Inside the lounge.
Yang Ye took a bottle of mineral water, opened the cap and handed it to Gu Liang.
Gu Liang seemed to be unwilling to show weakness for some reason, so he also picked up a bottle of mineral water, opened the bottle cap, and handed it to Yang Ye.
Yang Ye smiled, took a sip of the water handed by Gu Liang, and asked him, "Why are you calling me here in such a hurry?"
"Because I think Boss Mei will immediately think of refuting your words."
Gu Liangdao, "Just now we made up too many story backgrounds, he just made an omission for a while, but maybe he will be able to react right away."
Yang Ye thought for a while and said, "You mean... about the room card?"
Gu Liang nodded: "Yes. Don't forget, the diary we saw in Mr. Rong's room at the beginning, we found that he wanted to kill you. Then, he is not sure whether your room is locked or not. Prepare the room in advance. Card, went to your room to kill someone, and then you killed him back. When you pushed him downstairs, the room card fell outside, of course it is possible."
Yang Ye frowned and thought for a moment, then looked at Gu Liang, and said, "I know. It is possible that Mr. Rong went to my room with the room card. But he didn't kill me, but the mysterious man."
Thinking of something, Gu Liang became serious.
Yang Ye said again: "The dresses worn by Boss Rong and I are very similar. This point was specifically written in the plot. Because we all wore evening dresses taken from the wardrobe in the Duke's bedroom. And the mysterious man wore Pretty much the same as us."
"I clearly remember that before I went to take a shower, the mysterious man stood with his back to the door."
Speaking of this, Yang Ye stood up and said to Gu Liang: "Gu Liang, stand up and turn your back to me, let's try."
After hearing Yang Ye's words, Gu Liang got up and stood with his back to Yang Ye.
As Yang Ye approached him, he said, "Now you are the mysterious man, and I am Boss Rong. I swiped open the door of Earl William's room with my key card, and saw a man in black dress standing with his back to me. I thought You are the Earl William I want to kill. And the sooner you do it, the better, it will be a hit—”
"So I quietly pushed open the door and went forward. I covered your mouth with my left hand and restrained your upper body. Holding the cross in my right hand, I stepped over your right shoulder and stabbed you in the heart instantly. It is possible. Yes Is it?"
After a while, Gu Liang pushed Yang Ye's hand away and turned to look at him: "You mean, Boss Rong wanted to kill you and killed the mysterious man by mistake. Then Boss Rong pushed the mysterious man from the balcony of your room." Go down, and during the process of moving the mysterious man's body, his room card fell out."
Yang Ye: "I took a shower for half an hour, and the plot specifically mentioned it at the time. The sound of the water was very loud, and I couldn't hear the sound outside the bathroom. So I think it's possible."
Gu Liang thought for a while, and said: "At 3:30 in the afternoon, you met a mysterious man. You saw him talking to himself, so you went to take a shower. Let the boss enter your room and kill someone, then push him downstairs , it should be around 3:40 by now."
"After that, if Boss Rong takes the elevator downstairs to carry the corpse outside, he will be seen by Boss Mei. Boss Mei went to the lobby at 3:40 to look for ancient objects. But Boss Mei has never seen Boss Rong."
Yang Yedao: "That's why Boss Rong didn't take the elevator, he just jumped off the balcony on the 6th floor. He knew he wouldn't get hurt."
Gu Liang couldn't help but frowned.
After thinking for a while, Gu Liang's eyes lit up when he figured out something.
Gu Liangdao: "There are two possibilities. First, Boss Rong thinks he is a powerful duke, so jumping off the building will not hurt him. The second possibility is that he knows that this is a dream, and he also knows that he is in a dream. Here, unless the heart is injured, even if he jumps off the building, he will not die."
"If it's the second possibility, it's worth thinking about. Except he knows we're dreaming, who else knows?"
Yang Ye stepped forward to support Gu Liang's shoulders, let him sit down, then sat beside him, and said, "This involves a very critical issue. The motive for the murder."
"Actually, the two possibilities you just mentioned are not that simple when you think about it carefully."
