[{"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-202":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},2326897,4551,"Chapter 202: The Difficulty Is Just Right","the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-202",202,"\u003Cp>Stop the car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turn off the engine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Push open the door and get out; the door opens fully without touching the car beside it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan felt a little satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was tall, so getting in and out of the car was never easy, and in a narrow parking spot, it felt even more inconvenient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even in the county town, parking spaces wide enough to open doors freely were extremely rare. Unless you went to some ancient town outside the city, traffic congestion in parking spots had been a problem here for over a decade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new parking spot was different: on his left was a flower bed with a sharp angle cutting in, giving C16 an extra few dozen centimeters of space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan carefully observed: one-third of all parking spots in Zone C were like these corner spots—quite convenient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if some government officials had questionable social intelligence, they wouldn’t waste so much space unconsciously—such wastefulness could only be intentional.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan looked around and felt the flower beds wasted even more area. Also, the parking lot’s surveillance didn’t cover everything—and given the nature of the unit… these were surely ideas born from bureaucratic dinosaur brains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The walk from the parking lot to the brigade’s office building was indeed much shorter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along the way, everyone greeted Jiang Yuan with warm smiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan was tall and imposing, and his rank insignia was gray—visible from far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan also liked this police station atmosphere: everyone was friendly, like encountering distant relatives during Lunar New Year—whether you remembered their names or not, their smiles were genuinely warm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Behave yourself!” Wu Junhao’s voice cut sharply into Jiang Yuan’s ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to see Wu Junhao shoving a suspect toward the interrogation center, his movements slightly rough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The suspect, handcuffed, was a brazen type and grinned: “Don’t get mad, I just said I barely touched the guy—it’s not like it was serious, not serious…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Stop grinning,” Wu Junhao bellowed louder, his jowls bulging. “So much blood—just a light touch?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Junhao was mid-shout when he spotted Jiang Yuan entering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh? Jiang the forensic doc’s back?” Wu Junhao unconsciously broke into a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he could handle homicide cases, he’d never bother with these petty public order cases.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The brazen suspect, watching Wu Junhao’s sudden change of expression, muttered: “Who’s grinning…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Want to die?” Wu Junhao’s face suddenly appeared right between the suspect’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That massive face terrified the suspect into trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan replied to Wu Junhao with a greeting and went upstairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His master, Wu Jun, had already prepared the Xuande incense burner and red eggs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan smoothly performed the Ningtai forensic tradition: once the burner cooled slightly, he kicked it under his desk, peeled the egg, and asked: “How busy are we in the county?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A bit, not too much. Did a few injury appraisals and one traffic fatality.” Wu Jun spoke, taking a red egg for himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you for your hard work,” Jiang Yuan quickly said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>County work used to be split between two people; since he’d been away in Qinghe City, Wu Jun had shouldered everything alone. Though this wasn’t the first time… precisely because it wasn’t the first, Jiang Yuan owed him extra gratitude.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just the reports left—I’ll write them for you,” Wu Jun said, seeing Jiang Yuan’s respectful attitude, deciding to give him some involvement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan turned on his computer and began typing laboriously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The report was slightly tedious, but thinking of Mu Zhiyang having to write ten times as much made him feel much better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After handling the county’s leftover work, Jiang Yuan was mostly free by afternoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had nothing else to do, so he went to the neighboring imaging office and copied some footage to review.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Modern criminal investigation’s three treasures: video, mobile phones, DNA.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially for ordinary cases on the street, solving them via video was often the simplest method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan used this time to review the positions of all the cameras he’d seen during the day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After watching plain video for a while, he felt like watching silent films—slightly losing interest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened the intranet and started reviewing newly filed cases from the past few weeks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a county bureau, there are always some cases that remain unsolved each year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering many cases get dropped before even being filed due to various reasons, the actual clearance rate is indeed low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But from another angle, cases that are officially filed still hold some investigative value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan shifted his focus immediately to the Jiangcun neighborhood area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he had no boss watching him now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Criminal Investigation Team didn’t need to explain anything to anyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just do it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In recent weeks, there had been several cases around Jiangcun neighborhood, but all were minor—mostly thefts mixed with brawls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiangcun neighborhood was still too far on the city’s edge; outsiders coming to Ningtai County often passed through Jiangcun. Occasional crimes were normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan picked one case: a bag-slicing theft of a mobile phone, and began watching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, the difficulty of solving theft cases wasn’t low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, most thefts were random.