Chapter 683

Jiang Yuan spent over two hours meticulously surveying the crime scene, which also satisfied his personal nostalgia for a fresh crime scene.

If this were in Ningtai County, two hours would be about right for the primary scene of a current case; any longer would be a torment for Old Yan and Wang Zhong.

Of course, that is usually enough. As the saying goes, "one trick is enough to conquer the world." Most criminal police officers, when solving cases, operate in a "Cheng Yaojin" style—they use their three signature moves, and if they still can't find the key clues, it's about time to call for backup.

Relying entirely on oneself is truly irresponsible.

But for Jiang Yuan, two hours was enough for him to switch between several methods to crack this case.

From his perspective, the perpetrator was not very skilled at concealment, and the post-incident cleanup was abandoned in a hurry before it was even finished.

In fact, if one puts themselves in the perpetrator's shoes, the second perpetrator was essentially caught in a surprise attack.

Perhaps in his expectations, the rental apartment where the victim was located would not have been exposed so early.

Additionally, referring to the first perpetrator who used arson to cover the scene, if the second perpetrator had been prepared, he might have used the same method. In that case, while he still wouldn't have escaped Jiang Yuan's survey, at least he wouldn't have left behind such a fresh and "spicy" scene.

"Woo..."

Qi Changye tore into the beef, took another bite of a steamed bun, then a bite of a small green pepper; tears of happiness were about to flow.

Calculating the time, over the past three or four days, he had slept for less than 8 hours in total, all in intermittent bursts of two hours or half an hour, mostly while in the car.

He ate even less; sleeping was to avoid sudden death, but more importantly, to keep his brain slightly clear.

By comparison, eating seemed less important, to the point that he was so hungry now he could barely speak.

"Would you like a drink of water?" His subordinate wasn't feeling sorry for him; he was just afraid he would choke to death.

"Yeah. You guys eat too," Qi Changye said with concern.

"No need, we're all full." The subordinate pushed the remaining scraps of meat to Qi Changye.

Beep...

The phone rang. Qi Changye hurriedly swallowed the food in his mouth and answered the mobile phone.

"We've found the suspect. Is Team Leader Jiang still there? We'd like him to confirm it again." The voice on the other end was very polite, but also very serious.

Qi Changye guessed that the politeness was meant for Jiang Yuan, and so, he felt even more choked...

"Uh..." Qi Changye pounded his chest.

"Are there any difficulties?" The voice on the other end remained calm and serious: "If the Ningtai County Bureau has any requirements, we can agree to them appropriately. It's not easy for a locality to cultivate a high-level talent; it would be too overbearing for us to just demand him. Giving some compensation or even a reward is reasonable."

Qi Changye finally swallowed the bun and meat in his mouth and hurriedly said, "No, I'll go find Jiang Yuan immediately, along with their Political Huang Zhengwei."

After hanging up, Qi Changye didn't hesitate any longer. While sending messages to ask his colleagues about the situation, he quickly went to find Jiang Yuan.

Soon, Jiang Yuan saw from Qi Changye some fingerprint photos, several headshots from ID cards and daily photos, as well as back-view photos that were clearly screenshots, several photos of a dagger, and a large number of footprint photos and shoe prints...

It only required LV1 deduction to guess that this suspect's life, inside and out, home and abroad, had likely been thoroughly investigated.

"The suspect is a driver for the motor pool, so we hope to confirm it clearly before making the arrest..." Qi Changye explained in a low voice to Jiang Yuan, which also served to reveal some information, helping Jiang Yuan's judgment.

"Confirmed. It's this person." Jiang Yuan didn't even look at many photos before giving Qi Changye his answer.

Qi Changye hesitated a bit: "Don't you need to finish looking?"

"This case indeed has many clues, but you don't need to finish looking at all of them to reach a conclusion." Jiang Yuan looked at Qi Changye, whose IQ was clearly slipping, and said, "Go get some sleep quickly, don't die of sudden exhaustion."

"It's fine. Our death benefits are high," Qi Changye said with a hint of pride.

That day.

The Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Zhengguang Bureau also mobilized everyone, cooperating to complete multiple arrest missions.

