Three hundred years ago. November 7.
The wife Duke Dar wanted to marry is dead.
That night, the oriental warlock made adjustments to the murals overnight.
The next day the sorcerer told the duke that the frescoes had been adjusted and that he could perform the spell with his blood.
In fact, the Duke already had a hunch, but he was not particularly willing to trust his intuition.
—He could feel that Ai Meili had already fallen in love with him, so how could she make such a choice that would kill two people
Before performing the spell, the Duke went to where he kept his bats on the sixth floor.
There are no people living on this floor, and there are few murals. There is no mural in the dark room where bats are kept.
He wrote several letters, and tied them to the feet of different bats, saying to them: "If something happens to me, take this news out. That way, stupid and money-hungry humans will be tricked into breaking the seal, and I will return it to you." There is a chance of surviving."
Then something happened to the Duke.
The moment he cut his finger and injected blood into a certain mural, the murals of the entire castle were connected into a magic circle—a net formed by the power of all the wraiths, enough to kill everyone inside. A vampire.
All the vampires were wiped out in an instant, except the Duke.
He is too powerful to really die.
When he stood in the empty castle hall and saw the warlock appearing in front of him, even though he knew that he was like a lamb being slaughtered, he still seemed calm.
The Duke asked him: "You love her, don't you?"
Warlock: "You have no right to say that to her."
"Then are you qualified?"
The Duke sneered, "I've heard about her and said that she has someone in her heart. She never married because she liked a ranger. That man was you? You abandoned her. But I can't imagine—she liked it It's you. Otherwise I wouldn't fall for it."
In front of Duke Dahl was an ugly and old man. He really didn't expect that Ai Meili's first love would be this person.
So when Warlock went to see Emily and the two talked alone, the Duke never took it to heart.
The oriental magician drew a talisman out of thin air with his fingers, and the next moment, the aging man had turned into a handsome young man.
"It's just an illusion. I turned into a butterfly to lie to Princess Rose and you, it's the same. What she saw back then was not my real appearance. I lied to her, and I was ashamed of her sincerity, so I ran away."
"Coward," the Duke snapped.
Warlock: "I didn't come to talk to you about this. You have killed too many people. I must do justice for the heavens."
Duke: "You can't kill me."
Warlock: "Sealing you is more than enough. Your immortal body has been broken by my magic circle. If you seal you for another three hundred years, you will completely disappear from this world forever."
Duke: "I lost. I admit defeat. I only have two conditions."
"First, give me two hours, and I will take a thorough look at this castle."
Hearing this, Warlock knew that he hadn't given up yet. He didn't believe that Ai Meili would participate in this design.
The sorcerer said: "Yes. It will take three hundred years to figure out the things you don't understand."
- In that way, you can suffer for three hundred years.
Duke: "Secondly, the location of the seal is chosen - the Sunflower Garden."
Warlock: "I can agree to that too. Just lie there and repent of your crimes."
That night, the duke was buried alive in the sunflower garden, and was sealed by oriental magicians.
The vampires in the evil castle also completely disappeared that night.
The oriental warlock returned triumphantly, became a hero praised by thousands of people, and established his own sect.
What is little known is that the bloody bats on the sixth floor took the Duke's letter, slipped through the net and left the castle.
It's just that maybe the sky is also going to let the Duke die.
Those letters did not immediately lead to attempts to break his seal.
It wasn't until today, three hundred years later, that the content of the letter turned into a secret rumor—the ancient castle hides the power of time travel and allows people to obtain the treasure of the past.
Rumors spread to Mr. Rong's ears, and he bought the castle with a lot of money, and decided to slowly explore the mystery of the castle.
Being able to outperform his competitors by an absolute advantage, and buying this place, he also earned enough face, allowing his daughter to live as the princess of the castle.
Rumors also spread to Boss Mei, and with his dedicated search, the information he got was different from that of Mr. Rong, but closer to the original content of the Duke’s letter—unlocking the seal would revive the Duke, allowing him to open time and space. door.
So, three hundred years later, on the night of November 8, Boss Mei and Sister Mei killed Rong Mingyuan and used secret methods to break the Duke's seal. But their arrival was much later than the duke expected.
The duke had been buried alive for three hundred years, and was almost wiped out. With the blood of Rong Mingyuan, he had three more days to live.
After waking up, the Duke walked into the castle, and saw Mr. Rong who had come back to sleep soundly late at night, and the actor Ming who had been sleeping.
