Chapter Sixty-Eight: An Unexpected Relationship
Due to the lack of strong evidence and witnesses, the investigation of the "dry palm" incident finally reached an impasse, and everyone could only pin their hopes on Po Jun, hoping that he would wake up and tell the truth.
For many days after that, the government only sent two catchers to be stationed in the academy to continue the investigation, and Lin Dumb was asked for questioning many times, but what made Mu Zilei puzzled was that Duanmu An was found to investigate more times, and the ghost tiger guessed that the government must have wanted to use the power of the defender to work together to catch the black hand behind the scenes.
The weather started to get hot, and all classes were stopped more than a month before the final Trials Forest exam.
Mu Zilei took advantage of this time to find a stone room in the school hall that was specially used for students to use for retreat and cultivation, and forgot to sleep and eat in it to fully cultivate the mental method diagram of "Alien Spirit Strategy".
With the help of the power of the water drop jade, he broke through the sixth, seventh, and eighth in a row, and entered the last layer of cultivation of the heart method. At this moment, his body first became extremely hot, and then it became like ice, and his whole body was sometimes in unbearable pain, sometimes extremely itchy, and sometimes fluttering.
In the end, Mu Zilei entered a state of deep sleep where everything was forgotten, and the droplets of jade in his mouth scattered dense filaments of light outward, until they were woven to form a complete light cocoon that wrapped him. The light cocoon is like a living thing, constantly radiating light filaments to the surroundings, and the surrounding thousands of spiritual qi are gradually adsorbed on the light filaments as if they are being pulled.
I don't know how long it took, the light filament suddenly retracted back to the mother's body, and then the light cocoon collapsed, and the whole melted into Mu Zilei's body, Mu Zilei suddenly opened his eyes, and in the black onyx-like eyes, the molten gold-like light flashed away. He could truly feel that the small light clusters that had been refined in his body became active as if they had gained life, and finally formed small light swirls, some of which rotated clockwise, sometimes counterclockwise, some of which were almost stationary, and some of which were constantly rotating at high speed, and these light swirls were constantly moving in the body, washing and brushing in the body over and over again, unblocking the meridians, so uncomfortable.
As for the function of these swirls, the secret book does not say, it seems that you can only rely on your own experience. Mu Zilei thought secretly.
Lately, his tutor seems to be becoming more and more depressed, and the closer to the exam time, the more pronounced this feeling becomes. He must have been worried about my performance in the Forest of Refinement, after all, my grades ultimately determined whether or not he could continue to be a teacher in the Academy. Mu Zilei thought to himself, he decided to return the "Strange Spirit Strategy" to its original owner and told him that he had refined the mental method. He would be glad if he knew about it.
So, he went to look for Nie Renzhen, but found that he was not at home, and he immediately thought of another place.
Mu Zilei came to the top floor of the cafeteria again, Nie Renzhen was not there, but there was another person standing in the center of the top floor, staring blankly at the twin flowers that had been erected.
"Senior sister!" Mu Zilei looked at the familiar back and called out in surprise.
Nangong Yu turned around when he heard the sound, he was dressed in a strong suit, his head was still wearing a hat, and his red pupils were a little sentimental, except that his skin was a little tanned, his beauty was still the same.
"Senior brother, I haven't seen you for a long time," there was a smile in his voice, but Mu Zilei still heard a trace of tiredness, "Why did you come here?"
"I'm here to find Professor Nie," Mu Zilei said, "Senior sister, when did you come back?" I wrote from home before, saying that senior sister, you were looking for that corpse girl named Mo Ziling in the Stone Belt area, did you find it?"
"It's only been two days since I came back," Nangong Yu said, "That girl is much more powerful than I thought, and in the end we still followed, but we made an unexpected discovery, you know Lin Shicun, right?"
"Well, it is the smallest of the fourteen villages in the Stone Belt, and it is also the most remote and the most sparsely populated, and it is from this village that Lin Dumb from our dormitory is from. ”
"You stone belts will not have this village in the future," Nangong Yu said softly, "We finally went to Linshi Village, but we found a tragedy there, it seems that the entire village of villagers has been killed, and all of them have been drained of their spiritual power and turned into dried corpses and died." When I brought the news back to Dumb Lin, he couldn't say a word, and I think he must have been overly sad, poor boy......"
The news came too suddenly, Mu Zilei was stunned for a while, and it took him a moment before he found his voice back.
"Did the corpse girl do it?"
"Do you also know that the thieves will be?" Nangong Yu was surprised this time, "It's not clear yet, I have to wait for the official government to rush over from Shashi Town to find out after the arrest and verification, and it is estimated that there will be news in the next two days." ”
Lin Dumb is a member of the Thieves' Society, but his relatives died of dry spiritual power, which has to be said to be a great irony. Mu Zilei thought to himself, Nangong Yu's voice pulled his thoughts back.
"I heard that there was a corpse attack here more than a month ago, and has the murderer been found?"
