Chapter 527: If You Can Keep Up with Team Leader Xu, You're Lucky—Enjoy It Quietly

During lunch, the officers discussed the case from three years ago.

To say the least, that case from three years ago had given them a huge headache for a long time, and even Han Fei was at a loss.

Back then, to investigate the case, the officers stayed up night after night pondering it, and they flipped through the files and scene photos countless times.

However, no matter how hard they tried to clarify that case, there was still no progress; after the whole team wrestled with it for over three months, they finally chose to temporarily shelve the case.

They originally thought the case would stay open until the day they retired, but who knew... Xu Mo solved the case in just half a morning!

He used only half a morning to eclipse the three-plus months of effort from the whole team!

"Team Leader Xu must be a monster, solving that case so easily?"

"We only started looking at the file at eight, caught the murderer by ten past, and by before eleven the case was closed; all in all it took just over two hours!"

"Seriously outrageous, I remember we spent over three months on that case and still couldn't figure it out, yet Team Leader Xu is awesome!" ωωw.. net

"Three months? Is it really that exaggerated? We investigated for three months and still couldn't clear it... What was that case like? I didn't even get to see the file before it was solved. Li Chen, tell me about it," the officer Xiao Zhang, who had been in the team for less than half a year, asked curiously.

Li Chen swallowed the rice in his mouth, lifted his drink for a sip, then waved his hand and said.

"Not exaggerated at all, truly we investigated for over three months. As for the file... showing it to you is useless. I can responsibly tell you that the file contains not a single clue, and I still don't understand how Team Leader Xu solved the case."

"You just joined and got to catch Team Leader Xu's arrival; consider yourself lucky, you caught a good day," Li Chen continued, "Do you know how long it normally takes to crack a major case?"

Xiao Zhang thought for a moment and replied, "Half a day?"

Before Li Chen could speak, he shook his head himself, rejecting the idea: "Half a day is too short; it should be one or two days, at most no more than three days."

Xiao Zhang had only been at the Police Station a short while when Xu Mo arrived, and from then on, none of the cases the Police Station received could go over twenty-four hours without being solved.

Consequently, Xiao Zhang even began to think that this should be the normal speed of solving cases at the Police Station.

"Hehe..." Li Chen couldn't help rolling his eyes.

"You really caught a good time, you can even say that major cases take at most three days? Let me tell you, before Team Leader Xu arrived, the major cases our Police Station handled usually started at a week, and many took half a month to a month to investigate."

"Everything only improved after Team Leader Xu came. Back then we would investigate for one or two days without closing our eyes, three to five days without going home—it was routine. Every time we got a case, the busyness... after finishing and going home, my mother almost didn't recognize me."

"At that time, the idea of solving a major case within a day was something I wouldn't even dream of; being able to go home for dinner on time was basically nonexistent in our line of work, and no Police Station could guarantee a case solved within a day."

"Xiao Zhang, keep that talk to our Police Station. If you say it elsewhere, people will berate you to death; it sounds pretentious, and heavily so!"

Xiao Zhang subconsciously frowned after hearing it, wondering if Li Chen was really being that exaggerated.

Can't be, watching Team Leader Xu solve cases... seems pretty easy!

Seeing Xiao Zhang's expression, Li Chen simply stopped saying more, just smiled: "Now that you're with Team Leader Xu, just enjoy yourself. These days compared to before are damn happy; we get a report in the morning and can still get home for dinner on time at night... Back then, I wouldn't even dare dream this big."

After saying that, he didn't care about Xiao Zhang's reaction and kept eating.

Xiao Zhang was still a bit puzzled, so he messaged his roommate from the Police Academy to ask.

"Haozi, how are you doing over in Jinling? Have you encountered any major cases? How long does your Police Station usually take to solve a case?"

Haozi: "Of course we've encountered them; solving a case usually takes a week or two, sometimes a month. Why are you asking?"

Xiao Zhang: "Huh? How come your cases take so long to solve? Are you sure you're not messing with me? Over here we solve any case within at most twenty-four hours..."

Haozi: "?"

The next second, Xiao Zhang got a WeChat call from his college roommate, whose nickname is Haozi.

"What? What does 'you send' mean? Huh?"

"You..."

After the lunch break ended, before Han Fei could find Xu Mo about another case, Xu Mo went to find Han Fei himself.

"Perfect timing, I was just about to look for you."

Han Fei picked up another file on the desk: "This is another unsolved case, from five years ago."

"I'm here for that as well," Xu Mo smiled, taking the file handed over by Han Fei.

Because Xu Mo had easily helped Han Fei solve one of the cases that had been giving him a headache earlier that morning, Han Fei was in a good mood at this moment.

Moreover, he also believed that Xu Mo would definitely solve this case as well.

Thinking that this case could also be solved made Han Fei even happier, and he even started humming a tune.

"Take a look first; after you finish, you can ask me any questions. I was involved in this case back then, so I'll go wash a peach for you; eating fruit after a meal is good for the body."

After saying that, Han Fei left the office holding two peaches.

Xu Mo skimmed the file, grasped the basic situation of the case, and immediately took out the System Reward pouch without a moment's hesitation.

The reason was that since this case had sat in the Police Station for five years without being solved, its difficulty was certainly high; after the quick glance, Xu Mo confirmed this and decisively opened the pouch.

A moment later, Han Fei came back in with the freshly washed two peaches.

"How's it going? Have you finished reading? Any thoughts or questions?"

"I've finished, I think I know who the murderer is."

Han Fei: "???"

A bewildered Han Fei couldn't even hold the two freshly washed peaches, and with a "Clang!" they fell to the ground.

"What did you say? You...!"