Before Gu Liang responded to Li Xiaoyu, he first reviewed the progress of the case and his and Yang Ye's deduction.
In the case of "Carrying a Doll", in addition to Feng's boyfriend played by the NPC, there are a total of seven characters played by the player.
Last night, actor Ming lived alone in the castle; Mr. Rong went out and will not be back until this morning.
Overnight, except for the two of them, the other five people all died.
Yu Zhanan, Meiji, and Ai's best friend, these three died in a car accident, and it is very likely that Mr. Rong ordered them to kill them.
Boss Rong killed people to keep his mouth shut, because he didn't want the things that happened in the castle to spread through the mouth of these three people, so that the rumors would affect his daughter's future happiness.
Next, Rong Mingyuan and Hao Butler died in the vegetable garden.
Mei Design said before that she took money to kill people.
Then, it is very likely that the person who really wanted Rong Mingyuan to die, seeing that Mei's plan failed, took the opportunity to sneak into the castle to kill the famous lady, and by the way killed the housekeeper who followed her.
In the end, the chef who came to the castle to go to work to make breakfast died in the kitchen.
When the system talked about this plot, there was a saying that he died after eating food, so maybe he had cooked meals and half-eaten food around him.
He was supposed to be played by an NPC, but for some reason, the corpse was moved to the main hall by other players.
He was almost sucked into a mummified body, and it was obvious that it was a vampire who killed him.
Therefore, in just one night, 6 people died in this castle, and the murderer may be 3 people.
I just don't know what the voting in the first stage is asking everyone to vote for.
In addition to the death of 6 people, it seems that time travel has also happened in this castle.
Three hundred years ago, the original owner of the castle was Duke Dahl, and his daughter was Princess Rose.
Earl William came to the castle to join Duke Dahl.
But when he came to the castle, he didn't see the Duke and Princess.
After staying for one night, he traveled to the present time and space together with many bats and old objects.
It is very possible that the duke and princess also traveled together.
Then, among this group of people, there may be three vampires hiding—the Duke, the Princess, and the Earl played by Yang Ye.
At this moment, Gu Liang looked at the players in the main hall, among them were Su Lan, Li Xiaoyu, and Meng Qiancheng.
Meng Qiancheng should still be Boss Rong.
But Mei Design and Ai Girlfriend are dead, so Su Lan and Li Xiaoyu should get new roles in this new script, just like Yang Ye.
In addition to these three people, there are two unfamiliar faces, two players, a man and a woman, whom Gu Liang has never seen before.
After Shun understood everything that happened in the castle, Gu Liang looked at Li Xiaoyu, said hello, and asked, "Have all the players arrived yet?"
"Should be. You..."
Li Xiaoyu glanced at him, then looked at Yang Ye behind him who was looking happy, "Why are you two here so late?"
"I got up late. He just arrived."
Gu Liang said casually, and then glanced at everyone. Everyone was wearing human clothes. It seemed that the vampire among them came here after changing clothes, just like Yang Ye.
Gu Liang immediately understood that this meant that no matter which side mission he chose to give up in the end, he would pretend to be human with Yang Ye first.
He made a certain plan in his heart and looked back at Yang Ye.
Yang Ye nodded at him, stepped forward and put his shoulders on his shoulders, and said to Li Xiaoyu, "I am the assistant of actor Ming, called Assistant Wang, and I usually do some work as a manager, so I came here to pick him up. You guys What is your identity this time?"
Li Xiaoyu said: "This time I am Ai's mother, and my name is Ai's mother. I have been divorced and have a fiancé again. Ai's girlfriend didn't return all night, so I was worried, so I came to her with my fiance."
Li Xiaoyu pointed at the strange male player, and said to Gu Liang, "That's my fiancé, Boss Mei."
Boss Mei
Is it related to beauty design
Gu Liang looked at the player curiously.
Boss Mei took a step forward and said to Gu Liang and Yang Ye: "You two just came here, I didn't hear you just now. Then let me introduce myself again. I am Boss Mei, Mama Ai's fiancé, and the boss of Mei Design. I'm here , On the one hand, it was to find Ai’s best friend, and on the other hand, it was to find Mei Design. She handed me a resignation letter, but I wanted to keep her as an employee. I heard that she came to the castle, so I came here to find her.”
