Li hurriedly tried to ease the awkwardness. "Forensic Doctor Du, how about... you let me do it?"
Du Muhan's gaze was cold and fathomless as it slowly shifted to him. "A police officer from the Special Task Force who throws up at the sight of a corpse—you might as well go home and farm."
With that, he stuffed the shoe covers into his pocket, picked up his toolbox, crossed the cordon, and calmly headed toward the ditch.
Li: "..."
What was wrong with being a police officer? He was a rookie! He had only joined less than two months ago and had never faced a scene like this before.
He had heard it was a headless corpse, and that the body was severely decomposed, as if it had been soaked in sulfuric acid or something similar. A scene like this...
...He was a rookie. Throwing up a little was normal, right?
Right?
When Li looked up and saw Su Qiao standing calmly in front of the corpse covered by a plastic sheet, putting on medical gloves and lifting a corner of the sheet to examine the body, he could no longer convince himself that it was "right."
Then he turned and saw Su Xiyan standing beside the team leader with a pale face yet still holding her ground, and his shoulders drooped again.
Sigh. Why were women these days more formidable than the last?
Could it be that the corpse actually wasn't all that frightening?
Had his buddies been pulling his leg?
Li swallowed, steeled himself, and walked over with a deliberately calm expression. He stood beside Su Qiao and glanced beneath the sheet covering the corpse.
"Ugh!"
Li hurriedly covered his mouth and ran backward with a look as if he had seen a ghost.
The corpse really had