The investigator, his shoulders laden with candles, returned to the interrogation room where Han Dong was being held.
When he resumed speaking, his tone had softened considerably.
"Based on your and your companion's statements, combined with the clues we've collected so far, we've temporarily eliminated you from our list of suspects.
To apologize, we will arrange a month of free lodging for you at another hotel.
Here are the room keys registered in your names."
Han Dong accepted the two metal-textured room keys with a smile on his face.
In his world, the police would never handle arrests so frivolously, and Han Dong could roughly deduce the intentions of this group of people.
"Indeed... Although there's a series of indirect evidence that heavily links us to the murder case,
these investigators must have been certain from the start that it wasn't us who killed the boss... They brought us over just to inquire about some other intelligence.
'Spiral Arm' intelligence, perhaps?
