Chapter 1538: Seven Star Coffin, Dragon Locking Well, Corpse Disposal Cave, Former Dynasty Ruins Chapter 1538
Second floor
They didn't go far when they came across a locked, rusty iron fence.
"Is it an iron fence set up by the imperial court? Should I report it to the imperial court first to see if anyone has taken over this place..."
Before he could finish his words, Jin An was so energetic that he shattered the iron fence.
Well.
Fatty Li followed Jin An closely and continued to go deeper into the secret passage.
Fatty Li has been in the capital for too long. The power in the capital is complex. Various departments, provinces, and ministries are intertwined. One wrong step can easily lead to unintended disasters. What's more, it involves forbidden places like the ruins of the previous dynasty, so sometimes Fatty Li's ideas for handling cases can easily fall into dead ends.
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Jin An doesn't pay attention to this. Anyone who blocks his way and prevents him from handling the case today will be arrested and sent to the water prison of the Criminal Investigation Department.
The secret passage is very long, and the road collapsed during the process.
forking road,
The new culvert overlaps the old culvert.
And one locked iron fence after another.
…These various details look like they have been deliberately modified by humans.
The purpose is to create an underground maze so that no one can easily find the inner truth.
If it weren't for Li Yan, an old horse who knows the way, it would take only a few days for outsiders to find the right way out here, and the manpower here still needs to be enough.
If I were to explore alone, I don't know how long it would take.
"Why do I feel that the surroundings are getting darker and darker as we walk, and the range of the torch lighting is getting smaller and smaller. But the torch light keeps burning, and it has not become smaller, and the air has not become thinner." Fatty Li kept talking along the way.
Use this to pass the boring rush time in a claustrophobic environment.
Jin An seemed to be aware of everything and had already seen the truth in advance. He raised his hand and wiped a layer of black powder from the cracks in the stones around him, and explained: "It should be from these powders."
Hearing this, the old Taoist priest and Fatty Li, who were curious about everything, followed the same example and grabbed a large piece of powder from Yanbi Mountain.
Fatty Li: "Put it on your fingertips and rub it. The texture is very delicate, as fine and smooth as wheat flour. It doesn't look like sand or gravel weathered from stone strips..."
The old Taoist tasted it with the tip of his tongue, and then quickly swallowed it: "The taste is sour, bitter, and spicy, a bit like the smell of the spice waste outside, but it is not as strong as the smell of the waste residue outside... According to the old Taoist, I guess, it should be
It was a light-absorbing pigment that was accidentally tempered when refining a certain spice, and was then smeared here..."
Fatty Li slapped his thigh: "Look, look, Fatty, what am I talking about? This thing is not local at first glance, it must be a foreign thing."
Jin An, the old Taoist priest, and Lao Gou all turned a blind eye to Fatty Li's afterthought. The other members of the Criminal Investigation Department who followed him bowed their heads in embarrassment, ashamed to be colleagues with Fatty Li.
Fatty Li kept talking all the way: "It's an unreported site of the previous dynasty, and it's artificially applied with special paint. It takes so much trouble. Is it really just to make it easier for people to kill people and dump their bodies without exposing their whereabouts?"
"But when I think about it carefully, I feel that the logic doesn't make sense..."
"And we still don't know what the other party's purpose is and why he committed crimes and killed people one after another in the spice shop..."
Jin An followed Li Yan and said in a cold voice: "Have you ever heard of corpse oil, incense and perfume made from bone oil?"
well?
Fatty Li and the other brothers from the Criminal Investigation Department were all shocked.
Jin An: "Yang is born from the yin pole, and yin is born from the anode. If there is yin in everything, there must be yang. For example, ambergris is a royal tribute. Everyone compares ambergris to a gift from the sea dragon. One tael of ambergris is worth one tael.
Two pieces of gold, but no one dares to say that ambergris is the excrement of a giant whale in the sea."
"The other party keeps killing people in the spice shop. I guess that the other party is most likely using artificial formulas to refine valuable aromatherapy rouge. But there is one thing I haven't figured out yet. If he really uses corpse oil,
Bone oil is used to make aromatic rouge. People have been burned until no bones are left. Why can they still keep the whole body and go around here in a big circle to dump the body?"
Jin An's eyes were cold: "It seems that all the answers are related to the secret that Li Yan and the four of them saw six days ago."
The old Taoist priest also answered at this time: "Li Yanyun's last trip to the coffin was six days ago. After midnight today, it happens to be the first seven soul nights of the deceased in the coffin."
It was another time to use corpse oil and bone oil to make perfume and diffuse rouge. It was horrifying and unheard of. It was the first seventh night of the soul. The brothers from the Criminal Investigation Department who followed me felt that the back of their necks suddenly felt so cold, and their steps became heavy.
It's like carrying someone on your back and exhaling cold air.
People can't think randomly. When they think randomly, they start to become suspicious. From time to time, they look back at their backs, and from time to time they look up at the top of their heads. The goosebumps on their arms are all covered with cold. Even the surrounding environment feels cold, damp, and cold.
