Chapter 341: Chasing the Murderer
When Guo Jieren saw Shen Hai pick up an embroidered shoe from the ground, he pretended to be calm but still couldn't hide the fear in his heart.
Shen Hai has seen all kinds of insidious and cunning criminals in the good hunting camp, so he has developed a pair of sharp eyes that are good at observing words and feelings.
He caught Guo Jieren's abnormal expression at a glance, so he rushed to Guo Jieren with an arrow, took the embroidered shoes and said sharply: "What's the matter with these embroidered shoes?" ”
Guo Jieren still wanted to quibble, but Shen Hai didn't give him a chance to directly break one of his arms.
"I don't want to hear you explain, I want you to tell me right away where those three children are hiding?"
Shen Hai's straightforward questioning surprised Guo Jieren.
"I don't know what you're talking about?"
Shen Hai said angrily: "I have seen another embroidered shoe that is exactly the same as my hand, it is sewn by Mrs. Yang of the dyeing workshop by her eldest daughter, the style is special, it is rare." You said that there would be such a coincidence in this world, and your mother also sewed such a pair of embroidered shoes for you. ”
Guo Jieren knew that the matter had been exposed, but he still resisted stubbornly and wanted to deal with Shen Haixu.
Cheng Mo stepped on the dung and came to the two dung diggers, and flashed his knife: "If you don't recruit it according to the truth, if I find out in person, I will definitely connect you to the nine clans." ”
Even the Nine Clans are the most serious crimes, and the dung diggers have heard of it, and they are so frightened that they are like ashes.
But they are all Guo Wei's cronies, and it is difficult to protect Guo Wei and his family.
Cheng Mo slashed down with a knife and slashed on the arm of one of the elderly dung diggers, the knife was an inch deep, and the blood flowed like an infusion.
He ignored the old manure digger's injury, and put the knife in the young manure digger's face: "Look at your grade and haven't married a wife yet!" ”
The young manure digger said: "This year's just set a parent!" ”
Cheng Mo said: "Do you think your little daughter-in-law who has not passed through the door will willingly marry a scarface?" ”
When the young manure digger saw that there were already injured people in front of him, he was afraid to follow in his footsteps, so he hurriedly pointed to the manure pit and said, "They are down there." ”
Shen Hai's eyes widened when he heard this, and he couldn't believe it: "Crazy ......"
Guo Jieren and the young dung diggers were forced by Cheng Mo to jump into the waist-deep dung pit and dig out the dung.
"Is it that deep?" Shen Hai wept in his heart.
Guo Jieren didn't dare to raise her head, and endured the pain in her injured arm and buried her head in digging feces.
The Modao team received Cheng Mo's order to tie up Guo Wei and his family and put them at the entrance of the street to watch the public.
In addition, a few warriors of the Mo Dao Team escorted more than a dozen stout family members, carrying dung tools, to help in the woods.
It was at this moment that a child's bare feet were finally revealed in the manure pit.
Shen Hai couldn't hold back any longer, jumped into the dung pit, and pulled the dung out with both hands.
The poor three children were put headfirst down in the old manure pit. The five-year-old younger brother of the Yang family was buried at the bottom and was dead when he dug it up, and it was determined that the child was dead before he was buried.
The elder sister and the second brother of the Yang family were buried on top of the younger brother, and the sister dug it out and had a little heartbeat. She kept using her two arms to support a small space for the second brother on her chest.
So when the second brother was rescued, he was still breathing.
Seeing this, Shen Hai was very moved by the actions of the young lady of the Yang family. He immediately had people bring clean water to wash the dirt off the two children's bodies.
Looking at the children's immature faces, Shen Hai secretly touched his tears.
The smell of feces was unbearable, and the warriors of the Mo Sword Team all covered their noses and watched from afar, and they were powerless to help.
He was an elderly man, and he didn't shy away from this, but he was checking the cause of death of the young son of the Yang family.
Cheng Mo was about to leave, but when he saw Shen Hai's actions, he came to the tent.
Shen Hai could no longer endure the sorrow: "The girl is dead-" Guo Wei overestimated his position in the Acropolis.
The women of the good family he kidnapped were hidden in the underground secret room, and he had already made a plan for this.
Those women who were hidden, he had the corresponding household registration status. He prepared a large amount of dry wood around the underground chamber, just to prevent and burn the evidence of the crime when the matter was about to be revealed.
Even if the bodies of those women were not burned, they would be unrecognizable after the fire. As long as he lied that the women who were killed were from the house, there was no proof of his death.
So he used the method of striking east and west, and set fire to the underground dark room, causing more than a dozen kidnapped women to be burned alive.
He knew that the corpses of those adults were easy to fool, but the bodies of three children were mixed in them, and it happened that the city was looking for the missing three sons of the Yang family, so he couldn't explain it even if it was okay.
It was Guo Wei who ordered Guo Jieren to set fire to the underground secret room in the woods to attract the attention of the Modao team, and at the same time secretly took away the three children to bury them alive in the dung pit, so that the world could no longer find them.
Cheng Mo fell in love with Shenhai's ability to do things at a glance, and authorized Shenhai to interrogate many members of Guo Wei's family in isolation.
The people who were questioned included the chief manager Guo, Guo Jieren, several family members and maidservants, some female dependents and two children.
Through side knocks, coercion and inducement Shenhai basically controlled the evidence of Guo Wei's crime.
The child of Boss Yang of the dyeing workshop was indeed kidnapped by Guo Wei's subordinates.
He kidnapped the child not for sale, but to give it to a sick beggar.
As for who the beggar was, Chief Guo and his subordinates didn't know.
At this time, the cause of death of the youngest son of the Yang family had already reached preliminary results. He suspected that the youngest son of the Yang family died of throat plague, which the local people like to call throat wind.
