Chapter 684

Conference room.

Bright red begonia flowers bloomed tremblingly; pink flower buds shook perkily; the soaked soil and moistened pot sat lonely in the center.

A group of smelly men, as if gathered for gambling, surrounded the conference table, each person's gaze carrying a hint of sharpness.

"The suitcase floating corpse case—the difficulty of this case is very high."

Liu Cheng looked at the file in front of him, his brows furrowed tightly, and he sincerely offered his opposing opinion. This case was not his case!

Cui Qishan, who had hit the jackpot, stood up immediately and said: "You didn't say that when we were working on this case last time. Let me recall—the general idea was, 'How could you guys not solve such a simple case?' You were the one who said that, right? Now it's become 'very high difficulty'?"

Liu Cheng said calmly: "It was a simple case during the current case period, but it was dragged into a cold case. The difficulty is too great, and the risk is very high..."

Cui Qishan widened his eyes, wishing he could bite his tongue and spray Liu Cheng's face!

Tao Lu coughed twice and said, "Jiang Yuan, tell us your thoughts and ideas?"

"Oh, I'm just considering using skull reconstruction. If we can determine the victim's appearance, facial features, and the like, once the source of the corpse is confirmed, there should be a turning point, right?" Jiang Yuan always started from the technical side when solving cases, and this time was no exception.

Tao Lu frowned slightly. If this were someone else, a criminal police officer under his command, answering so vaguely, he would definitely be dissatisfied, and might even remove the person in charge of the case.

What does "there should be a turning point" mean?

Can you confirm the identity of a corpse just by having a face?

Besides, skull reconstruction takes a long time, right? And there's always a success rate and failure rate.

Tao Lu's requirements for his subordinates were quite high. If he were to invest massive resources into a cold case, the subordinate's preliminary design had to be perfect enough.

The case had already become a cold case; what was there that couldn't wait?

But thinking that these words came from Jiang Yuan, it was worth careful consideration. Tao Lu thought to himself, if it were operated by Jiang Yuan, skull reconstruction should be no problem, and confirming the source of the corpse should be doable. As for whether there would be a turning point—at least Tao Lu believed in Jiang Yuan.

"I don't understand technology like skull reconstruction. In this regard, I'll leave it entirely to you." Tao Lu was very polite to Jiang Yuan.

If selling smiles could solve cold homicide cases, Tao Lu was confident he could smile like a top courtesan.

In front of all the detachment leaders, Jiang Yuan also responded politely: "No problem. If we receive the corpse today, it can be thawed tomorrow, and we can start. It's expected to take about a week. During this period, there are a few points that need to be confirmed..."

"Is a week enough?" Cui Qishan had to speak up: "I see that those who usually do skull reconstruction take one or two months. If they encounter a queue, three or four months is not uncommon. We aren't that anxious; we still have to pay attention to accuracy."

According to Jiang Yuan's arrangement, this case was based on skull reconstruction. If the skull reconstruction wasn't done well, everything that followed would be rootless! To put it bluntly, even if they caught the right person later, the Procuratorate might not necessarily prosecute.

From Cui Qishan's perspective, this was not the time to argue over the gains or losses of a single city or territory. Even if it really took two or three months to do the skull reconstruction, Cui Qishan himself could accept it. Anyway, he wasn't the one doing it.

And for a cold homicide case, if it could be solved in three months, one should already be saying "Amitabha." What other demands could there be?

Jiang Yuan could hear Cui Qishan's concerns and couldn't help but smile: "About a week, maybe ten days. I'm faster than before now. My proficiency is higher, and my level is higher too."

LV5 skull reconstruction might be the only one of its kind in the country; Jiang Yuan's performance was already very low-key.

The direction for solving the case was thus determined.

Jiang Yuan turned and entered the dissection center, starting to perform skull reconstruction on the thawed skull.

A decomposed corpse from March last year, left until now—even with an ice coffin, it wouldn't hold up.

Once the rotten flesh was frozen and then thawed, it would turn into trickling sewage. Of course, to clean it, one still had to boil it in a large pot.

This part of the work naturally didn't need Jiang Yuan to do it; there were people in the dissection center fighting to do it.

After all, Jiang Yuan was clearly preparing to perform skull reconstruction.

Which forensic pathologist in the dissection center didn't want to see it?

Skull reconstruction, known as the art of forensic medicine, had been linked to talent, genius, and scarcity since the day it was born.

Most forensic pathologists had only heard of its name but never seen it in reality.

Not only were there few who understood it, few who taught it, and few who learned it, but even fewer forensic pathologists dared to actually perform skull reconstruction.

Because it is the art of forensic medicine, and art and precision have always been in opposite directions.

Therefore, the faces produced by low-level skull reconstruction are often not 100% accurate. Many times, one can only say that the appearance is vaguely discernible, like meeting an illegitimate child.

Only when the proficiency is slightly higher can the accuracy of skull reconstruction be greatly enhanced. However, for a skill of this level, increasing proficiency is not easy.

The cost of practice is also very high.

Precisely because of this, the dissection room where Jiang Yuan was located was soon filled with fresh forensic pathologists and the foul-smelling corpse.

The thawed skull floated up and down in the large pot, while Jiang Yuan tidied up and prepared the materials.

There was also a group of forensic pathologists talking while watching:

"The best thing about skull reconstruction is that if you really find the victim's identity, a single photo can prove whether it's the same person."

"Which means, whether it's done well or not, insiders and outsiders can tell. If it only achieves 60% or 70% similarity, wouldn't you be cursed to death?"

"Some can't even achieve 60% or 70% similarity."

"Then why do skull reconstruction at all?"

"Some units do it to create features, I guess."

The forensic pathologists discussed among themselves, while Jiang Yuan remained focused.

With LV5 skull reconstruction, producing results is expected.

However, producing a highly recognizable and highly accurate reconstruction image is still not easy.

Jiang Yuan resisted the urge to directly activate the temporary +1 skill; at the very least, he had to wait until the skull in the pot was boiled out.