After the assassination at noon, the court of Jinwu City became busy at once.
The dean of the court of Jinwu City was an old man of Zhang Clan of Huaiyuan Palace who was experienced and capable. Without Zhang Yang's order, those who knew Zhang Ping's whereabouts before he left the city had been "invited" to the court of the court in the name of assisting in the investigation. After making written records and inquiring, they stayed in the court for the time being.
After leaving Starlight Castle, Zhang Yang directly led Zhang Tie to the court of the court.
Nobody knew what Zhang Yang talked with this wandering warrior called Xia Ping in the room. However, after coming out of the room, Xia Ping seemed to have gained Zhang Yang's trust. He could even sit in the same car with Zhang Yang. In the eyes of others, Xia Ping was a bit amazed.
In the same car, Zhang Tie always felt that the knight from Golden Roc Bank was always paying attention to his movements. Although the knight didn't turn around and stare at him, Zhang Tie felt that the greater part of the knight's knight's consciousness was focused on him. It was almost the same as turning around and looking at him.
Jinwu Business Group hired two knights from Golden Roc Bank. One of them was Zhang Yang's bodyguard; the other one was in the base of producing medicament for the whole school. After Zhang Tie's accident, Heavens Fortune Sect also dispatched an experienced and prudent knight to Zhang's mansion to protect Zhang's family members. Unconsciously, there were already 3 knights serving Zhang's family.
The knight in the front row was gazing at Zhang Tie; however, Zhang Tie just tilted his head and watched Jinwu City through the window as if he had not noticed it at all.
It was already dark. All the street lamps on the streets outside Jinwu City had been lit up. By then, the news that Zhang Ping was assassinated had long spread over Jinwu City. The number of patrolling Jinwu guards and criminal hunters increased evidently. Even though the atmosphere in Jinwu City was a bit intense, Zhang Tie could still see the prosperity of Jinwu City on both sides of the street.
Jinwu City was not a big city; instead, it was a small but picturesque city.
On both sides of the broad and tidy streets, there were tidily planned buildings, villas and manors. However, Zhang Tie mostly saw the names of business firms, offices and hotels of different styles on the signboards of those buildings. Although it was dark, the streets in the city were still brightly lit and boisterous with pedestrians rubbing shoulders with each other.
Besides these buildings, the most impressive feature of Jinwu City was the greenery in the city. Almost half of the city was covered with greenery, which were various fruit trees.
There were streams on both sides of many streets. Under the evening lights, the clear water in the streams was even steaming, which looked a bit psychedelic.
In Zhang Tie's lotus-flower eyes, the water temperature under Jinwu City was very high. There were abundant hot springs. There was a huge hot river under the ground of Jinwu City. As long as a well was drilled into the hot river, the water from the hot river could be drawn up and turned into hot springs. The hot springs over this city were like the natural radiators of this city. In winter, as long as the runoff of hot springs in those streams was increased, the temperature in Jinwu City would be a few degrees higher than that outside. On such a condition, the fruit trees in the all-purpose medicament production base could not only achieve high yields, but also grow some corresponding fruits in the valleys where the temperature was higher in winter so as to realize the self-sufficiency and continuity of the production of all-purpose medicament.
Jinwu City was indeed the place where Zhang Clan rooted in Taixia Country.
There were over 10 vehicles following Zhang Yang. Due to the assassination of Zhang Ping, there were some wheeled armored vehicles among them. Such a fleet looked pretty awe-inspiring on the street. In Jinwu City, the fleet was almost unobstructed.
Only after over 10 minutes, the fleet had driven into the gate of the court of Jinwu City.
The moment Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang got off the vehicle, the chief officer of the court had hurriedly walked towards them.
"Are they still there?" Zhang Yang asked.
"They're still being interrogated and verified!" The chief officer of the court replied straightforwardly. Meanwhile, he threw a glance at Zhang Tie on Zhang Yang's side stealthily. He didn't know Zhang Tie; however, Zhang Tie knew him. Zhang Tie remembered that he had met this person in front of him in the old mansion of Zhang family. This person was on Zhang Yuanshan's side. He was a subordinate of Zhang Yuanshan.
"Prepare an independent interrogation room. He will arrange the following things!" Zhang Yang pointed at Zhang Tie.
