The reason why Yue Xingwen guessed that the murderer was mixed with the players of the murder mystery game was because if there was no ‘acquaintance introduction’ in such a desolate place like this inn, no one would have a courage to come here to play the game just based on an advertisement on the internet.
But if it was a group member who they had known for a long time, or even met each other that introduced this place by saying, “I know a place where a fun murder mystery game is,” and then gathered everyone over and pretended, “This is an immersive murder mystery game inn opened by a friend of mine,” it could greatly eliminate the players’ wariness.
Of course, it was also possible that the murderer was the inn owner, and that 10 players were extraordinarily bold people he lured in by online post, recruiting on forums, etc. However, Yue Xingwen was inclined that the murderer was one of the players in the murder mystery game, so as to connect the script to reality.
Qin Miao frowned for a moment, and looked at Yue Xingwen doubtfully, “Assuming that the murderer in the script and the real murderer is the same person, can the motives of the crime be matched? The real murderer should love Su Wanxin very much, and killing these brides is to transcend Su Wanxin’s departed spirit. And what was the motive of the person who killed Su Wanxin in that murder mystery game?”
Yue Xingwen said, “There murderer in the script also loved Miss Su and killed her only because he couldn’t have her?”
Qin Miao still felt that it was not quite right. “But in reality, he didn’t ‘love but can’t have’ Su Wanxin, right? Didn’t she wear a diamond ring and get married? According the the previous deduction, the murderer in reality is Su Wanxin’s husband.”
Yue Xingwen thought for a moment and said, “Also, that’s something I haven’t been able to find a reasonable explanation for.”
Everyone fell silent, lowered their heads in thought.
After a moment, Jiang Pingce suddenly said, “Why are you sure that the murderer of the seven brides must be Su Wanxin’s husband? Just by the inscriptions on the tombstone of ‘My beloved wife Su Wanxin’, and the photos of the basement?”
Ke Shaobin was stunned for a moment and said in a low voice, “Isn’t that certain, he had written about his beloved wife?”
“That’s what he wrote, Su Wanxin doesn’t necessarily admit it.” Jiang Pingce looked back at Yue Xingwen with a serious expression. “So far, no photos of the murderer were found at the inn, and no marriage certificate of the two people was seen—— Su Wanxin’s husband killed people for the purpose of transcending her departed spirit, this speculation is too subjective.”
Yue Xingwen carefully pondered Jiang Pingce’s analysis and nodded. “Pingce is right. My beloved wife is a unilateral inscription of the person who erected the tombstone. Su Wansin might not really marry him, it is possible that he loved Su Wanxin deeply, and he couldn’t have her, so after Su Wanxin’s death, he willingly erected a tombstone to Su Wanxin and engraved the words ‘My beloved wife’.”
As soon as this speculation appeared, it was like a light suddenly shining in the darkness, and many things that made them confused became clear and lucid.
Ke Shaobin pondered, “It seems to make sense, we really didn’t see a photo of them together.”
Qin Lu said excitedly, “So, the murderer is not her husband? I dreamt of a matchmaker proposing a marriage before. Mr. Zhao in the script was terminally ill, and Miss Su married there to do a warding-off wedding. How could Mr. Zha had the strength to kill when he was so ill?”
Qin Miao followed her sister’s words and said, “Mr. Zhao in the script is terminally ill and incapable of killing. So, in reality, Mr. Zhao, Su Wanxin’s legitimate husband, is also unable to kill people?”
—— The script alluded to reality, with Mr. Zhao in the script was the same as Mr. Zhao was, in reality, the legal husband of Su Wanxin.
In the script, Mr. Zhao was terminally ill, and Miss Su married into the Zhao family to do a warding-off wedding. A terminally ill man had no motive to kill his wife who had come to do a warding-off wedding, and the two had never even met before the marriage, let alone have any grudge.
In reality, Mr. Zhao might also be unfamiliar with Su Wanxin, and the two were married for some purpose. For example, being forced by the elders for business marriage? This ‘forced marriage’ could correspond to the ‘warding-off wedding’ in the script, and the common point was that the marriage between Su and Zhao was a marriage made possible by the Zhao’s family money, and Miss SU was not willing to marry.
Yesterday, they speculated that the murderer was Su Wanxin’s husband, based on the ‘my beloved wife’ engraved on the tombstone, the diamond ring, and the wedding photo.
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But they did not find a marriage certificate!
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Once the idea was opened, the subsequent analysis became logical.
Jiang Pingce continued to say, “After Su Wanxin married Mr. Zhao, her ex-boyfriend was not reconciled, and simply killed Su Wanxin and then erected a tombstone to Su Wanxin, engraving ‘My beloved wife, Su Wanxin’.”
