Chapter 728

"Digging for corpses on-site? Is it really digging for corpses?"

Even though Jiang Yuan had explained it several times, a scholar still stood up and asked loudly to confirm.

Jiang Yuan nodded and said: "It is a real attempt to dig for corpses. The purpose of inviting everyone here is also to find the location of buried corpses in some related plots."

"But... but..." The scholar who stood up repeated it twice and sat down in disbelief.

For most people, a corpse, or the act of finding a corpse, is an incredibly huge matter; how could it be searched for on the spot like this?

But precisely because of their lack of understanding, the scholar who stood up here was also too timid to speak.

Jiang Yuan coughed twice and said: "Let's continue to the next plot, U43. This is also a location I confirmed yesterday. Everyone can take a look; it seems quite obvious, typical characteristics of a seed bank, right?"

The botanists below all perked up, eyes wide open as they looked:

"This tree age looks older, must be over ten years. Chinese pistache, right? Often used as landscape trees; it looks so pitiful growing in the forest."

"So, if we dig up a corpse here too, does that mean we're digging up two corpses on the spot? Are there so many dead people now?"

"I have a question. Why dig now? If it was discovered yesterday, why not dig yesterday?"

Finally, a scholar stood up and asked Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan thought for a moment before realizing his point, and said: "I started looking yesterday afternoon. Although I confirmed several locations by night, the difficulty of organizing manpower to dig during that time period was relatively high. Moreover, many police officers scheduled to gather this morning were working overtime yesterday to complete their work; calling them in early would also affect their work."

The scholar hesitated for a moment and asked: "So you can find several corpses after looking for one night?"

"It's not yet certain how many can be found specifically," Jiang Yuan said.

"But... if you can find so many corpses in one night, shouldn't you expand the search area? Searching like this every day. Or, are so many corpses actually not surprising..."

"That's impossible, of course!" Jiang Yuan immediately interrupted the other party's absurd statement and said: "The police department attaches great importance to homicide cases. Not to mention being able to find a corpse, even if it's a suspected corpse, they will invest a large amount of manpower and material resources. As for what you said about finding so many corpses in one night, there are prerequisites for that."

"What prerequisites?"

"First, there must be that many video images. The images taken by drones also need to be processed. Secondly, I have actually watched a lot of these drone videos before. Not to mention being able to find a corpse, it is very difficult to even find a location suspected of having a corpse, and this has been confirmed in subsequent excavations." Jiang Yuan looked at Qi Changye, took another sip of water, and continued:

"The reality is that we may patrol a large number of plots and still find it difficult to find a single plot suspected of having a corpse buried. If it weren't for this, I wouldn't need to invite so many botanists to participate in our work."

The last sentence he said was very logical and was recognized by the botanists.

If it weren't necessary, who would go to such lengths to find a group of people to help?

People who have participated in projects know that it's not necessarily the more people the better for a project. If it were a novice who had never done a project, they might recruit people randomly, but those who have already completed a project basically cannot recruit people without a plan.

Jiang Yuan took another sip of water. Seeing that everyone understood, he looked at Qi Changye again and said: "The plot we are currently using as a demonstration is also one where I discovered some peculiarities during the viewing process. Simply put, because of some reason, it is very likely that there are indeed multiple corpses buried in this plot. Of course, we haven't dug up one yet, so the specific situation remains to be seen."

When he said this, others didn't quite understand, but Qi Changye's expression froze instantly.

On that day, they followed the special agent into this forest and lost contact. Later, they couldn't find any trace of the special agent, and finally changed their investigation direction before they solved the case.

Qi Changye, however, never imagined that there was more than one corpse under this forest.

At this moment, Qi Changye saw someone sending a message on their phone. He took a quick step forward, blocked the phone with his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, what we are doing now is a homicide case. If anyone leaks the news, then before the case is completely solved, you will stay in the dormitory with me!"

The hand that was sending the message stiffened, and they whispered: "What level counts as leaking the news?"

"Basically, nothing said in the meeting can be sent out. Didn't Team Leader Jiang talk about discipline at the beginning?" Qi Changye looked a bit fierce, as if he might drag someone into solitary confinement at any time.

"I'll delete it." The botanist who was caught red-handed didn't dare to gamble, so they quickly opened their phone, recalled the message, and deleted the post from their social feed.

Everyone followed suit. When Qi Changye had a dark face, his pressure was still very heavy.

Seeing this, Jiang Yuan changed the content on the screen from a PPT to a live video of the scene.

The channel that had been adjusted earlier was aimed at the scene from a high vantage point; the overall clarity wasn't very high, but the coverage was large.

"Is this the first place just found?" Someone easily identified the place based on the plants at the scene.

Jiang Yuan said "En" and said: "This is the first scene used as an example just now, the suspected burial site of plot K67. The police officers are currently examining the scene, and a patrol dog will enter in a moment..."

While speaking, a German Shepherd had already been brought to the edge of the lens.

This was a very clever police dog. It subconsciously glanced at the lens, then shook its neck and lowered its head to sniff lightly.

Inexplicably, in the conference room hundreds of miles away, everyone held their breath and stared.

The German Shepherd sniffed left, sniffed right, and then walked forward in circles.

Its handler only encouraged it softly from behind.

A room full of people watched the dog from afar, some exerting their whole bodies, using more strength than the dog.

"Go for it!" Qiao Shengli clenched her fist with one hand and encouraged softly!

"Go for it! Go for it!" The students who came with their teachers responded actively.

"Go for it!"

In the conference room, the cheering of the crowd kept ringing out, as if they could encourage the dog through the camera.

Cui Qishan, who had been sitting in the corner, laughed and stood up, feeling that these scholars and such were quite interesting in their minds.

"Woof woof!"

In the speakers, the sound of a dog barking suddenly erupted.

Cui Qishan looked over again and saw the dog on the screen barking in front of a shrub.

Based on Cui Qishan's experience, the shape of this shrub really wasn't too innocent!