Hearing Mingyue's answer, Gu Liang didn't ask any more questions about the case.
He was silent for a while, and looked at the big iron pot in front of Mingyue - there was a pot of black stuff boiling in it, and he didn't know what it was.
Gu Liang asked: "What did you cook?"
Mingyue: "Porridge."
Gu Liang: "... not confused?"
Mingyue: "...not at all."
Three seconds later, Mingyue explained: "You know the pearls of bubble tea, right? Use that to make porridge."
... ? !
— Can that thing cook porridge
—He put salt in it just now, is it delicious
"Then you worked hard."
Gu Liang left without changing his face.
But he was skeptical about whether he could eat this supper.
In fact, Gu Liang was brought up by a mother who could make dishes like "burning tap water". Except for coriander and carrots, he never cared about what to eat.
Just eat something. He felt that whoever cooks should be better than his mother's cooking.
He thought about it, and felt that he was probably a little bit picky about his food due to Yang Ye's good craftsmanship during this period of time.
After Gu Liang bid farewell to Mingyue, he finally gained a little by digging with the other players.
—Dug out a jug of wine and a letter from under a tree.
The jar of wine looked like plum wine, and it seemed to be no different from the rest of the wine in the inn's wine cellar except that it was a little older.
The letter under the wine jar told the players a little about Boss Ling's past.
"Ling'er, now my father is about to pass away. I personally brewed this jar of plum wine when you were just born, and prepared to drink it when you get married. Later, you met Mr. Ruyi as you wished, and you are about to get married. , but I never thought that such an accident would happen..."
"It's a pity that the sky tricks people. For my father, you have gray hair and temples, but your face is still the same. For my father, I know that your obsession is deep and you can't turn back. Forget it, wait until the day you get what you want, open this altar of wine, for your sake. Even if the father is under the nine springs, he should also be smiling."
The players read the letters one after another, feeling a little bit emotional for a while.
At this moment, Yang Ye and Gu Liang walked to the back of the stilted building.
On the way, Yang Ye asked Gu Liang, "What do you think of this clue?"
Gu Liangdao: "This letter should be written to her by Boss Ling's father before he died. It should be regarded as a suicide note. Boss Ling's brewing of plum wine should be learned from her father. I think this kind of plum wine should have a very special meaning to her. .”
"So it's unlikely that Boss Ling will use this wine to harm people. It's a side proof that it wasn't Boss Ling who killed the homeless man, it was still AB's combination."
Coming to the pile of straw behind the stilted building, Gu Liang stopped, then squatted down and fiddled with the straw, moving the extremely thick straw to the side.
Yang Ye wanted to come over to help him, but Gu Liang hurriedly stopped him: "Your leg hurts, I can handle it myself."
"It's a fur injury, it's fine."
While helping Gu Liang move the straw, Yang Ye said, "Are you still thinking about what happened after Boss Ling jumped out of the window at 2:20 in the afternoon?"
"Yes." Gu Liang said, "According to Wang's lonely words, they let Boss Ling escape like that, and they stayed in the house without moving? I don't think it's credible."
Yang Ye: "But it cannot be said that they are the murderers. It is possible that they chased from the straw pile, the fence, and then through the bushes to the woods, and then lost Boss Ling's whereabouts. But they dare not admit it at all. After all Boss Bell died in the woods."
Gu Liang said: "That's right. So I'm wondering where Boss Ling went after she jumped out of the window. In fact, she can't run fast, and if she runs into the woods, she should be found by Wang Guyou and the others. Unless it's... When she jumped out of the window, she would be found." Hidden."
The stilted building has three floors, the second floor is the lobby and wine cellar, and the third floor is the guest rooms.
There are stone steps leading directly from the courtyard to the lobby on the second floor, and tourists usually walk on stone steps.
As for the bottom of the stone steps, there is a door, which leads to the utility room on the first floor.
This floor is not high, it is about the height that Gu Liang can bend down to enter.
And this layer is not airtight, but semi-open.
The so-called door below the stone steps actually has no door panel at all, it is directly a passage that can enter the utility room.
On the back of the utility room, that is, the side close to the straw pile, there is only a loose fence. Most of the straw piles are piled up on the path outside the building, but a lot of them are piled all the way into the house.
Therefore, the position of the first floor on the back of the stilted building is almost equivalent to half of the fence and half of the straw piles forming a "wall". Because of this, after Gu Liang pushed the straw pile away, he could walk into the utility room on the first floor from here by bending over.
Yang Ye followed Gu Liang in.
He was taller than Gu Liang, so his waist was bent even more.
