Volume 10 Chapter 97

The person who rushed out first was none other than Gu Chen.

His speed was as fast as lightning. In just a blink of an eye, he was in front of the opponent. The spiritual spear in his hand stabbed forward. The spiritual cultivator didn't even have a chance to react, and was stabbed in the lower abdomen by Gu Chen.

There was a thud in the helix of the ear, and Gu Chen's powerful, heavy and extremely fast shot directly penetrated the opponent's body. The spiritual cultivator screamed in agony until he died, his body still hanging on Gu Chen's spiritual gun.

This was the first time Yan Xi saw Gu Chen's skills. She could really describe them as amazing. When she first met Gu Chen, she felt that this young man had profound cultivation and the spiritual pressure he revealed was extremely strong. But now that she saw his Taking action, Yan Xi felt that he still underestimated him.

Gu Chen shook his gun and threw the body down. At the same time, he snorted coldly and shouted to the soldiers around him: "Drag him down!"

After hearing his order, people woke up from a dream, stepped forward one after another, and pulled each other's bodies out with all their hands.

Gu Chen looked back and saw that his uncle had sat back on the horse with the help of everyone and was wiping the cold sweat with lingering fear. He shook his head secretly, picked up the gun and walked towards the house.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, Yan Xi chased after her with a spiritual sword in hand. Gu Chen glanced at her and asked, "Why did Miss Yan come in?"

Yan Xi smiled and said, "Of course I will help you capture the assassin!"

"That's not necessary." Gu Chen waved his hand proudly without any appreciation and said: "If Miss Yan really wants to help, just stay outside and protect my uncle for me. As for capturing a few assassins, the soldiers and I are enough. !”

Yan Xi still wanted to speak, but Gu Chen had already strode away.

Yan Xi felt helpless when her hot face was pressed against her. Although she didn't have much contact with Gu Chen, she could tell that he was arrogant and conceited. If she insisted on helping him, she would make him feel... I look down on him. Yan Xi quickly exited the house and stood back beside Gu Chong.

It only took Gu Chen two cups of tea to enter the house. In about half an hour, the battle in the house was over.

Although the scale of this battle was not large, the soldiers of the Lieutenant's Mansion suffered a lot of casualties. There were as many as three to four hundred people. However, they also killed five enemy spiritual cultivators and captured six. One of them was killed by Gu Chen. There were three spiritual cultivators, and he captured two others alive.

When the battle was over, Gu Chen immediately ordered the scene to be cleaned up and personally escorted the six captured spiritual cultivators back to the Lieutenant's Mansion for interrogation.

Gu Chen is a master of spiritual martial arts, but not an expert in interrogation. His interrogation method is simple and rough, which is to use constant torture.

The six spiritual cultivators were very strict. No matter how they tortured them, they still insisted that they came to Yancheng to do business.

How could Gu Chen believe such nonsense? They had a lot of money, but they didn't have the goods they were hoarding. Furthermore, how could it be possible for more than ten people to be in business and also be spiritual cultivators?

Seeing that Gu Chen had no other method except torture, Yan Xi shook her head secretly. She suggested to Gu Chen to search carefully in the houses where these spiritual cultivators lived. If they were really assassins, there must be someone in the house. clue.

Gu Chen thought about it carefully and felt that what Yan Xi said was reasonable, so he immediately sent his shrewd and astute men to the house again to search again.

However, these people from the Lieutenant's Mansion searched the entire house and found nothing. In the end, they had no choice but to come back and try to revive Gu Chen.

After hearing the reports from his men, Gu Chen looked at Yan Xi, the expression on his face undoubtedly said: How is it? Searching is useless. To deal with these people, you have to use strong methods. Yan Xi disagreed, thinking that the people in the Lieutenant's Mansion must have made some omissions. She took four of her subordinates and went to the house in person to search for clues.

Yan Xi is a ranger himself, so he naturally understands the habits of rangers best.

She walked from room to room in the house, looking here and there, touching here and there, and found nothing wrong. After searching twice, she walked to the center of the yard and stood there, meditating in her shoes. If she were one of these Ningren and was really an assassin, where would she hide the weapons specifically used for assassination?

Soon, her eyes were attracted to an old tree in the yard, and she subconsciously walked forward. First she raised her eyes to look at the fork of the tree, and then knocked on the trunk. She found nothing unusual. She was frowning in thought. Suddenly, there was something unusual about the grass beneath my feet.

The grass in other places was neat, but the patch of grass in front of the tree was very messy. It was obvious that people were walking around here frequently. Yan Xi slowly squatted down and touched it slowly, then stretched out her hands, grabbed the grass, and suddenly lifted it up. With a crash, a piece of turf more than two feet long was pulled off the ground by her.

Looking down, there was a square deep pit under the turf, with a wooden box placed in it. Yan Xi's eyes lit up, he threw away the turf and carefully lifted the box out. This box is not light, even Yan Xi has to use all his strength. After she put forward the box, her subordinates immediately came forward, checked it carefully, and confirmed that there was no mechanism, and then slowly opened the lid of the box.

People want to take a look inside, well, the boxes are filled with crossbows specially used by the Fengjun Army. Counting them one by one, there are more than ten. And under the crossbows, that is, at the bottom of the box, there are densely packed These crossbow arrows are specially made and made of pure steel. If the person using the crossbow is a spiritual cultivator, then the crossbow arrows can be spiritualized first so that they can shoot spiritual arrows.

