Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 157 Back Mountain Cave ([-]) Fourth Watch

The sophomore was the first to rush out, and only then did he see more than a dozen people fallen in the woods, and the broken tree in the middle.

"They, where did they come from?" Senior Two asked, pointing to those corpses.

"The hut at the bottom of the mountain also has a tunnel leading to it. This place should not be far from the entrance of the cave. Every time I give someone away, there may be Su Chang's apprentice here to meet him."

Seeing everything in front of them, Yu Shian and Song Gu gasped at the same time. Song Gu was surprised that the villagers at the foot of the mountain were fake, and Yu Shian was surprised that Wu Chen was so capable. If he could be transferred to the army... …

"Deputy Envoy Yu, your soldiers who came down the mountain...all died at their hands." Wu Chen turned around and looked at Yu Shi'an with a solemn expression.

Yu Shi'an only felt a stabbing pain in his chest, he took two steps back while clutching his chest, and was supported by his own soldiers.

The distance Yu Shi'an has traveled in the past few years is not as long as today's day, and the frights he has suffered in these years are not as long as today's day. When the soldiers who had been with him for many years were killed, Yu Shi'an couldn't stand it anymore.

Yu Shi'an never thought about why he believed Wu Chen when he said it. Half a day earlier, his first thought must have been that Wu Chen framed me.

Wu Chen looked at Yu Shi'an worriedly. He was afraid that Uncle Yu would have a heart attack. His blood can drive away ghosts, so it's uncertain whether it can also cure diseases. He quickly changed the subject and said:
"Although this Laojie Mountain is in Yang'an County, it is actually under the control of Prince Cheng. Their people are all on the mountain and down the mountain. Don't say that you want to go into the cave to save people tonight, but we want to leave Laojie Mountain alive now. You have to kill them all."

Song Gu hurriedly said: "Twenty or so people were killed in the Taoist temple, and there are more than a dozen here. How many of them can there be?"

Wu Chen snorted and said, "There must be more people than us! If the underground entrance in the Taoist temple is sealed by them, we can only find the way down the mountain from here, but we don't know the way, and it's not easy to walk down the mountain safely. "

Wu Chen said and pointed to the poisonous vine net on the side of the cave entrance:
"This is poisonous. There are many thorns on the branches. If you don't pay attention, you will be stabbed by it. It blocked the exit before. This place is close to the entrance of the cave. I don't know how many poisons like this they know but we don't. Nearby They don't need to arrange people..."

Yu Shi'an stepped forward and asked, "Don't you have supernatural power? So what if the entrance to the Taoist temple is sealed?"

Wu Chen nodded and said:
"If we want to go down the mountain, we will naturally go back the same way. They don't know that the iron plate is useless to me. I just follow their thinking and think about how they mobilize people. Today we will go to the back mountain first. If we don't fall into the trap, we will go to When we were in the Taoist temple, they should know what we think."

Song Gu nodded and said, "So they are bound to fight us tonight."

Yu Shi'an took a deep breath, and said with a cold face: "Then kill it!"

Wu Chen looked up at the sky and said, "There are a few things that they probably didn't expect. One is that the iron plate is useless to me, the other is that I am not afraid of ghosts, and the third is... there are imperial city detectives who participated in the closure of the mountain." The division's pawn."

Song Gu immediately had a clear expression, and asked: "You mean, if they want to clean up us, they must first kill the people who closed the mountain, but the policemen of the Imperial City Investigation Department will have a way to report the news?"

Wu Chen nodded and said, "They've already made a move. Not only Deputy Envoy Yu's personal soldiers died, but all the people who closed the mountain down the mountain were also killed."

The sophomore was shocked when he heard this, and opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything.

Wu Chen also said:

"For the five-color jade case, Si Zun actually sent a lot of soldiers to Yang'an County. Although I don't know how they pass the news, the soldiers are far smarter than the city guards and yamen servants. I only hope that some of them will run back to the county. report."

Wu Chen said and looked at the sophomore.

Senior Two hurriedly said: "Ordinary spies are no better than the policemen, the policemen are very alert, and there are code words between them, if there is something to leave a code word, people who come again will know what happened."

Both Yu Shian and Song Gu breathed a sigh of relief.

But Wu Chen sighed and said: "Since they know our purpose, they will take away the important things in the cave as soon as possible." Wu Chen pointed to the corpse in the forest: "Their mission is to see if there are any No one came through the tunnel, if there were, they should have died under the poisonous vines..."

"That's not right! If you hadn't stopped me, I would have stretched out my hand and would have pulled it." The second year of high school was terrified after thinking about it.

"After checking here, they will go to the cave to get important things... I always say how to become a prince today, but I don't have any evidence except Su Chang's confession. The important things in the cave may have been refined. The elixir may also be evidence that is not good for Prince Cheng, and they will definitely take it away tonight."

Yu Shi'an said: "From this point of view, Su Chang really didn't expect to come to this point. Although he made some arrangements, he just wanted to be prepared."

Wu Chen nodded.

Song Gu frowned and looked at Wu Chen and asked, "Do you still want to go to the cave?"

"I will definitely go to the cave tonight, otherwise all the previous investigations will be in vain, but I thought you could go back first, and then you can bring more people to pick us up." Wu Chen smiled bitterly: "But now, look at the cave at the foot of the mountain. There are those mountain people guarding, only you few can't get out, if the second brother protects you to go out... what's the matter with me in the cave, there is not even a messenger, it seems that you can only follow me into the cave ,but……"

Wu Chen subconsciously touched the small wine pot in his arms. If only the sophomore followed, he was confident in protecting the safety of the sophomore, but he was not sure if there were more people.

"Is the cave not clean?" Yu Shi'an asked in a low voice.

Wu Chen nodded, then looked at Guo Xuan on the ground, and asked, "Have you ever been inside the cave?"

Guo Xuan sat on the ground paralyzed since he came out. He felt that he had only his last breath left. Thinking that the newly adopted concubine was probably new, and the money he earned would be buried in the wilderness before he had time to spend it. Guo Xuan couldn't bear it. He lay down on the ground and wept silently, and didn't hear Wu Chen's question at all.

When he was in the second year of high school, he kicked: "I'm asking you something! Have you ever been in a cave?"

Guo Xuan was so frightened that he breathed a sigh of relief and said sadly: "I haven't been to Laojie Mountain much! I'm about to die, and I beg you to watch out... let my family help me collect my body."

After speaking, Guo Xuan burst into tears.

Wu Chen asked impatiently, "Who bought you? Who did you work for?"

"I, I just collected some money. On weekdays, if there are people who get lost in Laojie Mountain, if their family members report the crime, they just press it and don't investigate. When going up the mountain, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes..."

"You also took the money and let Cao Bingshan die of illness in prison as soon as possible?"

"The money was collected, but I didn't do anything..."

"Who gave the money?"

(End of this chapter)