Zhang Xian immediately helped the old lady up, exclaiming with exaggerated heartache, "Grandma, you saw it with your own eyes, didn't you? This house is so ominous that even the immortal tortoise wrote the word 'death' to drive people away!"
"It's urging you to sell your house and move as soon as possible!"
"I've even found you a nursing home for your retirement. Look how much your dear grandson cares for you!"
Zhang Xian then turned his attention to Fei Lin: "My cousin is absolutely preventing the sale; I think she's doing it on purpose..."
"Pfft—"
A soft laugh interrupted him.
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw Xia Zhining looking at the turtle that had retreated into its shell on the ground, a knowing smile curving her lips.
Just now, while everyone was focused on the "fairy turtle" performing its magic, only she heard the little guy's honest complaints as he crawled along:
[Ouch! That's scalding hot! Did they spill chili water on the floor?]
[Ouch—my feet are burning! Is this human crazy? Why do they have to drag me out here to be tortured!]
[This is terrible! This place is no place for a turtle to stay! We need to hide!]
With a final wail, the turtle completely retreated into its shell, leaving only a silent "shield" in place.
Xia Zhining chuckled lightly, her gaze sharp as she looked at Master Yan: "Master Yan, are you sure this is truly a divine tortoise, and not just some treacherous tortoise that you've swindled?"
"Isn't it inappropriate to scare an old lady like this?"
Master Yan's face darkened: "You little brat, stop talking nonsense!"
Zhang Xian immediately jumped in to support him, pointing at Xia Zhining and Ji Shuyun and shouting, "Where did you two come from? Spreading rumors and misleading the public here!"
"If you delay my grandmother's exorcism, can you take responsibility? Believe me, I'll call the police and have you arrested right now!"
The old woman looked at Xia Zhining with suspicion: "Young lady, what do you mean by that...?"
Feline had always cared about her, and she still wanted to hear what her granddaughter's people had to say.
“It’s very simple.” Xia Zhining walked to the area where the tortoise had crawled.
“Master Yan didn’t rely on any mystical methods at all; he tampered with the ground beforehand.”
"Using chemicals to force the turtle to follow the path it wanted!"
Xia Zhining whispered a few words to Fei Lin, and Fei Lin's assistant quickly brought over a silver testing box.
Felin's company mainly deals in biological products and often needs to test the quality of raw materials on-site. These portable rapid testing kits are standard equipment on the company's vehicles.
Ji Shuyun opened the testing box, and her well-defined fingers deftly took out the tools.
He bent down slightly and carefully wiped the area where the tortoise had crawled with a cotton swab.
When Ji Shuyun dropped the collected sample onto the pH test strip, the strip quickly turned a deep blue-purple.
"The test results show that it is highly alkaline."
He held up the test strip, his sharp, almond-shaped eyes sweeping across the room before finally settling on Master Yan's pale face. "The liquid sprayed on the ground is a highly concentrated ammonia or similar irritating liquid."
Ji Shuyun's expression remained calm and composed: "The skin on a turtle's plastron is very sensitive. Contact with such a strong irritant will cause a burning sensation."
"The reason it crawls along a specific route and eventually retreats into its shell is simply to instinctively avoid harm."
Xia Zhining then revealed the key technique: "Master Yan used this type of liquid to draw a large area beforehand, leaving only the strokes of the character 'death' clean."
"Turtles are afraid of being burned, so naturally they only dare to crawl towards places without liquid—"
"The so-called 'fairy turtle writing' is nothing but a chemical hoax!"
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