I Sent You to Take the College Entrance Exam, and You Ended Up Solving a Murder Case?! - Chapter 61

“Especially people near the bar area!”

“Have them take the photo to the staff who are soliciting customers and see if anyone remembers this figure!”

“yes!”

“Furthermore,” Chen Mo looked up at the still-congested crowd, “spread the word and speed up the passage!”

Now that the suspect’s physical characteristics have been identified, this level of investigation is meaningless.

The real search is only just beginning!

Once the order was given, the speed of passage at the West Street intersection increased dramatically.

Less than five minutes later, a police officer ran over with a young man.

“Captain Chen! He’s a tout at Zero Degree Bar, and he says he has a lead!”

The young man was clearly frightened by the scene and looked at Chen Mo with trembling eyes.

“Officer… Officer, the person in the photo… I think I’ve seen him before.”

Chen Mo’s heart skipped a beat.

He handed over the tablet, which displayed a screenshot of the man in the baseball cap.

“Take a closer look and think it through before you speak.”

The tout stared at the screen for a long time, his brow furrowed.

“The build and hat are very similar… There was such a person around 1 a.m. last night.”

“They stood by the flower bed diagonally opposite our bar for a long time.”

“When I tried to solicit business from him, he impatiently told me to get lost.”

The tout tried hard to recall.

“However… I remember he seemed to wear glasses, black-rimmed, and he looked very refined.”

“He doesn’t seem like a bad person. He’s not very old either, I feel… I feel like he’s not even thirty.”

Wearing black-rimmed glasses? Refined?

This seems somewhat different from the cold and sinister image seen in the surveillance footage.

Human memory is prone to distortion under stress and after the passage of time.

Seeing the uncertain look in the tout’s eyes, Chen Mo made a decision in an instant.

He needs to get the most accurate information!

“Don’t be nervous, look me in the eyes.”

Chen Mo’s voice softened, becoming guiding, “Are you willing to trust me and cooperate with our work?”

“I…I’m willing.” The tout nodded subconsciously.

“Very good, now, relax… You don’t need to think about anything, just follow my voice and go back to last night…”

Wang Feng watched with his heart pounding.

He knew that Captain Chen was going to use that trick again.

Just a minute later, the tout’s body trembled slightly, his eyes refocused, but his face was blank.

“What did you remember?” Chen Mo asked.

“I…I remember now.”

The tout’s tone was absolutely certain.

“He wore black-rimmed glasses, looked quite refined, and was under thirty years old.”

“When I was talking to him, he looked up slightly, and under the brim of his hat, there were those glasses! No doubt about it! It was him!”

Memory bias has been ruled out!

At this moment, the image of the murderer became crystal clear!

He wears a baseball cap and black-rimmed glasses, has a refined appearance, and is under thirty years old!

“Attention everyone!”

Chen Mo immediately picked up the walkie-talkie.

“Suspect’s latest characteristics: Male, under 30 years old, wearing a black baseball cap and black-rimmed glasses, with a refined appearance! Repeating…”

However, half an hour later, the last person was allowed to pass.

The entire Red Line Street was completely cleared out.

Wang Feng walked up to Chen Mo, his face looking rather grim.

“Team Leader Chen, the investigation has been completed, and no suspect matching the description has been found.”

“All shops and stairwells within the locked-down area have been searched, but nothing was found.”

Before the police could lay a trap, the ghostly killer had already vanished without a trace.

Wang Feng’s fists clenched so tightly they cracked, his face filled with resentment.

“Damn it! Just a little bit more!”

Chen Mo didn’t speak, but just looked down at the image of the back view captured from the surveillance footage on the tablet.

Although the arrest failed, the case has taken a decisive turn.

For the first time, they saw what the murderer looked like.

Chen Mo stretched out his finger and gently tapped the head of the man wearing a baseball cap on the screen.

“No.”

“He didn’t run away.”

“He practically offered himself up to us.”

What does this sentence mean?

Wang Feng couldn’t figure it out, and he was too lazy to think about it. All he wanted to do now was catch that bastard and rub his head on the ground.

Chen Mo’s finger slid lightly across the screen, zooming in on the photo again and again.

The image quality was so blurry that only the outlines of the baseball cap and glasses could be barely discerned.

“Could a serial killer with a 14-year history of crimes be this young?”

Not yet thirty years old.

This is the most accurate memory extracted from the solicitor’s mind through hypnosis.

However, this creates the most acute contradiction with the fact that the crime lasted for fourteen years!

Fourteen years ago, a murderer who was not even thirty years old—how old was he back then?

Is this possible?

“Captain Chen, do you mean… that tout’s memory is still inaccurate?” Wang Feng frowned.

“No, his memory is fine.”

Chen Mo shook his head and turned off the tablet.

“The problem lies in our approach.”

“What if there’s more than one murderer?”

More than one?!

Wang Feng’s pupils suddenly contracted!

“You mean… a copycat crime?”

“No, it’s more terrifying than that.” Chen Mo’s eyes deepened. “For example, father and son.”

hiss–!

Wang Feng gasped, a chill running from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.

An old devil who has been at large for fourteen years has raised a little devil to inherit his mantle.

If that’s the case, then the complexity of this case will need to be reassessed!

“Have that tout go to the Municipal Bureau immediately and find experts from the technical team to create a jigsaw puzzle of the person. It needs to be done quickly!”

Chen Mo immediately issued the order.

“Let’s go after him!”

“Chase him? He’s vanished without a trace, where are we supposed to chase him?” Wang Feng looked bewildered.

Chen Mo did not answer, but walked directly to the command vehicle.

“Monitoring center! This is Chen Mo! Immediately pull up all the surveillance footage from the west entrance of Hongxian Street, starting from half an hour ago!”

“I’m tracking down a young man wearing a black baseball cap and black-rimmed glasses!”

“Received! Tracking!”

Chen Mo, along with Wang Feng and several team members, jumped into the police car.

With engines roaring and sirens deliberately turned off, the vehicle silently blended into the city night.

Soon, the urgent voice of the monitoring center technician came through the vehicle radio.

“Report to Captain Chen! Target spotted! He came out from the west entrance of Hongxian Street.”

“We didn’t take any transportation; instead, we walked and turned into the adjacent Yueyue Alley!”

“Leyue Lane?”

Wang Feng’s expression instantly turned serious.

That was a well-known old alleyway area in Chengdu, with countless side streets and a pitifully small number of surveillance cameras.

Once he gets inside, it’s like a fish entering the ocean!

“All vehicles, block all exits of Yueyue Lane!”

“First squad, second squad, follow me inside to search!”

Chen Mo’s command was brief and forceful.

A few minutes later, more than a dozen police officers rushed into the narrow and dark Yueyue Alley.

“Damn it, there isn’t even a light here!” Wang Feng cursed as he turned on his flashlight.

Several beams of powerful flashlight beams swept back and forth in the dark alley, illuminating every corner.

“Team Leader Chen! Over here!”

Wang Feng, who was walking at the front, suddenly stopped and fixed the beam of his flashlight on an inconspicuous corner of the ground.

The crowd immediately gathered around.