Chapter 408 Open the coffin!
"If you don't open the coffin, do you believe I will burn you like a candle?"
Lu Li said calmly: "Besides, the candles are lit in the southeast corner."
"Open! It's guaranteed to be open!"
"Brother Li, I feel like you have some humorous bacteria..."
Xing Anlin muttered a few words and started to work.
The crystal coffin lid is designed to be very easy to open.
Xing Anlin opened it easily without much effort.
The peeping eye moved closer to the coffin, causing the image on the screen to change.
The half-human, half-fish corpse was still lying in the coffin, without any change.
Because of the mask, the decayed face could not be seen.
This gives people an inexplicable idea that the mermaid in the coffin is just sleeping.
Seeing Lu Li's expression ease, Pan Xiaoxiao asked cautiously:
"Mr. Lu Li, what do you intend to confirm from this mermaid's corpse?"
"That light red tail scale." Lu Li responded calmly:
"I suppose that during your previous raid, you didn't open the coffin and check the tail of the mermaid's corpse?"
Pan Xiaoxiao raised her brows slightly.
indeed so.
The most risky time was when Ao Zhan bribed the guards during the day and forcibly removed the mask on the mermaid's face.
No one had ever thought of lifting up the tail of the mermaid's corpse to take a look.
On the screen, the young man with a haggard face quickly grabbed the mermaid's tail.
After it was lifted up, the mess underneath was revealed.
The crystal coffin does have a good preservative effect, but the mermaid has been dead for many years.
The scales on the front of the tail were still barely holding on, but those on the back had all fallen off.
The bottom of the crystal coffin was covered with translucent mucus.
Pan Xiaoxiao saw the tail scales at a glance.
Although the color of the other scales is similar to it, all are light red.
But due to the lack of vitality and nourishment for a long time, they all turned gray and curly.
Only the tail scale, like a piece of everlasting jade, exudes a warm breath under the moonlight.
Mermaids have only one tail scale.
If the tail scale that the prince gave them yesterday came from his beloved late wife,
So what about the body lying in the crystal coffin now?
"Fake?"
Before she knew it, Pan Xiaoxiao's mouth had opened into an 'o' shape.
No wonder the first of the three tasks tonight is to find the whereabouts of the prince's lover;
No wonder in the previous walkthroughs, after accepting the mission and answering that your lover is in the crystal coffin in the garden, you will be hunted down mercilessly by the heavily armored guards.
It turns out that there was no problem with the secret realm at all!
The answer to the riddle has already been hinted at on the surface.
The mermaid corpse lying in the crystal coffin is a fake!
But where has the true love gone?
Could it be that because he didn't end up marrying his beloved, he turned into bubbles in the sun and disappeared?
What about the blood stains on the dagger?
Problems came one after another.
Just as Pan Xiaoxiao was thinking, the scene on the screen startled her again.
The young man with a miserable look on his face did not stop after finding the tail scale, but continued to drag the fish tail, turning the entire body over.
As expected, the loose and rotten flesh did not appear.
What appeared before our eyes were jagged bones.
There was not much flesh and blood left on the 'human' part of the mermaid's back.
Judging from the neat cut edges, it was not caused by rot.
Instead, it was cut off one by one by a knife!
"This..." Pan Xiaoxiao was speechless.
A not-so-good guess quickly took shape under [extreme thinking].
"During your previous walkthrough, did you figure out the chronological order of the unfortunate events in the prince's 'tragic fate'?"
Lu Li looked at the scene on the screen, as if he had expected it, and asked without raising his head.
"Uh... no." Pan Xiaoxiao hesitated for a moment, and answered embarrassedly.
I've already done this so many times before,
But every time Lu Li asked questions, she still couldn't give any valuable reference opinions.
Rather than coming to help, it would be more like coming to win without doing anything.
"But I guess the specific order should be similar to what I said before."
As if to save face, Pan Xiaoxiao quickly added:
"First his father, the king, suffered from dementia, and then his mother, the queen, was assassinated."
"The prince was afflicted with a strange disease after his wife died under mysterious circumstances."
Lu Li withdrew his gaze 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."
"We have to be rigorous and not take risks, right?"
Hearing the word "rigorous", Pan Xiaoxiao was stunned again.
How could she not hear that Lu Li was using what she had said before to wake her up?
A typical example of "give and take action against someone in their own way".
The huge embarrassment hit Pan Xiaoxiao's nerves and made the woman's ears red.
Not expressing your opinion seems petty.
I could only stammer in response:
"Mr. Lu Li is right. Do you need me to ask the guards?"
"Perhaps it only takes one gold coin to..."
If you want to know the chronological order of the unfortunate events, the easiest way is to ask the people around the prince.
The heavily armored guards can be bribed.
Now you can get verification by paying a gold coin.
However, Lu Li put away the screen and waved his hand to refuse:
"No, save your money."
“Also, as a public official, shouldn’t you resist bribery?”
The young man apparently forgot the embarrassment caused by his previous joke and joked subconsciously.
But after several 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 seen as a bad sarcasm.
It's so inappropriate.
He quickly tried to make up for it:
"Oh, I was just joking, don't take it seriously..."
"It's okay Mr. Lu Li, I can handle it."
Before he could finish his words, Pan Xiaoxiao raised her head and continued.
Although the woman's face was red, she was obviously very embarrassed.
But there was a look of joy in the eyes beneath the lenses.
"???"
Seeing the other party's strange behavior, Lu Li was suddenly a little confused.
In such an extremely awkward atmosphere, this doesn't seem like the reaction a decent person should have, right?
something is wrong,
Twelve out of ten things are 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.
and,
The expression on his face was still one of resistance, which was very contradictory to his eyes.
Fortunately, this strange behavior did not last long.
Pan Xiaoxiao quickly returned to her normal serious self.
But I don't know if it's an illusion.
Lu Li always felt that when those eyes that had lost their joy looked at him, there was a hint of disappointment.
really,
Or maybe it was because of an inappropriate joke that made the public official angry.
……
