[{"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-89":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},2326784,4551,"Chapter 89: Empty Scroll","the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-89",89,"\u003Cp>The provincial bureau building was solemn and elegant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the gate guard to the entrance, a distance of dozens of meters stood empty, leaving only air and solemnity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire provincial bureau of Shannan Province had only a staff of five hundred or so, allocated among leaders at all levels and various departments; by the time it reached the operational level, there was hardly anyone left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the provincial bureau could draw personnel from subordinate departments; a single transfer order would bring police officers streaming in from cities and counties—no official positions needed, no salaries to pay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Various temporary assignments caused complaints from municipal and county bureaus, but as individuals, some liked them, others didn’t. Zhu Huan liked being seconded to the provincial bureau—at least he didn’t have to do housework or pretend to tutor pretend children with their homework.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, ranking among the top experts felt good. That’s why Zhu Huan preferred being seconded to the provincial bureau over being seconded to central ministries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though central ministries offered a daily subsidy of 180 yuan, and the provincial bureau didn’t give any subsidy at all since it was in the same city, Zhu Huan still preferred joining the provincial bureau’s fingerprint campaign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entering the main office area, Zhu Huan first looked up at the “Case Resolution Ranking Board” and saw his name still ranked first—he smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People, after all, must have something to rank themselves by while alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he was young, Zhu Huan used to read wealth rankings, but after seeing too many fools end up in jail, he decided those rankings weren’t reliable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, once he got a bit better at his job and received praise from superiors, he gradually began to understand various standing committee meetings…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, Zhu Huan accepted even his child’s class rankings, and the only things that still stirred his spirit were various professional ranking boards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ranking first in the provincial fingerprint campaign was still a very noticeable honor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His usually hard-to-talk-to wife occasionally did understand priorities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Huan turned on his computer, skillfully opened the software, and while pouring himself a glass of water, he casually opened his new messages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cleared his new messages at a fixed time every day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike some people who spent all day wondering how others were doing, Zhu Huan treated these peer evaluations as casual leisure, while also gauging the combat strength of this year’s peers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At his level, just looking at peers’ fingerprints let him guess their specialties and abilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, the first fingerprint before him had a print like the bottom of a pot—and yet it matched. That meant this expert specialized in image processing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the context of a fingerprint campaign, if you wanted to match more fingerprints, the right approach was to avoid competing with other experts on the same technical line. For example, if there were already experts skilled at handling image-based prints like pot-bottoms, you should avoid doing similar ones. This would significantly improve your success rate…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Huan nodded slightly, gave a like, then grabbed a cloth, tidied his desk, and opened the second fingerprint—hmm… the print looked like shit, and yet it matched—this expert also specialized in image processing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Huan opened the third fingerprint—the print looked like a pot-bottom covered in shit, and yet it matched—this meant…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant someone had submitted three fingerprints at once!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Huan immediately checked—and saw that all three fingerprints bore the same name: Jiang Yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holy shit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Huan checked the submission times—the top one was already from 7 a.m.!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Truly holy shit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Huan couldn’t stop marveling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d seen brilliant experts, and he’d seen truly obsessive experts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d even met a real Swiss roll—a Chinese man raised in Switzerland, educated in America, returned to China to develop his career—who would work on fingerprints for ten hours straight, with high efficiency, but such people were rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The market for fingerprint experts in Shannan Province had originally been relatively harmonious, friendly, and ordinary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Huan unconsciously glanced at Jiang Yuan’s desk—the guy wasn’t here yet. Good. There was still a chance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Huan took a deep breath, decided to quickly finish the remaining new messages, then begin matching yesterday’s fingerprint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although slower than Jiang Yuan, fingerprint matching was never steady-paced—he’d once matched four fingerprints in one go a few days ago. Stalling for a full day on yesterday’s was normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Huan moved his mouse, and the next fingerprint still looked like his wife’s pancake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Huan’s expression darkened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced sideways—and there it was, the familiar name: Jiang Yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Truly astonishing. Speechless, holy shit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Huan sat up straight, adopted a careful expression and posture, and positively matched this fingerprint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No surprise—it matched reasonably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the fingerprint’s difficulty level was very high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a positive match, confirming through ridge patterns required some mental effort; for reverse matching—he couldn’t even process an image of this quality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Here you go, here you go,” Zhu Huan muttered, then clicked confirm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked up again—the “Case Resolution Ranking Board” on the right front of the main office now showed Jiang Yuan’s name at number one, with a tally of “7.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Huan, ranked second, had a tally of “4”; experts ranked third, fourth, and fifth each had “2.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The combined tally of the top five experts reached seventeen matched fingerprints—more than the total of the next forty experts combined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was normal in fingerprint campaigns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strong, lucky, and well-performing experts often completed half the campaign’s total results—just as these experts, if sent down to municipal or county levels, would sweep the local competition if those places held their own fingerprint campaigns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Zhu Huan was thinking this, a faint wailing sound suddenly came from the tea room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t clear at first, but after listening closely, it was unmistakably the familiar hum of a fan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, Jiang Yuan walked into the main office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Huan frowned at the time—it was only 9 a.m.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only slept two hours?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was that necessary?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zemin, sitting beside Jiang Yuan, was an expert who slept on schedule and opposed overwork—he asked Jiang Yuan in surprise: “You went home so late last night—or wait, didn’t you only go home this morning? How are you here already? Don’t you sleep? Watch out for sudden death.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I slept two hours. Not that tired anymore,” Jiang Yuan paused, then said: “I just realized I could send the images to the software first, then come back later after fully waking up to fine-tune them—saves time, doesn’t interfere with work.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You can do that?” Li Zemin asked, his old-man confusion evident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course. Just set the sequence and plan in advance,” Jiang Yuan said, giving Li Zemin a few term explanations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zemin’s eyes went glassy, as if he’d smoked too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan sat down, turned on his computer, and began scrolling through the matched fingerprints in his new messages one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He returned to the tea room, arranged the selected gold and silver fingerprints in order, locked the screen, and headed straight back to his dorm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the fingerprint campaign, the provincial bureau imposed no attendance restrictions on experts. Those who came here were all highly self-disciplined, and in reality, the experts were all desperately overworking—no one needed to worry about attendance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan went back to his dorm and slept soundly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the new computer in the tea room, like an tireless model worker, kept its fan whirring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Huan, left in the main office, felt not relaxed but even more anxious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obviously, when young people talk about lying flat, they’re just trying to lull middle-aged people into complacency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When real advantages are at stake—like taking civil service exams, public institution exams, teacher recruitment exams, or competing for the “Case Resolution Ranking”—everyone competes harder than the next, just like young people two or three decades ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click to download the app for unlimited free reading!\u003C\u002Fp>",1317,"2026-06-20T18:55:00.150Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e9fac78c607407589849c49b023a8ddbfa4e8d283c42b24f2cc5b1a54cc30a2a","the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-90","the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-88",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-cover.jpg"]