In the latest scene, in the group that had died, there was a man with a hulking build. Li Du thought his face was familiar, like he had recently met the man. It was then that he realized: this man was the King of Hpakant.
Instantly, he thought of Old Thaw's words. "Everyone who looked for jade here ended up dead. The sixteenth son of the King of Old Hpakant died here, rather gruesomely, too. His entire body was littered with green and blue bruises—"
There was no way he could doubt this. The stove set was undeniably linked to the deaths of these people!
However, here was the issue. First, how did the people die? Did someone poison the soup in the basin? That did not make sense, though. Those people had been on the mountain to mine for jade, and there was no reason for them to have been unprepared or unguarded.