Daxuanti criminal officer

Chapter 240 The Abyss

Xu time is about to pass, and the inner guard mansion is brightly lit and noisy with people.

The deliberation hall was even more overcrowded, people shuttled back and forth, and the sky was filled with excitement.

Relevant personnel from the Ministry of Industry, the Cabinet, Dali Temple, Habayashi Guard and other departments were all present, and even Bi Sheng, who has always been a personality, led the backbone of his intelligence department to wait in the hall.

"This is Shangfu, Guixu, Wanli," an old man with gray hair and wearing a red official robe explained, pointing to the map, "This is the Daxin City 500 years ago, which basically overlaps with the current location.

"Look at this picture again. This is an urban construction project recorded by the Ministry of Industry. A stele for a general was excavated 25 meters underground at Quliang Gate. It has been verified to be a relic of the Tianlong Dynasty. It has been around for 400 years..."

This person is none other than Minister of Industry Lan Qizhi, who is 73 years old this year and happens to be on the ridge.

"Lan Shangshu," Lin Chaofeng said with a frown, "Am I asking you to teach us now? Use you to popularize history?

"Can you all grow your brains, please?" He shouted angrily at everyone, "The current situation is that those Taoist rebels are hiding in the underground city, and I don't know what they are going to do!
"Who among you knows what Cao Ding found on the ancient map?"

"Chairman!" At this time, a general of Habayashi Guard said, "Xuanmen has ulterior motives against the party. Since time is tight, why don't I lead a team to search!"

"Do you know how big it is down there?" Lin Chaofeng asked with staring eyes, "The down there is not much bigger than Xuanmiao City, even if you send an army down there, it's useless!"

"My lord," Bi Sheng said, "Xuanmen is hiding underground against the party. It must be the idea of ​​attacking the palace. After we send people down, we will run to the direction of the palace to look for it!"

"No...it doesn't make sense!" Lan Shangshu frowned and said, "I have been in the Ministry of Industry all my life, and I know the structure of the entire palace well. Even if those Xuanmen rebels use explosives underground, they can't cause half damage to the palace."

"You..." Lin Chaofeng asked, "Are you sure?"

"The current imperial palace was built on the basis of the capital of Song Dynasty," said Lan Shangshu, stroking his beard and shaking his head, "During the construction, it was found that the ground was covered with a layer of diamonds.

"The craftsmen estimated that when the Song Dynasty built the palace, it may be because of the city below the city, and worried that the ground would collapse, so they did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to lay diamonds.

"So... even if those Xuanmen rebels are mice that can dig holes, they will definitely not be able to get into the palace!"

"The point is," General Habayashi said confidently, "the entire palace is impenetrable, so what if they can dig a hole in?"

"I'm afraid..." Cai Kun frowned and said, "Then there is something unknown down there!
"Boss Lin..." He pulled Lin Chaofeng aside and asked in a low voice, "Do you think...do we need to let the Queen Mother move?"

"Bold!" Lin Chaofeng changed color immediately, and shouted, "Isn't this courting death? You don't know the queen mother's temper? The Taoist sect forced the queen mother to move away, and if we say it, the queen mother will have our heads?"

"Yes... yes yes yes..." Cai Kun realized that he hadn't thought carefully, so he quickly fell silent.

"Show me quickly..." Lin Chaofeng ordered the people in front of the map, "How far is the entrance that Xu Zun and others found from the palace?"

"About...about..." Someone from the Ministry of Industry said after measuring, "It's only three miles away from the nearest emergency exit."

"Sanli..." Lin Chaofeng pondered for a while, and ordered General Habayashi Wei, "Send people down immediately, and search along the direction of the palace!"

"Yes!" The general was already eager to try, and immediately took the order and left.

"The key is..." Unexpectedly, Nalan Shangshu stroked his beard and said, "Close does not necessarily mean good!

"You know, those underground cities have already collapsed. Even if they can pass through, they can only rely on some ravines and underground channels..."

"Gully, dark canal..." Lin Chaofeng savored it carefully, and suddenly said, "No wonder, Xuanmen cares so much about Cao Ding!
"Cao Ding must have the distribution map of those ancient underground canals in his hand, and they can only reach the designated place by following those underground canals.

"Bi Sheng," he turned his head and asked, "Do you have this kind of map in Zuowei Mansion?"

"Hmm..." Bi Sheng quickly bent down and lowered his head, and answered two words simply, "No!"