After leaving the castle, he also went to the southern street of the castle and saw the three corpses.
Suddenly, the Duke knew—things are different, and what he wants will never come back.
He could only use his last strength to weave a dream, and use the dream to deceive himself.
It was also at this time that he sadly discovered that after three hundred years, he couldn't even remember the face of his beloved. Even the facial features of the person he loved deeply became blurred. He couldn't reshape her face in his dream, so he had to borrow someone else's.
At the scene of the car accident, there was a corpse whose face was somewhat similar to Ai Meili, so she became Ai Meili in the Duke's dream.
This dream must be very perfect and very real, so many details must be exactly the same as three hundred years ago, such as—by the way, the Earl is coming, isn't he
What does he look like
Then use the appearance of the male corpse at the scene of the car accident.
In the end, even in order to perfectly create an appearance—he really managed to travel through three hundred years, he put down many ancient objects in the castle lobby in his dream.
Well, just by seeing them, I know I've crossed.
Where there are murals, there must be ancient objects that have traveled through time, everything is just as the warlock lied to him...
The Duke can only live for three more days, so the time he can control this dream is only three days.
During these three days, the two protagonists of the story meet and fall in love according to the plot he designed, and are about to get married.
But he didn't expect that there was an accident.
And this accident came from the person who unlocked the seal for him—Boss Mei and Sister Mei.
After Boss Mei and Sister Mei carried the two corpses into the trunk, they suddenly lost consciousness, not because he fell into a coma at that time, or was affected by some duke's mana.
He was knocked unconscious by Sister Mei hitting the back of the head.
While Boss Mei was carrying the corpse, Sister Mei was looking in the direction of the vegetable garden with her sniper rifle.
After all, they broke the seal of a vampire, which is dangerous, and they have to watch whether they succeed and decide whether they want to escape.
At this moment, through the night vision scope on the sniper rifle, sister Mei saw the Duke crawling out of the ground.
Sister Mei didn't know that the Duke had been sealed for three hundred years, and he was almost completely dead at this moment, and he couldn't suck human blood anymore.
She knocked Boss Mei unconscious with the butt of her backhand, just thinking that if the Duke came over and needed to suck human blood, she would throw Boss Mei over so that she could take the opportunity to escape.
Because of this, Boss Mei doesn't know if the Duke has been resurrected.
The only person who witnessed the Duke waking up was Sister Mei.
Later, it is possible to know in the dream that this is the dream of the Duke, and the person who thinks that killing the incarnation of the Duke can escape the dream can only be Sister Mei.
After knocking Boss Mei unconscious, Sister Mei didn't drive away.
Because the driving noise is too loud, it may attract the Duke's attention.
She threw Boss Mei's fainted body on the road, turned around and ran away.
In that case, even if the Duke came here, it would take a long time to drain Boss Mei's blood, giving her enough time to escape.
Sister Mei didn't expect that after running for a while, she still couldn't get rid of the scope covered by the dream. Affected by the dream, she fell to the ground and fell asleep, falling into a dream.
At this time, everyone fell into a dream.
The time they woke up from the dream was 8 o'clock in the morning on November 9th.
But in reality, the time is the early morning of November 9th.
Because she had read about illusions and dreams with Boss Mei, and because she had witnessed the resurrection of the Duke with her own eyes, and she gradually figured out the whole story during the interpretation of the plot, Sister Mei realized that this was a dream—all of this must have happened after the resurrection. Some kind of conspiracy by the duke.
She knew that she had to wake up, and she had to kill the Duke in her dream.
But she didn't know which one was the Duke, so she could only target the Earl and Mr. Rong.
At the beginning, sister Mei thought that Earl William was the real Duke, which might be bigger.
After all he will dispatch the bat.
As for Mr. Rong, he may be the same as Mama Ai. In the story, he is just the Duke's hope for reincarnation.
So Sister Mei lied to the boss, saying that she had seen the earl go to Ai Meili at night, and that the earl was the real Duke Dahl, just as Mama Ai was the reincarnation of Emily, he was just the reincarnation of Duke Dahl. Now, if the real Duke Dahl from three hundred years ago wants to replace him, he will also take away his mother Ai.
So, Mr. Rong decided to kill the earl.
When everyone was investigating, they saw servant A's method of holding a cross without hurting themselves, so Mr. Rong adopted servant A's method and was able to hold the cross in his hand.
