Chapter 949

9:30 AM.

Jiang Yuan arrived at the Criminal Police Detachment office.

Dealing with insects for the past two days had left him quite exhausted. It was just right to tidy up his small house in Changyang City and take a break by the way.

Anyway, he had already finished the forensic work, and the subsequent investigation progress would always take some time.

Jiang Yuan had just sat down when he saw several team leaders rushing in one after another.

"Team Leader Jiang, we have now tracked 6 vehicles. Four of them have no problems, and the other two are still under investigation." The team leader of the Image Investigation Team was again the first to grab the conversation.

Jiang Yuan smiled, didn't answer his question, and first said: "Are you watching me? What do you want?"

This sentence blocked the words of the several people behind.

The team leader of the Image Investigation Team had already spoken anyway, so he immediately said: "Speaking of which, we do have some images that need enhancement..."

"Bring them over and let me see." Jiang Yuan didn't care about the others and prioritized solving the problems raised.

The team leader of the Image Investigation Team immediately took out the notebook he carried with him, opened it, displayed several segments of images to Jiang Yuan respectively, and added: "This car took the most remote road, and it passed through Yunji Road. Normally, it should have gone down to Luzhong Road, but it ended up driving out from Maishan Road. It's equivalent to driving a triangle, so the suspicion is still very high."

Jiang Yuan lowered his head to look at the images. In the blurry video, he could only see it was a van. The specific car brand and model couldn't be seen clearly—typical performance of old surveillance cameras at night.

Changyang City is a city that installed cameras very early. Counting it, various monitoring equipment began to be installed at major intersections in the city 20 years ago. By now, with the renewal of the urban interface, let alone cameras, the monitoring system has been updated for several generations.

But remote areas cannot have such treatment. Most remote streets in cities were equipped with cameras in coordination with a certain innovation of the monitoring system, and then used for ten years as one day. They wouldn't be replaced until they were broken.

Like the camera on Maishan Road that Jiang Yuan is seeing now, the installation time might be at least seven or eight years ago. The technical level of that year was a cut below, video resolution and so on were limited, and it is normal for it not to be able to film dynamic situations clearly at night.

Jiang Yuan looked at it roughly, nodded, and said: "Video enhancement can be done. Let's make it by the afternoon; it should be done by the afternoon."

"That's great! With Team Leader Jiang's support, our Image Investigation Team can rest easy!" The Image Investigation Team leader poured out his emotional intelligence by the basketful.

Ma Ma Jiyang glanced at him with disdain. After he finished speaking, he stepped forward and said: "Team Leader Jiang, in the process of visiting former convicts on our side, we compiled a list. My idea now is, can we compare it with the lists of other fronts."

"Yes." Jiang Yuan immediately agreed.

The other several team leaders began to call people to update the list, whether they were willing or not.

For Jiang Yuan's cold case special task force, this case counts as a medium-level case, but for the Changyang Municipal Bureau, it is already a heavyweight case of the year. The criminal police who entered the special task force were also full of energy, wanting to take it down.

Before Jiang Yuan came, everyone's energy might not have been so full, because the difficulty of the case was very high, and it couldn't be solved just by using energy.

The actual situation was also like this. Before Jiang Yuan readjusted the time of death and determined the two body-dumping events, this case was simply impossible to start with.

The situation at that time was like a patient with fecal impaction—a door the thickness of a finger, and expanding it to the thickness of two fingers with force wouldn't solve the problem either. Only by crushing the hard block impacted outside, taking it out, and then applying force would it be meaningful.

Cao Cao Chujun and others also followed up with reports. After each of them "brushed their faces," they stood up and began today's work.

Several teams are working on paper, merging the mode of on-site investigation.

This is also the most common investigation mode for major cases now. Relying on technology to point the way, and then digging deep offline.

Domestic criminals are relatively simple, mainly because there are few who can form teams. In this situation, criminals who are good at online activities are often similar to the white-collar criminals in the US. Many people have excellent technology, and some can even far exceed the level of technicians working for the police.

But these people's offline coping ability is much weaker. Conversely, it is the same. Many offline gangs who act tough offline and are very good at playing "tough meat" with the police station, when encountering higher-level technical police, have their evidence fixed in a few moves. And once there is decisive evidence, the iron fist can easily smash the "tough meat."

Jiang Yuan stood up on his own, strolled a few steps in the office, lit a stick of agarwood, placed it in front of the desk, and casually took out the Manjushri Bodhisattva pendant he was wearing today. Everyone smelled the fragrance together, letting their moods gradually calm down.

Wang Wang Chuanxing then compiled the lists of several fronts and asked: "Team Leader Jiang, should the list be printed out, or sent in electronic version?"

Jiang Yuan said: "Electronic version. Printing it out is too long."

"Okay." While sending the file, Wang Wang Chuanxing added: "They all made priority lists. If you only look at the priority lists, it's not long."

"Oh, they all made priority lists. Is the style of the Changyang Municipal Bureau like this?"

"They should all be a bit anxious." Wang Wang Chuanxing could especially understand this feeling of being eager to make contributions. Criminal police encountering major cases stay up all night, and the emotional pressure is also very high. But from another perspective, the major cases that can be encountered every year are just those few, which is also a rare opportunity.

Police officers are not like criminals; they can't choose when to commit a case, nor can they choose the scale and degree of the case.

Therefore, encountering a major case is also a turning point in a career for a criminal police officer. Especially for major cases that are expected to be solved, everyone faces them with the mentality of treating the college entrance examination.

For some people at some times, the occurrence of a major case might be a life-changing event no less than the college entrance examination. If marriage is a woman's second reincarnation, then a major case is a criminal police officer's Nth reincarnation, no less than the first tadpole marathon race.

This is also why there are so many municipal bureaus lining up to be squeezed by Huang Huang Qiangmin. In fact, everyone is just suffering on the surface. After the short-term physical pain, there is long-lasting happiness and joy.

Jiang Yuan clicked on the file sent by Wang Wang Chuanxing and saw the dense names, as well as gender, age, education, criminal record, and other information, along with long remarks.

The file styles compiled by different teams are slightly different, but overall, they all contain a large amount of information.

Jiang Yuan then clicked on a priority list and saw that the information content inside was even more, and many pieces of information were marked with different colors, representing different levels of verification.

Jiang Yuan scanned it roughly and then clicked on several other priority lists.

If he had to say, he also approved of this practice of priority lists.

Several fronts are actually proceeding quite smoothly. Now it is a process of approaching. If the luck is bad, it may take a long time to investigate constantly. If the luck is good, results may come out very quickly.

But it doesn't matter. The timeliness of this case is not that strong. The killer made it look like this, presumably to escape investigation, which means the willingness to abscond is relatively low. In this situation, a homicide case from more than a month ago can also be accepted if it is investigated for another month.

And judging by the length of these lists, results will have to come out within a month no matter what.

As Jiang Yuan thought this, he pulled out another list and prepared to look at it carefully when the phone on the desk rang.

Picking it up, he heard Yu Yu Wenshu greet him and say: "Jiang Yuan, I saw the list file sent to the mailbox. I scanned it roughly, but there is a name that appears on all three lists."