The Heavens Begin with Detective Di Renjie

Chapter 9
Although the fake Fang Qian has already been put to death, Shen Youzhi knows that many major events will happen during the days when he is away——

First, Di Renjie discovered Zhen Fangqian who was locked up underground while tracing the whereabouts of the stolen silver, and then saw through Zhenfangqian's bitter tricks and exposed his true identity as an aide to the King of Yue.

Finally, Di Renjie led the snake out of the hole and captured the Viper who was trying to assassinate Li Er on the spot.

It's a pity that these things have nothing to do with Shen Youzhi.

But this is also good, he can just take advantage of this time to do another big thing.

The sun shines on Xiaolianzi Mountain, and the green mountains stand towering.

At the bottom of the river, there is a hidden small depression surrounded by logs.

There are four or five caves opened under the mountain wall, the entrances are blocked with huge stones, and water flows out of the caves continuously.

Several villagers brought Lu Dayou and Shen Youzhi here.

As soon as Shen Youzhi approached the cave, he smelled a strong stench, like the smell of a rotting corpse.

"When did you discover this?" Shen Youzhi asked the villagers.

A villager replied: "Responding to my lord's words, the government opened the mountain a few days ago, and I went hunting with some fellow villagers and found this place."

When Lu Dayou heard this, he frowned and said, "Before the government closed the mountain, I used to take this road often. There are no such caves."

Seeing this, Shen Youzhi said to the villagers: "First remove the stone that seals the cave."

There was a loud bang, and the boulder at the entrance of the cave was moved away by more than a dozen villagers.

With a sound of "wow", a stream of muddy water rushed out, and the water was so violent that it was like a mountain torrent.

"Look, the corpse!" A villager exclaimed.

Sure enough, several corpses in the water leaked out of the cave, and as the water speed continued to increase, more and more corpses floated out.

Everyone quickly picked up these corpses and placed them in the open space beside them.

After a while, the villagers in Xiaolianzi Village recognized that the dead inside were all their neighbors.

The nearby villagers knelt in front of the corpses of their relatives and wept so loudly that the sound shook the whole field.

Lu Dayou looked at the floating corpses all over the place, and sighed: "These people who died are all the villagers who disappeared from the nearby villages in the past two years, what a tragedy!"

"This matter is not trivial, it is very important, you go back to Youzhou and report everything here to Duke Di." Shen Youzhi said.

Lu Da nodded, and then asked, "Hero Shen, what about you?"

"The deaths of these people must be related to the ghost town you mentioned, I'm going there to find out!" Shen Youzhi's eyes shot out a terrifying murderous intent.

After witnessing the atrocities committed by Jin Mulan and others with his own eyes, the killing intent in his heart could no longer be restrained!

night, ghost town
The small town stands on the grave mound, and there are little phosphorous fires shining around it.

All the houses in the town had no doors, and of course there were no people, let alone any noise, which made this rumored house of ghosts look even more horrifying and terrifying.

A gust of cold wind rose from the ground, and a bolt of lightning flashed across the distant mountain top.

A figure appeared on the street of the ghost town.

Shen Youzhi walks at night with his sword in hand, wandering in this so-called "ghost town".

He knew that this ghost town was Jin Mulan's lair.

Those people secretly arrested a large number of villagers and cast weapons here to prepare for the rebellion.

Afraid of being discovered during the day, it only started working at night, which is why it was rumored as a ghost town by the surrounding villagers.

Right now, Shen You has no soldiers or helpers, only one man and one sword.

With the sword in his hand, he will break through the ghost town carefully arranged by Jin Mulan!
The difference from the original work is that Shen Youzhi's actions are much faster than Di Renjie in the original work.

In the original book, Di Renjie first exposes Viper's true face, then learns that Li Er is Ji Li Khan, and then investigates the mysterious cave of Xiaolianzi Mountain with Li Yuanfang.

After these series of events, Di Renjie finally decided to visit the ghost town at night.

From the failure of Viper's assassination of Li Er, to Di Renjie's night visit to the ghost town, there has been a long interval, so that Jin Mulan has already made preparations and laid out the suspicion of "Li Daitao Zombie" in advance——

Let his maid put on Jin Mulan's clothes and commit suicide by taking poison, making it look like the bandit leader Jin Mulan committed suicide in fear of crime.

