Chapter 183 – Cruelness (1/2)
Chapter 183 – Cruelness
Silence, absolute silence!
Even the miniscule sound of dropping a needle could be heard in such a circumstance, because the crowd was stunned by the crazy act of the Xue Family elders. This unexpected drama left everyone’s heart racing increasingly rapid, as they swallowed in astonishment.
“Cruel! They are unbelievably cruel to themselves!”
Ye Tianlong and Ye Baihu looked at each other with equally baffled expressions, just like the other onlookers.
The Xue Family was playing the compassion card, in an attempt to win the sympathy of others by killing themselves! What a nice trick! They sacrificed their leader, a cultivator in the peak level of the Realm of the Emperor, and a great elder who was a cultivator in the Realm of the Saint. But, they might’ve saved the entire Xue Family at the loss of two advanced cultivators. In general, it was a favorable deal after all. At least, the Xue Family as a whole might be saved in such a way. It took the Xue Family more than hundreds of years to obtain today’s prosperity, certainly they wouldn’t let go of it so easily.
Moreover, these two sacrificed elders’ dying words were also deliberately phrased. One said he was an unqualified teacher, who should take the responsibility of his student, Wuhen; the other emphasized that he was a far-from-perfect father, and felt obligated to take the blame for his son. It seemed that the whole incident had nothing to do with the entire Xue Family, rather, it was a family educational problem.
Since the father and the teacher of this culprit had both killed themselves, people began to feel that it was unnecessary to continue this trial.
Indeed, people in the Mars Prefecture had long heard of the tension between Xue Wuhen and Ye Qinghan. The young lords from different families often fought with one another for various reasons, which was understandable. Yet, the stupidest thing Wuhen had done was to collude with other prefectures, and put the entire Mars Prefecture Legion in great danger. The severity of the event could no longer be defined as the quarrels between young lords.
As a traitor, Wuhen should receive capital punishment. However, the very “protagonist” of this scandal went missing, leaving the Xue Family to receive all the fury.
If the Xue Family gave up on their last chance to defend themselves, or they stubbornly insisted that Wuhen was innocent, then the fury of the masses wouldn’t die away but only become fiercer. Unexpectedly, they had adopted a different strategy from that, otherwise the Xue Family would definitely be flattened by the fully provoked Mars Prefecture’s cultivators.
Now, to everyone’s surprise, they had ruthlessly killed themselves in front of so many people, in an attempt to seek sympathy and forgiveness.
Their flowery rhetoric sounded as if it were the elders’ personal negligence in educating their young lords that had led to all of this. What if, in the future, there emerged a black sheep in another family, would their father and teacher kill themselves just like the Xue Family had just done?
“I’m another great elder of the Xue Family, Xue Ying. We’re ashamed to have such scum in our family. Half a month before, we already declared a search warrant to capture this little bastard. At the same time, we decided to use this Mars Prefecture Blood Token to ask for forgiveness. Hopefully, your anger towards our family will be lessened. On behalf of the Xue Family, I promise that the injured families in the Prefecture War will be well compensated by us!”
As the overall tension was smoothed on the plaza, Xue Ying, another elder of the Xue Family, who had kept silent for a long time, finally said his words.