After the strange male player introduced himself, the female player next to him said, "I'm Mei Design's sister, Mei Sister. I also came to find her because Mei Design didn't come home all night."
"Do you know Boss Mei?" Gu Liang asked her.
Sister Mei shook her head. "I don't know her. I don't know much about her work."
Gu Liang nodded and set his eyes on Meng Qiancheng.
Meng Qiancheng said, "I haven't changed just like you, I'm still Big Brother Rong. There were so many characters in the last script, and we were the only ones left alive."
At the end of the conversation, Meng Qiancheng sighed.
Finally Gu Liang looked at Su Lan.
Su Lan said: "I am a lost tourist, a dream tourist. I was playing in a nearby mountain stream, got lost, and then found this old castle."
Therefore, among the players in the previous script, Dong Wan and Liu Bowen, who played the roles of the real murderer and the accomplice, were the only two players who really disappeared after the voting ended.
As for Su Lan, Li Xiaoyu, and Yang Ye, only the characters they played in the previous script died, but in the new script, they each have new identities.
For the time being, there should be no new players.
Then, there are still seven characters in this script—Sister Mei, Boss Mei, Mama Ai, Meng You, Actor Ming, Big Brother Rong, and finally Earl William played by Yang Ye.
Now, Earl William Yang Ye lied that he was Assistant Wang, the assistant of actor Ming.
Well, in fact, there may also be two vampires hidden among the four people, Mama Ai, Mengyou, Meijie, and Boss Mei. One of them is a duke and the other is a princess, but they are the same as Yang Ye. Human clothes, hiding identities.
Gu Liang's eyes slid over these players one by one, and then returned to the corpse.
Li Xiaoyu was the closest to him, and he asked her casually: "Shouldn't the chef's body be in the kitchen? Why is it here?"
"When the chef died, he should have been eating sweet porridge. Before he died, he must have knocked over the sweet porridge. In short, a lot of sweet porridge was spilled on the ground, and a lot of mice came into the kitchen. It was not easy to get their feet on it. Everyone discussed, If you move the body out, it will be easier to check."
Li Xiaoyu looked at Gu Liang again, "It's really too late for you guys to come here. After listening to the system broadcast, we all came here immediately after hearing that there was a corpse here. Now we are going to the vegetable garden to see the corpses of Rong Mingyuan and Hao Butler .”
"The reason why you came here first is because you all think that the mission of the first stage is related to these corpses?" Gu Liang asked.
"Isn't it?" Li Xiaoyu asked curiously, "Isn't this game about finding the murderer? With so many people dead this time, there may be several murderers to be found."
Gu Liang nodded and looked at Li Xiaoyu: "Then go to the vegetable garden, Yang Ye and I will go to the kitchen to have a look, and we will go to the vegetable garden to find you later."
After a while, the rest of the players walked towards the west door to the garden one after another.
Li Xiaoyu looked at Gu Liang and Yang Ye, and smiled mysteriously.
Gu Liang:
Li Xiaoyu's inner OS: The big star and the little assistant, the little assistant turned over and sang, and overwhelmed the big star, I can!
She waved her hand on the face: "see you later, hehe."
Gu Liang glanced back at Yang Ye, thinking of something, the corner of his mouth twitched.
Yang Ye put his shoulders on his shoulders and walked towards the back kitchen. "What are you thinking?"
Gu Liang said lightly: "I'm thinking, I can't think of what Li Xiaoyu is thinking, but you must know."
Yang Ye smiled. "Oh, Liangliang knows me so well."
Gu Liang: "..."
Yang Ye glanced in the direction where the other players left, then looked back at Gu Liang, and lifted his collar up to prevent the teeth marks from being exposed. "You still have to be careful."
Gu Liang thought for a while and said, "Actually, maybe... it's better to let them see it."
Yang Ye understood what he meant: "Do you want to fish?"
"Good people and vampires should only choose one side."
Gu Liangdao, "Everyone should not know about the [transformation period] for the time being. I deliberately exposed the wound. Maybe the vampires will think that I am a real vampire and come to find me to form an alliance. Follow the clues and find out the identities of all the players. This game will be easier .”
"However, this is only a preliminary strategy. Whether we want to do this or not, we have to wait and see."
Having said that, the two came to the back kitchen.
As Li Xiaoyu said, the table was covered with a rich breakfast, but it had obviously been destroyed by rats.