In the dark and cramped utility room, Gu Liang raised his flashlight and glanced at Yang Ye. "You bend over and walk on one foot...is it uncomfortable? You go out first?"
Yang Ye naturally grabbed Gu Liang's hand. "Look, the straw in here is obviously useless. It needs to be re-dried. It's almost moldy. It's so damp in here, what if there's a mouse or something?"
Gu Liang: "I'm not afraid of mice."
Yang Ye: "What if there are ghosts?"
Gu Liang looked at him: "There are many ghosts in this script."
Yang Ye: "That's different."
Gu Liang had to be led by Yang Ye.
The two of them watched with flashlights in the utility room for a while, then went straight forward, walked out of the passage, and came to the bottom of the stone steps, and went around under the stone steps, and they returned to the courtyard.
Gu Liang glanced back at the utility room, and couldn't help but said: "Is it possible that Wang Guyou and Jia's girlfriend chased Boss Bell after he jumped out of the window. It is possible that a person was watching Boss Bell's movements in front of the window, One person ran downstairs; it is also possible that two people jumped out of the window and chased after him."
"It's just that Boss Ling immediately hid behind the straw pile and hid in the utility room on the first floor, so they didn't see it."
"Based on the fact that it's dark under the lights, from Wang and Jia's point of view, Boss Ling will definitely run away, such as running straight ahead, to the direction of the woods. They didn't expect that Boss Ling is still in the stilted building."
Yang Ye thought for a moment, and said, "It's very possible. So, she hid on the first floor of the stilted building for a while, and it's possible for her to go back to her room on the third floor after no one is there. I just don't know, what happened after that What, caused her to go to the window and be shot."
1:30 a.m. is supper time.
Half an hour later, at 2 o'clock in the morning, the familiar radio sounded.
"Hello, everyone! Please go to the restaurant, this restaurant will be used as a place for discussion."
"Remind again, the time for intensive discussion is 5 hours."
"After the concentrated discussion is over, everyone can usher in a 15-day rest period, so please persevere!"
"In the "Rhinoceros Photo" case, Senior Hua accidentally saw Boss Ling's waist, felt that she was somewhat similar to his ex-girlfriend, and had a good impression of Boss Ling. Senior Hua had no motive for committing the crime. Today, a All day long, Senior Hua spends his days fishing by the lake, with a fisherman as his witness. Therefore, Senior Hua is not suspected, and he is the detective in this case!"
"Then detective, please work hard to lead the players to solve the case!"
"There is also a game reminder that Gu Liang, who plays the role of the detective, and Yang Ye, who plays the role of President Gao, have a substantial relationship. If President Gao is the real murderer, it is not ruled out that the detective will lie for him. Players please pay attention to screening."
Yang Ye: "..."
Gu Liang: "..."
System: "Okay, let's start the discussion! I wish you all a happy game!"
After the intensive discussion started, except for the NPC Mingyue, the rest of the players were not very relaxed, probably because everyone has no clue about the case.
As a detective, Gu Liang briefly helped everyone sort out and summarize everyone's timeline.
Of course, this was teased out without anyone lying.
It is now 2 o'clock in the morning, and the murder happened yesterday.
At 5 o'clock yesterday morning, Chef Huang found a letter in the back kitchen, asking him to invite Boss Ling to any of the rooms 301-304 between 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. and ask him to open the window.
At 5:30 in the morning, Tourist Jia went to the courtyard to relax, and then Girlfriend Jia and Guhui Wang went downstairs together. Girlfriend Jia said to Tourist Jia that Boss Bell must be a ghost capable of killing people, and Boss Bell must have killed Jia Tourist's sister.
At 7am, all characters eat breakfast together in the dining room.
After breakfast, Senior Hua and Zhao Meili went fishing, and returned to the restaurant for lunch at 12:00 noon.
President Gao invited Tourist Jia to climb the mountain during breakfast.
After breakfast, the two of them didn't go to climb the mountain immediately, but went back to their houses and changed into clothes that were convenient for climbing.
The two left at about 8 o'clock and arrived at the top of the mountain at 9 o'clock. The two of them rested on the top of the mountain and talked about some business matters. At about 9:30, President Gao took advantage of his unpreparedness and pushed Tourist Jia down the cliff.
As for Jia's girlfriend and Wang Guhui, after breakfast, they went directly to the direction of the Forest of Steles. In the name of playing, they were actually discussing specific actions for the evening. They originally planned to attack Boss Ling at night.
Chef Huang and Service Liang were busy at the inn in the morning.
After breakfast, Chef Huang took a break to prepare the dishes for lunch.
The waiter Jing was cleaning up the restaurant and washing the dishes, and then she went to Boss Ling's room to find her, trying to lure her to Tourist Jia's guest room, so that the money wanderer on the opposite side could shoot her.
