Chapter 1256: Fresh Corpse

Tianjin Port.

Cat Fortune Baozi Shop.

The steaming hot pot emitted a charming fragrance.

The baozi from the shop were placed next to the hot pot, taking up a bit of space, but eating one occasionally, the taste was still passable.

Jiang Yuan mainly ate hot pot.

He didn't only like hot pot, but ever since the news that he liked hot pot spread, the big shots treating him to meals always carefully prepared various kinds of hot pots. Fresh ingredients were just the basics; there were often quite unique features.

In this way, the hot pot really became especially delicious.

Today's hot pot featured seafood. Local fish, shrimp, and crabs were cleaned and put into the pot, all with extremely fresh and tender flavors. Especially the Tianjin-style "Peach Octopus," which were small octopuses. Using a knife to lightly slice open their bodies, evenly dividing them into eight parts, and then throwing them all into the small hot pot, scalding them for a moment before eating, they were chewy and bouncy, which could be said to be top-tier seafood in terms of texture.

Beside the table, Qiu Jianye from the local municipal bureau, Hang Haichuan from the local customs, Wu Zhisu who flew over from Jianjiang City, Cui Xiaohu who flew from the capital, and Nicha and Zhong Renlong who flew from Malaysia, sat in a circle. While watching the chef slice the small octopuses, they chatted about various cases they had encountered recently. Occasionally, they would use, but were not limited to, pads, paper photos, notebooks, and the emotional ways of the handlers, talking about the ins and outs of the cases, either in specific detail, from a high-level perspective, or with emotional resonance.

Jiang Yuan ate hot pot while listening to the cases, truly feeling a great sense of enjoyment.

This feeling reached a climax when Nicha took out a dismembered corpse wrapped in plastic sheeting.

The fresh dismembered corpse had large chunks of dark red flesh with a jelly-like "frozen" feel, and the waxy yellow fat looked like high-quality beeswax that had been rubbed for a long time. But looking at the leg meat that had been cut, it looked a bit like pork leg meat that had been sitting at a meat stall in a wet market for a while, while the rest, with fat content far exceeding pork, looked greasy.

Jiang Yuan only needed one glance at these corpse chunks to know that they had stopped living reactions not long ago. In other words, they were corpse chunks that had just been dismembered, and a corpse that had just been dismembered meant it was still a fresh case.

Jiang Yuan then pointed at the photo in Nicha's hand and asked: "When was this discovered?"

"Two weeks ago." Nicha immediately beckoned for more photos and showed them to Jiang Yuan, saying: "This corpse was discovered in a bustling downtown area. Some photos spread on social media, and it is also a key case we have been investigating recently. However, the progress of the case is very slow."

"Has the identity of the deceased been confirmed?" Jiang Yuan asked.

"No." Nicha spread his hands.

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but smile. This wasn't that the case's progress was slow; it belonged to the category of not even having started yet.

Dismemberment cases and various corpse-dumping cases are all connected in principle. First and foremost is confirming the identity of the deceased. According to the principle of "dumping far and burying near," the murderer dumps the corpse because they are worried that the corpse at the original site will easily be linked to them. Therefore, weaker murderers, who don't isolate well, basically confess when the identity of the deceased is confirmed.

Of course, there are also powerful murderers, and murderers in dismemberment cases are generally stronger because most murderers are doing it for the first time and have a lot of discomfort with the corpse. Being able to endure the psychological discomfort and persist in completing the dismemberment, giving them the title of "Resilience LV1 Great Perfection" is not an exaggeration.

"Let me see." Jiang Yuan reached out for the case file.

At the same time, Huang Qiangmin slid over to Nicha's side, smiled, and raised his glass: "Brothers from Malaysia, let's have a drink. Thank you all for your support this time."

Once this was said, the expressions of Wu Zhisu and others at the table eased.

It had to be said, they had invited the country's top special police force to help Jiang Yuan catch people. In addition, the response was rapid, the business jet expenses, etc., were all plus points. Coupled with the status of foreigners, Jiang Yuan chose Nicha's case first, and everyone really couldn't find fault with it.

The lively dining table just now was a bit silent for a moment, with only the bubbling sound of the hot pot and the thumping sound of the chef slicing the octopus.

*Whoosh. *

Jiang Yuan looked at the case file while eating two more octopus tentacles.

Wei Shiyan walked over nimbly, took the case file from Jiang Yuan's hand, and helped him turn the page.

In this way, Jiang Yuan could look at the case file while eating hot pot.

The dark red jelly-like meat and the curled octopus legs in the hot pot both seemed a bit cruel.

And in Jiang Yuan's eyes, the thick case file, like the sliced octopus, had no progress.

The hands and feet of the corpse had been shaved, so no fingerprints or palm prints could be obtained.

The corpse in the plastic roll was completely naked, and the head had also been smashed.

This meant that even Jiang Yuan could not use skull reconstruction to obtain the face of the deceased.

If it were in the country, finding surveillance video based on the corpse-dumping location was also a common line of thought, especially if a relatively accurate time of death could be determined, finding the vehicle used for dumping the corpse also had a certain probability of screening out the murderer.

But in Malaysia, the distribution and quality of surveillance video were not enough to conduct such an investigation. Even the number of investigators was very limited. And the plan that Jiang Yuan often used, where members of Jiang Yuan's cold case team intervened first, was not very suitable for foreign cases.

At least not suitable for now.

"The corpse is still there, right?" Jiang Yuan finished reading the case file, looked at Nicha, and spoke in Chinese.

The translator invited by the Tianjin Municipal Bureau was responsible for translating.

Nicha answered quickly: "It's still there."

"Then let's go over and take a look." Jiang Yuan looked at Cui Xiaohu again and said: "Director Cui, how do you think it's appropriate to arrange this?"

"Ah, international cooperation, two-place collaboration, this is something we have always advocated. I will report it to the leaders; you can prepare first." Cui Xiaohu said it very clearly.

Nicha's mood rose rapidly, saying: "Exactly, our business jet is still parked at the airport here. Shall we go over now?"

"Let's go now." Jiang Yuan stood up and wiped his mouth: "By the way, have your forensic doctors take the corpse out of the freezer and let it thaw. It will be easier for me to handle when I get there."

The chef, who was thumping away slicing octopus, finally stopped his hands after a day of hard work and looked at Jiang Yuan and the others with difficulty.

Honestly, the knife-work master who made this seafood hot pot had been doing it for some years and occasionally heard various stories, but he really hadn't encountered this kind of thing.

Jiang Yuan waved his hand and, surrounded by Nicha and the others, left quickly.

An hour later, the business jet that had brought the smugglers over carried a cabin full of police and flew back to Malaysia.

The Malaysian police department, having received the news, hurriedly formed a new special task force, similar to the Chinese format, just to make it easier for "God Jiang" to use.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1257 =====