Chapter 47: The Professional Case Cracker Arrives

  After the third squadron of criminal police cracked a case of stolen cattle, Cheng Bin was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, feeling very proud. Not only did he send over comfort goods overnight, but also asked about the well-being of the team members, making Liu Li and others somewhat unaccustomed for a while.

  After Chen Fugui and others were caught, the criminal police team took over the suspects and cases, and through repeated interrogations, the gang confessed to 62 cases they had committed. The capture of Chen Fugui and others directly eliminated 41 cases of cattle theft in Guxian County.

  The remaining 21 cases, because they were done by Chen Fugui and his gang in other counties, need to be checked one by one. After the check is clear, lead Chen Fugui and others to identify the scene, and finally have the local criminal police team close the case.

  When Liu Li searched the residence of Chen Fugui and others, he turned over all the stolen money from several people's theft of farm cows. After deducting 14,000 yuan paid by Du Zhiqing, he handed over the remaining stolen money to the brigade. Anyway, the stolen money was to be returned to the owner. After Liu Li deducted the money paid by Du Zhiqing, he didn't care about the rest of the matter.

  When the case was cracked, the leaders in the bureau were very happy. Director Yu Shao Yong said that he would hold a celebration meeting for the third team. Upon learning of this news, Liu Li refused without hesitation, saying that it was still too early to celebrate now, and that he would request the county bureau leaders to hold a celebration meeting only after all the cattle theft gangs in Guxian County had been caught.

  When Liu Li made this statement, the leaders in the bureau, including Cheng Bin, although they all applauded and praised Liu Li's work enthusiasm on the surface, but deep down, they secretly sighed: "After all, he is still young, and he actually dared to say such arrogant words. Is this kind of theft case so easy to crack? Alas...Liu Li is still a bit tender."

  As for the thoughts of these leaders, Liu Li also saw it, but he didn't show anything. Taking advantage of the influence of Chen Fugui's case, Liu Li returned to the squadron and called a meeting with the directors and instructors of the four police stations under his jurisdiction.

  The main content of the meeting is only one, who has not reported the case of stolen cattle in their jurisdiction? And this case of stolen cattle was not committed by Chen Fugui's gang suspects? Report immediately.

  After understanding Liu Li's meaning, the directors and instructors of various police stations all shook their heads, indicating that there were no cases of cattle theft in their jurisdictions due to good public security environment.

  Observing the expressions of everyone present, Liu Li hesitated for a moment before smiling and telling them: "I understand your concerns, you're worried that if we report this case, the director or political commissar will find out and take disciplinary action against all of you."

  I solemnly declare to you all, if such cases have indeed occurred in your respective jurisdictions, report them immediately. If the leaders of our bureau investigate and hold us accountable, the entire Third Squadron will take responsibility together.

  However, I must say this in advance, if your police station does not trust our team and withholds a case of cattle theft that occurred within their jurisdiction, only to try to hand it over to us after they have investigated to a dead end, we, the criminal police team, will uniformly refuse to take the case.

  When Liu Li said this, the directors and instructors of various police stations were all hesitant. After four or five minutes, Huang Chaoyang, the director of Liji Town Police Station, spoke up: "Deputy Captain Liu had just cracked down on Chen Fugui's gang of cow thieves not long ago, so he must have some experience with this type of case."

  Everyone knows that the cattle theft case is notoriously difficult to crack, and others who encounter such cases can't get rid of them. However, Deputy Commander Liu took over this type of case with full confidence, it seems that the deputy commander is quite confident.

  Well, in that case, I'll just expose our own family's shortcoming. A month ago, in Lidu Town's Datang Village, there were two consecutive cases of stolen cattle, and the suspects chose to target households with brick walls surrounding their courtyards.

  The suspects used tools to open a hole in the brick wall through the gap, and then led the cattle out of the cowshed through the hole in the wall. The whole process took only about ten minutes, which was very quick.

  After the incident, I personally led people to the scene and found tire marks on the north side of the village road. At this point, the hoof prints of the draft cattle disappeared. In my judgment, the draft cattle were loaded onto a vehicle here. Except for these two points, there was no trace left at the scene.

  I sent someone to review the surveillance footage at the surrounding intersections, but no suspicious vehicles were found. It's estimated that the car turned onto an unmonitored dirt road halfway and escaped. Our police station investigated for a month, but so far, no clues have been found. Now I'm transferring this case to our third brigade, hoping that Deputy Brigade Commander can crack the case and bring justice to the victim.

  After Huang Chaoyang finished speaking, the directors of the other police stations were all silent. Seeing this, Liu Li understood that those directors still had some doubts about him. Thinking of this, he announced the end of the meeting and let Huang Chaoyang take him to the victim's home for investigation.

