Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god.

Chapter 1174 The absurd truth

Within Shu University Affiliated High School, after Meng Yang's death, all sorts of gossip and rumors surrounding her cause of death began to ferment rapidly within the school.

The cause of death of senior sister Meng Yang was not accident or suicide, but "homicide".

She was already a celebrity at Shu University Affiliated High School, and the news of her death itself would cause a lot of discussion and attention.

If it wasn't an accident or suicide, but homicide...

Naturally, it became the top headline in this school.

"...It is said that it was done by her boyfriend outside of school?"

"What boyfriend? You didn't even get him, did you?"

"Unrequited love? Killing someone if you can't get them? No, that's too..."

"That's totally unrelated. It's not unrequited love, it's just cheating! I know someone from Class 4 of Grade 2. He told me that Meng Yang was caught cheating by someone outside the school. He was so angry that he came to the door to accuse her. After the conversation broke down, he started fighting."

"Is there such a thing?"

"So that senior in the second year of high school with excellent grades is indeed her boyfriend?"

"So she was two-timing, one on campus and one off campus, and then she got stabbed to death by the off-campus one after they fell out, right?"

"Which one should we talk about first? The one outside the school?"

"Although, someone died..."

"If he's dead, he's dead. What does it have to do with us?"

Zuo Xi didn't want to hear this.

However, these rumors are everywhere in the campus.

The guys who used to be so excited that they could only talk about the rumored gossip in class, now have such a close and exciting topic of conversation, how could they let it go?

Previously, many of Meng Yang’s friends in different circles seemed to be unaware of the existence of these rumors, and no one came out to clarify for Meng Yang.

Even...some of the rumors may have originated from these "friends".

Zuo Xi could also see friends in the literature club writing poems or essays to commemorate Meng Yang and posting them in their own space dynamics. Their friends and other members of the literature club liked and commented on each other. The president also published a long speech in the literature club chat group, which was more flowery than before, and announced that the next issue of the monthly magazine would be a special commemorative issue for senior Meng Yang.

In Zuo Xi's opinion, this is the best description of the term "hypocritical".

Perhaps, the members of the literary club were also really sad, but looking at everyone's unprecedented enthusiasm for creation, Zuo Xi suddenly remembered "Funerary for the Lotus Girl".

And the rumors are still fermenting.

Just one morning passed, and after several versions of the rumor circulated together, they finally merged into a consensus version.

Meng Yang originally had a boyfriend outside of school who she had been dating since junior high school. The two were admitted to different schools. After entering high school, Meng Yang concealed the relationship and started dating a boy in the school. After her infidelity was discovered, her junior high school boyfriend could not accept this fact. He came to the school to confront Meng Yang, but he became too emotional and impulsive and killed Meng Yang.

Since the scene of Meng Yang's murder was in the corner of the rarely visited activity building of Shu University Affiliated High School, the first student who saw her body said that she was stabbed several times in the abdomen. The suspect identified by the police was indeed a boy from outside the school, Meng Yang's former junior high school classmate, who committed the crime.

The dismissed security guards, reinforced walls, and safety class meetings with the theme of "Beware of outsiders" all seemed like some kind of "evidence," making everyone more and more convinced that they knew the "truth."

Zuo Xi couldn't bear it anymore.

She thought that there would be nothing she couldn't bear anymore. After all, she seemed to have experienced many things that normal people would feel pity for. Most of them were not as unbearable as she had imagined. The rest were over.

But at this moment, Zuo Xi felt "intolerable" for the first time in a long time.

She could not tolerate such a ridiculous statement being spread. Even after several years, stupid rumors pointing to Meng Yang would still be circulating in Shu University Affiliated High School, such as "A few years ago, a senior student was killed for cheating on her husband."

and so……

Zuo Xi decided to take action.

Twenty-four hours have passed since Meng Yang's death, and the murderer has still not been caught.

There was no need for investigation. Zuo Xi only needed to walk around the school to find out that the murderer was a male classmate of Meng Yang in junior high school, who was now studying in No. 2 Middle School.

After Meng Yang got into trouble, he never went to school again - his parents also didn't know where he went.

According to the news flash, the police did lock down the other party's location - the guy fled alone to a wild mountain in the suburbs of Chengdu.

There was a heavy rain near this mountain area last night, washing away many traces.

Now, the police are working with the fire department and professional search and rescue teams to search the mountain.

Although the hope is slim, Zuo Xi wants to try to see if he can find the other party's whereabouts.

So, after the first math class in the afternoon, Zuo Xi left the school without asking for leave.

She took a taxi, paid the fare with the little change she had on her and left the campus, then rode a shared bicycle to the barren mountain outside Chengdu that was blocked by the police.

Although Shu University Affiliated High School is located in the suburbs, it is still a long drive away from the desolate mountains and wilderness. When Zuo Xi arrived on his bicycle, the sun had already set.

Seeing several teams of professional firefighters and police searching with police dogs, Zuo Xi knew that it was unlikely that she would find the murderer before these professionals.

If I really did it, it might be a miracle.

but……

That guy is just a high school student.

The fact that he still hasn't been found is a miracle in itself.

Although he had never believed in the existence of something as illusory as "fate", Zuo Xi suddenly felt at this moment... maybe he could really find him.

"Think about it, if a high school student who just killed someone flees here in a panic, where would he go?"

The police concluded that the murderer was likely hiding in the mountains because his electric bike was abandoned at the foot of the mountain and the last time the road surveillance camera captured his figure was also nearby.

Zuo Xi raised his head and looked at the dark mountains.

It's not surprising that a high school boy who had just killed someone and was on the run would think of escaping into the mountains overnight...

But can he really execute it?

In the pouring rain and pitch darkness, could a guy who didn't even have the courage to confess his guilt really go into the mountains?

Thinking of this, Zuo Xi stood at the foot of the mountain and opened the map. After thinking for a long time, she walked along the road in another direction.

Two hours later, Zuo Xi found the body of a high school boy in an abandoned bungalow on the roadside that was about to be demolished. The boy had probably died not long ago.

There was an open wound about 30 centimeters long on the opponent's left thigh, deep enough to see the bone. There was a bruise and a penetrating wound on the abdomen, as if it had been pierced by a sharp object.

Both wounds showed signs of inflammation and ulceration, which could have been caused by falling while riding a bike on a slippery road, or by falling in the mountains.

After being soaked by the rain, this guy probably developed a fever due to acute infection in the second half of the night.

Zuo Xi was not quite sure whether he died from wound infection, hypothermia after being caught in the rain, or excessive blood loss.

But what Zuo Xi could be sure of was...

He probably died in great pain and was probably tortured before his death.

Even if it is retribution, it is a very quick retribution.

But Zuo Xi felt no comfort at all.

She did not call the police immediately, but took out the other person's mobile phone and unlocked it using the other person's fingerprint.

Afterwards, Zuo Xi saw the contents of his mobile phone.

However, to Zuo Xi's surprise...

Judging from the photo albums and chat records of various social software.

This guy is indeed Meng Yang’s boyfriend whom she had been dating since junior high school.

Moreover, according to the chat records between Meng Yang and this boy.

His motive for murder was indeed...

Meng Yang cheated on his wife.