.”
"Agreed." Li Xiaoyu held up her notebook and explained all her reasoning and timeline. "In summary, I think it is only possible that the housekeeper has time to do this. Although the time may be a bit rushed..."
Time passed by every minute and every second.
Only half an hour until the vote.
Housekeeper Hao went from stubbornly resisting, insisting on not admitting, to acquiescing, and finally had no choice but to completely admit the murderer.
At the last moment, Li Xiaoyu chased him to ask the details: "Why did you kill Feng's boyfriend? You like Rong Mingyuan, and you don't want him to marry a scumbag?"
Housekeeper Hao lowered his head, giving Li Xiaoyu an affirmative answer.
Li Xiaoyu: "But how did you have time to do so many things? The pentagram is not small. It takes a long time just to set up the formation, right? You have to do so many dolls? You have to clean up so many rooms ? Especially Yang Ye's room full of water."
Butler Hao: "Run faster. There is always time."
Li Xiaoyu: "Hey wait, when did you get the dolls in the ladies and boyfriend's room?"
Housekeeper Hao: "The ones in Feng's boyfriend's room were secretly made last night when I brought him supper. The ladies' ones...I helped the makeup artist find a headgear in the morning, and took the opportunity to open the closet to get it."
Sure enough, Housekeeper Hao's answers were exactly as Yang Ye expected.
"Wait, the doll in our closet is a surprise gift. Why is the doll in the lady's room also in the closet?" Li Xiaoyu thought of something, and looked at Rong Mingyuan again, "Why?"
Rong Mingyuan's face turned pale, as if she realized later that the butler had done an extra step.
There was no need for him to do the same to the dolls in her room.
Rong Mingyuan had no choice but to say: "I hid all the dolls I gave you in the closet, not just as a surprise. This is what the wizard once said, it is better to put the dolls in the closet. So I didn't let the dolls accompany me on the bed Sleep, but put it in the closet."
Although Li Xiaoyu felt that this reason was a bit strange, she couldn't continue asking.
Because this reason is strange and strange, but it does not constitute a key factor for her to draw a certain conclusion.
At this time, Gu Liang finally spoke again, and asked the famous lady in Jurong: "By the way, the housekeeper likes you, do you know?"
Rong Mingyuan shook her head. "do not know."
"Why? He has been here for many, many years, right?" Gu Liang asked.
"It hasn't been many years, he—" Rong Mingyuan subconsciously stopped talking, and didn't continue.
Gu Liang looked at the butler again. "How old are you?"
"20 years old. Is there a problem?" The housekeeper looked back at Gu Liang.
Gu Liang smiled: "So, when did you come to the castle? Or, how long have you been here?"
The butler suddenly wanted to understand Gu Liang's intentions, and his face turned pale.
The butler remained silent for 10 minutes without daring to answer.
In the past 10 minutes, Rong Mingyuan, who had already calmed down, became more and more anxious, thinking that there is nothing wrong with this
But 10 minutes later, she seemed to have thought of the key point, and her whole body began to tremble, let alone dare to speak.
Another 5 minutes passed.
There are only 15 minutes left to vote.
"Can't answer? No, it should be said, you dare not answer."
Gu Liang said lightly, "The lady remembers the specific operation of using the pentagram to kill evil spirits very well, so she should not be too young when the wizard comes. Otherwise, she may forget. Are you speculating on this?"
Butler Hao suddenly raised his head to look at him: "What am I afraid to say? 10 years ago! I came to the castle 10 years ago!"
"Do you know how old the celebrity is? She is 25 years old."
Gu Liang looked at Meng Qiancheng, "Call out the photo of the wizard's visit."
Meng Qiancheng did as he did, and immediately understood.
—It says that the time of the wizard's visit is 2X04, and this year is 2X19.
That means, the wizard came 15 years ago.
"The wizard came here 15 years ago. You only came here 10 years ago. How do you know about the Pentagram?"
"We fell into a misunderstanding before. We took it for granted that you have been in the castle all the time, so you would naturally meet the wizard with Rong Mingyuan, but forgot to pursue your story. When did you come to the castle? Young you, what were you doing before you became a housekeeper?"
"In short, you who don't know the pentagram array at all, let alone how to use it to kill dolls, how can you kill boyfriend Feng?"
"You are not the real murderer at all."
"The real murderer is Rong Mingyuan, and you are the accomplice."
"This is the free probing phase. When you discuss witchcraft, Mei design is the first to admit, Rong follows, and you are the last to say that you know the reason for witchcraft. You are waiting for Rong's words, pretending to be a... wizard. At that time, it was an illusion that you were there."
"Rong Mingyuan is 25 years old this year. 15 years ago, she was 10 years old. It is normal to remember witchcraft. But 15 years ago, you were only 5 years old. A 5-year-old child should not be able to remember the details of the magic circle."
"That's why you struggled for a long time just now and didn't dare to answer too long. If you tell the time you came to the castle for too long, then when the wizard comes, you are too young to be suitable. You are afraid of us I think you are so small, you don't remember the details of the formation."
"But you don't dare to say the time limit is too short, because when the wizard visited, Mr. Rong was busy with business and was not in the castle. You have to avoid Mr. Rong's time. Otherwise, his time in the castle If it collides with a wizard, it will be a big flaw."