This was the plan she had made before wandering with Qian. They planned to kill Boss Ling this morning.
But the whole morning, Liang Service couldn't find Boss Ling, so their plan had to be suspended.
At 12:00 noon, all tourists except Boss Ling and Tourist Jia eat in the restaurant, the chef cooks and serves the dishes. When the tourists were eating, they only heard the voice of Boss Bell in the yard, but did not see her.
After dinner at 12:30, Senior Hua went fishing; President Gao went back to his room and slept all afternoon because he was too tired from climbing the mountain.
At 1 o'clock in the afternoon, Chef Huang went to the inn lobby and saw Boss Ling, and made up an excuse to trick her into searching Hua Xuechang's room.
At 1:30, Zhao Meili came to the lobby and stabbed Boss Ling.
At 1:40, Boss Ling went up to the third floor and was taken to Wang Guyao's room by Wang Guyao and Jia's girlfriend. Wang Guye used a blood talisman against Boss Ling. The blood talisman might kill him after 3 hours.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Jia's girlfriend went to Jia's room and tried to get a mahogany sword, but she failed and went back to Wang's lonely room.
Followed by Zhao Meili, she went to the lobby to look for Boss Ling, but she couldn't find anyone, so she took the bloody knife away, then went to Boss Bell's room to have a look, and went back to the room after finding that there was no one there.
At this time, Chef Huang also came to this building.
Seeing that there was no one in the lobby, he went to the third floor, first saw Wang Guhui's back, and then saw Zhao Meili's movement of going out, so he left before she found him.
At around 2:10, Chef Huang heard movement at the fence on his way back to his room.
At this time, it was Liang Service who climbed over the fence and went down the mountain to the other side of the lake.
She was going to inform Qian Wai Wai. Boss Ling was not there in the morning, so the plan could not be completed. She would make Boss Ling appear in an empty room again in the afternoon, so that Wai Wai Qian could keep staring at the scope, lest he misunderstand that he had given up the plan. , Changed my mind.
At 2:20, Boss Ling jumped out of the window and escaped from Wang's lonely room on the third floor. According to Gu Liang's estimation, she hid in the utility room, and then sneaked back to the third floor. But where she went after that, no one knows for the time being.
Then at around 2:50, the beautiful service on the other side of the lake found Qian wandering dead, and then returned to the inn in a daze and a little panic. She was a little afraid that Boss Ling would kill Qian Wai. But after she came back, she still hadn't seen Boss Ling.
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, President Gao woke up and planned to go for a stroll in the yard. He happened to meet Tourist Jia who had returned from injury, and the two had a fight.
At 5:30, Detective Senior Hua came back, and the investigation began.
After telling the timeline, Gu Liang first looked at Wang Guyou: "What I want to ask you is, is my guess accurate about Boss Ling's movements after he jumped out of the window? You didn't dare to say it before because you were afraid that we would misunderstand that you chased into the woods. You think it will increase your suspicion. Now?"
Wang Guhui said: "My girlfriend Jia and I used a magic circle to trap her. When she broke free and jumped out of the window, both my girlfriend Jia and I were backlashed and fell down. So it took two or three minutes for us , I just went to the window to check, and she has disappeared."
"Later... Indeed, we went downstairs and chased into the woods. We didn't find her."
"Actually, both of us have always thought this incident was very strange. Because she was indeed in a weak state at that time, it was impossible to run into the woods within two or three minutes. Besides, we did not find her in the woods later, so we came back."
"Now you say that it is possible for her to hide in the utility room within those two or three minutes, hear the two of us climb the fence and leave, and then return to the third floor of the inn."
Gu Liang picked up a pen to record, and asked: "When did you two catch up to the woods, and when did you come back?"
Wang Guhui: "It was probably chased out at 2:25. We arrived at the woods at 2:30 and searched for more than ten minutes. When we returned to the inn, it was 2:50. We didn't meet anyone."
Girlfriend Jia thought for a while, then nodded, "That's right."
Gu Liang asked Jia Tourist again: "What about you? Why didn't you die when you fell off such a high cliff?"
Tourist Jia: "Isn't that obvious?"
Gu Liang: "?"
Tourist Jia stood up, turned around, and showed everyone his back.
At this moment, the lights are bright, and Gu Liang can see that the clothes on his back are torn, worn out by various sharp rocks and weeds. Besides, there is a big hole in his clothes, I don’t know what it is Something was cut out.
After a while, Tourist Jia turned around and looked at Gu Liang: "I was lucky. I was hooked by a branch to my back after I fell. The hole was made by the branch. I took off my coat when I came back, but I When I saw the hole, I thought it was evidence, so I put it back on.”
