doll city

The candle in the dungeon flickered, and it seemed that the wick was dying.

The laughter from the statue of Lady Mary gradually faded away, and the waiter Tom was the first to speak out——

"Let me declare first, I am definitely not a living puppet! In reality, I am just an ordinary fitness trainer who just came out to work... I think this violin player is very strange! He is always there with a smiley face, and he is not afraid of death. It doesn't feel like it. A living person!"

... If it is not a matter of life and death, Yan Ge agrees with him very much.

So the remaining two people, the tutor Jill and the businessman John Qiqi looked at Li Ya with suspicious eyes.

"There should be a voting session, the next time the lights go out...do you have anything to say?"

Yan Ge thought about excuses for Li Ya for a while, and found that no matter what the excuse was, he was not convincing in front of his death, and said to him: "If you don't say anything, I will vote for you."

"Okay." Li Ya cleared his throat, "Let me argue, I'm human."

"How do you prove it? You are the mother of a second child with a doctorate in law?"

Li Ya, who was suspected by several people, lowered his head and threw off the sunglasses on his face.

The three outsiders who saw his appearance whispered "ah" at the same time, and their questioning eyes disappeared a lot.

"He's the... the one with my niece's WeChat profile photo..."

"Yes, the one in the central square."

"Well, he can't be a living puppet."

Yan Ge: "..."

Oh, just remembered, he's in the entertainment industry.

After a while of embarrassment, Li Ya said again: "Now, let's figure out the logic. According to the baroness, the deaths of the five of us should be serial killings, and someone must be among them... No, the living puppets are lying."

"I'm really not a living puppet! I'm such a living person..." Tom kept groaning.

Yan Ge said: "We all think so, but now there is no clue, we can only speculate logically."

"So starting with everyone's testimony just now—"

"The governess said he was killed by a waiter, and the tobacco dealer testified for him, and the tobacco merchant was killed by a crystal, and the thief who climbed on the crystal was the thief who was about to assassinate the lady."

"Assuming that the waiter is lying and he is a living puppet, it can be deduced that the tutor and the businessman are human beings. This is the first possibility."

"The second possibility is that the waiter is telling the truth, the tutor and the businessman are lying, and the two of them are living puppets trying to frame the waiter."

"But this is not logically balanced. The waiter is equal to being attacked by the two of them, so I guess there are other people who are in the same position as him."

After finishing speaking, Li Ya turned to look at Yan Ge.

"I, or you, there must be an 'existence' among us who participates in this logical chain."

"'Siren', your role should actually be a thief, not a drama actor."

Yan Ge's pupils shrank.

From the middle, he knew that there was something wrong with his prudence. It was impossible for the baroness to catch five unrelated people to play games here. There was a serial killing game between them.

The latter person is the murderer of the former person, who has been killed until the end, and is ended by Countess Mary.

"What are you talking about?" Tom, who was not very bright, was at a loss.

Li Ya said: "It means that he may be on your side. If he is a puppet, you are a puppet. If he is a human, you are also a human. But now it seems that the situation is not good, because he lied at the beginning."

Yan Ge took a deep breath and said, "Yes, I lied."

Tom anxiously said: "If you want to die, don't implicate me! I'm human!"

"However, lying does not mean that I am a living puppet. The situation is unknown, and it is more low-key to pretend to be other identities. I think it is also reasonable in human psychology. Others have also given illogical testimony."

"For example, violinist, you are obviously blind, so you shouldn't be able to see anything. Why did you say that there was blood on your bow at the end of the killing? Are you lying to cover up the fact that you killed someone with your bow? fact?"

Yan Ge himself didn't expect to be able to beat my teammates with the logic disk.

Anyway, with Yi Ziang around, let's beat it hard, it's a drill.

"Let me tell you about my actual situation." Li Ya continued, "I am indeed blind. Before I finally died, I regained my eyesight for a short period of time and saw blood on my bow. But in my experience ——I did not kill anyone, the evidence is that before you died, you should have heard my violin music, and that music has not been interrupted."

Those three people recalled with a frown, and hesitated: "It is true... until his death, he has been playing the violin, the music has not been interrupted, it is impossible to run over and kill us."