There was a half-broken bowl on the ground, half of the sweet porridge was in the bowl, and the remaining half flowed out, staining the floor.
There were too many mice on the ground. Some of them licked the sweet porridge on the floor, some jumped into the bowl, and some jumped onto the counter and began to eat other food.
"Breakfast is ruined." Gu Liang's eyes showed regret.
He has always cherished food, and all this seems to him to be too wasteful.
Yang Ye glanced at those pots and pans, probably not easy to use, so he opened the refrigerator, took out two apples, took a bite himself, tasted it, and handed the other to Gu Liang. "And some ham sausage, do you want it?"
"No. An apple is fine. Thank you." Gu Liang took the apple and glanced at the kitchen again. Except for the messy floor counter and too many furry mice, it seemed that there was nothing to see for the time being. .
The two quickly walked out of the back kitchen, ready to go to the vegetable garden.
But unexpectedly, when the two of them returned to the main hall, they found that the rest of the players had also returned.
Yang Ye asked first, "Why are you all back?"
Li Xiaoyu said: "Just after walking a hundred meters, when we couldn't even see the garden restaurant, there was fog. It seems that we can't go to the garden at this stage of exploration."
Li Xiaoyu was a little melancholy, Yang Ye said: "Thinking about the good, in fact, this is the system reducing the difficulty. This time there is no plot interpretation, and the first stage of free exploration will come directly, and the vote will be at 12 o'clock. The time is very short." Limited, if the scope of exploration is too wide, it will be troublesome."
"That's true." Li Xiaoyu asked the others, "Has any of you been to floors 2-5?"
No one responded to her question.
Gu Liang thought for a while, then looked at Meng Qiancheng: "What's going on with this ancient castle, as the current owner of the ancient castle, do you have any special information?"
Meng Qiancheng said: "It should be similar to everyone else. I only know that the original owner was the Duke of Dahl. He built the castle three hundred years ago. The sealed area on the first floor, and the second to fifth floors, since I moved in, I have been Never went in."
"It hasn't been remodeled at all?" Gu Liang asked again.
Meng Qiancheng said: "You have all seen the blocked area on the first floor. It has thick walls and closed iron gates. When I rebuilt this place, the Feng Shui master said that that place, including all 2-5 floors, is completely closed. Can't move."
"So, on the wall on the first floor, I only painted a layer of paint, and then decorated it to make it not look so dark, but to match the style of the entire lobby and look more magnificent."
Gu Liang: "There is a keyhole on the iron door. Have you opened it?"
Meng Qiancheng: "No. I don't have a key. The Feng Shui master also said, don't open it."
Well, this means that the blocked area on the first floor and all the areas on the 2nd to 5th floors were what they were three hundred years ago, and they will still be three hundred years later.
Moreover, this part of the area has remained closed for three hundred years.
At this moment, Boss Mei walked to the entrance of the main hall and looked in the direction of the lobby. "Have you noticed that there are many antiques here? Have you ever thought about what's going on?"
The crowd followed his words and walked to the lobby.
Li Xiaoyu squatted down and picked up a wooden comb on the ground. It looked like an ancient craft.
"Could it be traveling through time and space? Something went wrong in time and space, allowing things from the past to travel to the present."
Li Xiaoyu said, "The plot mentions the Duke of Dahl three hundred years ago. I think all this must have something to do with his time."
In fact, Gu Liang already had a guess in his mind just now.
But he didn't say it.
Because he didn't want to be the first to mention time travel.
Lest everyone think that he is too unpredictable, and then think of him, or Yang Ye beside him, from three hundred years ago.
Now that someone has mentioned this matter, especially when Li Xiaoyu directly mentioned "time and space travel", Gu Liang said: "If these items have traveled through time for three hundred years, I think we can find something."
Li Xiaoyu asked: "What?"
Gu Liang raised his chin towards the iron gate in the closed area of the lobby. "The key to those iron doors."
"Ah! Yes! Three hundred years ago, the Duke's stuff passed through, so of course the key can also pass through! In this way, we can open the blocked area that we haven't been to before!"
Li Xiaoyu was a little excited, then picked up a vase, took out the flowers, turned the vase upside down, and checked if there was a key inside.
Others obviously felt that Gu Liang's brain was reliable, including Yang Ye, and they all went to find the key together.
