When he first saw the words in Blackwater Pool, Zu An had been pretty upset due to the feeling of betrayal. Furthermore, when he later discovered that Jiang Zhong had been bribed by someone, he had instinctively associated these two things together and thought that the turtle spirit was in cahoots with King Yan.

However, now that Yun Jianyue had told him that King Yan wasn’t Golden Token Seven’s killer, the turtle spirit working with King Yan was a much more unlikely scenario. Zu An hadn’t been particularly prepared the first time he found it. Furthermore, if not for his incredible perception, no one would even have noticed its existence at the bottom of the lake. That meant the chance of it being deliberately planted to mislead him was extremely low. As such, the answers it had given to keep its life before could be real. After all, there was no reason for it to hide any information.

In that case, then, a woman really had thrown Golden Token Seven’s corpse into the pool, just as the turtle spirit said. However, why would that woman say something so strange? As she was discarding a corpse, why would she hope that someone would find it sooner? Also, just who was that woman?

Zu An suddenly thought of something. Could...