I Sent You to Take the College Entrance Exam, and You Ended Up Solving a Murder Case?! - Chapter 17

“Okay! Now!”

Lu Mingrui picked up the walkie-talkie.

“Attention all units, target identified! Suspect Luo Xiangfu, residence: Unit 2, Building 3, Xingfuli Community, Room 601!”

“All personnel, target residential area, proceed with the arrest!”

“receive!”

A few short, forceful responses came through the walkie-talkie.

The Passat roared to life, turned around, and sped off toward the Xingfuli residential area.

A dozen minutes later, several police cars silently slipped into the shadows of the Xingfuli residential area.

More than a dozen plainclothes criminal police officers quickly assembled.

“I stayed downstairs to prevent him from jumping out of the window to escape.”

Chen Mo looked at the old residential building in front of him and calmly assigned tasks.

“Okay.” Lu Mingrui nodded, glancing at Wu Che beside him. “Let’s go up.”

“Yes!” Wu Che’s face was full of conviction.

He nodded emphatically to Chen Mo, and then led several capable team members.

Following closely behind Lu Mingrui, he slipped into the building entrance.

In the hallway, motion-sensor lights suddenly turned on and then suddenly turned off.

Chen Mo stood in the darkness downstairs, looking up at the pitch-black window on the sixth floor.

Time passed by, minute by minute.

The surroundings were so quiet that the only sound was the rustling of the wind through the leaves.

Approximately fifteen minutes later.

“Squeak—”

The unit door was pushed open.

Several team members escorted a man out.

That man was Luo Xiangfu.

The pretense of the afternoon was gone from his face, replaced only by despair.

Behind them, two team members were carrying a huge white suitcase.

The suitcase was of a very ordinary design, but it stood out starkly against the night sky.

Wu Che strode up to Chen Mo, lowered his voice, and couldn’t hide his excitement.

“Boss, he confessed everything! As soon as he went in and saw us, his mental defenses collapsed!”

“This suitcase,” Wu Che pointed behind him, “he also admitted that it was used to transport corpses!”

Chen Mo’s gaze fell on the suitcase, his eyes deep.

it’s all over.

“Fall back.”

He uttered two words calmly and turned to walk towards the car.

At 2 a.m., the Criminal Investigation Department of the Municipal Public Security Bureau was brightly lit.

As soon as Chen Mo returned to his office, that familiar mechanical voice rang in his mind again.

[Ding! Congratulations, host! You have successfully solved the “body dumping case” and gained 4000 experience points!]

[Ding! Congratulations, host! You have received an extra reward: 200,000 RMB in cash!]

Chen Mo’s lips curled up slightly, almost imperceptibly.

Inside the interrogation room.

Luo Xiangfu completely broke down and confessed to all his crimes.

He and his tenant, Shi Ying, developed an improper relationship due to a chance encounter during a plumbing repair.

Afterwards, Shi Ying used this as leverage to constantly demand money from him, from a few hundred to several thousand, her appetite growing ever larger.

On the night of the incident, Shi Ying once again made an outrageous demand, asking him for 50,000 yuan.

He threatened to tell his wife if they didn’t give it to him.

Driven to desperation, Luo Xiangfu only wanted to “teach” this greedy woman a lesson.

The two had a heated argument in the room.

In the chaos, Luo Xiangfu accidentally grabbed Shi Ying by the neck. By the time he came to his senses, Shi Ying had already stopped breathing.

A tremendous fear gripped him.

To cover up his crime, he used the large suitcase he had bought for his trip.

The body was transported out of the residential area late at night and abandoned at a desolate construction site.

After hearing the report on the interrogation results, there was a collective sigh in the office.

“Alas, one was greedy and insatiable, the other cowardly and weak, and as a result, they ruined two families.” Yan Guangxiu sighed.

“Yes, if Shi Ying hadn’t been so greedy, or if Luo Xiangfu had chosen to call the police immediately.”

“It shouldn’t have come to this,” Jiang Xiaomiao sighed.

Behind every tragedy lies a series of wrong choices made by human nature.

But despite the sighs, work must go on.