Regardless of dynasties, epidemics are the top priority. He immediately reported the situation to Cheng Mo.
Cheng Mo didn't dare to slack off, and immediately reported the news to Cheng Xue, and reported the painting through Cheng Xue.
It happened that the floating leaves were not in Beihai Tower, and Huaxin immediately ordered Cheng Xue to rush to the Acropolis to deal with the matter with full authority.
The level of the case escalated to the level of the state in an instant.
In less than a stick of incense, Cheng Xue rode a golden eagle and landed on Guo Wei's manor.
She took over the command of Cheng Mo and mobilized a number of experienced servants and doctors to come to Guo's house to discuss the prevention and control of the epidemic.
However, it is imperative to find the source of the disease first and prevent further infection.
Whenever an epidemic occurs, isolating patients is the most effective means to stop the infection.
However, martial law is not signed until the king.
Now that the floating leaves are not there, Cheng Xue has no choice but to implore the Acropolis guards to issue a temporary martial law order at Sunset Cangshan.
The temporary martial law order can only close the acropolis for half a day, and if you want to put the whole city into a state of martial law for a long time, you have to wait for the return of King Wei.
In addition, the servants examined the bodies of the youngest son of the Yang family and the elder sister of the Yang family again.
Tests revealed that both of them had been infected with diphtheria before their deaths.
Not only that, but the only surviving second brother of the Yang family also had diphtheria and was about to enter a critical illness.
The situation is becoming less and less optimistic, and diphtheria has not appeared in Apocalypse City for many years. Doctors have no effective treatment plan for this disease, and they are sad one by one.
A few young doctors are looking through medical books in the hope of finding a solution.
Cheng Xue personally interrogated Guo Wei.
Guo Wei knew that deliberately spreading the epidemic was the same serious crime as rebellion, and he would be executed by Ling Chi, and if he didn't do it, he would even be affected by the Nine Clans.
Even if Guo Wei is hard-hearted, how can he not be moved when he thinks that the century-old family business will be ruined in one fell swoop, and all the men, women and children will be pulled to the entrance of the vegetable market.
Guo Wei knew that the crime was heavy and the death penalty was inevitable, but he didn't want to implicate his family, so he told Cheng Xue how Mu Bai pretended to be a beggar and let the three children contract diphtheria one by one.
Cheng Xue was curious why Guo Wei dared to help Mu Bai even though he knew that this was a hurtful thing.
Guo Wei explained that because Mu Bai was holding a handwritten letter from the Sword Alliance when he came, he had to try his best to meet all of Mu Bai's requests.
The three missing children of the Yang family in the dyeing workshop were finally found, and the ending of two dead and one injured made the people of the city sigh.
The case gradually solves the mystery, and the answers obtained make the painting heart fang frightened.
According to Guo Wei's confession, the facts are very clear.
Mu Bai has contracted the epidemic, and he is planning to use himself to infect more people.
According to Guo Wei's confession, when Mu Bai left the Acropolis for Apocalypse City, he disguised himself as a beggar.
Cheng Xue speculated that the time of Mu Bai's departure was the same as the time when the little prince of peace arrived at the Acropolis. She immediately told the picture the news.
As the confidant of the floating leaves, Huaxin has long guessed the origin of the little prince of peace.
She knew very well that although Fushengye was ignoring the little prince of peace on the surface, she had been secretly paying attention to the little prince's every move.
Immediately, all the halls near Apocalypse City received an urgent order, and all the informants on standby took action to track down the whereabouts of the little prince of peace.
The Flying Tiger General Sunset Cangshan knew that Mu Bai had news, so he immediately mobilized a team of personal guards, disguised himself as a dart master, and began to look for Mu Bai along the way.
The last time the Flying Tiger Army and the Phantom Killer jointly pursued Mu Bai until they reached the Martial Kingdom, there was no news.
According to the news that the eagle came back, the last place where Mu Bai disappeared was at the White Bone Altar in Xiling County, Wuguo.
The Altar of Bones was named after the plague and became known as the Ten Deaths, and it is rumored that a plague god lived there.
Huaxin summoned the four marshals in the palace of the Acropolis to discuss Mu Bai's matter. Everyone has always thought that the first thing to do now is to find Mu Bai and figure out the facts.
Originally, near Apocalypse City, the belief rat was ubiquitous.
From the courtyards of the royal palaces and nobles, to the liquor shops of the peddlers and pawns, the rats can monitor the every move of suspicious people in real time.
Since learning the news of Mu Bai, Huaxin has sent a large number of letter rats to search along the Imperial Capital Avenue, but when it was almost dark, he could not find any trace of Mu Bai and the little prince of peace.
The heart of the painting is anxious, and the heart is haunted by a sense of foreboding.
She scrutinized the topographical map around Apocalypse City, trying to figure out where she had gone wrong.
Suddenly, the fingertips of the drawing heart fell on a shadowed area on the map: "Yuquan Mountain mourning mausoleum!" ”
In Apocalypse City and the surrounding area, there is almost no limit to the range of monitoring that the Faith Rats can monitor. However, in order to show respect for the floating leaves, the painting never allowed the letter rats to enter the Beihai Tower and the Weiwang Mansion where the floating leaves were located for no reason, and there was a mourning tomb in one place.
The nostalgia for Princess Aya has never faded from her departure, but has begun to miss her more and more after completely losing her.
There may not be much love in this, but more of a feeling of guilt.
Huaxin knew that Fushengye didn't want anyone to disturb the mourning mausoleum, so the letter rat with the painting heart would never appear near the mourning mausoleum.
"Will it be there?"
The painting heart couldn't make up his mind for a while.
At the same time, Li Zhien had already taken his daughter to the foot of the mountain in a carriage.