Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 155 Tunnel Controversy ([-]) Second Update

Wu Chen looked at the man in black with a smile and asked:

"Why cover your face? If you have the ability to kill us all, if you cover your face or not, no one alive will see it. What are you afraid of? If you can't kill us all, as long as you leave a few corpses, we will But it’s useless to follow the clues.”

A dozen people looked at each other, but no one stepped forward.

Wu Chen frowned. He thought that a dozen people would rush forward, but it would be easy for him to solve it, but these people didn't move.

Wu Chen thought of the branches and leaves that fell when Gao Er cut off the vine outside the entrance of the cave, smiled, and asked, "Why don't you dare to come here? There is poison on these branches and leaves?"

Although the dozen or so people didn't move, they still swayed a bit, as if hesitating, and one of them shouted loudly: "You have the ability to come out!"

Wu Chen smiled and said:

"There are so many of you, I'm alone. If I go out, I won't be able to live. I'm not that stupid, but if I don't go out, you don't have torches, and you can only see that one side of the vines is missing, but there are scattered everywhere. But I can’t see the branches clearly. Are these branches thorny like thorns? It’s really troublesome to step on them, but we can’t help it if we are so stalemate. After dawn, there will be troops mobilized into the mountains. Being arrested... how about this, I will ask you a question that you can answer, and if you answer truthfully, I will go out, what do you think?"

A dozen people were a little restless.

One person said loudly:

"Since you know that you will die when you come out, how can you give in so easily? The questions you ask must be impossible for us to answer. You are just delaying time, waiting for the people in the Taoist temple to come down to save you, hum! Tell you the truth, you guys The people in the Taoist temple are probably all dead at this time, and the iron plate has been covered again, so there is no use in procrastinating!"

Wu Chen groaned, shook his head again, sighed, and said:

"Since that's the case, you don't need to worry about anything. Since I said that you can answer the questions I asked, I won't break my promise. If you answer them, I will go out. I will die anyway, so I might as well fight hard. Of course, I I have my own plan, and if I understand it, I will feel at ease."

A dozen men in black murmured softly.

Wu Chen also said:

"In this way, you gather around to discuss and stay away from me so as not to be heard by me. If I run back, you can just clean up here slowly, and then block the entrance of this hole, which can be regarded as the completion of the errand. The secret passage has been sealed by your people, and I won’t be able to get in when I go back, so I won’t leave, I’ll just wait here for you to discuss and come up with a result, how about it?”

There was still a leader among the dozen or so people. He ignored Wu Chen and motioned for one person to stare at Wu Chen while the others retreated.

More than a dozen people retreated more than ten meters before discussing in a low voice.

"He knew that he would die if he came out, why did he come up with this idea? There must be fraud."

"Could it be that he thinks he can beat us?"

"Didn't you say that the court sent a very capable person? Could it be him?"

"Two fists are no match for four hands. No matter how capable he is, there are more than a dozen of us. Besides, there are poisonous vines at the entrance of the cave. We can't see them clearly. He is the same. As long as we step on them, he will die without our hands."

"There are always some people in the imperial court who are used to bragging. They just want to cheer themselves up. He doesn't know what we are capable of, so he dares to conclude that he alone can kill many of us? But there is no way out. That's all."

"What do you mean? Promise him? Do you know what he's going to ask?"

"Just lie and lie to him about everything, and he still has a chance to find someone to confront him?"

"What if he doesn't believe it? Then he said to ask another question, it's endless, and the sky will be dawn. Although we killed the people who went down the mountain and those who were down the mountain, what if there are others in the county? People come back, what should we do if we find them? We have to take away the books and letters in the cave before dawn, and then we have to retreat, if we don’t solve one problem, we may miss our departure.”

"Then let's discuss a countermeasure. Didn't he say that he would ask someone we can answer? Just go straight and say that we can't answer his question until he asks someone we can answer..."

"Isn't that the same? In the Taoist temple, Lu Zhong and the others don't know what to do. If they have already succeeded, let's go over and press the mechanism to reset the poisonous vine..."

"Are you stupid? Didn't you see that the place where he was standing was very clean? It means that he has found a mechanism inside. You can open it, but he can't close it?"

"Oh, if you want me to say, I'll go back to the hut to get a fork, come here with a broom, and bring a torch. Let's clean up the poisonous vines at the entrance of the cave and ignore him at all. What can he do then?"

"There are torches in the tunnel, let's take them out to see if there are many poisonous vines at the entrance of the cave, if there are not many..."

"Once you make a move, who has eyes behind you? Don't underestimate the enemy. If he doesn't have some skills, he won't be so indifferent when he sees us. Beard, you take two people back to the hut to get a fork and broom. Go through the tunnel quickly and come out When the time comes, bring a few torches. Liu Si is right. Let’s clean up the hole first, so we won’t be afraid of that guy’s cunning. Doesn’t he want to ask questions? I will deal with him. It’s not difficult to kill him, but it’s hard. It’s going into the cave to get books and letters, alas, I’m afraid of going to that place once, so let’s do this first, let’s split up.”

Wu Chen listened carefully, his expression became more and more dignified. He didn't expect that Yu Shi'an's personal soldiers who came down the mountain and the patrolmen, yamen servants, and soldiers who closed the mountain at the foot of the mountain were all dead. This place is very important.

The men in black returned to the original place, and one of them stepped forward and said, "Tell me, what do you want to ask, we must be able to answer it, otherwise it will be useless for you to ask."

"Su Chang was arrested by me yesterday. Why didn't you think of a way to seal the tunnel entrance last night? Waiting for me to find out... Yes, you, like Su Chang, think that I must fall into the trap. This question does not count, I ask myself Self-answered, my question is... have you had dinner yet?"

This question made the man in black unable to deal with it. He looked back at his own people, as if asking: Can this question be answered?Is there a pit?

"I didn't delay. You all have to think about such a simple question. If you think about it for a while, your accomplices who went back to get things will all be back."

Hearing this, the man in black couldn't help taking a step back, and returned to the team.

"Don't be nervous, I'm just wondering, don't you have bows and arrows? Wouldn't it be easier to get a bow and arrow and stand at the entrance of the cave and shoot me to death? It's okay, you just pretend I didn't ask, anyway, I can clean the cave entrance, and having a torch is fine for me good."

(End of this chapter)