I Sent You to Take the College Entrance Exam, and You Ended Up Solving a Murder Case?! - Chapter 48

“Bang!”

“Bang! Bang!”

The deafening gunshots echoed across the firing range, and the air was thick with the smell of gunpowder.

Chen Mo put down his Type 92 pistol and removed his tactical earmuffs.

He glanced at the target paper in front of him.

All ten bullets hit the bullseye, and the bullet holes almost overlapped.

“hiss……”

A collective gasp came from the side.

The base instructor in charge of tactical coordination came over, looking at the target paper with an incredulous expression.

“Captain Chen, your marksmanship… it’s a waste that you’re not participating in the national competition!”

Chen Mo smiled but didn’t say anything.

For the past two weeks, apart from handling some miscellaneous tasks within the team, all members of the Fifth Squadron have been undergoing closed-door training here.

The content includes live-fire shooting, free fighting, and squad tactical coordination.

Chen Mo personally served as the shooting and combat instructor.

The effect is remarkable.

The rough-looking guys in the Fifth Squadron have now all changed their appearance and spirit.

Both individual abilities and teamwork have improved significantly.

Even Liu Chengpei, the head of the Criminal Investigation Department, personally inspected the Fifth Squad twice and praised its progress.

“Ten-minute break, then we’ll move on to the next round of group matches!” Chen Mo shouted to his teammates.

“yes!”

The team members responded enthusiastically and went to find places to drink water and wipe their sweat.

Chen Mo had just unscrewed a bottle of mineral water when his phone in his pocket started vibrating violently.

It was a call from Director Liu Chengpei.

Chen Mo walked to a quiet corner and pressed the answer button.

“Director.”

“Chen Mo, take everyone from the Fifth Squadron and head to Qingliu County right now.”

“What happened?”

Chen Mo’s heart tightened.

Several bodies have been discovered in Hualong Mountain, Qingliu County.

Liu Chengpei’s voice was very low.

“The Fourth Squadron has already gone there. You are in full command of the scene.”

“I’ll be right there!”

After hanging up the phone, Chen Mo’s expression instantly turned cold.

He turned around and shouted at the team members who were resting.

“Emergency mission!”

All the team members sprang to their feet and quickly lined up in formation.

“Everyone, you have five minutes to change into casual clothes and assemble in the parking lot!”

“Set off!”

“yes!”

The unified shouts echoed throughout the entire training base.

…

A few minutes later.

All members of the Fifth Squadron assembled in the parking lot.

Four police cars with civilian license plates sped off toward Qingliu County.

In the car, Wu Che asked as he drove, “Boss, what’s going on? Why the rush?”

“A body has been found in Hualong Mountain, Qingliu County.”

Chen Mo’s words were concise and to the point.

“A corpse? One?”

“No, it’s several.”

Wu Che’s grip on the steering wheel tightened suddenly.

A corpse, at most, can be considered a murder case.

However, the word “tools” carries a completely different weight.

This often means serial killings or extremely heinous crimes!

More than an hour later, the convoy arrived at the foot of Hualong Mountain in Qingliu County.

The scene before them put pressure on everyone in the Fifth Squadron.

A long cordon has been set up at the entrance to the path leading up the mountain.

There were more than a dozen police cars parked inside and outside the cordon.

In addition to the police, many media reporters and onlookers rushed to the scene, completely blocking the already narrow road.

Several police officers and auxiliary police officers from the branch office were working hard to maintain order.

“Quite a show of force,” Qiu Xiangyang clicked his tongue.

Chen Mo’s gaze swept across the crowd and quickly locked onto three people standing next to a police car.

Two men and one woman, dressed like tourists, were telling a police officer something, their faces still showing signs of shock.

“Qiu Xiangyang, you stay here and take a detailed statement from the person who reported the case.”

Chen Mo immediately gave the order.

“yes!”

“Everyone else, take your survey equipment and follow me up the mountain!”

“yes!”

The group crossed the cordon and hurried up the rugged mountain path.

More than twenty minutes later, the group finally arrived at a flat area halfway up the mountain.

This area has been temporarily cleared out, and a second, more stringent cordon has been set up.

The captain of the fourth squadron and Xie Zhao, the criminal investigation captain of the Qingliu branch, were standing at the edge of the cordon, smoking with serious expressions.

Upon seeing Chen Mo arrive with his men, the two immediately went to greet them.

“Captain Chen, you’ve finally arrived.” Xie Zhao said with a bitter expression.

Chen Mo nodded to them as a greeting.

His gaze had already passed over the two men and landed inside the cordon.

Several technical investigation personnel, dressed in protective suits, were carefully working on a patch of freshly turned soil.

Beside them stood Yuan Weiguang, the city bureau’s youngest female forensic doctor.

He was squatting on the ground, conducting a preliminary autopsy on several blackened skeletons.

One, two, three, four.

Four complete skeletons!

Chen Mo’s pupils contracted slightly.

“What’s going on?” he asked in a deep voice.

Xie Zhao sighed and briefly recounted what had happened.

“This afternoon, three hikers came to climb this wild mountain. One of the women needed to relieve herself, so she ran into this forest.”

“As a result, I stepped into thin air and stepped out of the mud and found a piece of finger bone.”

“They were quite bold; they used their hiking poles to dig around and unearthed three bodies, which scared them so much that they immediately called the police.”

“After our branch arrived, we cordoned off the scene.”

“During the initial investigation, technical investigators discovered a fourth burial site nearby.”

Chen Mo’s brows furrowed into a knot.

“Wu Che, take a few people and expand the search area outwards from here to see if there are any other discoveries.”

“yes!”

Wu Che immediately selected a few team members and they disappeared into the nearby dense forest.

Chen Mo put on gloves and shoe covers, crossed the cordon, and walked to Yuan Weiguang’s side.

The atmosphere at the scene was extremely oppressive.

Everyone was silent, with only the sound of camera shutters and shovels digging in the soil.

Chen Mo also squatted down and carefully examined the skeletons.

Just then, Wu Che, who was in charge of expanding the search area not far away, suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

“Boss!”

“Come quick! There seem to be some more over here!”

Hearing Wu Che’s exclamation, Chen Mo’s heart sank, and he immediately turned around and strode towards the direction from which the sound came.

Wu Che was standing by a bush, his face pale, pointing to a small piece of decaying leaves that had been peeled away.

“Boss, look here…”

Chen Mo crouched down and parted the slippery leaves.

A piece of stark white bone protruded abruptly from the black soil.

Judging from its shape, it looks like a shinbone.

“Keep digging!” Chen Mo’s voice was devoid of warmth.

“yes!”

Several technical reconnaissance personnel immediately stepped forward, put on new gloves, picked up small entrenching tools and brushes, and carefully began to clean up.

The soil was peeled away layer by layer.

Soon, more skeletons were revealed.

One after another…

What was initially thought to be just scattered discoveries has become increasingly apparent as the excavation area expands.

This small woodland seemed to have become a forgotten graveyard.

Yuan Weiguang also came over. She only glanced at him before drawing a preliminary conclusion.

“Judging from the shape of the pelvis and the slenderness of the bones, these should all be women.”

Chen Mo silently watched as the forensic investigators cleaned out the skeletons one by one and packed them into evidence bags.

Four.

Five objects.

Six!

Including the four bodies found at the beginning, a total of eight skeletons were unearthed at this first burial site!

And they were all women!

Everyone present felt a chill run from the soles of their feet straight to the top of their heads.

This is practically a dumping ground for a serial killer’s bodies!