One day, three criminal cases were solved, and the efficiency of cracking these cases was truly remarkable.
Especially since two of them were long-standing unsolved mysteries that had languished for years, making them especially difficult to solve.
Due to the resolution of these two cases, the police station's case clearance rate soared to an impressive 100 percent.
All the police officers in the station benefited from Xu Mo's brilliance, each earning the distinguished honor of achieving a 100 percent case clearance rate.
Even higher authorities were impressed, pondering how to commend Han Fei, Xu Mo, and all the other police officers involved.
After all, they had solved three criminal cases in a single day!
And every officer's case clearance rate was an astonishing 100 percent!
A commendation seemed more than warranted.
……
At ten o'clock in the evening.
Another case surfaced.
Han Fei received a call from a content review officer.
"Captain Han, I've made a discovery!"
"Just now, while processing some work, I spotted a girl in a video. That girl... doesn't seem to be alive."
"Not alive? Could you have been mistaken?" Initially, Han Fei was skeptical.
There is a specialized department within the police station responsible for content review, commonly referred to as "content reviewers."
These officers' jobs involve watching illicit videos daily for identification purposes.
Normally, such videos wouldn't feature deceased individuals, which is why Han Fei harbored some doubt, believing the officer might have misinterpreted the situation.
"Impossible. I've watched the footage over a dozen times; I can't be wrong. The girl in the video definitely resembles a corpse. Living people don't exhibit her characteristics."
"The video was uploaded from an IP address in Ram City. The upload time was yesterday. I'll send you the video to take a look."
Shortly after, Han Fei received the video.
He had just finished taking a shower and was about to sleep, but upon receiving the video, Han Fei immediately threw on some clothes and left the bedroom, heading to the sofa where he lowered the volume to watch the footage.
Han Fei's focus was entirely on the girl in the video. After a thorough examination, his brow furrowed tightly.
As an experienced officer, Han Fei possessed extensive criminal investigation expertise. He too noticed something amiss with the girl in the video.
Just as the content review officer had stated, the girl in the video indeed appeared to be a corpse. Her body was extremely stiff, she made no sound, and her breathing wasn't visible.
The drowsiness that had previously plagued Han Fei instantly vanished.
Despite it being rest time, for those in their line of work, there's no such thing as absolute rest—cases require immediate action.
Han Fei promptly forwarded the video to Xu Mo, fearing his judgment might be flawed, and wanted Xu Mo, the expert, to take a look.
The video had just been sent when Xu Mo fired back with a question mark.
Xu Mo: "?"
"Captain Han, sending me this... not very appropriate, is it? Does Sister-in-law know you enjoy watching such content?"
Han Fei, being an older officer, typed slowly, so he gave up on typing and directly called Xu Mo via WeChat.
As soon as the call connected, Han Fei explained, "What are you talking about! Where are your thoughts wandering? I sent you this video because the content reviewer just forwarded it to me. He said the girl in the video doesn't seem alive. What's more, the video was uploaded from an IP address in Ram City yesterday. I glanced at it and felt the girl might be problematic. I sent it to you so you could take a look. You're skilled in autopsy, right? See if the girl in the video has any issues."
"You should have said so earlier. That's why you suddenly sent such a video. Hold on, let me take a look."
While on the WeChat call, the video couldn't be played, so Xu Mo temporarily ended Han Fei's call, plugged in some headphones, and nestled into the corner of the sofa to watch the video.
As a professional, Xu Mo had already determined that the girl in the video was a corpse after just one glance. He spotted a faint livor mortis on her lower leg.
Livor mortis typically appears two to four hours post-mortem, most noticeable in the lowest parts of the body.
Initially, Xu Mo estimated that the girl in the video had been dead for some time, at least two hours or more.
Additionally, there was rigor mortis. Rigor typically starts one to three hours post-mortem, spreading throughout the body in four to six hours, reaching its peak in twelve to sixteen hours, but after twenty-four hours, rigor begins to ease. In simple terms, rigor decreases, and muscles soften again.
Combining these observations, Xu Mo concluded that the female corpse in the video had probably died between twelve to sixteen hours before the footage was recorded.
