Chapter 1014: Breakthrough in a Single Skill

The scene of the five children's parents coming to the Yuwan Municipal Bureau to claim their children was deeply moving, but many criminal police officers present naturally noticed that one child's parents had not come.

"Her parents are too busy; they really couldn't come, and their workplace wouldn't grant them leave." The child's grandmother explained to the people around her from time to time, looking as if she was afraid others would have misunderstandings.

The grandfather held his granddaughter's hand, gripping it tightly without letting go. His expression was also somber and serious, but he couldn't speak.

"What kind of work do her parents do? For something as big as finding a child, they can't get leave?" Tang Jia couldn't take it anymore. She walked with a gust of wind to the opposite side of the grandparents of the child on the edge and faced them directly.

The grandmother, who had been explaining, couldn't speak at this moment. Her lips trembled twice, and she said, "They just work for the boss. The boss said they couldn't leave if there was no one to take their shift. They asked their partner to go, but in the end, they couldn't get leave."

"If they couldn't get leave, they should have just skipped work. Are they restricted in their personal freedom?" Tang Jia felt angry.

"That's not the case." The grandmother hurriedly said, "But now that the child has been found, even if they came back, they wouldn't be needed. They can earn more money over there, and they can help out later."

Tang Jia was deeply disgusted and said, "Is work more important or is the child more important? How much money can they earn? Now that the child has been found, isn't this lesson profound enough?"

"This time, losing the child is mainly our fault." The grandfather spoke in a stiff, upright manner.

"You can't take all the responsibility on yourself. The child is their own responsibility in the first place. If they gave birth to the child, they have to raise the child themselves. Now that the child has finally been found, they don't even show their faces. What kind of work is so important?"

"Their work isn't important, but they really can't get away." The grandfather saw that everyone around was listening with pricked ears, and even reporters were gathering, so he could only pat his granddaughter lightly and said, "Her mother is a nanny in another city, taking care of an 80-plus-year-old lady. The old lady is prone to falling and has a bit of dementia, often throwing tantrums. No one else wants to take this job. If she leaves, the old lady will have no way to manage."

Tang Jia paused. "What about the old lady's children?"

"I know about that. The old lady has a daughter by her side who is a teacher for a third-year middle school student. If she leaves, it will affect the child's high school entrance exam."

"Then... what about the child's father?"

"The child's father is operating a crane in Africa. If he wants to take leave, someone from the country must be sent over to replace him before he can take a car to the nearest city and then transfer to a flight back. It will take a week in total. Otherwise, the construction site will shut down." The grandfather stopped, lowered his head slightly, and said, "The family is in debt. If they don't earn money, they can't raise the child."

The reporters, who had originally planned to catch a big news story, shook their heads and retreated after hearing the grandfather's words. There were too many people living bitter lives; no one liked to look in the mirror.

Tang Jia looked down at the rescued little girl, touched her head gently, and didn't know what to say.

Bang!

Bang, bang!

Several confetti cannons were twisted and fired. Crumbled confetti fell from the sky, and a few grains landed on the leader's uniform, but the people standing in the C-position all revealed standard smiles.

"Little friend, smile." A clumsy photographer, holding a camera he had used to photograph young models, habitually shouted the request.

The children revealed blank and sincere smiles. Although the past was terrifying and the future was frightening, at this very moment, they still smiled.

The photographer also smiled and said 'good,' but he could never truly record this very moment. At the very least, it couldn't be the very moment of the five children.

"Director Zhou, we're heading back now." Huang Qiangmin said goodbye to the leaders of the Yuwan Municipal Bureau.

Director Zhou was reluctant to part. "Stay for two more days. It would be good to walk around our Yuwan City. Working like this, back and forth, is too exhausting."

"There's no way around it." Huang Qiangmin smiled helplessly. "Our Jiang Yuan doesn't really like tourism either. He's currently in the rising period of his career, focusing mainly on getting things done."

"I understand, I understand." Director Zhou replied, then probed, "Then how about having a farewell party in a while?"

"No need, no need." Huang Qiangmin refused repeatedly.

"That's a pity." Director Zhou said, coughed twice, and said, "Then I'll just say a few simple words... Everyone must strengthen their sense of responsibility and faithfully fulfill their mission..."

The motorcade of the Ningtai County Bureau arrived at its loyal Ningtai.

Dozens of police cars parked in order into the parking building that had been completed at the beginning of the year.

The four-story building, with two floors underground, was a reinforced concrete structure, even more imposing than the Finance Bureau building. With a little modification, it could even be used for war defense. If you put a few cannons on top, it would be a war fortress.

However, this parking building was not exclusively for the Ningtai County Bureau, nor was there any need for it to be. Even if Huang Qiangmin had the ability to get so many cars, there was no manpower to drive them. Therefore, except for the two underground floors which were exclusively for the police bureau, nearby government agencies could all park inside.

