"Okay, I admit it."
The magician made a surrender gesture, compromising with the swarm of people besieging and questioning him:
"My mother has been with Mr. Bai for a long time."
Several players around looked at him with a look on their faces: You finally confessed! Su Yi immediately pushed his small TV behind him, stopped watching the comments, and began to concentrate on listening to the magician's speech:
"In the beginning, Master Bai didn't have much money. He married into the Lin family and took over the Lin family's property, which gradually expanded. Later, the master of the Lin family, that is, my grandfather, fell ill. He took advantage of his illness to change his will and added a clause in it, saying that the old man would give him Pa Island because of his care and consideration.
"At that time, Padma Island already belonged to my mother. After my grandfather passed away, my mother thought it was my grandfather's last wish, so she gave Padma Island to Mr. Bai according to the will. At that time, gold mines had not been discovered on Padma Island, so it was not very valuable, and my mother did not care much about it. Later, my mother also fell ill, and Mr. Bai took the opportunity to transfer most of the Lin family's assets abroad. During the operation, he came to donate blood hypocritically, and then left my mother and went abroad.
"After my mother recovered from the operation, she found that her property and her body were gone. Only then did she wake up completely and find out that her and grandpa's illnesses were actually caused by Master Bai."
The old pastor realized: "So your mother decided to take revenge. Ten years later, she found the whereabouts of Mr. Bai and approached him under the alias Linda. At that time, Mr. Bai had married the eldest young master's mother Xiu Zhenhong. Wait! The eldest young master had a car accident when he was a child. How old was he at that time?"
"Six years old." Young Master Bai replied.
Planner Peng: "Isn't that right when Master Bai and Xiu Zhenhong are getting divorced? Oh, I understand! Your car accident was not an accident at all. It must have been planned by Lin Xiu, or Linda. She wanted to squeeze you out so that she could marry Master Bai and get the Bai family's property into her own hands, especially to go back to Padang Island."
"I don't know who planned it. After the car accident, my mother was disfigured, and I became disabled with scars on my face." Young Master Bai straightened the platinum mask on his face. "At that time, Mr. Bai already had another woman outside. Seeing that my mother and I were both disabled, he wanted a divorce. My mother refused and said that there would be no divorce unless she died. As a result, not long after, she was found to have committed suicide by cutting her wrists."
Su Yi listened with frowned brows, this should not be an ordinary suicide, it is very likely a disguised suicide.
The old pastor: "Have you ever suspected that your mother's death was planned by someone else?"
"No, I didn't when I was a kid. I was too young to think too much and just cried." Bai Da Shao said, "I started to suspect it when I grew up, but by then Linda and her child had already disappeared, so the only suspect left was Master Bai."
Planner Peng: "So even if you have doubts, you can't do it, because the official heir is the Third Young Master Bai. Once Master Bai dies, most of the Bai family's property will become your Third Young Master's. You will be making wedding clothes for others. You have no choice but to lie dormant for many years, get the most valuable Pa Island of the Bai family, and then kill Master Bai. Moreover, Pa Island was originally the property of the Lin family. It was Master Bai and Lin Xiu who harmed your mother. You just want revenge, right!"
Young Master Bai smiled calmly: "You can spend a thousand gold coins to try to vote for me? The murderer?."
Su Yi keenly noticed a detail. He asked the eldest young master softly, "Have you ever met the second young master Bai when you were a child?"
Young Master Bai shook his head and said, "No. After my mother died, Master Bai thought that mansion was unlucky and moved to another city. I was taken care of by a nanny until I was ten years old. I was taken back to Master Bai. At that time, he had already married his third wife, and my third brother had just been born."
"Then, how did Lin Xiuhe and Bai Ershao disappear?" Su Yi looked at the magician and asked.
The magician seemed to enjoy being asked this question. He put on a grinning clown mask and looked quite cocky:
“It’s a wildfire.”
Bai Ye taunted him angrily: "You were almost burned to death, but you're still so arrogant?"
