COSG - Chapter 148: Yang Qiu's New Objective

The wooden carving of a newborn baby, no bigger than a palm, lay quietly in the small wooden box.

Dark, tainted, and insidious; murderous malice emanated from the wooden carving, pervading the entire house.

Yang Qiu and Inspector Lowell sat across from each other at the coffee table, both silently observing the wooden carving sculpture in the box.

They could feel the overwhelming murderous intent seeping out from the carving and were now hearing an increasingly dense chorus of infant laughter.

The laughter, persisting for over five minutes, grew more frantic, eventually turning into hysterical screams.

Inspector Lowell sighed softly, breaking the silence. "Such delicate and tender lines, indeed the style of Lady Marion. It's truly sad… The greatest sculptor of 800 to 900 years of the new calendar didn't find peace in death."

Wilhem J. Bancroft, the former Norsk owner of the carving, a young man who lived barely past 30, might not have any special sentiment toward Lady Marion, the creator of many of his pieces. After all, she had passed away more than two hundred years before his birth.

But for Lowell… Lady Marion was a contemporary. Two hundred years ago, when Lowell was in his prime, it was the time when Lady Marion, the celebrated Norsk woodcarver, rose to fame.

When her obituary was published in the newspapers, Lowell had deeply mourned her passing, even though he had never met her before in person.

This strong sentiment was tied to Lowell's status as a member of the faith. Lady Marion had been invited by the Church of Prosperity to visit the Duchy of Shiga and had created a goddess bas-relief sculpture for the church, which was regarded as a miraculous piece.

Yang Qiu, unlike Lowell, didn't harbor such complex emotions. He nodded, then shook his head, commenting, "At least one mystery is solved. This brave lady did not die by a cowardly suicide."

Lowell nodded slowly in agreement.

One who committed suicide would have a strong tendency toward self-destruction, but the intense obsession left in this f

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