"No, I didn't hear it." Yan Ge said, "When I died, I didn't hear the violin music. It can't be ruled out that he stopped playing and came to kill me."

Li Ya: "I'm very sad when you say that."

Yan Ge ignored him and fell into deep thought.

Each of them felt like a victim, but each was suspect in the testimony of others.

After pondering for a while, Yan Ge suddenly asked Li Ya again, "Did you die from poisoned wine?"

"Well, the red wine given by Countess Mary."

"No." Yan Ge looked at the waiter again, "He brought the red wine, you were poisoned to death by the red wine, and he is your murderer—this is a closed logical loop."

"If everyone is acting logically, the actual order of killing should be as follows:

"The governess was killed by the waiter, the tobacconist killed the waiter, the tobacconist was killed by the crystal dropped by the thief, the violinist killed the thief, and the wine brought by the waiter killed the violinist."

The tutor disagreed: "We all know this, what's the use?"

"It's useful." Yan Ge's gaze swept across the audience one by one, "Because there are three people... No, it's the puppet who is lying, I already know it."

At this matter, the surrounding lamps and candles were suddenly extinguished, and the red lips appeared again on the statue in the center of the round table.

"Have you chosen? Gentlemen."

Yan Ge felt the belt loosen in his hand, and at the same time touched the armrest of the chair, there were five buttons corresponding to the seat position.

"Choose quickly, I already..." Red Lip swallowed, "I can't wait for fresh blood!"

In the darkness, Yan Ge pressed the button.

Li Ya beside him asked leisurely: "How many people did you choose?"

"Three." Yan Ge did not hesitate, "Do you want to know?"

"As expected."

Yan Ge: "No, maybe, it's beyond your expectations."

The candles were lit again, and with the laughter of the countess suddenly stopped, around the round table, the pipes of the tutor, the tobacco dealer, and the violinist were pumping out blood as if they were opening...but there was no smell of blood.

There are only some miscellaneous paints flowing in the pipes.

Tutor, tobacco dealer... and Li Ya, his face quickly blurred, and finally asked: "...Why?"

Yan Ge moved his wrist, stood up from the chair, and looked at the bewildered waiter.

"When I sorted it out to the end, I found that you guys deliberately confused a concept—murderer and manslaughter."

"The topic given by Countess Mary is that the 'murderers' are living puppets. The three of you are all suspected of committing murder, while the waiter and I accidentally dropped the crystal and killed someone. The other is that he didn't know that the poisoned wine he brought had poisoned someone to death, the two of us can't be regarded as 'murderers', at most it was just negligent injury."

"As for the three of you, the tobacco merchant killed the waiter with a table knife. He killed the waiter on his own initiative. If this fact is established, he is a 'murderer'. The tutor exists for perjury. Although he is not a murderer, he must be a living puppet. "

"And you—" Yan Ge's dark pupils reflected the completely faded shadow of the fake Li Ya, "You should be a dummy fabricated by "Red Eclipse" who stole a certain amount of Li Ya's information from my brain, Although it sounds like his language habits are similar to his usual, there is one point where the acting really sucks."

Yan Ge pulled out the gun from the back of his waist, loaded it in a second, and pulled the trigger at the statue baring his teeth.

"...His violin was born for playing, not for killing."

……

"boom……"

Li Ya stopped in the corridor on the third floor, turned around to follow the source of the subtle sound, and looked at the paintings on the wall behind him.

The museum is filled with paintings that weren't originally here.

Castles, flowers, banquets, dungeons... strange and unified.

Li Ya has been walking in this corridor for 10 to [-] minutes, and he still hasn't seen the end, only from time to time, a woman's delicate laughter can be heard from every corner mocking his plight.

"Honey, the struggle before dying can make your blood sweeter..." A strange voice echoed in the middle of the corridor.

Li Ya didn't listen to the whispers of "Red Eclipse", but stood in front of a huge oil painting that fell to the ground.

It was an oil painting of a banquet hall, the picture was extremely bloody, the guards with knives rushed into the banquet crowd and slashed wantonly. In the center of the banquet, the baroness in a red court dress was holding red wine, looking very enjoying it.