In fact, Boss Rong didn't know that the reason why he was not injured was not because servant A's method worked, but because he was in a dream.
On the day of the wedding, after careful calculation, Sister Mei found that there was no chance to do anything, so she decided to wait until the boss killed the Earl, and then she would see if the dream would wake up before planning the next step.
Sister Mei took the cross and hid it on her body just in case after dreaming.
It's small and easy to carry, and besides, in case someone finds out, she can use an excuse to say that there are vampires in this story, and she's carrying a cross just for self-defense.
The time comes at 2 pm on November 11.
Sister Mei went to the rose garden to pick flowers and saw a mysterious man.
At this time, she felt that maybe she was wrong before, and this mysterious man might be the embodiment of the real Duke.
So, when she came out to pick flowers at 3:50 in the afternoon and heard the faint movement from the Sunflower Garden, she thought that the person who would appear in the Sunflower Garden was the mysterious person she had met in the Rose Garden this afternoon.
Putting down the flowers in her hand, sister Mei took out the cross with her right hand and held it, and arrived at the sunflower garden.
Seeing a man in a black dress standing there from a distance, she didn't care too much, Sister Mei stepped forward, took advantage of his unpreparedness, covered his mouth with one hand, wrapped his hand around his chest, and pierced the cross into his heart …
The murderer's motive for killing was to wake up from the dream.
Yu Zhanan, Ai Girlfriend, and Mei Design are dead, without self-awareness, but their images have been borrowed into dreams.
As for Mr. Rong and Actor Ming, they were seen by the Duke when he revisited the old castle. The Duke intentionally brought them into a dream, which affected their consciousness and made up their plot. Let them dream with themselves.
As for Boss Mei and Sister Mei, the Duke had never seen them before, and he did not walk in the direction of West Street.
It was a complete accident for the two of them to fall into a dream.
Therefore, in the dream, Mother Ai just had the idea of "I have a fiancé". Influenced by Ai Meili's admiration for oriental warlocks, the Duke added a bit of warlock temperament to the image of "fiancé".
Therefore, Mama Ai regarded Boss Mei as her fiancé, but Boss Mei didn't know about it. The Duke had never met him, and didn't make up his story.
As for Sister Mei, it has nothing to do with the story in the dream.
The Duke has never seen her, and her consciousness has not been affected by the Duke, which is one of the reasons why she can wake up quickly.
Sister Mei is the real culprit in this case.
Three days passed.
After being buried alive for three hundred years, Duke Dahl, whose power had completely disappeared, finally died completely in the sunflower garden.
The Duke's dream awoke.
But what about the others
In reality, three people died.
Will the players who play them really die along with it? !
Standing under the scorching sun, Gu Liang saw the sedan chair getting closer and asked sharply, "Where's Yang Yeren?"
"Li Xiaoyu, Su Lan, where are they?"
The man in black didn't answer Gu Liang's words.
So Gu Liang turned around at an extremely fast speed before they approached, and ran back to the room on the sixth floor of the castle.
When the man in black appeared in front of him out of thin air, he was already holding a match in his hand.
He took this match from the storage room, and it was the box that Yu Zhanan used when he tried to set fire to the famous lady.
Facing the man in black, Gu Liang said neither humble nor overbearing: "I destroyed the fire sprinkler system. Rebuilding so many places must take a lot of effort. Tell me, are the others dead or alive? Let me see them."
"You're threatening the system again, do you know what you're doing without any—"
"I know that I can't threaten the system. The system is very strong, and so are you. But the system must follow the rules and respect certain rules."
Gu Liang stared at the invisible face of the man in black, and said calmly, "If it doesn't follow the rules, how can it deal with us? Isn't it easy? At least for now, it needs us players to continue playing the game."
"Tell me the whereabouts of Yang Ye, is he still alive?"
"He has never committed a crime, so he shouldn't be punished by death. Even if he loses his status as a player by 'death', where does he go as an NPC? Does he need to serve in the military?"
"Tell me everything, otherwise I won't cooperate to play the game."
"I've actually wanted to see for a long time, what is the biggest punishment a player can receive if they are completely disobedient."
"Maybe I'm not a player anymore, but I can jump out and see what's going on, right?"
Seeing that the man in black didn't speak, Gu Liang took out a match and was about to strike it.
The next moment, a man in black appeared out of nowhere behind him and knocked him unconscious on the back of his neck.
