Murder

After the door of the basement was closed, the luminous pearls embedded in the four walls faintly lit up, illuminating the interior furnishings.The layout of the basement is very similar to the "room" in Chi Yebai's memory, the difference is that each bookshelf is three people high, and every few steps there is a lamp covered by a glass lamp embedded in the bookshelf.

Chi Yebai didn't care to look at the others carefully, and went straight to the depths of the basement.

On the wall deep in the basement are five tightly closed chambers.In fact, apart from the ceiling and the floor, the three walls of the basement are all such secret rooms.Among them, the one that Chi Yebai wanted to enter was located in the southeast corner.

The hidden locks are indeed the ones he overheard last time.The hidden lock of the secret room is more complicated than that of the basement, and when Chi Yebai fully opened it, a thin layer of sweat was already breaking out on his back.

The mechanism made a hoarse creaking sound, and retreated into the stone wall one after another.There was a narrow crack in the heavy stone door, and Chi Yebai stretched out his hand to push it open.

The moment his palm touched Shimen, he stopped suddenly.

Some vague memories came out of his mind one after another, making him vomit.

I seem to have touched this stone gate.Chi Yebai slowly moved his hand down.At that time, it seemed shorter and smaller than it is now, and the door hadn't been reinforced so heavy that it could be opened with a single push... He stopped his hands and took a deep breath to calm down.

What was in the secret room, he suddenly became frightened.

But the next moment, he still pushed the door open.

This secret room is far smaller than the secret room that stores the affairs of big gangs such as Shaolin and Wudang.There is a shelf in the room, and there are seven or eight wooden boxes on the shelf, all of which are firmly locked by iron locks.

Chi Yebai picked up the top wooden box, stretched out his fingers and broke the lock.There were many books in the wooden box, neatly arranged, and he picked up the top one.

The cover reads "Divine Eagle Camp" and a word "one", and everything else is blank.Chi Yebai opened it and found that it was a detailed register.

The first person was Pei Letian, who was 11 years old when he died.After the assessment, almost all physical fitness items failed.After being tortured, he died three days later.

The second person was Zhu Ping, who was nine years old when he died. Because he was stabbed by his companion during the assessment, he couldn't walk with his left leg.He was soaked in water for five days without eating, and died of starvation.

The third person, Tong Zhengde, was 11 years old when he died, and was caught trying to escape from the Shenying camp.After letting the apprentices of the Condor Battalion test sixteen torture techniques on him, he bled to death due to excessive bleeding.

Chi Yebai quickly scrolled down.

Peng Cheng, Wan Jiaying, Cheng Minglang, Yan Wende, Xiang Daan... Behind the paper with each child's name, height, weight, date of death, and age are written extremely detailed records of torture experiments.

The torture Pei Letian received was done by three apprentices from the Shenying Camp, using 31 kinds of torture tools successively.They wanted to keep Pei Letian alive, but also dug out as much content as possible from him.The questions asked in the record are extremely detailed, including where Pei Letian's home is, the age of his parents, what kind of land is planted at home, how his uncle's house is arranged, and so on.It was full of useless things, but Chi Yebai understood the intention of these questions: they took Pei Letian as a captive, a captured enemy, and asked the apprentice to practice how to dig out the lowest content from his head.

Among the three apprentices who tortured Pei Letian, one was Tong Zhengde.Chi Yebai flipped through the date when he was caught, which was the second day after Pei Letian's death.

His head hurts, and the deep-hidden memory is about to come out like a needle, bringing sharp pain.

Chi Yebai put down the book and gasped for breath.He closed his eyes and quickly fell into the empty room.The room was still dim, and he ran fast, heading deeper and deeper.

Sima Feng pulled him, trying to stop his footsteps.In the depths where the lights couldn't reach, Wen Xuanzhou stood quietly, his hands made a gesture of invitation to him: "They are here."

Chi Yebai hesitated for a moment, then raised his legs and walked towards the direction Wen Xuanzhou pointed out—but the moment he left, Sima Feng hugged him tightly behind him.

He opened his eyes suddenly and woke up, sweating profusely all over his body.

He had actually read this booklet.Chi Yebai finally remembered.Not only did he read it, but he still firmly remembers the contents inside.

There are 21 children in the first booklet, almost all of whom were tortured to death.In the second booklet were twelve, and the apprentices of the Condor Battalion collected data on the time from bloodletting to death on them.There are seven people in the third booklet, all of whom committed suicide because of madness.

At that time, I only read these three books, and these three books were only one-third of the wooden box.

The feeling of vomiting could not be eliminated, Chi Yebai slowly sat down against the wall.

He remembered.The first thing Wen Xuanzhou taught him to make that "room" was to teach him to seal up the memories related to the Condor Camp and put them in the deepest part of the room, where he would not be found by himself.

"I've also heard about the Shenying Camp." Li Yijin laughed.

He took sweet-scented osmanthus wine and drank with Sima Feng.At the banquet, Sima Feng told him about Shenying Camp and Shenying Policy.

When Li Yijin was still a monk in Shaolin, because he was highly valued by the abbot of Shaolin, he came into contact with many secrets of the world.Although the Shenying Camp was established by the imperial court, it has also attracted the attention of many people in the Jianghu.

