How come the celestial technique I stole is so powerful?!-Chapter 10 - Hairpin

Lin Xiaosu did not rashly enter the room; she stood by the door and activated Reverse Time first.

Four whole days had passed, and it seemed her Reverse Time was pushing its limits. When she felt a slight sting in her eyes, she finally saw the scene she wanted to see: an old man with white hair lying on a Taishi Chair, looking up at the ceiling with a leisurely tap of his foot.

This scene definitely did not look like a man about to die suddenly.

However, the next moment, an anomaly occurred...

Lin Xiaosu's heart jolted...

Three meters away from her, Sister Changye and Zhou Mei were both staring at her.

Zhou Mei quietly said, "Sister Chang, I think even if he has the ability to detect scents, it's impossible. Four days have passed, the mountain wind is strong, and the window has been open for the breeze every day. Any scent would have dissipated..."

Sister Changye's eyes lit up, and she stepped forward.

Her step was silent and noiseless.

Lin Xiaosu suddenly felt a chill on her back, and she exited the Reverse Time state. When she turned around, she saw Sister Changye, who had appeared behind her without making a sound, startling Lin Xiaosu. Is this girl a cat or what?

"Have you found anything?"

Lin Xiaosu said, "Can't see anything right now, I'll go in and have a look, oh, right, do you have photos of the crime scene?"

"Was waiting for you to ask!" Sister Changye lifted her hand, and a pair of glasses appeared on her face: "Call up photo number 1352!"

As her voice fell, a layer of light and shadow emerged from her glasses, a three-dimensional hologram, with an ultra-clear image where every detail was visible—Lin Xiaosu saw through Reverse Time that the old man was sitting in the Taishi Chair, his head tilted back, and mouth slightly open...

Lin Xiaosu remarked, "The police's forensic technology is really impressive, this is too clear."

"Tell me, which part do you need to enlarge?"

"I'll go in first and have a look, no rush!"

He entered the meditation room and observed carefully—at least, in the eyes of the two policewomen, he was observing carefully.

Ten minutes, twenty minutes...

Lin Xiaosu came out of the room, gently shaking his head: "During the time of his death, there was no second person in the room."

Tch!

Zhou Mei felt a bit scornful inside.

Observing seriously for twenty minutes to come to such a trivial conclusion?

Now, there was an issue to face: could this be considered fraud? To take ten thousand yuan just to spend twenty minutes here, was the money too easy to earn?

"Are you sure this was a natural death?" Sister Changye asked.

Lin Xiaosu shook his head slightly: "There's one more point that needs to be ruled out."

"Which point?"

Lin Xiaosu's hand gently lifted, pointing towards the window outside, where a high bank lay about ten meters away.

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The vegetation there was lush.

Sister Changye's eyebrows slightly furrowed: "Do you suspect a remote attack?"

"Is there any attack method that could result in symptoms like cerebral hemorrhage?"

"No!" Zhou Mei said: "So-called remote attacks only cause external injuries, and cerebral hemorrhages have nothing to do with external injuries... right, Sister Chang?"

Sister Changye did not speak, her gaze expressing deep thought: "Go there and check it out first!"

"Okay!"

Lin Xiaosu went under the high bank and looked around carefully. He climbed up the bank from the side and, after quite a struggle, finally reached the top of the high bank. Suddenly, he let out a soft gasp...

Sister Changye, somehow there behind him, asked, "What did you find?"

"Look!" Lin Xiaosu pointed at the ground.

Sister Changye focused on the weeds underfoot, seeing nothing out of the ordinary: "What?"

"This grass was stepped on and broken four days ago!" Lin Xiaosu said.

Sister Changye's eyes brightened. Four days ago, the grass was stepped on, and this place usually had no one coming around: "Are you sure it was a person?"

"There are no direct footprints on the grass, but with careful observation, you can determine a person's footprint from the way the grass is compressed! You can also judge the time it was stepped on by the dryness of the grass stalks." Lin Xiaosu traced the shape of a footprint in the air with his finger.

The more Sister Changye looked, the more it resembled a footprint.

"If you can't see this clearly, look here, there's something even more interesting!" Lin Xiaosu lightly lifted his hand, pointing to a leaf.

In the center of the leaf was a tiny hole, a mark made by a needle.

Sister Changye's facial expression completely changed.

She wasn't very sure about the footprint, but seeing a needle piercing through a leaf, she was a real expert, because she, herself, used needles!

With her vision, this was clearly a mark of needle penetration.

A needle passed through here, piercing the leaf, pointing directly at the head of Qu Taiqing lying on the Taishi Chair!

"Xinyue!" Sister Changye called softly.

"Sister Changye, what is your command?" a delicate female voice came through the glasses.

"Check immediately, in pathology room number 37, the body's right forehead, under the scalp, see if there's a 'hairpin'."

"Understood!"

On the other end of the phone, a rapid check commenced. Chang Ye stood on the hillside, her gaze firmly fixed on that window. Her eyes, at this moment, were infinitely deep—Lin Xiaosu had never seen such a look before.

Minutes ticked by...