Jiang Yuan's cold case task force stayed behind, continuing to do some paperwork while watching the police officers from various units return one after another.

Jiang Yuan flipped through cases, picking and choosing, just like any other day.

"Team Leader Jiang, busy?" Cui Qishan knocked on the open door with a smile, greeting him very politely.

"Chief Cui..." Jiang Yuan stood up to greet him.

Cui Qishan immediately stepped forward in two or three strides and laughed: "No need to stand, no need to stand. We're so familiar with each other, no need for formalities. I just came over to drop by."

"Oh, then please sit. Have some tea?"

"Speaking of tea, I brought you a tin." Cui Qishan set down a tin of tea leaves with a thud and laughed: "I don't know anything about tea; this was given to me by a friend before. I saw you drink tea, so I just brought it over for you."

Jiang Yuan took one look at the packaging of the tea tin and felt the price wasn't low, so he hurriedly declined.

Cui Qishan naturally wouldn't allow it and quickly left with a smile.

Jiang Yuan couldn't refuse, so he could only sigh while holding the tea leaves and turn to hand them to Wang Chuanxing.

"Chief Cui sent a tin of tea. 480 grams." Wang Chuanxing recorded it while speaking, then opened the box behind him, tidied up the coffee, pots, health supplements, tea leaves, ornaments, and other items inside, cleared a space, and put the tin of tea in.

"Chief Cui has upped the ante." Liu Jinghui, who loved to watch the fun, said happily.

He had been too lazy to return to Shannan recently, staying in the capital and watching cases with Jiang Yuan, feeling it was more interesting.

Jiang Yuan sighed and said, "Upping the ante is useless. Besides, if they really want to up the ante, they should go find Political Huang Zhengwei."

"Makes sense." Liu Jinghui nodded in agreement, then added: "However, you should hurry up and pick a case. Once a case is selected, the minds of those few detachment leaders will be settled."

"Yeah. I thought the criminal police in the capital would have more composure..."

"Not grabbing a combine harvester when you have one, and instead taking your whole family to harvest rice with sickles—that's not composure, that's having your brain stuck."

"Then let's go with this one, the floating corpse case in the suitcase in the river." Jiang Yuan took one out from the pile of files he had already selected.

"Are you going to use skull reconstruction?" Liu Jinghui had also seen some of the cases Jiang Yuan had picked and remembered it as soon as he heard.

This case was discovered in March last year. At that time, a gray suitcase was floating on the river surface. After passersby opened it, they found a female corpse in a state of severe decomposition and discovered a 10-kilogram dumbbell inside the suitcase.

This case also perfectly confirmed a forensic metaphysical mystery—exactly how much weight is needed to offset the buoyancy of a human body in water.

In practice, 10 kilograms was clearly far from the peak value.

However, for the police, the difficulty of this case had reached its peak.

Just the identity of the deceased had remained undetermined for a long time.

Skull reconstruction was clearly an excellent plan, but even if skull reconstruction obtained the victim's facial image and confirmed their identity, there was still a long way to go.

Furthermore, even if the identity was confirmed, it didn't guarantee the case could be solved; this was where Jiang Yuan had some hesitation.

However, with the completion of the previous case, Jiang Yuan's skull reconstruction had leveled up again, reaching LV5, so it was time to bring it out and give it a try.

Jiang Yuan nodded and said, "I am prepared to try using skull reconstruction."

Liu Jinghui clicked his tongue twice and said, "The time cost is too high. You'll be immersed in this case for the whole month."

"It won't take that long now." Jiang Yuan paused and added, "Among the remaining cold cases, there aren't any better ones to break through."

"That's true. As for those left over by the Zhengguang Bureau..." Liu Jinghui didn't finish, instead saying: "We could ask Political Huang Zhengwei if it counts if we do a few current cases on the side?"

Mu Zhiyang reminded him from the side: "Chief Liu, the resources Political Huang Zhengwei is getting are all for the Ningtai County Bureau; there's none for you."

"Your level is too low." Liu Jinghui glanced at Mu Zhiyang: "You have to pay for a membership to watch a TV series. Why do you have to split the bill to watch the fun?"