Chen Dong was inexplicably surprised by what he said, and he felt that there seemed to be a pair of eyes in the stone crack in the corner of the wall over there, looking at his back one by one. Text┡ Scholar Ω.*

Chen Dong couldn't help but feel his scalp numb, and hurriedly explained a few words and left in a hurry. The day after Chen Dong left the warehouse, he was dismissed. No one cared about what they saw in the storeroom that day.

Before Xie Bangui arrived in the afternoon, he saw the original Jiangling Mansion Yin Chendong.

Compared with the treasurer of Jiangling Mansion who was tortured to an inhuman shape, Chen Dong was obviously much luckier, although his face was a little haggard, but fortunately he was not tortured.

Chen Dong is worthy of everyone's background, and when he saw Xie Bangui, he neither howled and cried, nor was he excited and inexplicable, but greeted Xie Bangui with a calm face. can't help but make the other party look a little higher.

Xie Bangui said a few words and went straight to the point: "Lord Wang, can you tell me about the case, the more detailed the better." ”

"Adults still call me Chen Dong! After all, I'm still a sinful person. Chen Dong smiled bitterly and said slowly: "This has to start with the emperor's preparation to use troops in Mobei last year, when the emperor specially mobilized 300,000 taels of gold from various provinces in the south of the Yangtze River in order to raise military expenses. Originally, he was scheduled to stay in Jiangling overnight, and was escorted into Beijing by Jinyi Guard early the next morning, but who would have thought that in just one night, that batch of gold would disappear without a trace. ”

Xie Bangui was surprised: "Is it really just one night?" ”

"Three hours, to be exact." Chen Dong said: "After the gold arrived at the Jiangling Mansion Treasury on the day of the Ding Watch, and the official personally checked and sent it to the Treasury on the second watch. Just after the fourth watch, the adults of Jinyiwei came over to hand over. Before and after, it was never more than three hours. ”

"Silk-" Xie Bangui gasped: "During this period, you haven't left the treasury?" ”

Chen Dong shook his head and said, "No!" Such a big matter, how dare I take it lightly, all the officials related to Gangneung Mansion made do with it outside the treasury all night. No one left more than half a step. ”

The treasurer beside Chen Dong said in horror: "Actually...... In fact...... The lower officials also think that it is a ghost and god who committed the crime, and the Yin soldiers robbed the gold! At that time, there were no less than 2,000 military horses guarding the treasury, and all of them were elite men, except for ghosts and gods, who could silently transport the gold away under our noses?

"Shut up!" Chen Dong scolded: "Sage Yun, Zi Bu is silent, what nonsense to say!" ”

"Click-"

There was a thunderclap in the sky, and the sudden thunder and lightning illuminated the slightly gloomy room at once, covering Chen Dong's face with a layer of black and white intertwined light and shadow, which made people shudder at first glance.

"What a fucking evil door!" The tall fat man shuddered.

Xie Bangui got up and said, "Let's go to the treasury and have a look." ”

After the Gangneung Treasury was robbed, although it was idle, it was still guarded by government officials. It's not a place to come and go casually.

Although half a year has passed, you can still vaguely see the ruts at the entrance of the warehouse, Xie Bangui squatted on the ground and looked at it for a long time and said: "After the gold was stolen, have there been any vehicles in and out?" ”

The treasurer whispered, "It should be gone, at least not until the villain is in prison." ”

Xie Bangui nodded and said, "Tell me about the scene at that time." ”

The treasurer pointed to the gate and said, "That's where the golden cart entered the treasury at that time. ”

"The soldier in charge of the guard, standing outside a door."

"Two gates, there are master guards inside."

"Lord Wang and I are guarding here at the Three Gates."

Xie Bangui said: "Are you here at the Three Gates?" ”

"For the convenience of opening the library! A total of five keys are required to open the treasury door, which can only be opened by inserting the lock hole. Each of the four treasurers has one hand, and the other is in the hands of Lord Chen. The treasurer wept and said, "Pity my colleagues, many of them have been tortured, so they went first." ”

Xie Bangui comforted him and said, "Can you still open the treasury now?" ”

The treasurer shook his head and said, "Without the key, no one can open it, unless the door is broken by force!" ”

Li Xiaoxin stepped forward and said, "I have already got the key as evidence from the inner hall. ”

"Well thought out!" Xie Bangui didn't rush to open the door, but stood at the door and studied the door.

The tall fat man waiting behind him was idle and bored and said nonsense to the treasurer: "Hey, I said brother, even you." ”

"Ah, yes...... Yes......" The treasurer said embarrassedly, "That's to prevent smuggling." ”

The tall fat man grinned and said, "It is said that you can get silver without clothes." You say, if anyone can clip out 300,000 taels of gold, how big will it be? ”

Lao Qian almost found a place to get in, and Li Xiaoxin didn't dare to laugh if he wanted to. Behind, Xiao Cai, who was red-faced and red-eared, raised his leg and gave the fat man a kick: "Aren't you disgusting, can people die?" ”

"Isn't that what I said?" The fat man rubbed his buttocks and said, "I call the dung gold, isn't that how it came?" ”

"Why don't you die!" Xiao Cai's kick was not light, and he almost didn't kick the fat man to Xie Bangui.

Xie Bangui pushed away the fat man who flew over with full concentration and said, "This is a machine door?" ”

"Adults have good eyesight!" Chen Dong said: "Every part of the vault gate is made by the master craftsman of the Ministry of Industry alone, and after the gate is made, the drawings are burned on the spot. No one will ever copy it. ”

"Well, open the door!"

A few thumbs stepped forward and slowly pushed open the half-foot-thick door of the vault, judging from their movements, the weight of this door was definitely not light, at least it could withstand the bombardment of artillery.

