Chapter 687: Second Senior Brother

Office.

The skull, covered in white dots, stood stark white on the office desk, its slightly round, pupil-less eye sockets facing the window, as if admiring the beautiful city skyline of the capital.

Jiang Yuan received the task and couldn't help but turn his gaze to Zhan Kan beside him.

Zhan Kan was chubby and had a face that hadn't been bullied much but was quite easy to bully. To a certain extent, Zhan Kan was equivalent to a talent recognized by the system.

The chosen skill was still skull reconstruction.

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but think of Captain Pang Jidong before. As Jiang Yuan's first apprentice, Comrade Pang Jidong had spent a huge amount of time and energy just to fully understand the elements of forensic botany and become familiar with the ways and methods of using forensic botany to solve cases.

Most importantly, Pang Jidong, who was already 50 years old, although his brain turned slower, had a very upright attitude toward learning, which was at least a relatively comfortable state for teaching.

Zhan Kan was a young man only a few years older than Jiang Yuan, with an unfocused mind and a local from the capital. If it was just a three-minute heat...

Three minutes might be enough to send two criminals to their deaths; it would be a pity if it were wasted.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan loosened his hand from the mouse, looked Zhan Kan up and down a few times, and said, "Little Zhan."

"Team Leader Jiang." Zhan Kan responded quickly.

"Do you want to learn skull reconstruction from me?" Jiang Yuan used the forensic style of chatting, a single-stroke knife, to dissect the content of the conversation.

Zhan Kan was stunned, joy couldn't help but appear on his face, and he hurriedly said: "I want to, I really want to!"

He had followed Jiang Yuan for several days, serving him front and back; wasn't it just to learn something from Jiang Yuan?

Although he didn't lack money, his work was super stable, and he had never received complaints or grievances from his work objects, but living a life, it's impossible to truly have no pursuits.

Such high-level technology as skull reconstruction belonged to the kind where you could sit in the front row once you learned it. Zhan Kan actually had some attribute fit; to be honest, Zhan Kan himself was pleasantly surprised.

Jiang Yuan, however, was still a bit hesitant. After a few seconds, he said, "Skull reconstruction takes a lot of time to learn, and at the beginning, the accuracy is not high, and the application effect is not good. Have you understood this aspect?"

"I understand. I know skull reconstruction is particularly difficult, but I am willing to try." Zhan Kan said hurriedly.

"Trying won't do." Jiang Yuan stared at Zhan Kan with deep eyes and said, "If you decide to learn, you must persist until you learn it!"

Jiang Yuan judged from the experience of teaching Pang Jidong that the time and energy to teach Zhan Kan were worth at least three death-row prisoners. In other words, if Zhan Kan couldn't learn to independently arrest 6 death-row prisoners, this job would be a loss. The social value would be negative, and he would have worked in vain.

Zhan Kan couldn't guess Jiang Yuan's thoughts, but he saw Jiang Yuan's serious expression and couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, hurriedly saying, "I will definitely persist in learning."

"Um..." Jiang Yuan thought and said, "Words alone are not proof..."

Zhan Kan: "Write it down as proof!"

"Don't jump the gun."

"Ah?"

"Words alone are not proof. You go back and think about it carefully first, and discuss it with your family." Jiang Yuan said, "Skull reconstruction takes a long time to learn. My teaching time may not be very long, but you need to persist in practicing and thinking. This time may take several years."

Zhan Kan was a bit silent as he listened. Indeed, he only thought about the glory after learning skull reconstruction, but he clearly hadn't thought seriously about the learning process.

"At the beginning, even if you learn skull reconstruction, you might not do it well. An average-level technician who does this can achieve 30% to 50% of the goal if they have talent. Only when you are proficient is it easy to make useful reconstruction images. You need to be mentally prepared."

"Yes..."

"You go back today first."

Zhan Kan's expression was solemn: "I understand. Then I will go back and think about it, and then give you an answer..."

"Um, discuss it well with your family and see what your future career planning and life planning are. Ordinary pathologists might face corpses every day. With skull reconstruction, you will face such skulls every day in the future." Jiang Yuan drank tea tactically and watched Zhan Kan leave the office.

Zhan Kan, who had been in a state of shock for a long time, obviously didn't realize that Jiang Yuan's words didn't really give him a choice of "whether or not."