The magician ignored him and turned to talk to Su Yi, his tone sounding like he was going to complain: "Sister-in-law, listen, is what Third Brother is saying reasonable? That forest fire was definitely not an accident. At that time, Mr. Bai and Third Brother's mother were confused."
Bai Ye didn't have much feeling for the characters in the play, but he got angry when he heard this person complaining to Su Yi using the script. He took a step forward with an aggressive attitude. Su Yi quickly grabbed his sleeve and whispered to him:
"Don't go. Listen to him first."
The magician glanced at Bai Sanshao as if he had won. Bai Ye had no time to look at him. He lowered his head to look at Su Yi's hand. The slender fingertips and pink nails were gently pinching his cuffs, and she looked like she trusted him very much.
Bai Ye calmed down a bit and stood still obediently. Su Yi breathed a sigh of relief and listened carefully to the magician:
"When I was four years old, my mother took me to the Bai family's private forest to play. Suddenly, a forest fire broke out. It must have been set intentionally. When I woke up, I was already in a French hospital with burns all over my face and body."
Su Yi: "What about your mother...?"
Magician: "It was the housekeeper who saved me and sent me to France for treatment. He told me that my mother went to a very far place. She must have been burned to death, but I was still very young at that time, so he couldn't tell me directly."
Peng planned: "So it was the housekeeper who raised you?"
The magician nodded.
Su Yi still felt very strange: "What about your face...?"
The magician looks exactly like the Third Young Master Bai Ye. Is this a plot arrangement or...
"Wait! He said before that he had burns on his face, so did he have plastic surgery later?" Postman Fang suddenly thought of something and became very excited. The old pastor interrupted him and reasoned:
"I suddenly have an idea. Everyone, listen to me. The Second Young Master has been missing for so many years, so there is no way he would have a copy in the will. If that's the case, he can get his face burned and undergo plastic surgery to look like the Third Young Master Bai. He can take advantage of this wedding to seek revenge on the Bai family. He can kill Mr. Bai first, then the Third Young Master Bai. Then he can become the legitimate heir without anyone noticing. And he is also the son of Mr. Bai, so there is no problem with DNA certification or anything like that."
Planner Peng: “That makes sense.”
Postman Fang was indignant. It was obviously him who thought of this first, so why was this old man interrupting like this!
Bai Ye was also concerned about this. He said coldly, "You will know if you ask."
Postman Fang: "Yes, yes! The magician is Bride Su's boyfriend! You must know what the magician's face looked like at that time?"
"Ex-boyfriend."
Bai Ye stared at Postman Fang and coldly corrected his choice of words.
Postman Fang shrank his shoulders in fear and dared not speak anymore.
Su Yi also thought of this, but he had a love affair with the magician in France, which was a setting in the script. He had no impression of what the magician looked like. If this was a key point in the plot, the system should have automatically popped up a prompt.
Peng planned: "Bride Su?"
Su Yi said: "The bride's script does not mention this for the time being. Please wait a moment, I will ask the system."
Planner Peng nodded, and everyone waited for the bride's answer.
"Life-saving system..." Su Yi called out in his heart.
A yawning voice came from my ear: "What's wrong?"
"Help me see what the magician looked like when I met him in France. Was he exactly like the Third Young Master?"
"How is that possible? If they were exactly the same, you would have been surprised when you first saw the Third Young Master."
Su Yi conveyed this information to everyone, and Peng planned:
"Then it's confirmed! The Second Young Master Bai was burned when he was a child, and had his appearance restored when he grew up. Later, he fell in love with the bride Su. After they broke up, he probably got to know everything about the Bai family from somewhere, and decided to go home for revenge, so he was remade to look like the Third Young Master Bai!"
The magician shrugged, neither confirming nor denying.
"That forest fire back then, was it caused by Third Young Master Bai's mother?" Maid Lin said, "Young Master Bai said that when he was brought back, Master Bai had already married his third wife, and Third Young Master Bai was just born."
