Daqing Criminal Division

"You are basically an eyeliner sent by the court to monitor us."

"...Duan Owl?"

Forty-six of these sudden accusations against his identity, most ordinary people would probably feel a chill in their hearts when they heard it. Once the scheming and planning of the past few days were exposed, the timid ones would turn pale and kneel in fright. He panickedly denied it, not to mention that he already had another identity.

In the dark cell, the three of them confronted each other, and they happened to be stuck in a dead corner of the backlight of this specially emptied prison.

For a while, no one passed by would break the deadlock, and no one spoke.

The sweat on the back of the man soaked the prison uniform, and the intense atmosphere after the fight seemed to have dropped to freezing point all of a sudden.

Duan Xiao, who was still pinching his neck with an iron chain, didn't make a sound, but Si Fen Liu and Wu Fen Wu, who were in a confrontational situation, were secretly watching every expression change on his face.

They want to see how this Duan Xiao will react when he clearly hears the words in his mouth.

Is it nervous and flustered, afraid of a guilty conscience, or other excuses and self-evidence.

Unexpectedly, after a brief blink or two of silence, Duan Xiao, who seemed to be no big deal, just opened his mouth, but his reaction felt a little strange.

"Government?"

Looking at the silver-white pig-iron wall at the end that reflected their every move, the man who didn't know whether he admitted or denied it narrowed his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth unclearly.

"I was sent by the court?"

After this sentence fell, Duan Xiao's tone gave people a really weird feeling.

It was almost so strange that he was laughing at the calmness of both of them in turn at the moment.

Although four-point-six and five-point-five are on the road, everyone has seen them in the past, but I have never dealt with this kind of guy with eight minds before, so I am a little bit confused by his unclear attitude. Brought into the ditch, dare not quickly refute him.

"Oh, it's hard, isn't it? Do you really think that the doubts about you for so many years will not be discovered?"

"The timing of your appearance is too coincidental. Don't think that we don't know that after someone died inside last time, the gang outside the government will not send people to investigate. Moreover, you are too purposeful towards us, Mr. Ba! I can see that you have a problem."

Although he was a little uncertain, but he was brave enough to sarcastically sarcastically, gasping for breath under Duan Xiao's control.

"You just admit it, so at least we will let you live, as long as you are willing to confess your accomplices, otherwise you will not be able to escape even if you kill us now."

This sounded like an extremely clumsy aggressive method.

But I have to say that it did push Duan Xiao to a desperate situation, because he was completely unable to judge the meaning of the four-quarters of the spying in his current situation, and it seemed a bit difficult to refute or prove himself.

But it is impossible for a person like Duan Xiao to be made timid by such a few thoughtless words.

At this moment, his eyes looked at the shadow cast by the body at the end of the three.

It was as if he saw a mental hallucination that he hadn't seen for a long time.

The sound of a huge black spider climbing and weaving a web above the heads of the three of them echoed in his mind. The shadows of him and the two thugs on the opposite side distorted little by little from human appearance until they turned into the appearance of three spiders. The hallucination was accompanied by a person's voice.

【"It's taking the risk to scare the snake one more time."】

【"Still, let's rethink a bolder and more effective way to find the truth behind this door and that circular brand. It seems that we must make a new plan."】

This came from last night, what someone said to him last night, it was clear in Duan Xiao's mind at this moment.

The expression on his face was also indifferent and thorough, because he had already realized at this moment what he should do next.

The craziest and riskiest plan ever.

It is always decided in one thought.

At this moment, it is useless to explain, and it is useless to justify. What lingers in front of my eyes is not a debunking at all, but——

It's just that if you don't succeed in doing so, you will be completely exposed and die.

Although he was never afraid of death, if he succeeds, he will be able to solve all the puzzles about the Taiping Mansion Prison in front of him——

So at this moment, Duan Xiao, whose eyes had begun to turn a blood red, only looked down at the spittle that had just spit on the ground for four quarters, Yong Cai and the two people surrounding him also raised their eyebrows, and bowed their heads without warning. laughed.

"hahahahahahahaha!"

Half of his body was leaning against the wall, his head was buried, as if he had heard the most interesting words in the world, Duan Xiao's laughter was very strange.

He tried to cover the weird voice with his free hand, but the distorted laughter kept leaking from the thin and powerful palm.

