Xu Bangrui, the Duke of Wei, was shocked by the explosion of the powder magazine, and was worried that there would be a change in the camp to order troops to come, since the whole camp was safe and did not mutiny, but it was just a case of someone blowing up the arsenal, he left with confidence.

In the past, when Xu Bangrui encountered his daughter running around outside, he always had to put up his father's shelf, pretend to reprimand a few words to outsiders, and sometimes take her back - of course, it did not prevent Miss Xu from continuing to go out hunting next time, and the civil and military officials inside and outside Nanjing were familiar with this set.

But this time it was very strange, obviously her daughter was covered in ash as if she had just come out of the lime kiln, but Xu Bangrui didn't say anything, nodded at her and Qin Lin with a smile, and went back to the city with the generals.

Ma Debao is also a well-behaved person, otherwise he has no background backer, and he will never be able to command the rank of a third-grade general with a bloody fight on the battlefield alone.

Many officers also saw the signs, and dared to love Chief Qin, not only did he have a good relationship with the eldest lady, but even Grandpa Guo also attached great importance to him! Hey, we'll have to find a way to make friends with him in the future.

The only one who was puzzled was the person concerned, Xu Xinyi, who didn't understand her father's painstaking efforts at all, and smiled at Qin Lin: "It's good today!" I used to meet my dad outside, even if I didn't scold, I had to send a few words, but today it's so strange, he took the wrong medicine? ”

Qin Lin laughed dryly twice and didn't answer, thought about it, pointed to the ruins on the ground and said, "Thank you Ling Zunguo Grandpa for allowing me to protect, but I have to solve the case first." ”

Well, Xu Xinyi nodded, and wanted to do a big job - I heard my father say that Qin Lin could be reinstated if he solved the case, and she was even more active than Qin Lin himself.

"General Ma, now it's time to borrow your men," Qin Lin looked at Ma Debao with a smile.

Those who know the times are Junjie, and Ma Debao has long wanted to please these two, and he has nothing to do.

Qin Lin immediately asked him to send someone to ride into the city, go to his house on the edge of Wende Bridge, and ask Lu Yuanzhi to bring forensic tools to come here.

"Forensics?" Xu Xinyi's eyes widened, and he was very puzzled: "Is there a need for an inquest here?" ”

Qin Lin nodded, and turned a broken brick in his hand, and on one of the edges and corners, there was blood dripping!

This—What is this? Xu Xinyi and Ma Debao were very surprised, there should be no one inside the gunpowder storehouse! How could the bricks that Qin Lin picked up from near the center of the explosion have blood on them? Could it be that there were still people in the warehouse at the time of the explosion?

Isn't it contradictory that the traces of the burning of the arquebus that have appeared are evidence that the criminals used the burning delay to escape after lighting the fire, and that the bloodstains found at the scene indicate that there were still people in the warehouse at the time of the explosion?

"This is really strange......" Xu Xinyi couldn't help but scratch his head.

Before finding tangible evidence, all speculations were in the air, and Qin Lin asked Ma Debao to do two more things: first, he ordered the soldiers to carefully clean up the scene, find all the human tissue, and be careful not to destroy it in the excavation; secondly, the missing people in the battalion were counted, except for the injured and those buried in the workshop, who else was missing; Finally, the officer in charge of the gunpowder warehouse and the officer in charge of the patrol were called in for questioning.

Ma Debao complied one by one, immediately sent a document to count the missing persons, and called the general manager of the treasury and the general patrol general in charge of this part of the barracks, and personally led the officers and soldiers, and did not use a shovel to grab a hook, and went to clean up the ruins with his bare hands.

The two generals were brought to Qin Lin, one was in charge of the powder magazine, the general surname was Huang, and the other was the patrol surnamed Bai, and Qin Lin's sharp gaze turned on his face, and the two of them were also sincerely afraid.

Qin Lin first interrogated Mr. Huang: "How is this warehouse usually on guard, are there any officers and soldiers on duty in it, do they light the lights or not?" ”

Mr. Huang nodded and said: "Back to the sir's words, because the powder magazine is in the camp, there are a lot of patrol officers and soldiers, and the gunpowder magazine itself is not heavily guarded, that is, two soldiers guard the gate." There were no officers and soldiers on duty in the warehouse, and it was absolutely forbidden to light oil lamps and candles to prevent fire and explosion. ”

Hmm~~ Xu Xinyi touched his chin and muttered in a low voice: In this way, it seems that the blood stains that appeared in the library inexplicably are very strange, and there should be no one in the library.

"What about the two soldiers guarding the warehouse?" Qin Lin frowned slightly, and followed Huang Jiang's words and asked.

