Volume 1: The Case of the Talented Man in Linzhou Chapter 19: Imprisonment
When Duan Ming woke up, he was in a dark room.
This room was quite dilapidated, with an area of less than thirty square meters. It was surrounded by debris, and there was a faint rotten smell in the air.
Duan Ming is currently tied to a pillar in the middle of the room. Not far away is the only complete piece of furniture in the room - a low table.
"Alas." Duan Ming smiled bitterly and shook his head. He had figured everything out at this moment.
But it was too late. Even if he had figured it out earlier, he would not have told Liu Zhi that Xu Shizhong would not be in this situation if he didn't know anything.
"Creak." The door to the room was slowly pushed open, and a figure slowly walked in. It was Liu Zhi.
"Mr. Duan, you're awake." Liu Zhi said in a deep voice with a simple and honest smile on his face.
"Why? Why are you doing this?" Duan Ming said in a deep voice.
"Oh?" Liu Zhi's smile faded, and he slowly sat down at the low table and put the basket in his hand aside: "Isn't Mr. Duan surprised? Shouldn't you ask, 'Why you?'"
"No need to ask, I should have thought of it a long time ago." Duan Ming sighed: "The person who knows all our arrangements must be someone with certain authority within the Mirror Department."
"I have been wondering why the boatman Meng Lei was not killed before, but was killed before we went to find him?"
"I used to think it was a coincidence, but now I understand that it was all your arrangement."
"When I found you and told you that there was a problem with the boatman, you were already murderous. Xing Qianqiu was not in the Mirror Department at that time. I thought you went out to find him. Now that I think about it, you should have gone to kill people and silence them.
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"Also, Linyang City is under martial law at night. Who else but you can walk through it unimpeded in the middle of the night?"
"After you killed the boatman, you came back to inform Xing Qianqiu. The time was just right."
"And you are the boatman's companion and his backstage, so the boatman opens the door for you and has no defense against you."
"As expected of Mr. Duan, it's just like what he saw with his own eyes." Liu Zhi nodded in admiration: "But why should I kill him?"
"First of all, it was during the curfew. Although the boatman's skills are good, you can't guarantee that he can escape without being caught. And your time is limited and you can't delay it for too long, so instead of letting him risk his escape, it's better to just
killed."
"After all, it's faster to kill than to explain, and the dead have the strictest mouths."
"Secondly, I had already suspected him at the time. If he escaped, even if the possibility was low, it might make me suspicious and think that someone had tipped off the information. But if he was killed, it would be much more normal.
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"Haha." Liu Zhi smiled and shook his head: "Mr. Duan, I should have killed you from the beginning!"
"Besides that, there is the official ship. I have never been able to figure out what happened to that ship before?" Duan Ming said: "Why is it that the crew members on the ship are not dead, but there is no call for help after entering the port, or even no call for help?"
Anything unusual."
"Oh? Why?" Liu Zhi's eyes flashed.
"Of course it is Liu Tong who knows your contribution, Mr. Liu." Duan Ming sighed: "You must have boarded the ship first, and then told the captain and crew that the Mirror Division needed their cooperation in handling the case, and asked them to keep it secret, and then promised a generous reward.
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"These crew members naturally dare not disobey, so not only did no one resist or ask for help, they even fully cooperated with your actions." Duan Ming sighed: "How could they have imagined that they were aiding the tiger?"
"Mr. Duan." Liu Zhi said, taking out a bottle of wine and a wine cup from the basket, pouring himself a glass, and then said with a smile: "You are very smart, I really can't bear to kill you."
"But you will still kill me." Duan Ming revealed without hesitation: "Otherwise, how about if I join your organization? With my help, you will be even more powerful."
"Haha." Liu Zhi shook his head: "Mr. Duan, do you believe what you said?"
"Believe it, why don't you believe it? I just want to live, it doesn't matter who I work for." Duan Ming said directly: "If Xing Qianqiu hadn't put a knife on my neck and forced me to solve the case, I wouldn't want to
Get involved in this."
"Oh, by the way. You also remember what Xing Qianqiu said when I first came here, right?"
"This..." Liu Zhi seemed to recall the original episode, hesitating slightly: "Well, if you tell everything, I can consider not killing you."
"Tell the truth? What are you referring to?" Duan Ming asked with a smile.
"Of course Xing Qianqiu already knows something and how far you have investigated it!" Liu Zhi said in a deep voice.
"I see. It's because of this that you didn't kill me right away." Duan Ming nodded: "No problem, I can tell you everything."
"Currently, Xing Qianqiu already knows that there is a traitor within the Mirror Division, but he has not yet guessed that the traitor is you. Moreover, based on the clues left by Su Meng and others among the four major families, Xing Qianqiu has judged that this matter is inseparable from the Immortality Cult.
Let’s have a relationship.”
"Haha, what does this have to do with the Immortality Cult?" Liu Zhi sneered.
"It's just the two of us here. I'm still tied up by you, so don't pretend." Duan Ming shook his head: "Isn't this entire Linzhou Talented Scholar case the overall situation of your Changsheng Cult?"
"Oh? You should tell me about it." Liu Zhi took a sip of wine and looked at Duan Ming with interest.
"If you have a grudge against Su Meng and the others, and you want to kill four of them, you can do it without anyone noticing." Duan Ming said: "But why didn't you do it? Why did you do it with such fanfare, even
Killing people in the name of the River God? This is simply what Sima Zhao wanted, and everyone on the street knows it."
"Who is Sima Zhao?" Liu Zhi was stunned for a moment.
"You don't have to worry about this." Duan Ming didn't bother to explain, and said directly: "First kill the four great talents in Linzhou, and then cause panic in Linzhou, focus everyone's attention here, and then use yellow cloth to pretend to be an oracle, and then cause panic in Linzhou.
The Linzhou family is dissatisfied with the queen."
"Although I have never met the Queen and the Emperor, I think they must be very affectionate, so you should be able to calculate accurately. The Emperor will never make the Queen feel wronged in the slightest because of this matter."
"So, if the queen is not wronged, who will be wronged? Of course it is the officials of Linzhou!"
"As a result, Linzhou officials will naturally have conflicts with the emperor and become dissatisfied."
"As long as Xing Qianqiu cannot solve the case and more people die, this dissatisfaction will intensify."
"Since ancient times, Linzhou officials have accounted for almost a quarter of the entire dynasty. Although the emperor has tried hard to reduce the proportion of Linzhou officials over the years, the results have been minimal."
"Once there is a rift between Linzhou officials and the emperor, it is very likely that the government and the public will be shaken, and the world will be unrest."
"What needs to shake up the government and the public and make the world uneasy? There is only one possibility, and that is that you want to replace the world! You want to be the emperor!"
"Then what does this have to do with the Immortality Religion?" Liu Zhi asked again.
"In this world, you, a small fellow of the Mirror Division, are not qualified to get involved. Not to mention you, even the Governor of the Mirror Division is not qualified."
"And now that the world has been settled for hundreds of years, most of the people from the previous dynasty have been killed, and the rest are nothing."
"In this case, the only one in the world who has enough strength to covet the imperial power is the No. 1 sect in Daqi - the Immortality Sect."
"So, if you are not a member of the Immortality Cult, who else can you be?" This chapter has been completed!