This is another simple math problem. Su Yi thought to himself that when the Bai eldest son was six years old, he was in a car accident, his mother committed suicide, and his parents divorced. Mr. Bai married his second wife, Linda, also known as Lin Xiu, and gave birth to the second Bai eldest son.
When the Second Bai was four years old and the First Bai was ten years old, the Second Bai encountered a forest fire and his mother was burned to death. He was taken to a French hospital for treatment by the housekeeper and has been missing ever since. The First Bai was taken home and the Third Bai was just born.
By this calculation, when Master Bai was with Linda, he had already had an affair, and he became pregnant with the third son of the Bai family with his third wife. For this woman, the eldest son was disabled and could not inherit the Bai family. As long as she got rid of the second son, the child in her belly would be the heir of the Bai family.
"Don't rush to blame others. You haven't explained clearly yet what is your relationship with Lin Xiu?" The old pastor said to Lin the maid:
"Why did you come to the Bai family to be a maid? Your purpose can't be that simple. The magician has admitted it, so don't hide it!"
"I really don't know about Lin Xiu." Maid Lin said, "I am an orphan, adopted since childhood, living in poverty. One day I found a very old pocket watch at home. My adoptive parents said that this was stuffed in my swaddling clothes when they found me. Later, I accidentally pried open the pocket watch and found that the parts inside were made of gold, and there were two small words engraved on it: Pa Island.
"I went to check and found out there was a gold mine on Pa Island, which belonged to the Bai family. I guessed that I might be the illegitimate daughter of the Bai family, so I came here to be a maid, hoping to find out my background and become a rich girl."
Peng Planner: "So your goal is simply to become rich?"
"Yes." Maid Lin said, "I think after analyzing it now, the murderous intentions of the three Bai brothers are very obvious. My purpose is relatively simple. I just want to become rich. If Master Bai dies, it will not benefit me at all. If he dies, no one will recognize me as their daughter. But if Master Bai dies, it will be good for all three of them."
Maid Lin looked at the three brothers of the Bai family: "All three of them have a grudge against Master Bai. Don't forget, Master Bai married five wives in total. Except for the fifth wife, Grace, who was just stabbed by the murderer, the first four wives are dead. So how did the third wife, the mother of Master Bai, die?"
His eyes focused on Young Master Bai San, and a light screen popped up in front of Bai Ye's eyes, showing a script text, reminding him what to say.
Bai Ye took a look at a long paragraph of dark words. He was too lazy to even read it. He just clicked on the light screen settings: Show it to other players.
"Everyone can see for themselves."
Everyone: “…”
Bai Shen's light screen appeared in the air, and it said: Young Master Bai's mother was the daughter of an arms dealer. After Master Bai married her, he inherited her family's arms business and became even richer. During a cruise trip, Master Bai and she encountered a storm and she drowned in the sea.
Peng planned: "This must be Mr. Bai's fault, in order to monopolize her family's arms business."
Maid Lin: "It's very likely. Now let's sort it out. The first young master Bai hates Mr. Bai and Lin Xiu, including Lin Xiu's child, the second young master Bai, because these people killed his mother. The second young master Bai hates Mr. Bai and the third young master Bai, because the third young master's mother set a forest fire to kill them. The third young master Bai simply hates Mr. Bai. It is estimated that his mother was killed by Mr. Bai, and he can inherit all the property of the Bai family after Mr. Bai's death."
Postman Fang: "So the three brothers hate each other and want to kill each other? But the deaths are all very strange."
"Indeed?" said the old pastor. "Except for Mr. Bai, what do the rest of the people have to do with this series of events? Lawyer Chen, Grace, and the original player No. 13..."
This time, Postman Fang interrupted the old man and asked, "That player was holding a chainsaw to kill Bride Su. If he wasn't the murderer and wasn't acting in self-defense, why would an ordinary player attack an ordinary player? Why did he want to kill the bride? Was he insane or something?"
The scene fell into a brief silence.
