One day later, on Sunday at 10 AM, Washington D.C., the underground prison of the FBI headquarters. This prison serves as a temporary detention facility of the FBI, where common criminals are not sent; only those deemed highly dangerous are held here. As the elevator doors opened, Luo An, holding a Mexican chicken roll, stepped out, nodded to the agent guarding the elevator, and then led Mona, Reesi, and Michelle into the interior of the prison. Ten minutes later, Assassin Roy, with bandages wrapped around his head, chest, and back, was brought into the interrogation room. This was a very special interrogation room, divided into two separate sections. The left side featured a chair with locks, welded to the floor for seating and restraining the prisoner. The right side had a normal long table and chairs for the use of the interrogators, and in between the two rooms was a wall with a two-way mirror, designed to prevent any contingencies and ensure the safety of the interrogating personnel. Roy, locked to the metal chair, commented dryly upon learning the rationale behind the room’s design: "The person interrogating me across that glass is more dangerous than I am; he should be the one sitting here!" Inside the interrogation room, Mona, Michelle, and Reesi took their seats, pulling out paper, pens, and computers to get ready. "Dangerous individual" Luo An sat on the interrogation table, swallowed the last bite of his food, smiled at Roy through the glass, and said: "Good morning, Mr. Roy. How are you feeling? Are your wounds still painful?" Looking at the Mexican chicken roll in Luo An’s hand, Roy swallowed his saliva. Instead of answering Luo An’s question, he asked back: "How are Vivian and Brenna?" "They’re fine, no serious injuries." Luo An smiled, finished his food in a couple bites, and without any further small talk said directly: "Roy, according to Vivian’s confession, it was you who poisoned former NSA Director Eric Baldwin, right?" Chapters fırst released on novel~fire~net Hearing that the two female Assassins were unharmed, Blue-eyed Roy breathed a sigh of relief and directly admitted to his deed: "I was the one who did it." Mona and Michelle’s eyes lit up while Reesi followed up, asking: "I hid radioactive substances in the old man’s black tea." Roy mentioned that the former NSA Director always had a habit of drinking two cups of black tea after his meals. Thus, he disguised himself and delivered several packages of high-end black tea to the Director’s wife, which actually contained a small amount of radioactive substance, lethal when consumed. Mona, Michelle, and Reesi slightly furrowed their brows upon hearing this; Roy’s method was direct and brutal, and much more straightforward than they had anticipated, lacking the high-tech and psychological games they had expected. Meanwhile, Luo An remained composed. Effective Assassins, he knew, tend to use simple methods, a return to the basics because the more plans involved, the more likely they are to encounter unexpected issues and ultimately fail. Shifting from that topic, Luo An asked: "Who was the employer that tasked you with killing the former NSA Director?" Roy spread his hands, explaining: "One of the rules of the Skull Flower assassination organization: Employer information is strictly confidential; Assassins are only responsible for executing the task and receiving the commission, without inquiring about the reasons behind it." Mona picked up on the problem in Roy’s statement, her voice becoming serious as she asked: "Are you saying that the Skull Flower assassination organization has the ability to know the employer’s information?" Reesi suddenly realized and said: "So the reason you led the raid on three customer service centers in succession was to investigate the employer’s information?" Roy shook his head, denying her assumption: "No, I was seeking revenge and trying to uncover the truth." Roy explained that shortly after completing the job to take out the former NSA Director, he received a message that his former broker, Old Weber, had been tortured to death. On the way to investigate at Old Weber’s place, Roy discovered several of his assassin friends had also died under unclear circumstances recently. Then Roy received a distress call from his friend, "Undying Kyle," who was being hunted down. Roy rushed there to rescue "Undying Kyle" and during the battle, he found out that the attackers were all assassins from "Skull Blossom." "Additionally, I remembered something else at that time." Roy’s face turned grim as he said: "During the task of the former NSA Director, I discovered the presence of other assassins and at that time I thought it was a saturation-style assassination required by the employer. Latter on, exchanging information with ’Undying Kyle’, I learned that he also encountered other assassins during a mission he carried out recently. The purpose of those extra assassins was not to kill the target, but to find evidence of ’Undying Kyle’ killing the target, such as photos, fingerprints, and other information!" Michelle’s brows furrowed tightly: "So you’re saying, the real situation behind those assassination missions was actually to kill you assassins?" Reesi looked puzzled, Mona pondered for a few seconds then suddenly raised her head with a look of astonishment towards Luo An. She remembered Luo An mentioning previously when checking the surveillance that the real targets of those assassins might not be the former NSA director. At the time, she and the NSA agent thought Luo An was talking about the NSA director’s wife, but it turned out Luo An was actually referring to these assassins! Luo An patted Mona’s shoulder and then asked: "Roy, those three call centers you took down, did you find out the truth of the matter?" Roy let out a long sigh: "Not yet, just a few steps away." In the process of taking down those call centers, Blue-eyed Roy and the others killed quite a few assassins, avenging Old Weber, their friend Undying Kyle, Red-Backed Spider Brenna, Purple Rose Vivian, and their friends. But revenge was only one of the goals for Roy and the others; they also needed to find out the true reason behind the attacks on them. For this, Roy and his people did as Luo An had previously speculated, starting from Los Angeles, to Las Vegas, then to Kansas City, creating the illusion that their next target was Chicago, leading to the actual target Philadelphia being left undefended. But unexpectedly, in Philadelphia, not only did they encounter King Bar, the Triplets, and others, but they also met Luo An’s special investigation group and SWTA team members, ultimately failing in their objective and getting caught. Roy lifted his head, his expression very complex. Luo An chose to ignore the other party’s gaze and continued asking: "What information did you find here in Philadelphia?" "A very simple piece of information." Roy’s face turned dark as he said: "The mastermind behind the whole event is a high-ranking member of the ’Skull Blossom’ assassin organization." After questioning for a moment longer, Roy was taken out of the interrogation room to wait for the next prisoner; during this time, Mona and the others began to discuss. "So, the former NSA Director’s murder case and the incidents of Roy and other assassins being killed by other assassins are actually the same case, right?" Reesi drew a few lines on the notebook she had previously used to record information and frowned, saying: "The difference is, the former NSA director was a ’decoy to be killed’ set up by the mastermind, while Roy and the other assassins were ’the intended targets’ by the mastermind." "From the information we have now, it seems to be the case." Michelle nodded, then with a puzzled face said: "But why would the ’mastermind’ want to do this?" Mona was also very confused, looking up at Luo An, who calmly took a sip of coffee and said: "No rush, there are several assassins left to slowly interrogate." Soon, "King Bar" was the second one brought into the interrogation room. Upon hearing Luo An’s question, he scoffed: "It’s simple, the high-ranking members of ’Skull Blossom’ think the conservatives are too radical, while the radicals think the conservatives are too conservative." Mona, Reesi, and Michelle all looked puzzled; it seemed like they understood what he was saying, but also did not understand at the same time.