Yue Xingwen said, “In the script, there was also a particular person who has good feelings for Su Wanxin. And he became the murderer who killed Su Wanxin after he could not get her because she was married. In this way, the script and reality can be completely matched.”
Upon hearing the two men’s analyses, everyone was overwhelmed.
‘My beloved wife’ was not really a ‘wife’, but a psychologically twisted madman who, after his loved one married someone else, killed her, buried her next to him, and engraved ‘My beloved wife’ on the tombstone.
The thought sent shivers down all three girls’ spines.
When encountering such a perverted man, Miss Su could not even die in peace!
Qin Lu’s face was ugly, her voice was trembling with anger. “This man had a strong desire to control. The person he likes ws forced to marry someone else, he had no ability to keep her before marriage, but after she married another person, he killed the other party and buried her in a feng shui place of his choice. I’ve read so many novels, I’ve seen so many scumbags, a scumbag like him indeed refreshing my three views!”
Qin Miao said coldly, “This is not only scum, this is a pervert, is a mental derangement, and cannot be understood with normal human thinking.”
Gao Xiaoxin said indignantly, “If this is the case, Miss Su is too pitiful!”
Thinking of Su Wanxin, who was buried in the coffin, everyone felt a little uncomfortable in their hearts.
It was really interminable rotten luck for Su Wanxin to meet such a beast! She died and buried here, her tombstone was also engraved with the words ‘My beloved wife’, wearing a bright red wedding dress, and her fingers were forced to wear the diamond ring before her breakup, which was really disgusting.
At present, this inference made more sense than the others. Only then could the script and reality murders be fully connected and the two murderers be equated.
Yue Xingwen sighed lightly and said, “In both the script and reality, the murderer’s motive for killing Miss Su was that the murderer could not get his love one, to hate out of love. The suspect can be further reduced, leaving only the doctor and the guard, these two people.”
Jiang Pingce said in a low voice, “In reality, the motive of the murderer to continue to kill the innocent bride may not be to transcend the departed spirit, but—— Imprison Su Wanxin’s soul.”
His gaze became sharp and cold, and he continued slowly. “The murderer should use seven living people as a sacrifice to imprison Su Wanxin’s soul, forever and ever, to his side.”
Everyone: “……”
A cold breeze blew through and the firewood on the fire made a ‘crackling’ sound.
Sparks were flying around and everyone’s face was ugly.
The result of such reasoning really turned their cognition upside down.
There were no most perverted, only more perverted. This kind of twisted love was not wanted by anyone. How could one truly love someone in such a way that one could build a tombstone to the other person wishfully or even imprison the other party’s dead soul?
Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce. “I also think this formation is too eerie, if it’s to transcend the departed spirit, how could it be used to kill others? Imprisoning the soul of the dead is more in line with the murderer’s motive.”
Gao Xiaoxin’s face turned pale. “I’m afraid to get married after hearing that, it’s horrible…”
Gao Yongqiang coughed lightly and said, “You can’t even pick one pervert like this out of hundreds of millions of people. If you really like a girl, even if she marries another person, you should genuinely wish her well, not kill her and bury her beside yourself.”
It was really a psychologically uncomfortable experience.
Yue Xingwen sighed and smiled as he mobilized everyone’s emotions, “Well, just think of this as a fictional story and don’t think too much about it. At present, we have sorted out the connection between the plot and the inn, and the reasoning will actually become easier. The motivation is to hate out of love, and there are only two suspects left. Isn’t it much easier to go from five choices into two choices?”
Qin Miaos asked, “Xiao You, sister Su, and Aunt Chen are all interference items. The doctor or the guard, which one do you prefer?”
Yue Xingwen said, “It’s all possible. The doctor should also be a doctor in reality. In the murder mystery game, Miss Su was bitten by a snake and the doctor saved her. In reality, Miss Su might also have a disease of some sort that a doctor had been treating her.”
Jiang Pingce said, “The guard corresponds to the man who guards her in reality. I dreamt that in the ancient plot, the guard had been drawing Miss Su’s portrait, which fits the traits of the murderer who psychopathically killed her and imprisoned her dead soul.”
Everyone fell silent with mixed feelings.
Yue Xingwen pretended to be relaxed and said, “After finding the motive, it really became much clearer. On the third night, we will collect some clues of the ancient plot. If it’s consistent with our reasoning, there will be a new plot about the guard and the doctor, we should be able to lock the murderer.”
