There were no living people left at the scene, so Cheng Shi's question was naturally directed at the dead.
Bodies lay sprawled all over the laboratory. Cheng Shi swept his eyes over them, selected several that were still relatively intact, and activated the Finger Bone Brooch on them. The answers he obtained from the scholars were almost identical to what Square and Round had said.
It seemed the Elemental Judge was fairly trustworthy.
Strangely, however, the scholars on the raiding side knew nothing about the overall plan either. They had merely received orders to come and seize the Desolate Walker's body. As for where they were supposed to go afterward, the Grand Scholar had said nothing.
This sounded more like a conspiracy. It seemed that only the Grand Scholar leading the group knew the entire operation plan.
Cheng Shi asked who the leader was. Several more corpses gave the same answer: the names of two Grand Scholars he had never heard of.
The three people present instantly turned into clueless students staring blankly. The trail had gone cold again.
Cheng Shi glanced at Square and Round and tentatively asked, "How about some tools?"
Square and Round gave Cheng Shi a strange look, shook his head, and said:
"I don't have any tools for tracing traces, and I'm not good at manipulating memories.
If you really need that sort of thing, you could go ask Chen Yi."
"..."
If you didn't want to give me anything, fine, but why throw shade at me?
What decent Deception would go poke that hornet's nest?
Seeing Cheng Shi fall silent, Square and Round paced a few steps before carefully analyzing the situation:
"Since we can't find any clues here, perhaps we should think back to why the Grand Scholars set up a fake-death trap