Demoness, Where Are You Fleeing To?

When Li Xuan and Li Xuan saw Gongsun Xue again in the document room, there was no color on her face.

"Has Lieutenant Lei already said that?"

Gongsun Xue slumped down on the chair. She smiled in despair, but there was also a sense of relief in her eyes: "No matter what, from the moment the Demon Suppression Tower changed, I guessed that there would be such a moment. Sooner or later, the matter between me and him will be revealed to the world. At least now, I can feel much more at ease."

Li Xuan's face was expressionless: "In other words, Lei Yun was indeed with you around three o'clock in the morning? Where did you have a private meeting and how long did you stay?"

"For most of the hour, I remember that he left at 2:00 a.m., and the place was behind the document room."

Gongsun Xue closed his eyes slightly and sighed: "In the evening, Lieutenant Lei sent me a letter to invite me to go. In the past, I would have ignored it. I did have an affair with Captain Lei, but it was not to the point of disregarding honor and integrity. But on the day of the incident, my husband and I failed to negotiate a reconciliation. I had so many worries in my heart and wanted to find someone to talk to, so I just lost my mind..."

When Luo Yan heard this, she felt a little better about Mrs. Wang. She thought that this woman was at least not a free-spirited person.

She began to believe that Gongsun Xue really only chatted with Lei Yun that night.

Li Xuan's pupils shrank slightly at this moment: "Captain Gongsun, do you still have the letter that Lei Yun made an appointment with you on?"

"Yes." Gongsun Xue did not hesitate and took out a piece of plain white rice paper from his sleeve and handed it to Li Xuan: "I originally wanted to destroy it afterwards, but by some strange coincidence, I kept it."

Li Xuan couldn't help but think to himself that this woman might really have feelings for Captain Lei.

Peng Fulai and Zhang Yue, who were next to them, were dumbfounded at this moment, and then a feeling of admiration for Lei Yun also emerged spontaneously.

Le Qianqian looked at Gongsun Xue with a puzzled expression, wondering how this gentle and quiet sister could hook up with an unreliable person like Lei Yun?

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The inventory and statistics of rice paper, sulfur, and charcoal in the documentation room were still not completed.

So a moment later, Li Xuan walked on the corridor on the first floor of the Demon Suppression Tower again. The place he was going to now was the kitchen in the tower.

Almost all the functional institutions in the Demon Suppression Tower are placed on the first floor, including the kitchen. The latter is located on the south side of the first floor and is very large, occupying at least one-seventh of the space on this floor.

Just because this place not only provides meals for the nearly 1,200 jailers of the Demon Suppression Tower, but also provides meals for up to 5,000 prisoners.

Even those monsters need to be fed occasionally, and they cannot be allowed to die just like that.

"I thought you would go to the main warehouse first." Luo Yan still looked casual and followed Li Xuan step by step: "When it comes to transporting gunpowder, there is no one more convenient than them."

"It is very convenient, but they only go to the second underground floor every afternoon. Captain Xu, who is in charge of this floor, is a very careful and meticulous person. If the criminal chooses to store and hide the gunpowder on this floor in advance, it will only add to the problem. Risk. You are an expert at playing with fire. You should know that improvised gunpowder like this has a certain smell due to too many impurities, which cannot be covered up by ordinary illusions. Unless Captain Xu also has a problem. "

Li Xuan looked at the letter in his hand and explained: "In the kitchen, although the time to deliver meals to the jailers is at the beginning of Youshi. But for those prisoners, they are not very concerned about it. It is often delayed until Xushi. Some things. The aroma of food can also cover up the smell of gunpowder."

When interrogating Jiang Hanyun and other captains yesterday, Li Xuan saw with his own eyes that the prisoners on the ninth floor were not able to eat until close to midnight. Only Jiang Hanyun and Lei Yun were given special care.

The ninth floor contains suspects who are highly armed but have not yet been convicted. If they are like this, how much more is it in a dark prison underground?

After arriving at the kitchen, the first thing Li Xuan looked at was the dining car. The structure is similar to the dining carts in later hotels, but the difference is that these dining carts are made of wood, which makes them more bulky and bulky.

They do not go up and down through stairs, but through a lifting platform - with the help of animal power, they can rise and fall freely on dozens of floors above and below the ground in the tower, achieving functions similar to those of later generations of elevators.

Li Xuan took one look and knew that Captain Xu was right. If the gunpowder is hidden in the dining car, it can be sent to the second underground floor without anyone noticing.

The wooden barrel on this dining car has a huge capacity. Not to mention three stones, five stones of gunpowder can be put in it - as long as there is less rice porridge.

Li Xuan's thoughts moved slightly: "Taishan, help me go to the second underground floor and ask if the prisoners in the black cell on the night of the incident were over-reduced in food?"

He then turned to look at Peng Fulai: "Old Peng, go to the fifty-sixth floor -"

Peng Fulai, however, had already turned around and walked towards the stairs in advance: "Is there any wrong meal in the past few days?"

