Chapter 714

"Air-raid shelters?"

Xu Taining listened to Jiang Yuan's words and couldn't help but loosen the collar of his shirt, saying: "The basis for our search, the large-scale search plan, was conducted using satellites and drones."

"That is indeed the case," Jiang Yuan nodded in agreement.

"But using satellites and drones, you can't see the inside of air-raid shelters," Xu Taining repeated.

"That is indeed the case," Jiang Yuan agreed.

Xu Taining suddenly turned his face to look at Liu Jinghui and said: "The search scope was deduced by you, right?"

Passing the buck is one of the basic skills in the workplace. Liu Jinghui also loosened the collar of his shirt: "Not to mention the constantly changing prerequisites before this, as a staff officer, the reasons for making the final decision are multifaceted. In fact, rather than seeking to say who made the decision, it's better to say it was the direction of the collective will. And from a realistic dimension, the changing environment naturally derives various possibilities..."

Jiang Yuan looked ahead blankly; in front of him was the system panel.

Task: Geese Leave Traces

Task Content: Crimes will not disappear easily, and corpses cannot be buried easily. Find the buried corpse, seek justice for them, and bring peace of mind to the family.

Task Progress: (2/X)

Task Reward: Forensic Sketching (LV1)

The moment he received the skill, Jiang Yuan turned his mind and tried the skill by gesturing in the air with his hand.

He had already obtained LV2 Sketching before, but clearly, while Sketching (LV2) covers Forensic Sketching (LV1) comprehensively in terms of its Chinese name, in reality, there is still a difference.

The main difference is probably that forensic sketching involves some dynamic speculation. After all, forensic sketching isn't really about drawing the image or form of the corpse in front of you; that's a problem that can be solved by taking a photo.

Forensic sketching is about seeing the corpse and drawing what the deceased looked like while they were alive.

In this, it can be a simple speculation, or it can involve complex judgments such as cause of death determination, autopsy techniques, and anatomical features.

However, this was the first time Jiang Yuan had obtained an LV1 skill, and it was so low that it made him miss Wang Zhong.

"Jiang Yuan," Xu Taining called out, handed him a bottle of water, and said: "Do we need to change the search plan?"

"I'm afraid we need to include air-raid shelters in the scope of consideration," Jiang Yuan closed the system interface and came back to his senses.

This was equivalent to an obvious oversight, and it was also because several of them came from Shannan and had no concept of the capital's air-raid shelters and air-defense system.

Although the specific scale was unclear, if needed, the air-raid shelters here should be more than enough to fit all the people of Ningtai County.

And with such a large scale, no matter how strictly it is managed, it is actually impossible to manage it strictly.

Xu Taining shook his head. He actually knew this would be the result and could only say: "Then the plan will have to be redone, and the budget will have to be rewritten."

Jiang Yuan chuckled twice. I'm a forensic expert; these things have nothing to do with me.

Xu Taining's gaze passed through Jiang Yuan and landed on Tao Lu.

Tao Lu's entire skin tightened.

The atmosphere in the conference room was like a forest before a thunderstorm; everyone became tense.

The subordinates all shrank their necks at this moment. Liu Cheng acted as a vanguard for Tao Lu and bared his teeth: "Director Xu, are you really a nuclear weapon?"

"How so?" Xu Taining glanced at Liu Cheng.

Liu Cheng swallowed his saliva and said: "We don't even know if the target is dead or not, but your indiscriminate attacks are real. Don't keep talking about budget, budget, funds, funds; you should start moving first."

Liu Cheng actually wanted to say that in human history of thousands of years, someone like you who kills their own boss at the start is very similar to a nuclear weapon.

Xu Taining curled his lips indifferently and said: "Troops and horses move, but provisions come first. With all these people eating and horses chewing, where is money not needed? If the plan is changed, the budget naturally has to be changed. To go ahead without a plan and without a budget is irresponsible to the task and to the comrades participating in the work."

Tao Lu's voice had nowhere near the momentum it had just now, and he said weakly: "Even so, the original budget time hasn't arrived yet. Can't we just use the previous budget? Why has it reached the point of needing to increase the budget?"

"The previous budget can be seen as the expense for a full suburban search. Now that the underground part has been added, should we abandon the surface part? We can only proceed simultaneously. It's equivalent to the search area greatly increasing, so personnel naturally have to increase, and logistics support and command systems also have to keep up accordingly..." Xu Taining was still very serious when fighting for the budget, and he had reasons and evidence.

Tao Lu licked his lips and looked at the police officers on both sides of the conference table. Regardless of how enthusiastic the police officers were discussing just now, they were all silent as cicadas in winter now.

This scene was like a nurse holding a needle walking into a group of sixth-grade big kids who were 1.8 meters tall and weighed over 100 kilograms.

The needle wasn't thick and wouldn't kill anyone, but it hurt.

The key was that what Xu Taining said made sense!

This is like why everyone is afraid of injections; it's because injections are really useful and really necessary. But they just happen to hurt.

The search needs to be stepped up; how could it be possible without increasing the budget and personnel expenses? Tao Lu understood this truth without Xu Taining repeating it.

However, understanding is one thing, but when it really comes to pushing this matter forward, Tao Lu felt a pain in his heart.

Not to mention that the Criminal Investigation Detachment didn't have much funds left, and this fund was already overdrawn to begin with...

"I'm going back to watch the videos." Jiang Yuan felt that the part of the meeting he needed to attend was over, so he stood up and prepared to retreat.

As soon as Director Tao heard this, he remembered the corpse Jiang Yuan had discovered by watching videos, and he unconsciously reached out his hand, wanting to grab something.

But he couldn't stop Jiang Yuan.

He could only watch Jiang Yuan leave the conference room.

Xu Taining also stood up and said: "I'm going to prepare. Regarding the budget, it must be kept up in time; otherwise, if the search is interrupted halfway and then restarted, the cost will be huge."

This is a "clever trick" that Xu Taining often uses, and once this trick comes out, the units conducting the search dare not disobey.

If you don't prepare the money, it will be more expensive! Just ask yourself if you're afraid.

Of course, you could also be stubborn and give up the search. But the decision to search wasn't a whim; there was a real need. In the final analysis, Xu Taining is here to help, not to collect debts. Which unit would really have the nerve to let Xu Taining run on credit? It has to be able to run.

"Director Tao, we'll... go out too." Liu Cheng saw that the situation was not right and ran away with his head down.

Needless to say, the Shannan people like Liu Jinghui stood up and said goodbye before retreating.

Finally, only Tao Lu was left. He opened his phone and dialed Director Chu's number:

"Director Chu, the gun case is basically finished on our end... Yes, yes, yes, um, regarding Zhang Lizhen's case, I also want to report to you. Considering some issues involved in the gun case, we feel that for the scope of the search, I'm afraid we have to consider the factor of air-raid shelters..."

Tao Lu spoke softly and gently, as if stroking Director Chu's kidneys, slowly increasing the pressure: "Yes, this point about air-raid shelters is indeed likely to be utilized by some organizations... Yes, the scope should be a bit larger, right? Should the budget be compared to the city-wide scope... Yes, so, in this way, the expenses..."

Beep beep beep beep.

Tao Lu looked at the hung-up phone and didn't feel bad.

Director Chu's rank is indeed much higher than his, but Director Chu also has his difficulties and his temper to vent; Tao Lu can wait.