Jiang Pingce said, “For the inn plot, we need to decipher the number code on those cloth strips. We’ll have to take the time to study it tomorrow.”
Yue Xingwen nodded, “There’s also a missing corpse that needs to be found as soon as possible tomorrow as well.” Upon seeing everyone looked bad, he said, “Let’s sleep first. This is just an exam, there’s no need to associate it with reality.”
Yue Xingwen’s words made everyone feel much better, and everyone closed their eyes to sleep.
After dawn the next day, the group returned to the inn and washed themselves briefly with the water from the well. Yue Xingwen did not allow them to prepare breakfast, and he said to Qin Miao, “Let’s cook instant noodles for lunch, don’t bother cooking.”
Qin Miao looked towards the lotus pond in front of the inn and said, “There should be lotus roots in the pond, and there’s some iced sugar in the kitchen. I can make you guys some sugar lotus roots for snacks for lunch today.”
Hearing this, Ke Shaobin’s eyes suddenly lit up. “Sugar lotus roots, I love to eat this.”
Yue Xingwen teased, “You have such a sweet tooth? In the public elective course last time, I remember you ate ten honey grilled fish.”
Ke Shaobin smiled shyly, “My hometown is in the Jiangsu area, and I have liked sweets since childhood.”
“Okay, this senior brother will go and fish some lotus roots for you.” Liu Zhaoqing felt that he could not help with anything in logical reasoning after all with Xingwen and Pingce here, so he could simply do more physical work to get some food for everyone. He came to the side of the pond, rolled his sleeves up to his shoulders, reached his hand into the pond for a moment, and said, “The pond is quite deep, I can’t reach it ah.”
Qin Miao directed from the side, “Take a stick, hook it around the middle of the lotus root and try lifting it upwards.”
Ke Shaobin actively ran to the forest and brought a very long bamboo pole. Liu Zhaoqing took the bamboo pole, stood by the pond and groped around the pond for a moment, noticing that the bamboo pole was blocked by the lotus root, he was delighted. “I found it, look at me.”
Liu Zhaoqing lifted it upwards with force——
Ke Shaobin’s face was full of smiles, thinking that his senior brother would hook up a large lotus root, and he would have something delicious at noon. He was quite looking forward to the sugar lotus root made by Qin Miao. However, his smile froze instantly after seeing what Liu Zhaoqing had hooked up!
Liu Zhaoqing was also stunned, followed by cursing, “Fuck!”
Qin Miao went back to call Yue Xingwen with a sullen face, “Xingwen, you guys come take a look.”
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce were analyzing the code on the cloth stripes in the house, and when they followed Qin Miao to the pond to take a look, they looked at each other in disbelief—— Liu Zhaoqing did not hook the lotus root, but actually hooked up a skeleton.
The skeleton was also wearing a bright red wedding dress, which had been soaked in water for a long time, had been corroded and torn, and there were some water weeds stuck to it. The gnarled human bones were hanging on top of the bamboo pole, and the skeleton was grinning in Ke Shaobin’s direction.
Ke Shaobin: “……”
Qin Miao asked him with an expressionless face, “Still eating?”
Ke Shaobin: “Not eating…”
Who could eat the lotus roots that grow in the pond soaked with a corpse? Ke Shaobin wanted to vomit.
Yue Xingwen gently supported his forehead, “The seventh bride, it turns out to be here.”
Jiang Pingce said, “I guess she panicked and ran away while being chased by the murderer and fell into the pond?”
Yue Xingwen agreed. “En, the murderer has OCD(Obsessive-compulsive disorder), he wouldn’t have pushed her into the pond since he was used to hiding the body neatly in the storage room in the attic after killing people. She found something wrong while playing the murder mystery game, but because her mobile phone was confiscated and she could not call the police or notify others, she panicked and ran away, but unfortunately she couldn’t get away.”
The murderer killed the first six people smoothly, but it went awry for the seven time. This was also the reason why only 6 skeletons were found in the storage room, and the 7th disappeared.
Another mystery was solved.
The skeleton of the seven ghost brides were gathered, and the clouds in the inn plot gradually cleared. The connection between the ancient plot and the inn in reality had also been established, and the next key was to crack the code numbers in the ragdoll.
So much thinking needed
The Faculty of Mathematics is really scary
Thank you very much for the translation 🤍🤍🤍🤍
Ouf the amount of clues thrown here and there but Young Ke’s “Not eating…” made me snort so loud😭😭
How about the 3 men? Their corpses or the corpses of the 2 participants with the murderer? Did they forget it, why are they only focusing in the corpses of the 7 brides which in fact there are 10 participants which corresponds with 10 suitcases?