Chapter 196: Rumors Spread
Seeing that Zhu Xie didn't say a word for a long time, Hu Bing stood up, slowly walked in front of Zhu Xie, bowed deeply to him, and said, "Thank you to the teacher for taking care of me wholeheartedly for so many years, Hu Bing can't repay it." Tomorrow the news of me killing my fellow disciples with my own hands will definitely spread, and then someone will definitely force Master to punish me severely. If you want to put an end to this injustice, please don't worry about the old feelings, and put me to death according to the rules of the door. Otherwise, I will definitely look for an opportunity to continue to avenge Xiaomei, and there can only be one survivor between me and Zhu Ren. Master doesn't have to feel guilty about his decision, after all, both me and him deserve it. ”
After Hu Bing finished saying this, before Zhu Xie could reply, he turned around and left, leaving only one last word of farewell.
The disciple did not disturb the master's judgment and took his leave. ”
The moment she pushed open the door and walked out, Hu Bing even forgot that this was her own room.
After hearing the sound of the door being closed, Zhu Xie slammed his hand on the tabletop and said angrily: "It's the opposite, it's really the opposite, and now even my master's words are deaf." Do you know that you are the only person in my Spirit Cult who can be promoted to the Nine-Tails realm in the future?"
After saying that, Zhu Xie breathed a sigh of relief, calmed himself down, and then said: "The current strategy is to protect Bing'er first, try to control the trend of public opinion, and prevent a one-sided situation." When this matter is settled, Bing'er's actions can be blocked in the name of punishment, so that she can dispel the foolish idea of revenge, so that the turmoil can officially end. ”
Thinking of this, Zhu Xie finally sketched out in his mind the complete means of dealing with tomorrow.
An hour later, when Hu Bing returned to his room, he found that Zhu Xie had left. She subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and subconsciously, she still felt that what she was thinking in her heart now seemed to go against what Master had been teaching, so when she communicated with Master face-to-face, she would be a little apprehensive.
But Hu Bing, who has established a new "life goal" for himself, can no longer listen to any persuasion, nor is he willing to try to make any changes. She doesn't want to think about anything now, preferring to turn herself into a puppet who only knows how to take revenge.
In the early morning of the next day, Zhu Ren had already spread the word about what happened in the Biqiongfeng cave yesterday, and everyone knew about it. After all the oil and vinegar he added, the facts had already become distorted.
A deliberate conspiracy turns into an unintentional game, and life-threatening beatings turn into sparring fights. Even Zhu Mei's death was described as "because he was afraid that Hu Bing would suffer a loss in the battle, so he rushed to help, but was hit by the moves of both sides at the same time, because his cultivation was too low and his defense ability was very poor, which eventually led to a tragedy." ”
Moreover, Zhu Ren also publicly apologized for the kidnapping of Zhu Mei, indicating that although he had a personal grudge with Hu Bing, he should not make such a big joke and end up dying. He was willing to apologize to Hu Bing in person and said that he could accept any form of punishment from the head of the family, and even declared that his good brothers and sisters deserved it, and Hu Bing's revenge for his only apprentice was a matter of course, which can have a diametrically opposite effect.
Zhu Ren's fooling of the disciples inexplicably succeeded in blinding nearly seventy percent of the disciples, causing them to lose their normal judgment ability. The Cult is now full of disciples discussing this matter.
"Senior brother
What do you think about this?"
"In my opinion, Zhu Ren actually kidnapped Zhu Mei in order to make a joke with Hu Bing, and he should indeed be punished and punished. But that Hu Bing knew that his apprentice was injured by mistake, but he still brutally killed more than a dozen of his classmates, which shows that he is ruthless, if this kind of person stays in the sect, it is undoubtedly a great threat to us, I hope that the head of the sect can expel her from the sect to prevent future troubles. ”
"In fact, according to the rules of the sect, killing multiple disciples of the same sect should be punished by death. But Hu Bingnai is the personal disciple of the head of the family, maybe the head of the family will cheat for personal gain and give her a light sentence. ”
"This Hu Bing is originally different from our Zhu clan, and the Zhu and Hu clans have always hated each other. In my opinion, she is the killer sent to us by the Hu clan, and once she succeeds in cultivation, she will definitely set off a bloody storm. Before she grows to the point where she is completely out of control, we should preemptively strike. This time, we will make a concerted effort to petition the head of the sect, asking him to uphold justice and follow the rules of the door to execute Hu Bing. ”
Before the public trial of this incident began, all the disciples had already fallen to Zhu Ren's side, and they all hoped that Zhu Xie would be able to execute Hu Bing. None of them knew the truth of the facts, but after listening to a few one-sided words, they gave birth to many unreasonable prejudices and absurd judgments.
I don't know the truth, and Mo will judge.
It seems that not many people are willing to follow this rule, and these people do not yet know that they are about to push a person who has just gone astray into the abyss of no return.
At the end of the day, as the bell rang several times, Zhu Xie summoned all the disciples who had been in the house for more than a hundred years to the council hall.
