Seeing Li Nanke's understatement and determined tone, Lan Minsheng frowned and pulled the other person aside and asked in a low voice: "Brother Li, how do you know there is no body in the coffin?"
Duan Daming's case was investigated by the Qinglong Department, and they personally handled the body and put it into the coffin.
If the body disappears, the Qinglong Department will be implicated.
Lan Minsheng was happy to see this scene. After all, the internal struggles in the Night Patrol Department were fierce. Especially for the leader of the Qinglong Department, everyone was jealous and dissatisfied.
There is nothing better than letting the other party stumble.
"Guess."
Li Nanke pretended to be mysterious.
Lan Minsheng choked and smiled bitterly: "Brother Li, please stop joking, okay? This is not child's play."
"Then do you dare to take a gamble and pry open the coffin to take a look?" Li Nanke grabbed his arm and said with a smile, "Just bet on a meal. If you win, I will treat you. If you lose, you will treat me. As for what to eat, it is up to you.
The other party decides.”
Li Nanke didn't know what the other party was thinking, so he deliberately provoked him.
Lan Minsheng was in trouble.
I don’t feel bad about the meal. The main reason is that Duan Daming is a fourth-rank official of the imperial court. Although the case involved is sensitive, if the coffin is easily broken, it will definitely cause some trouble.
The civil servants in the imperial court are not just for a living.
What I like most is trolling people.
If the corpse is discovered by then, Li Nanke will be trapped.
"The deceased is the most important person. I think it's better not to open the coffin rashly. Besides, I don't like gambling. But... I have no right to stop Brother Li from investigating the case."
After some weighing, Lan Minsheng chose to remain neutral. Even if Li Nanke caused trouble, it was not his responsibility.
Then come here and make a fuss.
Li Nanke did not hide his contempt at all and motioned to his men to open the coffin.
Several family members wanted to stop him, but Li Nanke took out a firecracker and fired into the sky, saying coldly: "Whoever dares to stop the Night Patrol Department from handling the case will be investigated and punished for the crime of hiding red rain!"
The shocked people looked at each other, and no one dared to step forward to stop him.
"It's good to be young, full of passion."
Lan Minsheng murmured half with emotion and half with sarcasm.
He tried his best to shrink himself behind Li Nanke, playing the role of a crowd eating melon, and at the same time motioning to his men not to move rashly.
As the coffin was pried open, everyone present stretched their necks to look. Lan Minsheng also stood on tiptoes, looking somewhat expectant.
Inside the coffin...it's empty!
Lan Minsheng was so horrified that his eyes almost popped out of his head.
He squeezed past Li Nanke and rushed to the coffin to confirm again.
Even if the mutated corpse decomposes quickly, there will be traces. But there are no traces in the coffin in front of you, it is clean.
"Seal the scene and don't allow anyone to come near!"
Lan Minsheng's face was livid, but his eyes were full of excitement. He waved to a subordinate and whispered a few words. The latter nodded and left in a hurry.
Lan Minsheng came to Li Nanke, pretending to be sad, and sighed:
"Why is the body missing? The coffin was obviously sealed by the people of the Qinglong Division. It was probably stolen secretly by someone. This matter needs to be investigated strictly, it must be investigated strictly!"
Lan Minsheng's subtext is very clear.
The Qinglong Department must take the blame for this matter and conduct strict internal investigations.
Li Nanke looked at the coffin, looking thoughtful.
About a quarter of an hour later, Deputy General Manager Jing Benhai, Qinglong Department Supervisor Wu Wanchang, and Deputy Supervisor Tie Rufei arrived.
Seeing the empty coffin, Tie Rufei was shocked. Before he could speak, Lan Minsheng "kindly" defended them.
"Master Wu, Master Tie, someone must have stolen Master Duan's body. It is impossible for the body to escape on its own. After all, you have confirmed that the monster is dead at that time."
Wu Wanchang looked ugly and stared at the empty coffin without saying a word.
Tie Rufei knew clearly that Lan Minsheng was digging a hole deliberately, but he had no choice but to jump down and said with a gloomy face: "Put all the people in the house under house arrest and interrogate them one by one."
"Yes, yes, it must be interrogated."
Lan Min said angrily, "You are too courageous to dare to steal the mutated corpse of a monster. If the investigation is not clear, you will think that our night patrol department is deceiving and did not catch the monster at all."
This last sentence is quite heart-wrenching.
In recent years, night patrol departments in various places have committed fraud and disciplinary violations.
Either they falsely report the number of monsters they killed, or they deliberately let monsters go and captured them repeatedly to "fight" for their achievements. There are all kinds of weird things.
Therefore, the imperial court has taken a heavy hand. Once it is found that there is fraud, it will be severely punished!
As the top elite in the capital, if the Qinglong Department is found out, the two supervisors will definitely lose their jobs, and may even lose their official positions.
"Who discovered there was no body in the coffin?"
Wu Wanchang grasped the key point.
Lan Minsheng glanced at Li Nanke and said nothing.
The meaning is very clear, he is the one who wants to punish you, and it has nothing to do with me.
Wu Wanchang clenched his fists.
It’s Li Nanke again!
Why is it that when this guy comes, he is like a broom sweeping away the moon, causing no good things?
"Master Li, don't you explain it?"
Tie Rufei was smart and realized that this was a good opportunity to divert the fire, and immediately asked, "Why did you find that there was no body in the coffin?"
Li Nanke shrugged, "Is this difficult? You can tell by looking at the coffin bearers whether the coffin is empty. After all, it is a corpse weighing hundreds of pounds, not a piece of dogtail grass."
"snort."
Wu Wanchang sneered.
Although the body weighs hundreds of pounds, outsiders cannot know whether there are other items buried in the coffin, and how can they judge whether it is heavy or not.
Li Nanke seemed to have guessed that the other party would think so, and continued: "Besides, because of the special nature of the body, your Qinglong Department personally sealed the coffin, so it is impossible to leisurely place some funerary objects in it."
Faced with Li Nanke's explanation, Wu Wanchang was speechless for a moment.
They really weren't in the mood to put burial objects inside.
At this time, Tie Rufei, who was unwilling to give up, asked someone to find two boxes and said to Li Nanke: "One has something in it and one has nothing in it. Can you tell which one it is?"
The corners of Li Nanke's mouth twitched and he was speechless.
Brother, do you want to play blind box with me?
"Don't worry, the things inside must be heavy." Tie Rufei carried the box in his left and right hands respectively, his eyes a little provocative.
Others, including Wu Wanchang, also understood that this was a deliberate attempt to embarrass Li Nanke.
Tie Rufei was originally a monk, and his strength was beyond ordinary people.
It would be difficult for anyone but himself to see the subtle differences.
But no one spoke for Li Nanke.
Li Nanke put his fist to his lips and coughed. After observing carefully for a moment, he said lightly: "There is something in the box you are carrying on your right."
Everyone looked at Tie Rufei, waiting for a response.
Tie Rufei said nothing with a dark face and threw the box to his subordinate.
This behavior already shows that Li Nanke’s answer is correct.
Everyone was shocked and looked at Li Nanke as if they were looking at a monster.