Chapter 19: The Smell of Ebony
[The book continues from the above, the last book said that Mu Qingming and Mo Han followed Zhao Liang to the provincial police department, and after some investigation, Mu Qingming thought that the murderers of the Zhao family and his wife were not practicing the magic of the Han people, and of course they did not use magic to break into the underground detention room. Sure enough, he found a secret passage in the wall of his cell. The shopkeeper who brought out Zhang wanted to invite Mu Qingming to return to Rong Bao Zhai to do things again, and Mu Qingming, who didn't know about it, walked forward along the secret passage with Zhao Liang Mohan, and came to the end of the secret passage, in a secret room. 】
"Dad, where are you going?" Zhang Qianqian chased the shopkeeper Zhang who went downstairs and came to Rong Bao Zhai.
Today's Rong Bao Zhai did not open the door, the six lined up doors on the street have not yet opened, the sunlight only penetrates through the cracks in the windows and doors, and the shop is a little dim.
After the shopkeeper stood still in the shadows, he said disapprehantly: "I'll go to the small courtyard of the Mu family and invite this Mu Qingming back to do things?" ”。
Zhang Qianqian was overjoyed when she heard this; After Mu Qingming and Miaojue passed away, he resigned from his job as a palm and never came to work in Rong Bao Zhai, which also made Zhang Qianqian lose the opportunity to spy on him.
However, the pros and cons have always been equal; Taking advantage of the time when Mu Qingming did not come, the disciples of the Immortal Dao seized the time and opportunity, and had built a lot of organs and underground tunnels in Rong Bao Zhai, which reached the surroundings of Rong Bao Zhai in all directions, so that Zhang Qianqian could sneak in and out of Rong Bao Zhai quietly.
At this time, these organs, secret passages and other things have been repaired, and Zhang Qianqian is most looking forward to Mu Qingming's return to do things, even more than her father Zhang's shopkeeper. In this way, Mu Qingming will return to her surveillance again.
"I don't know what's wrong with this stinky boy? It's really annoying to say that if you don't do it, you won't do it. The shopkeeper put on the coat hanging on his arm, picked up his melon skin hat and put it on his head, and kept complaining: "This stinky boy is the sign of our store, we have to find him back." ”。
Although there was a bit of anger and resentment in what he said, when Mu Qingming was mentioned, Shopkeeper Zhang's eyes couldn't help but be filled with appreciation.
"He is a person who says he will not do it, and he will go wherever he likes; You are a shopkeeper, put down the shelf and invite him, and you are not afraid of being laughed at. Zhang Qianqian pretended to be displeased and gave her father a blank look.
She said this just pretending, not really unwilling to let Mu Qingming come back; On the contrary, she couldn't ask for it.
"Silly boy." After getting dressed neatly, Shopkeeper Zhang took out a pocket strap with a delicate and delicate bracelet and a finely carved case from the drawer of the counter, and smiled at Zhang Qianqian: "After this matter spreads, our Rong Bao Zhai will only be famous in Kunming City, and no one will look down on your father." ”。
After finishing speaking, the shopkeeper Zhang walked towards the door without looking back.
After the shopkeeper Zhang left, when Zhang Qianqian went to lock the door, the shadow at her feet stood up, turned into a human form, and showed a warm appearance in just a few seconds.
"I heard it all." Zhang Qianqian, whose face calmed down, did not look back, but asked Wen Jian coldly to Wen Ji, who was standing behind her, "Mu Qingming is coming back." ”。 But when she said this, there was a subtle flash of excitement in her eyes.
"Yes, this dragon locker can return to our surveillance once again." Wen Ji nodded, squinting back.
"Therefore, you must withdraw from Rong Bao Zhai, as long as he is in Rong Bao Zhai, all the disciples are not allowed to come here to meet me. As for surveillance, I'll take care of it. Saying this, Zhang Qianqian walked slowly towards the back of Rong Bao Zhai's storefront.
Wen Ji, who was slowly keeping up, responded.
"By the way, where is Li Jin arranged now?" After walking to the storefront, when the staircase leading to the second floor, Zhang Qianqian suddenly stopped and asked thoughtfully.
"The subordinates arranged him in the courtyard by the Nine Dragons Pool." Wen replied without thinking.
"Very well, tell him not to show his face on the street lately, or I will have to enforce the canon." After finishing speaking, Zhang Qianqian snorted lightly and walked slowly upstairs.
Her embroidered shoes creaked rhythmically against the wooden staircase.
"Yes." Wen Ji, who was standing at the bottom of the stairs, did not follow, but stood against the wall in response, and his body quickly turned into a black shadow, merging with the shadow in the corner of the wall......
In the underground detention room, Zhao Liang stared at the big eyes like copper bells, staring at the dark passage that was revealed behind the dust that was about to fall in front of him.
He came to the underground cell almost every three days, either to get the thieves in or to take the robbers there. But he never noticed when such a secret passage was built in this heavily guarded underground detention cell.
Just when he was stunned, Mo Han had already asked excitedly, "You are so powerful wood, how did you think that there would be a secret passage?" ”。
"First of all, it's a strange trick." Mu Qingming smiled indifferently and said slowly: "You and I both know that if you use a magic or a talisman that can flash into it from outside this underground detention room, then there must be three or five breaths when it flashes into it, and the caster will temporarily have no strength because of the operation. During this time, it is completely possible for the deceased to see this person who suddenly appeared out of thin air. What would you do if you were a person who didn't know anything about parasorcery and you saw someone out of nowhere? ”。
Since Mo Han wants to be a dragon locker, Mu Qingming naturally wants to teach her some experience; In the past, let her memorize by rote, it is better to guide Mo Han to think step by step, but it can make Mo Han more experienced.
