Dr. Deng nodded. He thought so too. "So we'd better search the body piles now. The Potion might be hidden here."
"You said Professor Wu also liked painting. Has anyone analyzed his paintings?"
In Xu Huo's eyes, Professor Wu's paintings had a very unusual perspective. Most were painted from a low vantage point, looking out the window. There had to be some special meaning behind it.
"Psychology experts analyzed them. They think he may have had a child, but the child died young," Dr. Deng said.
Xu Huo nodded. That made sense, but the style of the paintings was far too dark. Everything, inside and outside the window, was utterly despairing. That was definitely not how a normal father would feel while remembering his child. Professor Wu must have put himself in the child's place, observing the world from the child's perspective.
He wondered how much that had to do with where Professor Wu had hidden the S-version Evolution Potion.
Whatever the case, they first had to confirm whether there was a Potion among the bodies.
Chu Yuan and Gan Qing returned, bringing the badly injured Wu Xiaonan with them, as well as Qiu Xiangdong, who had disappeared without a trace long ago.
Wu Xiaonan's face was deathly pale, and there were large bloodstains across her chest and back. Judging by the tears in her clothes, the wound had gone straight through her. She shouldn't have survived.
"Qiu Xiangdong helped me," Wu Xiaonan said, struggling to speak. "Miao Yu and the Kong siblings are working together. After you left, she suddenly turned on me and wounded me. She was the one who stabbed me, too. If Qiu Xiangdong hadn't used an item to fake my death, I'd be dead for sure!"
Qiu Xiangdong, dressed in a tropical shirt and shorts,