Volume Two: The Case of the Red Lotus in the Ancient Temple Chapter 55: The Imperial Decree Arrives
"Jing?" Li Waner frowned slightly: "Does Master Jinghui want to remind us that the person who killed him was Master Jing?"
"From the Jingzi generation..." Xing Qianqiu thought for a while: "There are eighty-six people from the Jingzi generation in the entire Brahma Temple. Among the few people we just brought back, one is from the Jingzi generation."
"Well. Ask that person carefully." Duan Ming nodded.
Duan Ming then "examined" the two corpses here to see if he could find anything in common.
Before that, Xing Qianqiu had taken Li Waner away very considerately to prevent the next scene from being unbearable for Li Waner.
After all, when Duan Ming did his first real "autopsy", even he couldn't bear it.
In this era, no one is allowed to damage the body, hair, and skin, as well as those inherited from the parents, even the widows are no exception.
Therefore, if Duan Ming's "drastic" autopsy method was not in the Mirror Department, and if it wasn't Xing Qianqiu, he would have been arrested and hanged long ago.
Time passed by, and finally Duan Ming packed up everything, turned around and left the morgue.
As soon as he walked out of the door, Duan Ming saw Mr. Meng sitting at the door of the morgue.
"Mr. Meng!" Duan Ming cupped his fists slightly at Mr. Meng: "Why don't you accompany the princess?"
"In your eyes, is the old man so ignorant?" Mr. Meng said to Duan Ming: "Xing Qianqiu's skills are not inferior to mine. With him protecting the young lady, she will be absolutely foolproof."
"That's right, light bulbs are not easy to use." Duan Ming nodded.
"Light bulb?" Mr. Meng looked at Duan Ming doubtfully: "What is that?"
"Don't worry about a kind of lighting equipment recorded in ancient books." Duan Ming said with a smile: "By the way, Mr. Meng. You are a martial arts practitioner and you almost always stand from an objective perspective. I don't know if you have
Do you see anything wrong here?”
"Oh? Why did you say that?" Mr. Meng said.
"I always have a feeling that there is a big invisible net over the entire Brahma Temple. Every move we make is actually calculated by others." Duan Ming said solemnly: "According to my plan
I guess those five monks are all innocent."
"Mr. Duan is really good at predicting things." At this moment, Xing Qianqiu and Li Waner came back.
"Lao Xing, Princess." Duan Ming nodded to the two of them.
"I just went to see them. Indeed, the five monks all had witnesses to prove that they were not there that night." Xing Qianqiu said solemnly: "There are no scratches on them! I have asked people to let them go."
"Sure enough." Duan Ming nodded.
"Mr. Duan, what are the results of your examination just now?" Xing Qianqiu asked.
"There's nothing unusual." Duan Ming said.
"So, the clue has been broken again." Xing Qianqiu sighed.
"No, no, I remember I told you before." Duan Ming shook his head: "Under certain circumstances, the absence of any abnormality is the biggest abnormality."
"What do you mean?" Li Waner looked at Duan Ming doubtfully.
"Let's start from the beginning." Duan Ming said: "At that time, the man in black went to the courtyard of the Immortality Sect, and then went back to the West Courtyard. By the time he arrived at the West Courtyard, it was almost the time of Chou."
"Master Jinghui has no habit of walking at night, and the latrine is not in that location."
"Then, why did Master Jinghui choose that time and appear in that place?"
"Perhaps it's a coincidence?" Li Waner said: "Maybe Master Jinghui has something to do and he had to get up early to do it, so he happened to pass by there."
"There is a possibility, but the probability of this possibility is too low." Duan Ming shook his head: "I am more inclined to another possibility, that is, Jinghui made an appointment with the man in black.
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"I have been careless before. I only met Jinghui once and thought that he was a reckless person who couldn't hide things in his heart. But what if this is just what he showed?"
"What do you mean?" Xing Qianqiu understood: "Jinghui is an accomplice?"
"That's right." Duan Ming nodded: "Since the day when the Golden Buddha burned down in the Brahma Monastery, people have been killed one after another, and many things are unbelievable. So, is it really possible for a person to do all these things? According to my
I guess there must be several accomplices in this temple. These accomplices may or may not know about it, but they all did it conveniently."
"The men in black deliberately invited Jinghui there at night and then killed her. Perhaps it was because Jinghui was one of the people who knew the truth," Duan Ming said.
"It's possible." Xing Qianqiu nodded. This statement may seem bizarre, but in fact it is the most reasonable: "But in this way, many people who have been eliminated as suspects now need to be re-investigated.
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"That's right." Duan Ming sighed.
Then Xing Qianqiu went back and arranged for another investigation, while Duan Ming returned to the side room and studied the current clues in detail.
He had a vague feeling that due to Jinghui's corpse, he was now standing at the door of the Hall of Truth, and he only needed to step in to enter.
However, it is this final step that is the most difficult, and it may take a lot of hard work to truly enter.
Duan Ming kept pondering that at dawn the next day, when Duan Ming was about to go out and take a look, he suddenly heard a burst of noise.
"What happened? Someone died again?" Duan Ming frowned.
"Mr. Duan!" At this moment, there was a rapid knock on the door. Duan Ming opened the door and saw a Mirror officer standing outside the door.
"What happened?" Duan Ming asked, "Who died again?"
"No one is dead." The official's expression was extremely ugly: "Yes, the imperial edict has arrived!"
"What!" Duan Ming raised his eyebrows. He had almost forgotten about it.
Then Duan Ming's expression changed: "Oh no! Where are you now?"
"The Great Hall." The official said.
"Let's go!" Duan Ming nodded, and walked quickly towards the direction of the Main Hall.
When Duan Ming arrived at the Main Hall, he had already finished reading the imperial edict.
Duan Ming found Li Waner, who told Duan Ming that the imperial edict required Xing Qianqiu to return to Beijing immediately and resume his duties. The matter here was an internal matter of the religion and should be handled by the Immortality Sect.
"Damn it!" Duan Ming felt extremely resentful in his heart. He was already on the last step, so why did the imperial edict arrive at this moment?
If they just go back like this, Xu Ruoyun and the others will die in vain!
"Alas!" Xing Qianqiu came to the two of them, holding the imperial edict in his hand and sighed.
"Old Xing, are you willing to do that?" Duan Ming said solemnly.
"I'm not willing to give in." Xing Qianqiu gritted his teeth: "But what can I do if I'm not willing to give in? The imperial edict has arrived. If I don't leave, I will be resisting the edict..."
"This..." Duan Ming sighed, he also understood this truth.
"Okay, Mr. Duan, I will send more people this time, and I will definitely be able to escort you back safely." Xing Qianqiu patted Duan Ming on the shoulder: "This time, it was me, Xing, who put you in danger many times
I will definitely thank you generously in the future for what I owe you."
"Haha..." Duan Ming smiled bitterly, said nothing, turned around and left... This chapter has been completed!
