Before Repelling External Enemies, First Pacify Internal Ones

After a long while, Long Mei Er reached out and brushed Qiekafu's eyes closed, helping him shut those eyes wide open in death. Then he turned to face everyone in the Conference Room and solemnly announced, "Inspector Qiekafu has fallen."

Everyone wore different expressions.

Long Mei Er did not pay much attention to them. With a flip of his hand, he removed a two-meter-long Black Stone Coffin from the Gold Ring he wore—as though he had prepared it long ago.

Long Mei Er then placed Qiekafu's corpse inside the coffin and stored it back in his Space Iron Ring. "Inspector Qiekafu's death was clearly an accident," he said. "I will explain this to headquarters. There is no need for anyone to worry."

After a pause, Long Mei Er continued, "The inquiry meeting is now over. Everyone may leave. Wizard Richard, you may return as well. However, I hope you will submit a detailed report later, clearly documenting everything at the mine, including what happened when Inspector Qiekafu inspected it. On the one hand, it will serve as an archived record. On the other, it will prepare us for the higher-level inquiry meeting headquarters may hold."

"Yes." Richard nodded without saying anything more and left the Conference Room with the others.

Before long, only Long Mei Er and Canon remained in the Conference Room.

Canon glanced at Long Mei Er, hesitating to speak. In the end, he could not help asking, "Long Mei Er Supervisor, is Inspector Qiekafu's matter really going to end like this?"

"What else would you have us do?" Long Mei Er asked in return. "He was originally sustained by a Soul Fragment, and could not even fully count as an individual. Now that the Soul Fragment has dispersed as well, what meaning is there in pursuing