[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner":3,"chapter-the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-75":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Nation's Forensic Medical Examiner",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2326770,4551,"Chapter 75: The Short Knife","the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-75",75,"\u003Cp>Forensic office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pine tree outside the window, washed clean by rain, looked lush and green, like a freshly circumcised man—tender, moist, and fleshy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside, the hanging spider plant had grown a bit more; several drooping leaves now covered the cigarette butts in the pot, looking glossy and slick.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Jun and Jiang Yuan entered the office together, and the first thing Wu Jun did was open the window, stand before the spider plant, and say: “Smoke one.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan’s desk was against the wind, unaffected—he merely grunted, powered on the computer and software, and waited for the comparison to begin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he first acquired the image enhancement skill, Jiang Yuan had tried using it, but without a suitable case, he never got around to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He copied the video he’d just watched into the computer, dragged it straight to the middle segment, and began zooming in on the robber’s short knife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps to intimidate the victim, the two robbers handling the transport would occasionally thrust the knife out, waving it constantly through the air—giving Jiang Yuan plenty of options to work with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Image enhancement technology, at present, mainly follows two technical pathways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One is spatial domain image enhancement—the most direct and most “natural” method, which simply means enhancing pixels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more pixels an image has, the better its enhancement; the most common technique is histogram processing, which can be understood as automatically adding pixels based on probability theory. More precisely, it involves techniques such as grayscale histogram, grayscale point operations, histogram transformation, and histogram equalization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides these, basic grayscale transformation, smoothing spatial filtering, sharpening spatial filtering—all are on the same level as histogram processing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other technical approach is frequency domain enhancement, which treats the image as a two-dimensional signal, transforms it into the frequency domain, and applies filtering and enhancement—invoking famous methods like Fourier transform, Walsh-Hadamard transform, cosine transform, and wavelet transform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Jiang Yuan didn’t understand these techniques, he saw them as sacred texts; now that he understands them, he sees the computer as the sacred text.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old office computer had never imagined it would ultimately bear the entire burden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It screamed at full force, howled, trembled violently—under the assault of massive data and relentless technical operations, its once-arrogant aura grew faint, its once-clear screen flickered, and its once-cool body turned scorching hot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You really need another computer here,” Wang Zhong said, watching the computer freeze halfway through producing results.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can’t get a new one,” Jiang Yuan replied. “I heard Wei Yin say they have to sign forms multiple times just to buy printer paper.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“New equipment is definitely hard to get, but if you solve a few cases… uh, are you still secretly in touch with Wei Yin?” Wang Zhong found it hard to believe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan gave him a strange look. “No secret contact—just WeChat messages.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You two exchange WeChat messages privately?” Wang Zhong was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan waved his hand. “Just occasional small chats. Will solving cases get us new equipment?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Zhong’s train of thought shifted. “It depends on how you look at it—if you told me, ‘Give me a new computer and I’ll solve three cold cases,’ Huang Team Leader would rush out and buy you one himself…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That depends on what kind of cases,” came Huang Qiang’s voice from the other side of the office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Zhong, with his back to the door, felt his calves go weak. He turned with difficulty and whispered, “Huang Team Leader, I just… I thought…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s fine,” Huang Qiang said, his mouth curving into a 44.4-degree smile, like a cute little crocodile, tilting his head at Wang Zhong. “As long as you solve cases, I don’t care how eager you are. But at least three major cases.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Zhong grinned like he’d just been violently sodomized by a beautiful woman—unable to decide whether to laugh or cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Qiang turned to Jiang Yuan, and his smile automatically rose to 66.6 degrees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d never come up to the fourth floor where the Forensic Team was stationed. It was just an auxiliary unit; as captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade, he had too many teams and duties to worry about—even the K-9 unit’s Da Zhuang got occasional visits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Jiang Yuan arrived, Huang Qiang’s attitude had clearly changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone who could solve cases directly was, to Huang Qiang, an entirely different kind of person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why were the Second and First Platoons prioritized? Simply because they solved cases—major cases—cases that required breakthroughs!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now Jiang Yuan could solve cases—major cases, tough cases—so Huang Qiang naturally came to check on him from time to time. In a unit like the Criminal Investigation Brigade, material rewards were scarce and unsuitable for winning loyalty. Huang Qiang had understood this long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, if it were truly about money and income, there were professional fingerprint outsourcing companies on the market today—brilliant fingerprint experts who could join, get paid per case, and easily earn a million a year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So now Huang Qiang focused more on giving Jiang Yuan psychological support.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Running, but not done,” Jiang Yuan said, nodding toward the screen, now blurred and overheating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Jun added: “It’s been half an hour. It’s been so loud, my ears hurt.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Qiang asked: “What exactly are you doing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Image enhancement. The surveillance footage we pulled back isn’t clear enough. I want to examine the details of this knife—I think if we can clarify the pattern on this spot of the handle, we might find similar images online. Maybe we can trace the origin of the handle.” Jiang Yuan opened his phone, zoomed in on the image, and showed it to Huang Qiang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Qiang understood, and his expression shifted again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless of whether the case could be solved, image enhancement itself deeply interested him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where did you learn image enhancement?” Huang Qiang asked, half curious, half pleased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just picked it up in school,” Jiang Yuan replied, sounding reluctant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Qiang had no choice but to believe him. He sighed: “Today’s youth are incredible. Next time we recruit, I’ll have to pay closer attention… How much longer?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Almost done,” Jiang Yuan pointed to the progress bar—99%.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten minutes later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The progress bar turned fully red. A single image appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the handle was a distinct pattern of dark floral motifs—twisting stems with eight claw-like extensions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll search it,” Jiang Yuan said, opening Baidu and uploading the image.\u003C\u002Fp>",1063,"2026-06-20T18:55:00.150Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","11cbf82f0aa4da0ce8a38f80860ef1bd24cddf725fc26d6a60ff1ce78334c223","the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-76","the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-74",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-cover.jpg"]