As if afraid their presence would disturb even their own child's sleep.
Very soon, the child who had been asleep opened his eyes and very naturally pulled out a nut that seemed to be one of his favorites from his pocket.
He stuffed it into his throat.
Just then, the ship was struck by a wave and began to pitch violently.
The nut slid directly into the little boy's esophagus.
As the ship lurched, the little boy began coughing violently and pounding his chest and throat.
He tried to save himself, but the pitching only grew more violent. In the end, he suffocated to death.
By the time he saw the end, Chu Yang shook his head speechlessly.
"Life really is fragile. A life just vanished for no reason."
"That fat man was really unlucky too."
Yet as soon as that thought arose, Chu Yang suddenly frowned.
"There can't possibly be so many coincidences in this world, can there? Could there be something at the scene that I never noticed, or perhaps deliberately overlooked?"
He immediately activated the Pure White Eye and scanned everything at the scene.
The Pure White Eye's high status could often unravel many mysteries at a scene.
Not long afterward, he suddenly discovered an extremely faint lingering aura at the fingertips of the dead little boy's right hand.
When he had extracted all the auras at the scene earlier, he had not even caught that trace.
"This aura looks quite simple, and it's extremely weak, but why did I overlook it?"
"Even after using the Knowledge Keeper's ability, I failed to extract it. That's truly absurd."
Chu Yang immediately used the Pure White Eye to carefully analyze that lingering aura.
He did not hesitate to activate the scene reconstruction ability once more.
"If there really is