Afterlife Department

Chapter 584 - Events

Rong Huai and Lu Xiu looked at each other with their gazes talking before they looked away. Lu Xiu didn't answer and Rong Huai didn't continue asking him. Both their faces looked devoid of any emotion thus no one can guess what they are thinking. Jiang Ci still continued to chat with Qian San, Wu Ling, Shi Yi and Qi Bai. Qian San is the one who talked with him the most as well as Shi Yi. Meanwhile, Qi Bai's whole attention is on his snacks while Wu Ling rarely responded to Jiang Ci's questions.

Like this, their new group continued climbing up the mountain with two invisible figures silently following behind them.

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"Cold! And it is getting colder!" Qi Bai said and shivered as he rubbed his arms.

"It is just normal. We are nearing the top of the mountain." Qian San said.

"But, it shouldn't be this cold!" Shi Yi said as he frowned.

"I thought that I have already told you about the weather here in the Snow Clouds Spring Blossoms Mountain? Its history?" Lu Xiu spoke as he turned to them.

"Oh. We forgot." Wu Ling indifferently answered and just looked at the grasses and flowers, as well as the leaves of the trees around them covered with white snow.

Lu Xiu. "…"

Qian San, Shi Yi and Qi Bai. "…"

Rong Huai and Jiang Ci who already heard from Lu Xiu about Wu Ling's temper resembling his 'friend's temper. "…" such hostility! They thought.

Everyone thought that Lu Xiu would be mad. But, to their surprise, he actually smiled.

Qian San, Shi Yi and Qi Bai. "…" it is actually true! That the Ruojian Valley are all crazy people! They thought and inwardly cried.

"Let's speed up. We were almost there." Lu Xiu told them as he continued to walk ahead.

The group behind followed him.

Huo Ling, who is also following behind them with Yi Bing, spoke. "According to what we heard from the people before, Huai Sen appeared fifteen years ago in, and the first place where he appeared is the Snow Clouds Spring Blossoms Mountain." He said. "Based from Qian San, Wu Ling, Shi Yi and Qi Bai, Huai Sen picked up some children who lived miserably. But, most of Huai Sen's time is spent on cultivating in the mountain, or refining magic pills and making medicines." He explained.

"En." Yi Bing nodded as he walked beside Huo Ling.

"The fall of the Ruojian Valley Sect happened around the same time as Huai Sen appeared in jianghu. Do you think these two matters are connected?" Huo Ling asked.

"I don't know, but since the Ruojian Valley Sect seems close with Huai Sen, then Huai Sen must have a connection with the Ruojian Valley Sect." Yi Bing answered.

Huo Ling nodded. "You have a point…" he muttered. "It could be that the Ruojian Valley Sect treated Huai Sen as a friend since he saved them in the past, thus they are overly concerned now with the Snow Clouds Spring Blossoms Mountain." He explained.

"En." Yi Bing nodded in agreement.

"Then, Huai Sen picking up miserable children like his disciples…" Huo Ling muttered. "Do you think that he might have also picked up Zhuo Xia?" he asked.

Hearing this, Yi Bing paused. He looked at him. "That is possible." He said.

Huo Ling smiled. "It seems that our assignments are really connected." He said. Suddenly, he remembered something. "Who do you think is that boatman is?" he asked.

Luo Zhilai is the young master of the Ruojian Valley Sect, and Jiang Ci, Rong Huai and Lu Xiu are the disciples. Then, what about that boatman?

"Must be another disciple, or their informant." Yi Bing answered.

"I see…" Huo Ling muttered with a pensive expression.

"What are you thinking?" Yi Bing asked.

"About the Zhuo family." Huo Ling answered as he sent the information about Huai Sen and the Ruojian Valley Sect to Qian San, Wu Ling, Shi Yi and Qi Bai through their communicators.

Yi Bing started. "Right." He muttered. He now recalled that they have found a letter pinched between the pages of the Zhuo family's genealogical record book.

