Ivan cautiously took the list. His hands trembled as he read the names on it, the paper rustling loudly in his grasp.
He glanced up at Matthew, but no words escaped his open mouth.
Pointing the gun at Ivan's forehead, Matthew asked, "Are you going to talk?"
Ivan knelt on the ground with a plop. "I'll talk. I'll tell you everything," he said urgently.
Ivan revealed he knew four or five individuals on the list. All of them were prominent traditional medicine practitioners.
Vincent had previously tasked him with buying the prescriptions and medical literature in their possession.
Ivan recounted, "I took my men with me to see them several times. We tried to persuade and threaten them, but they refused to sell. In the end, Vincent told us to let it go. But a couple of days later, they were all found dead."
"All dead?" Matthew was shocked upon hearing this as he scanned the dozen or so names on the list.
He pulled out his phone and began typing in the first name, Lucy Owen.
He quickly discovered many articles reporting her death after a car accident.
The second person had drowned in a river, and the third had perished from a fall down the stairs.
The fourth individual, Walter, was said to have jumped off a building.
As Matthew read on, his shock only deepened. Their deaths were all under strange circumstances.
He finally grasped the reason behind placing the cherub statue atop this piece of paper. Vincent had killed these people, and he sought solace in the statue.
Thinking of Walter's death, Matthew pressed the gun firmly against Ivan's forehead. "Why did Walter jump off the building?"
Ivan shook his head, indicating he was clueless. "I've never even met Walter. I haven't seen his son either," he claimed.
He explained that he had only received the Reed family's debt statement from Vincent.
"I went to collect the debt and force Jenny to hand over the Medieval Medicine."
Matthew asked coldly, "What Medieval Medicine?"
Ivan shook his head again. "I'm not sure, but it seems to involve Walter's grandfather saving someone. In return, he received Medieval Medicine which Vincent is determined to find," he recalled.
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