Li Xuan laughed, and then went to the kitchen steward to ask.

"On the night of the incident, who delivered the meals below?" The kitchen steward was a middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears. His eyes were blank: "There were many. I remember that a total of eight dining carts were pushed out that night. Who is the specific person? I don’t remember. I have to check. The people who deliver the food are all white servants. I usually don’t care about it. But the rules in the tower are very strict. There are records before the food is delivered. Which person, which car, and who is delivering the food? Everything is recorded in writing.”

Li Xuan knew that the so-called "white servants" refer to non-staff servants in various government offices. They are similar to modern auxiliary police, but their status is more embarrassing.

In this era, they are basically all low-ranking people and have not yet been established.

There are no less than a thousand such people in the Six Daosi Division.

Not long after, the middle-aged steward not only brought the list of white servants that Li Xuan asked for, but also delivered the meal delivery account book.

After Li Xuan looked at it for a while, he raised his eyebrows slightly: "Can you summon all the people I have designated?"

Probably the few who delivered meals to the second underground floor on the night of the incident, and those who were responsible for the meals on the fifty-sixth floor during the past seven days, a total of twenty-five people - there were no prisoners on the roof, only a dozen or so. There are evil spirits from the third door and some demons from the second door. Therefore, there are a little more jailers, but there are only about thirty people. Three meals a day can be served in a dining car.

And just after the white servants named by Li Xuan arrived one after another, Zhang Yue and Peng Fulai also rushed back one after another.

"After asking, only some people in the ninth district reduced their rice porridge consumption by nearly one-third that night. Also, that place is not far from the stairs leading to the third floor."

After Zhang Yue, Peng Fulai came back with a frown on his face: "Only at noon on the penultimate day before the incident, they were missing a bowl of vegetarian food. But this was a common thing in the past, and they didn't pay much attention."

Li Xuan looked at the account book and found that the person who delivered meals to the fifty-sixth floor on the penultimate day before the incident was a forty-year-old woman named Mrs. Lin. He then raised his head again and looked at the white servants who had gathered in front of him: "On the night of the crime, when you were delivering food to the second underground floor, who was in charge of the ninth district?"

The few people looked at each other, and then everyone focused on a young man. The latter's face turned pale: "When I was delivering food that day, I felt sick to my stomach for some reason, so I asked Mrs. Lin to take over for me."

Li Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly: "Then where is Mrs. Lin?"

There are two women among these white servants, but they don't seem to be of the same age.

"She has already asked for leave." The kitchen steward seemed to remember something and fell into recollection: "After the incident in the tower, she told me that she was frightened and felt a little unwell, and she wanted to ask for leave for a few days."

Li Xuan suppressed the anticipation and joy that gradually grew in his heart: "So where does Mrs. Lin live?"

"It's the residential house behind Zhuque Hall, in the seventh courtyard of Shiwu Lane." The same young man who was replaced, his face was pale: "I can take you there."

At this time, Peng Fulai and Zhang Yue both had excited eyes, and they had realized that they were only a thin line away from the truth.

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Three moments later, Li Xuan and others stood in a simple stone house, looking at a female corpse hanging from a beam above.

The female corpse was tall, nearly 1.8 meters tall, with a slightly stout figure, regular facial features, and two burn scars on the left side of her face - judging from her appearance, she should be Mrs. Lin.

At this time, the wind blew, causing the female corpse to swing back and forth like a swing, causing the rope to rub back and forth against the beams, making a "rattling" sound.

"I knew it!" Peng Fulai couldn't help but twitched his face: "This case is not that simple."

Li Xuan began to remove the female body from the beam, and at the same time began an autopsy: "The time of death should be about three days, and the cause of death was poisoning."

Three days ago, after the change in the Demon Suppression Tower, he died in the early morning of the next day.

After that incident, Li Xuan spent more than two days just watching Shi Xin interrogate those captains and captains.

"Wasn't she hanged?" Zhang Yue asked strangely: "She took poison and then hanged herself? Or was it someone else who put her up?"

"This woman indeed died of suicide. The type of poison has not yet been identified, but one of the poisons must be bitter almonds. Judging from the traces at the scene and the condition of the body, the possibility of death from homicide is very small. As for the Why did she hang herself after taking poison? It may be that she did not have an attack after taking poison. This woman is a third-level martial arts cultivator, and her physical fitness is very good."

Li Xuan shook his head. He had already used the ability of the female ghost in red. There was no obsession or resentment left at the scene, so he couldn't extract this woman's memory.

"Luo Yan, help me search the house to see if there are any clues here. Taishan, Lao Peng and you two go ask the neighbors and find out about Mrs. Lin, especially within this month, if there is anything unusual about her. .”

The room was very clean, with pots, pans, dishes and chopsticks placed neatly, and bedding neatly folded, except for a thin layer of dust on the floor.

But Li Xuan still held on to the hope of finding something that could help him detect the explosion case.

However, he searched around the house and couldn't find any clues. In the end, he found something unexpected in Mrs. Lin's jewelry box.