Chapter 434: All Is Well

Halfway through the celebration banquet, the leaders of Qu'an County, excited, raised their wine glasses and began to toast all over the world.

Huang Qiangmin accompanied them for a few sips, then sat down next to Jiang Yuan and smiled, "Jiang Yuan, do you want to take another look at the cold cases of homicides in Qu'an?"

"I don't mind. Isn't it urgent to go to other counties to work on cases?" Jiang Yuan knew that the reason the selling price could be so high this time had a lot to do with the policy of the "Year of Tackling Cold Cases" in Qinghe City. Since that was the case, naturally, one case per county was the most cost-effective.

Huang Qiangmin knew what Jiang Yuan meant and smiled, "This is what I'm thinking: first, buy one get one free, their emotions are easier to accept. Second, our team size has increased now, and it takes some time to coordinate with each county. Doing two cases is very likely to be easier than doing two separate cases. Third, another case is optional; you can choose the ones you like or the ones that are easier to do."

"Easier cold cases of homicides?" Liu Jinghui next to him gave a laugh, with a slight hint of sarcasm.

Indeed, speaking like this felt a bit like saying, "Let's go to the road and pick up some easy money."

Everything had been swept over many times by many people; opportunities that were slightly easier simply did not exist.

Huang Qiangmin laughed twice, looked at Liu Jinghui, and poked him familiarly: "Using reasoning, any case is difficult; using technology, there are still degrees of difficulty."

Liu Jinghui felt a pain in his heart from the poke. After thinking about it, he said, "What you said is not wrong either."

General reasoning is actually understood by the police, but in modern society, reasoning novels are rampant, and criminals also understand reasoning. Therefore, cases that are not particularly easy will not be particularly easy.

Jiang Yuan saw that Huang Qiangmin had made up his mind, thought about it, and said, "Then let's follow the previous plan and see if there are any cases suitable for skull reconstruction."

Technology has iterations and updates, and criminal science technology is no exception. But no matter how it iterates and updates, the technology of the previous generation is theoretically usable and can also solve cases.

In fact, the technology used by criminal police has always been behind the times. Many old criminal police officers in the 21st century still walked with iron feet and relied on visits and investigations to solve cases, and the case-solving rate did not drop much.

However, pure new technology is a bit different.

Pure new technology really has the possibility of solving cases in a "foolproof" way.

The best examples are DNA, surveillance video, and mobile phones.

At the beginning of the promotion of these three things, it could be said that a large number of criminals became offerings.

Some professional criminals, while still following old methods of committing crimes, were caught in the blink of an eye, without any reason at all.

Skull reconstruction is also a pure new technology that is somewhat similar.

It is not too new a technology at the level of forensic technology—although most forensic doctors do not have this skill, they have all heard of it.

But at the practical level, the use of skull reconstruction is really rare.

Not to mention a place like Qu'an County. This technology has not been promoted much within Shannan Province.

An ordinary awesome forensic doctor needs one or two months, or even three months, to complete a skull restoration—in the practice stage, even if working day and night, one month is not enough.

And in terms of the number of forensic doctors in various districts and counties in Shannan Province, not many county criminal science teams can give forensic doctors such generous time.

If there is no time to practice, where will the improvement come from?

Jiang Yuan is different. He had long skipped the practice stage. Skull reconstruction that can be used as soon as he gets his hands on it might only take one or two weeks to produce results.

Although it is still very time-consuming, if the goal is cold cases of homicides, it is still acceptable. The resulting increase in the case-solving rate is real.

"Then let's look for skull restoration cases." Huang Qiangmin is now more willing to believe in the power brought by technology. He turned his head to look at Liu Jinghui and asked, "Will Division Chief Liu do it with us?"

"Can do." Liu Jinghui agreed immediately.

"I'll go ask now." Huang Qiangmin gulped down the wine in his glass and turned to connect.

"He is really like a fish in water." Liu Jinghui clicked his tongue twice and asked Jiang Yuan, "Aren't you tired of doing skull restoration? This thing is much more troublesome than footprints, right?"

"The point is different." Jiang Yuan said, "Footprints are still a bit mechanical. For skull restoration, there is a little room for personal performance."

Liu Jinghui gave another laugh: "I understand now. The footprints you compared before were 8 years old compared to the current ones. Is this still mechanical? There are not many experts in the country who can do this."

"If it's this trick, there might be a few people who can do it." Jiang Yuan was not exaggerating, nor did he need to be humble. LV3 footprint analysis can indeed dominate within the province, but LV5 is really rare. Most experts may never be able to cross from LV3 to LV4 in their lifetime, and LV5 requires both talent and experience.

If the skill level exceeds that of ordinary experts, it is possible to solve cold cases of homicides from a technical level, which is a very smooth logic.

Liu Jinghui asked further: "Then we are looking for cold cases related to footprints now. Isn't the probability of you solving them very high?"

"The probability of skull reconstruction is higher. Because few people do this."

"But skull reconstruction takes a long time, how fast is footprint analysis!"

"Solving a case is not just about footprint analysis, right? Besides, for the cases solved recently, a lot of footprint analysis had to be done." Jiang Yuan paused and added, "Of course, if it's just footprint analysis, it's definitely faster."

"Then I'll help you find cases that can use footprint analysis?" Liu Jinghui knew a lot of cold cases of homicides and felt that it was a sin for Huang Qiangmin to limit Jiang Yuan to Qinghe City for such a small amount of funding.

Jiang Yuan said "Okay" and added, "Let's do skull reconstruction for the first two days. Once one case is finished, then take the next one."

"Suitable." Liu Jinghui got up excitedly, went out and made a few phone calls, and when he came back, he saw that Huang Qiangmin had already returned to the table.

