Chapter 490: What? The murderer

The police officer hoped Xu Mo would go help.

After all, everyone at the Police Station knows and has seen Xu Mo's ability; with Xu Mo present, the pressure on Han Fei's investigations would be much lower.

However, after the officer finished saying that, Xu Mo showed no intention whatsoever of setting off to help.

Instead, he looked with a puzzled expression at the criminal he had just captured beside him.

"What murder case? Briefly tell me about it," Xu Mo asked the officer.

The latter immediately began to speak.

"The reporter is a garbage collector; today, while cleaning the garbage station, he found many Body Fragments in a trash can and then reported it to the Police."

"Where exactly is the garbage station located?"

"Next to No. 489 Xihu Road."

Xu Mo listened, nodded silently, and looked again at the criminal he had captured.

What a coincidence, right?

When he first heard about the murder case, Xu Mo was wondering whether the murderer he had captured was the culprit of this case.

It turned out to be true! The criminal he captured happened to be the murderer of the very homicide the Police Station had just received.

Who could have imagined that just as the Police Station received the report, Xu Mo had already captured the murderer?

When Xu Mo asked for the location of the Throw Corpse, he gave the officer a false impression that he was about to go help Han Fei with the case.

After all, he wasn't planning to go help ask for any address.

Fearing that Xu Mo might be unfamiliar with that part of Xihu Road, the officer volunteered.

"Team Leader Xu, if you're not very familiar with that part of Xihu Road, I can take you there; I'm quite familiar with it,"

Unexpectedly, Xu Mo waved his hand.

"No need." He continued, "I've already captured the murderer—this kid. Call Han Team and have them come back directly; no need to trouble yourselves."

Hearing this, the officer instinctively thought Xu Mo was joking with him.

But seeing Xu Mo's serious expression, with no hint of joking, he was instantly bewildered.

It seemed Team Leader Xu wasn't joking... Could it be that the murderer really was the person he had captured?!

But the problem is the Police Station had only just received the report! By the time, Han Team should have just arrived at the scene and probably hadn't even finished surveying it yet.

And yet at this moment, Team Leader Xu claimed the murderer had already been captured by him???

For a moment, the officer's eyes widened considerably; even now, he still found it hard to believe.

Seeing the officer's dumbfounded, incredulous look, Xu Mo simply took out his phone and prepared to call Han Fei, asking him to bring his men back.

Meanwhile.

Beside the garbage station near No. 489 Xihu Road.

After the officers arrived, they immediately set up a police cordon here and dispersed the surrounding Onlookers who were trying to watch the spectacle.

Mainly because the scene was too gory; it's best to keep ordinary people from seeing such a sight.

Since Xu Mo wasn't present this time, Han Fei came out with the forensic doctor; at this moment, the gloved forensic doctor was collecting Body Fragments, preparing to take a quick look at the corpse.

"The deceased is a male, about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old; time of death is within twenty-four hours, and the cause of death appears to be massive blood loss from the neck's major artery being cut."

Since Xu Mo joined the Police Station, most of the forensic doctor's workload has been offloaded, leaving only the need for more meticulous autopsies; when Xu Mo is busy investigating and has no time for autopsies, the forensic doctor becomes useful.

The reason is that Xu Mo's skill in autopsies is also high; a single glance at a corpse can yield many conclusions.

With Xu Mo present, the forensic doctor need not come along; Xu Mo can do the work, and his autopsy speed surpasses the forensic doctor's. Investigations always value speed, even a one‑minute advantage is beneficial.

Accustomed to Xu Mo's autopsy speed, Han Fei felt a slight dissatisfaction with the forensic doctor's slower pace.

Xu Mo only needs a single glance at the scene to draw conclusions, whereas the forensic doctor must examine painstakingly for a long time, almost as if using a magnifying glass to scrutinize the corpse inch by inch.

If only Xu Mo were here, the autopsy speed would be far better! Han Fei thought.

"Anything else?" Han Fei asked the forensic doctor.

"That's all,"

Seeing the forensic doctor shake his head, Han Fei's voice suddenly rose considerably.

"That's it?"

You spent ages looking and only determined the time of death and cause of death?

You should know that Xu Mo can extract a lot of information from a corpse, sometimes even deducing the deceased's gender, height, and weight—key data that saves a lot of investigative effort.

The forensic doctor also sensed a hint of dissatisfaction in Han Fei's words and forced a wry smile, saying.

"Han Team, this corpse's condition differs from what Team Leader Xu has examined before; it's fragmented, making the autopsy much harder than with an intact body. Even if Team Leader Xu were to handle it, he wouldn't be able to discern much more,"

The forensic doctor thought, it's truly not a matter of his professional competence.

Rather, fragmented bodies are inherently difficult to autopsy; being broken up like this makes the autopsy far harder than with an intact body. Finding the fatal wound among these Body Fragments is already tough; even if Xu Mo were to handle it, he could probably only manage up to this point.

Determining the killer's gender and even height from superficial wounds is something the forensic doctor can also do, but on this corpse he cannot discern those details due to the conditions.

Han Fei superficially nodded, "Alright..."

In truth, he had already ranked Xu Mo's and the forensic doctor's autopsy methods in his mind, believing Xu Mo's approach to be superior to that of the station's forensic doctor.

The trash can's Body Fragments consisted only of the torso; the head was missing, likely discarded elsewhere by the murderer.

This means the Police cannot even determine the victim's identity.

Currently, the clues they have are pitifully few: the victim is a male in his twenties, and his time of death is within twenty‑four hours.

Additionally, there is no surveillance near the garbage station, so the officers cannot obtain clues from cameras.

Just as Han Fei was at a loss, his phone suddenly rang.

Irritated by the lack of usable clues, Han Fei pulled out his phone, saw that the call was from Xu Mo, and his irritation instantly eased by half.

Help is here!

The moment the call connected, both sides spoke at once.

"Xu Mo, your call comes at just the right time; I was just about to look for you…"

"Han Team, you don't need to investigate that Fragmented Corpse Case any further; just return to the Police Station, I've already caught the murderer."

When those words were spoken, Han Fei on the other end of the line fell silent for a long while.

His mind needed time to react.

What did Xu Mo say? He already caught the murderer of this case?

I haven't even sorted out the clues on my side, and he already caught the murderer?!