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just that one fact discouraged many criminal investigation methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Veteran detectives had an advantage here: theft suspects were often from the same criminal circle, geographically concentrated, with dense networks—ask around, and answers came easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But without informants or network connections, solving theft cases could be harder than solving robbery cases. Petty thieves knew camera blind spots better; even if a few were dumb, they still slowly, steadily, diligently learned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Jiang Yuan, this difficulty was just right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to test his understanding of the surveillance system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, Jiang Yuan had one big weapon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could already recognize the appearances of several petty thieves who frequently stole in Ningtai County. Though Ningtai’s camera quality made facial recognition difficult, after reviewing several videos, Jiang Yuan could now identify them by their gait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gait recognition was already a highly mature technology in China. The first-generation AI surveillance systems installed at airports and high-speed rail stations used gait recognition—capable of identifying thousands at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facial recognition, by contrast, was more human-centric, requiring dedicated checkpoints and one-by-one comparisons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ningtai County certainly didn’t need such AI surveillance. In fact, even airports and high-speed rail stations didn’t use gait recognition to catch petty thieves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan, a smart young man, wasn’t so precious—he quickly found a familiar gait within the reported time and location range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the trail, he discovered the man had lingered for a long time at a bus stop three kilometers from Jiangcun neighborhood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spot was a camera blind zone, meaning he knew the bus stop’s camera positions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For ordinary video investigators, this was troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To arrest him, they’d need solid evidence—ideally, stakeout at the bus stop or installing a camera to capture proof.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now in Ningtai County, there were more people than thieves; petty thieves moved from one bus stop to another daily. Two or three officers working overtime might spend one or two months on stakeout and still fail to catch evidence—the human cost was too high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No video team would go to such lengths unless the phone belonged to a foreigner or important person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, losing a phone wasn’t necessarily theft—that’s why many people couldn’t file reports after losing phones. But this case was filed because the victim’s bag had been slashed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That confirmed the phone was stolen, not merely lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan continued searching for other cameras.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan now confirmed the man was committing theft—the question became: how to capture footage of the act itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, Jiang Yuan found a distant camera.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No need to say—activate image enhancement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the precise moment, pull out several frames, apply LV5 image enhancement, and the bag-slicing and phone-stealing motions were clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm… June 17, 1:32 PM.” Jiang Yuan noted the time and camera ID, took a photo with his phone, and kept watching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It turned out petty thieves had heavy workloads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This one wasn’t even progressive—he still used the old bag-slicing method, just switching from stealing wallets to stealing phones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he still operated in pairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan calculated roughly ten years’ imprisonment for him and sent the file to Wei Zhenguo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, Wei Zhenguo called: “Damn, you just got back?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Found it while reviewing surveillance…” Jiang Yuan chatted briefly with Wei Zhenguo, then hung up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Downstairs, Wei Zhenguo had already packed his gear and was preparing to go arrest the suspect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan hung up and was searching for another case when the phone rang again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caller ID: Liu Jinghui.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan sighed. Why were there still petty thieves stealing in Ningtai County? Because everyone kept killing too many people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If people killed fewer, if there were fewer homicides, and police had more time, wouldn’t these petty thieves be cleared up quickly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan sighed and answered the call: “Director Liu, another case?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We haven’t finished Wang Guoshan’s case yet,” Liu Jinghui sighed. “This guy’s slippery. After being sent to detention, he started bargaining.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He’s definitely getting the death penalty—what’s there to bargain about?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Stuff like better meals, sure. But the interrogation’s going poorly. Remember Yu Jun, the coal miner?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yu Jun was our oldest corpse, but he wasn’t Wang Guoshan’s first victim. And Wang Guoshan won’t talk about the details of Yu Jun’s murder. I’m planning to visit the scene.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The scene of Yu Jun’s death?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Zifeng Mountain Coal Mine. I’m taking two dogs to see if we can find anything.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking dogs already revealed Liu Jinghui’s intent—he was going to search for bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan recalled the Tan Yong case, where dogs found a corpse in a mine ventilation shaft.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did Captain Shen agree?” Previously, when Liu Jinghui wanted to take dogs to the mine, Captain Shen Feihong had rejected it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Jinghui shrugged: “No objection. I’ll just borrow dogs from elsewhere.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then I'll go over tomorrow?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Never mind, stay put. Until you find the body, there's nothing you can do, and it'll save you from offending Shen Feihong.\" Liu Jinghui said a few more words and hung up the phone.\u003C\u002Fp>",1683,"2026-06-20T18:55:02.212Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","5585b5771fe124fefc481397c38ac6e7d054c95bb4122b65aed07b334d011362","the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-203","the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-201",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-cover.jpg"]