He is laughing.

Laughing non stop.

And it's an extremely hysterical, completely giving up the ability to think, it's just a crazy laugh.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……"

In the ear, Duan Xiao's laughter that echoed beyond the corner of the cell continued.

Obviously he is very good-looking, with a face that all women in the world admire, but now he looks more like a lunatic who is not normal, and has long lost the sanity of normal people.

Because only a madman would look like him now.

Accompanied by the violent shaking of his shoulders on both sides, it made him look extraordinarily yin and yang, coupled with the harsh and weird laughter that kept coming out of his throat, it only scared Four Fen Six and Five Fen Five one jump.

Is this man crazy?

Or he has always been like this before, but he hasn't shown it directly since he was imprisoned.

The two thugs who were sent to fight, but were frightened by Duan Xiao, couldn't help but think so with a little trepidation.

In addition, one of his palms was still pinching four quarters into his arms, and the cold and crazy laughter that suddenly pressed against the thug's ear was even more creepy.

"You, what the hell are you laughing at, you bastard!"

I couldn't suppress the goosebumps on my arm, I didn't understand what he was going crazy, so I dodged and roared, but Duan Xiao, who was still laughing as if he couldn't breathe, cut himself off suddenly The terrifying laughter in his throat slowly opened his mouth again.

"Crazy, huh? You're right."

"Then I'll kill you two now, okay?"

Duan Xiao, who lowered his head and narrowed his eyes, smiled, didn't sound like he was lying.

Because after he said this, a pair of hands that were too pale against the light in the cell had already strangled six quarters of the arteries in his neck. Only those who have really seen the dead can be as proficient as he is so proficient in saying it casually. calm down.

The light above his head did not illuminate the lower half of Duan Xiao's face, leaving him immersed in a gloomy shadow.

But the aggressive Sifenliu stared at him suddenly, his face flushed and he let out a scream.

Because under the premise that he didn't expect it at all, Duan Xiao had already buried his body and bit his ear like a hungry man.

The teeth tore at the copper rings on the ears, and the screams and blood splashed all over each other's faces.

Four quarters of the six who had their ears bitten and their faces covered with blood stretched out their hands in pain, struggled and yelled in fear.

For this, the five-fifty-five who sensed something was wrong reacted immediately and wanted to roar and attack, but Duan Xiao, who was leaning against the wall with his whole back, had already kicked over, and then kicked the five-fifth of the sternum. There was a crisp 'click'.

"Duan! You, if you kill the masters here, you will die yourself, and you will die too!! Master Ba will kill you!"

This face-to-face fight was several times more vicious than before

Duan Xiao, who seemed to have no scruples and completely went crazy, knocked the two of them to the ground one after another. Another arm with amazing strength held down the blood-stained half of his body, and he was about to make a threatening gesture. Leo Bi, punched his head off.

He punched down the temple, and the red-eyed four-sixths of the punches were either immortal or half-crippled.

"what!!"

The yellow-haired braided man fell to the ground with four legs and sprawled, howling and screaming in horror.

"I killed you, believe it or not."

"Huh? Answer me, do you believe it or not?"

Duan Xiao continued to squint and ask him.

"Believe... believe... I believe it, I believe it!"

Closing his eyes tightly for a quarter of a century, he was finally afraid and began to shiver.

But for this, a drop of blood was splashed on the brow, and Duan Xiao, who was looking down at the expression on his face, smiled indifferently, and his face changed in a blink of an eye, and he was about to hit him directly, so that the blood splashed directly on his face.

But at this critical moment.

The passage door that had been at the end of the blind spot since just now, as if it didn't exist, opened in their direction with a 'squeak'.

In this regard, Duan Xiao, whose hair was scattered on his forehead, blood stained half of his cheeks, and a braid completely scattered on his shoulders, stopped expressionlessly.

Behind the silver-white secret passage door blocked by the iron fence, there was also a crisp applause that he had been betting and waiting for since just now.

"Duan Owl."

Sitting at the back, Baltu, who had been witnessing all this since just now, touched his copper earrings and gave a satisfied and appreciative sneer.

"I really didn't misread you this time."

"You did very well."

……

This is a complete and thorough test for him from Baltu.

Duan Xiao really made no mistake this time.

