I Sent You to Take the College Entrance Exam, and You Ended Up Solving a Murder Case?! - Chapter 26

He closed his eyes, his consciousness sinking into his mind.

A pale blue light screen appeared before my eyes.

[Visual Analysis (Intermediate): Can process 4 video windows simultaneously, supporting playback speeds up to 16x.]

Experience Points: 2150

This is it.

After the last capture of Wang Bin’s gang, the system rewarded me with 1,000 experience points, which, combined with what I had accumulated before, was just enough.

“System, upgrade visual analysis.”

[Do you wish to spend 2000 experience points to upgrade “Visual Analysis” to Advanced?]

“yes.”

A faint warmth welled up from the depths of my mind and instantly swept over my eyes.

Everything in the world before my eyes became crystal clear.

[Visual Analysis (Advanced): Can process 16 video windows simultaneously, supporting playback speeds up to 36x.]

Chen Mo suddenly opened his eyes.

He looked back at the computer screen and began rapidly typing on the keyboard.

One, two, four, eight… sixteen video windows appeared on the screen simultaneously.

They were neatly arranged. Playback speed: thirty-six times!

On the screen, the light and shadow of the sixteen images flickered wildly at a speed that was completely imperceptible to the naked eye.

But in Chen Mo’s eyes, every figure and the trajectory of every car were clearly discernible.

His fingers flew across the keyboard, clicking the screenshot key incessantly.

“Click”.

“Click click”.

Each key frame was precisely captured and saved into a newly created folder.

Time passed, second by second.

Inside the office, the team members were busy going back and forth, each one so busy that no one noticed their captain’s unusual behavior.

An hour later.

When Wu Che returned to the office with his men, exhausted and carrying a massive amount of copied video data.

Chen Mo leaned back in his chair and let out a long breath.

He has watched all the surveillance footage from the eighteen key cameras, totaling more than ten hours of video.

Inside the folder, forty-six screenshots lay quietly.

“They’re all back?” Chen Mo stood up.

“Captain, the area around Jinxiuyuan is one kilometer away, and the area around Shayuan Street is five hundred meters away.”

“All the surveillance footage from 6 p.m. last night to 1 a.m. is here.”

Wu Che handed over a portable hard drive, his voice hoarse.

Chen Mo took the hard drive but didn’t plug it into the computer.

“Thanks for your hard work.”

He glanced at the wall clock; the hour hand was pointing to three in the morning.

“Guan Yuexing.”

“Here!” Guan Yuexing, who was organizing the documents, immediately stood up straight.

“Let’s order some takeout: barbecue, crayfish, and a few cases of beer.”

Guan Yuexing was taken aback: “Captain, is this… appropriate?”

Uncle Fan’s body was barely cold; how could they be in the mood for food and drink?

“This is an order.” Chen Mo’s tone left no room for doubt. “Only when you’re full will you have the strength to avenge Uncle Fan.”

“yes!”

Half an hour later, a rich aroma of food filled the office.

However, no one touched their chopsticks.

Everyone was gathered around the huge screen in the conference room.

He stared intently at the surveillance footage that Wu Che and the others had just started playing, trying to find the damned murderer from it.

“Come here, everyone.”

Chen Mo’s voice rang out.

He opened each of his takeout boxes and pushed them in front of everyone.

“Eat while watching.”

“Su Chun, connect my computer to the projector.”

“Yes, Captain.” Su Chun immediately got to work and connected the projector.

Chen Mo’s computer desktop was projected onto a huge screen.

He opened a folder named “Uncle Fan”.

The first screenshot appears.

The picture shows the entrance to Jinxiuyuan residential community.

Fan Yuan, dressed in plain clothes, was getting out of a taxi at 9:15 p.m.

“This is Uncle Fan leaving home.”

In the second screenshot, Fan Yuan flags down another taxi on the roadside.

The third photo shows a taxi stopped at the intersection of Shayuan Street.

