"What else could it be?" I puzzledly asked Ronan.
"Well, after Addrion was sent to Northern Myanmar, the record back home showed that Addrion was deceased! They couldn't blackmail his family anymore!" Ronan explained with a chilling tone, "In some ways, though, it helped his family!"
"So you're saying there's someone higher up than Jerome?" I probed.
"Yes, Jerome is just a small fry. At most, he's a henchman, maybe with a title. That's why he could whisk Addrion away during the transfer." Ronan clarified.
"And the police didn't notice anything? What were they doing?" I asked, unable to comprehend.
"You hit the nail on the head. That's exactly why we were able to find Addrion." Ronan agreed with my point.
I looked at Ronan with curiosity, eager for him to continue the story.
"We went through hell and high water to find where Addrion had gone. It turned out that during that period, he had been convicted and sentenced to three years. But, weirdly enough, he disappeared during his transfer from the detention house to his cell. There was no sign of him in the prison."
Ronan's words were clear as if he was narrating a story.
Addrion had a wry smile on his face. "I didn't know anything. I swear I didn't know anything!"
He kept repeating this phrase.
"Following that, we found the key point in the transfer operation. After some investigation, we found the transfer records. There had been an accident during the transfer. The vehicle fell off a cliff, and everyone on board died. Among the charred bodies in the car, one of them was identified as Addrion's through DNA testing."
I was stunned by his revelations.
Ronan continued, "But it's precisely because of this record that we could affirm that Addrion was still alive. That's how we slowly found our way to Northern Myanmar and found clues about Addrion."
"How did you think of Northern Myanmar?" I asked, puzzled.
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