"Indeed, appearances can be deceiving."
The old blind man slightly furrowed his brows, his gaze reflecting a touch of disbelief. Qiu Qianqiu wore a look of surprise and observed Zhen Shenlian with an examining gaze.
"No way, is it really Xiaowei Zhen?" Jiang Hanyun also stared at Li Xuan in disbelief: "Didn’t you say you had already cracked the case? Is the insider really Xiaowei Zhen?"
"Completely different matters," Li Xuan shook his head, turning his attention to soone in the crowd: "I don’t know if Shi Xin’s teachings about Maitreya Buddha and Buddhist scriptures are true or false, but the real culprit is soone else."
"Everyone!"
At this mont, Shi Xin sneered and glanced again at everyone: "To my knowledge, since I led everyone here into the Zhuque Hall, both the superiors and the subordinates of Zhuque Hall have harbored various criticisms against . So people say that I abused my power. Others say that I retaliated against them. So even say that I intentionally created a rift, leading to a factional conflict. But the fact has proven that everything I’ve done, was all for the sake of handling public affairs legitimately—"
"Jianchashi Shi!"
At this mont, a cold voice from the floor interrupted Shi Xin’s speech.
Everyone glanced sideways to find that it was indeed Li Xuan: "Jianchashi Shi, all your actions were within the rules of the Liudao Division, but the one who instigated the bombing incident was indeed soone else, certainly not Xiaowei Zhen."
Shi Xin was slightly startled to hear this and looked at Li Xuan, his gaze gradually becoming cold: "You an to exonerate him?"
"I’m not trying to exonerate him, but rather, the truth shows that your judgnt is fundantally flawed."
Li Xuan shook his head: "To be honest, I have also once suspected Xiaowei Zhen, but there is one thing I just can’t understand. As everyone knows, the spiritual essence of paper and blood cannot be preserved for more than three days. Therefore, no matter what kind of talisman master you are, you cannot make a talisman that lasts longer than three days with these two materials."
"However, Xiaowei Zhen first took office on the top floor from the early morning to the Hour of Chen on September 16th, and the mont the cri was committed was the fourth mont of the Hour of Hai on September 19th, almost four days apart. And on the night of the incident, Aunt Lin’s al cart never entered the top floor."
Shi Xin’s face turned slightly pale: "How do you know it wasn’t smuggled in on the 19th? A few God-fire Talismans are much easier to handle than that gunpowder—"
He only started to speak and then realized his mistake.
The two explosions in the Zhenyao Tower, besides the God-Fire Talismans used for ignition, were also accompanied by illusion talismans that covered the sll of gunpowder and fooled various senses of the Xiaoweis.
God-fire Talismans could be smuggled in on the day, but the illusion talismans must have been placed in advance. Illusion talismans made of writing paper and human blood, lasting for three days? That’s essentially a made-up story."
He had inspected the scene, and the reason that the illusion talisman managed to fool everyone and maintain its effect for such a long ti was due to the dense earth energy of the location where it was placed.
"Aside from this, there were also the two notes that summoned our Xiaowei Lei and Duwei Gongsun."
Li Xuan continued: "I’m not sure if Jianchashi Shi noticed, but the ink used on them was Pine Script Ink? The Zhenyao Tower normally uses the cheaper Shitian Ink, it was only three days before the incident that they returned a new batch of sub-quality Shitian Ink to the general store and began to use the stock of Pine Script Ink in the Zhenyao Tower for urgent use on the 9th floor. The problem is that during these three days, there were no prisoners detained on the 9th floor of Guixiu City, so naturally, they could not use the ink there."
"In theory, Xiaowei Zhen would not have had access to Pine Script Ink while in the Zhenyao Tower. Of course, you could also say that one of his accomplices did it but the issue is, there were only nine people who interrogated prisoners in the interrogation room on the 9th floor during these three days, and their whereabouts can be traced. Jianchashi Shi, before you convict Xiaowei Zhen, should you at least question them first?"
Shi Xin’s expression changed again, Li Xuan had previously handed over the two letters from Lei Yun and Gongsun Xue to the Physical Evidence Room but he truly had overlooked this.
"I knew it! Can this group from the inner hall even investigate cases?"
Jiang Hanyun’s eyes lit up, and she looked excited: "Li Xuan, you said you had already cracked the case, quickly tell us, who is the insider?"
Her words caused the blind old man to perk up slightly, and at this ti, the entire great hall fell silent.
At this point, Li Xuan looked complexly at a stern figure in the crowd.
"The bombing case indeed has been solved. Before explaining why, there’s one thing that I wish to inform everyone of; on the night of the incident, Aunt Lin never entered the Zhenyao Tower!"
When he said this, there was a hum of murmurs from all directions, and the one who was being watched by Li Xuan showed a slight change in his expression.
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