The ice flow left over the years in this inner prison was beyond Chi Ji's imagination... He did not expect that there would be so much ice flow in this inner prison!

He just walked in the corridor of the inner prison, watching as ice streams merged into his body, and the Dantian sealed by four furnace fires was crumbling.

The gray-white ice flow is like a dragon, roaring in this dark inner prison that no one else can hear, as if an innocent soul trapped in a cage for a long time is unwilling to accept it and wants to swallow up all the traces.

They are the power that can override power and power in this mysterious world, but now they are being taken away bit by bit.

Chen Ji could feel the cold air coming from his internal organs, but he didn't dare to feel anything strange next to Yunyang.

However, when he and Yunyang passed by a cell, they saw a Bagua formation carved on the base of an oil lamp on the wall.

Chen Ji suddenly remembered the Bagua formations under those oil slag lamps when he went down the stairs... A lamp is like a prison. If the lamp is not extinguished, the person will not be extinguished!

He quickly took off the oil lamp and held it in his hand!

In an instant, the ice flow in Dantian slowly receded like a tide.

Chen Ji gasped slightly, and Yunyang turned around in surprise: "What are you doing with this lamp?"

He responded: "This inner prison is too dark and I am not used to it."

Yunyang sneered: "I didn't expect that a person who dares to bargain with me would be afraid of the dark?"

Without answering, he was just thinking about a question: Doesn't the ice flow dissipate after a person dies? Judging from the amount of ice flow just now, it must have been accumulated for a long time.

Even if the Secret Service is ruthless, it won't kill so many people in a short period of time.

It’s the function of the Bagua array!

The inner minister was worried that he might be haunted by wronged souls if he killed too many people, so he used the Bagua array to imprison these souls in the inner prison. This is how he accumulated so many ice streams over the years.

Chen Ji breathed calmly: "Master Yunyang, please bring me the files to check. If you want to find clues, you don't have to look for them in the current case. There may be many secrets hidden in past cases."

Yunyang waved to the spy: "Give it to him!"

When the spies brought the dossier, it was filled with more than a dozen large wooden boxes.

Chen Ji casually took out a book from it and flipped through it while inspecting the inner prison.

Yunyang sat at a table drinking tea and waiting, while the spy followed behind Chen Ji.

Chen Ji walked to a cell door and asked: "Cell No. 27, was Liu Yaozu, a fellow governor of Yuzhou, imprisoned before? Where is he at this time?"

The spy was thinking about how to call the masked young man in front of him. He hesitated for a moment and whispered: "This... sir, it is written in the file that the one who was released means he walked out of the inner prison alive. If there is nothing, To write is to die inside."

Chen Ji confirmed that Liu Yaozu died in prison four years ago.

He walked to another cell door: "Cell A, No. 28, was the supervisor Chen Mingzhuo, a craftsman in Luocheng, imprisoned?"

"Dead too."

From then on, Chen Ji stopped asking and just muttered silently in his heart:

"Cell No. 52, Xu Jiawen, the prefect of Guide Prefecture, died."

"Cell No. 1, Runing Mansion. Tian Hailong, the magistrate of Shangcai County, died; Xu Dehong, the prime minister of Shangcai County, died..."

Taking a closer look, some cells have had one person die, and some have had several.

The more Chen Ji checked, the more frightened he became. The file in his hand was like the book of life and death in the Palace of Hell.

He looked through the files again and found that there were some people in the world and some officials hidden in the market who were imprisoned in this inner prison, but there was no ice flow in the cells where these people were located.

He took a deep breath and finally understood the pattern of ice flow.

Those who can produce ice flows after death have only one thing in common, and that is: officials!

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…

The inner prison buried underground is like a huge cemetery. It is unknown how many people died in this dark place.

This is not the rivers and lakes, but the place where the rivers and lakes and the court are buried.

Chen Ji stood in front of the cell, with the file open in his hand and the dark cage in front of him.

It took him about an hour to finally read through all the files in cells A and B. The remaining ones include C, D, E, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, and Gui. There is no need to read them anymore. Saw it.

Chen Ji even dared to make a bold judgment that the ice flow obtained by Wanxingyuan that night did come from Concubine Jing's fetus, and the royal blood would be superior to others after birth.

At this moment, Chen Ji stood in this oppressive inner prison, feeling a little absurd.

My own way of cultivation is actually on the opposite side of the entire Ning Dynasty. If I want to practice, I must have officials and royal bloodline die!

The Ning Dynasty, from the emperor to the petty officials, controlled all the power of the dynasty.

And you want to be an enemy of it?

Yunyang is right, you really can't let others know what your cultivation path is...it is indeed very dangerous.

Yunyang was sitting at a table, with his legs crossed and licking melon seeds. When he saw the traces in the corridor, he stopped to think and asked, "Have you found any clues?"

Chen Ji came back to his senses from the long exam: "Not yet."

Yunyang frowned: "I went to pick you up in person, wasted an hour going back and forth, and now I've been waiting for you for another hour, and you said there are no clues?"

The traces came for the ice flow and the files. I have obtained both, but I can't just leave.

He thought for a moment and asked: "How did Liu Shiyu die? Did you kill him?"

Yunyang shook his head: "No, he couldn't bear the torture and hanged himself."

Chen Ji frowned: "Is his body still in the prison?"

"Here, you want to take a look?" Yunyang became interested and threw the melon seeds in his hand on the table: "I will take you there."

Yunyang led Chen Ji toward the depths of the inner prison. He actually went down several stairs and passed through several floors before reaching the deepest part. Chen Ji could even hear the sound of the underground river flowing.

