Chapter 873: Did We Do Our Best?

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The heavy truck's air-cut brake made a sound of cutting off the air, and it stopped steadily in the designated parking space of the machine repair factory.

The driver got out of the car and began to greet people to help. Then he pulled a sturdy pipe from the back of the car and stabbed it fiercely into the water tank next to the temporary board room...

Watching the hot water *gudu gudu* being pressed into the water tank, the driver wiped his sweat, thanked the police officer who helped, and smiled: "We used to deliver water to bath centers. I didn't expect the police to use this kind of hot water."

"Hot water is not divided into high and low, you know." The police officer didn't take the bad name, handed a cigarette to the driver, and said: "No one wants to live in an activity board room, no air conditioning, no ventilation, windows are not easy to open, the bed is hard... just take a bath, it's slightly more comfortable."

"You can't go home?" The driver looked around: "Is it because of the explosion case."

The police officer saw his gossip look, couldn't help but change his face, and said gloomily: "If I tell you, you have to stay."

The driver was stunned and said busily: "No... I just asked casually, I don't know anything..."

"I know, I just said it casually." The police officer smiled. After the police have some experience, they are in a state of crushing social people. The more oily and shaking, the easier it is to grasp.

Inside the board room.

Jiang Yuan also took a painful bath. He has been working for 24 hours in a row before coming back to rest.

It's not that he can't persist, but the current situation is obviously not something that can be solved by persisting for another 12 hours or 24 hours.

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but look at the Patek Philippe on his hand, calculate the time, and plan to sleep for four or five hours, and then turn over the ruins before the sun goes down.

Using a hair dryer to blow his hair dry, Jiang Yuan was already sleepy, lay into his board room, and started snoring instantly.

The middle and high-level police officers still have some privileges, typically such as fixed beds, and the cleaning aunt hired to change bed sheets and quilt covers at a fixed time and point, and clean up. Ordinary police officers are in a mode of mixed living of humans and animals. They go to sleep when they find an empty bed. Don't dislike each other for smelly feet, snoring, grinding teeth, and playing music externally. Anyone who can't sleep at all belongs to not sleepy.

"Our Captain Jiang is still sleeping, let Xu Chu explain..."

"Xu Chu has already seen it. En, although I am particularly embarrassed, this time the director accompanied the city leaders to inspect the scene..."

The sound came from far to near, and Jiang Yuan's snoring gradually lowered.

"Captain Jiang, Captain Jiang..." Wang Chuanxing leaned on the door and called softly.

Jiang Yuan turned over and sat up quickly: "What's the matter?"

Criminal police work for two or three years, basically can practice a kind of summoning technique—anyone who is called by his real name will immediately enter a state of three-level sobriety. Commonly known as PDSD.

Wang Sheng heard the movement and hurriedly came over, smiling and saying: "Captain Jiang, our director accompanied the city leaders to inspect the scene. The leaders still want to hear your judgment."

"Coming." Jiang Yuan got out of bed, wiped his face, and asked: "Do you want to wait for me to tidy up, change clothes or something?"

"I think the original ecology is quite good." Wang Sheng said obscurely.

"Alright." Jiang Yuan looked at his watch again. He had slept for less than 4 hours. He asked Wang Chuanxing beside him while walking: "Where is it done now? What are the results?"

"The key areas have been turned over, especially in the 20-square-meter area around the explosion point, not only the ruins on the upper floor have been cleaned up, but the collapsed floor has also been lifted, and the lower floor has also been cleaned up for seven or eight layers. There are more than 60 pieces of physical evidence found. You can take a look... However, there is still no decisive evidence." Wang Chuanxing said this, regardless of Wang Sheng on the side, and said directly: "After we reported, the leaders were a little unhappy."

"En, normal." Jiang Yuan has experienced a lot, and answered very freely.

Wang Sheng was stunned instead. He heard Jiang Yuan's tone, which was the kind of state without pressure, even a little relaxed. He couldn't help but look at Jiang Yuan up and down and said: "Captain Jiang, are you at ease with your judgment, or are you at ease with Xu Chu's investigation?"

He doesn't need to ask if Jiang Yuan has pressure. In this environment, this task intensity, small soldiers have pressure. Jiang Yuan was specially invited, brought leaders from the ministries and commissions, and called Xu Taining who is particularly good at spending money. Even if he is heartless, he has to frown in the face of such triple pressure.

Therefore, Wang Sheng felt that only when he was sure of winning could he be so pressure-free.

He also hoped to hear such an answer.

At this time, he wanted someone to point at himself and say: *The frog of the machine is always touching your belly! *

Jiang Yuan smiled and said: "I have an expectation for the difficulty of the case. So at the beginning, I asked you to invite Xu Taining. Now look, can it explain the problem?"

Wang Sheng's logical thinking is very good, and he barely kept up with Jiang Yuan's thinking: "Are you trying to prove that inviting Xu Taining is correct by Xu Taining not finding evidence?"

"How is the proof power?"

"Uh... the proof power is indeed very strong." Wang Sheng sighed for a long time: "So, you expected that you wouldn't find evidence in the first three days?"

