When Su Xing heard the news, he was so shocked that he froze on the spot like a piece of wood, lost in thought.
"No...no."
All of a sudden, what echoed in my mind was the scene where Zhou Yue promised to go to the Law Enforcement Hall with him in the morning last night, and what echoed in my ears were the gentle words Zhou Yue gave when he promised not to interact with Lin Qi anymore.
How could a living person die suddenly?
Su Xing's first reaction was that a thief went to Yuyifeng to steal something. He happened to meet Zhou Yue when she returned to her residence and brutally killed her.
But the stone tablet of Wanjian Sect stands at the entrance of every mountain peak. What thief without eyes would dare to come here to stir up trouble?
Aren't you afraid that you can't get out if you get in?
Several more figures passing by hurriedly flew towards Yuyi Peak on a crane. Su Xing also came to his senses immediately and shook his head to wake himself up.
He did not dare to neglect any more, and immediately blew his whistle, and also sat on the white crane and flew to Yuyi Peak, where Zhou Yue's residence was located.
moment.
When Su Xing jumped off Bai He and stepped on the ground of Yuyi Peak, his eyes were filled with the densely packed figures of the disciples of Yuyang Taoist Academy.
Hundreds of Huangpao disciples gathered at the entrance of Yuyi Peak, blocking the road leading to the courtyard.
Su Xing squeezed through the crowded crowd and walked towards the front where the noise was loudest.
At the same time, the whispers of people in his ears fell clearly on his ears.
"Senior Sister Zhou Yue is dead? I heard that she went out on a sect mission and has been out for a few days."
"I also heard what others said. This morning, Senior Sister Zhou's friend went to her room and knocked on the door, but no one responded. After entering the room, she found a letter on the wooden table."
"Letter? Could it be..."
"It's exactly Senior Sister Zhou's suicide note! Hey, I don't know the specific content of that suicide note. I'm just here to hear why Senior Sister Zhou died!"
A suicide note?
Su Xing, who was walking through the crowd, couldn't help but frowned when he heard this.
Did Zhou Yue commit suicide?
This seems to be more reasonable than my guess just now.
Could it be that after Zhou Yue returned to her room, she shut herself up and thought about her mistakes, but unexpectedly encountered her inner demons. In her heart, she actually didn't want to go to the law enforcement hall with me to receive the punishment, but her conscience couldn't bear it, and she finally chose to commit suicide due to internal and external conflicts?
"No...that's not right. If she really didn't accept her fate, she could have gone to the Law Enforcement Hall with me and framed me. Why did she commit suicide?"
Su Xing felt that the more he thought about this matter, the more wrong it became. No matter which conjecture he followed, Zhou Yue's ending should not be suicide.
Even if she accidentally fell from Baihe and died while returning to Yuyi Peak, it would not be suicide.
At this time, he had already walked to the front. On the other side of the crowd, she saw Zhou Qinghan and Li Feiyao, who also lived on Yuyi Peak. He met their eyes and nodded to each other.
On the empty ground, Zhou Yue, dressed in a blue gauze skirt, lay quietly on the ground without a trace of breath. There was a small sword mark on her fair neck. There were two whimpering women beside her. Look.
He looked like the friend of Zhou Yue mentioned by passers-by earlier.
Su Xing's eyes froze slightly when he saw Zhou Yue's body, with a slight confusion in his eyes.
On the side looking at the two women, a tall and muscular figure stood like a stone Buddha. The sword he held in both hands was pressed against the ground, looking up at the disciples who had come to join in the fun.
When Su Xing saw this person, the corners of his eyes suddenly shrank.
"Lynch..."
The man standing with the sword is none other than the mastermind of this secret attack—Lin Qi!
When Su Xing saw Lin Qi, Lin Qi seemed to have also set his sights on Su Xing.
As if anticipating Su Xing's return, Lin Qi's mouth corners raised slightly and then became calm, but his eyes were extremely sharp.
He turned sideways and patted one of the women on the shoulder, then leaned down and said a few words in the woman's ear, while pointing at Su Xing at the front of the crowd.
Finally, the girl who was crying suddenly stood up and her wide eyes fell on Su Xing, and there seemed to be fire dancing in her eyes.
She was holding a white letter in her hand.
Just when Su Xing was being stared at by this woman and was so scared that he didn't dare to look directly at her, Lin Qi, who was quite majestic, suddenly clapped his hands and attracted everyone's attention.
"Junior brothers and sisters, please be quiet."
