As soon as Mika got the green signal from Long Xu, he ran his mouth as if bullet train. "Well then, allow me to explain. According to biology, humans have a core set of five facial muscles which they can control to produce a set of standered expression which convey anger, happiness, surprise, fear, sadness and disgust. But there are up to nineteen muscles which they can't properly control, that's why even a finest poker face can give out their emotions. Besides a research proved that even a soldier, when in crucial moment as life or death, would have so many expression and among them fear is greatest. But when Yu Wen Shin got sentenced with death, he was acting as if he would faint any moment but when you inspect expressions as a psychologist, you could see that he was not as scared as he was trying to let out. Then a question rises, why isn't he actually scared but only acting when he never saw death eye to eye as soldiers do.
"Even though we don't get what you explained but I can say that you were implying that Yu Wen Shin was not afraid but was acting." Han Zhi said on behalf of everyone.
"But why is her highness adressing her own father with his name insteed of adressing as 'father'?" commander Xin once again thought wrong thing at the wrong time that too out loud. Everyone turned their focus on the man who just spoke nonsense.
"The fundamental of any bond is trust be it social or blood. But if that trust is shattered then no bond can be maintained not even blood." Mika spoke like a philosopher.
Long Xu who, up until now was glaring daggers at commander Xin, was now looking proudly at the women beside him. Long Xin, Han Zhi and Xichan were dumbfounded by the wise woman in front of them. They were shouting in their heads 'Who the hell is she?'
"Okay, if we belive your theory and conclude that he knew that someone is going to rescue him then why did the intruder cut his hand and leg?" Long Xin voiced his thoughts leaving a certain commander overjoyed by saving him from a certain someone's anger.
"Those were mere decoy." Mika was now behaving like a professor, calm and serious. He saw confusion on their faces so he explained "When I heard that they found Yu Wen Shin's hand and leg. I was seriously surprised cause this incident couldn't match with my theory but before I could examin them, I was room arrested by Long Xu." everyone was shocked and looked at emperor's face cause he just now was referred with his name insteed of his title, they looked at Long Xu to find that he didn't mind but was even happy to hear his name from her mouth, so they eased up and looked at Mika once again, who was unaware of what is happening as he was busy with his lecture.
Mika continued on "When I heard that everyone are fixed on limbs belonged to him. I felt restless so I sneaked out to inspect them before you guys burried them. After looking at them I was sure that they are decoy. First, the birthmark on his hand was made of some poison, it wasn't real. When someone has a birthmark on them, the skin over there is dark cause cells of that area gets so close and that is gets deep in skin level but when I cut the birthmark on that hand, it disappered after some layers. Second, the heirloom ring has a setting on it so it could be fixed according to their fingr size but fortunatly no one in the Yu family had the same finger size as that hand's finger with that I figured out that with the stting, ring was on that finger was brand new, when one wear it with the same setting for so many years, it leaves a mark on it but there was none with the current settings. Third, the shoe was made of silver. Silver tends to leave black mark on skin. Because the shoe's inner side was laired with silk that's why it won't leave marks so soon but considering Yu Wen Shin wears them everyday, they should have left some blackness but the foot was white, their was not even a single trace of black. These things are enough to prove that those were decoy." Mika takes long breath as he was talking nonstop.
"I didn't get your first point but the second and third were more then convincing." Xichan got into his general mode. "But the question is how did the outsiders got his death penalties news so fast in such a short time. And if we go with this, that his spies leaked the information to the outsiders and they got in after midnight but how did they escaped when we instantly sealed the capital and sent our owls to near resgin's governors to seal and curfew the area. Besides the assigned guards were highly trained and to cut them into such pieces would not have been an easy task for the out numbered intruders. So they must have escaped a short while before commander Xin got there, they must have had to face the tight security but they weren't found anywhere, neither running nor hiding. Why?" At the end Xichan was talking to himself.
"I thought about it and concluded that they escaped through the vast forest of the north-east." Mika said.
"They can't, that place is dangerous for any human to enter. The animels there are man-eaters, that's why no one lives within 15 kilometers of that forest. It's not suitable for an army to go there. There is no way they could have gone there." Long Xin had a serious look on his face.
"I know about it's geographical and biological state. That's why there are only two ways to get across that forest. First, rope way, but there is no way they could have such technology, that leaves only one option, tunnel. But there is no way they could have made a tunnel in just a few hours. That's when it ticked me, I reminded myself of what you three explained about his secret territory where he hid his secret items which he gathered from smuggling, that area is just around the corner of the restrect area of the forest in the shape of a cave. But if we think that he choose that place cause no one can think of it then how did he transported his things there through thr security without being noticed, and the answer was simple, through the tunnel underneath the forest whose one mouth was in the cave and the other should have been outside the empire, that's why they were never noticed by anyone." Mika concluded.
Everyone was shocked. How could they have not see that but more importantly how did she saw such a point. Everything she uttered before was out of their knowledge and maybe she was expert in that area but how chould she out match them in political matters.
Why didn't they cool off their minds and paid attention to the geography of their empire more, if not they would have did that, those two attacks could have been prevented.
"You are absolutly right. Damn, why didn't we think of it before, after all, there is no way they could have just disappear in the thin air." Xichan bumped his fist on the table that was in the middle of them.
"If your theory is correct then why didn't we find any entrance for tunnel when we inspected that place after Yu Wen Shin ran away?" Long Xin looked at Mika for answer but then it ticked him "Don't tell me the entrance was behind some hidden door?" Yes, they thought, a hidden door is the only thing that is fitting right, right now, when they have searched the whole cave which only looked like a secret warehouse, nothing more.
"What should we do now? Should we seal the tunnel?" commander Xin asked no one in general.
"No, that won't be a wise step." Han Zhi looked at commander Xin then at other occupants "We haven't been to that place even once after the inspection, so that place has most likely turned into enemy's den by now."
"Besides, Yu Wen Shin holded most influence in the imperial court after me." Long Xu spoke. "That's why we can't belive in anyone else but who are sitting in this room and my four half brother who are assigned as governors in diffrent province of the empire. They are not power hungry and are loyal to the nation, that's why they won't side with Yu Wen Shin. So basically we only have proper army support from general Mu and my four brother. We don't know how many other generals, officials and nobles are with Yu Wen Shin. Therefore we can't give out that we already have figured out who is behind all of this. Those people are already upset because of the human rights act and on top of that Yu Wen Shin was stripped off of his position. These chain of events must have made Yu Wen Shin's supporters hate us with passion and must be helping him in secret, otherwise there is no way they could attack inside of the capital within such tight security." Long Xu explained to commander Xin of why they can't charge on the cave.
"Considering how Yu Wen Shin has been playing with us since past one month, that proves that he has someone very powerful by his side to provide him with men and weapon power. At this point where we are already at a war from outside, we can't provoke a civil war by showing that we are aware of the identity of Yu Wen Shin. If a civil war was to be break out at this point then this whole empire would be destroyed as if in a tsunami." Xichan completed Long Xu's theory.
"So, no matter what we can't show that we know about the tunnel or that Yu Wen Shin is behind all of this?" Long Xin looked at Long Xu, who nodded in response. "Then what are we going to do now? We can't cut off their intruding places, we can't just go on all out war, cause we don't know how much men power they have and who is going to back stab us from inside? Then what?" Long Xin was angry at their helplessness. 'Damn, why? why didn't we foresee it?'
"Are we really caught like a rat with nowhere to go now?" Long Xin furiously asked to everyone in the room. They were, except Mika, looked down in anger and helplessness, they really are caught in a spider web with no way out.