Chapter 326: A Celebrity Died

The next day, Chen Fan woke up at the hotel; just after waking, he was disturbed by a phone call.

"What is it?"

On the other end, Song Zuer said: "Something happened, something big happened, sigh, something happened on your side."

"Nothing's wrong here, what could possibly happen, tell me, what's actually going on."

"A celebrity died."

Chen Fan let out a small sound, then said: "And then?"

"Seems like there's nothing else either."

"Right, just someone died. Lots of people die every day. One celebrity dies and I'm supposed to pay attention? I'm a celebrity too, you know."

Here, the phone had just been hung up.

A new call came in. Chen Fan looked at the phone and said: "No way? Captain Qian, you care about this too?"

"Come over for a meeting."

Chen Fan was speechless. He went straight to the bureau, found a seat in a corner, sat down, and started dozing off with his eyes closed.

Soon a bunch of leaders walked in. Everyone saw Chen Fan but said nothing, each one putting their hat aside.

The cameraman was speechless — the camera still couldn't be turned on yet.

The person in charge arrived and said: "It's fine, turn it on."

The moment the video went live, countless netizens swarmed in and began launching verbal attacks.

At this point the leader said: "Alright, let's do a summary of the recent anti-drug operation."

The funny thing was, people started trying to steer the narrative.

"My brother died and none of you care, you're just sitting here having meetings."

"Shit, what are you doing, hurry up and investigate."

"Why haven't you investigated yet, why can't you catch the killer."

"What are you all even good for."

But the leader remained unhurried, listening to Captain Qian's report, nodding in satisfaction, and said: "The undercover matter must be handled properly."

"Mm, don't worry, it's all been handled very steadily, it won't affect normal life."

"That's good then, that's what I was worried about. Right, the recent fingerprint work — make sure it's carried out."

After the leader finished speaking, he took out his phone and said: "Looks like everyone is very concerned about that celebrity's death."

Everyone at the table gave cold smiles. Chen Fan yawned and said: "Is the meeting done yet?"

"Almost, you in a hurry?"

"It's not me who's in a hurry, leader, I haven't had breakfast yet, I'm starving here. Let's just wrap up the meeting. I'm a forensic doctor, I formally request permission to go eat breakfast."

; The leader nodded and said: "Mm, go ahead, let's adjourn the meeting then. That's all for today."

The celebrity matter was completely ignored the entire time.

Meanwhile, over in the observation room, everyone accepted it quite willingly.

Teacher He looked at the barrage of comments and said: "Pretty sad."

Qin Ming said: 'Normal. Nobody cares about the undercover's safety — what everyone's worried about is a celebrity. The case will always be investigated, but why would we need to tell these people about it?'

"When a case comes up, we investigate. When there's progress, it just keeps going. When there's no progress, we don't say anything. Since when do we need these people to direct our cases?"

Sister Yuanyuan said: "I do know something fun though — someone took down a click farm."

Hahahaha.

Qin Ming said: "That was Li Tian, right? I knew it had to be that guy."

"Mm, Li Tian sent me a message asking if I'd been spamming the barrage or something. I said I didn't know what that was, so Li Tian just dropped it."

Qin Ming said: "The barrage will calm down in a bit, no need to worry."

Sure enough, after about ten-odd minutes, the barrage gradually quieted down, and people began discussing daily life, chatting about daily life.

As for the celebrity matter, some people were still worried and asked about it, but it wasn't as outrageous as before.

Qin Ming looked at the audience and said: "Let me give everyone an update. Just now we took down a click farm — one that maliciously spammed the barrage, basically data fraud and deception. Upon investigation, we found that the task this click farm received today was from your brother's manager."

"The person died, so let them be dead. Even in death they have to be dragged out for hype. Honestly, I really admire these people — they won't even let go of a dead person's money, will they?"

"Eating human-blood steamed buns — you'll get what's coming to you."

Teacher He said: "Things in our circle are actually simpler when you're willful — that's the difference."

Qin Ming said: "Can't figure it out, and I'm too lazy to try, but I do know one interesting thing: if all the news is about celebrities, that's actually a good thing."

Sister Yuanyuan gave a thumbs-up in agreement.

The leader here said: "Being a celebrity is a job. Why should a job put you above others? What are these people doing, forcing the police to chase a case? Are other cases not cases? Are other people not people?"

Qin Ming laughed heartily and said: "It reminds me of a fun case — remember that person who knelt down for a pet dog? Tell me, are these fans and those dog lovers basically the same thing?"

Hahahahaha.

Everyone in the room burst out laughing.

At this point the director in charge of the livestream said: "They really know how to stir up trouble — they actually tried to threaten my show."

The operations manager said: "Really?"

The director said: "What else could it be? While alive they're lukewarm, but when they die they seize the chance to hype it up, get popular, make some money, cash in on a few tears of nostalgia — and that's that. This kind of crap happens all the time, too lazy to deal with it."

The operations manager said: "But these people really are idiots, coming to our livestream room to spam this stuff."

The director said: 'My livestream room has long been linked up with the police. The moment you post something here, they know about it in minutes.'

Meanwhile, over at the Fayibu Sect, two corpses had been placed there. Chen Fan looked at the bodies, then began the autopsy on the ordinary person — not choosing the celebrity.

This move would easily get him cursed out.

But what does it have to do with Chen Fan? He's just a forensic doctor. In his eyes, once a person is dead, there's no such thing as a celebrity.

"The person was found at home in the morning. The person is gone, but the family says the way they died doesn't seem right."

Chen Fan said, "Of course it doesn't seem right. In their forties, and you're telling me they died of natural causes?"

Captain Qian was speechless for a moment, then said, "Sigh, sorry. Originally I was planning to have you handle some old cases. I didn't expect to have you helping out with these temporary ones."

The knife moved swiftly. After Chen Fan made the incision, he carefully compared the blood in the heart.

"Mm, sudden death. Must have gotten back very late — worked overtime yesterday."

"Found traces of a small amount of alcohol and coffee in the stomach. Mm, not much alcohol, but quite a bit of coffee. This person drank too much coffee, heart rate spiked, and died."

"Very peaceful at the moment of death."

Captain Qian looked at the report and said, "This one is... a bit hard to comment on."

"It has nothing to do with you anyway. That's between the family and the company. Are you police even handling this?"