Faced with the two suggestions from old Bayek, who had "risen from his coffin," Murphy felt they were exactly to his liking!
Just look at that!
Now that was what you called growing wiser with age!
Whenever something happened, everyone else came running to Murphy for help, making him use his "astonishing wisdom" to clean up their messes. But old Bayek had not only come up with a solution, he had even thoughtfully prepared an action plan for Murphy.
Based on Bayek's brief description just now, Murphy could more or less guess that the person who had tried to assassinate him was that "old friend" in the Twilight.
After all, across the entire continent, the only people capable of secretly assassinating the high priest of the Church of the Dead Moon at its headquarters were Sarif Shadowblade, who wielded the Black Fang, and perhaps a master assassin of Xani's caliber.
But even Bayek himself didn't care about the assassination attempt, so Murphy naturally wasn't going to get hung up on the details. To the high priest, it seemed that dying once was nothing more than a light drizzle.
Come to think of it, if you practiced death psionics, could you really face your fellow practitioners without having died a few times?
Murphy asked outright:
"So, you already have a pretty good idea who's pulling the strings behind the scenes in the underworld, right?"
"Who else could it be?"
Bayek gave a rueful laugh and said:
"Throughout the history of the Sanguine Empire, very few people have dared to publicly question the Creator's authority and disrupt the empire's order. And there's only one person with such close ties to the underworld: my brother, the King of Wraiths, Mamluk. He thought he'd seen the truth, so he risked everything—and nearly dragged the