Jiang Pingce took out the map he had drawn before and checked his thoughts with Yue Xingwen.
Because there were too many illusions, it was easy for them to get confused. Yue Xingwen simply marked the spatial map that Jiang Pingce had drawn, writing the names of the paintings found in each world, so that it looked very intuitive to everyone.
Liu Zhaoqing looked at the ‘map’ sorted out by both of them and touched his chin thoughtfully. “We have only opened three paintings of women and the illusion mechanism of <The Last Supper>, and the other hanging paintings should also have mechanisms. Do you want to open them one by one?”
Yue Xingwen said, “Return to the way before, and go to world C. Let’s see if there’s a mechanism in the <Starry Night> painting.”
Everyone returned the way before under Yue Xingwen’s leadership and came to the drawing room where they first saw the hanging paintings of <Starry Night>.
Xu Feixue said at the time that this painting was painted during Van Gogh’s treatment in a psychiatric hospital. The beautiful village under the deep night sky and the giant trees rising like flames, forming a sharp contrast. One side was calm, the other side was crazy.
Yue Xingwen looked back at Xu Feixue and said, “Do you have any thoughts on how to open the mechanism of this painting?”
This painting could not be moved, and there was no figure on it. Xu Feixue stepped forward to observe carefully for a moment, and guessed, “Is it on top of this tree? The flaming tree soared into the sky, and the tip seemed to point to some secret.”
Jiang Pingce walked over quickly when he heard this, stretched out his long arm, raised the spirit lamp and carefully looked up in the direction pointed by the tree, and a moment later, he really found a star-like mark. Jiang Pingce reached out and pressed the button, and the wall on the right side cracked in front of his eyes.
Yue Xingwen said, “Another illusion, everyone be careful.”
Everyone entered the door one after another, and the scene in front of them made everyone stunned in place—— They came to the door of the castle at night.
Under the moonlight, the sunflowers in the garden have bloomed. The entire castle was brightly lit, and clusters of gorgeous fireworks bloom in the air, almost like a fireworks show at the fairground.
Ke Shaobin looked up at the beautiful night sky decorated with fireworks and said, “It must cost a lot of money to put on so many fireworks, right? Is it to celebrate Alice and Jack’s wedding?”
As soon as the words fell, the fireworks character ‘Happy Birthday’ suddenly appeared in the sky.
Yue Xingwen looked towards the entrance of the old castle. A dining table was set up next to the garden, with a birthday cake on the table. The little boy with the cute crown on his head was looking up at the sky with joy on his face. His mother Daisy and father Rhodes were by his side, and behind him were both his grandparents, nanny Leah, his uncle Jack and his little aunt Alice—— Both families were present.
Yue Xingwen said, “It’s the two families celebrating the little boy’s birthday.”
Van Gogh’s <Starry Night> oil painting, corresponding to the beautiful night of Dean’s birthday. The fireworks show lasted for half an hour, and both families really put a lot of effort into celebrating the child’s birthday.
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After the fireworks ended, both families gathered together to eat. The exquisite birthday cake was divided into several plates and the slightly hunched Mrs. Roland said jokingly, “Alice, when are you and Jack going to have a baby?”
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In order to alleviate the embarrassment, Daisy took the initiative to round off the conversation, “I’ll go get some fruit wine made by myself and give everyone a taste.”
She turned to leave. Rhodes smiled and said, “I’ll go help.”
The couple temporarily left the dining room in front of the garden and walked into the kitchen of the castle. Leah was silent for a moment, and also got up and said, “I’m going to the restroom.”
Yue Xingwen immediately asked the female classmate to follow Leah. He and Jiang Pingce personally followed the couple.
In the kitchen, Rhodes was opening the cabinet to find a wine glass when Daisy suddenly said with a calm face, “You’re still in touch with her?”
Rhodes was stunned for a moment and turned around. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Daisy smirked and said, “Pretending to be a good husband in front of the parent and the child, but privately raising a mistress outside. Under the pretext of a business trip, you don’t go home for ten days or half a month just to go to her place, right? This time, if it wasn’t for my son’s birthday, I don’t think that you, a busy man, would have been able to come back.”
Rhodes’ face changed, turned around and leaned on the cabinet. He looked at her coldly and said, “Today is my son’s birthday, do you have to argue with me on my son’s birthday?”
Daisy said, “I just want you to restrain a little, after all, you are still my husband in name.”
Rhodes sneered. “Didn’t you have a boyfriend before you got married? You almost fell out with the family for him, and the story spread wildly. Who knows what happened between you?”
Daisy’s face turned pale, her fingers trembled as she clenched the edge of the tabletop. “You never believed me? Since marrying you, I have completely cut ties with him, unlike you!” She seemed to be infuriated, her eyes were red, and her voice shaking uncontrollably.
Rhodes shrugged his shoulders and said, “Our parents made us husband and wife in order to strengthen the alliance, we are just tools for the family union, don’t be so sincere. Play on your own, I don’t care about you, and you don’t have to interfere with me.”
He said that and turned to leave. When he went out, he saw Leah coming out of the restroom. The cat in Leah’s arm ‘meowed’. Rhodes was calm and said, “Daisy is looking for a cup in the kitchen, you can help her.”