Looking further inside, there was an empty storeroom, with nothing but a thick layer of dust on the ground. Due to the windows in the warehouse, Xie Bangui and the others could only light oil lamps for lighting.

Xie Bangui's gaze glanced around the warehouse and said, "Where is the box of gold?" ”

"Lost together!"

After a few people looked at it separately, the tall fat man shouted, "There is nothing to see, there is not even a single footprint left on the ground." Dude, what are you looking at? ”

The fat boy saw Xie Bangui squatting on the ground with an oil lamp, and couldn't help but lean in.

"Be careful!" Xie Bangui didn't wait for him to settle down, and lifted the soles of his feet.

"Ants?" The tall fat man who squatted down looked at the ants coming and going on the ground and said, "What do you see it doing?" ”

"What do you see they are holding?"

"It's like meat!" The tall fat man grabbed an ant, took the dark red thing in its mouth into his hand, twisted it carefully, and said, "It's meat, that's right." ”

Xie Bangui held the oil lamp and moved in the direction of the ants, and finally stopped at the crack in the wall to the north of the storehouse. The ants were moving in and out of this crevice, carrying pieces of meat.

Xie Bangui pointed to the crack in the wall and said, "Call a few people and start digging from this place!" ”

Li Xiaoxin found a few officials and used tools to pry off the wall tiles that were half a foot thick one by one. In order to prevent theft, the outer wall of the vault was built with two layers of green bricks sandwiched between a layer of loess, which was comparable in thickness as a city wall. But Li Xiaoxin didn't make much effort to dig down the wall tiles. Apparently someone had pried it at the beginning.

As soon as the wall tiles were removed, a large number of insects and ants poured out of the loess behind them, crawling over the feet of Xie Bangui and the others to flee for their lives.

Xie Bangui said: "Dig in the direction of the ant hole!" ”

Li Xiaoxin went down with a few shovels, and dug out a round thing from the soil: "Human head!" How can there be dead people in the walls? Isn't the ant moving human flesh? ”

Xie Bangui took the oil lamp and shone the head of the skeleton that was eaten by the ants and said, "Keep digging." ”

Li Xiaoxin dug down two more feet, revealing a hollow strip in the wall of the vault. From above, I saw a headless corpse nailed to a "T-shaped" wooden stake, and the evil smell of the corpse decomposing came to my face.

Xie Bangui said expressionlessly: "Move out!" Get outside. ”

It took a great deal of effort for the two of them to lift the stake out of the ground, and the body had been eaten by insects, and there were white bones and rotting flesh everywhere, and a large number of ants rolled down to the ground in clumps from the cavity of the corpse.

Chen Dong and the treasurer just glanced at it, and they vomited. The thumb that was responsible for moving the corpse didn't last long before it vomited.

Xie Bangui jumped into the pit with an oil lamp, and only walked out of the warehouse after carefully looking at the bottom of the pit for a long time. Squatting in the yard, he roughly measured it with his hands and said: "The wooden stake is one foot and two feet high, and it is made of two solid woods to form a T-shape." The part that was inserted into the soil was about four feet. Enough to support an adult. ”

After Xiao Cai meticulously recorded behind him, he added: "The material used to make the stake is fine cypress, which should come from a place like a coffin shop." Was it a coffin nail that nailed the man's arm? ”

Xie Bangui stretched out two fingers to clamp the iron nail on the corpse's wrist, and slowly pulled it out: "That's right, it's a coffin nail!" The nail happened to be driven into the gap between the man's wrist bones, and the position was very accurate. ”

Xie Bangui went down the wooden stake and pulled out two more nails from the corpse's ankles: "The deceased's ankles are nailed to the wooden stake vertical bar, judging by the height, the deceased's legs should be in a half-kneeling state." ”

The tall fat man covered his nose and said, "Does my brother see anything?" ”

Xie Bangui said coldly: "First, the murderer's methods are very skillful, and it is obviously not the first time to kill someone. Second, the murderer was a madman. ”

The fat man was surprised: "Even if he is crazy, you can see it?" ”

Xie Bangui glanced at the fat man and said, "The murderer drove the nail into the deceased's wrist, not the palm. It did not hurt the meridians on the deceased's arm, but also prevented the other party from breaking open the wound and escaping. This shows that he knows the bones and veins of the human body very well, and this is not the first time he has done such a thing. ”

Xiao Cai gestured on his palm and said, "That's right! It is easy for people to break their palms, but they can't break their arms, unless he is a martial arts master. Look at the skeleton of this deceased, it looks like a person who has practiced martial arts? ”

Li Xiaoxin picked the bones of the corpse with a knife and said: "The deceased should be around forty years old, although he has not practiced martial arts, but his body is quite strong. ”

"That's not what I'm asking." The fat man was obviously not interested in these things, and what he was most concerned about was how Xie Bangui could tell that the murderer was a madman?

Xie Bangui said: "If I am not mistaken, the murderer should have nailed the deceased to a stake and cut the vocal cords on his throat when he was alive." He also deliberately left a crack in the wall above his head to allow for ventilation. The deceased was nailed to a T-shaped stake and waited to die, but for a while he could not die again. ”

However, he could hear the sounds outside, he could see the light changing overhead, and he would struggle desperately if someone approached him. At that time, he would instinctively lift his body with his legs and call for help. However, not only did he not make a sound out of his mouth, but every time he stood up, he was nailed to the ankles on either side of the stake, one left and one right, and he would bear the weight of his whole body. The force of the iron nail in the bone is enough to make a person faint in pain. However, man's will to survive is also very tenacious, and when there is hope, man will never faint. Therefore, the deceased will suffer over and over again, until despair, and then to death. ”