Chapter 529: This Efficiency Is Absolutely Terrifying

Han Fei carefully mulled over Xu Mo's words, then slowly nodded and murmured, "What you said does make sense…"

Xu Mo's recent line of reasoning also gave Han Fei a lead for the investigation—checking every onlooker from back then!

Just as Han Fei was about to lead the team to locate those onlookers and learn the circumstances, Xu Mo stopped him.

"Han Team, don't rush. There are so many people in the photo—how long would it take to track each one down? We can filter first, pulling out the few most suspicious faces from the picture."

"Filter?" Han Fei was startled. "How do we filter, just with a single photo?"

Han Fei intended to set out himself to interview those onlookers because he believed only a face‑to‑face inquiry could reveal who was suspect and who was not.

Relying solely on a photo to filter is somewhat improper.

Xu Mo thought that filtering just by looking at the photo was feasible, because he had already learned the killer's identity from the dossier.

His so‑called filtering was merely a performance in front of Han Fei.

He already knows who the killer is; how could he pick the wrong person?

"A photo is enough," Xu Mo said. "Han Team, do you remember what I just said—that the killer is a very confident person?"

"I remember. After killing, daring to leave the corpse in the middle of the road, ignoring it, and walking away… that confidence and boldness aren't something ordinary people possess."

Xu Mo remained silent, merely nudging the photo toward Han Fei, and at the same time slipped a pen from the desk pen holder and handed it to Han Fei.

Han Fei instantly grasped Xu Mo's meaning—that he should filter out the people in the photo who didn't appear confident.

Without a word, he took the pen Xu Mo offered, let his gaze linger on the photo for a moment, then lifted the pen and crossed out one person in the picture.

"It shouldn't be him."

Next came the second, the third, the fourth…

"Not him either."

"This one can be eliminated as well."

"And this one."

"…"

Before long, Han Fei had crossed out more than half of the onlookers in the photo.

Just from their eyes, it was clear these people weren't the confident type; at the very least, they could never commit the act of killing and then leaving the corpse unattended while walking away.

After the filtering, only six people remained in the photo.

Compared with before, the scope had shrunk enough that setting out again to interview these people would be considerably easier for the officers.

At that moment, Xu Mo, half‑jokingly half‑seriously, pointed at a man in the photo wearing a knit cap and said,

"I suddenly notice this guy looks like Guangtou. Look at his sideburns—no hair at all. Didn't the dossier say the killer left no hair in the car? Could the killer possibly be this person?"

The speaker is "unintentional", the listener is intentional.

Xu Mo's words made Han Fei pause in surprise.

Back then, the Police did find hair and fingerprints in the car, but later investigations and tests showed that all the hair and prints came from the victim and the victim's family, with no hair from anyone else.

The Police also screened the victim's family; they were not suspects.

The victim was killed inside the car, an enclosed environment unlike an open‑air crime scene; hair, being so fine, would never disappear once left inside such a sealed space.

After all, an outdoor scene has wind that can blow away a killer's stray hair, but that doesn't happen inside a car.

In such a sealed setting, avoiding fingerprints is easy—just wear gloves—but avoiding hair is a bit harder; even a hat that covers all hair can't guarantee absolute safety.

If the killer had inadvertently left hair in the car, the Police would certainly have found it, yet they discovered no hair beyond that of the victim and the family.

What kind of person doesn't lose hair?

Guangtou—they have no hair to begin with!

As for normal people, regardless of hair type, they all lose at least some hair.

Of course, it's also possible the killer took full precautions, covering all hair, or simply got lucky and didn't accidentally leave any hair inside the car.

Thinking this, Han Fei picked up the pen again and circled the man wearing the hat.

This becomes the primary focus for the subsequent investigation!

Xu Mo almost coaxed and guided Han Fei, continually steering him toward the truth of the case.

Cross‑referencing the photo taken then, Han Fei listed one primary suspect and five secondary suspects. ωωw.. net

Immediately after, the two stepped out of the office again.

At that moment, the officers were still immersed in astonishment, since Xu Mo solved in half a morning a case they had been probing for three whole months without resolution.

Moreover, from reviewing the dossier to the end of the interrogation took only half a morning.

That efficiency can only be described as truly terrifying!

Just then, Han Fei?? walked out holding a dossier.

Same location, same words, only a different time.

"Everyone, pause what you're doing, I have something to say."

The officers: "???"

It was the same line they had heard only once that morning, and at that time Han Fei also held a somewhat aged dossier.

During lunch and the noon break, veteran and rookie officers talked about the old events, casually mentioning that the Police Station had two unsolved cases sealed away.

One of them was solved by Xu Mo that morning; now only one remains.

Back then the officers thought—if Team Leader Xu could also crack the other long‑shelved case, that would be great!

Now, hearing Han Fei utter that familiar line while looking at the somewhat aged dossier in his hands,

the officers' minds instantly formed an idea.

Could it be… Team Leader Xu really has a lead on the other case?

But how the hell has it only been that long!

One day, solving two cases that had been stalled for years?!

Five years ago our Police Station had a case that we still haven't solved; just now Team Leader Xu came to my office, looked at the file, we discussed it for a while, and Team Leader Xu raised another idea.