Senior Shu said, “What else could it be? It’s corpse toxin, of course.”

“Corpse toxin?” I was speechless. “The toxin from a zombie?”

“Your knowledge of otherworldly items all comes from Hong Kong movies, eh?” Senior Shu said in a mocking tone. “You think that only zombie can produce corpse toxin? If it had been the extreme corpse toxin from a zombie, he would have become a zombie and bit you badly by now…”

I smiled awkwardly. “Yeah, I’m not that much of an expert!”

“This injury could be made by an otherworldly item,” Senior Shu told me as he was treating Li Mazi’s wound.

“The otherworldly item that caused the death of Mu Wan’s previous husbands?” I was startled. “Sir, do you mean that she’s been dooming her previous husbands on purpose by using some special method? Do you mean it has nothing to do with an otherworldly item?”

Senior Shu smiled disdainfully. “Well, I thought that you were dumb before, but it was an understatement, I guess. If she used some special method to kill her previous husbands, then that’s not dooming them. That would be murder. If it was a murder crime,...