The assassin's affairs were always an indelible heart in Yuan Shao's heart. Therefore, he had no time to preside over the assassin captured alive and was eager to appoint reliable people. However, this assassination caused many doubts in his heart. He supported Yuan Shang's expedition, Feng Ji Yi Sect and Guo Tu who supported Yuan Tan, and Xin Ping Yi Sect both strived to get the task of presiding assassin. This was because of their excessive enthusiasm, which gradually made Yuan Shao unable to fully trust.

Looking at Tian Feng again, Yuan Shao was quite disgusted by Ju Su's style of making direct advice without caring about his face.

Xun Chen, who was determined to entrust with important tasks, did not refuse at this time, but for some reason, and seemed to have noticed the seriousness of the matter and avoided it.

Just when he was in a headache, he thought of a person who did not belong to any faction, and this person had a very high ability and prestige. He was Cui Yan. Although Cui Yan had unique insights into political affairs, he rarely participated in the struggles of the three major factions, so he had no tendency towards either side, which was enough to make Yuan Shao trust him.

At first, Cui Yan didn't want to get into this muddy water, but Yuan Shao insisted on letting him try him and he couldn't refuse.

After accepting the order, Cui Yan withdrew from Yuan Shao's residence and ran into someone walking towards him outside the door:

The man wore Fang Lun on his head, and his face was slightly dark and he could not see his expression if he was a little far away. He placed his hands on his chest and crossed his sleeves. He walked to Cui Yan with light steps and bowed: "Congratulations to brother, for taking such a beautiful position."

Cui Yan glanced at him coldly and said, "If you guys, you pushed off this so-called beauty, how could it be my turn again?"

He smiled, reached out and pinched a beard on his chin:

"Everyone knows that the battle between the eldest son and the third son is very obvious, and both of them are looking for opportunities to put the other party to death. Assassination of the lord is the best bait. How could they miss this opportunity?"

"That's right." Cui Yan turned around and sighed and said, "No matter which side this assassin lands on, he will do his best to get the confession of the other party's commander. Even if they can't get it, they will not want the other party to get the initiative."

"It seems that the lord also saw the clues, so we centrists came to do it."

Cui Yan walked towards his residence with his back to him, and said as he stepped forward:

"I don't think it's easy to do it. It seems that someone will come to visit me soon. Do you want to come too?"

Cui Yan stopped at more than ten steps, turned his head and threw an incredible smile at him:

"Xun Chen..."

Xun Chen continued to cross his hands in the left and right sleeves and walked slowly to Cui Yan, pulling his right hand out of the sleeves and gently putting it on Cui Yan's shoulder: "You want to put me on the fire, my brother Xun Yu is now serving under Cao Cao's command. If I participate in this matter, it is easy to be threatened by those two factions by understanding outsiders. Maybe even my life will be lost."

Cui Yan snorted coldly after hearing this: "I guess Xu You and you have the same idea..."

In fact, before Cui Yan interrogated the assassin, he had been tortured by the high-ranking officials for four consecutive days, but his mouth was surprisingly hard. No matter how the high-ranking officials were tortured, he always scolded Yuan Shao for his so-called crime, and kept silent about who was the commander. It was precisely because the simple flesh and blood could not shake him that Yuan Shao started the interrogation from another perspective.

After entering the cell, Cui Yan couldn't help but reach out to cover his mouth and nose, because the smell of blood here was too heavy. Every time he stepped on a step, he could hear the wailing sound of the resentful spirits and the strange call from the depths of hell.

The jailer placed the felt in front of the case, Cui Yan sat down and ordered them to bring the assassin up.

Rather than bringing it up, Cui Yan saw it, it was completely dragged in front of him. The assassin's hair was covered with filth and dry blood spots, and his clothes had long been ragged by torture that ordinary people could not bear. It was even possible to see from the rag that there were already worms on the blooming flesh, making it difficult to look at him directly.

"Raise your head." Cui Yan's tone was very stable, completely different from the rough, savage and cruel tone of the senior officials before.

The assassin's consciousness was already very blurred, but he still heard Cui Yan's voice and slowly raised his head. Cui Yan was shocked when he saw him: one of his eyes was completely dug off, and his whole face was covered with scars and could hardly tell what he originally looked like. At this moment, any rumored ghost and cool monster looked much more cute than him...

"Haha...has a different person?"

Even though he was already incomplete and his voice was so weak that he could hardly notice it without paying attention. The assassin with blood on the corner of his mouth still looked very calm and his mind was very clear. This made Cui Yan look at him a little differently.

"It seems that you are not as simple as an ordinary assassin. I think you won't confess even if you torture me any more."

Cui Yan suppressed the terrifying feeling he looked at him and observed his reaction.

"Ha...you shouldn't have discovered this until now, right?"

Looking at the assassin's calmness and calmness far better than ordinary people, Cui Yan couldn't help but take a breath. In fact, he no longer had the confidence to ask something directly from his mouth, but if he returned without success, it would definitely lead to Yuan Shao's blame. Thinking of this, he continued to indirectly criticize the assassin's words:

"I heard that your accent seems to be from Dingtao people. Did Cao Cao send you here?"

While asking, Cui Yan was carefully observing any changes in him. The assassin immediately denied it. Cui Yan then asked:

"Lu Bu also occupied Dingtao before. Could it be that Lu Bu sent you?"

At this time, the assassin stopped talking, his expression was a little hesitant. Everyone around could see this obvious change in expression and decided that it was Lu Bu who sent him. However, Cui Yan did not think so. Seeing that he did not speak for a long time, he suddenly asked:

"Do Cao Cao know about your capture alive?"

"I don't know!" Everyone was shocked after the assassin answered decisively, and there was a constant discussion in an instant.

The assassin seemed to realize that there was a fatal flaw in his words and immediately bit his lips tightly. Cui Yan could see that his lips were bitten, and blood flowed down his cracked lips to his chin, and he squeezed his fists and hit the ground secretly.

After the breakthrough was found, everyone thought that the next interrogation should have been much smoother because the answer was already very obvious.

Suddenly, the assassin jumped up regardless of the pain on his body and rushed towards Cui Yan. The soldiers drew their swords to control him. While the assassin was howling, he suddenly held the blade tightly and wiped it towards his neck. Cui Yan immediately ordered to stop:

"Leave his life!"

However, it was too late, the assassin's throat had been cut, and blood suddenly gushed, and he fell to the ground.
Chapter completed!