novelraw Chapter 746 763: Golden Leaf Sect Leader Assassinated
Chapter 746 763: Golden Leaf Sect Leader Assassinated
However, Zhou Xun was still a bit uneasy, like he had been caught stealing something, and he said with a somewhat constrained smile, "Manlin, Brother Lin, um, everyone hurry up, go wash your hands, let's sit down and have a meal together!""Okay!" Qi Manlin ran to the bathroom to wash her hands, and then everyone sat down to eat breakfast.
After breakfast, Xiong Xiaoxiao went to school, Zhou Xun went to the film company, and Qi Manlin also went to the police station!
Lin Mu initially planned to tidy up and go to the hospital to check on Xia Yu Yi, but at that moment, his phone rang untimely! The call was from Zhou Meimei, and seeing the call, Lin Mu frowned slightly, then answered the phone!
"Hello, what's the matter?" Lin Mu asked as he picked up the phone.
"Brother Lin, something's wrong, something happened, the Golden Leaf Sect Leader is dead!" Zhou Meimei said anxiously on the phone.
"What? Dead?" Lin Mu was shocked, "How did that happen?"
"I don't know either, come and take a look!" Zhou Meimei said.
"Alright, I'll be there immediately!" Lin Mu replied.
The Golden Leaf Sect Leader actually died? Lin Mu found it hard to comprehend. After hanging up the phone, Lin Mu drove towards the village where Zhou Meimei and the others were. Lin Mu drove very fast, and twenty minutes later, he arrived at the village!
In front of the house, Lin Mu parked the car, opened the door, and walked inside, where a group of Dark Night Sect disciples surrounded the corpse of the Golden Leaf Sect Leader, with Guo Furong and Zhou Meimei standing outside the crowd!
"What exactly happened?" Lin Mu asked.
"We don't know, either. We just woke up this morning and found the Golden Leaf Sect Leader's corpse lying in the courtyard!" Zhou Meimei said.
Lin Mu knew that the Golden Leaf Sect Leader could not possibly have died without a reason; there must be an extremely concealed and complex cause. A perfectly healthy person, and a martial arts master, a sect leader, couldn't have just died so easily!
Moreover, the Golden Leaf Sect Leader was very skilled in martial arts; even ordinary masters would find it hard to harm her. But why did she die inexplicably in the courtyard?
If Zhou Meimei and Guo Furong were not present, the possibility of the Golden Leaf Sect Leader being assassinated might have been greater. But with both female knights present, any ordinary master attempting an assassination would have been impossible to succeed, let alone the assailant didn't even show up, yet managed to kill the Golden Leaf Sect Leader!
Lin Mu stepped forward and took a look at the Golden Leaf Sect Leader. Her skin had no abnormalities or signs of battle. This puzzled him; the Golden Leaf Sect Leader was healthy with no signs of a struggle, so how did she die just like that?
Lin Mu squatted down, observed carefully, then took out a silver needle and directly pierced it into the Golden Leaf Sect Leader's skin. The silver needle was very thin, and after piercing the skin, a trace of black-red blood quickly seeped out along the needle! Seeing the black-red blood oozing out, Lin Mu could now conclude that the Golden Leaf Sect Leader likely died of poisoning! Someone must have poisoned her with a rare poison, causing her death quietly!
But? Poisoned to death? This was even more perplexing! The Dark Night Sect was the group most adept at using poison, and the Golden Leaf Sect Leader herself was among the best in poison arts in the martial world. So who could have done it? Who could have managed to counterkill the top poison master of today?
As far as Lin Mu knew, people from the Heaven and Earth Society didn't have poison experts, let alone enough expertise to poison the Golden Leaf Sect Leader. Even if they wanted to kill her, there were countless ways to do it, but poisoning was definitely not the easiest method!
Unless? Lin Mu frowned slightly, unless the assailant acted when the Golden Leaf Sect Leader was unguarded. If so, it would have been easy! Could this person be related to the Dark Night Sect? Lin Mu couldn't imagine this possibility, but it seemed the most likely!
As of now, one thing Lin Mu was sure of, the Golden Leaf Sect Leader was poisoned to death; there was no doubt about that. Not only did the blood Lin Mu drew with the silver needle indicate poisoning, but if there had been a fight, Guo Furong and Zhou Meimei would have heard it!
Also, Lin Mu ruled out the possibility of the Heaven and Earth Society being involved. First, because they lacked poison experts, and even if they had one, with Lin Mu standing before the Dark Night Sect, there was no need to attack the Golden Leaf Sect Leader!
Teaming up with the Dark Night Sect meant the real enemy of the Heaven and Earth Society was Lin Mu, and Huo Yanggen and the others wouldn't foolishly risk their lives by attacking the Golden Leaf Sect Leader!
Even taking a step back, even if everyone in the Heaven and Earth Society were idiots, even if they had poison experts, given the Golden Leaf Sect Leader's expertise in poison, if someone tried to harm her, she wouldn't just sit there and let them!
And Guo Furong and Zhou Meimei didn't hear the Golden Leaf Sect Leader's voice or any fighting sounds, so what does that mean? Obviously, it indicates that a mole from the Dark Night Sect acted, and since the Golden Leaf Sect Leader was off guard, it made it easier to succeed!
As for delivering a fatal strike, it's easy to understand, which of the Dark Night Sect's disciples doesn't know how to poison? Anyone with slightly advanced skills would have lethal poisoning techniques! Thus, after analyzing this series of situations, Lin Mu placed the suspect among the disciples of the Dark Night Sect!
If Lin Mu's guess was correct, a traitor from the Dark Night Sect is behind this, and this person was likely someone close to the Golden Leaf Sect Leader! But with so many people, who could it be?
If he baselessly accused someone from the Dark Night Sect, these women might tear him apart! Without evidence, Lin Mu naturally couldn't speak recklessly; he just needed to keep it in his mind.
But now Lin Mu was a bit overwhelmed. Why would this person kill the Golden Leaf Sect Leader? What was their motive? It seemed that the Golden Leaf Sect Leader treated everyone well, so who would be so ruthless?
The Dark Night Sect cannot be without a leader for even a day. So amidst the grief of everyone, they had to deal with the Golden Leaf Sect Leader's posthumous matters. Unlike the procedural complexity in real society, it was straightforward and clear in the sect. According to the rules, after dealing with the posthumous matters, the next task was to select the next sect leader!
According to the Dark Night Sect's rules, if the sect leader hasn't announced a successor, the sect leader's position is to be succeeded by the chief disciple, Qing Feng, who has always been by her side!
Qing Feng was the first to follow the Golden Leaf Sect Leader and was considered the most senior member of the Dark Night Sect, and naturally the best choice for sect leader! But just when everyone thought the position was going to Qing Feng, a disciple of the Dark Night Sect found an inheritance letter while tidying up the sect leader's room!