But Shen Lian, from beginning to end, didn't look at his expression at all.
Instead, he grabbed Xin Tianji's shoes.
He lifted Xin Tianji's feet and looked at Xin Tianji's shoes carefully.
Seeing this, Tianji couldn't help but said, "Why do you still have this hobby? For such a big guy, his feet must be smelly, right?"
Shen Lian was too lazy to answer Tianji's words. He checked carefully, then looked at Xin Tianji who was thrown to the ground, and said, "The soles of your shoes are stained with some mud, and there is some green moss on them."
"And it hasn't rained in Xin'an City these days."
"So the place where there is dirt should be next to the well."
Shen Lian looked at Sishe and asked, "Sishe, how many wells are there in Xin'an City?"
Sishe controls the Intelligence Department, and there are spies from the Intelligence Department in Xinan City, so he already knows the layout of Xinan City.
When he heard Shen Lian's question, he immediately said, "There are three places."
"One place, in the front yard of the City Lord's Mansion."
"One place, in the center of the military camp."
"One place is in the north of Xin'an City. There is a small forest there. There is a well in front of the forest. It is a place where ordinary people draw water."
When Shen Lian heard this, he glanced at Xin Tianji whose expression changed.
He smiled and said, "Choose one of the three classic questions, and I am the best at doing this kind of multiple choice questions."
"Xin Tianji, you seem to be unlucky."
"Do you know where those explosives were buried?"
Tianji couldn't help but ask when she saw Shen Lian's confident smile.
Xin Tianji also looked at Shen Lian nervously.
Shen Lian smiled softly and said, "Tianji, your question is not rigorous."
"We all know that those explosives are buried under the entire Xin'an City. He wants to blow Xin'an City directly into the sky. In this case, no matter where I am, as long as I am still in Xin'an City, I will die. undoubtedly."
"So, those explosives are buried under our feet."
"And what you are asking is, where are the entrances and exits where the explosives are buried?"
"After all, Xin Tianji can't dig out the soil and bury the explosives by himself, otherwise others will discover it."
"Therefore, I guess that there should be some criss-crossing secret passages under the ground, and he has hidden the explosives in these secret passages. Once they are ignited, they can be fired directly. Detonate it and blow up the entire city."
"And those secret passages are absolutely hidden. There may be only one entrance, so this is the entrance we are looking for."
Tianji was being educated very rigorously by Shen Lian, and looked a little bad.
She felt that Shen Lian was insulting her.
She said angrily, "You know what I mean. Isn't it interesting that you are so stuck on words?"
"Of course it's interesting."
Shen Lian smiled faintly, "After all, in our criminal investigation, sometimes the difference of one word can cause the truth to deviate by tens of thousands of miles."
"So I'm sorry. My occupational disease requires me not to allow the slightest deviation."
Tianji was furious.
She felt that Shen Lian was deliberately targeting her.
But this time, she was really wrong.
Shen Lian is really an occupational disease, and he has to get to the bottom of every word.
"Don't waste time, quickly find the entrance to the secret passage."
"If it were any later, it might explode."
Tianji said.
Shen Lian smiled and said, "There's no rush."
He looked at Xin Tianji and said, "Xin Tianji will not be in such a hurry to detonate."
"First of all, he has to ensure that he can escape safely, so he will definitely not arrange the explosion time so urgently."
"Secondly, he also wants to ensure that I can enter Xin'an City. What if I want to find Xin'an City to be completely captured before entering Xin'an City!?"
"This will definitely take time, so based on the above two points, it will take at least an hour or two for his explosive to detonate."
"If it's more, maybe we have to wait for another day."
"After all, only at that time can we ensure that I will definitely enter Xin'an City."
Hearing Shen Lian's words, Xin Tianji's pupils trembled again.
He gritted his teeth to prevent him from screaming.
horrible! !
Shen Lian is really terrible! !
No matter how you infer, you can perfectly guess your own thoughts and arrangements.
This gives Xin Tianji an extremely weird feeling.
It was as if everything he did was done under Shen Lian's control.
It was as if Shen Lian was not inferring this.