Su Yi was also thinking about this doubt. The forensic autopsy report said that the brain nerves of the deceased player No. 13 were severely stimulated and he died of madness. That is, when the young master shot him, his brain was already abnormal and he was definitely dead.
Other players couldn't figure out how this person died. Since the cause of death was in the brain, it had nothing to do with the young master's shooting. Only Su Yi knew that this player must have been killed by the yellow powder.
The murderer used pornographic drugs to drive the player into a state of madness, prompting him to kill the bride.
Now the question is, why does this player go crazy and attack the bride crazily?
Su Yi thought about it. This copy has two plot lines. One is the wealthy family centered on Mr. Bai, which has been roughly explained now. The other plot is the eldest young master’s wedding.
The two previous brides were killed before they were married. There must be something wrong here. The player No. 13 must have something to do with this series of wedding events. He may have some hatred towards the bride, which the murderer took advantage of. If everything goes well, the murderer can use this madman to take away another bride player. If the player who plays the eldest son is also weak, he may be able to take her away in one wave under the chainsaw.
"I think we should continue to search for evidence."
Planner Peng glanced at the clock and said, "It's too late now. Starting tomorrow morning, we will divide into groups and search every corner of the church, including everyone's lounge. We must open all the rooms to search for evidence."
Maid Lin: "The time limit for this instance is 72 hours. Only 10 hours have passed so far. There are still more than 60 hours to go. There is still plenty of time."
"Heh." The old pastor sneered, "Only if you don't get stabbed by the murderer before this. I'm most suspicious of the three Bai brothers now. Especially the eldest young master, you have a very strong motive.
"First of all, Master Bai, you must hate her, and you must also be unhappy with your stepmother Grace. Then you took away the Padma Island, which belonged to the Lin family back then, so it can be considered as revenge for Lin Xiu. Originally, you were not eligible to inherit the property, and you must have tampered with the will to take the Padma Island, so you also have to kill Lawyer Chen to prevent him from finding out your flaws in the future.
"As for the death of player No. 13, we still need to continue to dig, but I have a hunch that it has something to do with the young master. The two brides who were going to marry you before all died tragically, and this bride is still receiving death threats. You can't be free of responsibility!"
The old pastor's suspicion was well-founded. His eyes turned to the young master. The young master explained calmly:
"Let me clarify one thing first. When I was brought back to the Bai family at the age of ten, Lin Xiu and the second young master had already disappeared, which means the person who harmed my mother was gone. I definitely don't have much feelings for Mr. Bai, but I don't have a very clear goal of revenge or anything like that.
"Besides, killing Mr. Bai now won't do me much good. I can inherit Pa Island, but my third brother will also inherit a lot. If I really want to do it, it would be better to completely tamper with the will and make it so that I am the only heir of the Bai family. Then I can kill Mr. Bai and Lawyer Chen and kick my third brother out. Isn't that better?"
white night:"……"
There was silence for a second, then Planner Peng nodded and said, "That makes sense. Compared to Young Master Bai, I'm more suspicious of Young Master Two. He really has a revenge goal, which is to wipe out the Bai family. As long as he kills Young Master Three, plus his face after plastic surgery, he can inherit the Bai family."
Postman Fang: "But this is all about motive analysis, right? How did they kill? Take Grace's death for example. The entrance to the secret passage was so small that the eldest master couldn't get in. I don't think the second master could do it either. There was no way he could move Grace's body and hang her on the glass window. Moreover, Bai Shen testified that the second master was with her the whole time."
The progress of the case has once again reached a stalemate.
clang--
A heavy bell rang, echoing in the church.
It's midnight.
Sizzle…sizzle…
The sound of electricity echoed from the roof, and a dull system mechanical voice gave them instructions:
[It is late at night, all players please return to your rooms and rest and sleep]
[Except for the bride and groom, all other players will have their own room. The room numbers have been distributed. Please go to bed quickly.]
[Tonight is the wedding night, the bride and groom must sleep together]
[Players who refuse to obey will be severely punished by the system]
Su Yi: "..."
Bai Ye made a sour face, the magician was silent, and the other players looked at the bride and groom in a teasing manner.