Too……

It was only then that Lin Chaofeng remembered that Zuowei Mansion was an intelligence agency, so it was reasonable to not have these things.

So, he turned his head to look at Lan Qizhi again.

"No...no..." Lan Qizhi hurriedly explained, "My Ministry of Industry was contracted to build the Daxuan Building, and I have never inspected the underground!"

"I don't believe it anymore," Lin Chaofeng said fiercely, "Apart from Tie Jing and Cao Ding, does anyone else have ancient water canal maps?"

"Director Lin," Lan Qizhi said helplessly, "The key point is that every dynasty built a capital and had to build water canals. We don't know which dynasty Cao Ding took?"

"I don't care about this," Lin Chaofeng shouted in a commanding tone, "You find me immediately, and find me all the water canal maps!"

"This... this..." Lan Qizhi was helpless, but he didn't dare to disobey orders, so he turned his head to discuss with his colleagues in the Ministry of Industry.

"Hey?" Lin Chaofeng noticed that there was one person missing at the scene, and hurriedly asked, "Where is Xu Zunren? Where did you go?"

Cai Kun looked around, only to realize that Xu Zun was not in the meeting hall.

"Where is Special Envoy Xu in the inner hall!" A guard beside him immediately gave the answer.

Upon hearing this, Lin Chaofeng took Cai Kun, Bi Sheng and others to the inner hall.

As a result, when they entered the inner hall, they found that Xu Zun was sitting in front of the desk, carefully examining something.

When they got closer, everyone saw that there were various materials densely placed on the desk, and they were all about the mass assassination.

"Xu Zun," Lin Chaofeng asked curiously, "Why are you still reading these materials?"

"Oh," Xu Zun saw the three of them now, he hurriedly got up and saluted, and replied at the same time, "Master Lin, we found out earlier that Shi Chun, the general of the Ministry of Water Resources, was recommended by Yan Hai, the servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

"And Yan Hai also died in this assassination."

"Director Lin," Bi Sheng added, "We found that Yan Hai's recommendation was not in accordance with the procedures and did not pass the review of other departments of the Ministry of Officials. He is suspected of selling an official."

"This..." Lin Chaofeng looked at Xu Zun, "Why, do you think this is not a coincidence?"

"Report..."

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the voice of guard Hou Zhen suddenly came from outside.

"My lord," Hou Zhen came in and reported, "Li Xing, Zhao Yu and others have descended to the bottom of the canal along the rope. The canal is about ten feet deep, and there is water in the tank at the bottom. The water is two feet deep and there is no flow.

"They have found Steward Cao Ding's body and confirmed his death.

"Searched him, but found no clues.

"At present, Li Xing and Zhao Yu are each leading a team to investigate in two directions. Once they find something, they will immediately send someone to report."

"Okay," Xu Zun ordered, "You go back and tell them to be careful, not to enter lightly, and make a mark if there is a fork in the road."

"Yes!" Hou Zhen withdrew.

"The ditch runs north-south," Bi Shengyan said, "it should be closer to the palace to the north."

"It's okay," Lin Chaofeng said, "The people from Habayashi Guard will be here soon, let them search carefully.

"Under the ground more than ten feet deep, what kind of monsters can they make?"

Lin Chaofeng and others discussed, but Xu Zun was thinking about other things.

He thought of the mark of Cao Ding's family, which was probably left by Cao Ding's housekeeper.

Maybe... people from the Taoist sect don't know each other, so they can only pass orders and information through those marks.

According to Xu Zun's current situation, in addition to the murder scene of Ying Rang and Cao Ding, ministers of the Ministry of Industry, marks were also found on the scene of several victims.

All add up to seven or eight, and none of these marks are repeated.

Since the marks are used to transmit information, it is enough to show that there is another support on the ground for Xuanmen, and there is more than one!
So...he couldn't put all his energy into the dungeon, these threats on the ground were equally important.

So... can you think of a way to lure these people out?
As a result, when Xu Zun was thinking seriously, there was a muffled sound outside the hall.

boom……

With the muffled sound, the ground trembled slightly.

However, although the tremor was small, it frightened Lin Chaofeng, Xu Zun and others.

Everyone rushed out of the hall and looked towards where the sound came from, but the muffled sound came and went quickly, and calm had long since returned.

"That's..." Lin Chaofeng turned pale with shock, "That's the direction of the Fire Gate. Just now...what happened? Was...was it an explosion?"

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(End of this chapter)