Chapter 45: The Professional Case Cracker

  After leaving the owner's house, Du Zhiqing looked at Liu Li with a strange expression: "What are you collecting these cow dung for?"

  After hearing this, Liu Li coughed and said awkwardly: "Uh... I plan to ask my colleagues in the technical department to help extract DNA."

  After explaining, Liu Li also felt a bit helpless. He and Du Zhiging went to the owner's house, originally wanting to collect some stolen cow hair or other body fragments, but unexpectedly, the old man was quite diligent and had cleaned up the scene thoroughly after the incident. Not only were there no cow hairs left, but even the cow hoof prints were swept away.

  Just as Liu Li was about to give up, the old man told him that although the cowshed of the stolen cattle had been swept clean, the dung had not been thrown away and was piled outside the door. Hearing this, Liu Li was overjoyed and, under Du Zhiging's disgusted gaze, collected some of the stolen cattle's dung.

  After returning to the police station, the sky had already darkened, Liu Liyuan declined Du Zhiging's invitation to dinner and called Zhang Tao back to the team. On the way, both of them were so hungry that their stomachs were growling in protest, so they randomly found a roadside restaurant.

  After parking the car, Liu Li and Zhang Tao entered the restaurant, casually found a table near the window, and Liu Li asked Zhang Tao to order, saying that he would treat this meal. Zhang Tao was already starving, and when he heard that Liu Li was treating, he called the owner of the store and asked what dishes the chef was good at?

  The shop owner was a man in his forties, stout and smiling, clearly a businessman. Upon hearing Zhang Tao's words, the shop owner knew that a big customer had arrived.

  The smile on his face grew even brighter, and after taking out the menu, he pointed to the special dish column and introduced it: "Our braised pork trotters are not bad, the sauce-braised beef is also a must-try, the clear stewed lamb is the chef's specialty, and the scallion oil fish is made very authentic."

  When the boss introduced it here, Zhang Tao couldn't bear it anymore and said directly: "Don't read any more, just these four dishes, bring them up at the fastest speed."

  Taking advantage of the boss's absence in arranging dishes, Liu Li looked at the prices on the menu and saw that none of the four dishes were under 50 yuan. He couldn't help but feel a little heartache: "Others eat meals with a balance of meat and vegetables, don't you think it's greasy to only eat meat?"

  After hearing Liu Li's words, Zhang Tao looked at Liu Li with some embarrassment: "Hey, deputy captain, I'm just driving for you this time, do you have to be so polite? Alright, listen to you, let the boss come up with two more vegetarian dishes."

  After finishing, Zhang Tao picked up the menu and began to ponder which two vegetarian dishes to order. Seeing that Zhang Tao did not understand his intention and still wanted to order, Liu Li grabbed the menu: "That's it, I was just kidding, I have a habit when treating guests, I only order meat dishes and don't order vegetarian dishes, so people won't say I'm stingy."

  After the voice fell, Liu Li put the menu back on the bar and sat down to wait for the dishes. At this time, Liu Li saw that except for himself, there was not a single customer in the restaurant, while Zhang Tao kept looking towards the kitchen in the back. With nothing to do, he quietly took out something wrapped in a convenience bag from his pocket.

  After opening the plastic bag, Liu Li saw that there was a fist-sized feces inside, and he secretly cursed in his heart: "Damn...the sample is too much, how much blood will it take? It's been over ten days now, that cow must have been slaughtered long ago, I don't know if this ability still has an effect on lifeless objects?"

  Thinking of this, he found a nail clipper on his keychain. Seeing that Zhang Tao opposite him hadn't noticed, he gritted his teeth and used the tip of the nail clipper to cut a small gash on his index finger.

  Blood immediately flowed out of the wound, and since the cut was quite forceful, this time's blood flow was more abundant. After ten or so seconds, when the fresh blood stopped flowing outward, the previously flowed-out blood had just wrapped up the cow dung in the convenience bag.

  At this time, the cow dung in the convenience bag began to decompose rapidly. As the cow dung decomposed, a ripple flashed before Liu Li's eyes. Immediately after that, he felt his consciousness being copied out of one copy. This copy of consciousness was split into countless copies as soon as it was copied out.

  This feeling is like a mirror surface being shattered into countless cracks, when people look at it, they will find that their image has been split into many parts. Liu Li's current feeling is like this, he sees his consciousness transformed into many large and small parts.

  Gradually, those small streams of consciousness all disappeared, leaving only dozens of large streams of consciousness. Seeing that these consciousness still existed, a flash of excitement flashed through Liu Li's heart. Success! As long as he possessed a part of the physical body's organization, no matter whether the other party was alive or dead, his ability could attach itself to the other party's shadow.

  Although the psychic ability was successfully activated, everything around him was pitch black, as if he was locked in a dark space, so Liu Li couldn't observe his surroundings.

  Just as Liu Li was feeling embarrassed, he suddenly discovered that one of the consciousnesses had a scene flashing around it. Seeing this, he quickly put his mind on this consciousness, and at this time, he saw an incredible scene in his psychic ability.

  Liu Li surprisingly saw the boss of the restaurant in his ability, it turned out that Liu Li was attached to a piece of beef at this time. Through the shadow of the beef, Liu Li's consciousness saw a chef-like person sprinkling scallions and coriander onto a plate. After everything was done, the restaurant boss carried the plate out with dignity.

  "This is our signature braised beef, please try some. The next dish will be ready soon, I'll go get it for you." After finishing speaking, the boss went back to the kitchen again.

  "I'm going to...this can't be a coincidence, right?" After seeing all this, Liu Li felt somewhat unbelievable. He picked up the piece of beef on the left side of the plate with his chopsticks and examined it from top to bottom, front to back, left to right.

  Liu Li felt a clear sense of his other consciousness attaching itself to the shadow of the beef, also sizing him up, it was as if he was holding a mirror and admiring himself.

  Liu Lizheng thought it was fun, but suddenly, all the consciousness in his mind disappeared. Seeing this, Liu Li knew that the time for his special ability had ended. After putting the beef back on the plate, he shouted towards the kitchen: "Boss, come over here."

  "Here it is, what can I do for you two?" The restaurant owner brought a bowl of braised pork trotters to the front of the two men, put down the dish and smiled at Liu Li: "Sir, did you call me?"

  "Boss, let me ask you, where does the beef in your store come from?" Liu Li asked with a smile.

  As soon as he heard this, the boss's smile on his face solidified for a moment, but then immediately returned to its original state: "What do you mean by that? The beef is of course what we bought from the market."

  "Oh? Is that so? Then can you tell me, which stall in the market did you buy the beef from? What characteristics does the butcher have?" Liu Li asked indifferently.

  "I don't remember, you two either eat quickly or leave, don't keep asking this and that here." Seeing Liu Li keep asking, the shop owner appeared somewhat impatient.

  Seeing this, Liu Li said to Zhang Tao, who was sitting across from him with a confused expression: "Show him your ID, then ask the store owner and the chef in the back to return to the squad. I have some questions for him."