The remaining two investigators arrived on the fifth day, as scheduled. They were nothing like Inspector Luo.
Where Luo Zhiyan was a scalpel, Investigators Han and Pei were hammers. Han was a broad shouldered man with a voice that carried through walls and a reputation for making corrupt officials weep during depositions. Pei was a thin, quiet woman who smiled constantly and had once dismantled an entire provincial government's embezzlement network in eleven days.
Together, the three of them turned the sect inside out.
The interviews began at dawn and ran until dark. Every elder connected to the tournament committee was called. Every disciple who had witnessed the Wen Hao incident was deposed. The dispensary staff were questioned individually, in separate rooms, with their statements cross referenced in real time by Investigator Pei, who had an almost supernatural ability to detect inconsistencies between accounts.