  Liu Li and Huang Chaoyang went to the owner's home for a careful investigation, but since it had been a month since the theft, the family had already cleaned up the cowshed. Not only were the stolen cattle's hairs nowhere to be found, but even their dung had been used as fertilizer and scattered in the fields.

  Helpless, Liu Li had to follow the host to walk around the field, and finally found two dry cow dung in the field. After returning to the barracks, Liu Li locked himself in the room, cut a wound on his hand, dripped blood onto the dry dung, and when the blood seeped in, he activated his special ability again.

  This time, Liu Li's consciousness was attached to a piece of cowhide. It seemed that the beef could no longer be found, and only this piece of cowhide was left on the body of the plowing cow. I guess if it were any later, even this piece of cowhide would be gone.

  At this time, the consciousness that Liu Li was attached to on the cowhide was in front of a large drying machine. Liu Li had a feeling that once the blood and moisture inside the cowhide were completely dried out, this piece of cowhide would thoroughly become an inanimate object. At that time, his special ability would be unable to continue attaching itself.

  So during this period of time, Liu Li's consciousness desperately observed the surroundings, and he saw that it was a workshop in a factory with not many workers inside.

  The workers in the workshop were all busy, these workers wore blue overalls, hats on their heads and masks on their faces, so Liu Li couldn't see their appearance clearly.

  The work uniforms of these workers did not have the name of the company marked on them, but a tower-shaped pattern was embroidered with red thread on the upper right corner of the uniform. At this time, the cowhide entered the drying machine.

  As Liu Li had expected, after the cowhide entered the drying machine, under the action of the machine, the water and blood contained in the cowhide were dried up thread by thread. After these water and residual blood were thoroughly dried, this piece of cowhide became a dead object, no longer containing any life tissue fragments inside, and at this time, Liu Li's heteropathy was forced to end.

  "I've found another weakness of the heterodyne..." After saying this, Liu Li came to the duty room and asked Zhang Tao to investigate all the enterprises in the county, whether they were regular or small workshops, to see if any of them had a logo in the shape of a tower.

  In the late afternoon, Zhang Tao called Liu Li and said that there was a leather factory logo in the county's economic development zone, which was embroidered with a red thread pagoda pattern. Because this company has not yet started production and operation, it does not have an official name.

  This company specializes in processing cowhide for leather shoe factories from other provinces. At present, the enterprise is debugging equipment and training workers. Zhang Tao is currently in the manager's office, asking if Liu Li needs to bring the manager back to the team?

  Liu Li did not let Zhang Tao bring the manager of the company back, but instead chose to go to that leather factory himself. After arriving at the leather processing workshop, Liu Li found eight or nine blackened cowhides piled up on a wooden cart next to the drying machine in the workshop.

  At this point, the enterprise manager told Liu Li that because the workers in the enterprise were all newcomers and the equipment had not been debugged yet, the employees often over-dried the cowhide during the drying process.

  Today, a total of eight drying tests were carried out, resulting in eight pieces of cowhide being dried and rendered unusable. Because the problem was unclear, they stopped the drying test and plan to wait for the technician to arrive tomorrow to identify the issue before proceeding with the operation test.

  After listening to the manager's explanation, Liu Li nodded and walked over to the eight pieces of cowhide that had been glued together. From among them, he picked out a piece of cowhide that was roughly the size of a tabletop. This particular piece of cowhide was one that Liu Li had previously used his ability to attach himself to. Holding it in his hand, Liu Li asked about its origin.

  The enterprise manager looked at the cowhide in Liu Li's hand and called over the director of the office responsible for purchasing raw materials, asking him to check the registration book to find out when these cowhides were purchased and who delivered them.

  After hearing the order, the director did not dare to slack off. He first checked the serial number of the cowhide when it was taken out of the warehouse, then looked up the date the goods entered the warehouse according to the serial number, and finally found the purchase slip by the procurement date. With the purchase slip, he looked up the name and contact information of the delivery person from the registration book.

  After obtaining the name and contact information of the delivery person, Liu Li carefully verified it again. After confirming that there was no mistake, he had Wang Mingzhong secretly interrogate the delivery person for this batch of cowhide. After repeated interrogations, the delivery person admitted that the cowhide they sold was stripped from stolen cattle.

  Afterwards, Liu Li, based on the confessions of this person, followed the trail and arrested another 6 suspects in the theft of farm cows. When this gang was caught, everyone at the county bureau was shocked.

  The arrest of this theft gang and Chen Fugui's suspected accomplices were only 4 days apart.

  After learning that the third squadron had eliminated the second cattle theft gang, Director Yu Shaoyong not only personally went to the third squadron to offer condolences, but also repeatedly praised Cheng Bin's vision.

  Seeing the criminal police team frequently showing off, the captain of the county bureau's security detachment, Dong Hanlin, couldn't sit still.