Volume 4: Holy Capital Tribulation Chapter 242 A Sudden Visiting Card
Hearing that Dongfang Yaorao had woken up, Xu Zun stood up and wanted to go over to visit her, but as soon as he reached the door, he saw Dongfang Yaorao staggering towards him.
"Hey? Eastern Detective?" Xu Zun stretched out his hand to help him, but felt something was wrong, so he had to let him into the hall, "You are seriously injured, you have to be careful..."
Before Xu Zun finished speaking, Dongfang Yaorao said impatiently: "Special Envoy Xu, it's urgent, ahem... Cao Ding's housekeeper is the Xuanmen's insider, he... he killed Tie Lao... ahem..."
Seeing this, Huo Anu quickly helped Dongfang Yaorao to sit down.
"Special Envoy Xu," Dongfang Yaorao said impatiently, "The attack launched by Xuanmen is likely to be hidden underground! Ahem..."
Huo Anu opened her mouth and wanted to tell her what was happening, but Xu Zun pulled her from behind.
"Don't be anxious, Detective Dongfang," Xu Zun advised, "Tell me slowly."
"I..." Huo Anu understood what Xu Zun meant and immediately interrupted, "I'll go get you a glass of water first."
"Special Envoy Xu," Dongfang Yaorao said, "I was chatting with Tie Lao in the living room of Cao Ding's house. Tie Lao suddenly remembered something and said that he had exchanged several ancient maps with Cao Ding a few years ago. Those ancient maps were all about the distribution of underground canals in the Holy City.
"We realize that this is a serious matter and suspect that the Xuanmen rebels may use these ditches to make trouble, so we want to go to the Ministry of Industry to find you...
"But I didn't expect that a choking smoke suddenly rose in the hall," Dongfang Yaorao narrated, "and then he was killed by Cao Ding, the housekeeper. That man was very skilled in martial arts, and he killed Tie Lao with one sword!
"Although I blocked his fatal sword, I was still injured and fell unconscious...
"Ahem... Mr. Special Envoy, we have to find those ancient maps quickly and go down to stop them... Ahem..."
In a hurry, blood foam appeared at the corners of Dongfang Yaorao's mouth.
Seeing this, Xu Zun tried to comfort her and told her what happened after she fell into a coma.
"Explosion?" Dongfang Yaorao was even more shocked. "So... they already have explosives? That's impossible. The Three Law Departments and our Shenbu Department have been monitoring explosives. If someone carries explosives, there is no way they can escape the heavy inspection, unless..."
"Unless what?" Xu Zun asked.
"Unless it is used officially," Dongfang Yaorao said, "both the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry will use it, one for developing weapons and the other for blasting projects.
"However, even for official use, the control is very strict, and it requires joint review and approval from various departments before it can enter the Holy City."
"Then...what about the Holy City Transport Envoy?" Xu Zun asked, "He also died in the assassination."
“No,” Dongfang Yaorao waved her hand, “Explosives are not the responsibility of the Transportation Department. They are all handled through the channels of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry.
"Special Envoy Xu... I think now is not the time to investigate the origin of the explosives. The most urgent task is to find those Xuanmen rebels and stop their conspiracy!
"If we use explosives underground, there might be some serious consequences, right?"
call……
Xu Zun breathed a sigh of relief. What Dongfang Yaorao was thinking about was exactly the problem he was most worried about.
However, those people from the Internal Guard and the Ministry of Works solemnly guaranteed that even with the use of explosives it would be impossible to shake the Holy Capital Palace.
"Hey?" Dongfang Yaorao thought about it carefully and said to Xu Zun, "Special Envoy Xu, tell me, they deliberately used a prisoner van to cause an explosion at Taiping Gate. Are they trying to divert our attention?"
"Oh?" Xu Zun was thinking the same thing, and asked hurriedly, "Why do you think so?"
"They deliberately exposed the Warden. Could it be that they wanted to delay time and make us focus all our energy on this, thus buying time for those underground people?" Dongfang Yaorao guessed.
Xu Zun nodded secretly. Although he and Dongfang Yaorao had the same idea, he still felt like he seemed to have missed something.
But I can't tell what exactly was missed.
"Special Envoy Xu, ahem..." Dongfang Yaorao said excitedly, "In addition to the entrance you found at Shi Chun's house, I know a few more underground entrances!"