No wonder the box is so heavy! Yan Xi sneered, picked up a crossbow arrow, and took a closer look. It was exactly the same as the crossbow arrow shot by the assassin who assassinated them during the day. This is ironclad evidence. Putting these things in front of those Ning people's spiritual practitioners will be enough to break their psychological defenses.

Yan Xi's trip was worthwhile, and he returned to the Lieutenant's Mansion with the wooden box.

When Gu Chen saw the things in the wooden box, he was also shocked. He didn't expect Yan Xi to really find evidence, nor did he expect that these Ning people's spiritual practitioners who claimed to be businessmen were really the assassins who assassinated the king.

With these things, Gu Chen was refreshed and alerted the six captured spiritual practitioners again. This time he interrogated them one by one.

Without evidence, the Ning people's spiritual practitioners could still be stubborn. Now that the evidence has fallen into Gu Chen's hands, they can no longer deny it and can only respond in silence.

Seeing that they were still unwilling to confess even with the evidence in front of them, Gu Chen was ready to torture them again, but was stopped by Yan Xi, who proposed that she come to the trial.

In fact, at this point, Gu Chen could have reported to Tang Yin. After all, the evidence was irrefutable. Even if they did not confess, it was enough to convict them.

However, he did not want to waste this rare opportunity. He wanted to do his best and give the king a complete confession, and by the way, he could also dampen the sharpness of the hidden arrows and enhance the prestige of the Lieutenant's Mansion.

He asked Yan Xi to interrogate the assassin with a try-and-see attitude. Yan Xi's interrogation was much more skillful than Gu Chen's. He used coaxing, deceiving and intimidation, and used all kinds of tricks.

During the interrogation, she first made it clear what was at stake. If she told the truth, she could not only be exempted from punishment, but she might even be reused by the court. If she refused to tell the truth, not only would she suffer, but her family in Ningdi would also be implicated, and it was possible that her entire clan would be implicated. Then she used deceitful means to explain with a shameless face that everyone else had confessed, but you had not. In the end, everyone else could be acquitted, promoted and made a fortune, but you wanted your whole family to die. Is it worth it?

Yan Xi basically used this set of true and false words to every Ningren spiritual practitioner. It was impossible to fool everyone, but not everyone was immune. When she interrogated the fourth person, the Ningren spiritual practitioner finally couldn't stand it anymore and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Did they all admit it?"

"Of course." Yan Xi nodded calmly, and took out a few confessions that seemed to have been signed and sealed, and shook them in front of the man, saying: "They told everything they knew. How long are you going to hide it? Do you really want to dig a grave for yourself and your family?"

Her psychological tactics were very successful. The Ningren spiritual practitioner gritted his teeth and cursed him as a spineless person, and then nodded at Yan Xi and said: "That's right! We are the assassins who assassinated Tang Yin, the leader of the Feng bandits! Today I fell into your hands, you can kill me or cut me up as you like, but this has nothing to do with my family..."

Hearing him come to this, Yan Xi stopped asking questions and left the following matters to Gu Chen.

This is a chain reaction. As long as one person's mouth is opened, the next thing will be much easier.

Through this person's confession, Gu Chen interrogated the previous few people again. Without saying anything more, he directly put the confession of the previous person in front of them.

After seeing their companions' confessions, the psychological defenses of these tortured spiritual practitioners completely collapsed. Five of the six confessed and admitted that they participated in the assassination of Tang Yin. However, they were only participants, not decision makers. The decision maker of this assassination was Zixu, the left envoy of Nifengliu. After the operation failed, Zixu quietly left Yancheng, leaving them to continue lurking and looking for opportunities.

The assassins' confessions were all consistent, and they could basically be confirmed as facts. Gu Chen did not delay any longer and ordered people to secretly transfer the assassins out of the prison and place them in another hidden place, and sent someone to keep a close watch on them. Then, he took the confession and went to the palace with Gu Chong and Yan Xi overnight to meet Tang Yin and report the situation.

It was late at night. When they arrived at the palace, Tang Yin had already fallen asleep, and the guards outside the palace stopped them all.

Gu Chong stepped forward and said with a smile: "We have an urgent matter to see the king!"

The guards of the palace don't care what your official rank is. Even if the king comes, you have to look at their faces. The guards sneered and the captain of the guards bowed and said: "General Gu, I'm sorry, the king has rested and will not see anyone!"

Gu Chong was still talking, Gu Chen rushed forward, grabbed the captain of the guards by the collar, lifted it up, and shouted: "It's urgent. If you delay, you won't be able to save your head even if you have ten heads!"

The guards of the palace are usually arrogant, so how could they be bullied? The captain of the guards screamed and shouted: "How dare you!" He raised his fist and hit Gu Chen hard in the face. The latter would never let him hit him. The hand holding his collar suddenly shrugged, and the tall and strong body of the captain of the guard flew out sideways.

At this moment, the other guards were furious. They rushed forward and surrounded Gu Chen, Gu Chong, and Yan Xi. At this moment, someone inside the palace gate shouted in a deep voice: "Stop! What's going on?"