Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 381
Hearing this, Li Canghai immediately lowered his eyebrows and became thoughtful.

If even Li Tan can't determine who is using the ventriloquism, it can only show that Lin Zhu is good at disguising in addition to his martial arts.

Now, although he has met Lord Lin, he doesn't know anything about him, which makes him feel a little helpless.

"Right now, I can only hope that Feng Shisanniang and the others will find their way back, and maybe we can get some clues from them." Li Canghai thought about it for a while, and decided to interrogate Feng Shisanniang and the others immediately after returning.

However, as soon as he walked out of the gate of the palace, he saw Di Huai hurrying towards the palace.

Seeing Li Canghai head-on, Di Huai hurried up and said anxiously, "Canghai, something is wrong! Something happened!"

"Brother, what happened?" Li Canghai went up to meet him and asked suspiciously.

Di Huai slightly bowed his hands to Li Tan, and hurriedly said: "Feng Shisanniang and others are dead!"

"What?" Several people were shocked when they heard this.

Li Canghai's face suddenly became serious, and he hurriedly asked, "When did this happen?"

"According to the jailer, this morning." Di Huai said, wiping the sweat off his forehead.

"Brother, I'll go to the cell to check first, please go and bring Xiao Wu to the prison." After Li Canghai finished speaking, he said to Li Tan: "Prince, please get a list of those who were present that night and send it to Di's residence."

Li Tan nodded and said, "Leave this matter to me."

Li Canghai cupped his hands to Li Tan, then jumped into the carriage and rushed to Luoyang prison at high speed.

In the Luoyang Prison, everyone's expressions were extremely serious.

Especially the Jia soldiers of the Jinwu Guard Battalion who were in charge of guarding the key criminals. Three key criminals died right under their noses. To them, this was simply a shame.

When Li Canghai came to the cell, what he saw was the corpses of three people tied to wooden stakes.

The three looked peaceful, without any injuries, as if they were falling asleep.

This cell is located in a hidden part of the prison. Since Wuyin was deliberately released, in order to prevent someone from using the dark room to kill people, Li Canghai transferred them to this cell.

The four sides of the prison cell were made of huge stones, and they were extremely solid, except for an iron door, there were no gaps.

However, even so, the three of them died unexpectedly.

Soon, under the leadership of Di Huai, Xiao Wu walked in carrying the autopsy box.

Li Canghai nodded to him, Xiao Wu then carefully inspected the corpse.

Taking advantage of Xiao Wu's autopsy, Di Huai and Li Canghai checked around the cell again.

"There are no traces around the cell, and there is no sign of the iron lock on the door being opened. Even the guards didn't notice, so they died for no reason. How strange!" Di Huai said, looking at the cell, frowning.

Li Canghai nodded. He had already asked the guards. Since they were transferred to this cell, no one had been here.

"Could it be suicide?" Di Huai asked after thinking about it.

Li Canghai frowned, and pondered: "It's not very likely. If they wanted to commit suicide, they would have died long ago. Why wait until now? What's more, they didn't have any scars on their bodies, and the base of their tongues was intact. Under such circumstances, how can you commit suicide?"

"You mean, someone killed them to silence them?" Di Huai asked.

Li Canghai put his hands behind his back and said, "This possibility is not ruled out."

"The security in this big prison is heavy, who can kill them silently?" Di Huai asked with a frown.

Li Canghai shook his head, before he figured out the real cause of death of several people, everything was still unknown.

Xiao Wu carefully examined the bodies of the three people. After an hour passed, he suddenly said in doubt: "My lord, these three people don't have any wounds on their bodies, and there are no signs of poisoning. It's really strange."

"How is this possible? There are no wounds and no poisoning, so how did they die?" Di Huai asked in surprise.

Xiao Wu also looked bewildered. He scratched his head and said, "I don't know about that either."

"It may be inferred when they died?" Li Canghai asked after thinking about it.

Xiao Wu nodded and said: "Judging from the degree of stiffness of the corpse, it should be at least between three and five hours."

"Between three hours and five hours?" Li Canghai closed his eyes and pondered carefully in his mind.

And this afternoon just passed, three to five hours, converted into hours, is six to ten hours, which is the early morning hours.

Wu Yin was intentionally let go around Zishi, and after that, he appeared in front of the three of them, and they were still safe and sound at that time.

After that, he and the others went to track Wuyin according to the clues left by Di Qing.

And before the pursuit, in order to prevent someone from sneaking into the dark room of that cell and killing people.He ordered the three of them to be transferred to this cell, which was between Zishi and Choushi.

In other words, after he left the prison, not long after, the three of them were killed.

The two cells are not very far apart, but there are Jinwu Guards guarding the outside of the cell, so it is impossible for anyone to get close, and even the meals are delivered by the Jinwu Guards, so poisoning is obviously impossible.

Moreover, he also asked the guards, no matter whether it was the cell where Kirigakure was deliberately let go, or this cell, no one had ever approached.

The structure of the two cells is similar, except that the cell where Kirigakure was released has a dark room, but he has sent someone to guard the entrance of the dark room.It can be said that the two prison cells are like iron walls, and it is impossible for people to sneak into them.

It is impossible to kill people in the cell, so the only explanation is that they died on the way to transfer the cell!

Li Canghai closed his eyes, and his thinking became clearer.

The three of them are important criminals, and the Jinwu Guards strictly carried out the transfer.

There are only two ways to kill three people silently without alarming the Jinwu Guard.

One is poisoning, and the other is hidden weapons.

Xiao Wu has already done an autopsy and confirmed that the three of them were not poisoned, so there is only one possibility left, a hidden weapon!

Thinking of this, Li Canghai suddenly opened his eyes and ordered someone to find a magnet.

Di Huai and Xiao Wu were a little puzzled, and asked, "My lord, what do you want a magnet for?"

Li Canghai didn't speak, but stared at the corpse, and said in a deep voice, "To verify an idea."

Moments later, a soldier walks in with a fist-sized magnet.

Li Canghai ordered people to clean up the surrounding iron objects, and then took a magnet to search for the male corpse.

Di Huai and Xiao Wu looked at Li Canghai in confusion.

Li Canghai took the magnet and carefully searched for it on the back of the male corpse. Suddenly, there was a ding, and something seemed to be sucked out of the magnet.

He was overjoyed, and hurriedly looked at the magnet, only to find that it turned out to be a thin needle.

"My lord, this... is this a hidden weapon?" Xiao Wu said in surprise, he finally knew why Li Canghai ordered someone to find a magnet. The hidden weapon is made of iron, no matter how inconspicuous it is, it will be attracted by magnetism.

(End of this chapter)