At that moment, Yang Jingxuan, sitting on the sofa watching TV, noticed Xu Mo's peculiar behavior.
She wondered, "What's Xu Mo watching so intently that he's wearing headphones and huddling in the farthest corner of the sofa while the drama unfolds right in front of him?"
Curious, Yang Jingxuan stealthily approached Xu Mo, sneaking a glimpse at the content on his phone screen.
To her surprise... Xu Mo was watching such risqué videos!
"You scared me to death! Coming this close, do you walk silently or something?" Xu Mo was startled.
"Who says I walk silently? It's you who's too engrossed in what you're watching!"
"So you saw the video I was playing on my phone just now?"
"Yeah! Never would have guessed it, Xu Mo. With that thick, bushy eyebrow look, you're the type... scandalously inclined." Yang Jingxuan squinted her eyes, wearing an expression that seemed to have completely seen through Xu Mo.
Xu Mo: "……"
"It's not what you're imagining. Listen to me explain, I... forget it, I don't have time to explain. I'm heading out."
With the urgency of the case, Xu Mo decided there was no point in explaining and quickly called Han Fei while putting on his shoes, ready to leave.
"Captain Han, I've watched the video. The girl in it is indeed not alive. There's livor mortis on her leg. Her time of death was probably between twelve to sixteen hours before the video was shot. I'm already on my way out. Let's meet at the station."
Since the video was uploaded from an IP address in Ram City and the upload time was yesterday, it fell within their jurisdiction to investigate.
"She's really dead? Alright... I understand. I'm heading out too." With that, Han Fei ended the call and sent a message in the work group, summoning all officers back to duty.
The work group immediately lit up with activity.
"Another case?"
"Good thing I'm not asleep yet, or I would have missed it."
"I've already left the house. It's ten-fifteen now, and there's still over an hour until midnight. Do you think we can solve this case by midnight?"
"I think so. With Captain Xu around, anything is possible!"
"Wow, doesn't that mean our police station solved four criminal cases in one day?"
"……"
+【Epic Battles!】 "Your Highness, they say Linxi Temple is miraculous. Won’t you make a wish?" "A wish? It should be making wishes to me." "That may be so, but since you’re already here..." "..." "Fine. Then grant this princess a consort to play with." "He must be obedient, devoted, and utterly infatuated with my body—so much so that he’d kneel and kiss my feet." "Your Highness, that’s not a consort. That’s a dog." "Then add clever, witty, heroic, ambitious yet pragmatic..." "Hmm, that’s enough for now. I’ll add more later." After tossing out these words half in jest, Princess Anle departed the temple—only to catch a fleeting glimpse of the Bodhisattva statue smiling at her. Meanwhile, Yang An, fresh out of university, was having a very bad day. Good news: He’d transmigrated into another world with a cheat granting tenfold combat power. Bad news: He’d immediately fallen into the clutches of a certain villainess. Good news: Said villainess possessed peerless beauty and royal status. Bad news: She was absolutely monstrous!!! In the frozen wilderness, Yang An knelt beneath Qin Guo’er’s feet, drenched in sweat despite the cold. Desperately clutching her porcelain-perfect foot—the very one poised to crush his throat—he could only think: How do I survive this?! Need answers NOW!
Heart] Chen Yi traversed the cultivation world for eight hundred years, charging his way to the Tribulation Transcendence stage. Just as he was outwitting his 81st Heavenly Tribulation to ascend to immortality, he was suddenly pulled into a chat group called the "Multiverse Transmigrators Support Group." To his surprise, the group was filled with nothing but fresh-faced newbies who had just transmigrated. [Help! I transmigrated into a disgraced concubine in the cold palace, and the tyrant emperor is about to execute me!] [I ended up as a cannon-fodder villain, and the protagonist is still chasing me—WTF!] [I woke up as the protagonist’s father, but I’m about to be sacrificed in a ritual! What do I do? Urgent!!!] Chen Yi stared at the chaotic flood of desperate pleas in the group and fell into deep thought. "Seriously? You drag me into a newbie transmigrator chat group… only after I’m one step away from becoming an immortal?"
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
