Chapter 178 Tricky
The white cloth fluttered down and landed on the ground, revealing the corpse's true form. At first glance, it was truly terrifying.
Even though Feng Qingge had seen all sorts of ghosts and strange things, she couldn't help but sigh that the deaths of these people were truly bizarre.
Although the bodies were clearly stiff, lying straight on the bed, their faces looked strange. Apart from their pale lips, they looked as if they were asleep, with a rosy complexion.
"Strange, strange..." She couldn't help but mutter to herself again. This was probably the strangest thing Feng Qingge had ever seen.
Her sudden movement lifted the white sheet covering the corpse, making it impossible for the group to ignore; they all saw the strange state of the body.
However, Feng Qingge suddenly turned around and stared straight at Li Qi, making him feel uncomfortable and take two steps back. The next moment, he heard her ask a question.
"Coroner Li, I ask you, were these bodies brought in like this?"
Li Qi breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought this young master wanted to find his mother, but it turned out he was asking about this. So he nodded and replied, "Yes, at first I also found it strange. But these people are indeed dead. However, I don't know why, but their bodies have remained stiff and unrotted." He clicked his tongue in amazement, which showed that he was also puzzled.
"Tsk tsk, this is troublesome." Feng Qingge crossed her arms, stroking her chin with one hand, lost in thought.
Ignoring their conversation, Mo Linyuan gestured to Hei Ming to remove the white sheets covering all the corpses.
Sure enough, they're all the same, except for one of them.
"Your Highness, look!" Hei Ming's eyes narrowed as he lifted the last lid, and he turned around and shouted.
Because of his shout, everyone looked over, and to their surprise, the corpse was different.
The first three were all the same, stiff but not decayed, with rosy complexions. Except for the last one brought in, this corpse clearly showed signs of lividity, and its whole body was black, its face was pale, and its eyelids were bluish-black.
"I told you, this case is the most troublesome." After glancing at it, Feng Qingge sighed helplessly. She should have known better than to take this on. Alas, now that she's on the wrong path, it's too late to get out.
"What's going on?" Mo Linyuan frowned, his expression grim. The corpse was so obvious, yet the people in the Jingzhao Prefecture had been guarding it without noticing it. This clue had been shelved for so long; how could he not be angry?
"Your Highness, please calm down, Your Highness, please calm down." Li Qi's expression changed drastically. If others couldn't see through the trick, and he, a coroner, couldn't figure it out, he should really resign and go back to his hometown.
Seeing Mo Linyuan's accusatory stance, Li Qi hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy. The little constable who was with him, although he did not know what had happened, could not think of anything else with the Regent above him.
"Hmph, this case was originally assigned to the Jingzhao Prefecture, but you were guarding the evidence without knowing anything. If it weren't for me investigating, would you have just let it slide? A bunch of incompetent fools, what use are you!" His voice was icy, filled with a storm of anger, showing that Mo Linyuan was furious.
Li Qi and the constable knelt on the ground, trembling and shaking like leaves, begging for mercy, "Your Highness, please calm down, Your Highness, please forgive us."
As the coroner, Li Qi was responsible for failing to discover the situation in time, so he dared not make excuses and could only pray to God to let him get through this ordeal.
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