“My dad really did faint!” Chen Wei argued.

"I don't care if you're really dizzy or not, you'd better find out about this immediately, or you'll be in deep trouble." After saying this, Lord Wang took out a mirror and reported directly to his superior.

Zuan watched coldly from the sidelines and discovered that the mirror was just like a video call in his previous life. It seems that this world of cultivation is indeed magical. Even without following the path of technology, one can still achieve a similar effect through cultivation.

Lord Wang kept bowing and scraping to the figure on the other side of the mirror. After the conversation, he put the mirror away and immediately turned menacing: "Go door to door and interrogate them. Find out who carved these words. If you can't find out, you will all die!"

Upon hearing his words, the villagers who had been watching the drama erupted in uproar. They had been enjoying the spectacle, but now the knife was falling on their own heads!

"It wasn't us. We were busy putting out the fire."

"That's right, I don't even know a single character, how would I know how to carve any words?"

"I'm innocent! Everyone knows I'm blind!"

...

A group of people began to cry out that they were innocent.

Qiao Xueying tugged at Zu An's hand: "Did you see who carved the words just now? I was busy with disaster relief here and didn't notice over there."

Zuan shook his head, his mood quite heavy.

"By the way, I think I just saw that person walk towards the meteorite." Suddenly, a villager pointed at Zu'an and shouted.

“That’s right, these two people are suspicious, they must be the ones who did it.” Others chimed in, clearly wanting to clear themselves as quickly as possible since their lives were at stake.

...

Qiao Xueying was stunned. She had just tried to help them out of kindness, but this was the response she received.

"It's only human nature, don't take it too seriously," Zu'an said softly, trying to comfort him.

Qiao Xueying gave him a strange look. This guy was clearly at odds with those villagers just now, but now he was speaking up for them. What a strange person: "Hmph, you look like you've seen through the world. How old are you?"

“Whether you can see through things or not has nothing to do with age. Some people live their whole lives as a fool.” Zuan replied while keeping an eye on the soldiers’ movements, ready to break out at any time.

Upon hearing the villagers' identification, Lord Wang suddenly turned around and looked at the two men. His soldiers also quietly scattered around to prevent him from escaping.

Just as Zu'an was preparing to strike first, a hint of doubt flashed in Lord Wang's eyes, and then he laughed loudly, "So it's the Imperial Censor! We've been looking for you these past few days, and we never expected you to come here."

"The Imperial Censor?" Zu An was completely bewildered. His first reaction was that the other party was making things up to mislead him, but he quickly realized that this was impossible and that the other party had no reason to tell such a lie.

His previous experience playing games and reading novels in the world made him immediately realize that this must be the identity assigned to them by this mission, in order to more reasonably integrate them into the plot.

Lord Wang glared at the villagers who had been shouting earlier and said, "What nonsense are you spouting? This is the Imperial Censor. How could he possibly carve such treasonous words? Don't rush to exonerate him and start making baseless accusations."

As he spoke, he approached Zu An and said, “Your Excellency, the court has ordered us to find the real culprit within a day, or we will be dismissed and executed. You are the highest-ranking official here, so we will all listen to you.”

Zuan knew he was trying to shift the blame, but he also knew that this was probably the key to breaking the Heavenly Seal, so he didn't refuse: "Okay, I'll take charge. You interrogate each household in the village individually to prevent them from colluding."

"Yes!" Lord Wang hurriedly waved his hand, ordering his soldiers to separate the villagers for guarding and interrogation.

After doing all this, he came to Zu'an's side with a fawning expression, only to be impatiently dismissed by him: "There are so many things to do here, and we're clearly short-handed. What are you doing here? Go and interrogate them yourself."

"Yes, yes, yes~" Lord Wang nodded and bowed, but in his heart he thought that it was fortunate that he had passed the blame this time. Now that the censor was above him, even if something happened, he would only have to take secondary responsibility, which was much better than being fully responsible at the beginning.

After he left, Qiao Xueying could no longer hold back and hurriedly asked, "When did you become an Imperial Censor?"

Zuan replied, "This identity should be assigned to us by the Heavenly Seal. Once we find out who carved the inscription, we should be able to break the seal."

"Huh, it seems like it should be quite simple. It's not nearly as dangerous as the previous seals of man and earth." Qiao Xueying breathed a sigh of relief.

“You’re getting ahead of yourself. If they can’t find anything, according to Qin’s laws, the two of us in charge of the case will definitely be sentenced to death. That Lord Wang is just his deputy; he might only be dismissed and investigated. Otherwise, why do you think he’s so happy to see me?” Zu’an replied.

“That’s just the worst-case scenario. In my opinion, it shouldn’t be too difficult to investigate. There aren’t many people in the village, and there are plenty of skilled interrogators among the constables. They can find out the truth by interrogating them one by one,” Qiao Xueying added after thinking for a moment. “In addition, I can rule out some people. I saw quite a few people when we were putting out the fire. They probably didn’t have a chance to carve words on the meteorite.”

"If that's really the case, then this problem is actually unsolvable." Zuan sighed deeply, finally understanding why this was a seal of heaven, not only related to the stars in the sky, but also a death sentence.

"How can there be no solution?" Qiao Xueying asked, puzzled. "Also, you were clearly over there just now. How come you didn't see anyone approach the meteorite?"

“I said this problem is unsolvable precisely because I saw it, because…” Zuan paused before slowly saying, “because this line of words was already engraved on this meteorite when it fell.”

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When the word count is short, they criticize me for being too short; when the word count is long, they don't praise me at all.