"This is..." The chief officer of the court looked at Zhang Tie up and down.
"He's the one who saved the old man today. I hired him temporarily. He could find that person!"
"Hmm, please follow me, I will arrange it right away..."
That person directly led Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang into the building of the court.
"How many of them are there?" Zhang Tie who was a bit silent opened his mouth.
"87 people in total!"
"Isolate them and bring them to the interrogation room one by one!" Zhang Tie issued the order straightforwardly.
"Hmm, what else do we need the court to do?"
"No need!" Zhang Tie threw a glance at Zhang Yang, "We should get the result soon!"
...
After a few minutes, Zhang Tie sat down in a secret interrogation room of the court alone. The four walls of this interrogation room were made of iron. There was a mirror on one wall. There was only one table, two chairs and an orange-red fluorite lamp in the room. Zhang Yang and the chief officer of the court were waiting in another room. According to the rules, in such an interrogation, someone in the neighboring room could see what happened in this room through that mirror. However, according to Zhang Tie's request, the neighboring room was empty. Zhang Tie was responsible for the entire interrogation alone.
After sitting in the interrogation room for less than half a minute, the first person had been brought in.
It was a young commissioned officer of Jinwu Guards. The commissioned officer probably knew what was going on and knew that this process was inevitable. Therefore, he didn't feel conflicted when he was brought in. However, he was amazed that the one who was responsible for the interrogation was a stranger.
Only that commissioned officer walked in. All the other people of the court were outside the door. The moment this commissioned officer entered, the people outside had closed the door.
Zhang Tie looked into the commissioned officer's eyes. The power of the secret method had already started to influence the commissioned officer's consciousness silently. However, the commissioned officer didn't feel it at all.
As for Zhang Tie, he only needed to ask one or two questions, "Have you leaked the trace of the castellan to anyone else today?"
After being stunned for a second, the commissioned officer shook his head, "No!"
"Good, you can leave now!"
After entering the room for less than 10 seconds, the commissioned officer left. In less than half a minute, another one entered the interrogation room.
...
"Have you leaked the trace of the castellan to anyone else today?"
"No!"
"Good, you can leave now!"
...
After leaving this room, they could directly leave the court, which indicated that they had fulfilled the obligation to cooperate with the investigation. When these people left the interrogation room, they felt strange as they had not imagined that the final interrogation could be so simple. It was just like a game. When they left the court, they found that they couldn't remember what happened in the interrogation room at all. They could only remember that they entered the interrogation room and came out. All they could remember was that the grey metal door outside the interrogation room was opened and closed. Everything was blank as if it had been taken away by someone.
...
In another room of the court, watching those "suspects" entering and exiting the interrogation room one after another, the principal of the court of Jinwu City frowned, 'What are they doing? Physiognomy?'
"Regimental commander..." The principal of the court watched Zhang Yang.
"Just wait..." Zhang Yang said in a muffled voice.
The principal of the court became silent. At this moment, everybody in Jinwu City knew who was the real master of Zhang family.
...
Half an hour later, the 52nd person was brought in. He was a young man wearing glasses and looked gentle.
Zhang Tie still asked those questions mechanically.
"Have you leaked the trace of the castellan to anyone else today?"
"Yes!"
"Who?"
"A137"
Closely after hearing Zhang Tie's words, that person widely opened his eyes and watched Zhang Tie with a frightened look. Closely after that, Zhang Tie disappeared from his chair and reappeared on his side. At the same time, he dislocated that person's jaw by one hand and grabbed that person's head by the other.
When Zhang Tie touched that person's head, that person quivered a bit as a wisp of black blood flew out of his mouth corner. His face turned black at once while his body became soft...
After a few minutes, Zhang Tie had to loosen his hand and let go of that person whose body had started to become soft and bubbly. Watching that person turning into a puddle of stinky blood on the ground of the interrogation room, Zhang Tie exclaimed inside — — This person's brain and consciousness had long been set up with a restriction of spiritual energy. That restriction was like a landmine. The moment Zhang Tie asked the two questions, the landmine had been triggered. In a passive response, the restriction of spiritual energy directly stimulated the central nervous system of the brain, causing the two pieces of muscles on the throat of this person to contract violently against the common sense. As a result, the poison sac in the muscles was broken and the witness was killed … (To be continued).
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