Chapter 998: All Night Long

When Xu Juan was brought back to the Qingshi Municipal Public Security Bureau, she drew a powerful crowd of bureau leaders watching.

Fang Gang, the detachment captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment, was also greatly surprised upon seeing this. He found a way to say, "Among the cases that require spending this much money to solve, this case has the fewest suspects and the lowest body weight. In other words, if you calculate it by the pound, the cost per pound of suspect obtained in this case is the highest! It's rare, truly rare!"

The police officers present chuckled, merely silently updating their assessment of Fang Gang's mathematical skills.

Huang Qiangmin cooperated with a couple of laughs and said, "This case is relatively plain and simple. As long as you don't feel it's a loss, that's fine."

"The sooner a case is solved, the better. We aren't the type of people who would seek out suffering for ourselves just because it's easy to see a doctor and treat an illness," Fang Gang said, speaking pleasantries.

The conference fees had already been paid; could he really expect Huang Qiangmin to spit them back out?

Furthermore, just as Fang Gang had said, solving the case early and solving it smoothly—that was what mattered most. Within the borders of Qingshi City, the length of the Tai River flowing through it was not short; eventually, bodies would drift over, and most of them would likely be plain and simple cases. Jiang Yuan's ability to solve such cases quickly and accurately was exactly what Fang Gang needed most.

Even the simplest movie has very high costs once filming begins; no production company can stand long-term shooting. The police special investigation team is similar. Once a fully staffed special investigation team starts its case-handling mode, although everyone's subsidies remain pitifully low, the funds flowing away like water are terrifying.

Seeing that Fang Gang could understand, Huang Qiangmin immediately felt much more relaxed and laughed, "Captain Fang, you are an expert. This case looks like it was solved quite easily, but in reality, the judgment of the victim's entry point into the water, the victim's accurate age, and the victim's sketch—if you were to take any one of these alone, it would be very difficult for an ordinary special investigation team to determine."

"What you say makes sense." Fang Gang immediately acknowledged this; in fact, this was also the conclusion they had reached in private discussions.

The victim's entry point into the water was a conclusion reached through diatom testing; the time of death was through forensic pathology; and the victim's sketch, needless to say, relied entirely on the forensic sketch completed independently by Jiang Yuan.

If these three things were handed over to Qingshi City's own special investigation team to do, reaching a conclusion was inevitable, but how high could the accuracy be? How large could the scope be?

It was like the victim's entry point into the water: Jiang Yuan waved his hand and narrowed it down to a 200-meter range, whereas the range Fang Gang was accustomed to narrowing down was often calculated in kilometers.

Just regarding the area near the residential compound where the victim lived, one wouldn't dare imagine how many extra people would be included in a one-kilometer radius; the investigation would likely only be able to use the residential compound as a unit, rather than the household. The time spent at each family's home would also have to be more strictly controlled. It might even require increasing personnel, which would then lower the proportion of experienced criminal police officers...

Age was the same. Jiang Yuan just said 38 years old, exactly 38 years old, no more, no less. Consequently, the list the criminal police team drew up was of several hundred people. But if the age were to fluctuate up or down by one year, or even two years, the workload for this list would naturally be much larger.

As for the sketch, Fang Gang hadn't even thought about it. Their Criminal Investigation Detachment had never used such fancy gadgets.

"Who could have imagined that all three lines could yield results?" Once the topic was opened, Fang Gang entered high-EQ mode again, praising Jiang Yuan and the Cold Case Special Team endlessly.

Huang Qiangmin nodded with a smile; Jiang Yuan was not overly modest either.

Since criminal suspects had been dug up from all three directions, one could only say that the criminal suspects' method of committing crimes was plain and simple, and it did not make the investigation process any less impressive.

Homicide cases have always been judged by their results, not to mention that the investigation of all three lines was highly typical. The Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Qingshi Municipal Bureau couldn't even copy their homework fast enough.

After Jiang Yuan finished the basic socializing, while the suspect was still being interrogated, he went to the autopsy room again, signed the various completed forms, checked and organized the victim's remains, and finally...