After everyone had arrived, Zhu Xie spoke and said loudly: "It's been a long time since I've communicated with you face-to-face, and this time I called you here to deal with an important matter." I'm afraid you've heard a little bit about it, there was a murder in the cave of the Blue Dome Peak yesterday, and more than a dozen disciples of my Soul Worship Sect lost their lives. After some investigation, the two culprits of the incident have been revealed. Today I will interrogate these two men in public and punish them according to what they have done, and you, as witnesses, are ready to give me advice to help me make the most accurate judgment. ”
All the disciples echoed in unison: "Obey the instructions of the master. ”
After Zhu Xie cleared his throat, he carefully explained the beginning and end of the entire incident to the disciples. From Zhu Ren's hatred of Hu Bing and his hatred of Hu Bing, he kidnapped her apprentice Zhu Mei, to Hu Bing's solo trip to Biqiong Peak to rescue Zhu Mei. Then Zhu Ren took Zhu Mei as a hostage, wantonly abused Hu Bing, who was heartfelt for his disciples, and almost beat her to death, Zhu Mei used her life to win a chance for Hu Bing, and Hu Bing, who was out of control, finally went on a killing spree and made a big mistake.
Although the whole narrative is true, it is completely from Hu Bing's point of view, Zhu Xie has also made a lot of efforts to protect his disciples, and it is not difficult to hear the meaning of favoritism in his words.
After listening to Zhu Xie's account of the facts, the disciples couldn't help but be surprised, because this was very different from what they had heard from Zhu Ren.
Although they did not dare to discuss it in a loud voice immediately, doubts had already arisen in the hearts of most of the disciples, not knowing who they should listen to now, and they could not be sure which of the two statements was true and which was false.
It stands to reason that as a disciple, you should trust everything the master says, but at this time, there are people in the council hall
The views of the disciples, however, were very divided.
Some of the disciples who had a good relationship with Hu Bing had originally taken Zhu Ren's words as a deaf ear, but now that they heard Zhu Xie speak, they had a complete grasp of the truth of the facts.
These broad-minded disciples are good at pushing themselves and others, and they know that if they were faced with Hu Bing's situation at that time, they would definitely kill mercilessly, so they did not have a trace of resentment towards Hu Bing's actions. On the contrary, for Zhu Ren and his gang, who cornered Hu Bing, these people think that only the word "culprit" can describe their behavior.
On the other hand, the rest of the Zhu disciples reacted very differently.
The seeds of discrimination are buried in the hearts of this group of people, who reject the Hu clan from their bones and are unwilling to have any level of contact with the Hu clan.
Now Hu Bing has killed more than a dozen Zhu clansmen in one go, which undoubtedly stimulates the hatred hidden in the hearts of the discriminators, making them suddenly forget all reason.
At this moment, this group of people began to doubt the authenticity of Zhu Xie's remarks, and wondered if the supreme authority of the Soul Worship Sect would deceive them, and whether they would stand on the opposite side of them in order to protect their own disciples.
From their ears, everything that Zhu Ren said was obviously closer to the "truth" than Zhu Xie's narrative.
The distinction between "kindred" and "different" deeply blocks their vision and their ability to judge, making this group of people like the blind and deaf disabled.
After Zhu Xie finished telling the truth, some people immediately raised objections.
"Please forgive the disciple for the offense. A disciple who was usually close to Zhu Ren spoke.
"This is a public trial, and everyone present can give their opinions, and whatever they have to say, just say it. ”
Receiving Zhu Xie's signal, the disciple continued: "I wonder what kind of grudge there is between Senior Brother Zhu Ren and this Senior Sister Hu Bing, which would make Senior Brother Zhu Ren put her to death at any cost?"
Zhu Xie frowned when he heard this, and then said: "This is to listen to the explanations of the two parties, Zhu Ren and Hu Bing, please come out." ”
Hearing Zhu Xie's order, Hu Bing and Zhu Ren walked out of the crowd, walked in front of Zhu Xie, and saluted him respectively.
"If anyone wants to hear the feud between the two of you, let him tell it himself. ”
Zhu Xie's voice fell, and Zhu Ren immediately spoke.
"There must be some misunderstanding between the boss, there are just some trivial contradictions and frictions between me and Hu Bing, where is the grievance? This time the joke is indeed a bit excessive by me, but please don't listen to Hu Bing's words. ”
Zhu Xie couldn't help but be furious when he heard this, what Zhu Ren said now was completely different from everything he had explained at the beginning, obviously wanting to confuse the public and make the disciples stand on his side.
As soon as Zhu Xie wanted to reprimand, Hu Bing spoke, his voice was so cold that his hair stood on end.
"Contradictions, frictions, what you think of me is best known only to you, and if you know each other, tell the truth clearly and clearly, so that I may still retain a trace of respect for you. You must know that a coward who dares to be a coward who does not dare to be is not worthy of being a disciple of the Chongling Sect at all. ”