Chapter 230: Chapter 109: The Unfamiliar Dean Lin Chapter 230: Chapter 109: The Unfamiliar Dean Lin It was a bolt from the blue.
The Old Dean and Xu Mo were stunned.
Seeing Lin Xi’s expression, they had probably guessed what the so-called ‘accident’ meant.
“What happened, what could have happened to that bastard?” the Old Dean cursed under his breath, seemingly trying to reassure himself, but his voice was already trembling.
“Last night, Dean Lin was attacked by a monster and killed,” Lin Xi said, her face pale and her voice very low, equally unwilling to accept this reality.
A dead silence followed.
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The group that had been bustling about eating breakfast suddenly fell quiet.
Xu Mo’s face was also pale.
Lin Qingze, the Acting Dean of Noah Academy, had been his guide in the city, bringing him into the academy and concealing his super S-rated talent, almost coaxingly making him a member of the academy.
Diligent and conscientious.
He was dead, killed by a monster.
When the monster entered the city, it was the most dangerous moment, yet Lin Qingze had not died.
By last night, the monster had been brought under control, and the city’s armed forces had begun to clean up the monsters.
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Now, they told him that Lin Qingze was attacked by a monster last night and died.
He had returned yesterday to see that his teacher and Sister Butterfly were all safe and sound, thinking that this incident had passed.
Although the monster storm had exacted a heavy toll, ultimately, everyone was alright.
Thus, even though he felt a tinge of sadness, he still ate breakfast with a smile, happily and heartily.
However, he could never have imagined that while his teacher was unharmed, Dean Lin was the one who had been in trouble.
“Cough cough…”
The Elder coughed violently, Elsa, with a pale face, gently patted the Elder’s back.
A trickle of fresh blood oozed out, and Elsa exclaimed in shock.
“Teacher,” her expression changed.
“Dean,” Lin Xi also stepped forward.
“It’s nothing,” the Elder waved his hand.
Xu Mo stepped forward, knowing well that the previous day’s battle had drained his teacher of energy, and he had surely sustained internal injuries.
At this moment, he was stimulated strongly, leading to coughing up blood.
The death of Dean Lin was a huge shock to the Elder.
The Elder sat up straight and picked up the communicator to dial a number.
For the Elder, Lin Qingze was not just a subordinate but a friend, a partner.
Over the years, he had little energy to manage the academy, Lin Qingze had handled everything, acting almost as his proxy, tirelessly busy.
He never complained, at most occasionally talking about a raise.
An acting dean of the Extraordinary Academy still needed to worry about a raise.
He was still alive, but his old friend had gone, and so suddenly at that.
He found it hard to accept.
After verifying it several times, the Elder finally realized that his old friend had truly left him.
When he put down the communicator, the Elder lying in the chair suddenly looked much older, closing his eyes.
Lin Xi looked at Xu Mo, wordless.
“Lin Xi, inquire clearly about the specifics of the incident, in detail,” the Elder said, lying down with his eyes closed.
“Okay,” Lin Xi nodded, then walked aside, continuously contacting other people.
Shortly thereafter, Lin Xi returned and reported to the Elder, “Old Dean, the monsters breached the city yesterday.
Dean Lin was busy at the academy deploying personnel.
After the city’s crisis was resolved and everything at the academy was arranged, it was already late at night.
Dean Lin wanted to go home to see his family.
Near his home, he was attacked by a monster.
Due to the many people who died in this disaster, it was only this morning that Dean Lin’s family hired someone and found out he had been killed.”
“What kind of monster?” the Old Dean asked.
“Not sure exactly, but it was captured on surveillance,” Lin Xi said.
“Although Lin Qingze’s cultivation is not very good, he also has a Source Power Level of B+, not just any monster could harm him.
Under yesterday’s circumstances, if there were any A-level monsters, they would have been targeted, it couldn’t have been silent unless it was a top-tier B-level monster that ambushed him,”
The Elder, as if talking to himself, got up and dialed several people’s numbers in succession.
He wanted every detail of Lin Qingze’s death.
Xu Mo realized that the Elder suspected that Dean Lin’s death might not have been caused by a monster.
“The City Government just passed the selection of the new Dean of Noah Academy, preparing to take office,” the Elder said in a low voice, his aged face looking like it was bathed in returning light, suddenly becoming very cold.
If it wasn’t the doing of a monster, he would make them pay the price.
Xu Mo clenched his fists.
Could it be murder!
The timing was indeed very coincidental.
That day, he had heard Dean Lin and the teacher’s conversation.
The new dean was about to take office, the teacher had no objections, but Lin Qingze, the teacher’s spokesperson, made it not so simple for the other party to control the academy.
Just at this critical moment, Dean Lin was killed by a monster.
If this wasn’t a coincidence…
Time passed by little by little, the atmosphere becoming somewhat oppressive.
They were all waiting.
After a while, the Elder’s communicator vibrated.
The Elder answered, heard a few sentences from the other side, then asked, “Has the monster been found?”
“Not yet, we’re searching with all our might,” the other side responded.
“Notify me the moment you find the monster, and also have the Law Enforcement Team do an autopsy report to determine if it was the monster or human action,” the Elder said, then hung up the communicator.