Hearing Lynch's voice, the noisy scene suddenly became quiet.
The senior brother of Yuyang Taoist Temple smiled with satisfaction, "Junior Sister Zhang told me that she feels better now and can read out Junior Sister Zhou's suicide note."
This sentence made everyone present's eyes light up and their ears prick up.
Although Zhou Yue did not know most of them, they were all brothers in the same discipline. Why did Zhou Yue commit suicide and what was her last wish before she died? Everyone wanted to know and help her fulfill her wish.
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Although the disciples of Wanjian Sect are not related by blood, they have lived together for a long time and have long regarded each other as family members.
Su Xing also pricked up his ears. If we were to say who among all the disciples present was most concerned about the cause of Zhou Yue's death, apart from Zhou Yue's good sisters, Su Xing was probably the only one left.
"Junior Sister Zhang, tell me."
Lin Qi helped the squatting woman up with a smile, his tone was very gentle, which temporarily eased the sad atmosphere.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the female disciple named Zhang first sobbed lightly for a few times, then suppressed her body from shaking and carefully opened the letter in her hand.
"I am Zhang Yingran, Zhou Yue's best friend... I knocked on the door this morning and wanted to invite Zhou Yue to have breakfast with me. When I opened the door, I unexpectedly saw a scene like this."
Although Zhang Yingran was just introducing himself, there was still a cry in his tone as he spoke.
Immediately afterwards, she began to read the suicide note left by Zhou Yue in her hand.
The first half of the suicide note is Zhou Yue's self-narration of the first half of his life. He tells how an ordinary girl in a village embarked on the road of martial arts by chance, and how she was surrounded by bandits on the way to fetch water from the village.
And what method Lin Qi used to rescue her from the hands of the thieves and bring her back to Wanjian Sect.
Although this part contained no useful information about the cause of her death, it described Zhou Yue's gratitude to Lin Qi in great detail, which made some emotional people shed tears after listening to it.
For those who have embarked on the road of martial arts, the past events in the secular world are often the most touching things.
"In my eyes, Senior Brother Lin Qi has long been like a real brother."
Zhang Yingran tried to say this in Zhou Yue's tone, which moved everyone.
Zhou Yue's high praise for Lynch just confirmed Lynch's tall image in the hearts of their younger generations.
After saying the first half of the suicide note, Zhang Yingran first read the rest of the content by himself, and then his tone suddenly became indignant.
Seeing her attitude change, people immediately knew that the most important thing was coming.
People saw Zhang Yingran gritting her teeth angrily, and every word she spoke seemed to be squeezed out from between her teeth.
"Three days ago, I invited a junior fellow student from my class who is highly skilled in swordsmanship to go out with me to perform sect tasks. His name is Su Xing."
After the words fell, those who knew Su Xing all looked sideways at the young man standing at the front of the crowd.
Su Xing swallowed, and a bad thought suddenly appeared in his mind.
Secretly, his hand fell on the rusty sword that was once again wrapped in white cloth.
"Our mission is to hunt down ten level five ferocious beasts in Duanyang Forest and bring the beast cores back to the sect."
"After entering Duanyang Forest, Junior Brother Su and I cooperated skillfully and killed many ferocious beasts along the way. And on the evening of the third day, we successfully collected enough beast cores."
"But...I didn't expect that my junior brother, who is highly skilled in swordsmanship, wanted to steal all the beast cores for himself, and threatened me with death to make me hand over the beast cores."
"I know that my martial arts skills are not as good as his, so I gave him all the beast cores. But... but who knows."
"Ten beast cores are still unable to satisfy his greed, and he is still in the deserted Duanyang Forest..."
"Destroy my innocence!"
Zhang Yingran's angry voice fell, and all the disciples were slightly startled at first, but then they realized what Zhou Yue meant by "innocence", and the whole place was in an uproar.
The most shocked among them, besides Su Xing himself, were Zhou Zhou Qinghan and Li Feiyao. After hearing what Zhang Yingran said, the two of them paused on the ground as if they were petrified.
In the face of the irrefutable words, even Zhou Qinghan couldn't help but have a question in their minds.
"What a shameless thing!"
"Why don't such people die!?"
"I know people, but I don't know their hearts. I didn't expect that Su Xingkong has martial arts skills, but his heart is so dirty!"
For a time, countless dirty words hit Su Xing like stones one after another, like thousands of arrows piercing his heart, making Su Xing the target of public criticism.
But the face of this young man, who knew that he had been misunderstood, became increasingly gloomy.