After Welt said that, Stelle could hardly keep peppering him with questions.
She could only say reluctantly:
"Damn it, if I'd known the Ebon Deer could be tamed..."
Why had a perfectly good Ebon Deer gone and run away?
If it had just stayed put and let her beat it up a few more times, could she be riding around on it in style right now?
Qingque ignored that remark and changed the subject instead, asking:
"What brings you to the Exalting Sanctum?"
"We've already sorted things out at the Artisanship Commission. Your Lady Fu Xuan still hasn't finished on her end, so she told us to wait." Stelle shrugged. "I had nothing to do, and just happened to get a commission from the Earth-Balance Commission. They're investigating what caused the Stellaron Disaster. When the Ambrosial Arbor revived this time, they finally confirmed that the Stellaron was in the delve where the tree is, so they started looking into who planted it. But all the surveillance equipment nearby was destroyed on the day of the incident. They checked footage from other cameras to narrow down the investigation and found a few suspects."
Stelle rattled all that off in one go, then took a sharp breath and quickly added:
"Then Uncle Yang spotted something off about a traveling merchant at a glance."
At that, Welt said thoughtfully:
"He simply looked familiar. I'm not certain whether he's the person I know."
Even so, how dangerous did someone have to be for him to suspect them based on their face alone? Did that face just scream trouble?
Qingque inwardly marveled.
March 7th stepped forward and patted her chest.
"With Uncle Yang unsure, it was time for March 7th, master detective, to take the stage! That interstellar merchant is called Luocha. He knows a