"Lord Commander, is there really someone who can use people to refine corpse oil and then use it to refine aromatherapy rouge? The rotting corpse smells terrible. I can still figure it out. The smell of corpses is fragrant... I can't figure out what it is even if I try hard.
A horrific scene, doesn’t it mean that all the women in the city are using scented rouge to smear corpse oil on their faces?”
"Damn it, don't talk about it. The prodigal woman in my family likes to smear all kinds of rouge on her face. The drawer of the dresser is filled with all kinds of rouge! Lord Commander... you said that Xiaohongchun rouge will be mixed with rouge.
Put it into corpse oil or bone, it is made of bone oil or something, and I smell the fragrance of old people. Every time my prodigal wife rubs this, I feel like a fly smelling the smell of corpses, hugging old people..."
"Hiss! Zhang Dagui, your wife is evil!"
"Is my wife really evil?" A member of the Criminal Investigation Department named Zhang Dagui became suspicious under the influence of the claustrophobic environment.
Fatty Li was furious when he saw how frightened these people were. He turned around and kicked one of them: "A bunch of cowards, they were scared out of their wits before even seeing half a ghost."
Everyone was kicked to the point of retreating, complaining incessantly: "Baihu, you like to go against evil spirits, but you can't force us to like to go against evil spirits too!"
"Yes, that's evil! We are not martial arts immortals like the commander, and we are not afraid of even the thousand-year-old corpse king!"
Jin An looked at the quarrel behind him, but he did not stop it harshly. Instead, he explained: "Don't worry, refining corpse oil and bone oil is troublesome, and killing people and dumping their bodies is even more troublesome. This raw material is an expensive and rare item, and only those nobles can
Only the ladies of the noble family can afford it, so ordinary people don’t have to worry."
"Fortunately we are ordinary people."
"Zhang Dagui, is that Little Hongchun Rouge really that magical?"
While the team was still moving forward, everyone in the Criminal Investigation Department began to discuss in low voices "how men choose the right rouge" and "how attractive a good rouge is to men." The depressive atmosphere in the claustrophobic secret passage was much reduced.
Under the skill of animal-making, Li Yan was like a tireless oxen and horses, leading the way diligently. Five forks appeared in front of them, and each fork was locked by a rusty iron chain.
The iron fence is a little different this time, it looks new.
This detail caught everyone's attention.
Jin An took the torch handed by Fatty Li and stretched it into each secret passage. The firelight swayed slightly, and there was a breeze in each secret passage, which connected it with the outside world.
"It seems that there is more than one secret passage in the spice shop that can lead to the ruins of the previous dynasty when we came here." Jin An snorted coldly and returned the torch to Fatty Li.
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He was not in a hurry to investigate one by one now. He followed Li Yan and continued deep into the secret passages. He prioritized and solved things one by one.
"Sometimes, Fatty, I wonder whether this Li Yan is really stupid or fake. He has only been here once, but his ability to recognize the way is better than ordinary people." Fatty Li didn't stop talking all the way.
The old Taoist priest Nian Xu said: "The deeper the obsession, the deeper the memory. Fear is also a kind of obsession. When people encounter horrific events, they will recall them over and over again. The longest one will never forget them."
Fatty Li nodded: "Fat Master, I have learned and used the old horse to know the way."
Li Yan, who was praising Li Yan for being a good ox and a tireless horse, and who had been leading the way, suddenly stopped at this time, walked around Li Yan, and saw a coffin appearing in front of him.
The coffin had been opened at this time, and the body inside had long since disappeared, leaving only an embroidered shoe worn by a woman.
Jin An bent over and took out the embroidered shoes from the coffin, gestured with the soles of the shoes with his palms, and said: "The feet are six inches and nine inches long. The soles are not heavily worn and the wear marks are even. This person should be a young woman with a light body and has not done any physical work."
.The shoe surface is clean, and I love to keep it clean.”
"The embroidered shoes are of fine workmanship and come from a wealthy family. The embroidery stamens have signs of broken threads, and the toes should be inlaid with pearls, jade, stone beads and other decorations. Women love beauty, and the other party comes from a wealthy family, so he pays more attention to beauty.
He would not go out wearing broken shoes, they should have been torn off in a violent struggle before he was killed."
Jin An handed the embroidered shoes to Fatty Li and asked him to protect the evidence. After he finished handling the affairs at the ruins of the previous dynasty, he would use the Luogeng jade plate to find the lost beads.
The place where the beads fell is the scene of the first murder.
Finding the scene of the first murder means finding the culprit behind the scenes.
As the saying goes, the laws of nature are clear. If you don't want others to know, you have to do nothing unless you do it yourself.
Jin An continued to observe the coffin: "There are no signs of struggle or scratches inside the coffin. It can be determined that the person was killed when the coffin was being loaded."
Next to the coffin is a huge bronze coffin. The surface of the bronze coffin is carved with hornless dragons, and there are more than a dozen iron chains hanging above the head.
I followed the direction of the chain and found several winches in the corner.
"Hey, little brother, come and see, this coffin is engraved with Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, shaking the light of the Big Dipper, the handle of the Dipper points to the north and it is winter all over the world. This is the seven-star giant in the mouth.