"Let's look at the first possibility you mentioned. Boss Rong thinks he is a powerful duke. His motive for killing me is what was written in that diary—he was afraid that I would also be a duke, that I would replace him, and that I would rob Emily. So he's going to kill me."
"But if he is a pure dreamer, what he does does not conform to the character's setting."
"The duke has three purposes for creating dreams. The system's prompt is obvious. There is no objection to this."
"His first goal, to find out the truth about Ai Meili's death, has been achieved."
"Now his other two goals are to make up for regrets and realize wishes."
"Accordingly speaking, these two purposes are irrelevant to each other."
"The duke interpreted a story of a vampire and a human being in love through the two characters of the earl and Ming actor, in order to make up for the regret. But according to the warlock's book, the duke can't construct dreams out of thin air, so he put a lot of his experience And memory, giving the character of the earl, such as dispatching bats or something. But in essence, in his dream, the earl is still the earl."
"In his dream, I think it is Mr. Rong who really interprets himself. Mama Ai is set to be the reincarnation of Ai Meili. So what Mr. Rong and Mama Ai interpret is the story of the Duke himself."
"So, to be reasonable, Boss Rong shouldn't think that my earl can become a duke and replace him."
Gu Liang exhaled lightly. "I understand. You think that the fact that Mr. Rong wrote this sentence means that he has self-awareness. Two couples get married, one pair makes up for regrets, and one pair realizes their wishes. Mr. Rong is the one in his dream. The Duke, but he has murdered the Earl, which is against the original intention of the dreamer, the real Duke Dahl."
Yang Ye nodded and continued: "So I'm actually more inclined to the second possibility you just mentioned. After the second round of voting ended on November 9, the plot continued until today. During this period, our roles It’s just about dating. But others may have some special experiences.”
"I think that Mr. Rong can write this kind of diary, which means that he has lost control in the Duke's dream and has his own consciousness. After the awakening of self-consciousness, he is closer to realizing that he is in the dream. It is possible of."
"In the second round of evidence collection, everyone has been to the warlock's room, so it is possible for him to see that piercing the heart can kill people in dreams, and know this method of killing."
Gu Liang leaned back, resting his head on the sofa, staring at the void, seemingly lost in thought.
After a while, he sat up straight again and looked at Yang Ye. "wrong."
Gu Liang paused and continued: "If he has realized that he is dreaming, he should know that the murderous intent in the dream does not exist. He is not the Duke, and the story between him and Ai Mama is false, so he will not Afraid of being replaced by you. Why does he still want to kill you?"
Yang Ye: "Then he is going to kill the mysterious man. He knows that the mysterious man is the incarnation of the dream maker. He thinks that killing this incarnation can wake up from the dream?"
Gu Liang: "Then he didn't kill by mistake. What he wanted to kill was the mysterious man. In some way, he saw the mysterious man go to your room, so he followed him and killed him, leaving blood on your balcony. I can blame you."
"No, that doesn't make sense either."
Gu Liang narrowed his eyes, "How did he know that when he entered the room, you happened to be taking a shower?"
"Besides, even if he knows you're going to take a shower, how can he guarantee that when he enters the room, the mysterious man has his back turned to him so that he can hit him with one blow?"
At this moment, Yang Ye's brows could not help but frown.
He took off his glasses and put them on the table, and pressed the space between his brows, thinking.
During this period, Gu Liang was very close to him, and he could see the tiny scar on the corner of his right eye.
The spectacle lens of Yang Ye's left eye is flat, and the right side has prescription.
It was near the end of his service when he suffered a serious injury to his right eye, which caused irreversible damage to his vision.
Gu Liang knew this when the two of them communicated in the rest area.
Gu Liang still doesn't know exactly what happened at that time.
But now looking at the scar at the corner of Yang Ye's eye, Gu Liang's eyelids twitched slightly.
After a while, Yang Ye put on his glasses again and looked at Gu Liang: "I see. Then rule out the second possibility. Mr. Rong has not awakened self-awareness, it is still the first possibility - Mr. Rong believes that he is The Duke. He can jump off the building only because he thinks he is a powerful vampire. And it is me he wants to kill, he is afraid that I will replace him."