Today's celebration banquet was held on a large scale. The police officers of Qu'an County all participated. The restaurant next to the police station was booked, and the two floors were filled with tables. The leaders of the county bureau were also holding cups and wine pots, showing their approachable side all over the world.

Jiang Yuan was not willing to go out to toast. When others came to toast, he didn't drink much. Plus, he was a technician from out of town, so he was no longer everyone's target very quickly.

Huang Qiangmin came and went, more to take care of Jiang Yuan.

Liu Jinghui then sat on the other side of Jiang Yuan and added, "Jiang Yuan, look at these cases I found. Let's not do them first, let's keep them in reserve."

Jiang Yuan looked at the names and found that they were all cases from other cities in the province.

Huang Qiangmin also saw it and said indifferently, "Some places are not easy to communicate with. The local criminal police team thinks they are very strong and don't have any cases that particularly need to be done. We have to look back and find opportunities to talk about it."

"It's not that we have to exchange something. Doing one or two cases for them for free to build a reputation is fine, right?" Liu Jinghui said.

Huang Qiangmin almost spat out the word "naive" but managed to hold it back. The experts from the provincial department were here, and it was not easy for him, a person from the county, to complain.

Considering the relationship between Liu Jinghui and Jiang Yuan, Huang Qiangmin thought about it and said, "Division Chief Liu, I'll show you something, you have to guarantee not to leak it."

"No problem." When Liu Jinghui was buried in a mine by a serial killer years ago, what happened in those few days is still confidential. Leaking things like this simply doesn't exist.

Huang Qiangmin gave an "en," looked left and right, took out a torn piece of paper from his inner jacket pocket, and handed it to Liu Jinghui.

Liu Jinghui took it without knowing why, frowned and looked at it. First, he was confused, then even more confused, then frowned again, and then entered a state of shock.

Liu Jinghui swallowed his saliva, first looked up at the sky, then looked down at Huang Qiangmin, shook the paper in his hand, and asked, "Doesn't this count as extortion? Didn't the Qu'an County Bureau arrest you?"

The bright mirror hangs high, the world is clear, but there are always people and things that are unexpected.

Liu Jinghui had also been walking in the rivers and lakes for many years, and he hadn't seen many people with such good teeth as Huang Qiangmin.

The corner of Huang Qiangmin's mouth drew an 88.8-degree smile: "They are quite happy. And this is not for one case, it's 2+1."

Huang Qiangmin emphasized, "I finally made a concession, a package deal."

Liu Jinghui: "How does the 2+1 work?"

"In addition to the two cases we agreed on before, if there are any current cases next, whether it's a homicide or something else, if they need it, we can support them one more time." Huang Qiangmin said while looking at Jiang Yuan and explained, "It's said to be within a few days, and no specific time has been set. Remote assistance is theoretically feasible. In short, taking solving cases as the priority, the deadline is within this year."

Liu Jinghui understood immediately: "This is to ensure that all homicides this year are solved."

In a county like Qu'an County, there is now an average of one homicide case per year. Huang Qiangmin promised a 2+1, which is reflected in the combat power ranking list as solving two homicides and solving all current homicides.

Calculated this way, Qu'an County's homicide points this year can get more than 500 points. The 300 points in it, which is solving all current cases, maybe they can get it themselves, but they basically cannot get the points for the extra two cold case homicides.

It is equivalent to saying that Huang Qiangmin sold them 200 points, plus a 300-point insurance. In addition, the marginal effect brought by this is also enjoyed by Qu'an County itself.

Despite this, as a senior police officer of the provincial department, Liu Jinghui was still a bit unbelievable. He looked at the note twice more and said, "Is Qu'an County not going to live anymore? Just the cars alone are several. Can your Ningtai County use so many cars?"

"Don't we need cars when so many of us come out now? We can't always use other units' cars. Besides, buses, midibuses, prison vans, and even hearses, our county bureau didn't have them before... And it's not that I just want cars, they only have cars, okay."

"Raising so many cars... Good guy, the fuel costs and insurance costs are all borne by others. Have you thought it all through?"

"If there are good cars later, we can also replace the old cars from our Ningtai County to them. We can't let the criminal police of our Ningtai County not be worthy of driving a good new car." Huang Qiangmin was very tough. He was clean and self-disciplined, and he was not afraid of anything.

Jiang Yuan also nodded and added, "However, there is no need to replace the old cars driven by our criminal police team. Some people who don't know how to use the cars can't even shift gears."

In front of Liu Jinghui, Huang Qiangmin's face was a little red, and he argued: "Those who can't shift gears have dog paws. Some cars have only 150,000 kilometers, and they say they can't shift gears. Who is to blame for that?"

Jiang Yuan thought about it before he knew which car Huang Qiangmin was talking about, and couldn't help but say: "The Skoda you mentioned, it is said that the meter was adjusted when it reached 500,000 kilometers, right?"

"Adjusting the meter is adjusting the meter, but it wasn't adjusted when it reached 500,000 kilometers. It was mainly for the convenience of checking the mileage."

Liu Jinghui asked curiously: "Then how many kilometers was it adjusted?"

Huang Qiangmin said vaguely: "48... maybe. Alright, let's talk about the case. What Qu'an County can do now, there is also a cold case of homicide left by a skull, which is a case of a corpse in the wilderness. I invited a forensic doctor from Changyang City to see it before. The source of the corpse was not determined, but the bones were all left behind."

"Let's do it." Jiang Yuan didn't pick either, looked at Liu Jinghui and said, "I need a few days to prepare. Are you going home to rest first, or..."

"No rush to go back." Liu Jinghui interrupted Jiang Yuan, picked up his wine glass, took a sip, and said, "It's quite good outside too." ===== CHAPTER 435 =====