The Police Bureau was somewhat helpless in the face of Sophia's answer. They were not priests and had no authority over matters of the mysterious side.
Still, they tried to identify the murderer. "Do you think this could have been done by religious believers?"
"Could a human being do something like this?" Sophia scoffed at the question. "God woke him up, yet he showed no reverence for God. What God gave him could naturally be taken back... I knew this day would come. It was a pity he refused to listen."
There was not much the Police Bureau could say to such a fanatic, so they asked one final question. "Do you think what God did was right?"
"Whether it was right or wrong is all written in the scriptures," Sophia replied irritably. "In fact, that fool even tried to buy divine grace with fifty thousand, but the Emperor would never accept an offering from a blasphemer!"
Jack had intended to donate fifty thousand to the Daoist temple, because he really had been awakened. Moreover, he could not prove that his awakening had nothing to do with the temple, and he acknowledged that much—if he refused to acknowledge it, it would be troublesome if he incurred the temple's punishment.
However, he did not want to fulfill his vow alone. Or rather, he felt somewhat uncertain, so he wanted Sophia to go with him—even if they were divorced, they could still be friends.
Sophia told him that if he did not believe, he did not have to go. He had priced such divine grace at only fifty thousand? She truly had not expected him to be so cheap!
In any case, she was still upset. It was not until the end that she said she would accompany him in a few