Mr. Huang looked gloomy: "Already, they have been killed, they are guarding the grass shed two feet away from the door of the warehouse, and even the people and the grass shed have been blown up, that is miserable...... Sir, you must find the real culprit and avenge the brothers! ”

Qin Lin nodded, comforted him a few words, and then interrogated Mr. Bai: "Did you find any suspicious people just now?" ”

"No", Bai Jiang shook his head without hesitation, "Although the chief and the eldest lady are competing in the martial arts arena, and the brothers want to go over to see it, but the subordinates are still patrolling near the powder magazine, if they don't patrol to a far place, the lower officer and all the sentries will be killed by the explosion." ”

Xu Xinyi's big apricot eyes suddenly lit up, and he attached it to Qin Lin's ear: "Hey, don't be the case he did, right?" Just when it exploded, it went far away, which is too coincidental! ”

This is not necessarily, Qin Lin shook his head, sometimes there are a lot of coincidences in the case, you can't suspect him just because Bai Jiang is not injured - there are many who are not injured, even if it is an internal ghost, the criminal can completely run to the side of the martial arts arena under the pretext of watching Qin Lin and Xu Xinyi compete with guns after lighting the fire rope, and escape the scope of the explosion.

However, the general suspicion cannot be cleared for the time being, and must be placed in the list of suspects.

At this time, he heard a few exclamations from inside the ruins, and Qin Lin raised his eyes to see that it was a corpse dug out from under the bricks by several soldiers.

To be precise, it was the torso of the corpse, the head and limbs did not know where the explosion went, and a large living person was only left with a stump-like torso, not only blackened by the smoke and fire, and the skin was charred and rotten, but also the shock wave of the explosion blew open the chest and abdomen of the deceased, and dragged out a slippery, greasy, soft and half-red intestine.

When I got a little closer, the smell of exposed internal organs and the smell of burnt protein in the skin and flesh came with the wind, and the strong smell of gunsmoke could not be suppressed.

Xu Xinyi often hunts, and he is used to seeing bloody scenes, so he turned his head and didn't dare to look at it at this time, covering his upper abdomen with one hand, and his stomach turned over and over, which was very uncomfortable.

Ma Debao has many veterans who have participated in the War of Resistance against Japanese Emperors, and they are used to seeing stumps and broken arms, but when they see such a scorched corpse with scorched flesh, broken stomach and intestines, and black paint, their throats are sour, and it is difficult to disobey the military order.

At the same time, people are speculating about the origin of this corpse, whether it is the criminal himself who ignited the powder magazine, or the victim who was additionally involved?

Xu Xinyi looked at Qin Lin and frowned, his face became bitter: "This, you won't ......"

Qin Lin shook his head, such a heavy thing, let's leave it to the guy with big nerves to deal with, so he made a gesture towards Ma Debao.

"Now that I have found my body, I have limbs and a head, brothers continue to look for it, our Zhejiang soldiers are brought by Grandpa Qi to beat the little devils, don't be a pus-filled soft egg!" Ma Debao mobilized the soldiers, and he also used his two hands to pull bricks and tiles, but he was still not allowed to use tools such as shovels and grappling hooks, for fear of damaging the corpses.

The search for the corpses continued here, and the search and rescue work over there was also completed, after all, there were many people and strength, and the officers and soldiers of the whole battalion went into battle, but they just picked up the collapsed military craftsman workshop, and it didn't take too long, and the dead and wounded were quickly brought out.

The clerk also brought with it a middle-aged woman dressed in shabby clothes and a small, skinny girl in her early teens, as well as several young warmakers.

The middle-aged woman's prematurely aged face was furrowed, her eyes were chaotic and yellow, and her face was full of numbness and sorrow; The little girl looks quite delicate, but unfortunately her face is vegetable, skinny, her small mouth is tightly bitten, and her eyes are stubborn that is not commensurate with her age.

"Alas, only one person in the entire battalion is missing, why is it him?" The clerk sighed all the way, looking at the mother and daughter with pity.

Walking in front of Qin Lin, the clerk bowed and saluted: "Sir Qiqi, only the military craftsman Li Huowang is missing, his student said that he has not been missing since yesterday afternoon, this is his wife and daughter, and also said that he did not go home last night." ”

Li Huowang? Xu Xinyi was taken aback when he heard this name, and complained loudly: "What's the matter, if you want to find him, you just disappeared, don't be him, if he dies, who will make a good shotgun for Miss Ben in the future?" ”

Qin Lin secretly shouted I won't be so unlucky, and asked Xu Xinyi carefully, sure enough, Li Huowang is the warcraftsman who is extremely good at making shotguns.

This thing is really, why did Li Huowang suddenly disappear? Looking at the half-scorched corpse, Qin Lin secretly scolded his mother.

Li Huowang's wife and daughter were so frightened that they didn't dare to look at the charred corpse, and they couldn't recognize it in such a charred state.

Qin Lin slowly interrogated Li Huowang's wife, daughter, and apprentice, and learned that Li Blacksmith was the most famous shotgun master in the army, and his shotgun surname was excellent, so he often stayed in the workshop to work overtime and did not go home for the night - the wife and children of the military craftsman also lived in the family area of the camp.

Yesterday afternoon, the people in the workshop saw him go home, but his wife and children, who stayed at home, did not see him, because Li Huowang often did not come home and did not feel anything, so he slept by himself.

The next day was the day of the rotation, and it was not surprising that Li Huowang did not go to the workshop and his apprentices, until the powder magazine was blown up, and the wife and daughter of the Li family went here to look for someone, and they couldn't find him when they looked left and right, so they got anxious.

Hearing these situations, Qin Lin rubbed his temples and pondered.

At this time, another soldier on the other side of the ruins picked up a blackened severed hand with a bamboo pole and shouted: "It's not good, it's really Master Li who died!" ”

(To be continued)