I Sent You to Take the College Entrance Exam, and You Ended Up Solving a Murder Case?! - Chapter 57

“However, the time intervals become shorter as time goes on.”

“The time interval between the deaths of the most recent bodies has been shortened to one month, or even two or three weeks.”

“His modus operandi is changing!”

“I suspect that online dating was just one of his early or other methods.”

“As he becomes more and more reckless, he may no longer be satisfied with this inefficient way of ‘hunting’.”

“He is becoming increasingly bold and impatient.”

Liu Degang’s expression instantly turned extremely serious; he seemed to realize what Chen Mo wanted to say.

“What exactly are you trying to say, Chen Mo?”

Chen Mo turned around, his gaze sharp and direct, looking directly at the two leaders.

“I’m worried that he’s started choosing targets randomly.”

“I even suspect that, just when we were at our wits’ end, he may have… already found his thirty-sixth target.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the air in the entire office seemed to freeze.

An unprecedented sense of urgency enveloped everyone’s hearts.

All leads have gone cold.

But that demon was accelerating his carnage.

Wu Xiubing and Liu Degang’s breathing stopped at the same time.

If the previous “Yanbai” was a hunter hiding in the shadows, requiring careful traps to be set…

So a murderer who starts committing crimes randomly is like a mad wolf charging into a flock of sheep.

Any woman who appears in the wrong place at the wrong time could become his next target.

The entire city of Shu will become his hunting ground.

“This…this is just your guess.” Wu Xiubing’s voice was a little dry as he tried to find a glimmer of hope.

“Yes, it’s a guess.”

Chen Mo did not refute; he simply pointed to the increasingly dense death time markers on the whiteboard.

“But this is a speculation that is becoming a reality.”

Liu Degang suddenly stood up, his burly body casting a huge shadow under the light.

He walked to the window and looked down at the bustling city night view.

“If that’s the case, then all our previous investigative approaches were wrong.”

Just then, the office door was pushed open again.

Wu Che led two team members in, looking travel-worn.

“Boss, Director Wu, Director Liu.”

Seeing that all three leaders were in the office, Wu Che was taken aback, and then immediately reported.

“We visited the families of two other confirmed victims, and the situation was basically consistent with their police reports.”

He paused, then took out a record.

“One of the victims had met a man named ‘Mo Yu’ on social media before he went missing.”

“We chatted for about a month and agreed to meet at the wetland park in the west of the city, but then I lost contact with them.”

“The other deceased was known online as ‘Baiheju’.”

“This person was very cautious and had met the deceased once in Chunxi Road in the city center.”

“People were coming and going at the time, and nothing happened. The deceased thought he was normal and let his guard down.”

“A week later, at the second meeting, he disappeared.”

Wu Che’s expression was very unpleasant.

“We had our technical investigation colleagues check, and they found the accounts ‘Moyu’ and ‘Baiheju’.”

“Like ‘Yanbai,’ it’s an old account that was registered a long time ago and is usually not active. Once it was deactivated, the trail went completely cold.”

This intelligence further confirms the killer’s cunning and ruthless methods.

But after hearing this, Chen Mo’s heart sank even deeper.

Three accounts, three different virtual identities.

Just how many masks did this killer prepare?

Liu Degang turned around, his expression already composed.

“Pack your things, everyone, head to the task force’s new office immediately.”

Half an hour later, a large conference room in the municipal bureau, which had been urgently requisitioned, was brightly lit.

This place became the temporary command center for the task force.

A more detailed map of Shucheng City was hung on the wall.

Next to him were several huge whiteboards, which were already covered with enlarged versions of the documents in Chen Mo’s office.

Liu Degang was appointed as the head of the special task force, while Wu Xiubing and Xu, the deputy director of the provincial department, were appointed as deputy heads.

It has six sub-teams, composed of elite forces drawn from the Municipal Public Security Bureau’s Criminal Investigation Division and various branch bureaus.

Chen Mo’s fifth team is naturally the core force.

At this moment, all the team leaders have arrived and are holding their first meeting.

“…Our team is responsible for visiting villages, towns and factories around the No. 2 burial site.”

“We have investigated more than 300 people with criminal records, but none have been found so far.”

“We are responsible for investigating women who have gone missing in the past five years and whose characteristics match those of the victims. It’s a lot of work and it’s still ongoing.”

“We visited the social connections of the earliest victims, but to no avail.”

One piece of bad news after another arrived, and the atmosphere in the meeting room became so oppressive that it was hard to breathe.

At this moment, a squad leader in charge of computer technology stood up.

“Director Liu, we have the social media records of the fifteen women who have been murdered in the past two years.”

“After a re-examination and cross-comparison, a previously overlooked discovery was made.”

All eyes immediately turned to that direction.

“These fifteen victims include the three already confirmed.”

“The remaining twelve people had more or less contact with some accounts that behaved strangely before they disappeared.”

“These accounts use different usernames and profile pictures, but their behavior patterns are very similar.”

“They all engage in intensive, short-term conversations, followed by a quick proposal to meet in person.”

“Because we had been focusing our attention on ‘Yan Bai’, we overlooked these seemingly unrelated clues.”

Wang Feng, the captain of the first squad, slammed his hand on the table.

“I understand! This beast casts a wide net!”

“He used many accounts at the same time to fish, and he would scam whichever one took the bait.”

“If a target is wary and can’t be fooled online, he’ll turn to offline methods and find an opportunity to take action directly!”

Wang Feng’s deduction caused many people present to gasp in shock.

This undoubtedly raises the level of difficulty in solving the case to another level.

However, Chen Mo added again.

“What Captain Wang said makes sense, but there is an even more crucial point.”

He walked up to the whiteboard.

“The discovery of the second burial site proves that he killed someone almost every two months, or even more than one month, in his later years.”

“Now that the burial site has been exposed, it will be like a whip lashing at his sensitive nerves.”

“He would panic, he would be angry, and he would feel that his ‘work’ had been desecrated.”

“This kind of stimulation is very likely to make him completely change his habits.”

“Including the method of burying the body, and even… the method of choosing the target.”

Chen Mo’s words silenced the crowd, who had just been slightly excited about finding new clues.

Liu Degang’s gaze swept across the entire room, taking in everyone’s expressions.

He knew that now was not the time to discuss the case.

Now is the time to take decisive action.