Chapter 907: Chapter 109: Layers of Fog, Shackles Loosening (1/2)

At that time, Xu Sixing was still like a piece of charcoal, his mind unclear, not yet Su Xing, and the other party planned to take Xu Sixing away. To prevent Wang Anfeng from discovering Xu Sixing’s disappearance and detecting something unusual the next day, they even went so far as to kill a person to replace Xu Sixing.

However, this also became the only flaw left by the other party.

Thirty years ago, the Ministry of Punishment had already compiled hundreds of years of records regarding the interrogation of criminals, simplifying them and organizing many experiences that hit straight to the heart. Over the past thirty years, these methods have been tried and proven effective.

For instance, most criminals would often return to the vicinity of the crime scene within days of committing a major crime, so they would be loose externally but tight internally, waiting for them to fall into the net.

Among them, most of these people would not go far to find victims but would search within a range centered on where they were located.

So as long as the identity of that victim is confirmed, the approximate range of the temporary hideout of the other party can be identified.

The death of this person is directly related to the two Grade A criminals that Wang Anfeng, disguised as an elder from the Hu people—particularly the two he and Wuxin Tielin have been pursuing all along. By confirming the identity of that deceased gambler, the approximate position of those two Hu criminals, one old and one young, can be ascertained.

Those two Grade A criminals committed murder for the purpose of ‘swapping a civet for the crown prince,’ to take away Xu Sixing, who had been turned into charcoal.

The reason Xu Sixing fell into this trap was due to an uproar he caused during the Mid-Autumn banquet, attracting the attention of Wuxin Tielin. It was precisely because of this that Wuxin mistook the turmoil in Liangzhou as their target, causing the two criminals, one old and one young, to escape the investigation scope of the Ministry of Punishment.

Thinking of this, Wang Anfeng’s brows naturally furrowed slightly—

Was there a relationship between these two parties?

No, these matters are connected by both parties, there must be some relationship.

But today, Qiong Qi and An Zhaofeng clearly did not recognize his disguised elder in the first instance, which might prove that Sword Forging Valley actually knows very little about this, and only Xu Sixing is aware.

Was this why Xu Sixing came here alone, deliberately taking risks?

And Xu Sixing’s timely arrival in Liangzhou City was because of Dongfang Ningxin, while Dongfang Ningxin took advantage of Xi Ming, swapped herself out, yet her purpose remains unknown, as do her actions.

The events experienced in this period, each line converging, are extremely complex, but finally becoming gradually clearer, though more understandable; they remain shrouded in some lingering puzzles due to intertwinement and mutual influence.

Wang Anfeng took a deep breath, feeling that the letter in his hand had become far heavier than before—

The key information to penetrate this last layer of mist lies within what’s written on this letter.

It concerns the names and places of origin of the gamblers listed on the letter.

There are even illustrations of these gamblers; if the deceased from that day hadn’t disguised with injuries similar to Xu Sixing’s, rendering his face unrecognizable, things would have been much easier.

But within these few days, the Ministry of Punishment’s forensic examiners might have already found something.

And what of Xu Sixing who fell into the hands of Wuxin Tielin? Who knows what valuable information might have been extracted?

Wang Anfeng casually placed the letter on the table, raised his hand to massage his temples, and gradually soothed his tense thoughts. Although complex, the situation has already become clearer, and moreover, a lot is already in their control.

And the initiative lies with him, instead it should be the other party feeling the headache.

At this point, he laughed, immediately picked up a pen to write a letter, briefly stating the situation. He also placed the directory provided by the old blind Wu inside the envelope and mentioned ‘vaguely’ about the deposit and balance the blind Wu requested.

He initially planned to use a retreat-to-advance tactic like the blind old Wu, but when penning it suddenly realized—the blind Wu dared to write as such because he bet on ‘Yan Ling of the Ministry of Punishment,’ though harsh, being someone from the Ministry of Punishment with their institutional pride, would not bother with dealings of the likes of lowly characters.

Even taking a step back, should this matter be exposed, it wouldn’t benefit either side, Wu wouldn’t get paid, and ‘Yan Ling of the Ministry of Punishment’ would garner a troublesome scandal too.

But it wouldn’t be the same for Wuxin.

If Wang Anfeng wrote to Wuxin something like, there’s no rush, payments could be made slowly, that ice-cold face would definitely follow through with something like giving him sixteen taels and six hundred and sixty-six Tongbao coins per month, accumulating to one hundred taels of silver for six months.

Imagining such a scene, Wang Anfeng couldn’t help but twitch his lips.

Lowering his gaze, he saw on his letter he had already penned the aforementioned plan halfway through, unable to bear looking.

He immediately crumpled it into a ball, rewrote it, and using a gray pigeon sent out the letter, the evidently exceptional bird spread its wings like an arrow, darting into the infinite night, shooting toward the direction of the Ministry of Punishment.

Wang Anfeng watched the departing bird, withdrew his gaze, and suddenly noticed the tea cup beside him, which belonged to the ‘rat’ earlier, recalling that the rat’s purpose was to seek a kind of drug targeting women.

Being part of the Medical Family, Wang Anfeng naturally understood that these kinds of Yin Yang Harmony medicines carry a degree of mind confusion, so the ‘rat’s purpose was self-evident, and with his preliminary mastery of ‘Telepathy,’ he had somewhat known the rat’s true intent.

Recalling this, a slight feeling of nausea and discomfort surfaced in his heart, the more he tried not to care, the more he did.

He normally did not care much for such things, but since the Ancient Taoist’s arrival, who held an excessive spiritual cleanliness, witnessing it daily had gradually influenced him a bit, becoming slightly attentive, just feeling as though having swallowed a bug, uncomfortable.

He pursed his lips, raised his hand, fingers spreading slightly, suddenly sparking thunderbolts, leaping and entwining, cleansing over that cup several times.

Still, he couldn’t help but with a swing of his sleeve, his powerful Vigorous Qi crushed that cup into powder, the sleeve’s movement threw it out the window, scattering it in the wind, finally feeling much relieved, taking a long breath.

“Feels great.”

“Now it’s clean…”

Just as he exhaled a breath, Wang Anfeng suddenly remembered something, his movements slightly freezing, then his gaze turned to the side, where a wooden board on the wall had some words carved on it—

If items in this shop are damaged, compensate according to price, small business, no credit offered.

Bed five taels.

High-class white porcelain tea set, each cup five hundred wen.

Five hundred wen…

Wang Anfeng fell into silence, raised his hand to feel the ten Great Qin Tongbao coins in his bosom, his lips twitching slightly as he looked in the direction the bird flew off.

Can he write another letter now?

PS: The first watch of today is presented… three thousand six hundred.