Instead, she controlled him unconsciously and made him do these things.
This feeling made his scalp numb.
Shen Lian looked at Xin Tianji who was trembling with his head lowered, not daring to look at him.
He smiled and said, "However, it is indeed time to find the entrance and exit of the secret passage earlier."
"After these matters are resolved, I still want to talk to you alone. Now... let's get down to business first."
He continued the previous topic, "There are three wells in Xin'an City, inside the city lord's palace, inside the military camp, and next to the woods."
"It's just one of three choices."
"But there is another clue in the sole of your shoe that tells me these secrets."
He chuckled.
He raised his fingers, allowing everyone to see the moss on his fingers.
He said, "Moss... this kind of thing can be found in many places regardless of the growing environment. However, in the courtyard of the City Lord's Mansion, people are constantly coming and going, and there are servants who specialize in taking care of it. They will not let it go." appeared."
"And what about in the military camp?"
"Countless soldiers walked back and forth, trampling the ground until there was no grass growing, and naturally there was no moss."
"So, taking everything into consideration, Moss... is the only one left."
Shen Lian's lips curled up.
Looking at Xin Tianji, who was looking down and nervous, he turned around and said with a smile, "Let's go to the well next to the woods. The entrance should be there."
With a flick of the brush, Xin Tianji suddenly raised his head.
The pupils in his eyes suddenly shrank, and his whole complexion changed drastically.
Shen Lian didn't look at Xin Tianji's expression changes again.
He has 100% confidence in his inference.
As a detective, if you don't have confidence in your own inference, then what qualifications do you have to find the truth?
Therefore, after making a judgment based on existing clues, Shen Lian will unswervingly believe in his judgment.
He said: "Here is the snake, tie it up and take it to the well."
Sishe nodded quickly.
He quickly tied Xin Tianji tightly, then threw him on the horse, got on the horse, and led Shen Lian in front.
Tianji looked at Xin Tianji, who was tied to the horse like a rice dumpling, and suddenly regained his balance.
Finally she was no longer the only one being tied up in such a humiliating way.
Shen Lian glanced at Tianji who was suddenly happy and felt a little baffled.
What are you happy about?
It's like you've never been tied up.
"Let's go."
Shen Lian raised his chin and asked Tianji to walk in front of him.
Tianji knew that Shen Lian was watching him to prevent him from slipping away.
She had no intention of running away now. She snorted coldly, then drove her horse and followed him.
Shen Lian walked at the end, glanced at the holes in the city wall, smiled, and drove his horses to chase after him.
Soon, the snake stopped.
He said: "Master, this is it."
Shen Lian looked around.
I saw that this place is located on the north side of Xin'an City. Here, there is a small forest.
However, many trees in the forest have been cut down, and not many are left.
It seems that these woods were deliberately planted by officials of Xin'an City for daily use.
This aspect is different from the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty would not build such a forest inside the city.
The woods will all be outside the city.
Originally, the city was not a big place, and there were so many people living there, so how could there be so much room to plant trees.
But Nanzhao is different.
Nanzhao's territory was not large, but its population was smaller. On average, the land area occupied by each person was much larger than that of the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, they can waste the land in the city like this.
Next to the woods, there is a well.
There was a lot of water on the ground around the well. It seemed that it had been accidentally spilled while fetching water.
Because there are clods of soil on the ground, water quickly turns into mud when it meets the soil, so when passing here, some mud will be stained on the shoes.
And on the ground, Qin Wenyuan also saw some moss that likes moisture growing around.
Because of the trees, there is not much sunlight, great shade, and a lot of water, which is more suitable for moss growth.
Therefore, when passing through here, unless you deliberately avoid it, it is easy for moss to stick to the soles of your shoes.
Xin Tianji, as for Xin Tianji, was obviously not that careful, or... he never thought that he would be caught by Qin Wenyuan, so he didn't pay attention to this.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be the key evidence for Shen Lian to find this place.
Tianji looked around, but after looking for a long time, he didn't find anything special.
She couldn't help but said: "Where is the entrance to the secret passage?"
Sishe also looked at Shen Lian.