Gu Liang didn't move, he just walked up to the elevator and pressed the up button.
Li Xiaoyu noticed this movement: "Huh? Where are you going?"
Gu Liang: "So many of you are looking for the key, are you afraid you can't find it? I'll go back to the room on the 6th floor to go to the bathroom, and then try to see if the system has opened up other floors, that is, to see if the elevator can reach it. I am 5 or 6 Be back in a minute."
It stands to reason that it would be very suspicious to leave the crowd and act alone at this time.
But Gu Liang's face was very open and calm, and as expected, he came back after 6 minutes.
Looking at it this way, it seemed that he really didn't have time to do anything.
At this time, Meng Qiancheng also remembered what Gu Liang once said - he dare not pull people to talk alone, for fear of attracting suspicion; or if he sees people telling people to gossip alone, they are all novice players. How can reasoning be so easy
Meng Qiancheng thought about it—hey, does it apply to acting alone
In fact, Gu Liang was going to restore a piece of evidence.
There were so many things to understand and think about at the beginning of the script that both he and Yang Ye neglected one thing - there was still the piece of paper that Gu Liang smeared with a pencil in Mr. Rong's room.
Although, in a while, if everyone went to that room together and saw this piece of paper, and asked Gu Liang, the only one who lived on the 6th floor, Gu Liang would be able to find a reason to explain.
But if there is a chance, it is better not to let everyone know that he has been to that room.
So, after returning to the 6th floor just now, Gu Liang went to the housekeeper's room to get the key, and then went to Mr. Rong's room.
The notebook on the table is still there, still open.
Gu Liang picked up the pencil, followed the strokes of the four characters "Kill them", and drew them heavily, leaving clear traces of the strokes on the next page.
After that, he tore off the pencil-smeared paper, and carefully tore off part of the shredded paper at the edge, so as not to leave traces of the book being torn off too many sheets.
Afterwards, he took out the signature pen and re-wrote the four words along the imprint just now.
In this way, he perfectly restored Mr. Rong's handwriting.
At the same time, the blank page on the next page also had traces of these four words.
In the end, Gu Liang also tore off the piece of paper that he had just written with a signature pen, and also took care to clean up the shredded paper on the edge.
Going to the bathroom, Gu Liang tore up the two torn pieces of paper thoroughly, threw them into the toilet and flushed them away, then left Boss Rong's room, locked the door, and put the key back in the housekeeper's room.
In this way, Gu Liang perfectly restored this evidence—the notebook was spread out on the table, and there was an obvious mark left by a signature pen on the white paper. It seemed that Mr. Rong had written something on the previous page, and then tore it away. As for what he wrote, it can be restored with a pencil.
Everything was exactly the same as what he saw when he and Yang Ye stepped into the room in the morning.
Gu Liang restored the evidence, and finally tore away the piece of paper with the words "Kill them" written by himself, not the evidence given by the system. Sure enough, the system did not send a violation notice.
After finishing all this, Gu Liang went back to the elevator, tried to press the "5" floor, and it turned on.
It seems that these previously blocked areas, the system is indeed open.
When the elevator opened, Gu Liang didn't go down to look. He just waited and watched at the door. He saw a corridor. There were still dark walls on both sides of the corridor. It was similar to the situation on the first floor. There were several iron doors on the wall. Locked tightly, as if locked some kind of secret.
With an idea in mind, Gu Liang closed the elevator and clicked on the "1" floor.
The elevator door opened, and many people looked over.
Gu Liang looked at the crowd naturally, and asked, "Did you find the key?"
Li Xiaoyu happily picked up a bunch of keys, and said happily: "I found it! I found a wooden cabinet with such a large bunch of keys in it, and the floor was marked. It seems that every room can be entered. We will Let's check one by one!"
"Gu Liang, did you visit other floors just now? How's it going?"
It was Yang Ye who asked this question.
Gu Liang looked at him and saw that he was standing with his hands in his pockets and his slightly bent legs leaning against the wall, looking ruffian.
But the smile on his face is very gentle, and the eyes have deep meaning.
He was clearly cooperating with Gu Liang in "faking".
The corner of Gu Liang's mouth raised slightly subconsciously, and then said: "I first went to the toilet on the 6th floor, and then only went to the 5th floor. The situation there is similar to the area on the 1st floor. Black walls, big iron gates."
