May wasn't the only one shocked by this information. Kai also immediately paled when he understood the implications of this discovery. Could it really just be a coincidence? The chances were extremely slim.

  “Do you want to say something about this?” May asked, curious about his response, as she got up from the wall. “Did you know about this?”

  “I... I really didn't know!” he exclaimed desperately. “I know how it looks, but this is the first time I've heard about this black mold. I really had no idea.”

  He was clearly upset by the whole situation. However, it was impossible to tell why. Was it fear of justice and being caught, or the fear of being falsely accused?

  “What were you doing when the girl fell from the roof?” she asked. According to his earlier testimony, he claimed to have been downstairs. But this time she wanted to know for sure.

  “I... I think I was trying to fix the wardrobe...” he said. “It had been broken for a long time, and my wife finally got extremely angry. I was in the living room at the time, and my wife was in the kitchen preparing dinner.”

  May sighed. She was still missing something.

  “So no one was watching the child at the time? Did the girl have contact with anyone other than you?” May asked.

  A child would not normally try to scrape mold off the wall on their own; someone must have told her to do it.

  “No... We live alone, unfortunately my wife and I never had children, despite many years of trying...” he said, still fearful. “We live alone, well, also with my mother-in-law... But when it happened, I mean when Yang's daughter fell and died, she had already been in a coma for a long time.”

  In that case, his mother-in-law is out of the picture, but there is still his wife. I should talk to her too.

  “Did your wife help you in taking care of the child? Can I talk to her?” May asked.

  She had seen his wife briefly when she first arrived at the place; she was the one who had opened the door for them.

  “She... Well, I was mainly the one who took care of the child, but my wife Shi also took care of her from time to time,” he explained. “Shi should be downstairs. I’ll bring her up right away.”

  May stopped the man.

  “There's no need. I've seen everything I needed to see here. We'll go downstairs with you to see your wife.”

  The man didn't respond and did as she told him. So the whole group returned to the dwelling. This time, however, the woman sat with them instead of eavesdropping on their conversation from the hallway. She seemed even more terrified than her husband. Now that May thought about it, this woman was certainly extremely suspicious.

  “So, Ms. Shi... Tell me what happened on the day the Yang family's daughter fell from your roof,” May asked.

  She intended to compare both versions of events and look for inconsistencies. She had seen a similar strategy used in documentaries before.

  May looked at the woman again. She was averting her gaze and shifting her feet nervously. Most people wouldn't notice such things, but as May watched her, she could see very clearly how she kept licking her lips and playing with objects in her hands.

  Finally, the woman swallowed loudly and began to speak. It took her a while.

  “Great Cultivator, I don't know anything... I didn't see or hear anything...” she said, nervously tucking her hair behind her ears.

  Really? After all that time thinking, that's all she had to say? She can't possibly think that answer will satisfy anyone?

  “What do you mean?” May replied questioningly. She didn't particularly feel like playing cat and mouse and wanted her to get to the point. “Weren't you at home at the time?”

  The woman fell silent for a moment, as was her habit. May, however, had unearthly patience. Certainly more than Ze Yun, who, already clearly irritated, was grinding his teeth loudly. Fortunately, the woman finally spoke.

  “Yes... I was out shopping for ingredients when the girl fell, I wasn't home. So... As I said, I don't know anything.” She finally replied. The long pauses in her words did not help her credibility.

  She did say that she wasn't home when the Yang's daughter fell, right? But didn't her husband say earlier that she was making dinner when the child fell? Given the circumstances, it's impossible that she could have been mistaken or forgotten where she was at the time. She would surely remember if she was home when the child fell and died.

  “Can anyone confirm that you weren't at home at the time?” May finally asked.

  “Of course!” The woman replied immediately this time. “Just ask my husband.”

  She said, looking at Kai. He also seemed taken aback, but quickly regained his composure, and the surprise disappeared from his face in a split second. However, it was too late, May had already seen his expression.

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  “Yes. She was at the market at the time...” he replied almost immediately.

  But May knew that wasn't true. He had said something else earlier. He claimed that the woman had asked him to fix something in the living room while she was in the kitchen. He was probably covering for his wife.

  But why would she lie about something so simple? She must be hiding something!

  “And except for your husband? For example, could someone from the market vouch for you?” May asked, causing the woman to turn pale.

  “But... Why? Are my husband's words not enough?” She swallowed hard. “I don't remember who I saw... There was so much going on... It was so chaotic.”

  May didn't buy her story. However, she had some evidence she had taken from the roof. She had found a brush there with black mold marks on it! She grabbed it with a handkerchief so as not to leave any fingerprints on it and took it downstairs with her. She decided to use this evidence and confront the couple directly!

  “Do you know what this is?” May asked, showing them the brush. The man shook his head in surprise, and the woman hesitantly gulped.

  “Is it... a brush?” the man asked uncertainly.

