Rebirth: Living in Wilderness with My Superpower
Chapter 796: The Dowager Empress Has Always Been Here

Chapter 796: Chapter 796: The Dowager Empress Has Always Been Here

Bai Junjun was somewhat puzzled. Wood did undergo pain when it was chopped, polished, and baked, but the table had been around for decades, and any burning sensation should have long since faded.

She crouched down and lifted the suspicious table leg, only to see a pitch-black area beneath, the source of the burnt sensation emanating from this scorched section.

Bai Junjun studied it carefully, feeling that the blackened area seemed to have been soaked in some kind of liquid, and there were even traces of darkened blood at the edges.

The bloodstains almost merged with the black area, indistinguishable unless closely examined.

This black area was at the point of contact with the ground and would remain unseen unless the table leg was lifted.

Of course, even if it were lifted, it might be thought to be just dirt from the floor.

However...

How could the table leg be so dirty in such a clean and bright place?

Bai Junjun thoughtfully lifted the four table legs to check them.

Indeed, the other table legs were normal, only this one was black.

She used Vermilion Demon to scrape some of the black wood shavings and slowly discerned. After several turns of her Special Ability, she extracted some highly corrosive elements from it.

These... seemed similar to the pus inside a Mosquito-eating Plant. And in the world, the only thing that seemed capable of this effect was Corpse-Dissolving Liquid?

The presence of Corpse-Dissolving Liquid here implied unmistakably what had been dissolved.

She stood up gravely and called Yuwen Luan Fei and the Imperial Guard Commander back.

Before the time it takes for an incense stick to burn had passed, Bai Junjun started calling them in.

The Imperial Guard Commander could not help but mutter, having already said that no traces had been left in this room. However, this girl insisted on showing off by finding evidence, and he presumed she had probably found nothing and now would see how she would salvage the situation.

The Imperial Guard Commander thought pettily, but before he could even start questioning, Bai Junjun pointed to the table leg and said, "There are traces of Corpse-Dissolving Liquid here, I fear the Empress Dowager never left and is right here."

"What?"

Yuwen Luan Fei inhaled sharply and even Wenren Pingting took a step back.

The Imperial Guard Commander hurriedly lifted the table leg and indeed, the leg Bai Junjun referred to was black.

But isn’t it normal for a table leg to be like this? How could it be related to Corpse-Dissolving Liquid?

The Imperial Guard Commander didn’t ask further and silently lifted the other table legs; upon comparison, he indeed noticed the difference.

The face of the Imperial Guard Commander colorfully changed.

He had claimed that they had thoroughly checked here multiple times, yet such an important clue had not been discovered. Compared to this girl, he felt he truly disgraced his own attire.

As the Imperial Guard Commander was immersed in his self-reproach, Bai Junjun instructed,

"Get the coroner here; you should be able to extract the components of the Corpse-Dissolving Liquid from this table leg, and the brown at the edge should also be bloodstains."

By then, Yuwen Luan Fei and his wife, Wenren Pingting, had already turned to stone.

They had thought the Empress Dowager might only have been kidnapped, but now... was the Empress Dowager murdered?

And the murder place was in this room?

Moreover, had the murderer cruelly used Corpse-Dissolving Liquid to dissolve the Empress Dowager’s body completely, leaving no trace?

What the Royal Family most cherished was having a proper burial after death, and now that the Empress Dowager was gone without a trace, wasn’t that tantamount to saying... her bones were nowhere to be found?

Yuwen Luan Fei’s legs went weak and he was about to faint, but Wenren Pingting quickly caught him.

If previously half of Yuwen Luan Fei’s heart ailment was feigned and half was real, now it was truly real.

The inexplicable murder of the Empress Dowager and the absence of her remains was the biggest scandal for the Royal Family.