…

Each screenshot clearly outlines Fan Yuan’s final actions.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at the screen in shock.

They have dozens of people here. They just copied the video back, and haven’t even finished watching it the first time yet.

The captain has actually figured out Uncle Fan’s entire route?

This is incredible efficiency!

After the initial shock came a deeper sense of guilt.

The gap between them and their captain was like an insurmountable chasm.

But then, an even stronger belief rose in everyone’s heart.

With a captain like that leading them, they will definitely be able to avenge Uncle Fan!

“The last one.”

Chen Mo’s voice brought everyone back to reality.

On the screen, there was the entrance to the North Third Alley of Shayuan. Fan Yuan’s figure turned into the alley and completely disappeared from the surveillance camera’s view.

The time was 10:07 PM.

“Next up is someone else.”

Chen Mo closed the folder and opened another folder named “Fan Xiaotian”.

The first screenshot appears.

In the footage, a young man appears under another surveillance camera on Shayuan Street.

He seemed to know the camera was there.

He even raised his head, facing the camera, and gave a strange smile.

“Hold!”

Someone muttered a curse under their breath.

All the team members clenched their fists instantly.

That’s outrageous!

Chen Mo ignored the crowd’s anger and continued playing.

In the second screenshot, Fan Xiaotian follows behind a passerby, cleverly using a blind spot to avoid a key camera.

The third picture shows him at the entrance of North Third Alley of the Sandy Plain.

He and Fan Yuan entered that deadly alley almost one after the other.

The time is 10:08.

“Look, everyone.”

Chen Mo’s finger traced across several screenshots.

“Fan Xiaotian knows the distribution of surveillance cameras here like the back of his hand.”

“He knows where the blind spots are and how to use passersby as cover.”

“But he deliberately exposed himself under certain surveillance cameras, and even provoked us.”

What does this mean?

Chen Mo looked at everyone.

With red eyes and gritted teeth, Wu Che said, “He’s playing us! He wants to prove he’s smarter than us!”

“That’s right.” Chen Mo nodded. “Arrogant, extremely arrogant.”

“He left the wooden sign as a declaration of war.”

“He deliberately revealed his whereabouts because he was enjoying this cat-and-mouse game. He saw himself as the hunter, and we as the prey.”

“So he will definitely leave more clues, because he wants to make sure we can keep up with the pace of his ‘game’.”

Chen Mo’s analysis calmed everyone down.

Anger cannot solve problems; only by understanding the killer’s psychology, like the captain, can one find the flaws.

Just then, the office door was pushed open.

Liu Chengpei, the director of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, walked in. He had clearly not slept all night, with sunken eyes and a tired face.

“Chen Mo, any progress?”

“Director Liu,” Chen Mo immediately stood up, “we’ve just pinpointed part of the suspect’s movements.”

He briefly reported the screenshot on the screen to Liu Chengpei.

After listening, Liu Chengpei patted Chen Mo’s shoulder heavily, his eyes full of approval.

“Good! Good lad! You didn’t disappoint me!”

He glanced at his teammates, whose eyes were bloodshot from exhaustion, and said in a deep voice.

“From now on, I will be in charge of the command center.”

“All internal coordination and information gathering work is assigned to me.”

“All five teams, get out there!”

“Put all your energy into tracking down Fan Xiaotian!”

“Yes!” Chen Mo felt a warmth in his heart.

After seeing Liu Chengpei off, Chen Mo returned to the screen, his gaze sharpening once more.

He zoomed in and zoomed in again on the screenshot of Fan Xiaotian provoking the camera.

“Since he wants us to see him so badly, then we’ll grant his wish.”

“Su Chun, give me this image a super-resolution update, make sure you don’t miss a single pixel!”

Chen Mo stared intently at the magnified face on the screen.

Although most of his face was covered by a mask, the mockery in his eyes was clearly visible.

He suddenly pointed to the bottom right corner of the screenshot, a corner almost completely covered by shadow.

“etc……”

“Zoom in here.”