Chapter 21: Possessing Shadow Abilities

  Liu Li felt as if he had just woken up from a dream, in which his body was replicated into another copy. When the replication ended, the copied body slowly merged into his shadow.

  Liu Li in his dream felt that his shadow seemed to have come to life. His consciousness was also replicated into his shadow, and Liu Li could observe the surrounding situation through his shadow, which made him feel like his shadow had become a part of himself.

  However, this shadow clone has a drawback, that is, it can only perceive the surrounding scenery, but cannot hear the sounds around the shadow. In other words, it has the function of thousand-mile eyes but lacks the ability of wind ears.

  But even so, it made Liu Li excited in his dream, because this way, he was equivalent to having a pair of eyes on the back of his head, and he could know everything that happened behind him without turning around.

  Just as Liu Li in the dream was pleased with his superpower, he suddenly felt that his body was lightly trembling. In a daze, he felt someone touching his body.

  As he felt astonished, Liu Li's mind was racing, and he seemed to hear someone calling his name: "Little Liu? Little Liu? What's wrong with you? Little Liu? Are you okay? Wake up, wake up!"

  After opening his eyes, Liu Li found himself lying on the bed, Tian Hu was beside the bed with a worried face looking at him. Seeing Liu Li opened his eyes, Tian Hu's expression relaxed: "Ah... you finally woke up, scared me to death."

  I just yelled at you for half a day, and you didn't react at all. I thought you had died on the job! Little Liu, are you not feeling well? The bureau is organizing a physical examination for police officers the day after tomorrow, and I'll accompany you to the hospital for a check-up then.

  "Thanks, Tian Ge, I'm fine, really." After sitting up, Liu Li shook his somewhat dizzy head. Although he had woken up, the dream from earlier still lingered in his mind. Rubbing his forehead, Liu Li said softly, "I just had a dream where I gained superpowers, but I got too caught up in it and even after waking up, I'm still thinking about those powers."

  As soon as Liu Li said this, Tian Hu burst out laughing: "Brother, you're just daydreaming! Since your body is fine, hurry up and get up. I've just finished interrogating Tian Liangzong, and I don't know what kind of hypnotic medicine you gave that old man? He was too cooperative with the interrogation work, as if he had a grudge against himself. Whatever crime he confessed to, it seemed like he was self-incriminating."

  While speaking, Tian Hu combed his hair in front of the mirror: "If I can get this old guy to go in, then all these years at our county's police station haven't been wasted. Later on, I'll have to go to the legal affairs department to handle the paperwork, and there are many beautiful policewomen there, so brother has to tidy up his appearance first."

  After combing his hair, Tian Hu adjusted the tie inside his police uniform and brushed off the dust on his uniform. Seeing that he was already neatly dressed, he instructed Liu Li to go to the hospital for a check-up before standing up straight and leaving the dormitory.

  Watching Tian Hu walk away with his head held high and chest out, Liu Li got out of bed and walked to the mirror. He casually picked up a comb and thought of Tian Hu's serious hair-combing scene just now. He couldn't help but mock: "Tian Ge is really something, a plain head is so serious? With that hairstyle, even if you break the comb, you can't make it look good."

  After ranting, Liu Li looked in the mirror and saw that his hair was a bit messy, so he decided to comb it. After picking up the comb, he saw some dandruff on it, which should have been left by Tian Hu when he combed his hair just now.

  He wiped the comb with his hand, wanting to wipe away the hair dander on it. At this time, Liu Li was still a bit dizzy and confused, and earlier when Tian Hu spoke to him, he had divided his attention, so Liu Li forgot about the glass figurine incident and also forgot that his hand was injured.

  When Liu used his blood-stained fingers to wipe the comb, a strange scene occurred. Liu's blood stained the hair clippings, and those few strands of hair clippings actually disappeared. Immediately after that, he felt as if his shadow had come to life.

  The ordinary shadow, which was originally unremarkable, seemed to have gained consciousness at this moment. What surprised Liu Li the most was that the thoughts and ideas being thought about in the shadow were exactly the same as those in his mind.

  That feeling was exactly the same as when Liu Li gained his powers in his dream. Just as Liu Li was stunned by everything in front of him, the consciousness contained in his shadow disappeared along with those few strands of hair.

  A few seconds later, a ripple like the surface of water flashed before Liu Li's eyes. When the ripple disappeared, Liu Li found that the consciousness in his own shadow reappeared, but it actually appeared in Tian Hu's shadow.

  That feeling cannot be described in words, Liu Li's other consciousness was like it had possessed Tian Hu's shadow, no matter how Tian Hu moved, he could clearly see every move of Tian Hu.

  At this time, Tian Hu was at Director Du Zhiqing's place and seemed to be asking him to sign something. The two of them occasionally exchanged a couple of sentences, but Liu Li, who was attached to Tian Hu's shadow, could only see the surrounding situation clearly, but couldn't hear any sounds around her.

  Although Liu Li is now in the dormitory, the consciousness that attached to Tian Hu's shadow naturally fed back the information he saw into Liu Li's mind. The feeling was as if Liu Li himself was standing beside Tian Hu, watching his every move.

  About ten seconds later, the consciousness of Liu Li possessing Tian Hu's shadow disappeared. Immediately after, he felt the existence of that consciousness in his own shadow and pinched his thigh hard with his hand.

  After confirming that he wasn't dreaming, Liu Li was stunned for a moment before locking the dormitory door and jumping up excitedly: "Haha... Superpower, I actually got superpower! From now on, it's hard to imagine a road that isn't smooth!"

  "Abnormal ability, it's actually real and it's happened to me, oh my god, I can hardly believe it. Such a big pie has fallen on my head. Tonight, I must burn two sticks of incense to pay respects to our ancestors in the Liu family. It seems they've made the ancestral tomb of the Liu family emit auspicious smoke."

  After getting excited and jumping around for a while, Liu Li suppressed the joy in his heart and tried to calm himself down. He looked around outside the dormitory and found that everyone was busy and no one noticed him. Liu Li began to experiment with his own special abilities.

  After more than an hour of experimentation, Liu Li had a preliminary understanding of his ability. In principle, he could attach himself to the shadow of any living being, but there was one prerequisite: Liu Li must have a piece of the other party's physical tissue in his hand.

  This so-called bodily tissue fragment can be the other party's hair, saliva, blood, sweat, skin fragments, fingernails, or even urine.

  At that time, as long as Liu Li dripped his own blood on the other party's body tissue fragments, he could make the consciousness in his shadow trace back to its origin and attach itself to the other party's shadow.

  Through experimentation, Liu Li also discovered a problem, that is, the size of the body tissue fragments determines the length of time for the heteromorphism to take hold. If he only obtained one strand of hair from his opponent, then his heteromorphism could only attach itself to his opponent's shadow for ten or so seconds.

  But if he could get a drop of the opponent's urine, his ability could attach itself to the opponent's shadow for over a minute. This was the result of Liu Li's experiment on that stray dog from behind the police station.