I Sent You to Take the College Entrance Exam, and You Ended Up Solving a Murder Case?! - Chapter 38

Although the cases were not particularly complex, they kept the team members operating at a high efficiency.

In one of the series of burglaries, the suspect had extremely high psychological defenses, and the interrogation once reached a stalemate.

Chen Mo requested a separate interrogation.

Half an hour later, he pushed open the door and went out. Inside, the stubborn habitual offender was crying his eyes out.

He not only confessed to all his crimes, but also exposed the entire stolen goods ring.

No one knows what exactly happened in the interrogation room during that half hour.

Wu Che and the others simply assumed that their captain’s interrogation skills were superb and his intimidating presence was too strong.

Only Chen Mo himself knew the truth at the last moment.

He used that ability that he couldn’t easily reveal to others—hypnosis.

That was his deepest secret, and also his last trump card in solving the case.

That afternoon, the office of the fifth team was unusually quiet.

Some team members were organizing files, while others were maintaining equipment.

Su Chun, meanwhile, was staring at the computer screen, his fingers flying across the keyboard, seemingly fiddling with some new program.

“Ring ring—!”

The office was suddenly shattered by the jarring ring of the telephone.

Jiang Xiaomiao, who was closest, immediately grabbed the microphone.

“Hello, this is the Fifth Criminal Investigation Team.”

After hearing something said on the other end of the phone, Jiang Xiaomiao’s expression instantly turned serious.

“Understood! We’ll dispatch the police immediately!”

She put down the phone and stood up abruptly.

“team leader!”

All eyes immediately turned to Chen Mo.

“Command center order!” Jiang Xiaomiao spoke very quickly.

“A female corpse has been found in apartment 1707, building 17, ‘Tianyu Huafu’ residential complex in the High-tech Zone! The technical investigation team has been dispatched!”

Rotting corpse!

Those two words made the air in the office freeze instantly.

Chen Mo’s eyes suddenly sharpened, almost without the slightest hesitation.

“Everyone assemble!”

“Get to the scene!”

With sirens blaring, four police cars sped out of the municipal police station compound and headed towards the high-tech zone.

Twenty minutes later, the convoy arrived at the foot of “Tianyu Huafu”.

This is a high-end apartment complex with a quiet environment and tight security.

Chen Mo jumped out of the car, looked up at the towering residential building, and frowned almost imperceptibly.

“Lu Hui, take Guan Yuexing and Jiang Xiaomiao to the property management office and copy all the surveillance footage from the last two weeks.”

“Focus on thoroughly inspecting all entrances and exits of Building 17! Also, take statements from the security guards on duty today!”

“yes!”

“Qiao Zhoucheng, take Su Chun and find the person who reported the crime and the surrounding neighbors. Take their statements separately and find out what happened!”

“receive!”

“Old Wu, come upstairs with me!”

The team members immediately scattered and sprang into action.

Chen Mo and Wu Che quickly stepped into the elevator and went straight to the 17th floor.

As soon as the elevator doors opened, a faint, cloying, rotten smell wafted into my nostrils.

Police tape had been put up at the end of the corridor, and several police officers from the precinct were stationed there.

A middle-aged man was pacing anxiously.

“Captain Chen, you’ve finally arrived.” The man greeted Chen Mo as if he had seen a savior, and quickly came to greet him.

“Captain Xia, what’s going on?” Chen Mo shook hands with him.

The visitor was Xia Chenglong, the captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the High-tech Zone Branch, who was in charge of the initial coordination work at the scene.

“The deceased was a woman, and her identity is unknown. The body was already highly decomposed.”

Xia Chenglong pointed to the closed door of room 1707 and lowered his voice.

“The strangest thing is that the air conditioner in the room was on, set to 30 degrees Celsius, for heating.”

Thirty degrees, for heating?

Chen Mo’s pupils contracted slightly.

In the early summer weather of Chengdu, turning on the air conditioner is tantamount to heating up the corpse and accelerating its decomposition.

Where is the person who reported the crime?

“It was a cleaning lady. She smelled something was wrong while cleaning the hallway, so she contacted the property management. They couldn’t open the door, so they called the police.”