Office.

Jiang Yuan finished part of the work at hand, then dialed Tao Lu, saying, "Branch Chief Tao, I've been doing skull reconstruction recently, and Zhan Kan has been following me. I see he has some talent... Yes... I should say both he and I are a bit hesitant, but this thing should be quite useful once learned... Yes..."

Jiang Yuan's emotional intelligence was maxed out, and his tone was flat. On the other end of the phone, Tao Lu was ecstatic, overjoyed, and felt like he was floating...

If Zhan Kan became Jiang Yuan's apprentice and learned skull reconstruction, not to mention that his branch had another useful "big beast," wouldn't Jiang Yuan also be tied down?

By then, wouldn't it be natural to ask the master to move when the apprentice couldn't handle a corpse?

Tao Lu became more excited the more he thought about it, and he patted his chest on the phone to guarantee: "What is there to hesitate about? Our branch fully supports the master-apprentice inheritance of forensic medicine. As for Zhan Kan, I will also let the criminal science department arrange the work and cooperate with your time..."

"Um, let's see Zhan Kan's choice. I told him to go back and consider it carefully. Oh, we didn't talk about master-apprentice or anything..."

"How can that be!" Tao Lu said sternly: "The police camp's tradition of master-apprentice passing on knowledge is our fine tradition. Like this, I will go back and understand the situation with Zhan Kan in detail."

"There's no need to force the form." Jiang Yuan coughed twice.

"That won't do. You are willing to teach him technology; isn't it appropriate for him to call you master? Zhan Kan's master when he joined the job should be Pathologist Zhang, but he transferred to an administrative post later. I'll tell him when I go back. Everyone has their own arguments; it doesn't involve anything else." Tao Lu said very seriously.

"In that case, I will also tell my master." Jiang Yuan hung up the phone, called Wu Jun and Huang Qiangmin separately, and then notified Pang Jidong, who was far away in Luojin City, Baijiang Province.

He was considered the eldest apprentice, and now that he had to add a second one, he had to let the eldest know the situation.

Pang Jidong was even more excited than Jiang Yuan imagined, excitedly saying: "That's great, Master! Nothing could be better than a prosperous master-apprentice lineage. I'll tell my wife tonight and fly to the capital early tomorrow morning!"

"Uh, okay, being a witness is fine too."

The next afternoon.

Conference room of the Guangju Criminal Police Branch.

Wave after wave of police officers walked past the conference room as if they were strolling, just to take a look at Zhan Kan, who was wearing a police dress uniform inside.

Don't mention it; even if you become a police officer, you won't see a police dress uniform a few times a year.

Especially the appearance of a colleague wearing a police dress uniform and studying obediently.

Wu Jun, Jiang Yuan, and Pang Jidong sat in a row, talking to Zhan Kan in low voices.

Since everyone was already master-apprentice and fellow apprentices, naturally they had to impart some insights.

Tao Lu stood beside Huang Qiangmin, looking at the few people sitting around the computer with great relief.

At this time, Jiang Yuan looked up and said, "Branch Chief Tao, I'll keep Pang Da for a while."

"No problem, no problem." Tao Lu nodded immediately and smiled: "Captain Pang looks very capable. We are grateful that he can support our branch's work. What is Pang Da mainly doing..."

"Forensic botany." Jiang Yuan turned to look at Pang Jidong and said, "Pang Da has been doing botany for a while now; let's reinforce it."

Pang Jidong nodded happily again and again; he didn't expect to be able to mix in another period of training.

Tao Lu heard "forensic botany," and vigilance jumped into his mind first, asking: "Is there progress in the case?"

"Skull reconstruction is almost done, but even if it's completed, it only gives the victim's appearance, and it's still not easy to determine the victim's specific identity. Pairing it with forensic botany is just right to delineate a regional range, which makes it easier to find people." Jiang Yuan said it very easily.

Even if Pang Jidong hadn't come, he had planned to do forensic botany, but it might have been a bit later, at least after the skull reconstruction was completed.

Pang Jidong came, so he took the opportunity to advance forensic botany.

As for Jiang Yuan using two sets of top-tier technology to solve a case at once... consider the murderer unlucky! ===== CHAPTER 688 =====