Volume 5: The Gathering of Storms Chapter 270: Heavy Relief
The mourning shed built with wood and bamboo poles had been completely destroyed, the coffin was blown to the ground sideways, and half of the body inside was thrown out.
Looking at the many internal guards wailing in pain in the ruins, it was a tragic and messy sight.
"Hou Zhen, Li Xing!"
Zhao Yu was very anxious and rushed over to look for him, and soon found Hou Zhen among the wreckage.
But half of Hou Zhen's face was injured by the explosion, and his entire left half of the body was a mixture of blood and dust, and he himself had been blown unconscious .
"this……"
Xu Zun saw that lying next to Hou Zhen was a bloody man, who was none other than Li Ren, the Duke of Lushan.
But Li Ren was motionless and seemed to have no vital signs.
However, when Xu Zun went to check his breath, he unexpectedly discovered that Li Ren was still breathing.
Alive...still alive...
Xu Zun wanted to call out, but when he looked around, he immediately sensed the danger, so he shook his head regretfully, indicating that Li Ren was dead.
"This... this..." Cai Kun was stunned and muttered, "This is impossible? This place has been searched so many times, where did the explosives come from?"
"Sir..." At this time, an inner guard who was guarding outside the mourning shed came forward to report, "Just now when the inner guards were leading the suspect out, a box containing the shroud suddenly exploded!
"Right..." He pointed to the place where the coffin was originally placed, "It was right under this coffin. There was no sign before, it exploded suddenly!"
"Hurry... hurry and save them..." Cai Kun looked at the guards who were groaning in pain and quickly ordered people to go and rescue them.
At this time, Xu Zun and Zhao Yu had already found Li Xing. Perhaps because Li Xing was far away from the explosion point, he only had a scalp abrasion and was not seriously injured.
"Sir, it's blown up, it's blown up!" Li Xing pointed at the coffin and said, "There's explosives over there!"
"Li Xing..." Xu Zun looked at the position of the coffin and asked, "Who was holding Li Ren just now?"
"It was Hou Zhen and another inner guard," Li Xing said. "I was in the front at the time and didn't notice anything."
"No way?" Zhao Yu frowned. "The explosives need to have their fuse ignited. Didn't you hear any unusual noises?"
"No," Li Xing clarified, "There were no signs before!"
"Then..." Xu Zun asked again, "Do you still remember who was close to the explosion point?"
"This..." Li Xing pointed at someone else, "We all came up from below. If we want to know who approached there, we have to ask the guards up there..."
"Quick..." At this time, Cai Kun remembered something and hurriedly ordered his men, "Hurry up and check on Li Ren's family members, bring them out first, so they won't be blown up again!
"Oh, and... and that son-in-law!"
"Yes!" A team of guards immediately rushed to the front hall.
"My Lord...what happened?"
Ah Xiu suddenly came closer. Because he was injured, he had been in charge of looking after Li Ren's son-in-law. When he heard the explosion and rushed over, he was stunned on the spot.
"Ah? Old Hou..." Ashu hurriedly ran to Hou Zhen to check.
"Sir," Zhao Yu had already run out of ideas and asked Xu Zun, "What should we do? Is there...among our people..."
Hearing this, Xu Zun immediately held Zhao Yu down and told him not to talk nonsense.
Xu Zun looked at Cai Kun, observing his subtle expressions.
However, Cai Kun was already at a loss and even forgot to check whether Li Ren was dead or alive.
"Master Cai..." At this time, Xu Zun suddenly remembered something and hurriedly reminded Cai Kun, "Go and see if Bi Sheng is okay!"
"Ah?" Hearing this, Cai Kun was shocked again, and then he quickly sent someone to check...
…
Half an hour later, all the internal guards injured in the explosion were sent back to the Internal Guard House for treatment.
Others escorted Li Ren's family and servants to the Internal Guard House for trial.
The case was serious and the internal security force was already seriously understaffed, but Cai Kun still insisted on not asking the Three Law Departments or the Divine Capture Department for help.
Hou Zhen was seriously injured, but not fatally.
Fortunately, all the guards who were bombed at the scene were only injured to varying degrees, and no one lost their lives.
It seems that the power of the explosives is not as great as imagined.
As for Li Ren, currently only Xu Zun and Zhao Yu know that Li Ren is not dead. Everyone, including Cai Kun, thinks that Li Ren is the only death in the explosion.
At this moment, Zhao Yu covered Li Ren with a white cloth, preparing to carry him away with Ashu later.
"Fortunately..." Zhao Yu said fearfully, "There aren't many explosives, and they were placed outside. Otherwise... we wouldn't be able to get out!"
Xu Zun didn't respond, but was thinking about something seriously.
In Xu Zun's opinion, there was no one else in the mourning shed at the time, so the explosives must have been placed and detonated by the inner guards.
However, no one knows when it was placed or how it was detonated.
More importantly, who could this traitor be?
Hou Zhen seemed to be cleared of suspicion because he was escorting Li Ren and it was impossible for him to detonate explosives while escorting a criminal.
So... who is this person?
Why did he want to blow Li Ren to death?
Logically speaking, with Li Ren's arrest, even if there are still remnants that have not been exposed, they should be thinking about how to evacuate, right?
But why would you take the risk of blowing Li Ren to death?
Why?
Xu Zun felt very curious, because he keenly realized that the person who detonated the explosives might not be the remnant of Xuanmen, but someone else!
Because the explosion came extremely suddenly, even as if it was spur of the moment, but if it was spur of the moment, where would the explosives come from?
call……
The more Xu Zun thought about it, the colder he felt on his back, as if he had fallen into a bottomless quagmire.
"Sir..." Zhao Yu pointed at the entrance under the coffin and asked, "Should we go down and check it out now?"
check……
Or not check?
At this point, Xu Zun already felt a great sense of crisis.
Logically speaking, there are many rooms in the underground hall just now, where evidence of Li Ren may be stored.
But now Xu Zun is no longer in the mood.
He remembered what Li Ren had said to him before. Once he knew his own hatred, he might be close to death!
"You are still too young and don't understand the dangers of the court..."
Suddenly, many images flashed through Xu Zun's mind:
Bi Sheng’s arrest…
Empress Dowager Lin walked out of the secret room in the main hall of Wanfu Palace...
Lin Chaofeng ordered a massacre...
Also... in that flower garden, he had once met the prime minister Qian Qifeng, and the prime minister's eyes seemed to be wrong...
Then there were all the things Qi Xianger said, and Li Ren insisted that he was the Xuanmen Tianzun...
All of this seems to have some hidden connection.
Now, with Li Ren being blown to death, is everything going to disappear into thin air?
“Sir, sir…” Zhao Yu saw Xu Zun remained silent and urged, “If you are worried, let me go down and take a look!”
"No need!" Xu Zun suddenly retracted his thoughts, and a heavy sense of relief filled his heart. He immediately said to Zhao Yu, "None of this matters anymore! Let's... go back first..."