"What?" Xu Zun opened his eyes wide, "Is there another entrance?"
"Of course, Xuanmiao City is so big, how could there be only one entrance?" Dongfang Yaorao said, "When we were investigating cases before, we found many underground caves, which were bottomless.
“Let me think… There is a passage , where some people opened underground gambling houses.
"I sent people to capture them, and some of them hid underground. We went in to chase them, but we found that it was like a maze with many intricate connections, so we didn't dare to go deeper.
“Later, I never saw those people again. I guess they got lost and died underground, right?
"So we sealed that entrance."
Um……
Xu Zun listened carefully, thoughtfully.
"Mr. Special Envoy," Dongfang Yaorao said, "The Daye General Temple is very close to here. I can take you to have a look."
Daye General Temple!
Xu Zun looked at the map and quickly found this place. He was surprised to find that it was almost close to the imperial palace, even less than a mile away.
If you go in from this place, you will be much closer to the palace than Shi Chun's home.
Dongfang Yaorao understood Xu Zun's thoughts and said, "This is the only entrance to the palace that I know of!
"If we organize people to search in as soon as possible, we may be able to find those Xuanmen rebels without Cao Ding's ancient map..."
When everyone present heard Dongfang Yaorao's proposal, they were all moved.
"Yeah..." Huo Anu muttered softly, "Since their target is the palace, then after we go down, we just need to look in the direction of the palace. Maybe we can really run into them!"
However, although Xu Zun was also tempted, he still felt that something was wrong.
"Special Envoy... ahem..." Dongfang Yaorao said, "There is no time to lose. If you still have concerns, I will gather the people from the Divine Capture Department and have them search through all the known entrances.
"I think I'll just have to bring all my equipment and mark the way so I don't get lost."
"Hmm..." After some careful consideration, Xu Zun nodded and said, "Dongfang Shenpo, if that's the case, let's go to Daye General Temple to check out the situation.
"You can also gather the personnel from your Divine Constable Division!"
"Okay!" Dongfang Yaorao immediately entrusted the guards of the Inner Guard Palace to summon the detectives of the Divine Detective Department.
At the same time, Xu Zun asked the Ministry of Works for some details about explosives, but Minister Lan of the Ministry of Works clearly told Xu Zun that the Ministry of Works had never used explosives in recent years.
Therefore, the explosives must have nothing to do with the Ministry of Industry...
Soon, Dongfang Yaorao was ready, and Xu Zun was ready to set off with a group of guards.
As luck would have it, before Xu Zun walked out of the hall, a man came running over there in a hurry. It was Zhao Yu who had already gone down the secret canal.
"Sir, sir, this is not possible..." Seeing Zhao Yu covered in mud and smelling stinky, he said in an extremely embarrassed manner, "There is only a round hole left at the end of the culvert. We are not cats or dogs, so we can't get in!"
"Oh?" Xu Zun asked, "So you're back?"
"Not only that," Zhao Yu said helplessly, "There are some vertical holes on the two walls of the culvert. We explored a few of them and found that some are accessible, some are blocked, some are like mazes, and some are impossible to walk into..."
"..."Xu Zun said in his heart, are you saying a tongue twister?
However, he could roughly understand what Zhao Yu meant, which was that the underground canals were crisscrossed and it would be impossible to get through without an accurate blueprint.
Therefore, now we can only see if we can gain anything from the entrance to Daye General Temple.
As they were talking, Xu Zun saw Zhao Yu holding a yellow thing that looked like an invitation.
"Oh," Zhao Yu hurriedly handed the item to Xu Zun and explained, "There was a guy with a goatee at the door who said he wanted to see you, but he was stopped by the inner guards.
"So, he wrote a visiting card and asked me to give it to you, saying that he wanted to discuss something with you."
"What?"
Xu Zun frowned and thought to himself, isn't there a curfew on the streets now? Anyone who wants to find me must have the status to enter the Inner Guard House.
But if this person can't get in, who could it be?
Could it be that... there is an important clue that he wants to provide to me?
Thinking of this, Xu Zun quickly opened the visiting card, but saw a few simple words written inside:
"I have sent you a special invitation to meet you outside the door as soon as possible."
Looking at the signature, there is also a signature: "Yue-Jing-Lei!!!"
