Things were just as Shen Hao expected, he could not avoid this case, and as he thought, the case was no longer directly involved but carried out in the form of a secret investigation.
As for the helpers on the surface, they no longer have contact with the Ministry of Justice this time, and are replaced by people from the royal ancestral hall.
The nature of the royal ancestral hall is the same as that of the ancestral hall in ordinary people's families. They are the people responsible for handling the affairs of the clan. Because the person who died was a prince, the royal ancestral hall would naturally come forward to help the Ministry of Punishment with some coordination matters. This had also happened in the previous Gan Wang case, but Shen Hao was in a co-investigating position at the time, so he had no contact with the other party.
The content of the secret order was very simple, that is, Shen Hao was asked to secretly investigate the murder of King Lu, and he could ask people from the royal ancestral hall to help him with some public investigations. It was also a channel for him to obtain first-hand information about the case. Along with the secret order, there is also a Qianli Note that can be used to contact the deacons of the royal ancestral hall.
A brief summary of the case was attached at the back of the secret order, which showed that the signature was recorded by the deacon of the Royal Ancestral Hall.
The straightforward style made Shen Hao feel relieved. He was still worried whether the deacon of the royal ancestral hall who assisted him in the investigation would like to add some of his own speculations to the case. Now it seems that others still understand some common sense. The description of the case Unpretentious and very real.
Shen Haozai read it carefully and frowned gradually.
It has to be said that the situation of the case is far from what Shen Hao thought. The only thing that was barely surprising was that King Lu's death seemed to have been caused by the same cause as King Qian's previous death, which was due to the sudden disintegration of his soul and instant death.
Except for the cause of death, which did not seem to be an accident, almost all the other details of the case left Shen Haoru in a cloud with no sense of direction at all.
According to the information obtained in the previous case of King Qian, the person who killed King Qian should be a Fu Lu master from the City of Wan Si, affiliated to Zhang Rutie or Lin Qinghong. He was proficient in the method of "merging skills with words" and used the "Soul Destroyer". The "Nine Soul Dispelling Curse" in "The Curse" kills people.
If logically deduced, the cause of death is the same and rare, and the time is similar. There is a high probability that it is the same murderer, and it should be the same murder method.
But the problem is that there is no carrier at the scene for the method of "merging skills into words", and even King Lu is a person who doesn't like reading at all.
This completely disrupted Shen Hao's thinking and added countless uncertainties.
"How could you kill King Lu without the carrier of the spell? And you did it in front of King Lu's guards. Could it be that the person who did it was a master of the Xuanhai Realm?" Shen Hao even directly Then the idea hit Yang Wenguang who was hiding in Wuzhuang. Because when it comes to masters in the Xuanhai Realm, Yang Wenguang, the King of Jin, is the only one in the imperial city who is uncontrollable and has evil intentions.
But Shen Hao soon shook his head again, denying the possibility of Yang Wenguang taking action himself.
The reason why Shen Hao was sure that Yang Wenguang did not take action himself was because of the emperor's reaction. Whether it was the news from Blackwater or the contents of this secret order, there was no trace of "His Majesty's wrath" at all, as if he was just a passer-by who died, not the emperor's own son.
This kind of indifference should be an attitude in Shen Hao's opinion. One: I will not interfere as long as it is within the rules of the "big test".
As for why the emperor clearly showed some emotions when King Qian died? Shen Hao seemed to have two possibilities: the first one might be that it was the first time he had lost a son and he was still not used to it; the second possibility was that the emperor liked King Qian more than King Lu.
In this way, the emperor's failure to express his position means that King Lu's death was within the rules of the "big test". The rules of the "Grand Examination" clearly do not allow Xuanhai realm monks to interfere directly.
Therefore, Shen Hao denied the possibility of Yang Wenguang taking action directly.
In fact, Shen Hao has always been curious about the "invigilation" of the royal family's "big exam". Obviously no one saw it, but the "big test" could actually be contained within a rule. What is the power and how is it achieved?
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Fu'an Palace, warm soup.
Yang Jian soaked in the warm soup and looked at a copper bar repeatedly before putting it down for a long time. This is an intelligence analysis that Pangban reported in the afternoon. It has no empirical support and is based entirely on logical deduction.
In normal times, Yang Jian would have dismissed this kind of pure "guessing" without evidence. He even thought that a steady person like Pang Ban would not present such a thing to him.
But now, this analysis comes at a very coincidental time, and it happens to be connected with the murder of King Lu. After reading the entire article several times, it seems that the conclusions of the analysis cannot be completely ruled out.
"This "black water" is interesting!" Yang Jian put down the copper bar and took a sip of herbal tea at hand, feeling a little emotional.
"Yes. I heard that Pang Ban's Black Flag Battalion did it alone."
"The Black Flag Camp was originally a helpless move after Pang Ban was forced into a corner by the civil servants. There are Black Flag Camps in the four major governor's offices across the country, but the one that really played a role was the Black Flag Camp in Fengri City. A single seedling. Haha, Pang Ban’s luck is pretty good, otherwise he would have been punished for slacking off.”
Yang Xiu Sheng also nodded and said: "It is indeed Pang Ban's luck. However, it is really rare that such an intelligence system can be established with the power of a city of Black Flag Camp. It seems that the Black Flag Camp of Fengri City was the king last time. They were assigned to investigate the case, right?"
Yang Xiusheng still remembered the file about the murder of King Qian sent by Xuan Qingwei. The conclusion above was very different from that of the Ministry of Punishment, and it was also based on evidence. Compared with the Ministry of Punishment which only had witnesses but did not catch the murderer in the end. The summary of the case is more convincing, and the most important thing is that the logic is smooth, unlike the Ministry of Punishment, which treats King Lu as a fool.
And that file was produced by the Black Flag Battalion in Fengli City.
Yang Jian hummed and said, "I remember it was an officer named Shen, yes, Shen Hao. He had great ideas, and won the support of Pang Ban and Jiang Cheng. He had done a pilot project before, and now Jingxi Black Flag The battalions were all integrated into one, and Shen Hao was already a fifth-grade Qianhu official at a young age. He was the one who created Black Water, and he was also investigating the case of King Qian. This time, King Lu's death must also be handed over to him. He was relieved.
Tsk, I don't know if I don't know. After comparing, I realized that those people in the Criminal Department are really useless. "
Even though he had lost another son, this time Yang Jian did not feel any sadness on his face or in his heart. The father part in his heart had been hidden by him when King Qian died last time. Now Yang Jian is just a pure emperor. He doesn't care which son dies. What he cares about is which son can emerge from the crisis. Stand out as the winner in complex situations.
It is for this reason that Yang Jian received the news that the Spirit King was in danger early tomorrow morning but did not reach out. Because he feels that this is also part of the "big test".