The incident of waiting for an opportunity to kill in the prison happened just now, no matter who happened to it, they would probably have to be scared to death in that life-and-death struggle.

But Duan Xiao looks fine now, he seems to have completely substituted himself into the character in front of him, no one can see through the real fierce face hidden under his mask.

At this moment, he was sitting in a corner of the cell, wiping the blood on his face, looking very calm and composed.

This was the first time he was sitting upright in the cold and damp No. [-] cell.

Just now, he stopped at the moment when Baltu appeared, but he also won the opportunity to become an internal member of this gang of prisoners in the Taiping Mansion Prison.

As expected, after the secret door that was just located in a dead corner was suddenly opened from the inside with a 'squeak'.

Just like the strange entrance he saw when he climbed to the top of the confinement room with someone last time, it was the special passage inside the prison that this group of people knew the way in and out.

In the prison of Taiping Mansion, there really is a strange class.

Just like the various tattoos on the bodies of these prisoners, they are closely linked, and they are carried out secretly like hunting.

From the beginning, the death of Cathay, a small criminal at the bottom, triggered a series of serial cases that were first noticed by the outside world, but the true face of this gang is still hidden in the dark and unknown.

At the moment, realizing that he was approaching the abyss step by step, Duan Xiao entered slowly with Baltu and his group alone.

Along the way, they didn't have to walk stooped in this dark passage for interiors only.

However, there were still drops of condensed water dripping from the vault above which was covered with cast iron. Duan Ou could smell that this was not ordinary bitter water, but distilled distilled water.

distilled?

It's hard to believe that there are tools for distilling bitter water hidden in the entrance of this secret passage, but what do these people do with distilled water in the dungeon—Duan Xiao lowered his head and thought expressionlessly.

A group of people stepped on the water to open the innermost door leading to this secret cell, and then entered here.

As soon as he came in, the first thing Duan Xiao saw was the prisoners who were already wearing prison uniforms, sitting or squatting and gathered here in a group.

Right now, the group of death row inmates who showed his 'true face' to him for the first time were gathering in all directions.

They are all under the orders of Baltu, and will be responsible for protecting his safety. There is still a long box with solid wood and copper locks that has not been opened between the two forces.

What exactly is contained in the locked long solid wood box in front of him.

Baltu, who invited Duan Xiao here for the first time to talk face to face with himself, did not explain clearly.

But Sifenliu and Wufenwu, who had been beaten badly on the opposite side, stood behind Baltu bitterly with bruised noses and swollen faces. As the main messenger, Baltu's expression was full of admiration and amusement for him.

Seeing this, Duan Xiao, who put a hand wiped with a dry cloth on his knee, made no sound and looked at the other party without fear.

This is an occasion where the mental strategies of the two sides are constantly colliding with each other.

Both Baltu and Duan Xiao were plotting their own ideas maliciously.

It will not be easy to throw out your plan so quickly.

Until, in such a tense defensive temptation, he loosened the copper earring on his ear, and inserted his arm horizontally between the two of them, leaning over to reveal a dangerous and scrutinizing gaze, and Baltu took the initiative to throw something over.

"—!"

The thing thrown towards him was vaguely a round object.

Cutting through the air, it fell from Baltu's palm into Duan Xiao's.

Duan Xiao stretched out his hand to catch it, and was grasping it.

His first feeling was that it was cold to the touch, and a little indescribably familiar.

And when he opened his hand and looked down, he saw that what Baltu threw to him for no reason was actually a circular and square hole-shaped imitation mold carved from some kind of raw ore.

What should I say about this strange imitation mold that appeared in his hand.

At first glance, Duan Xiao recognized that this was the circular brand mark they had seen once on the entrance wall when they entered the confinement room for the first time.

Afterwards, Duan Ou imagined many possibilities by himself.

But none of them expected to see the mold itself with branded evidence in this way again.

But it was also this close touch and feeling of its outline again, which made Duan Owl, who couldn't help pinching it on his fingertips to identify it, vaguely see what it was.

Because if we say, what he and Fucharzi saw on the wall that time was just a vague circular brand mark.

Then this thing is a more complete form.

This is actually a copper coin mold with a clear pattern, so realistic that it is not much different from the real thing.