"Boss Rong didn't know that there was another mysterious person in my room. He may have concealed the door and observed the corridor for a long time. Seeing that I hadn't gone out, he knocked on the door. He just tested whether I might be sleeping. So he knocked on the door lightly, to the extent that if I was asleep, I wouldn't be awakened; if I was awake, I would definitely agree to him."
"But what Boss Rong didn't expect was that I happened to be taking a shower, and the water was very loud, and I didn't hear the knock on the door."
"Boss Rong saw that I didn't come to open the door, so he decided that I should be sleeping. Therefore, he dared to enter the room, not because he knew in advance that 'I' would stand still with my back to the door, but because he thought I was sleeping."
"The mysterious person has been immersed in his own world, ignored the knock on the door, and didn't look back. It is possible for Mr. Rong to pierce his heart in the way I said earlier."
Gu Liang thought about it, but didn't pick any faults.
"Well, this explanation is reasonable. Boss Rong kept his door open and stared at the corridor. At 3:30, Boss Mei, Sister Mei, and Su Lan all left. The fewer people stay on the 6th floor, the more important it is for him The more favorable it is. So it is reasonable for him to knock on your door softly at 3:30."
"You didn't respond. He thought you were sleeping, and just wanted to take advantage of your sleep, so he swiped his card to enter the room, which is reasonable."
"Then there is the mysterious man... Even if the mysterious man is not immersed in his own world, it is actually reasonable for him to look back at Mr. Rong."
"If I were Boss Rong, if I wanted to hit him with one blow, before swiping the card with my left hand to open the door, just in case, my right hand must have already grasped the cross that can stab people."
"At that time, even if the mysterious man turned his head back, I would think it was you who turned his head back. I would think that if you saw me using the universal room card to directly enter your room, you would suspect that I had ulterior motives and might turn against me .”
"So, I didn't have any time to confirm or hesitate at all, so I had to do neither. Before you realized it, I stabbed the cross into your chest. After killing you, I realized that I killed the wrong person gone."
"At this time, I heard the sound of water in the bathroom. I guessed that you were bathing in it. You might come out at any time, but I didn't prepare anything else that could kill you. I can only jump out from the balcony with the corpse first."
"Then I took the body to the sunflower garden to bury the body and not let people know that there was a murder here. The person I wanted to kill hadn't been killed yet. I didn't want people to be on guard."
Gu Liang finally nodded towards Yang Ye: "Well, reasonable."
"it is good."
Yang Ye adjusted his glasses, "Then let's go back to the question just now. Mr. Rong, as the Duke, wants to kill me, which still violates the purpose of the Duke's dream setting. If he didn't awaken his consciousness, then someone else must have instilled this consciousness. give him."
Gu Liang's voice sank. "You think that everyone is dreaming, but one person has awakened. This person is the real murderer."
Yang Ye nodded: "Yes. Otherwise, I can't think of the motive for killing. No one has a strong killing intent."
"Boss Mei, Sister Mei, what they have to do is to find the Duke and get a way to open the space-time tunnel. There may be a possibility—they have already found this method, so it doesn't matter if they kill the Duke. But this murder is a bit far-fetched .”
"Furthermore, among all the clues, including the pile of spell books, none of them really mentioned the matter of time travel. Because time travel is a scam, it is impossible for them to find such a way. They have no reason to kill .”
"You, me, and Li Xiaoyu are all immersed in the fabricated love story. We are helping the Duke realize his dream, and we have no intention of killing."
"Princess Rose herself, if she sees Li Xiaoyu, she may have murderous intentions for her reincarnation of Ai Meili. But first of all, Su Lan is not Rose herself, she is the rose in her dream. Her appearance here is the Duke's thought for his daughter "Secondly, if Rose wants to kill, she also kills Li Xiaoyu. What is her intention to kill Mr. Rong and the mysterious man? She has no intention to kill."
"Therefore, I think the only murderous intention is—the real murderer knows that we are dreaming, and he knows that the dreamer is the Duke. The real murderer believes that killing the incarnation of the Duke in the dream can escape the dream and return to reality."
"But he doesn't know who is the incarnation of the Duke. Me, the mysterious man, and Mr. Rong may all be the Duke. Therefore, he wants to kill these three people."