During their trip, they have inquired about the sender of that letter. Because the genealogical record was mostly burnt, most of the letter was also burnt and they only saw the name of the sender – Zhao Wei. But, what they heard from the waiter that they chatted with is that this Zhao Wei is already dead. He died thirteen years ago, along with his family. The method of murder is very brutal, and the murderer still wasn't found. What everyone was puzzled about is that Zhao Wei's family is poor and they lived honestly, so they were shocked that they were killed.

"What do you think?" Yi Bing asked.

"The time this happened is very close to the fall of the Ruojian Valley sect and Huai Sen's appearance in the Snow Clouds Spring Blossoms Mountain." Huo Ling answered. "Of course, the rise of the Zhuo family, too, which happened fourteen years ago." He said.

Yi Bing didn't answer and just quietly listened to him. He looked at Qian San, Wu Ling, Shi Yi and Qi Bao who are acting cold despite they can't feel cold. Wu Ling's acting is the stiffest among them, but fortunately, this can be perceived as him acting tough. Yi Bing felt amused watching them.

"Don't you think that all of these are so coincident?" he heard Huo Ling asked.

Yi Bing turned to him and nodded. "There is also the martial alliance refusing on helping the Ruojian Valley Sect before." He reminded him.

"En…" Huo Ling muttered. "And the Zhuo family's massacre, which happened nine years later… and the Snow Clouds Spring Blossoms Mountain being sealed. We have two points of time." he said.

"The Zhuo family's massacre happened six months ago." Yi Bing spoke when he recalled what the waiter in the Cuiyi Town told him before. "Then, now, the Snow Clouds Spring Blossoms Mountain was sealed… two events happened at the same year." He said.

"We have to find out what happened to all these cases." Huo Ling muttered. Or else, when the time that they have found their soul assignments, they wouldn't be able to explain everything to them and resolve their attachments. That would be horrible.

"En." Yi Bing nodded.

"What do you think of them?" they suddenly heard Lu Xiu spoke to Rong Huai while Jiang Ci helped Qian San, Wu Ling, Shi Yi and Qi Bai camp on a clearing.

Yi Bing and Huo Ling turned.

"I thought that these four would be valuable to those two whom we fought before and so I tried to kill them the night before. But, just as I was about to, neither of those two appeared to save them." Rong Huai spoke.

Lu Xiu who didn't expect for Rong Huai to do this. "…" silent people are really deadly… he thought.

Jiang Ci whose face darkened. "…" what the fck, Rong Huai! He thought and glared at him.

Qian San, Wu Ling, Shi Yi and Qi Bai who was acting that time and tried their best not to scream when it happened. "…" wuwuwuwu! QAQ this world is so hostile to us! they thought and inwardly cried.

Yi Bing and Huo Ling. "…" even if you kill them, nothing will happen since they are already dead… we are all already dead. They thought as they looked at Rong Huai with a complicated gaze.

Lu Xiu tried to recover his expression. "Ehem." He coughed. "So, you mean that we took the four of them with us for nothing?" he asked.

"Rong Huai!" Jiang Ci gnashed his teeth as he approached him.

Rong Huai's expression didn't change. "It might not be the case." He answered to Lu Xiu's question. "Supposing that those two really were threatening them. Then, they managed to escape and meet you." He looked at Lu Xiu. "But, they ran away because they thought that you might also be like those two. Yet, you saw them again with their abductors." He said.

"Oh!" Lu Xiu finally realized it.

Yi Bing and Huo Ling. "…" are we going to be exposed now? They thought and looked at each other.

Qian San, Wu Ling, Shi Yi and Qi Bai. "QAQ" this world is very cruel to us! Wuwuwuwu! They inwardly cried, but tried their best not to make any reactions.

"You… you two!" Jiang Ci pointed at them two with a shaking finger. "They are very pitiful… already this pitiful, yet you two are still suspecting them?!" he asked as he looked at Rong Huai and Lu Xiu with his eyes wide in disbelief. "They fled to Cuiyi Town since that is the only place they are familiar with, but due to their haste, they forgot that their abductors were still there! So, they were captured again!" he explained.

Yi Bing and Huo Ling. "…" wow. They thought and looked at Jiang Ci with awe. He made another excuse for them.

Qian San, Wu Ling, Shi Yi and Qi Bai. "…" Jiang Ci, you are really an angel! QAQ