As for herself, she continued to be Li Qingxia, the lord of Yiyang County, pretending to be a victim imprisoned here by the gangsters.

In this way, she not only cleared herself of her suspicion temporarily, but also managed to lurk beside Di Renjie.

But now, with the participation of Shen Youzhi, the arrest of vipers and the investigation of the ghost town are almost at the same time.

At this moment, Viper's identity has not been fully exposed, and Jin Mulan has not reached the point of desperation, so naturally she will not be crazy enough to put all her eggs in one basket, let alone implement that Li Daitao's stiff strategy.

In other words, as long as Shen Youzhi breaks through the ghost town now, then Li Qingxia's identity can no longer be hidden, and the Youzhou case can be completely solved!
And this was exactly what he had planned to do before he came to Xiaolianzi Village!
Since Di Renjie still doesn't trust him, then he will put an end to the Youzhou case by himself!

At that time, Di Renjie will definitely feel guilty for being excluded and guarded before, and absolute trust will follow!

boom -

There was another flash of lightning, followed by a rumbling thunder.

Seeing that it was going to rain, Shen Youzhi immediately turned around and entered a dark room.

Outside, the rain has started to fall.

A flash of lightning flashed, and Shen Youzhi suddenly discovered that there was a bowl of steaming boiling water on the Eight Immortals table in the room.

The long sword in Shen Youzhi's hand trembled, and he groaned softly.

Another flash of lightning illuminated the room.

Shen Youzhi took advantage of the twilight of the lightning to find a man nailed to the wall, grinning with blood on his face!

After the sound of Jiao Lei, a flash of lightning followed, and a figure was cast on the wall.

Shen Youzhi made a quick decision, kicked over the Eight Immortals table in the room, and dodged to hide behind the table.

It was too late to say it, but it was so fast at that time, the sound of piercing the sky continued, and the cold stars came from the night.

Ding Ding Ding Ding!

Countless hidden weapons hit the table of the Eight Immortals, making piercing sounds.

After a while, the hidden weapon was fired, and Shen Youzhi's right leg kicked out the Eight Immortals Table completely.

Crackling!

The Eight Immortals Table broke the door, and Shen Youzhi also took the opportunity to rush outside.

At this moment, dozens of black-clothed killers rushed out of a room one after another, and surrounded Shen Youzhi.

Shen Youzhi knew in his heart that these people were Jin Mulan's subordinates, so he didn't say much at once, the sword was the ultimate move.

All of a sudden, sword shadows flew in the ghost town on a thundery night, screaming again and again.

Although these black-clothed men are numerous and powerful, their martial arts are not very high, most of them are miscellaneous soldiers lent by the snake spirit to Jin Mulan.

Shen Youzhi's cleaning up these miscellaneous soldiers was as simple as cleaning up weeds.

Not long after, Shen Youzhi's long sword cut the throat of the last man in black.

After cleaning up these miscellaneous soldiers, Shen Youzhi immediately went to the room where the men in black came out in a file, and prepared to attack Jin Mulan's base from there.

As soon as he entered the house, Shen Youzhi saw the secret door opened.

Presumably those men in black thought that Shen Youzhi would surely die because of their large numbers, so they didn't close the passage immediately, but wanted to return to the base directly after killing Shen You.

But now Shen Youzhi is cheaper, saving him the time to fumble for mechanisms.

Shen Youzhi rushed into the secret passage without delay, ready to plunge into Jin Mulan's heart and capture her.

As soon as he entered, Shen Youzhi couldn't help feeling that the cave was so wide that it could accommodate a carriage.

I don't know how much manpower was spent on such a huge project. Those innocent villagers who were captured must have died of exhaustion!

With this in mind, Shen Youzhi is even more unwilling to spare Jin Mulan's life.

A scum who colluded with foreign races to overthrow the Han family's country and society would not be a pity to die.

A person like Jin Mulan, no matter what era he is in, is a traitor that everyone despises, and he is not worthy of pity if he dies [-] times.

(End of this chapter)