And it was a mold used to imitate Kangxi Tongbao that appeared in the dictation of the parties in the spider organization haunted and five pig people cases several times before.

"Baby, what do you mean?"

Squinting his eyes, he lifted up the mold that was obviously used to imitate coins, and Duan Xiao, who was probing Baltu's intentions, asked this question.

"Recognize what this is?"

A group of thugs stood behind him, and the completely shaved sideburns on both sides showed that this person had a fierce and vicious face. Baltu also meaningfully lured Duan Xiao to surrender to him step by step.

"You are a smart person, you should be able to see what this is, but you must be wondering why I am showing you this now."

"Before this, you must have heard from the jailer and other prisoners that I have a lot of money, which seems to be endless and never used up. Then you have never thought that I am in prison, but where did the money come from? ?"

"..."

"Money is the best thing in the world. From the imperial court to the common people, officials and businessmen read books, literate people plow the fields, rice noodles, cloth, and real estate all need money flowing in all links. But money is easy to use but it is also useful. It’s over, but I have a way to make money continue to come out, do you believe it? With this method, no matter how much money is spent, there will always be more money.”

"And this one in your hand, this is our... 'way to make money'."

This sentence of our "way to make money" sounds a bit weird, I have to say.

But I have to say that at this moment, Duan Xiao completely understood what the hell Baltu and his group were doing in Prison No. [-] in Taiping Mansion from the beginning to the end.

The copper and aluminum spoons with notches abnormally appearing in the prison-the raw materials for casting coins held by this group of people.

Distilled Water - The clean water necessary for the minting process.

Circular brand marks—the evidence left when the copper coin templates and objects were transported out of the secret cell at the entrance of the passage.

There is also the cause of Cathay's death, everything can be traced back to this small coin and the spider organization again, and the secret business hidden inside this prison will be——

Private mint money.

These three unexpected words have to be said to send chills down the spine.

But now that Baltu is telling himself so openly that he has this way of making money in his hands, there must be some conspiracy behind him.

So Duan Xiao didn't say a word after listening to it, but after thinking about it, he played with the copper coin template, and maintained a posture that seemed to be aroused, and continued,

"Coins? That's a pretty good job."

"When I was outside, I also heard a lot that Kangxi Tongbao and Sejong Tongbao are the least circulating money in the world today."

"Everyone understands the principle that less is more valuable, but this private coining that takes great risks requires a lot of copper coins to be melted and supplied by itself. The weight of itself is a secret that even the officials above the court may not know, Baye, is it possible that there is still money that even the officials can't tell the authenticity from?"

Duan Xiao's words sounded like a wise man.

He is a person who has read books at a glance. Although he is still in prison, his brain is still convincingly fast.

But he has already entrusted the information of both parties to this step, but Baltu is not stingy in speaking to others. Hearing the words, he directly disdains what Duan Xiao said, and takes the lead in breaking the silence and gives Duan Xiao a piece of writing again. Paper full of handwriting.

Duan Xiao looked at Baltu puzzled.

Baltu, who seemed to be trying to keep it secret, only motioned for him to look at it first.

But when Duan Xiao lowered his head, he saw that on the paper in front of him was a line of numbers that ordinary people could not understand at all.

【Silu＋Wuwu-Three Seven】

"Can you see what this is doing? This is just the simplest. Cathay, who died before, was specially found in prison to calculate this for us, but I think you should be competent for this job with your ingenuity."

Baltu, who seemed to want to test him, showed a scrutinizing and cold smile.

"This is--"

For some reason, Duan Xiao's heart skipped a beat as his hand was still on the rice paper full of simplified calculation methods.

A familiar and weird feeling came over him, which made him unable to say anything immediately.

Four out of six.

Five out of five.

The last secret about the night of Cathay's death, which had not been cracked before, suddenly appeared before his eyes. His thoughts were running fast, but the whole person connected the clues of the previous case because of the true writing and expression of this number. .

"This is... the density and reduction calculation between fractions?"

Duan Xiao raised his eyes expressionlessly and opened his mouth.

"Yes, this is our 'secret'."

With a sneer, Baltu looked directly at him and said slowly.

"We have grasped and have accurately calculated the secret rate and contract rate of the copper coins issued by the imperial court since Sejong's 13th year, so the copper coins we make are not fake money, but real... Kangxi Tongbao copper coins."