Chapter 412: One Step Too Late

Inside the Insurance Company, Xu Mo found a computer, took out his phone, and dialed the number the manager had given him.

In an abandoned factory in the suburbs.

The man in a suit answered the call.

"Hello, is this Mr. Li? This is the bank. We've detected a one‑million transfer on your bank card. Are you aware of this transfer?"

"Oh, I'm aware; I bought an elephant."

Xu Mo: "……"

After two seconds of silence, Xu Mo spoke again.

"Then what exactly is the purpose of buying the elephant?"

The suited man, while wiping blood from his hand with a pocket handkerchief, spouted nonsense: "Hey, ant."

Xu Mo: "……"

The brief call ended; Xu Mo had already pinpointed the other party's phone location via the computer, so there was no need to continue.

He didn't immediately announce the Police's involvement because Xu Mo feared alerting the culprits.

He exploited the fact that many people now like to answer scam calls and chat with scammers, teasing their psychology, and successfully exchanged a few words to obtain the phone's location.

After obtaining the location, Xu Mo hung up without another word.

Inside the abandoned factory.

The suited man also realized the 'scammer' had hung up, and couldn't help but mutter, "No professional etiquette at all."

…

Han Fei and the others were at this moment preparing to review the surveillance around the Insurance Company, hoping to see if any clues could be obtained.

At that moment, Xu Mo, who had been absent for a while, reappeared.

"Where did you just go?" Han Fei asked upon seeing Xu Mo again.

"I have a hunch," Xu Mo said briefly: "The Insurance Company's boss is also very suspicious. I just used the phone number to locate his whereabouts; he's now in the suburbs. Let's go check it out."

"The suburbs!?" Han Fei showed interest.

Why would the Insurance Company's boss, all proper, run off to the suburbs?

That is indeed a bit suspicious.

"I'll tell you the specifics on the way; no time to waste, let's head to the suburbs," Xu Mo said, nodding.

Han Fei, without a second thought, agreed to Xu Mo's suggestion to go see the suburbs.

He was worrying about where to start the investigation, and Xu Mo turned around and gave him a direction.

"Well done! I'll have to commend you later..." Han Fei thought to himself.

He left a Team One of police officers at the Insurance Company, and the rest all got into the vehicle, preparing to follow Xu Mo to the location he had found.

On the road.

Xu Mo explained his thoughts in detail.

"It's been several hours since the incident, and there's no reason the Insurance Company's boss wouldn't come to check the progress; that's very suspicious..."

Han Fei's eyes lit up as he listened.

Exactly!

He had indeed overlooked that point.

The Insurance Company's boss hasn't shown up yet; the manager has been handling everything alone.

Is the Insurance Company's boss not anxious?

Considering the company's insurance vault was robbed, the loss would be enormous for him, yet he hasn't even missed a beat; this is indeed suspicious.

Moreover, Xu Mo had just located the Insurance Company's boss; he's now in the suburbs... With such a major incident at the company, the boss not coming to the office but heading to the suburbs is very odd.

When things go awry, there must be a hidden culprit.

Hearing Xu Mo's analysis, the three police officers in the car who were there to learn also couldn't help but nod in agreement.

Xu Mo truly has skill, with meticulous thinking and extraordinary intelligence!

The clue everyone overlooked was thought of only by Xu Mo; up to now, the direction of this case has been driven entirely by him.

Although they haven't yet identified the thieves, Xu Mo's ability to uncover clues is something they should learn from.

The three of them silently took out small notebooks and jotted down a few notes.

…

A little over an hour later.

Several police cars stopped in front of an abandoned factory in the suburbs.

The lead police car was driven by Xu Mo; he had the location, so he was responsible for leading the way.

The doors opened, and Xu Mo, Han Fei, and the three police officers who came to learn stepped out of the vehicle.

The officers in the police cars behind also got out in succession.

At that moment, everyone's gaze focused on a corpse at the factory entrance.

This is the second corpse discovered in this case so far.

Xu Mo stepped forward to examine the corpse.

"The body still has residual warmth, and livor mortis hasn't formed... Death occurred no more than two hours ago; the fatal wound pierces the chest from the back, a single killing blow."

Xu Mo, somewhat annoyed, said, "We're a step behind again."

Looking at the corpse, the officers fell silent again as a group.

Another murder to silence a witness.

"These scumbags... they really go all out," Wang Dachuan said angrily.

Every time the investigation shows a hint, the clues are cut off.

"Sss...", suddenly, Xu Mo, who was staring at the corpse, made a discovery.

"That's an Escapee!"

Before joining the Police Station, Xu Mo had once looked at the Bounty notice, and he had recorded every Escapee with a bounty on them.

The dead man before him was one of them; his bounty was one hundred thousand.

"Escapee?" a police officer looked at Xu Mo.

Xu Mo recited the information he had seen on the Bounty notice.

"Wang Baoguo, thirty-two, caught in the act of burglary, killed a family of four, and has been on the run ever since..."

But the discovery was of no use.

The fact that the deceased was an Escapee provided no useful clues.

So Xu Mo gave a brief statement, then stopped paying attention to the corpse and instead observed the other clues around.

On the barren ground surrounding the dead man, Xu Mo discovered tire tracks.

Not only Xu Mo, but the other police officers also noticed the tire tracks.

Earlier, everyone's attention had been on the corpse, so no one noticed elsewhere; after examining the body, the group naturally noticed the tire tracks left on the ground.

"Based on the tire width and the depth of the tracks, it looks like a truck made them," the experienced Han Fei crouched for a few seconds and gave his conclusion.

Li Chen's eyes lit up at that, and he picked up the thread.

"A truck... the cargo on it should be the stolen goods, right? If we can locate that truck, wouldn't we be able to recover the stolen items? Han Team, we must act quickly, we..."

At that moment, Xu Mo suddenly interrupted Li Chen, "Wait, there's a problem..."