Chapter 799:
Rylie answered with a faint smile of her own. “It certainly gives that impression, quite a rare piece.”
“It’s just a simple piece; the yarn itself is inexpensive, but the craftsmanship is what makes it special.”
Kailee signaled for the maid to take the blanket, then guided Rylie into the bedroom. “My grandmother has been bedridden for years. She’s paralyzed on one side and unable to speak. I was hoping you could tell me if there’s any chance of recovery.”
Rylie had brought her own kit and examination tools, though Kailee’s home already included a well-equipped medical room, with her grandmother’s health reports neatly filed.
Rylie began with a basic examination of the elderly woman, who could move nothing but her eyes, before turning her attention to the most recent medical reports.
Sensing something unusual, she compared two of the records, then looked directly at Kailee. “Miss Shaw, are you questioning my medical abilities?”
Kailee put on a look of mild surprise, masking her intent. “If I doubted your skills, I would never have asked you to treat my grandmother.”
Rylie held out one of the reports. “Yet the data here has been tampered with. The only conclusion I can reach is that your grandmother shows clear signs of poisoning.”
Kailee gasped. “Poisoning? How could that be possible?”
When the subject of poisoning was mentioned, Rylie caught a subtle inconsistency—Kailee’s face carried the look of alarm, yet her eyes showed not the slightest trace of surprise. The discord between her expression and her gaze gave her reaction an artificial quality.
To Rylie, the insincerity was unmistakable, though she made no effort to call it out.
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She proceeded calmly. “The toxins have been building in her system for many years. Judging by the extent of muscle deterioration, she has likely been confined to this bed for more than a decade.”
Kailee, convinced of Rylie’s precision, found the words irrefutable. Her grandmother had indeed been paralyzed for that span of time.
Her tone softened to a murmur. “That’s true, but none of us understands how she could have been poisoned. We’ve sought help from experts everywhere, and no one could provide an explanation.”
Her eyes glistened as she leaned closer, brushing her hand against her grandmother’s cheek. “I always wished she could rise again, the way she did when I was a child, go into the kitchen, and bake cookies for me. They were the most delicious cookies I’ve ever had.”
At that moment, the old woman’s hand gave a faint tremor, one finger straining to move. Rylie’s eyes followed the effort as the finger tapped lightly against the bedsheet, as though she were desperately trying to convey a message.
As a hacker, Rylie had an instinct for decoding and immediately recognized the pattern as Morse code.
Without revealing her discovery, she quietly logged the intervals and sequences of the old woman’s movements, all the while maintaining the appearance of indulging Kailee’s emotions.
Kailee’s performance. In truth, her suspicions had been stirred long before this moment. From the instant her gaze landed on the so-called yarn blanket, which was in fact crafted from tiger skin, she understood that the Shaw family’s home concealed far deeper secrets than they pretended to show.
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