Chapter Thirty-Five: The Non-Existent Killer
Of the eight major tribes of Luofu, only the Vientiane tribe in the east has entered Dragon City, while the Frost Wolf Tribe, the Xihai Tribe, and the Kunwu Tribe in the north, the Shenlong tribe and the Red Eagle tribe in the west, as well as the Blood Lion tribe and the Feihe tribe in the Jinding Plateau, are still on the way.
At this moment, in the Linze Palace, Du Pingye, the great elder of the Vientiane tribe, was respected, and Jian Yu was ordered to take a team of Vientiane tribal guards to the courtyard where Yun Ruowu was resting. At the same time, he ordered someone to find an inner court attendant who was familiar with the environment of Linze Palace.
Two rows of Vientiane clan guards walked forward, and after a while, they came to the courtyard where Yun Ruowu was resting. At this moment, the entire courtyard was already noisy, and when they learned that Yun Ruowu had disappeared, the guards who were ordered to do their duties first made a mess, but fortunately, the people of the organic spirit did not destroy the scene of the courtyard.
Jian Yu came to the corridor outside the door, and he took a closer look at the wooden windows on the left and right sides of the room. He walked slowly to the wooden corridor, his eyes staring intently at the bluestone floor beneath his feet, still finding no sign of anyone else.
When he came to the bottom of the hallway, he did not enter the room directly, but carefully examined the two windows again, and shook his right hand back and forth a few times on the edges and corners of the wooden windows, but found no sign of breaking the windows.
Jian Yu turned his head and looked at the two inner court attendants who were blocked by the guards at the door of the courtyard, he carefully looked at the two inner officials, although they were wearing purple long clothes, but the two of them looked thin and thin, presumably because there was too little oil and water in this Linze Palace.
"You two are the chamberlains in this Linze Palace?"
The two were stunned for a moment, and glanced at the ink-robed man standing under the corridor, although it was different from the dress of the Vientiane guard, but it was also ordinary, and the two thought that he was just an ordinary guard, and ignored it. Unexpectedly, he was pushed by the guards beside him with both hands, "What are you two minions stunned for!" Ha-sama is asking you something! β
The two of them saw that the guards beside them shouted loudly, and they knew that the man under the corridor was not an ordinary person, so he stepped forward quickly, knelt in the courtyard, and said in a trembling voice, "The little one who has eyes doesn't know Mount Tai, and Lord Wangyu must not blame." β
"You two come here." Jian Yu slowly walked to the door of the room, looked down at the gap between the two wooden doors, and waved his right hand lightly, signaling the two officials to come over.
The two of them kowtowed in gratitude, and walked quickly behind Jian Yu, and one of the older officials asked respectfully, "I don't know what Lord Yu ordered to call the little one?" β
Jian Yu gently shook the index finger of his right hand a few times, signaling them not to speak. He looked through the threshold and found no sign of a fight, the tables, chairs, beds, and ornaments in the room were still there, and the screens in the hall were intact. "Squeak", he pushed open the door and asked casually, "This side courtyard also belongs to Linze Palace, right?" β
After the scene just now, the two knew that the man in front of them was by no means an ordinary person, and the elderly internal official preemptively said, "Yes... Be... Yes, this is the westernmost courtyard of Linze Palace, and before you came, we had ordered someone to take care of it. β
"Yes . . . Right.. Yes," another insider chimed in.
Jian Yu nodded silently, stepped into the room, and looked left and right through the lights in the room, and saw everything he could see. The two officials at the door were about to enter the room, but they were swept by Jian Yu's cold eyes, and the two of them stood at the door in fright, not daring to move.
"Did you just clean this house?" Jian Yu's right hand touched the brocade cloth on the screen, and he couldn't see half of the dust.
The two officials said respectfully, "Yes, my lord, since we learned that the eight major tribes were going to enter Beijing, we cleaned every room in this Linze Palace. β
Jian Yu walked back and forth in the room a few times without finding any useful clues, and was about to go to the courtyard to investigate again, when he just walked to the screen, he inadvertently saw the place where the two internal officials were standing, and there happened to be a faintly visible footprint.