"Finding it is good luck, not finding it is the norm." Jiang Yuan's answer this time was moderate. In fact, for him, he has done many big cases, and many large-scale investigations have been carried out. The time and cost spent on that investigation will eventually return to the mean. 【873

By comparison, although Wang Sheng's rank was higher than Jiang Yuan's and he had more seniority in the police force, he had spent many years rotating within the police bureaus of prefecture-level cities and rarely had similar experience.

Therefore, Wang Sheng hoped to get lucky, always wishing for the good fortune of the top 30%, top 10%, or even top 5%, wishing he could dig three shovels into the investigation and get results.

However, for "major case experts" like Jiang Yuan and Xu Taining, it is normal to get results on the first day of an investigation, and it is also normal to get results on the tenth day. Although they also try every possible way to shorten the time and reduce errors, not encountering good luck—or rather, not encountering exceptionally good luck—is something that must be accepted.

In the time it took to say a few words, the group had entered the command tent.

Wang Sheng called out a report, then welcomed Jiang Yuan and the others into the tent and introduced the dozen or so people inside.

"First, I must clarify that we are here to support everyone's work, not to cause trouble." Zhang Dinghui, who was surrounded by the crowd, seemed very down-to-earth and also seemed to be quite reasonable.

Song Tiancheng, from the ministry, smiled and said: "Our goals are all the same."

"Right, that's exactly what I mean." Zhang Dinghui had already chatted with Song Tiancheng for a while, and they were somewhat familiar with each other. He also knew that the on-site commanders and persons in charge were Jiang Yuan and Xu Taining, so he instantly turned his gaze to the two of them and smiled: "Right now, what I actually want to know first is, are we currently facing the risk of another explosion?"

His question was very much to the point; he didn't ask about the perpetrator or the investigation, but only whether there would be another explosion.

From Zhang Dinghui's perspective, this was also very understandable. Solving the case was important, but another explosion was absolutely unacceptable.

And this point was also the reason why the top-tier criminal investigation resources appeared on the scene—the "Barefoot Immortal" Song Tiancheng, the criminal investigator Jiang Yuan, and the investigation expert Xu Taining were all there to prevent this risk.

Wang Sheng, Xu Taining, and the others, who had originally wanted to chat a bit more gradually, couldn't help but frown.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Jiang Yuan.

This question didn't look difficult at first glance, but if you looked into it, only Jiang Yuan could answer it.

"We haven't found decisive evidence proving the bomb was remote-controlled. Nor can we prove the bomb was time-delayed." Jiang Yuan's answer was a bit official, but immediately after, he slid to the other end of linguistic technique: "However, the key issue now is that we also haven't found key evidence proving the bomb was not remote-controlled, or was not time-delayed."

Everyone in the tent was used to playing with words, and they immediately understood what Jiang Yuan meant.

"Does this mean the search failed to achieve its goal, or how should I put it?" Zhang Dinghui wanted a definitive answer.

"There is no evidence to suggest there will be a second explosion. But the risk of this explosion absolutely exists." Jiang Yuan only paused slightly before continuing: "Right now, we can only respond based on the worst-case scenario."

"Respond based on the worst-case scenario?" Zhang Dinghui repeated Jiang Yuan's words, then looked at the bureau chief next to him and said: "Facing the worst-case scenario, have we done our best?"

The bureau chief took a deep breath: "We have faced it with our greatest efforts."

Wang Sheng, the detachment captain who was two ranks lower than the bureau chief, had no chance to speak on such an occasion. He only felt filled with anxiety and could feel the pressure penetrating down from the bureau chief.

This state was the most painful time, and also the time when the investigative personnel's mental pressure was at its greatest. If you look at reports on major cases, many investigative personnel mention this plateau-like period with both hatred and sighs.

They hate the process and sigh that they managed to get through it. But those who have the chance to be interviewed are the ones who made it through; what about those who didn't?

The pressure didn't just come from the investigation itself; it mainly came from the pressure given by the superiors.

Just like now, Wang Sheng could almost guess what the bureau chief would face next—either "solve the case within a time limit" or a "military order," or both.

This kind of traditional skill is something almost every level of police officer encounters.

But to say it can be eradicated, it actually cannot. "Solving the case within a time limit" and "military orders" essentially reflect the huge pressure the superiors themselves are facing.

After Zhang Dinghui gave the order for a "time-limited case solution" or a "military order," the bureau chief naturally could only demand more strictly from below. And as the detachment captain, Wang Sheng naturally could only decompose the tasks downward, which is what is called adding layers of pressure.

In an instant, the air in the tent seemed to become thin.

"Facing the worst-case scenario, we have already done our best." Jiang Yuan's voice was slightly abrupt, but it pierced through the thick and serious atmosphere.

Zhang Dinghui couldn't help but look at Jiang Yuan in surprise.

In his position, he actually didn't like strategies like "time-limited case solutions" or "military orders," but did he have better strategic choices?

If he didn't make demands and didn't delegate responsibility, could he bear the responsibility of another explosion?

"If possible, may I take a few minutes of everyone's time to explain our work over the past few days? I hope to explain why we have already done our best." Jiang Yuan stood up without much hesitation. From the perspective of solving cases, he also didn't like "time-limited case solutions" and "military orders."

And to do his best, his team didn't need "time-limited case solutions" and "military orders." From this perspective, standing up to reject them was itself a proof.

It's just that at this moment, no one had noticed this point yet.