"Here, there is only Liu Shiyu's body inside," Yunyang walked in holding a torch.

Liu Shiyu is about thirty years old, with a slim body, fair skin, pale face, tongue sticking out, and incontinence of urine and feces.

This is a typical sign of death by hanging, nothing unusual.

When Chen Ji saw the corpse, he held his breath and felt uncomfortable in his heart.

Yunyang started joking: "I thought you were really omnipotent, how come you can't even see the corpse?"

Chen Ji calmed down: "Master Yunyang, being able to look at the corpses of the same kind indifferently is not something worth bragging about... Liu Shiyu did not commit suicide, he was killed and silenced."

Yunyang shook his head: "You are wrong this time. I have killed many people, so I have more experience when it comes to this matter. All of his deaths were like hanging to death: I have helped many people hang themselves, and the faces of those who hanged themselves turned pale.

There is nothing wrong with him sticking out his tongue and being incontinent. You may be thinking, was he strangled before being hanged? No, the face of a person who was strangled turns purple, and I am familiar with this."

"Theoretically, what Master Yunyang said is correct," Chen Ji nodded.

"Huh?" Yunyang was confused.

Chen Ji said: "But these can all be forged."

The cause of death by hanging was that the carotid artery was blocked and the brain was starved of oxygen.

Because the carotid artery is instantly blocked and the veins can still work for the time being, a person who hangs himself to death will turn pale, while a person who is strangled will turn purple.

The person who killed Liu Shiyu must have known the principle, so he faked the illusion of hanging to death: the tongue can be strangled out, acupuncture can cause incontinence, and precise strangulation of the arterial sinus can cause the complexion to turn pale.

The other party is a killer who specializes in faking suicide, but the other party only missed one detail, his feet.

Chen Ji explained: "The toes of a hanged person are hanging down, almost perpendicular to the ground. Rigor mortis will appear in two hours. Even if the person is put down, it will still remain. But look at Liu Shiyu, before he was strangled to death

My legs were kicked hard due to the struggle, and my two feet were fixed in different directions."

After hearing this, Yunyang looked thoughtful: "Is that so... Let's go back to the A-level floor and bring a death row prisoner over. You'll know after you try it!"

Chen Ji and others returned to the upper level, and he saw two spies dragging a death row prisoner over.

The prisoner on death row had peed his pants before he even hung himself.

Yunyang sat at the table, eating melon seeds and sarcastically said: "This is my civil servant of the Ning Dynasty. On the surface, he looks strong, but in reality he is vulnerable."

Chen Ji hesitated and said: "Master Yunyang, what is his crime?"

"Collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, he secretly forged household registration and road records for Jing Dynasty spies," Yunyang turned to the spies and said, "Hang him on the roof, I want to observe him!"

Chen Ji wanted to say something, but finally chose to keep his mouth shut.

The next moment, the spies tied a rope around the death row prisoner's neck and hung him from the roof, kicking away the stool under his feet.

In just a few seconds, the death row prisoner completely stopped moving.

Everyone just waited, with the corpse hanging in front of them, but Yunyang drank tea and ate melon seeds as if nothing had happened, as if what was hung was not a person, but a pig.

Chen Ji only focused on reading the files to pass the time.

Two hours later, the spy took the body off the roof. As Chen Xi said, the toes were straight.

Yunyang high-fived and praised: "I only hung people up before but never took them down. I didn't even notice this detail!"

Chen Ji said calmly: "Someone wants to kill people and silence them, which means there is a big fish behind Liu Shiyu. There is more than one person in the Liu family who is a collaborator. The second eldest brother Liu Mingming and the first eldest brother Liu Mingde are both suspected."

Yunyang frowned: "Liu Gun will return to Luo City in a few days. If I provoke the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel without any evidence at this time, wouldn't I be making myself miserable? Are you trying to trick me into going to the fire pit?

Jump in."

In the room, Chen Ji was holding the oil lamp, and the fire was beating in his eyes: "How could it be possible? I still expect Lord Yunyang to promote me. But Lord Yunyang also said before that Jing Dynasty's spies treat frontline soldiers.

It’s dangerous, so why are you wise enough to protect yourself at this time?”

Yunyang lamented: "You have to learn from every experience and gain wisdom. I used to only know how to kill people, but it has only been half a year since I got the position of Zodiac. It would be a pity to lose it... Officialdom is not easy."

Chen Ji looked at the other party and asked sincerely: "Master Yunyang, what you and Master Jiaotu are good at is killing people. Master Nei Xiang is extremely smart, why would he send you to do something you are not good at?"

Yunyang was confused: "Yes...could it be that the Prime Minister wanted to use our murderous nature to kill the Liu family? The Prime Minister sent us here to kill people, so what should I do..."

He subconsciously picked up the teapot and wanted to pour a cup of tea for Chen Ji, but then he thought, no, he had only poured tea for the internal minister before!

He put the teapot back on the table: "But now even if we know that someone killed Liu Shiyu and silenced him, it will be difficult to get hold of the Liu family. How should I continue to investigate?"

Chen Ji shook his head: "There are too few clues at the moment, and I don't have any good suggestions. But, Mr. Yunyang, don't you think the death of Mr. Liu is too strange? As soon as he died, you all fell into a passive position. My master was invited to go to the clinic for diagnosis.

He was ill, but the carriage he was riding broke down halfway, and Mr. Liu was not seen at all."

A flash of thunder flashed in Yunyang's mind: "Mr. Liu is probably not dead!"
Chapter completed!