Wow——
Cold water mixed with ice cubes was poured on Huai Rui's face, which once again tortured the promising doctor to wake him up.
"Ho, ho..."
Huairui sprayed out the ice water from his nose and breathed hard.
His wrists and ankles were bound by heavy steel shackles,
The wounds on his body were bleeding continuously, and there were bursts of pain.
The hazy brain could barely recall the previous experience.
This is the Zhenfusi dungeon,
He was knocked unconscious by the dragon-headed weirdo, and was immediately taken to the Zhenfusi Prison for strict supervision.
The Zhenfu Secretary quickly found all the evidence in the mansion, and together with Mrs. Huai's confusing testimony, it was enough to determine Huai Rui's role in this change.
The status and privileges of Dr. Kanebu are completely invalidated in prison.
He was fed Gu worms, tortured in a dazed state, and told everything he knew.
"I've told you everything I know. That weirdo who wore a dragon head and took away the blue and black stone statue, I really don't know who he is..."
At this point, Huairui no longer has any hope of being exonerated and regaining his official status. He just wants to die quickly and avoid torture.
"That's not it."
The expressionless and sallow prison officer from the Department of Justice sat behind the desk.
With that hoarse voice that sounded like fingernails scratching glass, he asked calmly: "Tell me, your blue and black stone statue, and the method of using the stone statue to make specimens of Homo sapiens.
Was it taught to you by an alchemist you met in Quzhou, Jiannan Road five years ago? "
Huai Rui said: "Yes. I met him at the Jinhe Bridge in Quzhou and paid him to give me a fortune telling about my future career. He then handed the stone statue to me and told me about making a flute The method of making human specimens. I originally thought this method was too evil and wanted to throw away the stone statue, but I didn’t know why, and I never saw the alchemist again after that.”
"..."
The prison officer stared at him indifferently for a long time, then with a snap, he took out a large stack of files from the stool beside him and slapped it on the table, "Five years ago, that is, the second year of Xianhe, you worked as a secretary at the Chang'an Household Department. He held the post of Ling Shi. He did not leave within fifty miles of Chang'an City for a whole year.
In the years before and after Xianhe, the furthest you went was Luoyang.
All traffic history has written records at various passes.
You have never been to Quzhou in your life. "
"What?"
Huairui was shocked, "How could it be possible? I remember it very clearly..."
The prison officer said indifferently: "Quzhou belongs to the Rongzhou Governor's Mansion and governs Zhuti County. As the secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs of Chang'an City, what reason do you have to go there?"
"but..."
Huairui hugged his head and said in a panic: "I remember that the Jinhe Bridge is a stone bridge, and there are stone lions on the guardrails on both sides of the bridge, holding or stepping on balls.
There is a Yuelai Restaurant at the head of Jinhe Bridge. The flag of the restaurant is dark red.
The alchemist has a fortune-telling stall right in front of the wine flag..."
Huairui held his head and struggled to remember. The more he recalled, the paler his face became - he really couldn't remember why he went to Quzhou, nor when he went.
The prison officer stood up silently holding the file, left the secret room, passed through the cold corridor, and came to another room.
Lin Hongbo, the commander of the Zhenfu Division, sat behind the table and concentrated on reading the on-site reports and analyzes submitted by his subordinates. He asked without raising his head, "What did he say?"
"The memory of being knocked unconscious by the dragon-headed man and snatching away the blue and black stone statue is true. The memory of meeting the alchemist is false. It may be a forged memory infused with alienated substances or other methods."
The prison officer with a sallow complexion pulled out dozens of portraits from the file and placed them on the table, "These are the portraits that Huai Rui drew after he was implanted with Gu insects and lost consciousness.
They are the beggars of Chang'an City whom he devoured with his zombie aliens;
The four Listening to the Rain monks who accepted the commission;
leader; leader
And the alchemist in his memory. "
I don’t know how these portraits were painted, but they are all lifelike.
Lin Hongbo glanced at it and said: "Secretly bring the portrait of the beggar to the beggar in Chang'an City so that he can identify the authenticity.
As for the three remaining monks from the Listening to the Rain Realm who are still alive, we secretly posted a reward and contacted Kou Zhian in the ghost market to ask him to help us find clues. "
"What about the leader?"
The prison officer asked: "Do you want to pursue it further?"
"Yes. He took away the blue and black stone statue. He should also put a reward of 10,000 yuan on it, and mark it as a suspected high-level monk of the Listening to the Rain Realm."
Lin Hongbo nodded, looked at the last portrait of the alchemist, and said nothing.
That is, the portrait of Jun Qianzi.
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Li Ang, who didn't know that he had been listed on Zhenfusi's most wanted list as a leading weirdo, had been silently waiting for news after returning home and observing Zhenfusi's handling of this matter.
Things turned out exactly as he thought. The Zhenfu Secretary described the collapse of Jinbu Huaizhong's residence as a result of disrepair and self-destruction.
Huai Rui himself was unfortunately killed, but his mother and the servants in the house were still alive.
"It seems that the Zhenfu Department has also found out the connection between Huai Rui and the mutation. He has probably been imprisoned in the dungeon and tortured to extract a confession."
Li Ang thought silently, that purple baby can create a ghost realm, which is at least a third-level alien according to its level, and requires a Cloud Patrolling Realm monk to solve it.
The appearance of this level of aliens in Chang'an City is definitely a big deal.
Fortunately, during the outbreak of the mutation, only Huai Rui and the burly monk known as Brother Wei died, otherwise a large number of people would have lost their official positions.
"I wonder if the scholar and the dwarf ran away."
Li Ang thought about it casually. His ink silk form can effectively block all smells, so he doesn't have to worry about being tracked by the Suppressing Sixi Dog.
Moreover, it can also block spiritual power detection, so the Zhenfu Division should not be able to trace him.
The scholar and others have been walking around the world for so long, maybe there is a way to escape capture, right? For example, absconding into a ghost market to avoid the limelight.
Now that Huai Rui has been arrested and brought to justice, Li Ang can finally start studying the blue and black stone statue.
In order to prevent the stone statue itself from causing any changes, he did not rush to take it out. Instead, he first activated the ink threads to form a spherical shape, covering his whole body, and then took the stone statue out of the ink threads.
"Inexplicably, I feel like I'm hiding under the quilt and playing with a GB machine."
Li Ang shook his head and looked carefully at the green and black stone statue.