Xia Chenglong replied, “Our technical investigation team is currently conducting an investigation inside.”

Chen Mo nodded, took out shoe covers, gloves and a mask from the survey kit that Wu Che handed him, and quickly put them on.

“Old Wu, you coordinate things outside.”

He turned and gave instructions to Guan Yuexing, who had followed him.

“Immediately check the electricity bill details for room 1707 for the past two weeks, down to the day!”

“Yes!” Guan Yuexing immediately turned around and went to do it.

Chen Mo took a deep breath and pushed open the door to room 1707.

“vomit–“

Even with his extensive experience, when the extremely strong stench of corpses mixed with the strange smell of perfume hit him, he was still shaken.

Chen Mo still felt a wave of physical nausea.

The whole room was like a giant steamer, stuffy and hot.

The living room was simply furnished, but it was kept quite tidy and didn’t look like there had been any fighting.

The technical investigation team was working busily in the living room and bedroom, with flashes going off frequently.

A woman wearing a white coat and goggles walked over.

She is Yuan Weiguang, a famous and beautiful forensic doctor in the Technical Investigation Division of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

“Chen Mo, you’re here.” Yuan Weiguang’s voice sounded somewhat muffled through his mask.

“What’s going on?”

“The deceased was a woman, and the estimated time of death was more than a week ago. She had already shown signs of gigantism and was in the third stage of decomposition.”

Yuan Weiguang pointed to the large bed in the bedroom.

“No obvious sharp or blunt force injuries were found on the body, nor were there any signs of strangulation, so mechanical asphyxiation has been preliminarily ruled out as the cause of death.”

Chen Mo’s gaze passed over her and landed on the bedroom.

Lying on the bed was a corpse that was no longer recognizable as human, completely naked, with skin that had an eerie blackish-green hue.

“I found a bottle of sleeping pills on the bedside table, with only one pill left.”

Yuan Weiguang added, “The specific cause of death will have to wait for the autopsy report.”

Chen Mo stepped into the bedroom and carefully inspected every item in the room.

Cosmetics on the dressing table, clothes hanging in the wardrobe, a few books scattered on the floor…

“Captain!” Wu Che’s voice came from the doorway.

“The deceased’s cell phone and ID card were found in a bag in the living room!”

He was holding up an evidence bag.

“The phone is password protected, I can’t unlock it.”

“Where’s your ID card?”

Wu Che handed the evidence bag to Chen Mo.

The girl in the photo is very young.

Name: Song Yin.

Place of origin: Gansha Province.

Occupation: None.

“Investigate.” Chen Mo’s voice was cold and decisive.

“Investigate all of Song Yin’s social connections, call records, spending records, everything!”

“yes!”

At this moment, Lü Hui and Qiao Zhoucheng also returned to report.

“Captain, the property security guards don’t recognize the deceased. They said the apartment was a short-term rental and the registered tenant was a man.”

“The surveillance footage has been copied back, and the amount of data is huge.”

“The neighbors and the building manager all said that they haven’t seen the girl in the past week or so.”

“But occasionally you can see a strange man going in and out of 1707.”

A strange man.

Chen Mo’s gaze fell back on the rotting corpse.

“Check all pharmacies in the city to see if there are any records of Song Yin purchasing sleeping pills.”

“clear!”

The forensic doctor carefully placed the body into a body bag and carried it out.

The room suddenly felt much emptier, but the aura of death seemed to seep into every inch of the walls.

The team members also completed the evidence collection work in the surrounding area and temporarily withdrew from the room.

Chen Mo did not move.

He stood alone in the middle of the empty room, his eyes closed.

It was as if they were using their sense of smell and touch to reconstruct everything that happened at the time of the crime.

After a long while, he opened his eyes and had the police officers guarding the door seal the door completely.

Even after leaving the apartment building, the nauseating, sweet, and rotten smell seemed to linger on the nasal mucosa, refusing to dissipate.

Chen Mo opened the car door, sat in the passenger seat, lit a cigarette, but didn’t smoke it.

He simply held it between his fingers, letting the scarlet flame flicker in the dimly lit carriage.

“Back to the station.”

“Yes, Captain.”

The car started and merged into the city’s traffic.