Coffin..." The old Taoist priest originally wanted to continue, but when he saw that there were so many people here, he stopped talking.
Because the seven-star coffin appears here, it has extraordinary significance. If the news is leaked, many people will be implicated.
Under the leadership of Fatty Li, the criminal inspectors dispersed to turn the winch.
Crash--
The iron chains vibrated, and as the winch kept turning, the lid of the seven-star giant coffin was lifted up, moo!
There was a roar from the coffin that sounded like an ox but not a cow, or a dragon but not a dragon, and a cloud of cold air rushed out.
Jin An was a martial arts immortal. Without any movement, a burst of red light burst out of his body, completely dissipating all the ghosts and monsters in the underground secret passage.
Then he walked to the seven-star giant coffin and took a look inside. When others were about to come closer to check curiously, he stood in front of them and said, "I heard some movement at the entrance when I came. Maybe the brothers outside saw us entering."
There has been no movement for too long, and they are worried about our safety and want to come in."
"The terrain here is complicated and there are forks everywhere. You go guard the entrance and don't let anyone in without my order. I have marked the way along the way. You can get out by following the marks."
The Yin Qi here was so cold that it exceeded the limit of ordinary people's Yang Fire. For safety reasons, Jin'an asked everyone in the Criminal Investigation Department to step back and took Li Yanbian's pony away and handed it back to Li Dajin.
After the others left, only Jin An, the old Taoist priest, Fatty Li, and the old dog were left here.
Seeing that Jin An had become so serious, several people and a dog were curious and lay down next to the giant seven-star coffin. They looked inside and saw that there was a well inside the coffin. There were many carved stone dragon heads inlaid on the walls of the well, and the torches could not reach the end.
There are at least dozens of dragon heads.
Each dragon faucet is passed through by a chain and connected to the outside winch. Whirring, there is a dark wind blowing out of the Suolong Well. There is not a dead end under the Suolong Well, there is another world.
And the sound that sounded like a cow and a dragon just now came from this dragon-locking well.
As the coffin lid is opened, the air flow inside and outside changes, causing various strange phenomena.
The old Taoist priest looked solemn: "It's exactly what I guessed, this is the dragon-locking pattern!"
"Here is a giant seven-star coffin, a dragon well layout, and the ruins of a previous dynasty. Could this be all a Feng Shui tactic?"
"Could it be that what is locked under this Dragon Well is the remains of the dragon veins of the previous royal family!"
"Standing on the seven stars, he controls the world's soldiers, and is born to be an emperor. Someone steps on the dragon veins of the previous dynasty under his feet, and he rises to great heights by stepping on the dragon veins of the previous dynasty!"
If this truth is true, it would be too shocking, so the old Taoist priest hesitated just now. If such words spread even a little bit, many people will be implicated. The Five Zang Taoist Temple may not be afraid of these troubles, but the brothers of the Criminal Investigation Division are all
There are seniors at the top and young at the bottom, and many times we can’t help ourselves.
Fatty Li raised his finger and pointed above his head: "Daozhang Chen is referring to the capital city that was rebuilt on the ruins of the previous dynasty?"
Unexpectedly, the old Taoist priest looked serious and shook his head: "The previous dynasty has been destroyed, and the dragon's veins have also been cut off. It is a dead dragon, so the dragon lock pattern is carved with a dragon instead of a real dragon. This is the difference."
"With a country's destiny weighing on it, this dead dragon is like carrying the weight of a country's mountains and rivers, and will never be able to turn around. Therefore, there is no need to build a dragon-locking well after Kangding replaced the previous dynasty."
Fatty Li was a little confused when he heard this: "Master Chen, what do you mean..."
The old Taoist priest looked at the dark environment around him, as if he was wary that the walls had ears, and lowered his voice: "This is someone who wants to step on the seven stars, step on the remains of the dragon veins of the previous dynasty, and become the king of everyone in the world! Everyone who is pointed by the soldiers is surrendering!
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Hiss!
Fatty Li was speechless and stunned on the spot.
Who has such great means and can lay out such a large-scale plan under the eyes of the emperor and deceive everyone in the capital?
"Taoist Jin'an, what do you think?"
After Fatty Li came to his senses, he looked at Jin An nervously: "Did Li Yan and the four of them get killed just because they saw this?"
Jin'an was unfazed, and said in a calm voice: "When I walked into the underworld, I saw the capital city in the underworld, which is a scene of hundreds of towers. There are gusts of wind under the Suolong Well. I suspect that there are more than one ruins of the former dynasty.
layer, there is a second layer, a third layer..."
"That's why I asked the brothers to leave first. The yin energy down here is too strong. When I go down to explore later, ordinary martial arts masters who follow me will definitely die."
"As for Li Yan and the others..."
"This is not the first time they have come here to dump a body. Maybe there is another reason for the death."
With that said, Jin An threw a torch into the Suolong Well to see how deep the Suolong Well was. The Yin Qi in the second layer of the previous ruins was so heavy, and the Four Symbols Bureau of Duan Tian Jie Di was broken, it might be possible below.