When the book-traveling little detective meets the two-faced prince

The severed hand was placed close to his body, and not only his clothes but also his chest were stained with blood, which had solidified on the surface of his skin, which was shocking.

Broken hand, bloody blade, and when Lin Lezhi tried to grab Hong Mingxu's right arm, he subconsciously resisted.

All of them are irrefutable evidence.

Cheng Su's gaze became deep, and it was hard to describe the complex emotions in his eyes: surprise, calmness, disappointment, anger, all these emotions intertwined together, making him speechless for a moment.

In order to catch the snake, Hong Mingxu obviously did not anticipate Lin Lezhi's subsequent series of actions. Before he could breathe a sigh of relief after catching the snake, he found traces of cracks on the snake's body. Surprised by the cracks, his clothes were torn into pieces.

He clenched his back teeth and used both hands to pull the broken part of the snake's body apart.

A small piece of thin tree pole stands upright in the snake's body, connecting the snake's head and tail.

He looked at Lin Lezhi, who was holding a knife and looking at him vigilantly, and remembered that he had not come in from outside the courtyard gate just now, and he even tripped and fell to the ground.

Now that I think about it, it was all just pretend.

I'm afraid he was looking for the dead snake that he had pulled apart with his own hands.

When he thought about how he had been fooled by Lin Lezhi many times but had tolerated it many times in order to avoid being suspected, Hong Mingxu looked at Lin Lezhi with eyes that almost spit fire and his back teeth seemed to be broken.

He tightened his grip on the broken snake, but used too much force and the smelly snake flesh squeezed out from the broken hole.

With a "bang", he threw the snake to the ground with great force. The place where the snake was pinched was like a piece of squeezed thin paper, and the smelly snake meat was scattered everywhere.

He sneered and tried hard to keep smiling, but the anger in his chest and the fierceness in his eyes made his face look a mixture of anger and laughter, and a little distorted.

"Okay, Jiang Lian'an, I underestimated you."

Although Lin Lezhi was alert, he was not afraid at all. He looked directly into Hong Mingxu's eyes and said firmly, "If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for doing too many evil things and being too suspicious."

After he stopped pretending, Hong Mingxu was no longer in a hurry. He said nonchalantly, "Tell me about it."

Hong Mingxu's current state made Lin Lezhi feel something was wrong. Lin Lezhi frowned and said, "You are worried that Guo Yong and the other two will expose your evil deeds sooner or later, so you want to use the Huaifeng Village case and the treasure as bait to get rid of the three people so that you can rest easy."

Lin Lezhi paused, his eyes darkened, and continued, "That night, you killed Guo Yong and intended to frame the snake. You were also worried that Guo Yong's identity would be discovered and you would be suspected. Then you thought of the paper dolls in the doll cave, pretending that the dolls killed someone, and cut off Guo Yong's limbs. But you were still afraid of being found, and after thinking it over, you still felt that it was safest to keep them on your body. However, you never thought that Magistrate Chang would see it and take away the remaining limbs of Guo Yong."

Lin Lezhi chuckled and shook his head, "You thought you were hiding something from the world, but the snakes that live on this island can easily smell the severed palm you hid on your body. When you stepped forward to check the bundle in front of the corpse of the county magistrate, the snake that was attracted by the smell of the treasure jumped out of the bundle and attacked your chest. At such a critical moment, you refused to draw your sword and caught the snake with your bare hands. It's obvious what you are afraid of."

Lin Lezhi pointed out every evil deed of Hong Mingxu, but the latter seemed to not care, which made Lin Lezhi feel sick and even more angry.

The veins on his hand that was tightly gripping the hilt of the knife bulged, and he stared at Hong Mingxu with his eyes as sharp as torches, angrily saying, "Hong Mingxu, you have killed innocent people and committed numerous evil deeds, yet you still want to be innocent? You're dreaming!"

Lin Lezhi's words were like a sharp sword, but they did not hurt Hong Mingxu at all. Instead, he even laughed out loud.

"They are just ants with a few worthless lives. Why should I feel guilty and worried about them? Let alone more than a hundred lives, even if there are thousands or tens of thousands of lives, they deserve to die if they stand in my way."

"..."

Hong Mingxu didn't care at all and made a ridiculous statement that regarded human life as worthless. Lin Lezhi was so angry that he couldn't breathe and choked there, unable to speak for a while.

I don’t know if it was because of the anger, but I felt dizzy. Qi Xi, who was standing next to me, started shaking even more violently after hearing these words.

"Hong Mingxu!"

Cheng Su couldn't bear it and shouted angrily.

Hearing Cheng Su shouting his name so angrily, Hong Mingxu's eyes flashed with a hint of helplessness. He tried to explain: "General, I can't do anything. It's just a hundred lives. We have killed more than that on the battlefield."

Cheng Su's eyes were filled with astonishment. He didn't expect Hong Mingxu to say such nonsense.

"That's different!"

"What's the difference? We fight for our country, bravely fighting on the battlefield, with our lives at stake. Their lives are lives, and our lives are lives, but who cares about our lives?"

