Chapter 33: The Real Murderer Appears
"Huhu, luckily you showed up in time, otherwise I might have been shot like Shen Xi!" Yin Chuan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hmph, you don't need to worry. I've already mixed this hypnotized target among them. If they take action against us, don't blame me." Linlang chuckled.
Wan Jianjun nodded, "Okay, you guys planned this a long time ago, right? Yin Chuan, I really underestimated you!"
"Did you think we wouldn't be able to see through all this?" Linlang stared at General Wan and said, "This farce in the military camp should end now! Just now, whether it was Du Yunzhang or Brother Yin, they said that Li Huaide committed the crime or that Chen Hui committed suicide. In fact, it's not the truth. They just wanted to expose you. The real murderer of Captain Shen is you! General Wan!"
Wan Jianjun was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter. "Haha...haha...I said...what's your name? Oh right...Ou Ye Linlang, right? Oh, you're so funny! I'm the murderer? Everyone in the Independent Regiment, listen up, is she talking nonsense? Situ Xin, what do you think?"
Situ Xin frowned and shook his head, saying, "I was wondering if you guys, since you really couldn't find the murderer, would just randomly frame someone? But how did you come up with the idea of pinning the crime on Supervisor Wan?"
"Planting a charge? Come on, I have evidence for everything I say. You think that when Shen Hui was killed, this Wan Jianjun hadn't arrived at the military camp yet, so he couldn't be a suspect? You're all wrong! In fact, he didn't arrive at the military camp until the day after the murder, but the night before. Remember the bandit attack on the camp, right?" Linlang stared at Wan Jianjun. "You took advantage of the chaos between the two sides and sneaked into the military camp, connecting with the people you had already planted inside. That's right, Zhang Sixian and Huang Tan are Shen Hui's men on the surface, but in fact they are your spies, Wan Jianjun."
Having said this, General Wan gritted his teeth and said nothing, his face gradually becoming gloomy.
"The secret room technique that Brother Yin just described is correct. Chen Hui made this arrangement after hearing your plan. He originally intended to take advantage of the situation and use fake death to get rid of Duan Biao, and then defect to the Southern Army. But you had already guessed his intentions and used his fake death plan to assassinate Chen Hui in conjunction with military doctor Zhang Sixian."
"Why do you say that? Where is the evidence?" Situ Xin asked in disbelief.
"We have both witnesses and evidence. As for the witness..." Linlang looked at Du Yunzhang, "Brother Du, tell me."
Du Yunzhang continued, "The witness is Huang Tan. He confessed everything he knew at the Huang family compound. Wan Jianjun, you and Black Cloud Village's Qingpao-clad Deng Erniang were in contact through him." He unfolded a piece of paper covered in handprints. "This is his confession. I didn't let him show his face because I was afraid you'd kill him to silence him. But Deng Erniang and you have a relationship based solely on profit. What you can promise her, we can also. That bluff just now was our agreement to lure you into revealing your true intentions."
"As for the physical evidence...Brother Yin——"
Yin Chuan calmly waved the military rank in his hand and said, "That's it!"
"Military rank? You just said that this was the most powerful evidence of Chen Hui's suicide. How did it change so quickly?" Situ Xin was a little angry.
"No, no, no. I just said that this military rank was evidence of Shen Hui's suicide, based on the premise that it was found in Li Huaide's barracks to the left of Shen Hui's barracks. But in fact, I lied. The place where it was actually found was to the right of Shen Hui's barracks—the barracks where you imprisoned us."
"What difference does it make?"
"That's a huge difference! If it was Captain Li's barracks on the left, which happened to be right on the line of sight of the light and shadow illusion, then Chen Hui's suicide could be a possibility. But if it was the barracks on the right, which happened to be between everyone's view of the regimental commander's barracks at the time, then Chen Hui absolutely couldn't have committed suicide there. But why was this blood-stained rank left there? The only explanation is that someone assassinated him there beforehand and somehow moved the body and head to the regimental commander's barracks next door."
"Some method? What method?"
"Because all the barracks for regimental and battalion officers consisted of two layers of tent cloth and thin wooden planks, the commander's barracks had only one layer. The killer took advantage of this, lifting the tent cloth on both sides and moving the body and head to the opposite side. We confirmed that there were indeed a lot of bloodstains on the outside of the tent wall adjacent to the two barracks. If we only looked from the inside, we would definitely not be able to see it."
"But how do you know for sure that it was done by Supervisor Wan?"
"Because—the owner of this military rank is not Captain Shen, but you, Military Supervisor Wan!"
Everyone's eyes were fixed on General Wan, but he remained silent with a gloomy expression.
"What makes you say that this military rank belongs to Lord Wan?" Situ Xin asked.
"There are three reasons. First, Deputy Commander Situ, your rank is Lieutenant Colonel. In the entire independent regiment, no one has the same rank as Commander Shen. So whose rank could it be? That's why I thought of you, General Wan. Secondly, although Commander Shen also has the rank of colonel, the rank on his corpse's uniform has never been lost, and it is impossible for him to deliberately carry another rank at the scene of the crime, so the rank is definitely not Commander Shen's. Thirdly, this is the decisive evidence for your conviction," he said, pulling out a large military uniform from his cotton robe, "Is this your uniform? Although You don't often wear your uniform, but as a military supervisor, you're supposed to wear one. So I went to your barracks and found it. Sure enough, the rank badge wasn't on it, and it was slightly stained with blood. I think you must have arranged a private meeting with Chen Hui through Zhang Sixiang, but you were worried that Chen Hui wouldn't recognize you as a military supervisor if you were wearing casual clothes, so you wore your uniform. It was only during the attack that Chen Hui, in his final struggle, tore off your rank, and fearing the blood on your clothes would arouse suspicion, you quickly took it off and fled the scene, leaving the crucial evidence there.
This time, there was both witnesses and evidence, and Situ Xin could no longer doubt it.
"Master Wan...why are you doing this?"
"Why? Is there even a need to explain this? This is my duty as the military supervisor! Just because Chen Hui is Lord Zhang's savior, does that mean he can do whatever he wants? This man has been secretly colluding with the Sun Huang faction in the south, and has long been at odds with Lord Zhang. Although Lord Zhang has long wanted to get rid of him, he was afraid of being criticized for being ungrateful, so he instructed me to use some special means to get rid of him, so I designed such a big drama. Haha, but... Yin Chuan, you made a mistake in your reasoning. Although I did contact Chen Hui through Zhang Sixiang, how could I let him join me in attacking Shen Hui?"
Yin Chuan was slightly startled. It wasn't Zhang Sixiang? Who else could it be? Huang Tan? That was impossible. Bao Wan, a cowardly wretch from the Huang family, wouldn't have the courage to do that. Could it be... there was a fourth person?
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