"Then what then?" Gu Liang asked again.
Jia Tourist said: "I moved carefully, clung to the rock next to me with my hands, and then slowly moved down the mountain. When I was almost at the bottom of the mountain, I accidentally rolled down. Fortunately, it was not very high there, so I didn't fall. Die, just fell and hurt."
Gu Liang: "Why did it take you so long to come back?"
Tourist Jia: "I fell down at the end and made me faint. When I woke up, it was already 1pm. Detective, you can open the map and have a look. The cliff is very steep, and I can't climb back to the top of the mountain. Then I returned to the inn by the same way. I went in a completely different direction, which was very roundabout."
"Besides, as a player, I have cards and a map, but as a character, I couldn't find my way at the time. I searched for a long time before I found the inn. Besides, I was seriously injured, and it took me 4 hours to return to the inn , already good."
"That's why, the moment I saw President Gao, I was so angry that I started fighting with him."
"Speaking of which—" Tourist Jia couldn't help frowning, "You are a detective, and your timeline is simple, so I can understand it. But President Gao may not be so clean, right? He didn't do anything this afternoon?"
Gu Liangxin said—Come on, based on the "substantial love relationship", if he, a detective, speaks for Yang Ye now, it will seem a little unreliable.
But Gu Liang still has to say what needs to be said.
Gu Liangdao: "President Gao's story is almost the same as mine. As the system said just now, I have no motive. The same goes for President Gao. Because he thinks Boss Ling reminds him of his ex-wife, he wants to pursue Boss Bell. of."
"The only difference between the two of us is that I didn't confess my love to Boss Ling. But he went to confess my love yesterday morning, but Boss Ling said that she likes Tourist Jia. That's why he has murderous intentions for Tourist Jia."
Having said that, Gu Liang faced everyone. "Let's go back to the facts of the case. Based on the significance of plum wine to Boss Ling, and the fact that the Mongolian sweat medicine appeared in the middle of the evidence search, I think it is possible to rule out the possibility that Boss Ling killed Qian and wandered around."
"Then there will be two murderers. One of the murderers is a ghost. He uses an incense talisman to kill money wandering on the opposite side, aims at Boss Bell, and shoots him to death; the other murderer may be a person or a ghost. He is Through a certain method, Boss Bell can stand still at the window for a long time, so that the accomplices on the other side of the lake can shoot Boss Bell's people with one shot."
Immediately afterwards, Gu Liang gave everyone the analysis of "Murderer A" and "Murderer B" that he and Yang Ye had sorted out before.
After everyone understood and accepted it, Gu Liang said again: "Then I will ask two questions now. I think everyone can think from these two perspectives, and maybe find a breakthrough."
"First, why did the letter that Chef Huang received clearly state that he asked Boss Ling to stand in front of the window between 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m.?"
"The plan for the good service and money wandering was originally to get rid of Boss Bell in the morning. But unexpectedly, Boss Bell was not at the inn in the morning."
"Chef Huang saw this letter in the back kitchen at 5 o'clock in the morning. This means that the murderer knew that Boss Ling was not at the inn this morning before 5 o'clock in the morning yesterday. Why?"
"If the murderer is not Liang Service and Qian Vagrant, it means that the murderer is someone who knows the plan of these two people to kill Boss Bell and uses it. Then, in fact, he can let Qian Vagrant and Liang Service do it. Why did he Do you have to do it yourself?"
"This means that there must be some inevitable event that Boss Ling needs to complete in the morning, and this matter should be closely related to the real culprit, and perhaps very important to the real culprit. It is possible that he made an appointment with Boss Ling What to do. Therefore, he had no choice but to sabotage the plan of Qian Wandering and Liang's service, and postpone the killing until the afternoon... "
"Besides, even if he delays the plan until the afternoon, he can still let Liang Service and Qian Biao carry out their plan. Why, he must kill Qian Biao?"
"In short, the timing of the letter that Chef Huang received is very strange. The real murderer learned about the killing plan of the service and wandering, but did not allow the plan to happen, but chose to use this plan and kill the wandering money. It's kind of weird too."
"The second question is closely related to this question. That is the beautiful service. If you are not the real murderer, I hope you will think carefully in the next time. Who might know your plan? The letters you exchanged will be Who has seen it? Or, did you meet in the early hours of yesterday or the day before yesterday to discuss this matter, who might hear it?"
No one can answer Gu Liang's first question for the time being.