  “Of course it's a brush. That's not what I'm asking. Does it belong to you?” May asked, looking at the man. He didn't answer immediately.

  “I'm not sure... It looks pretty ordinary, it could belong to us, but many people have similar ones...” he replied uncertainly.

  May looked at the woman this time. Now she was her main target and suspect.

  “And you? What do you think?”

  “Umm... It's not our brush,” she replied. May snorted in her head.

  “How can you be so sure?”

  “I just know. I buy everything for this house and do everything here. I clean this house every day, so I know what we have and what we don't have,” she replied angrily. May thought she had some hidden resentment toward her husband. It sounded as if she didn't like the distribution of roles in the house. Could that be a potential motive?

  After a moment, however, she dismissed the thought. If that were the case, she would have attacked her husband, not a stranger's child.

  In the current situation, the easiest thing to do would be to check the fingerprints on the brush and compare them. If the woman's fingerprints were on the brush, it would be possible to conclude that she was lying about it. Unfortunately, she didn't have the right forensic tools. Without the right powders, chemicals such as ninhydrin, and UV lamps, there wasn't much she could do.

  If she had used the system, it might have been possible, but now she had many eyes on her. She sighed. She began to wonder if there was any way she could prove that the woman was the owner of the brush other than through fingerprints.

  Witnesses? No... Only her husband could confirm it, but he would take his wife's side and cover for her... Hmm, it's not that easy... But if...

  Suddenly, they heard a knock on the door, which snapped her out of her thoughts. Who could be possibly arriving at such a late hour? May already had her suspicions.

  “Go open the door,” she said to the woman. She quickly got up and ran to open the door. An uneasy silence ensued.

  As she expected, it was the victim's father. Mr. Yang, who had lost his daughter and whose wife was in a coma, accused the owner of the house of poisoning her. May knew that if anyone was going to come here, it would be him.

  “What are you doing here?! Get out!” He got up from Kai's chair and shouted at him. “Because of you, all my neighbors think I killed your daughter and poisoned your wife! What right do you have to come to my house!”

  Kai snorted, and the woman stood quietly beside him. May thought this was interesting. She did not share her husband's anger. In addition, the presence of the man who accused her husband of murder seemed to calm her down. May had a hypothesis in her head.

  “You are in the presence of a cultivator from the sect, so I advise you to behave yourself.” He replied calmly, now clearly sober. “I came because, after all, this matter also concerns me, and in fact, it concerns me the most!”

  May found his sudden arrival interesting. However, she had no intention of chasing him away. On the contrary, she was glad that he had shown up.

  After all, she had a time limit. If she didn't solve this case today, it would mean that she would never bring it to a conclusion. It was a test from Ze Yun, and she wanted to pass it as best she could.

  “Oh, please forgive my lack of manners, great cultivators,” Kai said, bowing in fear of offending the cultivators. Normally, this could have ended badly for him.

  However, May had no intention of killing anyone for their lack of manners. Instead, she was curious about the reason Yang had come here. Subconsciously, she felt that he had some more interesting reason.

  So she addressed him directly.

  “Did you come here to cause trouble, or do you have a reason for coming here?” May asked inquisitively. She didn't trust him one bit.

  “Good cultivator... I have new evidence in the case!” he shouted with confidence. “It is irrefutable and will show you that this man is behind the tragedy that took place!” He pointed his finger at Kai.

  Kai, of course, did not sit idly by and immediately became indignant. He was about to shout, but he remembered that he was standing in front of cultivators, so despite his anger, he calmed his nerves and asked with feigned calm.

  “Don't be ridiculous. You have no evidence! If you had any, you would have shown it long ago! So far, you've only been making baseless accusations, inciting everyone around you against me.”

  May also found this suspicious. He had just suddenly found some evidence in the case? It wasn't impossible, but it was highly unlikely, especially considering how much time had passed since the tragedy. However, she didn't comment on it in any way. She wanted the man to think she was just a stupid child who would believe any piece of evidence.

  By the way, it's a little funny that everyone is discussing such serious matters with a child... But well, Ze Yun doesn't interfere—he just watches and observes, so everyone focused on me. What an absurd situation.

  Well, through cultivation, she was much stronger than an ordinary person, which is why she didn't look like she was eight years old. In fact, an ordinary person might think she was a dozen years older. After all, what child has such big muscles? On Earth, she would have to spend all her time at the gym.

  “Oh,” she said, pretending to be surprised by the situation. It didn't work very well. “So what proof do you have?”

  The man reached into his bag and took out a small metal box covered with drawings of flowers.

  “I found this among my daughter's things... It belonged to that man! It's a pastry box... That has been poisoned!” he said, opening the lid. An unpleasant smell rose from the box.

  “What is my husband's box doing here?!” his wife suddenly shouted.

  Kai looked at his wife in surprise.

  “What are you talking about?! This is the first time I've ever seen a box like this!”

  Oh. This is getting interesting.