The young master gently and gentlemanly extended his hand to Su Yi?:
"Let's go. Let's go back to bed together."
In the long dark aisle, the bride, dragging her long wedding dress, pushed her husband in a wheelchair, walking forward step by step towards the destined wedding room, like a flower withering in the wind.
B104
Su Yi received the room number of his accommodation, which was where he was attacked. He hid in the cloakroom, and player No. 13 died outside the door.
Tonight, I have to sleep there with the young master.
Su Yi has no script. The sadness of a young and beautiful middle-aged bride marrying a disabled old man. Compared with other players, spending one night with the young master is acceptable. Although Bai Ye and the magician can get along, Bai Ye has a bad temper, the magician is hard to figure out, and the other players are even less familiar.
Although the eldest young master is occasionally perverted, he is relatively stable most of the time. He can provide him with a life-saving system and must have a deeper understanding of the killing in horror scripts. At least, he is someone who wants to rebel against the system like him, so he can be given a certain degree of trust.
But if he had a choice, Su Yi would rather be alone so that he could chat quietly with the life-saving system.
Tick, tick.
Light footsteps echoed in the corridor. A wheelchair rolled across the ground, making a slight sound. A lamp hung next to the armrest of the wheelchair, emitting a dim light.
"Are you scared?"
In the quiet atmosphere, the young master suddenly asked.
“…Not bad.” Su Yi answered in a low voice.
"You were never scared?" The young master said in a teasing tone, "Many newcomers were so scared when they entered the dungeon for the first time that they cried and clamored to go home."
Su Yi thought that the young master was quite bold to openly discuss the issue of going home. If he was not careful and had the thought of wanting to go home himself, he would be punished by the system.
"Maybe it's because they still have some attachment to reality." Su Yi said, "My surgery result...is not ideal. If I don't come here, I will die. It doesn't make any difference."
The young master didn't say anything for a while. The wheelchair rolled forward. Su Yi held the wheelchair handle and felt that this was an opportunity. He asked:
"How did you get dragged into this thriller? Killed?"
The atmosphere suddenly became silent.
The young master did not answer him immediately, as if he was recalling a long and bitter story. After a long while, he finally spoke:
"I once had a very important relative who fell ill and had surgery, but the surgery was unsuccessful and he passed away.
"Everyone thought he was dead and held a funeral for him. Only I thought he was not dead and he must still be alive somewhere in this world. I kept looking for him and they all said I was crazy.
"Finally, I found this place. I wasn't dragged in, I came here voluntarily."
Su Yi didn't know how to react when he suddenly heard such a sad story. It would be inappropriate to say "My condolences".
He remembered that when he first entered the horror scenario and the killing time screen system had said: as long as there are enough gold coins, any wish of the player can be realized.
"Do you want to... resurrect him?" Su Yi asked.
The young master shook his head calmly. Under the dim light, Su Yi felt that he looked a little sad:
"You can only make a wish for yourself, not for others. No matter how many gold coins you have, you can't revive another person.
"I just thought that if he is not really dead, maybe he is still here, and I will wait for him here forever."
The atmosphere fell silent again.
The young master finished his story in a few words. Su Yi felt sad and racked his brains to comfort him, but his lack of social experience made him not know what kind of considerate words to say.
"Don't be sad, you...you will definitely meet him."
After a long while, Su Yi only uttered these bland words of comfort.
After he finished speaking, his voice echoed in the empty corridor. The young master did not reply to him, and the voice gradually returned to awkward silence.
Su Yi quickly continued to comfort: "Come to think of it, you and the magician are a bit similar. He also had a relative who had surgery, and he was waiting outside, but ended up being killed in a horror scenario..."
“No.”
The young master suddenly said. Su Yi was startled. He? Before he could finish the rest of the sentence: Maybe you can have some discussion... he heard:
"He just waited outside the operating room for a while."
Young Master Bai looked at Su Yi deeply and said softly:
"I waited for him for ten years."
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