But for his second question, Liang Service quickly explained: "It is the early morning of June 10, and yesterday's incident happened on June 9. On June 8, Wang Guhui, Jia Tourist, and Jia's girlfriend successively Arrival. On June 7 at the earliest, Senior Hua, President Gao and Zhao Meili will arrive."
"Senior Hua, on the day you arrived, that is, on June 7th, didn't Qian Liulang molested Boss Bell when you were having dinner? In fact, this was a secret signal between me and Qian Liulang. He came here to pretend to be crazy and make trouble. , which means that he will wait for me at the fence behind the stilted building at 12 midnight."
"So, at 12 o'clock midnight on June 7, I went to meet him and discussed the preliminary plan. We made an appointment on June 8 at the same time and in the same place. Therefore, at 12 o'clock in the evening on the 8th , we met again to discuss the details.”
Gu Liang frowned: "In other words, at 12 o'clock midnight on June 8th, the conversation by the fence made you and him finally decide on the morning of June 9th?"
Liang service said: "Yes. Because on the evening of June 8th, after I introduced the attractions to you in the restaurant, you all seemed very interested. Only then can I continue to meet Qian Wai Wai at the fence after you return to the guest room , Tell him with certainty that you will all go out tomorrow morning to play. Sure enough, at breakfast the next day, you finalized the place to play, and you all left the inn."
Gu Liang: "So in fact, no one can be ruled out. On June 8, everyone will move in, and everyone may hear your conversation."
The waiter Liang said: "Except for Tourist Jia, it's all possible except him. Because Tourist Jia met Boss Ling in the house at that time. Boss Ling went to see Boss wearing a wedding dress. There should be no mistake in that."
At this point in the discussion, Gu Liang didn't take the rhythm anymore, but let everyone brainstorm and discuss.
But the discussions didn't go anywhere.
As Gu Liang expected, everyone was very suspicious of Wang Guhui and Jia's girlfriend, because they had been to the woods, and their timeline could be faked together.
Some people doubted Yang Ye, saying that President Gao's timeline in the afternoon could not be blank, and even imagined that he might have an affair with Liang Service, and there was a love triangle with Qian Wai Wai, so that President Gao and Liang Service joined forces. Kill Boss Bell or something.
After discussing for an hour, Gu Liang interrupted everyone.
Everyone calmed down for a while, and then began to look at clues and evidence side by side, such as the wish book, or books such as Hundred Ghosts, whether there might be any special records on it, and they also began to slowly, page by page Go through it page by page.
The dining room has boxes, and it is now being used as a one-on-one interrogation room.
Gu Liang knocked on the table in front of Yang Ye, took him to the interrogation room, and started a private discussion.
A moment later, in the interrogation room.
Gu Liang looked at Yang Ye: "After listening to everyone's brainstorming, what do you think?"
Yang Ye shook his head: "I didn't hear anything except that I kept pouring dirty water on others casually in order to get rid of myself."
After a pause, Yang Ye said, "Actually, I was thinking about the first question you just asked."
Gu Liang: "The letter from Chef Huang?"
Yang Ye nodded: "The detail of the letter specifying to do it in the afternoon is indeed very strange in connection with the fact that Boss Ling is not here in the morning."
Yang Ye took off his glasses and pressed the space between his eyebrows.
This is what he often does when he is a little tired.
Seeing this, Gu Liang took a bottle of mineral water, and as usual, opened the bottle cap and handed it to Yang Ye.
Yang Ye smiled, took a sip of the water handed by Gu Liang, took a deep look at him, and said: "The question you raised is very important. The murderer must be someone who knows about the plan of the beautiful service and money wandering, and uses it Why did he insist on killing Qianlang, instead of letting the plan happen and letting Boss Ling die in Qianlang's hands?"
"Again, why did he know Boss Bell was away in advance? What you thought about it just now may be that he made an appointment with Boss Bell in advance, at least until 5 o'clock in the morning before Chef Huang received the letter, and made an appointment with Boss Bell in the morning do something."
Yang Yedao: "What you said is indeed a possibility. But this possibility means that what they agreed to do is more important than him wanting Boss Ling to die. This is a bit confusing. What is it? How important is it?"
"So, if this possibility is relatively small, are there other possibilities?"
Yang Ye's speech slowed down, and his voice was a little dull. "I just thought of another possibility. A possibility that is a bit frightening to think about."
Gu Liang frowned: "What did you think of?"
Yang Yedao: "The person who wrote the letter didn't know Boss Ling was away at 5 o'clock in the morning. This letter is fake. It was forged by Chef Huang. He wrote it with his left hand. Because it happened in the afternoon , so he wrote PM."
Yang Ye put on his glasses again and looked at Gu Liang: "But I can't figure out why he forged this letter."