"Senior Brother Li?"
Liang Yue watched Li Mo approach from afar, somewhat surprised.
Wasn't this man from the Evil Extermination Bureau? Why had he come here and become so close with Madam Zhang?
"Oh, Junior Brother Liang." Li Mo smiled upon seeing Liang Yue. "Why are you here too?"
"I came with the team to investigate a case," Liang Yue answered.
"Oh, right, my brother-in-law passed away." Li Mo looked at the wreckage left by the explosion and asked, "What happened just now?"
"A Zhengyang Thunder exploded," Liang Yue said. "Fortunately, there were no casualties."
Li Mo's nose suddenly twitched. Catching the scent in the air, he frowned. "There's the smell of a Yin Qi Talisman?"
Liang Yue recalled that wisp of sinister wind that had set off alarm bells in him just now. "A Yin Qi Talisman?"
"It's a very simple little talisman. If a Zhengyang Thunder exploded just now, then that explains it." Li Mo was a professional when it came to talismans and immediately explained, "Zhengyang Thunder is formed from gathered yang fire. Fire won't detonate it—instead, yin qi is used to trigger it, throwing its yang fire off balance and causing it to leak out, detonating it in an instant."
With that explanation, Liang Yue finally understood how the Zhengyang Thunder inside the carriage had been detonated.
It must have been that Yin Qi Talisman.
The Yin Qi Talisman had been affixed to the Zhengyang Thunder beforehand, then activated to release yin qi once the target approached. If so, the target should not have been too far from the blast site.
He looked around and saw Madam Zhang walking over.
The moment Li Mo saw her, he put on a grief-stricken expression and wailed, "My dear sister, you must restrain your grief."
"Alas." Madam Zhang shook