Kamar-Taj still displayed all four seasons at once. Inside the courtyard walls and the icy world outside were practically two different realms. After meeting up with Hamill at the mountain gate, the three of them entered a side chamber together.
Though it looked like a classical Chinese building with carved beams and painted rafters from the outside, once the door was pushed open, the room within was a highly modern morgue.
"Holloway, sorry to trouble you." After greeting his old friend, who had just been teleported over, Su Ming tossed the corpse onto the autopsy table. "Help me determine this person's cause of death. Was it really natural causes?"
Strangle could naturally perform an autopsy as well, but a corpse from the Alternate Dimension? Better not eat it. Who knew how filthy it might be? Because of the price of casting spells, Mages often had extraordinarily complicated conditions inside their bodies.
A curse from one demon god, a mark from another, psychic parasites from other dimensions, super Cancer Cells caused by prolonged exposure to magical power, and so on.
Eating that would probably give it a stomachache, right?
Holloway's mustache twitched. He tied on his surgical gown with a somewhat speechless expression. "I'm a cardiovascular surgeon, not a forensic pathologist. Do you remember that?"
"I do, but I also remember when we investigated the Phantom Bullet case. Didn't you do a great job then too?"
While humoring his old friend, Su Ming nodded to Hamill, signaling for him to fetch some pastries and tea. Otherwise, while Holloway dissected the corpse, he and Xu Xian would be bored just standing around watching.
It had been a while since they had met. After faking his death, Holloway had been living the good life on that island in Hawaii. He was a little