"So, you only dare to answer a compromise time, guessing that it came out 10 years ago. It's a pity."
Gu Liang: "I want to know, when did you really come to the castle?"
Housekeeper Hao let out a sigh of relief. "Eight years ago, I was 12 years old, and I was just a backstage cook. Later, I was selected by the previous housekeeper to inherit the position of housekeeper. Mr. Rong came back 7 years ago. So... I did compromise for 10 years. I really don't know wizards, let alone how to operate the pentagram circle... "
When meeting Rong Mingyuan in the corridor, Rong Mingyuan said: "I'm going to destroy her!"
What the steward asked was: "How did you destroy it?"
Rong Mingyuan said: "The wizard taught me, I just go to the garden and find a place to set up the formation."
The fact is that only Rong Mingyuan knows the details of the wizard and the arrangement to kill the spirits.
The butler doesn't know that at all.
After a while, Yang Ye finally opened his mouth and said to the butler, "Actually, from your timeline and story logic, we have figured out that the real culprit is Rong Mingyuan, and you are the accomplice. But, we know that no matter what How to say, you can actually make up for it by lying about our missing stories. So, although you can actually convince others through the timeline, we think... still have to find your fundamental flaws and convince everyone.”
When Rong Mingyuan heard this, her entire face turned pale.
She suddenly stood up and looked at the housekeeper: "I knew you were unreliable! I knew it!"
Steward Hao had no expression on his face, gave her a cold look, and then smiled. "It's because we didn't communicate well and didn't trust each other. If you didn't betray me in the last script, would we be like this?"
"Xiao Wan, if you want to blame, you can only blame yourself."
"Including this script, when I told you for the first time that an accomplice can take the blame, you still doubted me."
"Hahaha… "
Butler Hao laughed and looked at the rest of the people, "Last night, during the stage of the plot, after Yang Ye finished setting the fire, I went to deliver the sheets to her, and took the opportunity to say that we matched the details of the plot. But she didn't believe that I was an accomplice! "
"She thought that because of the last script, I was holding grudges against her. She thought I was a good person, and she was playing tricks on her!"
"It's not my fault! My script didn't mention that I had an accomplice! What's more, I didn't receive the detailed plot of the next day at that time. My script only told me that I was the real murderer."
Rong Mingyuan burst into tears, "I received the detailed plot early this morning, and after confirming that you are the accomplice, I'm looking for you!"
"It's too late. Whether it's the free exploration stage or the concentrated discussion, the two of us dare not stay alone for too long to avoid suspicion. If we communicated in detail and checked the details last night, you put all your story time, including The time the wizard arrived at the castle told me... that might not be the case."
The smile on Hao Butler's face disappeared, and he looked at Rong Mingyuan indifferently: "You can't always blame others for their incompetence. If you want to blame, you can only blame yourself."
"If it was before the last script, when I encountered this situation... I swear that I will do my best to protect you. Or even die with you, it would be very romantic. It's a pity..."
"Ding dong—"
The system broadcast sounded, "The intensive discussion on "Carrying a Doll" is over, and the following is the voting session."
The night was dark.
The strong wind blew away the dense fog, and there was a faint sound in the distance, a bit like crying.
A sedan chair slowly descended.
After the sedan chair stopped, Maid Liu and Yun Xuan, who played Feng's boyfriend, came down.
In front of her was a thick iron gate.
She walked up to the iron door, which opened silently.
She walked in and came to a snow-white world.
White ceilings, walls, and floor tiles.
The only kneeling person inside was also wearing a white robe, blending in with the white world.
The only thing that has color are the black pieces on the board in front of him.
—He is playing chess with himself.
Hearing Yun Xuan's voice, the man raised his head to look at her, smiled slightly, and waved to her happily. "Finally someone is here. The days without opponents are too boring. By the way, can you play chess?"
Compared with this person's smile, Yun Xuan's face was pale.
She fell to her knees all at once. "Didn't they say... that if I earn enough points, I can go back? I have been working hard to act in various scripts, and I even go to the rest area to clean up during the rest... The punishment I should be punished, such as cutting off my tongue, I also suffered. I Can't we go back?"
"Let's get to know each other first. My name is Mingyue. From now on, you will work with me."
Mingyue still had a brisk smile on her face, "Have you ever heard of a poem? It was written by Tagore?"
Yun Xuan trembled and said, "I... I just want to go home... I'm not in the mood to compose poems, why don't you let me go home?"
Mingyue said: "That poem is - I will die again and again to prove that life is endless. So don't be afraid. Death is never the end, and it is never the most terrible thing in this world."
Yun Xuan's tears fell down. "Please let me go home."
"It's no use begging me."
Mingyue sighed softly, returned to the chessboard, and stared at the chessboard intently. "It seems that you are not in the mood to play chess with me. What a pity."
"Why? Why can't I go back?"
"Because they gave up on you."
"They... you mean..."
"So stay here in peace."
"You stay here, remember one sentence. Never ask for anything."
"After all, who do you ask for light where there is no sun?"
The author has something to say:
The next play is "The Folding Castle".
Yang Ye: "Liangliang and I finally have a relationship!"
Gu Liang: "..."
Volume Six Four-Star Intermediate Book: "The Folding Castle"