Shen Lian looked at Xin Tianji, who snorted, turned his head and said in a low voice, "Don't think I will tell you!"
"If we die, let's all die together!"
He is not very good and seems to really want to die with Shen Lian and others.
Tianji's face couldn't help but change: "Shen Lian, will the explosive explode before we find the entrance?"
If that were the case, it would be tragic.
Shen Lian glanced at Tianji and said slowly, "What? Are you scared?"
"You are not afraid?"
Tianji asked rhetorically.
Shen Lian shook his head and said: "Of course I am not afraid, because I know that it will never explode before I find the entrance."
"Use your brain more, and you will be as calm as me."
Shen Lian sneered at Tianji, then looked at Xin Tianji, and suddenly extended his hand to Xin Tianji.
Xin Tianji was shocked: "What are you going to do?"
Shen Lian chuckled and said, "Why are you nervous? I'll just take out a leaf for you."
As he spoke, he withdrew his hand.
Sure enough, he saw a leaf lying on his palm.
Shen Lian looked at the leaf and said with a half-smile, "It's not the season of falling leaves yet, so why are there such green leaves on you?"
"Xin Tianji, I think you can try to quibble now and see if you can deceive me?"
Xin Tianji's expression suddenly changed.
Xin Tianji looked at Shen Lian with a changed expression. His face, which was originally dark, turned a little white at this moment.
Very white.
At this moment, both Tianji and Sishe could feel Xin Tianji's desperate heart.
Being targeted by Shen Lian, nothing could be hidden from Shen Lian's eyes.
All the secrets were guessed by Shen Lian.
Tianji really understands this feeling very well.
It's just that she is smarter than Xin Tianji, has more cards, and is deeper, so she is not as desperate as Xin Tianji.
But that feeling still lingered in his heart, causing her to have nightmares many times.
"It's miserable, it's really miserable."
Tianji looked at Xin Tianji's expression, and she knew that even if Xin Tianji didn't die, he would be shrouded in Shen Lian's shadow in the future. From now on, she would never be able to get rid of Shen Lian's nightmare.
But Shen Lian still had a calm expression on his face.
He looked at the leaves carefully and said, "The leaves haven't wilted yet, which means they just fell not long ago."
"The well is not in the woods, and the trees on the edge have been cut down, so there is no reason for such leaves to fall on you."
"And this season is really not the season for falling leaves."
Shen Lian's eyes were like those in the woods.
I saw that the trees in the forest were all lush and green, and the green leaves were spreading in the wind on the trunks, showing their vitality to the fullest.
There really wasn't any sign of defeat.
Not even a little bit yellow.
In this case, there is no reason for the leaves to fall.
Shen Lian smiled and said, "So, there is only one explanation for why you have this leaf on your body."
"That is……"
Shen Lian raised his hand, pointed to the woods opposite, and said, "Before you leave here, you went into the woods."
"The leaves have not yet wilted, which means that the time is extremely short. If my guess is correct, you left here before you met us."
Xin Tianji's forehead was soaked in cold sweat.
Shen Lian continued to smile and said: "As soon as I entered Xin'an City, I found that you disappeared."
"At that time, I felt strange."
"I thought you had escaped, but when we arrived at the city wall, I found that it was intact, which means you haven't left yet."
"So I was confused at the time. Where did you go during this interval?"
"No fighting, no leaving, what is it that makes you have to do it at this time?"
"I wasn't sure before, but now, I understand."
Sishe and Tianji both looked at Shen Lian.
Then Shen Lian said calmly: "At that time, you should have turned on the automatic explosion device of explosives, right?"
"You think that Xin'an City will be destroyed today, because I will definitely enter Xin'an City, so after confirming these, you immediately start the automatic explosive device. After confirming that the explosion will occur as scheduled, you quickly leave and prepare to escape from here to avoid being affected. …”
"Therefore."
The corners of Shen Lian's lips raised slightly: "The last place you went to was the place where you could control those explosives."
"In other words, here..."
Shen Lian pointed to the woods opposite and said confidently: "This is where the entrance to the secret passage is hidden!"
(End of chapter)
