Chapter 20 All Dead
Early in the morning, the sun had just risen.
Su Xing was still sleeping soundly. Although he was sleeping on the table, it did not affect his sleep quality at all.
Opposite him, Ye Linghan was still reading the memorial.
After not sleeping all night, there was no sign of fatigue on his handsome face, except for a slight redness under his eyes.
From time to time, he looked up at Su Xing, who was sleeping like a dead pig, his eyes full of disgust, but he did not make a sound to wake him up.
It was so quiet all around, as if the whole world was asleep.
At this moment, a serious voice broke the silence: "Regent, something happened."
Ye Linghan immediately recognized that it was Tianyi's voice. He paused for a moment while reviewing the documents, then said, "Come in."
"Yes." Tianyi pushed the door open and came in. When he saw Su Xing, he stopped for a moment, then took a few steps forward and said with his head down, "I and others have found the concubine of the Minister of Works, the thug who induced the Minister of Personnel to gamble, the beggar the Minister of Justice met, and the Liang that Master Su mentioned."
At this point, Tianyi paused, and when he spoke again, his tone suddenly became low: "They are all dead."
A cold light flashed across Ye Linghan's black eyes for a moment, and then his whole body emanated a terrifying aura that seemed to devour everything.
Even though Tianyi had followed Ye Linghan for five years, he couldn't help but tremble. He buried his head even lower, trying to reduce his presence as much as possible.
Su Xing also felt the change in his dream. The scene in his dream suddenly switched from a sunny summer to a gloomy and cold winter. He couldn't help but shivered, and then he opened his eyes...
He was stunned for a moment, then he slowly raised his head. When he raised his head halfway, he saw Ye Linghan's gloomy and terrifying face, and he immediately woke up.
What, what happened?
Is he in trouble again?
He looked down and realized that he had just fallen asleep on the table...
He was clearly standing on the other side of the wall? Did he fall asleep and sleepwalk to the table?
Su Xing was frightened to death and immediately stood up to kneel down and admit his mistake, but he saw Tianyi in his peripheral vision.
He was slightly startled, then looked over in confusion.
"Where is the body?" Ye Linghan spoke after a long time.
Su Xing was scared to death by this sudden sentence. Corpse?
"Reporting to the Regent." Tianyi replied quickly: "They are all in different places. I have already had people cordon off the scene."
Hearing this, Su Xing instantly understood that something had happened again.
He instantly switched to work mode and looked at Tianyi seriously: "Who died?"
Could it be that another minister died?
Tianyi did not answer directly, but looked up at Ye Linghan.
Seeing that Ye Linghan had no intention of stopping him, he repeated what he had just said.
After hearing this, Su Xing's face became more and more solemn. They were all dead, which meant...
He suddenly turned his head to look at Ye Linghan. Just as he was about to speak, he remembered the previous two experiences of being strangled by the neck, and suddenly he dared not say anything.
Anyway, Ye Linghan is so powerful, he must have thought of it a long time ago.
But this time Ye Linghan took the initiative to ask: "What did you think of?"
Su Xing was startled and looked at Ye Linghan again. After hesitating for a moment, he could not help but say, "I dare to speculate that the murderer may have noticed the progress of our investigation, so he is anxious to kill and silence him."
Is Ye Linghan going to strangle him again?
Su Xing subconsciously took two steps back, then slowly shrugged his shoulders, trying to hide his slender neck...
Ye Linghan didn't have time to pay attention to Su Xing's childish actions. He thought for a moment and ordered, "Let's go to the scene first."
The first scene was in a long-abandoned house, where the concubine of the Minister of Works died.
This time it wasn't some strange death, just a simple kill with one knife.
There was a foot-long dagger stuck in the victim's chest, with the blade completely embedded in his body.
The concubine had a terrified expression, her eyes were wide open, their eyeballs almost bulging out of their sockets, her mouth was wide open, and there were even signs of tearing at the corners of her mouth, which showed how terrified she was before she died.
After Su Xing carefully examined the body, he began to search the area around it carefully.
Although Ye Linghan stood still, his eyes kept scanning the corpse and the surroundings.
After a long time, Su Xing walked up to Ye Linghan and reported: "Lord Regent, from what we can see so far, the deceased should have died from a knife wound on the chest. The wound is very deep and the stab was very accurate. The murderer is likely a professional."
Ye Linghan listened quietly, his expression becoming increasingly gloomy.
Su Xing continued, "This house looks abandoned for a long time, but there are signs of recent life. I guess the deceased lived here after he disappeared."
After listening for a long time, Ye Linghan asked, "Anything else?"
Su Xing shook his head solemnly: "No, except for the dagger, the murderer did not leave any trace."
From the death of the two ministers to the death of this concubine and others, we can see the murderer's cunning and patience, as well as his unfathomable strength.
Su Xing vaguely felt that the murderer's identity was not ordinary...
The next three crime scenes were almost identical to the first one. All of them were fatal with one strike. The only difference was the murder weapon.
There was a wooden hairpin stuck in the gangster's chest. Judging from his disheveled hair, the hairpin might be his.
There was a piece of dry branch stuck in the beggar's chest, which matched the dry tree trunk next to the body.
Young Master Liang was stabbed in the chest by a writing brush. Most of the brush was inserted into the chest cavity, and the exposed part was stained with blood. It took Su Xing a long time to recognize it.
This makes the case even more difficult to investigate, because the murderer did not bring the murder weapon with him, but used whatever was on the body or around the deceased!
This once again shows how terrible the murderer is. He did not take these people seriously at all and did not even bother to prepare the murder weapon.
Su Xing couldn't help but reveal a look of horror on his face. Now that he was involved in this case, would he also be targeted by the murderer?
"Are you scared?" Ye Linghan walked behind Su Xing without him noticing, with a hint of sarcasm in his cold expression.
Su Xing's body trembled, and he quickly denied: "I didn't do that." But his tone was a little flustered and unconvincing.
He felt extremely ashamed. As an investigator, he was actually afraid of the murderer, and was discovered by Ye Linghan.
Su Xing, you are not allowed to be so useless!
He cursed himself in his heart, then raised his head and said calmly: "Please believe me, Regent. I will never back down."
Ye Linghan looked at Su Xing, whose face turned pale with fear, but who was too stubborn to admit his childishness, and a strange look flashed in his eyes.
But his tone was contemptuous and ruthless: "You are not worthy of my trust."
Su Xingjun's face froze, and his cheeks felt like they were on fire.
He was both angry and embarrassed. Why did Ye Linghan look down on him?
Even if he was afraid, he was sincere in saying he would not back down. How could you underestimate his determination?
But he could only think about these words in his heart and dared not express them out loud.
At this moment, he saw Mr. Liang being lifted up by the guards, and suddenly exclaimed: "Wait a minute!"
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