I saw Mo Han's eyes slowly rolling, and after a moment of silence, he returned thoughtfully: "I will definitely be stunned for a moment, and then I will scream." ”。
"And how much time does this process take?" Mu Qingming asked again.
This will definitely make ordinary people extremely frightened, so look at the whole process in two or three breaths. If you are a timid person, you may be screaming in a moment. Mo Han didn't think about it for too long, and then spoke again.
"yes." Mu Qingming tilted his head slightly, and said, "But the guards couldn't hear the screams." I calculated the distance, and this cell was only a hundred paces away from the entrance of the gate. In an empty and silent basement, could the screams be echoless? Probably not heard? So I thought about it, the other party didn't sneak into here with a flash or other magic. ”。
"Makes sense." Mo Han nodded slightly in agreement. But then after thinking about it again, without waiting for Mu Qingming to tell the second story, he took the lead and said, "Is it possible that the guard is lying?" ”。
"Impossible." Zhao Liang, who was relieved from his astonishment, said in unison with Mu Qingming; It's just that Mu Qingming's tone is calm, but Zhao Liang's tone is a little excited.
"Then there is no need for this secret passage to exist." Saying this, Mu Qingming took out a fire fold from his sleeve, and after lighting it, he stood in the secret passage: "Since there is a secret passage, the murderer will come in through the main gate again, and this secret passage seems to be a bit of a snake." ”。
Mo Han thought about it carefully when he heard this, and after he also figured it out, he nodded again and agreed.
"The second is the location where the two bodies fell on the way to Zhao Liang told us, and he said at the time that one of the corpses was headless and thinking about the outside of the cell door and was lying on the ground, which means that the person who died by the cell door did not look back. If the murderer didn't come from behind him, how could he not see the murderer? Mu Qingming beckoned to Zhao Liang and Mo Han, and then took the lead in walking slowly towards the depths of this dark passage, which was no more than half a foot high and wide; He walked very slowly, and a pair of sharp-eyed eyes carefully looked around him, as if looking for something: "So it should be that the secret passage was quietly opened, and the murderer flashed out of it, first killed the person by the wall, stepped forward, and killed the other dead standing by the prison door." Based on these two assumptions, I tried to knock on the wall, but I heard a hollow sound, which means that the wall is hollow behind it. ”。
When he finished speaking, Mu Qingming stopped. The glimmer of light on the fire fold in his hand swayed gently a few times in the wind he brought up when he squatted, illuminating the dark passage for a while.
"See, the murderer not only came from here, but also left here." Mu Qingming pointed to the two traces of blood droplets on the ground in front of his feet, like blooming flowers.
Mo Han and Zhao Liang leaned over and looked at the two drops of dark red blood that were no bigger than fingernails.
"A knife that can cut bones cannot be so sharp that it kills without blood; After all, the sharper the sword, the thinner the blade, and it will only break easily after using brute force. But we all know that the other party's sword skills rely on strength and speed, so there will definitely be blood stains on the knife. Mu Qingming stood up and said to Mo Han tirelessly: "This is after the murderer killed someone, when he walked through the dark passage with a long knife in his hand, the blood beads on the knife body slipped on the tip of the knife, and finally dripped down. ”。
"And you also mentioned that the moves made by the other party are very similar to the Miao people's knife technique." Before he could ask this question, Mo Han nodded and said: "Judging from the fact that there are only two major blood stains, and the deceased were all beheaded with a single knife, it is indeed very similar to the Miao people's knife technique." ”。
Mu Qingming paused, and also nodded: "The Miao knife has a slender blade, with a total length of five feet, so it will take a certain amount of time for the blood beads on the knife body to converge on the tip of the knife." Along the way, judging from the fact that there are blood stains here, your previous speculation is not wrong. ”。
After finishing speaking, Mu Qingming looked at the deep darkness in front of him, which the light of the fire fold could not illuminate, and pondered.
"Wood, have you found it, this secret passage seems to have been built hastily, and the time is not far away." Mo Han looked around for a moment, then pressed his palm against the wall next to him, and gently pressed it on the brightly colored wall tiles that were not even a little dusty, but also crooked.
It is not difficult to see from the gaps of different widths between the wall tiles that the construction of this secret passage was also in a hurry.
A faint joy appeared on Mu Qingming's face; Mo Han is still very meticulous when he does things seriously.
"So it can be guessed that this secret passage was built from the time the Zhao family and his wife were locked up, in order to extinguish the mouth." After a few traces of joy appeared in Mu Qingming's eyes, he stepped forward again.
The appearance of the dark passage shows that they are not far from the murderer.
Mo Han and Zhao Liang also hurriedly followed.
The three of them lined up, and after walking for half a cup of tea in the dark passage, they finally came to the end. They saw a square stone room in front of them.
Due to the faint light of the fire fold in Mu Qingming's hand, they couldn't see clearly what was at the bottom of the stone room, but they didn't rush into it.
"There's a faint weird smell." Mo Han, who was closely behind Mu Qingming, raised his head slightly and breathed upward, and after moving his nose a few times, he thought, "It seems to be the same as the ebony ghost bead taken from Lin Wanjin's hand." ”。
What's at the bottom of the chamber in front? Who will be the murderer? Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.