With a serious face, he stared at the footprints on the threshold in front of the two internal officials, and walked over quickly. Frightened, the two stood in place and trembled, thinking that something big was going to happen, and the two officials were about to bow down and salute, asking what happened, only to see Jian Yu come to the threshold, squatting on the ground, staring at the veins on the front of the threshold.
"Someone! Order all the guards who have served here to come. Jian Yu's eyes lit up, as if he had discovered the murderer, he suspected that it was the guards hidden in the Vientiane tribe, and looked at the footprints with their toes pointing outward, and a smug smile appeared in the corners of his eyes.
The four guards came to the wooden corridor, arched their hands, and said loudly, "We have been ordered to serve here, I don't know what Lord Yu commands?" β
Jian Yu pulled the two officials back, glanced at the four guards in front of him, and none of them looked panicked, he pointed to everyone's left foot with his right hand, and said coldly, "You take off your left boot, and then compare it with this footprint." β
The four of them didn't know what Jian Yu's intentions were, although they were displeased, they didn't dare to disobey, so they had to step forward one by one, comparing their left foot with the footprints on the threshold that were almost unclear, and the result was a big disappointment to Jian Yu, he frowned slightly, and secretly said in his heart, isn't it his own person, but this footprint is clearly ...
"I see! These are his own footprints! Jian Yu suddenly realized, looked at the footprints and sneered, guessing in his heart, it seems that the kid sneaked out while the night was dark.
"Lord Qiyu, we have searched through the entire Linze Palace and found nothing." Four guards came from outside the courtyard gate, and they were ordered to rummage through the entire Linze Palace, but still no trace of Yun Ruowu was found, and Du Pingye ordered them to inform Jian Yu, who was in charge of this matter, of the news.
Jian Yu glanced at the four people at the gate of the courtyard, their expressions were very uneasy, and there was a blood-red mark on the forehead of the commander on the left, which was clearly a trace of the corner of the teacup. The inside and outside of Linze Palace are guarded by the guards of the Vientiane tribe, which can be described as impregnable.
He thought it was a thief from within, but he never thought that it was Yun Ruowu who escaped by himself, but the four major commanders didn't find out. Jian Yu suddenly remembered the screams that Fang had faintly heard in the room, and exclaimed in his heart, "Not good! β
"What's wrong!" The four guards at the door and the rest of the crowd all turned their eyes to Jian Yu.
At this moment, he must not mess with himself, Jian Yu calmed down, and waved his right hand to signal everyone to retreat. Only the two teams of guards sent to him by Du Pingye and the two internal officials who had been standing aside were left in the courtyard.
"Is there any other place in this Linze Palace?" Jian Yu looked up at the towering blue bricks and red tiles around him, and listened to the sound of the wind whistling by the top of the wall.
"Where?" The internal official standing on the side asked puzzledly, neither of them knew what the man in front of him was thinking at this time, but it was difficult to refuse, so he had to answer respectfully.
"Straight to Zehai," Jian Yu said coldly.
"Lord Yu, let's laugh, the imperial city was built on a high mountain. How could it be possible to go straight to Zehai here, unlessβ" The elder official's eyes smiled crookedly, but his smile didn't last long before his face froze.
"Unless you fall into Zehai, right?" Jian Yu ignored the two of them, walked quickly to the courtyard, and waved his right hand to signal the guards to leave immediately. He asked in a cold tone, "Is there any place here that leads to the edge of the cliff?" β
"There's a place, it's just..." The official suddenly remembered that there was a rockery to the west of the courtyard, and there was a huge begonia tree in the mountain, which was specially ordered by Duke Du, and they never dared to go there. At this moment, the people of the Vientiane tribe are going there, leaving them in a dilemma.
"Don't be stunned, lead the way." Jian Yu motioned to the guards behind him to escort the two of them over, leading the way in front of everyone.