"Not yet, now I heard that when the victim woke up and testified, the government said that it was the corpse spirit, and Professor Nie thought it was my former senior sister Wang Ruoran who did it," Mu Zilei said, Nangong Yu's eyes flickered when he heard Wang Ruoran's three words, "Ghost Tiger and I think it was Lin Dumb who did it." ”
"Dumb Lin?"
Mu Zilei nodded, he started talking about the secret door in the labyrinth, until the recent incident of breaking the army and being victimized, and finally told her their speculation.
"I can't imagine that you have experienced so many things," Nangong Yu said, "Your speculation has a certain logic, but without real evidence, this can only be conjecture." ”
"But how can it be so coincidental, it's in this place again, it's really ominous. She muttered.
"Senior sister, are you talking about what happened here before, Ouyang Xing and Ou Weiqian were killed?"
"Little one, it seems that you know quite a lot of things," she turned to look at the largest twin flower, "This flower has grown so fast in recent years, my brother died next to it back then, and tomorrow will be his death taboo, I can't imagine that he has been dead for six years." ”
"Brother?"
Nangong Yu took off the hat he had been wearing, and his short fiery red hair was exposed, allowing him to be caressed by the breeze.
With red hair and red pupils, Mu Zilei immediately thought of Ouyang Huo, the head of the discipline.
"Yes, you're right, I'm the biological daughter of the old monster who trained the Elder Fire," Nangong Yu seemed to read Mu Zilei's doubts, "Ouyang Xing is my biological brother, my original name is Ouyang Yu, although I have always been reluctant to admit this, but just like my red hair and red eyes, some things are doomed from birth." ”
"But why? I can see that the chief disciplinarian cares about you. ”
"It's too late for him to care," Nangong Yu said, "When my brother was killed, my mother was bedridden because of excessive grief, but the old fire monster only cared about pursuing Wang Ruoran for revenge, completely ignoring my mother's life and my feelings, how many times my mother wanted him to be by her side, but he didn't listen to it once." Less than a year later, my mother's illness worsened, and until she died, he was still reading my brother's name and looking forward to the return of the fire monster with his eyes open, but when she took her last breath, he still did not appear. I hate the person who killed my brother, but I hate the old monster even more, not only do I hate his pedantry, if it weren't for his strong opposition and forced my brother to leave Wang Ruoran, my brother would not have hit Fang Shi's idea, he always thought that Fang Shi hid a spiritual root, which could be used to change Wang Ruoran's semi-spiritual physique, I also hated his insistence, if he was willing to stay with my mother afterwards, my mother would not die, at least not die. Because I hated him, I asked my grandmother to take me away, and I also changed my name myself, bearing my mother's surname. ”
Mu Zilei didn't know how to answer for a while, and the atmosphere suddenly became awkward.
"That day was the annual experience test," maybe it was because of the situation, Nangong Yu opened the talking gate, "The first and second grades have to enter the experience forest for the exam, and the third grade students go to the teacher tower to rush to the tower, and almost all the teachers are also concentrated in those two places. It wasn't until the end of the experience that no one found my brother's body, when he died, he had multiple wounds on his body, and he was holding a hairpin covered with blood in his hand, which was caused by it, this hairpin Professor Nie and Teacher Gu both recognized, it was something that Wang Ruoran often wore, and the family heirloom sapphire ring that my brother wore on his hand was missing, Professor Nie said that he had seen my brother get the treasure map of the ashlar stone into it. ”
"But why did Professor Ou Weiqian appear here again?" Mu Zilei asked busily.
"The Fire Monster was the professor on duty who supervised the Tower Chong Tower, and when Professor Ou Weiqian told him that my brother had shown up to participate in the Tower, he wanted to run to him in person, but Professor Ou persuaded the Fire Monster to stay and preside over the overall situation, and he would go to find it. Judging from the traces of the fight at the scene at that time, the other two members of the Thieves Association who died on the ground with the square six-pointed star pattern engraved on their bodies were killed by Ou Weiqian, but he could not escape after all. The fire monster often said that it should have been him who had an accident that day, but Ou Weiqian died for him, so he always felt guilty, so he has always taken good care of Professor Ou's son Ouyang Jie. ”
Nangong Yu turned to look at the twin flowers, and after a moment of silence, she said again,
"But no matter what, I always feel that the murderer is someone else, because what I still can't figure out is that my brother had already told Professor Nie a few days before the crime that he wanted to find Fang Shi and give it to Wang Ruoran, but why did she still can't wait to kill the killer?"
"So, we began to investigate, first found Wang Ruoran's home, but found that they had already moved out, and later learned that Wang Ruoran had a close relationship with a girl, this girl was none other than the corpse girl Mo Ziling in the official series of the world today. For so many years, after Wang Ruoran completely disappeared, we had to turn our attention to the girl, and every time we found her traces, we would pursue them with all our might, which is why we traveled thousands of miles to the Stone Belt area......";