Chapter 974 - He Rode Off On A Whale (1/2)

Drizzle unremitting falls on Qingming Day;

Broken-hearted travelers pass by.

It was not yet Qingming in Luoyang City, but everyone on the streets had sorrowful looks on their faces.

Each of them wore a small white flower on their chests as a tribute to their respected elder.

The intersection outside Qinghe University's campus was cold and quiet. When people passed by, they would place down a bouquet of flowers at the intersection. Spring had just arrived in Luoyang City, but the blooming peonies and winter jasmines had all been picked and placed here.

It looked like a sea of flowers on the intersection.

Someone said that if Mr. Jiang Xu were still around, he would definitely criticize everyone for this. Flowers should be growing on branches, not plucked and placed down here. Everyone should just observe their beauty from afar.

But someone argued that since Mr. Jiang Xu was no longer around, who could be in the mood to enjoy the sight of the flowers?

The Qinghe University students stood on the streets and mourned silently. A number of them even cried until they fainted. It wasn't until the afternoon when something happened to Jiang Xu that they realized why he suddenly wanted to give that lesson.

It was because that was his final lesson. So it turned out Professor Jiang Xu had a premonition of his death.

But an hour before he died, Jiang Xu was still laughing and talking as though everything was fine. When he encountered students greeting him while walking around on campus, he even responded amiably to them.

He had only suggested he wanted to take a walk by himself as he was afraid Zhang Chentong would get implicated.

Remaining so calm even though he knew that he was about to die was probably the greatest composure one could have.

On this day, the entirety of Luoyang City was grieving. In this era, Jiang Xu was the only one who could affect so many people.

It was not only within Luoyang City but also beyond it.

Due to the war in the North, a lot of people had fled to the Zhou Consortium in the South. When they found out Jiang Xu had died, they even made their way to Luoyang City to place a bouquet of flowers for him.

However, the people's opinion of Jiang Xu's death was definitely not just mourning. They were extremely angry too.

On the streets not far from where Jiang Xu had died, people raised banners to condemn the Wang Consortium. Some people even got Wang Shengzhi's portrait and started burning it.

Everything they did was because they could not accept Jiang Xu's sudden departure.

This era was an unfortunate one. That was because The Cataclysm had never truly finished and people had been displaced from their homes. Morality had started crumbling, and laws were no longer effective.

However, this era also had its bright spots. It was precisely because of all these difficulties that light was born out of a dark fissure.

Outside Luoyang City, Luo Lan and Zhou Qi arrived with a floral wreath in their hands. Luo Lan went to the gate and handed over his visa the Qing Consortium had prepared for him.

When the Luoyang City garrison troops stationed at the gate saw Luo Lan's identification, they were surprised. Luo Lan? That Luo Lan from the Qing Consortium?

Everyone was under the impression the Wang Consortium was the one who killed Jiang Xu, so everyone felt they had gone insane.

As an organization the Wang Consortium had constantly targeted, for Luo Lan to suddenly come here to Luoyang City, was he really not afraid of death?!

It was only a three-hour drive from the Wang Consortium's nearest stronghold to Luoyang City, so if the Wang Consortium troops were to rush here, not evenLuo Lan would have enough lives to get out of this.

The soldiers guarding the gate had a look at the floral wreath that Luo Lan was holding and saw a simple condolence message written on it:

On this day, he rode off on a whale.