Chapter 703: +1

*Squeak. *

A white medium-sized van pulled into the parking lot, making an awkward braking sound.

Tao Lu looked up once and didn't pay much more attention. Calculating the time, this might just be a food truck or something similar.

Thinking of this, Tao Lu felt a bit hungry, but he wasn't in a hurry. He was already a middle-aged man, belonging to the ancient age where not eating was healthier; food simply wasn't important.

Several police officers stepped forward to help unload the car, and then they began shouting.

Then, Tao Lu discovered boxes of drones with exquisite appearances being piled up in the parking lot.

The people who got out of the van held small knives, opened the drone boxes one by one on the spot, took out the expensive drones inside, and assembled and tested them right there.

Police officers waiting nearby had already taken out their phones, stepped forward, and scanned the codes to collect them.

Tao Lu's eyelids twitched wildly. A simple deduction: drones with exquisite appearances were expensive; government procurement prices were expensive; sudden procurement prices were expensive; thoughtful service prices were expensive... After cutting open the packaging, it was hard to return; after using them, it was even harder to return...

"Are these drones for searching? Weren't the previous ones enough?" Tao Lu walked over and asked the officer in charge.

"The new models we ordered in advance have arrived." One of the officers helping nearby was a technician, who hurriedly stepped forward to report.

At this time, the Bureau Chief couldn't help but walk over, took a look, and frowned deeply.

Tao Lu hurriedly asked, "These are the drones Xu Taining wanted, right? Did he act first and report later?"

He glanced at Jiang Yuan, thinking: If it really doesn't work out, I'll just look at Jiang Yuan's face and help this guy say some good words. The style of local cadres is just a bit too wild...

"He reported it." The Bureau Chief answered very slowly, his tone heavy. "It's precisely because he reported it that it makes people feel uncomfortable twice. He said they were equipped with some kind of sensors; they're outrageously expensive."

Tao Lu thought for a moment before reacting, smiling, "Looking at it from another angle, these are all durable goods; at least they can be used for a long time."

"Are we going to the suburbs to dig for corpses every day? What will other bureaus think of us?"

"If we can dig them up every day, they'll envy us at first, and then they'll be terrified."

The Bureau Chief couldn't help but imagine, "Even playing mahjong, they'll have to let me win."

Tao Lu didn't know what he had thought of, but he also chuckled twice before saying, "If digging for corpses were that easy, it would be great. What I fear most is that this time we've mobilized so many people and got no results. If it really doesn't work, digging up a corpse is actually quite good."

A dragnet with no results—this was the result leaders were least willing to accept during all dragnets.

This wasn't like ordinary case advancement; as long as it was compliant and legal, even if the case couldn't be solved, it was just a business failure.

Pushing forward a large-scale dragnet, especially one of this scale with thousands of people, even for the Capital Bureau, someone had to be responsible.

If it was found, it could be "bravely taking on a major responsibility"; if it wasn't found, even if it wasn't considered "laboring the people and wasting money," it still belonged to a "judgment error."

The Bureau Chief looked unnaturally in the direction of Huang Qiangmin and said, "You guys should also be careful. This year's budget has hit bottom. We can't spend all the funds on criminal investigation..."

Tao Lu smiled unnaturally. "Not to that extent, not to that extent..."

Within a branch bureau, not to mention there were over a dozen criminal investigation agencies—don't look at the Zheng-Guang Bureau as a super-large unit with an annual expenditure of 2.2 billion; the amount the criminal police detachment could cut away was still a minority.

However, although everyone said this, in reality, they didn't believe that the dragnet could really dig up a few corpses.

Where would corpses appear so easily? Not to mention whether there were corpses buried in the wilderness, even if corpses were really buried inside, using drones and forensic botany to judge?

How high this difficulty was—Tao Lu and the others who were criminal police felt it was a bit like a fantasy.

Just as Tao Lu was thinking this, he looked up and saw Jiang Yuan walking over.

"Bureau Chief Chu, Detachment Leader Tao," Jiang Yuan greeted them. "In plot Y116, a corpse has been confirmed."

"Hm?" Tao Lu didn't react for a moment.

It was the Bureau Chief who followed up, "What's the situation? Are there police officers at the scene?"

"Yes. The scene has already been controlled." Jiang Yuan didn't need emotional intelligence to know what the Bureau Chief was worried about, so he gave him peace of mind first, then said, "The corpse was abandoned in the bushes and is already highly decomposed. At the same time, the corpse was dismembered into three parts. The torso was put into a rice bag, the limbs were wrapped in bed sheets and put into a snake-skin bag, and the head had traces of burning and was put into a plastic bag."

This went without saying; it was undoubtedly a homicide case, and a very vicious one at that.

The Bureau Chief's face sank instantly.

Fighting on two fronts?

It wouldn't do if the pressure on the criminal police detachment was too great. With so many resources just invested in the dragnet work, it was most correct for the criminal police detachment not to be distracted.

Even Jiang Yuan... theoretically, he should be focused on the dragnet.

Mm... discovering a corpse could be said to be the result of focusing on the dragnet.

In an instant, Bureau Chief Chu's mind was like an electric shock, thinking of many, many things.

"I'll go do the crime scene investigation first, and then notify you here once there are results?" Jiang Yuan stayed in the parking lot precisely to support the scene at the first opportunity.

Although it was an abandoned corpse case from a long time ago, the initial scene, even if it was just the abandonment scene, could provide a lot of information.

And for the police, what they needed wasn't comprehensive information; partial information, biased information—it didn't matter. As long as they could trace the person, or even just connect to some clues, the police would be very satisfied.

Bureau Chief Chu and Tao Lu frowned, but they responded to Jiang Yuan at the first opportunity, and while arranging supporting manpower for him, they set off together for the corpse abandonment location.

For the Zheng-Guang Bureau, regardless of why the corpse was discovered, this was first and foremost a purely new homicide case, which was what people commonly called "a homicide case that must be solved."

The scene.

Under the birch tree.

The three bags of the corpse were all covered under the leaves. The bags used for the corpse's outer packaging were clearly found on the spot; they used whatever was available.

Looking from afar, although the corpse was already decomposed, because of the outer packaging, not many pollutants had leaked out. If one ignored the sense of smell, the field of vision was considered clean.

"Was it covered with leaves before? How was it discovered?" Detachment Leader Tao followed behind Jiang Yuan, feeling uneasy.

"Among the plants growing here, there are many invasive species, so I looked at the videos carefully," Jiang Yuan said simply. In reality, he was already a Level 4 Forensic Botanist plus one.

It was just that because of this, the crime scene investigation could only be done using his own skills, maintaining a Level 5.

Tao Lu and the others expressed approval as if they understood, and didn't ask any more questions.

Jiang Yuan waited for a moment, dressed neatly, and seeing that Detachment Leader Tao and the others had no more words, he entered the scene and began the investigation.

The wind blew.

It was a bit chilly. ===== CHAPTER 704 =====