"No, fix it."
"When the real murderer planned all this, he probably didn't know the existence of the mysterious man. The mysterious man just appeared suddenly today."
"I can send bats and play the Duke's tune. Mama Ai has moved on and fell in love with Mr. Rong. Therefore, Mr. Rong and I are the two most likely incarnations of the Duke."
"The real murderer wants to kill me and Boss Rong. And he wants to lead us to kill each other."
Boss Rong, like Yang Ye, Gu Liang, and Li Xiaoyu, was immersed in the plot fabricated by the Duke, and the four of them helped the Duke realize his dream together.
As a dream maker, the Duke made this dream for the sake of fulfillment, and he would not design a plot where the boss kills the Earl.
As the man in the Duke's dream, Mr. Rong did such a thing against the Duke's will. Either he awakened his self-awareness, or he was instilled with the idea of killing someone by other awakened self-awareness.
Gu Liang understood what Yang Ye meant.
He turned to the blank page and wrote the summary.
—Under the deception of the real murderer, Mr. Rong went to kill the count, but killed the mysterious man by mistake.
Boss Rong carried the mysterious man to the sunflower garden, he must have wanted to bury the body to cover up the crime...
How did he himself die
He could only be killed by the real murderer when he was about to bury the mysterious man's body.
Gu Liang drew a few strokes on the paper with a pen, and then turned to the place where he recorded his dreams.
Gu Liang said slowly: "Then this is related to the establishment of the dream. We divided the players into three categories before. But now, we can combine the players into two categories - those who have died in reality; those who are alive in reality. "
"Yu Zha Nan, Mei Design, and Ai's best friend are dead. The Duke may have seen their corpses, so he constructed them in the dream based on their appearance, just giving them new memories. Or in other words, the Duke He made up stories in his dream, just borrowing the faces of these three people. In his dream, these three people can be said to be completely virtual, without self-awareness."
"But what about the others..."
"I still remember a lot of famous actors. I should be alive."
Gu Liang looked at Yang Ye, "It's different from the three of you. In reality, I may have been sleeping in Ming actor's room on the 6th floor. Then this means that when I sleep, my consciousness is pulled into by the Duke." In his dream, dream with him."
Yang Yedao: "Yes. That's exactly it. Think about Boss Mei. It's just that Mama Ai unilaterally regarded him as her fiancé. But he himself doesn't recognize it. This means that his own memory has not been affected by the Duke."
"He and Sister Mei all remember their own stories completely. They didn't die in reality either."
Yang Ye opened the mineral water and took a sip, and continued: "I, Li Xiaoyu, Su Lan, we are already dead in reality. We cannot have our own consciousness. Even if we leave this dream, we will not be able to live."
"Thus, if you can awaken your self-awareness, realize that this is a dream, and want to escape from this dream and live on, it doesn't matter that Mr. Rong is dead, it can only be one of you, Boss Mei, and Sister Mei."
"You, of course I can rule it out. Except for our actual relationship—"
When Gu Liang heard this word, he couldn't hold back, and cast a sideways glance at Yang Ye.
Yang Ye said solemnly: "It's also because your status as an actor has nothing to do with ancient castles and spells. You were completely carried away by the Duke's consciousness, and you were completely immersed in my love. But he They are different."
"They didn't have any plot story designed by the Duke, that's one. They are grave robbers, that's the second."
"Boss Mei is a disciple of an oriental sorcerer. Those books about dreaming illusions were written by oriental sorcerers. Of course, he may realize that this is a dream."
"Although sister Mei is not a disciple of a sorcerer, she has been with Boss Mei for a long time. Don't forget, there are many spell books in the car of the two of them, and sister Mei may have read those books. In addition, she stole so many books. It is possible for her to realize that this is a hallucination or a dream because she has experienced a lot of mysterious events in many tombs."
"So I think they are the most suspected."
After explaining the motivation, Yang Ye flipped through his notebook and showed Gu Liang his record of the timeline: "After lunch, it seems that if no one conceals or leaks, no one has seen Rong Boss. The last time I saw You-Know-Who was at 3:30 in the afternoon. So, he must have died after 3:30."
