Chapter 408 Open the Coffin!
"If you don't open the coffin, believe it or not, I will light you as a candle?"
Lu Li said calmly: "Also, the candles are lit in the southeast corner."
"Open! It's guaranteed to be opened!"
"Brother Li, I feel like you have the humorous bacteria in your body..."
Xing Anlin said a few words and started to take action.
The crystal coffin lid itself is designed to be extremely easy to open.
Xing Anlin opened it easily without much effort.
The prying eye moved closer to the coffin, causing the picture on the screen to change.
The half-human, half-fish body still lay in the coffin, unchanged.
Because of the mask, the rotting face cannot be seen.
It makes people inexplicably have the weird idea that the mermaid in the coffin is just asleep.
Seeing Lu Li's expression softening, Pan Xiaoxiao cautiously asked:
"Mr. Lu Li, what do you plan to confirm from this mermaid corpse?"
"That light red tail scale." Lu Li responded lightly:
"I don't think you ever opened the coffin and looked at the tail of the mermaid corpse during your previous strategy, right?"
Pan Xiaoxiao raised his eyebrows slightly.
Indeed.
The most adventurous time was when Ao Zhan bribed the guards during the day and then forcibly removed the mask from the mermaid's face.
No one even thought of lifting the tail of the mermaid corpse to take a look.
On the screen, a young man with a wan face quickly grabbed the mermaid's tail.
After lifting it up, the mess underneath was revealed.
The crystal coffin does have a good antiseptic effect, but the mermaid has been dead for a long time.
The scales on the front of the fish tail can still be hung, but all the parts on the back have fallen off.
Adhesive translucent mucus spreads on the bottom of the crystal coffin.
Pan Xiaoxiao saw the tail scale at a glance.
Although the color of other scales is similar to it, they are all light red.
However, due to lack of vitality and nourishment for a long time, they all became gray and curly.
Only the tail scale, like an everlasting piece of jade, exudes a warm aura under the moonlight.
Mermaids have only one tail scale.
If the tail scale the prince delivered to them yesterday came from his beloved dead wife,
So what happened to the body lying in the crystal coffin now?
"Fake?"
Unknowingly, Pan Xiaoxiao's mouth had opened into an 'O' shape.
No wonder that among the three tasks tonight, the first one is to ‘find the whereabouts of the prince’s lover’;
No wonder I answered the previous several guides that my lover was in the crystal coffin in the garden and would be hunted down mercilessly by the heavily armored guards after accepting this mission.
It turns out that there is no problem with the secret realm at all!
The answer to the riddle has already been hinted on the riddle.
The mermaid corpse lying in the crystal coffin is a fake!
But where has the true lover gone?
Is it possible that because he did not finally get married with his beloved, he turned into a bubble in the sun and disappeared?
What about the blood stains on the dagger?
Questions came one after another.
Just as Pan Xiaoxiao was thinking, the picture on the screen made her startled again.
The young man with a shabby look did not stop after finding the tail scales, but continued to drag the fish tail and turned the entire body over.
As expected, the loose and rotting flesh did not appear.
What appeared before his eyes were jagged bones.
There is not much flesh and blood left on the 'human' part of the mermaid's back.
Judging from the neat cuts on the edges, it was not caused by rot.
But it was cut off with a knife!
"This..." Pan Xiaoxiao was speechless.
A not-so-good guess quickly took shape under [Extreme Thinking].
"During your previous strategy, did you figure out the chronological order of the unfortunate events in the prince's 'tragic fate'?"
Lu Li looked at the picture on the screen, as if he had expected it, and asked without raising his head.
"Uh... no." Pan Xiaoxiao hesitated for a moment, then replied sheepishly.
Obviously I have conquered it so many times before,
But whenever Lu Li asked, she still couldn't give any valuable reference opinions.
Rather than coming to help, it's more like I'm here to win.
"But I guess the specific order should be similar to what I said before."
As if to regain some face, Pan Xiaoxiao quickly added:
"First his father, the king, fell ill with dementia, and then his mother, the queen, was assassinated."
"After his wife died mysteriously, the prince became plagued by a strange illness."
Lu Li looked away from the screen and said in a playful tone:
"This is just your guess. If you want to confirm it, you have to find evidence."
"You have to be rigorous and don't take risks, right?"
Pan Xiaoxiao was startled again when he heard the word 'rigorous'.
She couldn't tell that Lu Li was trying to wake her up with what she had said before.
The first-hand standard is "Treat others in their own way."
The huge embarrassment hit Pan Xiaoxiao's nerves, making the woman's ears turn red.
Not expressing your stance makes you look petty.
He could only stutter in response:
"Mr. Lu, Lu Li said, do you need me to ask the guards?"
"Perhaps as long as you spend one gold coin, you can..."
If you want to know the sequence of unfortunate events, the most convenient way is to ask people around the prince.
And the heavily armored guards have the ability to be bribed.
Now, as long as you pay a gold coin, you should be able to get verification.
However, Lu Li put away the screen, waved his hand and refused:
"No, save your money and spend it."
"In addition, as a public official, shouldn't you resist bribery?"
The young man obviously forgot the embarrassment caused by the previous joke, and joked subconsciously.
But after a few seconds of silence, he finally realized that the words he blurted out were directed at the wrong person.
In front of the overly serious Pan Xiaoxiao, this might be regarded as a bad sarcasm.
It's too inappropriate.
He quickly made up:
"Oh, I was just joking, don't take it to heart..."
"It's okay, Mr. Lu Li, I can bear it."
Before he finished speaking, Pan Xiaoxiao raised her head and continued.
Although the woman's face was red, it was obviously very embarrassed.
But there was a look of joy in the eyes under the lenses.
"???"
Seeing the other party's strange behavior, Lu Li suddenly felt a little confused.
In an extremely embarrassing atmosphere, this doesn't seem to be the reaction of a serious person, right?
Something's wrong,
It's twelve points wrong!
Lu Li narrowed his eyes, trying to figure out the reason.
But the more he stared at Pan Xiaoxiao, the more obvious the joy in the woman's eyes became.
Moreover,
the expression on her face was still resistant, which was very inconsistent with her eyes.
Fortunately, this strange behavior did not last too long.
Pan Xiaoxiao quickly returned to her usual serious appearance.
But I don't know if it was an illusion,
Lu Li always felt that when the eyes that had lost their joy looked at him, there was a little more disappointment.
Sure enough,
it was still because of an inappropriate joke that the public official was angry.
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