"There is a light in the elevator. When it is turned on, the light will pass by and you can see a little bit. But there is no light in the corridor, and the surrounding area is pitch black. I stayed there for about a minute, and I didn't dare to go too far alone. , and went back to the elevator.”
"Understood." Yang Ye said, "We will go back to the storage room on the 6th floor to get the flashlight later, and then go to other floors to check."
Su Lan said now: "Let's look at the lobby first. If these rooms have never been remodeled and were built three hundred years ago, they should be the same as the fifth floor, and there are no electric lights. We need flashlights now. "
After saying this, Su Lan stepped forward to press the elevator and went to the 6th floor. "I'll get it."
"Wait—" Su Lan suddenly looked at Li Xiaoyu, "I'm afraid, why don't you go with me?"
"Okay." Li Xiaoyu handed the key to Meng Qiancheng, "First, you study the sequence, which key opens which door, and Su Lan and I will get the flashlight and come down, and then we will go to check each room together."
Gu Liang squinted his eyes and saw two people getting on the elevator quickly.
He frowned slightly, and then looked to the side. The two new players, a man and a woman—Boss Mei and Sister Mei, both of them were looking down at the ancient objects from the time travel, as if they wanted to find out if there were any other items inside. clues.
These two people may be because they are not familiar with everyone, and they don't dare to trust people easily, so they haven't said much, basically they haven't revealed any information.
Withdrawing their gazes, Gu Liang and Yang Ye looked at each other, then raised their heads and looked above the main hall gate.
— There are three paintings there, one of roses, one of portraits, and one of sunflowers.
The portrait is in the center, with roses and sunflowers on the sides.
There are many such paintings in the castle.
But Gu Liang still doesn't know what the purpose of these paintings is.
Keeping his gaze on the painting for a moment, Gu Liang had no idea for the time being, so he just ate the apple with peace of mind.
The system has never skimped on food, this apple is crisp and delicious, and Gu Liang quickly finished one.
When throwing the apple core into the trash can, Su Lan and Li Xiaoyu came back.
All in all, they went there for almost 10 minutes.
"Have you got the flashlight?" Meng Qiancheng asked, "Why have you two been away for so long?"
"We went to the bathroom too. By the way—"
Li Xiaoyu showed an expression of lingering fear, "The sixth floor is quite scary. There are many dead mice on the ground. We took the flashlight and went to the room where Mei Design lives. I'll go, the room is full of bats! Fortunately, I reacted quickly and just opened it. The door is now closed."
"Then we went to Ai's best friend's room to go to the toilet. Fortunately, there was nothing there. But there was one strange thing—the mirror was broken, and it was almost shattered into foam. I don't know who did it."
Su Lan shook her head when she heard this. "There are too many strange things in this castle. The scariest thing is that in the previous script, we somehow knew what the main mission was, but now we don't even know what to vote for in the first stage."
"Since you don't know anything, let's go to those unknown areas first."
Gu Liang looked at Meng Qiancheng, "Have you figured out the key?"
"It is strung together in order. I will try the first one in a while, and I should know almost everything later." Meng Qiancheng said.
So, after a while, everyone first came to the west side of the lobby on the first floor. There is only one iron gate here.
Meng Qiancheng picked up a key and tried it, but he used the right key right away.
There was a heavy sound of unlocking the lock, and Meng Qiancheng immediately pushed the iron door open.
A strong stench hit his face immediately, Gu Liang was about to raise his hand, when Yang Ye stretched out his hand and covered his mouth and nose for him.
At the same time, Yang Ye grabbed his waist and led him back a few steps, almost in a hugging gesture.
Yang Ye whispered in Gu Liang's ear, "Be careful. Don't get too close."
The rest of the players also covered their mouths and noses, especially Meng Qiancheng who opened the door was the first to retch.
Li Xiaoyu covered her mouth for a moment, she couldn't take it anymore, she ran to the trash can and vomited.
Su Lan covered her mouth with one hand, picked up the flashlight with the other and shone it behind the iron gate.
—The piles of bones appeared in front of everyone in an instant.
The author has something to say:
There are a lot of blind guesses this time.
1. Besides Yang Ye, who are the other two vampires
2. Who are the 3 murderers who killed 6 people
3. Who is the final victim and the real culprit
Hey hey.