Chapter 595
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Ning Shu furrowed her eyebrows. "But the time he took to deliver the food was very short, and it would be faster for him to do something on the ground. The Blood Lotus Note and Broken Finger both fell from the sky. Did he climb up a tree and place the mechanism there? Then what are the conditions for the mechanism to be triggered? How can he guarantee that it would be triggered at the right time and no one would notice? "
Xiao Yunyi also thought along this line of thought. "Could it be something like a crossbow? Then even if he was outside the mausoleum, he would be able to shoot it here. "
Ning Shu shook her head slowly. "It can't be done. Even the nearest wall is three to four miles away from here, far out of the range of the crossbow. And if the crossbowman wants to aim at the target in such a precise range, he must be standing on high ground. Look around the Imperial Mausoleum, it's flat ground. There's no chance for the crossbowman to move at all. "
This possibility was completely ruled out. Xiao Yunyi fell into deep thought and stopped talking.
Ning Shu bit her petal-like lips and stood on the spot silently. She looked up and observed every corner of the mausoleum seriously, trying to find more effective clues from here. The warm light above her head shone on her porcelain-like face. It was transparent and beautiful, but also unusually sharp.
Xiao Yunyi stood beside her, looking at her side profile almost greedily. He couldn't help but remember when she was young. When she first learned from Teacher Hui Ci and came into contact with detective cases, they often wouldn't see each other for half a month. But as long as they met, she would be like a chatterbox, sharing with him the novel things she encountered in detective cases. Even if he couldn't understand her new ideas, she would never get tired of it. Unlike now, it seemed like they hadn't talked for a long time. Even if they were standing side by side at this moment, they were so far apart that it felt like there was a river without a bridge between them.
Not knowing what Xiao Yunyi was thinking, Ning Shu repeatedly measured the area with her feet without any distractions. The testimonies of the guards and eunuchs just now rolled in her mind like a water curtain. Every step of the crime followed her train of thought and deduced step by step, simulating one world after another and overturning it again and again.
There was already a buzzing sound in her head, announcing that she was about to reach her body's limit. But she still forced herself to hold on and kept telling herself, 'Don't be weak, you don't have the right to rest, work harder, work harder! There was no time!
However, the alarm bell in her heart still rang heavily in her mind, "Dang — Dang —", reminding her not to push herself too hard.
Ning Shu suddenly stopped and looked in the direction of the bell tower 500 steps away from the Imperial Mausoleum. "I think I know how he did it."
She endured the buzzing pain in her head and found the little guard who had just spoken to her, "You said that when the Blood Lotus Letter floated down, you happened to hear the bell of the clock tower. Which tower is it?"
The young Imperial Bodyguard said, "That's right. Because the late Emperor believed in the Taoist Yin Yang Eight Trigrams technique, he specially built twelve bell towers around the Imperial Mausoleum. This place is located in the northwest of the Imperial Mausoleum, which is the Qian position on the Eight Trigrams diagram. Therefore, the bell tower at the back will ring three times every morning to inform the late Emperor's spirit in heaven."
Xiao Yunyi was puzzled. "Shouldn't it be rung every day at Xu or Hai? Why is it in the morning? "
"It's precisely because of the Qian position that Yin and Yang complement each other! Naturally, he had to choose the time of the Eight Trigrams! This was a rule set by the late Emperor himself when he was still alive. "
Ning Shu immediately said, "In other words, the bell tower only rings once a day at seven in the morning?"
The young Imperial Bodyguard said, "That's right."
Ning Shu's eyes lit up and she immediately ran towards the bell tower. "I guessed right, it's really it! This is the trap set up by Liu Laosan!
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