"From 1:55 to 3:40, Boss Mei and Sister Mei have been together. Boss Mei claimed to be in the lobby from 3:40 to 4:20, and Su Lan saw him at 4:10 Therefore, Boss Mei committed the crime from 3:40 to 4:10, which is only half an hour."
"In this way, it is possible for him to kill people from the lobby through the main entrance of the castle, from the periphery to the sunflower garden, and then return from the periphery."
"But if he goes upstairs to kill someone first, whether he jumps directly from the 6th floor or takes the elevator, he has to slowly carry the corpse to the sunflower garden, and then rush back from the periphery. The time is not enough. What's more, the corpse is still there. Two?"
Yang Ye said again: "Let's talk about Sister Mei. She claimed to go to pick flowers at 3:50, and she came back at 4:20. When she came back, Su Lan also saw it. In fact, the time for her to commit crimes can be relaxed to 3:40 is the time for the boss to leave to go to the lobby, so it is fully calculated, from 3:40 to 4:20, it is 40 minutes."
"We only saw clues that the person in the dream would not be injured, but we didn't see any clues that the person in the dream could fly into the sky and escape from the ground. The Duke also didn't give people such a setting."
"So, if Sister Mei went to the sixth floor to kill someone during this period, she would definitely go to the lobby and take the elevator upstairs. This will be seen by Mei's boss. So she can only kill while picking flowers in the back garden."
"On the whole, it is impossible for these two people to go to the sixth floor to kill people and then carry the body to Sunflower. Whether they kill one person each, or kill two people in total, it is impossible to carry the body back together."
"Therefore, the two corpses must have 'walked' to the Sunflower Garden by themselves."
Yang Yedao, "Brother Rong came to my room with the room card and killed me. He accidentally killed the mysterious man. After throwing the mysterious man from the upstairs, he jumped down. Mr. Rong carried the body to the sunflower garden by himself. The real culprit killed Boss Rong in the Sunflower Garden, this is the only possibility."
"Murder, restoration of the case, timeline, all can be mutually confirmed."
There was a knock on the door.
Gu Liang asked: "Who?"
"Me. I'm in."
Li Xiaoyu pushed the door open and entered, "Stop whispering, you two. The three of them went to the lounge together. I'll come to find you."
"come on in."
Seeing Li Xiaoyu close the door, Gu Liang asked her, "What do the others say?"
"Of course I doubt Yang Ye the most."
Li Xiaoyu stepped forward to sit opposite Yang Ye and Gu Liang, and said, "The timeline is actually quite clear. Although there were two murders, Yang Ye said that he saw the mysterious man at 3:30. At least the mysterious man died." The murder happened after 3:30."
"At 4:20, Sister Mei and Su Lan were in the main hall; Boss Mei was seen in the lobby at 4:10, and he left the lobby at 4:30 and went to the main hall. Between 4:30 and 5, the three of them They were arranged together in the main hall. I met the three of them when I went through the main hall to the garden near five o'clock."
"If the murderer was Sister Mei, she wouldn't be able to bypass Boss Mei and fly to the 6th floor to kill. So she was ruled out first."
"Let's talk about Boss Mei. From 3:50 to 4:20, although Sister Mei is in the Rose Garden, he may not be seen by Sister Mei if he dragged the body to the Sunflower Garden. But he spent at most 30 minutes committing the crime."
"When we finally searched for blood and found the sunflower garden, although it was only half an hour, we were running all the time. Boss Mei had to complete the killing and dragging of the corpses in 30 minutes, and there might be two corpses. possible."
"If Su Lan killed someone, it must have happened after 3:30. She dragged the body to the Sunflower Garden, and when she came back, she must either pass through the lobby and meet Boss Mei; or pass through the Rose Garden and the main hall, and be seen by Sister Mei."
"But Boss Mei can testify that at 4:10, Su Lan got down from the elevator on the sixth floor."
"In the same way, if the possibility of her killing someone and flying back to the sixth floor from the Sunflower Garden is ruled out, then she is also ruled out."
"Actually, from their perspective, the three of us are the most suspicious."