Afterwards, the Elder opened up the images and videos in the communicator.
After viewing them, he handed them to Xu Mo.
Xu Mo took them and saw the photos.
Dean Lin’s heart had been pierced by a sharp claw, his body covered in many wounds, a very tragic sight.
There was a video frame that captured the monster flashing by, though it was somewhat blurry; the creature was larger than a human with four limbs, incredibly sharp.
“If a Genetic Warrior were to mutate, they could possibly turn into this kind of monster,” Xu Mo said to the elder.
He had seen a Genetic Warrior change form; the Doctor from the Underworld had become incredibly ferocious.
“Correct,” the elder responded.
Moreover, the monster had run off and had not been found.
“Xu Mo, you go take a look on my behalf,” said the Old Dean, his voice sounding somewhat weak.
He really wanted to see his old friend, but he couldn’t bear to see him now.
“Alright,” Xu Mo nodded.
“I’ll go with you,” Lin Xi spoke up.
“Elsa, take good care of the teacher,” Xu Mo instructed, before leaving with Lin Xi.
In the car, Lin Xi drove while Xu Mo sat in the passenger seat, looking out at the city.
This bustling city had just been ravaged by the monster; everywhere were ruins and broken walls, the roads had not been fully cleared, and still, people were tracking the monster; not all monsters had been dealt with.
He wondered, was the monster terrifying, or was the human heart more terrifying?
In such an era, what happened to those who stood firm and dedicated their lives?
The teacher, Commander Qiu, Dean Lin.
The media’s coverage of this war was already downplaying the Extraordinary Academy.
The teacher had aged, and it seemed the public needed new heroes.
Throughout the journey, both Lin Xi and Xu Mo were silent, their moods heavy.
When they arrived at Lin Qingze’s small villa, many people were already outside.
But they were all outside.
There were cries coming from the yard.
As Xu Mo and the others approached the inside, someone stopped them, saying, “Sorry, Mrs.
Lin doesn’t want to be disturbed right now.”
“Alright,” Xu Mo also quietly stood outside.
Dean Lin’s family members were by his side.
His wife sat on the ground, holding his hand and refusing to let go.
“Grandpa is asleep, why won’t he wake up?” a little boy cried, shaking Lin Qingze’s body, but a man beside him caught him.
Xu Mo looked at the boy; this must be the grandson Dean Lin had mentioned.
A few days ago, Dean Lin had said that when his grandson grew up, he should follow the teacher and learn Mecha, calling him ‘senior brother.’
A sadness enveloped the atmosphere, and Lin Xi’s eyes too became red, shedding tears.
“Xu Mo,” someone came calling, and Xu Mo turned his head to see Leng Qiu.
“Sister,” Xu Mo called out.
“How is the teacher?” Leng Qiu asked.
“He’s very upset, asked me to come here on his behalf,” Xu Mo replied.
Leng Qiu felt uneasy as she looked forward.
At the academy, she always opposed Lin Qingze, not really following his orders, because she knew Lin Qingze wouldn’t really do anything to her.
Their academy’s acting dean, completely lacking in authority.
But, how could he have just departed like this?
It seemed the yard overheard their conversation; a girl about fifteen turned her head, her gaze landing on Xu Mo; she was Lin Qingze’s daughter, Lin Yao.
Lin Yao approached and stood in front of Xu Mo, her eyes still red, her face stained with tears.
“Brother Xu Mo,” Lin Yao called out.
Xu Mo was taken aback; this was his first meeting with Lin Yao.
“Come in,” Lin Yao said.
Xu Mo nodded and followed Lin Yao forward.
Mrs.
Lin and Lin Qingze’s son Lin Yang also looked towards Xu Mo.
“Xu Mo,” they obviously recognized him, called out.
And to Xu Mo, it felt very familiar.
It was clearly their first meeting, yet it was as if they had known him for a long time, a feeling of kinship.
Lin Yao called him Brother Xu Mo.
“Dad often mentioned you; nearly every time he came back, he would bring you up,” Lin Yao told Xu Mo, “When school started, he said he had tricked Noah Academy into getting a great genius who was bound to shine brightly one day.”
“You and the Hero Academy’s Mecha competition, he watched many times, insisting we watch it with him, laughing as he said he wished everyone knew it was you, knew how outstanding your talent was.”
“He always liked to compare us to you; whenever he scolded us, he would mention you.” As time went by, whenever her dad scolded her, she would jokingly talk about how Xu Mo was doing this or that.
Unknowingly, Xu Mo had become like a member of their family.
“He said you would definitely become a great person, a hero of Steel Dome City; he always thought of inviting you over for dinner, but he had been busy, busy, until now…”
As Lin Yao spoke, tears uncontrollably started flowing again.
“Brother Xu Mo, Dad really liked you, thank you for coming to see him.”
Xu Mo quietly listened, tears also forming in the corners of his eyes.
His interactions with Dean Lin had been that whenever there was trouble, he’d find Dean Lin, and Lin Qingze would handle it.
All these things Lin Yao mentioned were unknown to him, the side of Dean Lin he was unfamiliar with.
An elder, quietly doting on him in the background, treating him as a junior, placing extremely high expectations on him.
All these things, he only realized after Dean Lin’s death!