When the unconscious Gu Liang was put on the sedan chair, the man in black in front said: "The system prohibits violence against players. We have to deduct wages. I was just about to explain to him... don't I have to take him to the rest area."
The man in black said: "But he's emotionally unstable. I'm afraid he's going to set the fire on fire before you have time to explain it. Let him burn this place, and deduct more wages. The lesser of two evils."
"You're right. Follow him in charge... I've also suffered eight lifetimes of bad luck."
The man in black in front thought deeply: "The system doesn't count players as violating the rules when it's not part of the plot. Well, let me report this situation and see if the system can make adjustments later. Gu Liang's behavior is typical. Bare feet are not afraid of shoes. What kind of trouble does he get into when he doesn't keep—"
"Ah, also, let someone clean this place. When the next round of players comes, don't put so much alcohol and oil in the kitchen. They don't need so much for cooking. Look, it's wasteful and dangerous!"
"Yes!"
When Gu Liang woke up, he was already in a place similar to a big bed room in a hotel, very similar to the room he had stayed in in the rest area before. It seemed that he was sent to the rest area by the man in black.
After sitting up, Gu Liang actually felt a little weak.
His reaction was the same as that of actor Ming—he ate and drank in his dream, but in fact he slept without eating or drinking for three days in his room on the sixth floor of the castle.
The physical discomfort, worry about Yang Ye and others, and the pain in the back of the neck made Gu Liang extremely depressed.
After walking to the bathroom and washing his face, Gu Liang went to the toilet, took off the toilet cover, returned to the sink, and smashed the mirror with ease.
After returning to the bedroom, he lifted the mattress and found that the bed underneath was made of flat wood.
Gu Liang dismantled the bed, removed the boards, and decided to dismantle the entire room starting from the head of the bed.
He wasn't just irritated by the fact that Yang Ye might have died, or that he might have lost his whereabouts completely.
He did this because his long-standing grievances and dissatisfaction with the system and this inexplicable game were extremely magnified at this time.
Those unhappy emotions are usually covered up by him with calmness, and are deeply pressed in his heart.
Yang Ye's disappearance became the fuse, and the resentment in his heart had been ignited to the extreme at this moment, and he had to vent it.
Why should he be led by the nose by the system
Why can the system arbitrarily decide the life and death of others
Rarely, the public address sounded in the rest area.
"Warning! Warning! Gu Liang, the player in room 7701, destroys public property. The system will punish you according to the loss of property!"
"as you like."
Gu Liang looked indifferent, smashed the coffee table with a "clang clang clang clang", then found a pair of scissors and began to destroy the sofa.
But not long after the broadcast stopped, there was a knock on the door.
Gu Liang paused for a moment, ignored it, and continued smashing things with a "clang clang clang clang".
He made it so loud that it drowned out the knocking on the door afterwards.
Gu Liang couldn't hear the knock on the door, let alone the shouts from the people outside.
In the end, the people outside got anxious, bumped it a few times, smashed the door lock with their backs, and then kicked the door down completely.
It was followed by a new announcement. "Warning! Warning! Outside the door of room 7701, player Yang Ye vandalized public property. The system will punish you depending on the loss of property!"
Gu Liang was stunned, stopped moving, and turned around.
The next moment, he was hugged into Yang Ye's arms.
Gu Liang's hand subconsciously lifted up, and at first it was lightly placed on Yang Ye's arm.
Then he took a deep breath and finally held Yang Ye's arm tightly.
"Gu Liang, what's wrong? Did the man in black bully you?"
Feeling that Gu Liang's mood was still a little unstable, Yang Ye put his palm on his head, patted him lightly, and said: "I, Li Xiaoyu and Su Lan, we were first picked up by the sedan chair together. The man in black said that you and Boss Mei still have the last bit of plot to perform, and they will arrive later. So I came to the rest area to wait for you. What terrible things happened to you?"
"I just thought—"
I just thought I'd never see you again.
It was not until this moment that Gu Liang realized that he cared about Yang Ye much more than he imagined.
It really doesn't make sense to like this kind of thing.
He himself hadn't figured it out before.
"It's okay. I... I just want to vent."
Gu Liang exhaled again and pulled the corner of his mouth. "You see, I have a really bad temper. And I'm not emotionally stable, and I may relapse at any time. I'm mentally—"
"Nonsense. The system sends us here and there every day. What happened to smashing a few things? Punishment will be punished, and I will accompany you. Is it enjoyable? Not enjoyable, let's continue smashing?"