"After 4:30 p.m., all three of them arranged the wedding scene in the main hall."
"Then, one of the three of us, after killing people, goes around the perimeter from the sunflower garden back to the old castle, and goes up to the sixth floor through the elevator in the lobby. The three of them are invisible."
"There is blood in Yang Ye's room, so it may be the biggest."
Li Xiaoyu looked at Yang Ye, "Boss Mei has already decided to refute your words about the room card. Boss Rong took the room card to kill you, but you killed you instead."
"You killed the mysterious man in the house first, then you killed Boss Rong, and threw their bodies from the balcony."
"Then you jump down with them, drag them to the sunflower garden, between 4:30 and 5 o'clock, from the perimeter to the lobby, and then back to the room on the 6th floor, pretend nothing happened, this is what the three of them gave you Restoring the good method of killing."
Yang Ye asked: "Then how did they think I got downstairs? Boss Mei was in the lobby at that time, and he didn't see me taking the elevator."
Li Xiaoyu said: "You jumped directly from the sixth floor. In this script, there is no clue that the person in the dream can fly up to the sixth floor, but there is a clue that the person in the dream will not be injured by jumping from the building. So there are no wounds on the two bodies."
"If I know I can jump off the sixth floor, it means I know I'm dreaming, right?"
Yang Ye looked at Li Xiaoyu, "Then what is my murderous intention?"
Li Xiaoyu: "They also analyzed it, saying that some of us know that we are dreaming and have self-awareness. You killed the mysterious person to break the dream and escape; killing the boss was an accident, and you were to protect yourself. "
Yang Ye: "But Yu Scumbag is dead, where did he get his self-awareness?"
After some explanations from Yang Ye and Gu Liang.
Only then did Li Xiaoyu suddenly realize. "I understand that the murderer must be a character who is still alive. Only a living character can have self-awareness. Then... the murderer is between Sister Mei and Boss Mei."
Gu Liang asked Li Xiaoyu: "How did you exclude me?"
Li Xiaoyu thought for a while: "When I was in "City of Immortality", although I always made jokes about you and Yang Ye, you two were fine at that time. You wanted to take care of everything yourself, but you just didn't want to involve other people. You are afraid of the unjust death of the detective, and the unjust death of the good man."
"This time, it's the real murderer's death, or five people's death. If you are the real murderer, you don't want to kill five people because of yourself."
"So Gu Liang, I think you are a good person. You and Yang Ye are both very good people. I am willing to trust you all the time."
Hearing Li Xiaoyu's words, Gu Liang was undoubtedly relieved and moved.
From Gu Liang's point of view, Li Xiaoyu's praise actually has a completely different weight than Yang Ye's.
Yang Ye's praise may have his own selfish motives.
Because he likes Gu Liang.
But Li Xiaoyu is different.
For Gu Liang, the affirmation from such a person who has nothing to do with him may be more real.
In life, he hadn't gotten the affirmation he really wanted.
On the contrary, in such a game, someone would tell him - he is a good person.
After a brief moment of excitement, Li Xiaoyu frowned again. "But, even though it's a choice between the two... I still don't know which one to choose. Since Mr. Rong killed someone, it's possible to bring him to the sunflower garden and then be killed..."
"At that time, Boss Mei was in time. He ran from the outside of the castle to the Sunflower Garden in the gap between looking for old objects for display in the lobby, stabbed him once and then came back. He didn't need to carry two corpses to the Sunflower Garden … fully in time."
"Sister Mei was picking flowers in the back garden, and she also had the opportunity to commit crimes. She went from the rose garden to the sunflower garden, stabbed her once, and continued picking flowers when she came back. There was more than enough time."
Gu Liang frowned and said nothing, just picked up the notebook, and quickly flipped through it from beginning to end.
During this period, he lived in his mind with various possible restorations of the case.
Then, he closed the notebook, "I figured it out. I know who the murderer should be."
"The warlock's pile of books is too thick. Let's read it from beginning to end together in a while to confirm the way the dream is constructed. If it is confirmed that living people can enter the Duke's dream, then there is a possibility of awakening self-awareness... Then, the murderer It should be him."