"However, how the court operates in the Shenying Camp, and what you said King Lu did, I really don't know." He whispered, "Shaolin pays attention to the Shenying Camp only because it has trained many brilliant assassins. It has nothing to do with warriors or the forces behind it."

Sima Feng thought about it, so he stopped asking.He just wanted to wait for Lin Shaoyi to come back, to see if he brought back any good news related to Chi Yebai.

Thinking of Lin Shaoyi's purpose for inviting him here, he quickly asked Li Yijin about what happened in Shifang City.

The three people who died in Shifang City some time ago were all sons of wealthy families, but because of the hot weather, including Mr. Xie who died recently, all three of them had already been buried in the ground.I don't know about the first two, but when Mr. Xie had an accident, there was a great commotion in Shifang City.Mr. Xie is the only son of Xie Ankang, a wealthy businessman in the city. Xie Ankang was very sad, and when he saw his son's body, he asked the government to catch the murderer.

"But an hour later, a strange thing happened." Li Yijin said mysteriously, "Xie Ankang was also present when Wu made the autopsy. According to the information we inquired, Xie Ankang was accompanied by Wu Zuo and two policemen at the time." The autopsy was only halfway through, and Xie Ankang withdrew his preface, forbidding outsiders to touch the corpse again. The coordinator and the two police officers kept their mouths shut, and we couldn't find any information, only that Xie Ankang stuffed money with the government, and finally even arrested him. No mention of the murderer. Xie Ankang took his son's body home and buried it within a few days."

Sima Feng narrowed his eyes.

"It seems that there is something weird about the corpse."

"When the body was found, it was completely naked and curled up in the ditch." Li Yijin put down the wine glass, and his tone seemed to be telling a story. The ditch is so narrow that he was pushed in."

Sima Feng: "..."

Li Yijin: "According to those who saw it, I'm afraid Mr. Xie's back and neck bones are broken, otherwise he won't be able to get in."

Sima Feng felt nauseous for a while, and quickly put down the snack in his hand: "Is there anything else?"

Li Yijin thought for a while: "Yes."

Before Mr. Xie's body was found, he had been missing for half a month.

Xie Ankang was not sure that his son was missing at first, he just thought that he went to Yanyu Building to drink flowers and wine, and didn't want to come back.But one day passed, and two days passed, Xie Ankang couldn't sit still, and the three wives and four concubines in Mr. Xie's family couldn't sit still anymore, and they all went to the Yanyu Building to find someone.Xie Ankang sent a housekeeper over there, but the housekeeper came back soon, saying that Young Master had never been to Yanyu Building recently.

Mr. Xie has good friends in the brothel, and there are more than one.The housekeeper asked randomly, no one had seen Mr. Xie.

Xie Ankang didn't feel right until the servants who went to the homes of Mr. Xie's cronies to inquire about him also came back, and Xie Ankang felt that something was wrong: his son had disappeared without going anywhere.

When the Shaoyi League began to search for Zhuo Yong, they also discovered the disappearance of several family members in Shifang City.But like Xie Ankang, they kept secret about the fact of their son's disappearance and violent death, and refused to reveal a single word.

The more Sima Feng listened to it, the more weird he felt, and great interest arose in his heart.He decided to go to Gan Le to discuss it.

Gan Lele and Song Beiyan joined the Shaoyi League, and A Jia and A Yi led the way.Song Beiyan saw the twins for the first time, so she was so curious that she caught them asking questions.

"Does it hurt when Ah Jia is injured?" He asked.

Ah Yi seemed to have been asked this question many times, so he slapped Ah Jia on the back of the head with a wave of his hand.

"It doesn't hurt." He replied.

"I'm in pain!" Ah Jia shouted.

The two took the guests to the wing room, and within half a day, they had gotten to know each other very well, and began to communicate with each other about all kinds of gossip about the Shaoyi League and the Sima Family.

Ah Jia and Ah Yi saw that Lin Shaoyi and Li Yijin were on good terms, and even revealed the secret exchange of letters between the leader and the master.All the gossip Song Beiyan could tell was from Ah Si and Murong Hai, and since he hadn't lived in Sima's family long enough, the level of detail was far less than that of Ah Jia and Ah Yi.At this time, Gan Lexi began to enthusiastically fill in various details for him, from when Sima Feng hugged Chi Yebai who was wearing women's clothes and kissed non-stop when he was a child, to how the two practiced swords back and forth in the Yingbeishe training ground, It's all clear.

The three children admired him so much that they all listened attentively to what he said.

Sima Feng ran over quickly and cruelly interrupted Gan Lele who was talking endlessly.

"You guys can talk about it after I'm gone." He quickly told Gan Yue the news from Li Yijin's end, and asked him what he thought and whether he wanted to dig the grave.

Gan Le could not bear to roll his eyes at him: "Can you dig other people's graves if you want?"

"If you don't dig, you won't find any clues."

"It's not easy to dig." Gan Le said, "Seeing that Mr. Xie is so taboo, there must be something shady on his son's body."