Hong Mingxu tried to persuade Cheng Su, and his emotions became more and more agitated. The muscles on his face twisted uncontrollably, as if he wanted to vent out the anger and dissatisfaction in his heart.

Lin Lezhi looked a little pale, but he still tried to suppress his discomfort and said, "Don't confuse people. You can't and don't deserve to be compared with the heroes who died in battle, judging from the evil things you have done."

"Jiang Lian'an, shut up!"

After being exposed by Lin Lezhi, Hong Mingxu's face became extremely hideous and embarrassed. He yelled at Lin Lezhi hysterically, then turned around again and looked at Cheng Su with expectation. After seeing the disappointment in Cheng Su's eyes, his heart sank and his expression became a little panicked.

"General..."

Before Hong Mingxu could explain, a figure passed by Lin Lezhi.

!

not good!

Lin Lezhi's eyes tightened, and he wanted to reach out and grab Qi Xi, but just as he took a step, he felt dizzy again. Before he could grab her, Qi Xi had already raised a small knife and stabbed towards Hong Mingxu.

When he accidentally touched the lantern outside the yard and picked it up and felt the weight in his hand was not right, Lin Lezhi realized why Qi Xi kept holding the lantern and refused to let go.

Because Qi Xi hid something in the lantern.

He placed the lantern next to Wu Sanshan and Chang Feizhang, and came in last, just to take out the murder weapon inside.

No wonder he wanted to get a broken lantern, so that he could identify it.

Thinking about it this way, he and Xiao Yihuo actually helped him by wrapping the thread to repair the broken part of the lantern.

Can……

Qi Xi was no match for Hong Mingxu, so he stopped Qi Xi and stood in front of Qi Xi. After all, with Cheng Su here, as long as the truth was revealed, he could capture Hong Mingxu.

But at the critical moment, he lost his temper.

How could a small dagger be a match for Hong Mingxu?

As expected, Hong Mingxu heard the sound of footsteps running towards him from behind. He turned to look at Qi Xi, and the panic in his eyes disappeared, turning into anger.

Just before Hong Mingxu was about to attack Qi Xi, Lin Lezhi threw the bloody knife in his hand straight at Hong Mingxu.

In order to avoid it, Hong Mingxu had to dodge.

"Qi Xi, come back soon——!"

"Mingxu, stop...!"

Lin Lezhi shouted at Qi Xi, but Qi Xi seemed to be unable to listen. Cheng Su tried to stop him, but before he could even utter the word "hand", his expression suddenly became extremely distorted.

"Grasp…"

Cheng Su originally wanted to order the arrest of Hong Mingxu, but when he turned around and saw that the soldiers around him were the same as himself, he immediately showed astonishment and looked at Hong Mingxu in disbelief.

In a flash.

Hong Mingxu dodged the blade that Qi Xi was stabbing at him, knocked the blade out of Qi Xi's hand with his backhand, and gathered his internal strength to hit Qi Xi.

"Well-!"

It happened so quickly that no one was prepared.

“Brother Meng——!”

When He Yu discovered that Meng Dafeng rushed to Qi Xi, Hong Mingxu's palm had already come down. Meng Dafeng was hit on the back, but he also hugged Qi Xi and protected Qi Xi in his arms.

When Meng Dafeng discovered the bite marks on the six soldiers' bodies, he kept a close eye on Hong Mingxu's every move, so that he could rush out to save Qi Xi at the critical moment.

While he was still able to move, Meng Dafeng pulled Qi Xi to the limit of his ability, and then knelt down powerlessly. Looking at the blood flowing from Meng Dafeng's mouth, Qi Xi knelt down and subconsciously tried to stuff the blood back into Meng Dafeng's mouth.

Blood stained Qi Xi's palms and her eyes were red.

All the soldiers present were unable to react in time, and their eyes were filled with shock, sadness welled up in their hearts, and their eyes turned red.

Fighting on the battlefield and dying on horseback is the norm.

We finally have peace.

They know better than anyone how hard it is to stay alive, and they don't want to see their brothers die again.

He Yu was almost paralyzed, but he could still move. He tried his best, shouting "Brother Meng" at the top of his lungs, and crawled towards Meng Dafeng with difficulty.

"Brother Meng..."

Seeing Qi Xi at a loss and with red eyes, Meng Dafeng felt a sense of relief and pity in his heart, and felt that the child with no senses seemed to finally have a chance of life.

He wanted to speak to comfort Qi Xi, but as soon as he opened his mouth, blood gushed out and he fell to the side.

"Brother Meng!"

He Yu caught Meng Dafeng, the big brother Meng who saved his life on the battlefield.

Seeing Meng Dafeng's body twitching violently and blood gushing out, He Yu was so confused that he actually made the same move as Qi Xi.

Put the blood back.

Perhaps because he had vomited all the blood, Meng Dafeng's last bit of strength was amused by Qi Xi and He Yu's actions. He stretched out his hand to stop He Yu, but He Yu grabbed Meng Dafeng's trembling hand.

Meng Dafeng was speechless. There was pity and heartache in his eyes, but no regret.

Then, his smile froze on his face, and his reassuring, resolute eyes, which seemed like tranquilizers, lost focus and no longer had any brilliance.