But directly above her, there was a figure hanging on the crystal chandelier, with a sharp blade in his arms, it seemed that he would jump down to assassinate her at any time.

Li Ya's finger stuck to the canvas, and touched the figure in the crystal lamp little by little, paused for a moment, and then suddenly pointed to Lady Mary in the center of the banquet.

The countess on the painting suddenly turned her head as if alive, and showed a mysterious smile to Li Ya outside the painting, and then her irrelevance disappeared.And behind Li Ya, in an oil painting of Countess Mary putting on makeup in the bedroom, her red lips appeared again, with the corners of her lips raised, showing a smile.

"You can't catch me, fool."

Li Ya's spiritual power would not be directly caught in the painting by "Red Eclipse", but it still has other ways to trap her.

This is the base camp of "Red Eclipse", it can freely shuttle in every oil painting with her, and no one can catch where she will appear in the next second.

However, if you can't catch it, you will be trapped here to death.

Li Ya simply didn't leave, looked around, took out the violin, and pressed it against his collarbone.

He smiled and said, "Ma'am, what song do you like to listen to?"

Red Eclipse didn't reply.

Li Ya listened attentively for a while, then nodded, as if he had received an answer, he set up his bow.

A song "Devil's Tremolo" flows from the strings with a certain degree of relaxation.

In all the paintings, the Grand Duchess in a red court dress turned her head to look at him.

That was Countess Mary's favorite violin piece, and she always started her countless killing nights with this piece.

Then in the castle at midnight, covered in blood, dancing alone under the moonlight.

"Beautiful women are supposed to be eternally beautiful, just like Alice."

The red eclipse... It should be said that it was Countess Mary who sighed in every corner.

The Countess has no children, and she gives all her motherly love to a ceramic doll.

The doll loves the mother as passionately as a daughter, even though the mother is a bloodthirsty beast herself.

"She loves you very much."

Li Ya used the strings to channel his thoughts.

"The princess has drawn all the fragments about you that she can think of."

"As a dead object, she couldn't understand death. She thought it was like broken ceramics. As long as each piece of porcelain was retrieved, an original person could be pieced together."

"But, the cruel truth is—you are just a tattered, unaesthetic body, and you cannot become a human being."

"Her mother will never come back."

The trembling at the highest point, together with the suddenly rising angry screams in all the surrounding oil paintings, resounded through the entire corridor of oil paintings.

"Shut up, you bastard! I'm going to crush your flesh and smear the whole room!"

"'Bloody Duke' is me, the venerable Mary Saint Naroca!!"

Diagonally behind Li Ya, a large amount of blood suddenly appeared in an oil painting, and the blood took shape, and a blood man was crawling out of the frame, as if to tear Li Ya apart.

But at the next moment, a disordered silver light flashed in the blood man's body, and its posture froze in place. After a few seconds, like cut jelly, it fell to the ground piece by piece, turning into pieces of black dirt. trace.

Li Ya stopped playing and looked at the oil painting.

In the oil painting, a willow-leaf sharp knife on the canvas pierced a corner of the canvas, and with a soft and silent "呲啦", a pair of hands stretched out from the painting and tore the canvas.

Li Ya put down the violin, walked under the painting, and stretched out his hand.

The next moment, a bag was thrown down, and then Yan Ge broke free from the frame, jumped down and landed on the ground.

"Have you had a good trip?" Li Ya asked.

Yan Ge, who had just been scammed by counterfeit goods, remained vigilant, looked him up and down, and slapped him: "How much is this?"

Li Ya went up to him and gave a high five: "Yeah."

Okay, this fool is strong, it's true.

"Is "Red Eclipse" dead?"

"I don't know, even if the hit just now wasn't her body, it was half-life."

They are relatively slow, if Xiao Yi is here, I am afraid that they will be able to lock the location of "Red Eclipse" soon.

Looking at the restored corridor, Yan Ge recalled the route he had come to this museum last time, pointing to the front: "Go further, walk up to the maple leaf spiral staircase above, and you will be Swan Castle."

Goodbye, Princess Alice.

Only this time, she will definitely appear as the Red Death King.

"Let's go and perform for the princess."