Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]-Chapter 79: Evidence

"Senior brother Xiao is about to present his case." Shen Xu tipped his head towards Xiao Feng.

Seeing this, Song Wancheng narrowed his eyes but didn’t continue asking.

"Student Xiao Feng, have you investigated the circumstances of the case?" Elder Liu Min asked.

"Yes, elder." Xiao Feng nodded and began to explain.

"On the day in question, student Zhen Yuan injured student Shi Qiao. There is no dispute about this."

"After student Zhen Yuan and student Shen Xu left the White Hut restaurant, the fifth elder Shi arrived. The elder examined student Shi Qiao and diagnosed her state. After that, he asked the Shi cousins to take student Shi Qiao into a private box and gave her some pills to condition her body."

"Later, the fifth elder determined a level one bone mending pill was needed to treat student Shi Qiao. However, student Shi Qiao’s condition was so bad that only a peak-grade pill could cure her. Unfortunately, there was no such pill on hand."

"While waiting for the fifth elder to refine the bone-mending pill, students Shi Ping, Shi Meng, Shi Dong, and Shi Miao took student Shi Qiao to her dormitory. The four stayed with student Shi Qiao and waited for the fifth elder to bring the pill. Unfortunately, student Shi Qiao died before the fifth elder could refine the required pill."

After listening to the explanation, Ma Chengyi nodded and glanced at Zhen Yuan.

"Student Zhen Yuan, do you have anything to say on your defence?" The elder asked.

Hearing the question, Zhen Yuan frowned and looked at the Shi family.

However, before he could say anything, Shen Xu stood up and walked to stand beside Zhen Yuan.

"I have a few questions." He said, and Ma Chengyi nodded, asking him to proceed.

"Senior brother Xiao Feng, did you investigate the Shi cousins?" Shen Xu asked, eliciting some dissatisfied snorts from the Shi family.

"We indeed investigated the Shi brothers and sisters. None of the cousins were alone with student Shi Qiao from the moment she was injured to the moment she died. None had an opportunity to do anything to student Shi Qiao."

When he heard this, Shen Xu nodded with a mischievous smile.

"Didn’t senior brother Xiao consider that the four acted together?" Shen Xu asked and continued without waiting for an answer.

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"Shen Xu!" Shi Miao angrily shouted.

"You will be asked to leave the hall if you shout again." A disciplinary hall student glared at Shi Miao.

The disciplinary hall learned its lesson after the previous incident.

As a result, the participants were no longer allowed to casually argue like in the previous hearing.

"Did senior brother Xiao consider the possibility of them acting together?" Shen Xu asked, and Xiao Feng frowned.

"It seems senior brother Xiao did not consider this possibility." Shen Xu smiled.

"Does student Shen Xu have evidence of his supposition?" Xiao Feng asked, and Shen Xu immediately nodded.

"If my brother Yuan wanted to kill a person, he would not make a mistake. Similarly, if he didn’t want to kill a person, the person would definitely not die. I have evidence my brother Yuan did not kill the person." Shen Xu said.

At the same time, he glanced at Shi Ping, Shi Meng, Shi Dong, and Shi Miao with a knowing smile.

"This is your last chance to confess." Shen Xu urged but the four did not come forward.

Rather, they sneered and looked at Shen Xu in disgust.

’Do you think we are fools?’ Shi Miao thought.

After that incident, they got rid of all evidence.

They didn’t even talk about the matter for fear of being overheard.

What evidence could the freeloader have?

Neither of the four believed Shen Xu had evidence.

Instead, they thought he was trying to trick them into confessing.

Seeing the four didn’t confess their crime, Shen Xu smiled.

’I am about to watch a good show.’ He thought and subtly glanced at Shi Qiao’s mother and father.

All along, the two had been glaring at Shen Xu.

They wanted to attack him but didn’t dare to in the disciplinary hall.

’I wonder if they will keep calm after seeing the evidence in the image stones.’ Shen Xu thought and removed an image stone from his storage bag.

"This image stone is the first piece of evidence." Shen Xu said and handed the image stone to the three elders.

"The elders can confirm the image stone has not been altered."

At that, elder Liu Min took the image stone and began to examine it.

Soon after, Zhang Yonglin and Ma Chengyi also confirmed the image stone had not been altered.

"Student Xiao Feng, activate the image stone." Elder Ma Chengyi said, and Xiao Feng took the image stone.

Five breaths later, a room appeared in front of everyone.

In the room were Shi Ping, Shi Meng, Shi Dong, and Shi Miao.

At a glance, the room was the private box of a restaurant, but the four weren’t eating or drinking.

"Fifth sister, have you taken care of that person? He might lead things to us if he stays in the academy." Shi Ping warned.

"Don’t worry, first brother. That person has taken a mission and will soon leave the academy. Once he leaves..." Shi Miao made a gesture of slitting the throat.

"Good." Shi Ping nodded and then turned to Shi Dong.

"Third brother, have you taken care of that thing?"

"First brother, it’s not easy to destroy the bone-corroding worm, but don’t worry, I have booked an alchemy room. I will use the academy’s earth fire to burn it."

Hearing this, Shi Ping frowned.

"What did we say about mentioning that thing? Do you want to be overheard?"

"I am sorry first brother, I won’t mention it again." Shi Dong apologised, and Shi Ping nodded.

"Get rid of it as soon as possible." The man said and then turned to Shi Meng.

"Second sister, has the fifth uncle noticed anything?"