He obtained a glowing blue dumpling from the victim's head.

Sun Youqiang's Legacy: All Night Long (LV2) — Sun Youqiang ended his plain and simple life. He was born into an ordinary rural family, went through many twists and turns, and was admitted to a junior college through repeating a year. During his time at school, he made friends but was not appreciated by girls. After graduation, he returned to his hometown; it couldn't be called building a career, he just found a job to scrape by. He had no luck with women, nor did he dare to visit prostitutes. He worked hard to save money until he was over 30 before getting married through a blind date. His life after marriage was unremarkable; he remained a boring middle-aged man who didn't understand life and wasn't good at his job, only his status was changed to married. As he aged, his work ability declined, so he had to constantly increase his working hours and improve his work attitude in hopes of keeping his job. Thus, he was finally forced to master a skill exceeding the average level: LV2 All Night Long, which allows one to stay up two hours longer than others under the same physical and health conditions!

Jiang Yuan silently accepted Sun Youqiang's legacy.

At the moment the glowing blue dumpling disappeared, Jiang Yuan could even feel a trace of Sun Youqiang's emotions. It was a calm and relieved emotion, like the feeling of a mediocre student in class after finishing a midterm exam.

Sun Youqiang was not angry, but he was not at peace either. However, he had no expectations for the future; he had no definite goals, nor did he know what he could do; he was just being pushed along by the environment.

All the sources of his happiness were things everyone opposed. He liked to drink, liked gatherings with his drinking buddies, liked to brag online, liked to sing karaoke with his phone, liked to play small games on the office computer, liked to poop on company time, and liked to peek at beautiful women. Every single one of his likes did not produce any value.

A hobby that cannot create value for others and only brings pleasure to oneself is likely what is known as a bad habit.

Jiang Yuan gently patted Sun Youqiang's body bag and asked the forensic assistant next to him, "Have the victim's family members arrived? Who came?"

"It's his older sister, I think. The mother is in the old hometown and has to take care of his father," the forensic assistant recalled and said.

"How is her emotional state?"

"The sister? She cried a bit and then went back. His sister is over forty and has a son in high school; she has to go back to take care of her son. The one staying here is essentially the victim's brother-in-law."

"En." Jiang Yuan nodded. The thought he originally had to do something was extinguished.

After walking out the door, he hadn't gone a few steps when he saw a girl with long, straight black hair guarding the front of the funeral home building, looking like she wanted to go in but didn't dare. Upon seeing Jiang Yuan, she was so excited she jumped up.

"If you didn't come out again, I was going to run." The girl with long, straight black hair was none other than Qiao Shengli, a doctoral student of botany professor Su Lei.

"Something up?" Jiang Yuan asked.

"Definitely. This is my first time coming to a funeral home..." Qiao Shengli shrank her neck and whispered, "I heard the case in Qingshi City has been solved?"

"Correct."

"But we collected 20 kilometers of diatoms and haven't finished testing them all yet." Diatom data comes out bit by bit; for this case, obviously, 20 kilometers wasn't needed.

Jiang Yuan understood Qiao Shengli's worry and nodded, "You can continue testing. A project is a project, and a case is a case; they don't interfere with each other."

"A completely independent project? Then can we continue to do this project?" Qiao Shengli grabbed Jiang Yuan's arm, leaning softly against him, and said, "You want to build a database for the Tai River, right? 20 kilometers is definitely not enough, right?"

"That's right."

Only then did Qiao Shengli realize she had asked too urgently and had asked too many questions at once, so she repeated, "Do you want to build a database for the entire Tai River? Can you hand it over to us to do? Our project launch actually took a long time, establishing reference systems, adjusting software, etc. If we do it now, the cost will be even lower."

"It's fine if you do it, but I have a special situation on my end."

"Tell me." Qiao Shengli hugged Jiang Yuan tighter.

"We can't do the Tai River in order because we aren't sure who the next financier will be, and there is no unified funding, so we can only do it in segments."

"No problem." Qiao Shengli breathed a sigh of relief, immediately agreed, and then asked, "Who is the next financier?" ===== CHAPTER 999 =====