I had no choice but to compromise and halt the internal investigation. This only made it clearer that there was a serious problem within Mantis. I asked my eldest son to search for his brother alone, and he discovered that he might have been taken to the Imperial Capital. I have no influence here, and it's impossible for me to search there openly. So, I thought for a long time before I came up with this solution.
After hearing the whole story, the room fell into silence. The man did not urge them, but just waited silently for the two's decision without saying a word.
After a long while, Jiang Luoning spoke first. He felt something was amiss and wanted to ask for more details. "How did you get the threatening letter?"
Hearing Jiang Luoning's doubts, the man answered truthfully, without any hesitation or uneasiness he had when he wanted to cover up the truth.
"An old friend gave it to me! That's why I find it so terrifying! It's as if this person is constantly watching my every move, like he's right next to me!"
"Does your organization have any grudges against people in the imperial capital?" Ah Xing asked
The man thought for a moment and answered honestly, "That's hard for me to say! As I just said, we're paid for the job, and we can't really investigate the buyer's intentions. Who knows if they'll touch anyone in the capital?"
Jiang Luoning thought again of the old friend he had mentioned more than once, and doubts began to arise in his heart.
"You just said that the letter was given to you by your friend?"
The man didn't notice the girl's confusion and nodded in acknowledgment, "Well, he said that someone suddenly handed the letter to his bodyguard at his door one day. He opened it and took a look, but when he went out to look for the person, the person was gone. His surveillance camera had also been tampered with. I asked someone to hack into the surrounding surveillance cameras, but found nothing!"
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