Chapter 16: Hope in the Midst of Despair
He suddenly broke free from the shackles in his hand, turned around suddenly, and easily pulled out the steel knife on the waist of the poor man of the punishment department beside him.
Before everyone could react, he swung his steel knife and split the chains of the cell in front of him.
As if he had a grudge against the prisoner in the cell, he rushed in and stabbed the prisoner in the neck who was sleeping there.
The knife was steady and ruthless, without the slightest hesitation, as if it had been prepared for a long time.
"Stop him, stop him!"
Following behind, because there were still some confused Dali Temple officials shouting loudly late at night.
The messenger of the criminal department in front also hurriedly squeezed towards the cell, apparently to pull out the Jiangyang Avenue.
However, with the help of these people, the scene became more and more chaotic.
The officials from the criminal department did not squeeze into the cell for half a day, and several people were stuck at the door of the cell, looking like they could not get in or out.
Even the officials of Dali Temple, who wanted to catch up and stop the tragedy, had no way.
He could only watch the Jiang Yang thief inside, holding a sharp blade and stabbing at the assassin's body.
Looking at the knife after knife, the knife hit the vital point, I'm afraid that the killer is going to be completely dead.
With so many knives, even a person with a hard life can't survive.
also knew that the person inside was out of breath, so Jiang Yang Dadao stopped his hand.
At this time, those poor people from the criminal department poured into the cell like a flood wave, and suddenly pressed the river thief to the ground.
"You kid is really dead, what kind of hatred and hatred do you have, you actually rushed to the edict prison of Dali Temple to kill people, quickly take him down for me."
"I am willing to ask people to help me today, but I didn't expect this situation to happen, take him back, Lao Tzu will teach him a lesson in person, so that he can have a good long memory."
The messenger at the head of the criminal department shouted nearby.
However, after those poor people completely knocked down Jiangyang Avenue, they found that this guy had stabbed a knife in the chest at some point.
And that knife was pulled out of the waist of another poor man when he committed the murder just now.
All of a sudden, this incident alarmed Liu Ke.
Speaking of the edict in Dali Temple, it is not a matter of death to a person.
But now is not the time to die!
That assassin was the key witness and clue in the assassination of Concubine Xian.
Now that this guy is hanging up directly, then all the clues are equivalent to being cut off directly from here, and the mastermind behind the scenes is afraid that if he wants to find it again, the difficulty will increase a hundred times.
"You people, you really don't have enough to do!"
"With so many people, can't even a Jiangyang thief who is unarmed and shackled can't control it?"
"He actually asked him to kill such a key person, how can I explain to the Seventh Prince!"
Liu Ke sat on the ground of the edict prison in Dali Temple, crying and howling.
It looked like something terrible had happened to him.
I only saw the officials next to me who couldn't bear it for a while.
After a shout, Liu Ke focused his gaze on the faces of these people who were not bad.
He looked them up and down with unkind eyes.
"Arrest all of them to this official, damn, I can't even handle this matter, in that case, then I will give them an account to His Highness the Seventh."
As soon as Liu Ke gave the order, those messengers from the Criminal Department were also weaponized and thrown directly into the cell of the Imperial Prison.
After all the people here have been dealt with and those people in the criminal department have been locked up.
A man walked in slowly from outside the cell.
Behind him, a group of guards carried torches, illuminating the originally dimly lit prison prison.
The person who came was Zhou Yang.
Seeing Zhou Yang coming, Liu Ke also hurriedly stood aside, with a flattering smile on his face.
"Your Highness the Seventh, everything is going according to plan!"
Zhou Yang nodded lightly and snorted.
In the light of the torches, he looked at the corpse of the assassin who had been stabbed into a hornet's nest.
The torch shining on the Assassin's face was an unfamiliar face, not the one who had been caught.
"Where are the people?"
Zhou Yang asked softly.
Liu Ke hurriedly pointed to a nearby cell.
"Your Highness is locked up there, and according to Your Highness's orders, you can clearly see everything that happened just now."
Nodding with satisfaction, Zhou Yang walked towards the cell.
I saw that in the cell, there was an arrogant and virtuous assassin during the day, and at this time he was already curled up in that cell.
Looking at the corpse in the opposite cell, he couldn't help but tremble slightly.
There was also a bit of fear in his eyes, but more than fear, he was disappointed.
"I said it, I asked you to watch a big play, I don't know if you are still satisfied with the scene just now?"
"But the protagonist of that scene was originally supposed to be you, but I changed the protagonist again."
Zhou Yang looked at the assassin in front of him with a smile.
The assassin looked up, glanced at him, and then quickly lowered his head, curled himself up in a ball, and muttered something in his mouth.
"Impossible, impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Just now, just before those people went to prison.
Suddenly, the official in the prison changed himself to a cell, and just when he was wondering, the group of people from the criminal department came in.
Before he could react to what was going on, the scene just now suddenly happened.
If I were there, I was afraid that I would have turned into a blood gourd in my sleep.
He couldn't believe that the fourth prince would do such a poisonous hand to him and want to kill him directly.
"Nothing is impossible, as long as you live, it will be a great threat to the fourth."
"Even if I let you out now, you won't have a chance to live, and the fourth child will definitely try to get rid of you by all means."
"If you still want to live, you have to cooperate with me, otherwise you can only die."
Zhou Yang's words seemed to have a huge temptation.
When the assassin heard this, a flash of light suddenly lit up in his eyes.
When he was first arrested, he was still holding on to death.
Of course, after being hung by Zhou Yang for two days, the death intent in his heart has also been exhausted.
Especially in the Imperial Prison, those jailers sent people to take care of him very politely.
made him mistakenly think that the four princes would save him, and ignited the hope of survival.
As a result, that hope has now been shattered.
Just when he was desperate, now Zhou Yang handed him another olive branch.