Seeing that I had returned safe and sound—and had even brought these three back with me—Xie Yi was utterly shocked.
After hearing my account of what had happened, Xie Yi immediately understood why they had taken this attitude.
Xie Yi said, "If you knew it would come to this, why did you do it in the first place?"
Then he pulled me aside. "Are you really going to investigate?"
"If they want to play, then I'll play along. Besides, if we don't get to the bottom of this, there'll always be unrest within their ranks."
Xie Yi frowned. "But do you think you can actually find anything?"
"Probably. Don't I have Jinghong and the others helping me? Leave this matter alone for now. Hurry and tell Old Shu everything that happened here. Put the higher-ups at ease, and make sure they don't do anything rash."
Xie Yi pointed at me. "You, sometimes you're just too serious. If it were me, I wouldn't care who died or who killed them. As long as they can put someone forward to negotiate with us, that's enough."
I lowered my voice. "I don't want certain things to slip out of our control. At first, that guy had already agreed to return the leader's position to R5. That was the outcome I'd been trying to bring about all along, but something happened at this critical moment. In my opinion, the murderer should be R55. Of course, I can't make a blind judgment. Matters like this require evidence."
"Where are you going to find evidence? The scene has already been cleaned up. Besides, even if they wanted someone dead, they definitely wouldn't do it personally. What's the use of bringing these three back? I don't believe that simply questioning them face-to-face will tell you who the