I Sent You to Take the College Entrance Exam, and You Ended Up Solving a Murder Case?! - Chapter 50

“yes!”

The four men stood in a row, each holding a cold metal probe.

“Probe to a depth of at least one meter. Mark any suspicious areas immediately, without hesitation!”

“clear!”

“start!”

At Chen Mo’s command, four probes simultaneously pierced the soil beneath their feet.

The soil in the mountains is loose, especially after being soaked by rainwater, so it is easy to probe down with a probe.

They were giving this land, stained with blood, a thorough “physical examination” in the most primitive way.

Everyone was on tenterhooks.

Each strike might lead to nothingness, or it might… touch a piece of cold bone.

The team moved forward in silence.

More than 30 meters.

All around were the sounds of probes piercing the soil.

Sudden.

“clang.”

A very slight, crisp sound.

Yan Guangxu suddenly stopped and raised his hand.

“Boss, I’m here…”

Chen Mo immediately walked over, and everyone’s eyes were focused on the stationary probe.

“How does it feel?”

“There’s something hard underneath, it doesn’t feel like a rock.”

Yan Guangxu’s voice was somewhat dry.

“I tried the soil next to it, and it was very loose. It was blocked at this point, about 40 centimeters deep.”

Chen Mo took the probe from his hand and carefully inserted it again along the original hole.

really.

After penetrating about forty centimeters, a distinct resistance was felt at the tip of the needle.

Chen Mo did not pull out the probe, but changed the angle and tried again a few centimeters away.

“puff.”

This time, the probe went in without any resistance.

His heart skipped a beat.

Something is wrong!

This is very likely… the fifth burial site!

“Get the tools! Small ones!” Chen Mo’s voice was low, but it was filled with tension.

Just as the team members ran over with entrenching tools and brushes, two blinding headlights approached from afar and stopped outside the cordon.

Liu Chengpei and Lu Mingrui walked over quickly, their faces ashen.

“Chen Mo, how is the situation?” Liu Chengpei’s voice was hoarse from travel.

Chen Mo pointed to the ground: “Director Liu, Lu Ke, there might be… a fifth one.”

Liu Chengpei and Lu Mingrui’s pupils contracted simultaneously.

“dig!”

Liu Chengpei only said one word.

Several team members immediately stepped forward and worked together to move a large rock that was pressing on the surface.

Then, a two-meter square area was marked out, and the excavator was carefully started to dig with an entrenching tool.

A few minutes later, a pit more than 40 centimeters deep was formed.

“stop!”

Chen Mo shouted, put on the gloves he had prepared beforehand, and knelt down directly beside the pit.

He used his hands to dig away the damp soil bit by bit.

Everyone held their breath, watching his movements.

Suddenly, Chen Mo’s hand stopped.

His fingertips touched something hard.

He brushed away the last layer of soil.

A piece of stark white bone suddenly appeared before everyone’s eyes!

Judging from its shape and thickness, it is a human leg bone!

Fifth burial site confirmed!

Liu Chengpei clenched his fist instantly, took a deep breath, and gave the order.

“Expand the search area! All teams, using this location as the center, conduct another round of searching as quickly as possible! Be extremely careful!”

…

Three hours later.

The night grew deeper.

The excavation work at the third, fourth, and fifth burial sites has been completed.

All the skeletal remains were carefully removed and subjected to preliminary on-site examination and numbering by the forensic team.

When the final statistics were presented to Liu Chengpei, even this seasoned detective, who had seen it all, couldn’t help but gasp in surprise.

The first burial site: eight skeletons.

The second burial site: three fresh corpses.

The third burial site: eight skeletons.

The fourth burial site: eight sets of remains.

The fifth burial site: eight sets of remains.

A total of… thirty-five!

The scene was deathly silent.

All the police officers involved in the excavation stood silently to the side.

Looking at the rows of body bags covered with white sheets, the weariness on my face was replaced by a deeper shock.

Just then, the roar of a car engine came from the mountain road again.

Wu Xiubing, the director of the municipal public security bureau, and the deputy director in charge of criminal investigation personally rushed to the scene.

When they got out of the car, they saw a scene that resembled a battlefield.

Even someone in a high position was instantly stunned by the sheer number of corpses.

The deputy director walked quickly to Chen Mo.

“Chen Mo, tell me, is there… anything more?”

Chen Mo slowly shook his head, his gaze sweeping over the five pits that were brightly lit by the searchlights.

His voice was unusually firm.

“there is none left.”

Upon hearing this answer, all the leaders present breathed a barely perceptible sigh of relief.

However, Chen Mo’s next words instantly shattered the previously relaxed atmosphere, sending it plummeting to freezing point.

“But he will continue to kill.”

The deputy director suddenly looked at him: “What do you mean?”

Chen Mo didn’t speak, but simply pointed to the one that stood out from the other among the five burial pits.

The second pitfall.

“Chief, look. In pits one, three, four, and five, there are eight bodies buried in each of them.”

“Only pit number two contains three bodies.”

He paused, then dropped the chilling conclusion that sent shivers down everyone’s spines.

“The killer has his own routine, or rather, a kind of perverse ritual. The ‘slots’ in Pit No. 2 are not yet full.”

“According to the autopsy of forensic doctor Yuan, the most recent body in pit number two died two months ago.”

The vein on the deputy director’s temple throbbed uncontrollably.

His lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but in the end it just turned into a sigh.

“Thirty-five…before that…could there have been more?”

This question reflects the sentiments of everyone present.

If Chen Mo hadn’t discovered the pattern, if this unexpected discovery hadn’t happened…

So how many unknown evils are buried beneath this desolate mountain?

Could this number be even more terrifying?

Chen Mo’s gaze swept across the solemn faces.

He understood the leaders’ concerns.

“That’s possible.”

He readily admitted it.

“But it’s not very meaningful to dwell on how many people were buried in the past.”

Chen Mo changed the subject, his sharp gaze returning to the five huge pits.

“What I really want to know now is why the murderer buried them here?”

“And they are buried so intensively in this small area.”

This question stunned everyone.

The area surrounding Shucheng is filled with countless desolate mountains and wilderness.

If the only purpose was to dispose of the body and cover up the crime, the murderer could have easily scattered and buried the body in different places.

Doing so would undoubtedly greatly increase the difficulty of the police search, and might even prevent these crimes from ever being discovered.

But he refused.

He’s like a stubborn collector who insists on putting all his “collections” in the same display case.

This is illogical.

Unless… he has some specific purpose that he must accomplish here!

Chen Mo started walking slowly around the five pits.

Pit 1, Pit 2, Pit 3, Pit 4, Pit 5…

His steps were slow, but his eyes were like the most precise scanner.

They continuously measured and compared the spatial relationships between the five burial sites.

Everyone’s eyes unconsciously followed his movements.

The scene was eerily quiet, with only the rustling of the wind through the treetops and the soft sound of Chen Mo’s feet on the muddy ground.

As Chen Mo walked, he suddenly stopped.