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Mo Shi heard about it in the prayer hall. He can skip the grooming step when he gets up, so he can always wash up quickly and go out - a witty explanation.

A more practical reason is that Moshi is interested in learning more about the Snowdrifter religion.

When he arrives early enough, he can chat with the prayer hall manager who is preparing to recite a hymn, or concentrate on studying the myths and stories of the Holy Scriptures that have been debated by theologians. Moshi is not religious, but he knows how deeply religion has an impact on human society – and in a truly "divine" world, religion has a much more practical and even decisive significance.

On a snowy day, morning prayer was about to begin, but less than half of the prayer hall was crowded.

Someone rushed in, and Mor Amethyst, who was standing in the doorway, asked him why he was late.

The young man looked flustered, and did not salute when he saw Mor Amethyst.

"It's Goldmane, Goldmane's family...... That Master Terry is dead!"

Mo Shi had to put down the "Holy Codex" he was holding in his hand. The Holy Book was written in an ancient language, and it was so difficult to read that it took him a moment to react before he understood what the young man who had come over and rushed into the crowd had said.

"Where is it?" asked Mor Amethyst sharply.

"In ...... In the snow. The body has frozen......"

Until this time, Mo Shi had not realized that the death of the golden mane would put pressure on him.

He only quickly recalled a story he had seen in the Holy Texts not long ago. That story is similar to the Old Testament verse "Joseph was sold," in which Jacob was the youngest and most favored of eleven children, who was thrown into a well by his brothers and sold to a caravan bound for Egypt.

And in Snowwalker's Holy Codex, the youngest son, Heeron, is thrown off a cliff by his seven brothers. The messenger of the gods turned into a white butterfly, and he followed the butterfly along the river at the bottom of the cliff to the ancient underground kingdom. There, he was courtesy of the Night Spirits, gained knowledge of the elves, and later returned to the surface and became the prime minister of the king of the kingdom of Suna.

One year when Heron's hometown was hit by a disaster, his seven older brothers and his two younger brothers went to the land of Sunar to buy food.

Heren gave food to his two younger brothers and asked them to return to their homeland with it, leaving his seven older brothers as his slaves. He asked the eldest brother to sprinkle and sweep, the second brother to plough the land, the third brother to graze, the fourth brother to make a fire, the fifth brother to wash, the sixth brother to carry the message, and the seventh brother to guard the door.

Among them, the eldest brother died in the courtyard in winter, and his body was buried in heavy snow.

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Spinel College is not located in the middle of the city. In fact, to ensure the seclusion and tranquility required for an academy, it was built on a hill close to the north of the city. After winter, there are no livestock and herders running around, and it is very quiet.

Mor Amethyst ordered the corpse of Terry Goldmane (yes, that's his name, Moshi finally knew) to the herbaries' room next to the Blue Temple. All students were then asked to return to their rooms to recite the Holy Book and pray for the soul of the deceased Terry Goldmane.

After the "fair trial court" received the incident, it was the second day that an investigation team arrived - Mo Shi had to feel that it was outrageously inefficient from the perspective of others.

If he had been allowed to investigate, he would have at least gathered clues about the cause of death by now, and investigated his room and interpersonal relationships......

However, he did not have the authority to investigate.

Here, he's just a student. And he soon realizes that he is being seen as a suspect.

Despite being nominally grounded, Dino soon slipped into his room - they lived next door, and Dino was committed to applying for a small door in the middle. Moshi discouraged his thoughts...... At the Spinel Academy, where there were no servants to serve him, Mo Shi felt that he would not be able to stand the shedding of young snowwalkers.

"They ask me a lot of questions!" Dino Firesparrow stood pacing around the room, rubbing his curly hair, "I can't stand that!"

"What do they ask you?" Mo Shi sat there, looking at him with a premonition.

Dino stopped, turned back to meet him.

"Okay. No need to tell me, I can imagine it. This time, Mo Shi couldn't sit still, he stood up, wanting to breathe fresh air. But because of the arrival of winter, the windows have been completely sealed.

"I know it doesn't make sense, I know!" said Dino impatiently, "but I understand why they think so. Whoever dares to kill him, I mean, that's Terry Goldmane, who dares to kill him, and there may be many people who hate him, but who dare? And we, we used to give him a look in his face—"

"Then he must be trying to kill us. Mo Shi said coldly and sharply.

"If ...... said"

And murder has nothing to do with status — whether or not that Mr. Terry Goldmane was murdered. "Think of Ember Wapin. Mo Shi silently put this sentence between the two.

And Dino obviously understood what Mo Shi meant.

"I ...... I shouldn't have been so gaffe. "I've been on the battlefield too...... However, it is strange that in time of war you can not think of the enemy as a 'person' who exists like you. But now, I feel different—I've killed someone, so I'm guilty, and the Holy Book says, 'Thou shalt not kill.'" ”

"It's different. Mo Shi said. But he knew it shouldn't be different, but civilization wasn't far from the time to start an anti-war trend, "You didn't kill Terry Goldmane — that's enough for now." ”

"What about you, then, Mr. Morse?" Dino asked softly.

"I haven't killed anyone. He replied without hesitation, while a gear in his head turned jerkily, and he ignored the feeling and continued, "I never thought that killing people was a good way to solve problems. It is only when you feel weak that you need to use this cowardly and irrational solution. ”

"Wow...... You always say these very profound things. I thought you liked philosophy, but you don't listen to philosophy classes. It seems that you prefer theology to philosophy. "Young boys are like that, their attention shifts so quickly.

"I would prefer that we could participate in the investigation. Mo Shi sighed, "I don't trust—or rather, I believe in my own abilities. If I hadn't investigated it myself, I wouldn't have accepted any 'verdict'. And I'm really curious about the cause of that Terry Goldmane's death. ”

"I don't know......," Dino mused, "Mr. Moshi, do you care about everyone's death?"

"The unnatural deaths (if that's the case with Terry Goldmane) must have a reason. It's never irrelevant. ”

"But Terry Goldmane is not a man of great importance," said Dino, "he was born into a noble family, and had royal blood, but his father was more than his son, and he was a gentleman who took pleasure in bullying the weak." ”

But that doesn't mean his death doesn't matter. Mo Shi was a little helpless, and didn't know how to explain it.

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The Fair Trial Court closed the "case" after only three days of investigation at the Spinel Academy.

They found alcohol under Terry Goldmane's bed - Spinel Academy doesn't allow alcohol to be hidden, so it's a violation. And Terry's corpse did smell of alcohol as well.

The trial court believed that Terry Goldmane was drunk and delirious, fell asleep in the courtyard, and was unfortunately frozen to death by a blizzard that increased in the middle of the night. There were no criminals, no victims, only "poor foolish young men" who had killed themselves through their own fault—"all happy" for everyone (except perhaps the rest of the Duke of Goldmane's house).

"May God forgive him for his usual evil deeds, and forgive me for the inexplicable happiness in my heart......" Dino muttered softly.

Not only Dino, but many people don't say it, but they secretly think so in their hearts. Mo Shi knows. But Moser doesn't think that Terry Goldmane is so guilty that he must pay for his crimes with death, which is the harshest punishment in justice, and which in itself implies a kind of bottom line.

Did Terry Goldmane really kill himself just because he was drunk?

This doesn't explain a lot of details. For example, Terry Goldmane never hinted at his pleasure in drinking and possession of contraband, which would be unreasonable for a young man who was arrogant and willing to show off......

And what happened afterwards proved that the faint disobedience that Mo Shi felt at this time was not groundless.

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