Chapter 1091

Lanyue City Criminal Investigation Detachment conference room.

A row of more than 30 police officers from Jiang Yuan's cold case special task force were lined up, each with a computer or case file in front of them, all reading with serious expressions.

Wei Shikan, who came to deliver food, couldn't help but secretly take a photo when he saw this scene. He went back and showed it to his own team captain, Jian Louyuan, and said: "Look at how they do things. Damn, more than 30 people looking at the files of one case, and it's a case that should have been closed, a case with no further evidence at present. No wonder they can solve major cases..."

"If you were given full funding, maxed-out bonuses, only one major case to do at a time, and had people taking care of all your food, drink, and daily needs, you could also focus on one case." Jian Louyuan had an expression of having seen it all before.

Wei Shikan was excited: "Then let's try it. If we succeed, wouldn't we become the Jian Louyuan Cold Case Special Task Force?"

"Who said you don't understand?" Jian Louyuan looked at Wei Shikan and smiled: "At least you didn't name it the Wei Shikan Cold Case Special Task Force."

"I can't handle this pressure. Liu Jinghui is basically guessing that there's a case within a case here. If there isn't, I can't even imagine how embarrassing it would be." Wei Shikan was too sensible; thinking of this, he couldn't help but shudder.

"If you can't handle it, can I?" Jian Louyuan also felt uncomfortable all over.

Wei Shikan laughed: "It's tiring to be a workhorse, but it's even more tiring to be a responsible workhorse."

Jian Louyuan also couldn't imagine under what circumstances he would dare to reach a conclusion like Liu Jinghui's.

In his view, this was somewhat unnecessary. It was a pity to see a case that had already been successfully taken down restart such waves. The key is that the future is ethereal; investing so much manpower and material resources again just to dig deeper into the same case and the same suspect—Jian Louyuan himself couldn't make such a decision.

The Dongxi Lake corpse-burning case certainly cannot be compared to the Li Yaoji murder case, but being able to solve one such non-single-person corpse-burning case is also very remarkable.

If Jian Louyuan could solve this case and then make a decision regarding it, he would absolutely treasure it.

"However, Jiang Yuan and the others just follow Liu Jinghui's random guesses; they are really willing to gamble." Wei Shikan sighed again. He joined the Lanyue City Criminal Investigation Detachment with the ideal of becoming a detective. This is almost the highest-end criminal investigation organization in the province, and the daily work is almost the same as what is shown in many TV dramas. It's just that compared to Jiang Yuan's work, he suddenly felt it wasn't enough.

Jian Louyuan knew what Wei Shikan meant and said calmly: "You don't need to envy this. Jiang Yuan and the others can work so easily now because they are betting with their own reputations. If Jiang Yuan hadn't solved so many cases, we wouldn't be here listening to orders. With one command from Liu Jinghui, even without any evidence, a whole group of people follows his line of reasoning to handle the case. His title as the 'King of Deduction in Shannan' didn't come for free. But this kind of fame disappears after just two failures."

Wei Shikan wasn't as alert as Jian Louyuan expected; instead, he became even more excited: "A desperate gamble, right? Cool!"

"Do you have some misunderstanding about what 'cool' is?" Jian Louyuan couldn't understand Wei Shikan.

A criminal investigator next to him whispered: "Captain Jian, Young Master Wei only came to work at the criminal investigation detachment because he thinks criminal investigators are cool. You're asking if he has a misunderstanding about 'cool'?"

Jian Louyuan suddenly realized: "Forget it, let's not think about things even his family can't handle. That... Wei Shikan, you just stay here and serve Team Leader Jiang and the others. Report to me if there's any situation."

Jian Louyuan couldn't stand the atmosphere here, turned around, and ducked into a small office to hide.

Liu Jinghui didn't really look as relaxed as he appeared on the surface, but he wasn't particularly nervous either.

Reasoning without evidence is an act that might be very risky for other police officers; if things go wrong, they have to take responsibility. But for Liu Jinghui, this is what he pursues.

Of course, the pressure is unavoidable. So many people are conducting investigations out of trust in him; if the direction ends up being wrong, Liu Jinghui will feel a bit of self-reproach. But not much.

Investigation errors are also a common experience for a senior police officer like him from the provincial department. Not to mention those cold cases that were investigated with great effort but not solved, even for current murder cases, attempting to investigate three or five times and failing is normal. If he didn't have this much composure, Liu Jinghui wouldn't have built such a great reputation.

You must know that before Jiang Yuan became famous, the true trump card investigator in Shannan was the King of Deduction, Liu Jinghui.

The police officers of Jiang Yuan's cold case special task force were equally calm. They had worked on so many cold cases that they had long been able to accept delayed gratification. Or rather, even if they couldn't be satisfied in the end, so what?

The only one who became relatively idle was Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan's ability to flip through case files is not stronger than Wang Chuanxing's. Saying this actually has a bit of boasting in it; in terms of ability to face text alone, Wang Chuanxing, who has endured the torture of the workplace, is four times the workhorse Jiang Yuan is.

It's just that Jiang Yuan's technical ability is stronger, and his comprehensive ability when reviewing files is stronger. But as far as the current progress is concerned, there's no need for Jiang Yuan to look at these files in detail for the time being.

If they can't filter out cases that Liu Chengming might have participated in, Liu Jinghui's guess cannot be verified, and if his guess cannot be verified, then perhaps there are no prior cases at all...

Jiang Yuan brewed a pot of tea and drank it slowly.

After a while, seeing a WeChat message from Jiangfuzhen, Jiang Yuan simply put on his headphones and called: "Dad?"

"Hey, is everything going smoothly over there? I'm drinking tea with your master. We were talking about you; your master performed a ritual for you, let me show you." Jiangfuzhen seemed quite happy, and the camera turned to show a mahjong table directly in front of him.

Jiang Yuan was a bit surprised: "How did you start playing mahjong?"

Jiangfuzhen laughed and said: "Isn't there that kind of gang specifically targeting people who have been relocated? A while ago, a gang set their sights on me, accompanying me to play mahjong and Texas Hold'em day after day. I also got a bit addicted to it."

"Hmm... what about that gang of scammers?" Jiang Yuan still grasped the main point.

"They were caught." Jiangfuzhen thought for a moment, turned his head and asked Uncle Qiang: "What day were they caught?"

"Last Friday, the director of the Zoumada Police Station personally brought people to arrest them." Uncle Qiang's big head appeared in the video: "They showed their true colors."

"What true colors?"

"They wanted to open a mahjong parlor. They even found people to bribe. As soon as the landlord here heard what they wanted to do, he notified the police station. They signed the lease and paid the money at noon, and were arrested in the afternoon." Uncle Qiang said, then added: "The rent wasn't returned to them either; the deposit and rent were all eaten up."

"And the transfer fee." Jiangfuzhen pushed the mahjong tiles with a clatter and said: "Just a few little things, they really thought this was our first time being relocated. By the way, Jiang Yuan, I had the chef bring some seafood to find you. Calculating the time, it should be there soon. Remember to eat it. Share some with your colleagues, be generous, and tell me if it's not enough."

"I know." Jiang Yuan listened to a few more nagging words, put down his phone, and patted his forehead.

Mu Zhiyang was standing nearby and immediately asked: "Do you have an idea?"

As soon as this was said, half the people at the table looked over.

"No." Jiang Yuan put his hand down: "I just made an ordinary phone call, why would I have an idea?"

"Oh..." Everyone couldn't help but let out a sound of light disappointment.

"By the way." Jiang Yuan patted his forehead again and said: "My dad sent some seafood over, everyone save some room."

Everyone's mood couldn't help but rise again.