Leah hung her head and said, “Okay.”
When she walked into the kitchen with her cat, Daisy had already resumed her gentle smile, as if nothing had happened, and said kindly, “Leah, I have already poured the fruit wine, let’s serve it together.”
Both of them returned to the dining table in the garden with cups and continued to celebrate the child’s birthday.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce returned to the garden. Xu Feixue, who followed Leah, reported, “Leah still goes to the restroom normally, and she hasn’t talked to anyone else on the way, but I noticed a detail. She carefully checked the cat when she went to the restroom.”
Ke Shaobin guessed, “The recording device she hangs on the cat’s neck must have limited memory, and it won’t be able to record for a long time. Maybe, every time she goes to the restroom, it’s to check her equipment and make it easier to replace the memory card?”
Yue Xingwen also felt that Ke Shaobin’s analysis was very reasonable. Leah often left the scene halfway to the restroom, and still held the cat. She must have gone to check the bug device on the cat.
Liu Zhaoqing asked, “Xingwen, have you found anything by following this couple?”
Jiang Pingce said, “The relationship between this couple is not good. Daisy knows that her husband has a mistress outside.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Judging from Daisy’s statement. Her husband often goes on business trips and does not come home for half a month to meet his mistress privately, so his mistress can’t be Leah. Leah has been living in the castle and won’t disappear for half a month.”
Ke Shaobin scratched his head suspiciously. “However, in the three women’s oil paintings, isn’t the identity of the woman holding the ermine a mistress? I remember Xu Feixue saying this at the time.”
Xu Feixue said, “That’s right. Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of <Lady with an Ermine>, the heroine is the mistress of the Duke of Milan. It was the Duke of Milan who paid him to paint it, and this mistress was the most favored by the Duke at that time.”
Yue Xingwen frowned and looked at Jiang Pingce. “Just now, Rhodes and Leah met at the kitchen door, only saying a word. Leah lowered her head and both of them did not have any eye contact. It doesn’t look like they were having an affair?”
Jiang Pingce said, “I don’t feel like it either.”
Everyone stood in the garden, watching the scene of both families celebrating the child’s birthday with confusion in their minds—— Rhodes and Daisy, Jack and Alice, both couples were putting on a show.
Who was the deceased and who was the murderer?
Yue Xingwen was silent for a moment and said, “The three women should be the key to connecting the whole story. Alice in a wedding dress, Leah holding a cat, Daisy holding an umbrella. The young woman who died, must be among them.”
Jiang Pingce said, “If we want to deduce the murderer, first of all, shouldn’t we identify the deceased?”
Yue Xingwen nodded. “That’s right. Only by determining the deceased can we find the murderer’s motive.”
Liu Zhaoqing said with a headache, “The three women are all about 170 tall, similar in size. The bodies we dug up were stripped naked, so if we only look at the bones, we really can’t tell who dies.”
Jiang Pingce suddenly said, “We can measure the data.”
Liu Zhaoqing was stunned and looked back at Jiang Pingce. “You mean, measuring bone data?”
Jiang Pingce replied, “En. Facial recognition technology is to draw the human facial features as several coordinate points, into a unique geometric figure, according to this principle, the corpse bone can also be recognized. Even if the body shape is similar, there will definitely be subtle differences in the length of each finger, the width of their shoulder blades, and the length of their cervical vertebrae.”
Liu Zhaoqing thought about it carefully, and immediately gave a thumbs up. “Bone recognition. Why didn’t I think of that!”
Jiang Pingce looked at Ke Shaobin and said, “Let Xiao Tu take a complete image of the three women in 360 degrees, model and analyze the bone data, and then compare it with the bones dug up in the garden to determine the deceased.”
Everyone could not do genetic identification to confirm the deceased for the bone they dug up, but Jiang Pingce method was also very useful.
The bones of adults would not continue to grow and develop. The finger’s length, shoulder width, etc. of the three people would definitely have differences in the data. So, the deceased should be the closest one to the data measured from the bones of the corpse, compared with their body data!
Yue Xingwen appreciated Jiang Pingce’s calmness. He smiled and patted Jiang Pingce’s shoulder, and said in a low voice, “Others will be afraid when they see corpses. Do you see corpses in 3D-models in your head?”
Jiang Pingce coughed lightly. “It’s not that exaggerated, I only just thought of it.”
Everyone left the <Starry Night> illusion and returned to the 1st floor in the same way as before, and then came to the black roses garden, where three corpses were placed next to the garden, glowing with a cold white light under the moonlight.
Liu Zhaoqing moved the bones to the flat ground and laid them out. There was Zhang Xiaonian’s laser theodolite, so the data of the bones would be very accurate, and the error of the three women’s data who were alive measured and photographed by the robot Xiao Tu should be not too big.
Ke Shaobin compared the body data of the people at the scene with the bones of the corpse, and then realized——
The elderly man and woman who died were, indeed, Daisy’s parents, and one of whom was slightly hunched over was matched with Mrs. Roland.
However, the young girl buried in the ground was not Daisy at all.
It was Leah, who was the most suspected.
Thanks for the update 😍
Oh, plot twist
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