Shepherd's Secret Covenant
Chapter 733

What Counts as an Interrogation?

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After the earlier incident, Honey Badger had keenly sensed that something was wrong.

Although she had no idea what exactly had happened... at least when it came to "killing people," Honey Badger was an expert. With such a major incident occurring in full public view, the next steps would definitely be to seal off the scene and question the guests.

Trying to escape at a time like this would mean that, even if she hadn't done it herself, she definitely wouldn't be able to escape suspicion.

And based on her understanding of the authorities, if they failed to find any trace of her after searching for her, they might pin all sorts of unsolved cases from the past on her.

In any case, they can't catch her. Compared to "we still have no clue who the murderer is," "we've identified the murderer but haven't caught her yet" is definitely easier for people to sympathize with.

So far, Hawkeye's assassins had taken the blame for many similar cases... For example, whenever they successfully assassinated a politician, a few more people would inexplicably die. Naturally, they couldn't come out and defend themselves by saying, "Oh, wait, I only killed these people. Those people weren't killed by me." They could only obediently take the blame and settle the accounts.

After all, what the Hawkeye Organization wanted most was "deterrence."

Their original motivation had been to become "the judges of the Children of the Moon and their followers," stopping ordinary people from willingly embarking on this path or attempting to cooperate with the Children of the Moon.

Being used for publicity instead of having their target killed and the news suppressed as usual was actually a good thing for them... It could be considered a win-win arrangement, a kind of "silent cooperation."

However, although

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