Five minutes later, Chang Ye's glasses flickered slightly, and a voice came from within: "Sister Changye, you're freaking amazing. There's a hairpin inside his right brain! The hairpin pierced one inch and seven points into the brain without leaving any trace on the outside, which is why it was overlooked during the initial check. The hairpin has a neural toxin, it's T30!"

"T30, its only function is to instantly coagulate the blood in the region, forming an obstruction!" Chang Ye said.

"Yes! That's the real cause of death 2198!"

The light in Chang Ye's glasses faded.

She slowly turned around. In this moment, she was like an eagle soaring at night, her aura seeming to chill down by a few degrees.

"Now there's only one question left, whether these traces are enough to trace that person!"

Lin Xiaosu turned around and stared at the messy underbrush beneath his feet, crossed the highway, and on the other side, a smile appeared on his face: "Lucky for us, he didn't take the main road, he took the jungle path..."

Descending from the path, one inevitably leaves traces of movement.

Even if these traces seem like nothing to the average person's eyes, for Lin Xiaosu, finding these traces is obviously much more routine than seeking a needle's eye in the leaves.

After turning around a bend in the mountain, even Chang Ye saw a relatively clear footprint, the pattern of the footprint vivid—thankful that it hadn't rained in the last four days.

Her glasses targeted the footprint and captured it.

The tracking continued.

After a journey that involved traversing mountains and ridges, they finally reached the main road of the county town. Lin Xiaosu stopped, his brow furrowed: "Now it really depends on luck. Are there any surveillance cameras around here?"

His difficulty had never been in finding the murderer.

The killer wore a plaid trench coat, with features and stature all engraved in his memory, too clear to ignore.

But knowing this alone was not enough, he had to present this image to her in a relatively reasonable manner.

That's where surveillance cameras came in.

And in his eagle eyes, the cameras were clearly visible too. A hundred meters away, one was hidden under the eaves. From the angle of this camera, it should be possible to see the man in the floral jacket getting into a car...

He didn't want people to know his eyesight was this good.

So, he sought help.

Chang Ye's glasses lit up again, and countless grids materialized out of thin air, with three light points emerging—those were three cameras. Besides the one Lin Xiaosu had already discovered, there were two others not exposed in their field of vision, yet she found them using her miraculous technological methods nonetheless.

"Retrieve the footage, the timing..." Chang Ye uttered.

The virtual images above changed immediately, showing the night four days earlier.

Lin Xiaosu's eyes widened in disbelief. Damn! Does the police not ask the owners when retrieving footage?

You just directly access it?

Isn't this hacking?

And it wasn't just him, even Zhou Mei was taken aback. As a policewoman, her daily job involved investigation and evidence gathering. She's retrieved footage hundreds if not a thousand times, but had she ever seen such a method that doesn't disturb the public, alert anyone, and silently completes the retrieval?

Although the way the footage was obtained was incredible, pinpointing the identity directly still lacked the final step.

The scope of the footage was finite, and the place where the man in the plaid jacket came down from the mountain was a blind spot for the cameras.

Even if they could see him getting into a car in the footage, what then? Too many people get into cars by the roadside!

If you can't connect him coming down from the mountain to getting in the car, it's all for naught.

Right when the footage showed the man in plaid getting into the car, Lin Xiaosu shouted, "Stop!"

The footage paused.

"Take a look at this guy's shoes!" Lin Xiaosu said.

"Shoes? We can't see the pattern on the bottom clearly..." Chang Ye replied.

That's the downside of civilian cameras—they can clearly show a person's face but to see the pattern on the bottom of the shoes precisely is still a challenge.

"You don't need to see the bottom pattern, you just need to look at the logo on these Warrior shoes, and you can trace the detailed product characteristics."

Chang Ye's eyes brightened...

"Search!"

With that two-word command, the space above the glasses instantly matched countless pairs of shoes. In a moment, one pair of shoes appeared—brand: Durli, release date... manufacturer... product characteristics...

The sole of the shoe turned over, it was identical to the clear footprint they had seen on the mountain path.

Zhou Mei cheered: "Found it!"

The lights on Chang Ye's glasses flickered: "Search this person!"

In an instant, it seemed like the Great Thousand World unfolded before her, countless figures flashed by, similar percentages kept climbing, 80%, 85.2%, 96%, 100%!

With the appearance of the 100% green text, a person appeared in front of them.

"Ding Haichun, male, 48 years old, from Fengcheng County, Dong Chu Province, founder of Huanggang Science and Trade Company, serving as the company's legal representative..."

Lin Xiaosu gaped: "Your system is way too powerful. Can you find him with just any face given to you?"

"It's not that magical; the effectiveness of this system depends on the completeness of the database. After eight upgrades, the database can now accurately cover all levels of public servants, registered commercial individuals, and those with criminal records. It's not possible to cover everyone thoroughly. Of course, as long as you've been to a train station or an airport, your information would also exist in the database, but it would only show when you were there and not your name or home information..."

While Chang Ye explained, the system continued to function.

Finally, it stopped, and a red dot indicated the target's location—only ten miles away from them.