The team members immediately perked up and began organizing the case files and securing the chain of evidence.

The case was not fully closed until Wednesday morning.

It was formally transferred to the First Squadron, which was responsible for subsequent prosecution.

The entire Fifth Squadron withdrew.

In the office, the tense atmosphere that had lasted for several days finally relaxed completely.

Chen Mo looked at the tired but satisfied faces, stood up, and clapped his hands.

“Thank you for your hard work, everyone.”

All eyes turned to them.

“The case is solved. As the new captain, I’d like to treat everyone to a meal.”

“How about hot pot tonight?”

After he finished speaking, the office fell silent for a moment, then erupted in cheers.

“Yay! Long live the captain!”

“It has to be hot pot! And it has to be a nine-compartment hot pot!”

“I can eat two plates of tripe!”

Wu Che walked straight to Chen Mo’s side, punched him on the shoulder, and grinned, “You’re a good friend!”

7 PM.

Inside a famous, long-established hot pot restaurant in Sichuan, the air was thick with steam.

The eleven members of the fifth squadron sat around a large table, filling it to the brim.

The red oil broth was bubbling away, and the aroma of chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns dominated the entire private room.

“Come on, although we have rules against drinking alcohol, we must have a beverage!”

Wu Che raised the glass in his hand, which was full of ice-cold cola.

“Cheers to Team Five! Cheers to Team Chen!”

“cheers!”

Everyone raised their glasses, which clinked together with a crisp sound.

Because they may have to respond to calls at any time and must always have their guns on them, drinking alcohol is strictly prohibited.

But at this moment, the pleasure brought by cola and juice is no less than that of alcohol.

“Boss, let me toast you.”

Qiao Zhoucheng, holding his cup, said to Chen Mo somewhat embarrassedly.

“I was blind to your greatness before, please don’t take it to heart.”

“It’s too formal to say such things.”

Chen Mo picked up his glass, clinked it with his, and drank it all in one gulp. “From now on, we’ll be brothers who eat from the same pot.”

“Yes! We’re all brothers!”

The atmosphere became completely lively.

While enjoying hot pot with tripe and duck intestines, everyone chatted about all sorts of things.

We talked about cases we’d handled before, and the movies we’d recently watched.

Chen Mo didn’t say much, but he always listened to his teammates’ banter with a smile.

He could sense that, after this case, after this meal…

The last rift between him and the team dissipated with the steam from the hot pot.

He was truly accepted.

The next day was Thursday.

As usual, Chen Mo stepped into the office at 7:30 sharp.

The expected empty scene did not appear; instead, it was a bustling and lively scene.

In the entire Fifth Squadron, apart from him and Wu Che, all nine people were at their workstations.

Some were wiping down their equipment, some were organizing supplementary materials from the previous case, and others were discussing something in hushed tones.

Upon hearing the door open, everyone looked up in unison.

Good morning, Captain Chen!

Good morning, Captain!

Greetings came one after another, so enthusiastic that Chen Mo was somewhat surprised.

Guan Yuexing turned around from his seat and grinned.

“Captain Chen, are we going to have to come at this time every day from now on? You’re being too inconvenient.”

“That’s right. We thought that since it was the new captain’s first day officially taking office, we should at least do well, but we still didn’t start as early as you.”

Another team member chimed in.

Stop joking.

Jiang Xiaomiao rolled her eyes at them, then looked at Chen Mo with a smile on her face.

“Team Leader Chen, this is how we welcome you to officially become a member of our Team Five.”

“It was mainly that hot pot dinner last night that completely won us over.”

Qiao Zhoucheng added in a serious tone, which drew a burst of laughter from the office.

The atmosphere was relaxed and harmonious.

Looking at these energetic faces, Chen Mo felt a warmth rise in his heart.

He knew that the meal had an even better effect than he had imagined.

“Alright, everyone stop standing there.” Chen Mo waved his hand. “We’ll have a short meeting in the conference room at 8:30.”

After saying that, he walked towards his private office.

As soon as I pushed open the door, a tall figure followed me in.

It’s Wu Che.