The office director of the police bureau therefore started to like Huang Qiangmin.

In this era, the importance of a parking space was no less than a child's seat in a classroom.

Jiang Yuan quickly washed his face, and under the leadership of Huang Qiangmin, went to report his work to the Bureau Chief.

The Bureau Chief's attitude was extremely good. After seriously listening to Jiang Yuan's report, he smiled and said, "Jiang Yuan's work is truly reassuring. With Political Commissar Huang keeping an eye on things, I, as the Bureau Chief, am indeed very relaxed, hahahaha..."

"It is because the Bureau Chief is presiding over the overall situation and sitting in the middle army that we can go out and fight with peace of mind." Huang Qiangmin said this quite sincerely. He had experienced a Director Chai and knew how rare it was to have a Bureau Chief who didn't hold them back.

The two flattered each other, and the more they spoke, the more beautiful it sounded, and both became happy.

Jiang Yuan sat on the side, drinking tea quietly, drinking one infusion after another. In front of him, the system screen was spread out, and he was carefully checking his skill table.

He still had two First-Class Merit skills that hadn't been redeemed.

Compared to the legacy, the ability to choose the merit to redeem directly was its greatest advantage.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that a powerful skill could turn the tide.

This was also one of the reasons why Jiang Yuan had always kept them and hadn't redeemed them immediately. After all, you never know what skills the next case will require.

However, with the increase in his own skills, Jiang Yuan's solutions for solving a case had become more and more numerous. The combined use of multiple skills, including the 'iron feet' of the criminal police, was the mode Jiang Yuan used most often now. This meant that his demand for a single skill seemed to be decreasing...

However, if one truly thought about this matter and connected the skill demand with case solving, and reasoned about it, it would prove even more that the relative strength of Jiang Yuan's single skill was decreasing.

Because, if a case could be solved with one skill, where would there be a need for the combined use of multiple skills, and where would there be a need for the 'iron feet' of the criminal police?

When Jiang Yuan first entered the police force, he faced cases in Ningtai County, later he faced cold cases in Ningtai County, and then it was cases in Qinghe City, cases in Changyang City, and at most, it expanded to within Shannan Province.

Therefore, in the initial stage, Jiang Yuan's skills were all overflowing.

It has to be said that the ways ordinary people die, and even the ways they are harmed, are very ordinary.

However, as Jiang Yuan's fame grew, when his radiation range began to expand to the national level, many of his single skills were no longer enough to solve cases directly.

The reason is simple. Although his single skill is at the top level in Shannan Province, most of his skills are only first-class in the country. There are indeed not many strong people at the same level, but there are always a few, a dozen, or even dozens of them.

Of course, everyone is very busy, and every expert's desk is piled full of cases, especially experts whose solving speed is relatively slow, or experts who are older and yearn for family life or political life. The number of cases they can do in a year is limited, so there are always some cases that will overflow to Jiang Yuan.

But no matter what path they come through, the overall difficulty of the cases Jiang Yuan takes on now is bound to increase. Some cases might not have had such high initial difficulty, but after being transferred three times, their difficulty is bound to increase.

Where there is a trace, there is a trace, and investigative behavior is no exception.

Common ones, such as taking DNA, might cut the clothing at the scene into pieces, not to mention the crime scene itself. After two or three batches of police have been there, subsequent scene surveys must take the factors of being surveyed into account.

Jiang Yuan picked up his tea, took a light sip, and decided not to wait for the needs of a certain case, but to build his own investigative system. Among them, a pure but high-level single skill was what he needed most at the moment.

Jiang Yuan's gaze scanned back and forth in the skill list, and finally fell on fingerprints.

His existing fingerprint skill was composed of the Qingdao-style single-fingerprint analysis method (LV4) and the Chongqing-style single-fingerprint analysis method (LV3). To say nothing else, when facing corpses that had been drowned for a long time, they were not good enough.

Having figured it out, Jiang Yuan didn't hesitate anymore and used one of the two First-Class Merits from the cold cases for Fingerprint Analysis Method (LV6).

According to the skill rules, the more detailed the skill branch chosen, the higher the skill level. If Jiang Yuan chose the broader Trace Examination Technology (LV5), he would get a series of trace examination technologies, but if he chose a more detailed one, such as the Qingdao-style single-fingerprint analysis method, he could obtain a super-high level of LV7.

But in terms of application, Jiang Yuan didn't have such a strong demand for LV5 trace examination or LV7 detailed fingerprint analysis.

LV6 Fingerprint Analysis Method, paired with a temporary skill bonus, should be enough to break through cases.

Jiang Yuan thought while picking up his cup.

Slurp...

The tea in the cup was all finished.

Seeing this, the Bureau Chief naturally picked up the kettle in front of him and refilled it for Jiang Yuan. ===== CHAPTER 1015 =====