Bro, you are a policeman, not a thug

Public security police can use the pace, gait and stride length to distinguish whether the suspect is male or female, tall or short, fat or thin.

National security police can also use footprints to determine whether a suspect is an ordinary person, a spy, an agent, or some special personnel.

For example, professional soldiers.

Because of years of training, their pace, gait and stride are very different from those of ordinary people.

For example, special forces, no matter which country they are from, will receive militarized and specialized training.

Some things that are ingrained in our bones after training are very difficult to change.

Unless he is a top-level special agent who can achieve "return to basics".

Xiao Mu and Ye Wu knew at a glance from the shoe prints that it belonged to an ordinary intelligence officer.

He can be said to be a 'rookie' level intelligence officer.

If it's a top-tier special agent or a dandelion, you won't be able to tell from the footprints!

Outside the apartment building.

Xiao Mu took the cigarette handed to him by Ye Wu and took a puff absentmindedly.

The brain has long been like a violently overclocked CPU, about to burn and smoke.

The whole case... no, the incident.

It has gone beyond the scope of a normal criminal case and is developing towards some kind of terrorist situation.

First of all, something like 'entomopathogenic fungi' is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Secondly, the current incident is no longer as simple as a terrorist attack, it may be a man-made "accident".

Finally, the suspect's death implicated external intelligence personnel, which shows the seriousness of the problem.

Countless inferences emerged in Xiao Mu's mind, and he was pondering them in various ways.

Two hours passed in the blink of an eye.

Ye Wu and Zhao Xiaotang looked at their younger brother who was sitting motionless with his head down in deep thought, and they were both a little worried.

suddenly.

Xiao Mu looked up, with fatigue in his eyes and on his face, as if he was thinking through a drama.

He kept rubbing his brows. "There are two possibilities for the incident at hand, but no matter which one, someone is deliberately killing someone."

Ye Wu and Zhao Xiaotang: ...

Bro, are you talking nonsense?

It must be intentional homicide, isn't that obvious?

"I'm not talking about the suspect being killed, I'm talking about the cause of the incident."

Xiao Mu raised his head. "Those four victims who were infected with the insect-borne fungus were poisoned in the small square by someone. This is intentional murder."

This is still nonsense... Ye Wu and Zhao Xiaotang looked at each other.

I don't understand what my little brother means.

"Everything needs a purpose. No one is crazy, so why would they intentionally kill someone? What benefit would that bring to the killer?"

Xiao Mu looked at the two elder brothers and said, "This is the key point."

Ye Wu and Zhao Xiaotang frowned and fell into deep thought.

"A PhD in biology has an annual salary of at least 30, which is more than most ordinary people can earn. Even a psychopath can't become a PhD. How could he possibly seek revenge against society by randomly killing people, and then attract..."

Xiao Mu sneered, "Silence him."

That’s right, this doctor was silenced by foreign intelligence personnel!

"Assume the suspect is not a psychopath, is not seeking revenge against society, and is an elite among the high-income group."

Xiao Mu asked, "What kind of situation would it be like to give up a good life and kill someone?"

"The greater good."

Ye Wu and Zhao Xiaotang asked in unison, "Entomogenic fungus?"

"Yes, insect-infested fungi."

Xiao Mu nodded, "Only greater interests can make a person take risks!"

With 50% profit, people dare to take risks.

100% profit, people dare to ignore the law.

300% profit, people dare to trample on everything.

Assuming that the suspect Qiu Zimo killed for profit, the profit must be at least three times.

This doesn't refer to one year's salary. People can earn that much in three years. How could they possibly commit a crime?

Rather, it refers to the amount of money a person can probably earn in his lifetime, multiplied by at least three times.

For the suspect, it would cost at least tens of millions of dollars to do it.

This is just the most conservative and is just the starting point.

"Doctor, you are a rare person in the entire Dragon Country. You can be said to be the smartest among the smart people."

Xiao Mu said coldly: "Since he killed someone, didn't he think about the consequences?"

"To dare to kill people like this means that you already have a way out. What is that way out?"

"In the end, he died. He was killed by an intelligence agent. How could such a coincidence happen that an intelligence agent appeared?"

"Think about it again: they dare to kill people without restraint, there are huge profits, and there are intelligence personnel. What is the way out?"

"Abroad!" Ye Wu and Zhao Xiaotang said in unison again.

"Yes, abroad."

Xiao Mu nodded. "Then can we assume that he killed people for profit, and that this profit was the same kind of insect-infested fungus that killed people, and that he used this insect-infested fungus to gain profit?"

"Is he demonstrating the horrors of entomogenous fungi and the benefits they can bring to foreign intelligence personnel?"

"Is his goal to get out and sell the insect-infested fungus to intelligence agents in exchange for benefits, to go abroad, or something else?"

"But maybe something went wrong during this process, which is why he was silenced?"

What could be the problem?

Everyone's expressions changed.

"Could it be that……"

Ye Wu's face turned grim. "Have foreign intelligence personnel obtained the formula or cultivation method for this insect-infested fungus?"

"There is another possibility."

A cold look flashed in Zhao Xiaotang's eyes. "The suspect Qiu Zimo isn't the only one who created the insect-infested fungus. He's just an insignificant tool. Is the real person behind this hidden behind the scenes?"

"Instead, someone used him to demonstrate the horrors of the insect-infested fungus, and then murdered him to silence him?"

"The person behind the scenes can then make deals with foreign intelligence personnel and leave?"

This reasoning is equally valid.

"So that's why you're not in a hurry to find that intelligence officer?"

Ye Wu looked at his younger brother with a complicated expression, "Did you guess that this intelligence officer was just a discarded pawn, a forsaken piece of trash?"

"if not?"

Xiao Mu shrugged. "If she's an intelligence officer, who we spotted right away, what else could she be but a pawn? They might even have deliberately released her to delay us, letting us look for her. She might have been silenced by their own people, and we won't be able to find her at all."

"So, we're already late, aren't we?"

Zhao Xiaotang gave a bitter laugh, "Did he run away?"

"No, I didn't run away."

Xiao Mu smiled and said, "Just because they killed people to silence them, it actually proves that they didn't run away. If they ran away, why would they kill them? It would be a waste of a discarded person. They could just walk away and be done with it. Why bother taking off their pants to fart?"

That’s right… Ye Wu and Zhao Xiaotang’s eyes lit up.

Then why not run?

"When someone demonstrates the horrors of an entomogenous fungus, of course we have to sit down and talk."

Xiao Mu's eyes were cold, "If the price is too little, can you still sell it?"

Everyone tacitly showed an expression of "I see."

Xiao Mu stretched and a smile appeared on his face.

"Let's go and see what country's cattle and horses they are from!"