The criminal Director Pang and the lazy Gu Qing, two birds of a feather, had been spending the last couple of days going out for drinks and shows, then stumbling back to the hotel drunk, living quite the unrestrained life.
Seeing Lan Bing and his partner still hard at work, they exchanged a glance and shook their heads slightly...
In fact, they weren't intentionally slacking off; it's just that the case had reached a stalemate. They needed Fang Ze, their superior, to give them a definitive direction: continue the investigation, give up, or change approach — rather than each of them persisting in their own way.
This could not only convey the wrong message to the Venerable of the Peace Faction, who was paying close attention to the case, but could also place a psychological burden on Fang Ze to make a decision.
