As soon as the shopkeeper got up, he heard some noise outside. Before he could put on his shoes, he was held down by a wolf-like policeman.
"Tie them up."
Zhao Lin held the ax at his waist and stared at the shopkeeper's every move.
The shopkeeper didn't resist and allowed the police to tie him up.
"Master, I think you look familiar." The shopkeeper didn't panic and looked at Zhao Lin calmly.
"You are the one who cannot be judged by appearance!"
Zhao Lin said coldly: "Tell me, how many exits are there in the secret passage under the inn? Where are they?"
"What secret passage?" The shopkeeper looked confused.
Liang Song walked to the bed, lifted up the quilt, and moved the bed board, revealing a two-foot-wide hole.
The shopkeeper only glanced at it and turned his head.
Zhao Lin said slowly: "Cover the things first, otherwise you may run away if you hear the sound."
When the shopkeeper heard the words "Wen Gensheng", his expression changed drastically and he looked over suddenly.
"Tell me, how many exits does the tunnel have?" Zhao Lin asked again.
The shopkeeper lowered his gaze and said nothing.
Zhao Lin's face darkened, "If you confess, you will be lenient, if you resist, you will be severely punished. If you don't tell me, you will be punished."
The shopkeeper remained indifferent.
At this time, Tu Wuyan came over with a box, "Captain Zhao, is he the one?"
"Hard work butchering the head."
Zhao Lin nodded, turned around, walked out of the room, and came to the lobby. He saw the inn's waiters, accountants, cooks, and others were tied up and lined up in the lobby.
Guests upstairs and downstairs hid in the guest rooms, and some boldly opened the door cracks to look out.
Zhao Lin leaned over and put his ear to the floor. After listening for a while, he didn't notice any movement underground, and then walked back to the lounge.
Bang bang bang...
The shopkeeper was hung from the beam. Tu Wuyan shook the riding whip with nine tassels on the tail and whipped him head and face.
"Thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven..."
The shopkeeper clenched his teeth and his whole body trembled. He was wet from head to toe, and he couldn't tell whether it was sweat or blood.
"Strong enough to withstand forty blows of the nine-tailed whip."
Tu Wuyan praised him, turned around and took out a packet of salt from the wooden box, and applied it on his wound. He said with a smile as he applied it, "Be patient, this stuff can make the wound heal faster."
The shopkeeper's mouth twitched in pain, but he refused to open his mouth.
Zhao Lin sighed when he saw this, "Butou, don't you claim to have one hundred and eight kinds of torture? Why can you only crack a whip?"
Tu Wuyan wanted to play for a while, but he laughed when he heard this, "Captain Zhao is laughing, I'll let him open his mouth right now."
As he spoke, he took out a box from the box. The box contained a bunch of steel needles. He walked to the shopkeeper holding the box and said with a smile: "This is the five-color needle passed down from my family. It penetrates the five meridians of the human body and contains cold and heat." , itching, pain, and numbness."
"Although these five reactions alone are nothing, when combined together they will definitely let you know what a life and death dilemma is."
Tu Wuyan came to the shopkeeper with a long steel needle in his hand and aimed it at his left waist...
"I said." The shopkeeper suddenly said.
Zhao Lin was a little surprised. He didn't expect that he would be so strong when he was whipped, but he would soften when he saw the needle. But this is normal, everyone's pain points are different.
"Recruited?"
Tu Wuyan looked disappointed, put the needle in the box and stepped aside.
"There is a map hanging on the wall behind the counter. Bring it to me and I will tell you."
The shopkeeper gasped.
Zhao Lin called someone to bring in the map, unfolded it and faced the shopkeeper, "Where are the exits?"
The shopkeeper took a look at the map and said, "There is one under the stable's trough..."
Zhao Lin winked at the policemen around him and asked them to lead people to guard him.
The shopkeeper continued: "There is one next to the drainage ditch on the east wall."
Zhao Lin glanced at the map and didn't see the drainage ditch mark. He frowned and said, "Where is the drainage ditch?"