Yang Ye rubbed Gu Liang's hair a few times, picked him up, and took him directly to his room. "It's just that you look weak. You go to sleep for a while, and when you're full, shall we come over and smash?"
Gu Liang was amused by him. "no need."
Yang Ye: "It's really not necessary? After you smash your room, there is still my room to smash. Just leave a bed for the two of us to sleep, and everything else can be smashed."
Gu Liang put his head on Yang Ye's shoulder, a sense of exhaustion and peace of mind rose from the bottom of his heart.
He closed his eyes and lazily said, "No, I'm done venting."
Gu Liang couldn't tell why, but when Yang Ye appeared, he seemed to be healed.
People like Yang Ye are too enthusiastic and familiar.
Gu Liang, who is very defensive and strictly divides the safety zone between people, naturally didn't like people like Yang Ye at first, and he didn't quite adapt to it.
But after getting along for a long time, he realized that a person like Yang Ye is really like a little sun, who can bring great energy to everyone around him. People like him should be the kind that Gu Liang admires the most.
He must have lived in a very wealthy family and received good education from his parents since he was a child to grow up like this.
That kind of light was planted in his heart from an early age, and with the growth of age and experience, it gradually formed a huge energy that could infect everyone around him.
He has gained enough goodwill and happiness, so that he is optimistic and enthusiastic enough, not afraid of hardships, and then passes this happiness on to others, such as Gu Liang.
Gu Liang was comforted by Yang Ye and fell asleep on the bed.
Yang Ye stayed with him for a while, then went out quietly and went downstairs to pack some food for him.
As soon as he arrived in the corridor, Yang Ye met Su Lan.
Seeing Yang Ye, Su Lan frowned, "Can you go to my place and have a chat?"
Yang Ye pointed to his room door with his chin: "I have a family, how can I go to someone else's room and chat alone?"
A trace of embarrassment slid across Su Lan's face, and she said again: "I know, before I was jealous and tempered, in your eyes, I was probably like a little girl fooling around. Considering that I am a woman and young, you two They don't bother to care about me, and don't even put me in their eyes."
Yang Ye pretended to be surprised: "Oh, so you know."
Su Lan: "..."
Pausing for three seconds, Su Lan frowned: "I really have something to tell you, there is a reason for me to do this."
Yang Ye walked towards the elevator. "I'm going to pack his meals. I can chat with you for a few minutes when it's time to pack."
Su Lan exhaled, followed Yang Ye to the restaurant downstairs, and after listening to him order a few dishes, she followed him to the seat by the window and sat down.
Yang Ye asked, "What do you want to say?"
Su Lan: "I didn't mean to tear you apart. I'm not that overwhelmed. I'm just... I'm upset. I want to let it out. Because I feel that no matter how ugly I am, no matter how childish my actions seem , it doesn't matter."
"When I was alive, I didn't dare to tell you anything, I didn't even have the courage to appear in front of you. But I'm dead, why should I suppress myself? I'm unhappy, I just want to show it, I... "
"I'll tell you everything this time, and I'm done venting. I'll stay away from you in the future and never bother you again. I won't make you feel bad anymore. Sorry."
"Wait a minute-"
Yang Ye frowned and looked at her, his eyelids twitched violently, "What do you mean by living and dying?"
The author has something to say:
Some relatives didn't understand what Zhang Yang Ye meant.
In fact, the core of his point of view is that if Sister Mei is the real murderer, she dare not say that she has been to Sunflower, she only said that if she is in the Rose Garden, she can’t see other people’s timelines, so she didn’t lie too much Space.
Boss Mei is in the lobby, and he can see the elevator. If he is the murderer, considering how clever he is in jumping and playing, and his IQ is considered online, he can completely forge the timeline and say he has seen it. Other suspects, use this to step on other suspects. But Boss Mei didn't lie in such an advantageous place, so the possibility of him being the real murderer is relatively small~~~
In addition, in fact, in 5 hours, everyone also restored many other plots, and did a lot of detailed deliberation and discussion, such as the restoration and reasoning of Boss Mei and Sister Mei. However, I felt that it was too long to write out, so I skipped it.
If you are interested, you can think about it from the perspective of a murderer, how to lie, how to identify yourself, hehe~~