[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner":3,"chapter-the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-144":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Nation's Forensic Medical Examiner",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2326839,4551,"Chapter 144: Plenty of Cases to Go Around","the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-144",144,"\u003Cp>Monday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ningtai County was raining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abundant rain poured from south to north, from east to west, turning the window into a sea of water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Jun leaned against the windowsill, silently smoking a Yuxi cigarette, and said slowly: “If someone dies today, we’re in trouble.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan looked up from his computer screen and said: “That’s not likely.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t talk about luck,” Wu Jun waved his hand. “Talk about luck, and luck just shows up. Back in the day, we had a case just like this...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Jun then told Jiang Yuan an old story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan silently watched the training materials on the screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His understanding of fingerprint identification was constantly improving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But criminal science and technology differed from ordinary science or technology in one key way: it required heavy external support.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Probably because police never valued lone operations, and no one ever considered developing a technology that would let a single officer operate independently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the contrary, criminal science and technology almost always required teamwork, even the cooperation of an entire system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For fingerprint technology, no matter how skilled Jiang Yuan was, he still relied on the fingerprint database.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that fingerprint database was built up bit by bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From Jiang Yuan’s perspective, what now limited the further development of fingerprint technology was the construction of the database and the entry and annotation of new fingerprints.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This, too, required the cooperation of the entire police system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In criminal science and technology, this usually manifested as various kinds of training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Explanations of the latest techniques, promotion of newer methods, application of more mature technologies...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The police system might be the most training-obsessed unit in the country, yet its grassroots strength remained weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And entering fingerprints wasn’t just a matter of working long hours—it required finer work arrangements and the dissemination of better methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At present, the system wouldn’t provide such managerial skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan tried learning them himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Zhenguo burst in from outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Someone dead?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan and Wu Jun both turned their heads and shouted in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Zhenguo glanced nervously behind him, thought carefully, then said: “No... no one’s dead, I think.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh... I thought so, good thing...” Wu Jun exhaled, put out his cigarette, and hurried back to his seat, his hand resting silently on the Guan Yu statue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan looked at Wei Zhenguo and smiled: “Comrade Wei, what’s up?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, Li Suigong’s back, with the suspect from the fraud case,” Wei Zhenguo panted, smiling. “They’ve delivered him to the case center.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan glanced outside in surprise: “At this hour? Did they stay up all night to catch him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“More than that—they chased him for three days. I just found out: when the checkpoint in Qisheng province triggered an alarm, Li Suigong immediately led his team out. One-way distance: 1,200 kilometers. Round trip: 2,500 kilometers. They even lay in wait for a full day.” Wei Zhenguo shook his head in admiration. “Economic crime investigation isn’t easy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go take a look,” Jiang Yuan stood up quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the case center, Li Suigong and another officer were filling out forms, while a colleague nearby lay sprawled on the sofa, fast asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The case center wasn’t crowded, but people kept glancing over; Li Suigong pretended not to notice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Comrade Li,” Jiang Yuan greeted quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Jiang,” Li Suigong immediately grabbed Jiang Yuan’s hand—he had gone to Qisheng because of Jiang Yuan, and now that he was back, he wanted to make a good impression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t be so formal. I heard you brought back the suspect?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Suigong nodded heavily, then added awkwardly: “We followed the person’s trail, but turns out he’d already transferred the money. The recovered funds might be under 300,000.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew full well the money couldn’t be fully recovered. And while 800,000 seemed like a fortune to ordinary people, financial channels weren’t designed for them. So from the start, Li Suigong hadn’t cared about the money’s whereabouts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after catching the suspect did he check—and sure enough, only slightly over 200,000 remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest had been squandered by the suspect or transferred elsewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But based on Li Suigong’s experience, fraudsters like this would rather go to prison than return the money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan didn’t demand perfection; he gripped Li Suigong’s hand and said: “Solving the case is what matters. The rest is beyond our control. You’ve worked too hard—three or four days, 2,500 kilometers round trip. You pushed yourselves too hard.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No problem, mainly the driver’s exhausted,” Li Suigong laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan now learned the Economic Crime Unit had hired drivers. Clearly, it was a well-funded team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Zhenguo glanced at Jiang Yuan’s wide-eyed look and pulled him aside. “Comrade Li, go ahead and finish your work—we’ll wait till later.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Got it,” Li Suigong turned back to his forms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nowadays, solving cases required strict procedures; one mistake and you’d be stuck filling out forms till death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Zhenguo whispered to Jiang Yuan: “Nowadays, well-funded police units all prefer drivers—no need for auxiliary police slots, they can drive, carry things, very practical.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So auxiliary police slots are insufficient too?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When has personnel quota ever been enough?” Wei Zhenguo chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan also sent messages to his father and Jiang Yushan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their calls came right away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan stepped out of the office area to make the call easier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t know much himself, and some of it was deeply unfavorable to the victim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for Jiang Yushan, hearing the suspect had been caught was enough to make him very happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Noon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan was still hesitating whether to treat Li Suigong to lunch or let him sleep first, then treat Da Zhuang, when the system interface suddenly popped up:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Task completed: Find the person\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Task description: A qualified forensic expert can locate a person (alive or dead) through various details.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reward: Footprint Identification (Lv3)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan immediately knew: the suspect had confessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under China’s system, once there was a confession and some physical evidence, the defendant could only plead for a lighter sentence during trial—escape from punishment was nearly impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he thought this, Li Suigong’s call came in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The suspect has been detained. After we organize the documents, we’ll move quickly to file charges. Restitution might take a bit longer,” Li Suigong explained to Jiang Yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan thanked him again, ended the call, and felt how exhausting it was to help others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turning back, Jiang Yuan carefully read the description of Lv3 Footprint Identification.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most notable feature of footprint identification was its extremely high extraction rate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost every crime scene yielded footprint impressions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In comparison, fingerprint and DNA technology, though more mature and reliable for matching, had far lower extraction rates under current crime conditions: fingerprints were recovered in less than 15% of cases, DNA even less.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When no DNA or fingerprints could be collected, footprints might be the only recourse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan casually mixed ash into a puddle, stepped into it, twisted his foot, then stepped onto the other side, observing the print left behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, a flood of information surged into his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, Jiang Yuan stood and walked to the adjacent trace evidence office, opened the door, and asked: “Brother Wang, got any footprint cases? Let me work on one?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Footprints also fell under trace evidence work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Zhong was stunned, then stunned again. “What do you mean, ‘footprint case’?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve been studying footprint analysis lately. Wanted a case to practice on as homework,” Jiang Yuan said humbly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Zhong’s spirits instantly lifted!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few months ago, Brother Jiang had said the same thing about fingerprints—and then he cracked case after case...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes yes yes, plenty, wait a sec.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1274,"2026-06-20T18:55:00.150Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","df13c7c368335c348e2563bdc83af0b1cd41479bb4fb9972a85acecccc85b1b7","the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-145","the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-143",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-cover.jpg"]