The shopkeeper didn't seem to be able to see the map clearly. He squinted his eyes for a while and then said in a hoarse voice: "Get it closer and I'll point it out to you."
"good."
Just as Zhao Lin was about to walk over, he suddenly felt a chill rising from the bottom of his heart, and the hairs all over his body stood up.
This sound...
Why is it the same as Wen Gensheng in the tunnel?
No, there were clearly two people talking in the tunnel. One is the shopkeeper in front of me, and the other is Wen Gensheng. Why did the shopkeeper's voice suddenly change to Wen Gensheng's?
Zhao Lin suddenly realized that he might have fallen into a misunderstanding, or that he believed his ears too much.
If you hear two people's voices, does it mean they are two people?
In the blink of an eye, Zhao Lin's mind suddenly changed, he took back his stepped foot and shouted: "He knows martial arts!"
The shopkeeper shook his arms and broke all the ropes on his body. He jumped forward and reached out to grab Zhao Lin.
Zhao Lin did not retreat but advanced, raised his hand and punched him.
He now understands that the shopkeeper is Wen Gensheng, and Wen Gensheng is the shopkeeper!
He was alone in the conversation in the tunnel, asking and answering questions.
The world of schizophrenia, multiple personalities, and abnormality is indeed difficult for ordinary people to understand.
Wen Gensheng has been hiding his cultivation for many years. According to his master, his current strength is suppressed at the third level of the force realm. He is about to break through but has not yet broken through to the Qi realm.
Being in the same force realm, Zhao Lin didn't need to be afraid of him, and he also had armor on him, so he could just attack.
boom!
The fists and palms collided, and Zhao Lin took two steps back. Wen Gensheng flew up and landed behind the earthen bed, spitting out a mouthful of blood with a "wow" sound.
Wen Gensheng looked in disbelief. He originally wanted to catch or seriously injure Zhao Lin to give himself a chance to escape, but he didn't expect Zhao Lin to be so brave.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
Several detectives reacted, raised their crossbows and fired at Wen Gensheng.
Wen Gensheng lifted up the bed and quilt to block the flying crossbow arrows, then turned over and jumped into the secret passage.
Tao Er was stunned when he saw someone running away. He yelled and was about to jump into the hole.
Zhao Lin stopped him and said, "It's dangerous inside, don't go in!"
Tao Er was stunned and said: "What should we do?"
Zhao Lin lay on the floor, listened carefully, and at the same time ordered: "Guard the entrance to the secret passage and pour poisonous smoke into it."
The detectives in the room immediately took action, took out the poisonous weeds brought from the arsenal, placed them at the entrance of the secret passage, lit them, and threw them in.
Poisonous forage contains more than a dozen kinds of highly poisonous grass, such as croton, wolfsbane, arsenic, stone yellow, and sand oil. It was used in battles in the early years. People and animals will be poisoned quickly after smelling it, making it difficult to breathe. Over time, they will bleed from the orifices. And die.
The three detectives raised their crossbows and pointed them at the earthen bed.
One person is in the middle and at the back, and the other two are in the front on the left and right, forming an inverted triangle.
"He actually knows how to cross fire."
Zhao Lin nodded secretly, thinking that even a master of Qi realm would have a hard time escaping unprepared if he came out of the tunnel unprepared.
There was no movement in the tunnel at first, but soon after the poisonous weeds were thrown in, there was a cough, followed by the sound of staggering footsteps, pointing to the west side of the inn.
"You guys stay here, Brother Liang and Tao Zhuang follow me."
Zhao Lin stood up, walked out of the lounge quickly, and said to the detective guarding the hall: "Go and call Captou Shi and Capt. Jin in."
The catcher responded, quickly ran outside, and said to Shi Dahai and Jin Liqun: "Captain Zhao asked the two catchers to lead people in to find him."
Shi and Jin were standing at the door of the inn, looking around. They were both stunned when they heard this, "Did you catch it?"
"I didn't see it outside. It sounded like the prisoner had gotten into the tunnel." The policeman who reported the news replied.
