National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 1344 - 1270: Fresh Corpses

Chapter 1344: Chapter 1270: Fresh Corpses

Tianjin Port.

Mao Fugui Bun House.

The steaming hotpot emitted an enticing aroma.

The buns were placed beside the hotpot, taking up a bit of space, but eating one occasionally tasted just fine.

Jiang Yuan mainly ate hotpot.

It’s not that he only liked hotpot, but ever since people heard about his fondness for it, hosts always meticulously prepared various hotpots. Fresh ingredients were basic, and often there would be considerable specialties.

As a result, hotpot really became particularly delicious.

Today’s hotpot featured seafood, with local fish, shrimp, and crabs cleaned and tossed into the pot, all with an extremely fresh taste. Especially the Tianjin specialty, peach blossom octopus, a small octopus; you could lightly slice it into eight parts and then throw them all into the small hotpot. Just a slight boil and it was ready to eat, chewy and springy, arguably a top-notch seafood delicacy.

Around the table were Qiu Jianye from the local municipal bureau, Hang Haichuan from the local customs, Wu Zhisu who flew in from Jianjiang City, Cui Xiaohu from Beijing, and Ni Cha and Zhong Renlong from Dama. They sat in a circle, watching the chef slice the small octopus while chatting about various recent cases. They used, but were not limited to, pads, printed photos, notebooks, and heartfelt discussions with handlers, talking about the ins and outs of the cases, either in minute detail or offering a broad overview or emotional resonance.

Jiang Yuan enjoyed the hotpot while listening to the cases, indeed feeling great satisfaction.

This feeling reached a climax when Ni Cha brought out a dismembered corpse wrapped in plastic.

The fresh corpse, with large dark red chunks of flesh that had a gelatinous "quivering" feel, and wax-yellow fat resembling high-quality beeswax kneaded for ages. But looking at the cut chunks of leg meat, it had a bit of the appearance of market pork legs left out slightly too long, while the remaining parts had fat content far exceeding pork, making it look cloying.

With just one glance at these body parts, Jiang Yuan knew they had only just ceased life functions, in other words, were freshly dismembered. A freshly dismembered body indicated a fresh case.

Jiang Yuan then pointed at the photos in Ni Cha’s hand and asked, "When was this discovered?"

"Two weeks ago." Ni Cha immediately gestured for more photos, showing them to Jiang Yuan, "This body was found in a bustling area of the city, with some photos spreading on social media. It’s also one of our investigation’s focus cases recently. However, the progress has been slow."

"Have you confirmed the victim’s identity?" Jiang Yuan asked.

"No," Ni Cha shrugged. f|re(e)web.n\ovel. (c)o.m

Jiang Yuan couldn’t help but smile a little. This wasn’t slow progress on the case; it hadn’t even started.

Dismemberment and various corpse abandonment cases are essentially similar in principle, with the first thing to do being confirming the victim’s identity. According to the principle of dumping far and burying near, murderers worry about the body being easily linked to them at the original site. So, if even a slight mishandling by the murderer occurs, confirming the victim’s identity would almost divulge everything.

Of course, there are skilled murderers, and dismemberment case perpetrators tend to be stronger, as most murderers are first-timers and feel uncomfortable with the body. Those who endure the discomfort and manage to dismember deserve a steadfast LV1 perfect title.

"Let me take a look." Jiang Yuan reached for the file.

Meanwhile, Huang Qiangmin sidled up to Ni Cha, raised a glass with a smile, and said, "Brothers from Dama, let’s have a drink. Thank you for your support."

At this, the expressions of Wu Zhisu and others at the table relaxed somewhat.

Truth be told, they had invited the country’s top SWAT team to help Jiang Yuan catch criminals, responded quickly, and factors like business jet expenses added extra points. With the foreigners’ identity, Jiang Yuan’s priority being Ni Cha’s case, there really wasn’t anything improper.

The previously lively dining table suddenly fell silent, with only the bubbling sound of the hotpot and the thumping noise of the chef chopping octopus.

Hu.

Jiang Yuan looked at the file, eating two more octopus tentacles in the process.

Wei Shikan quickly came over and took the file from Jiang Yuan’s hand, helping him turn the pages.

This way, Jiang Yuan could read the file while enjoying the hotpot.

The deep-red jelly-like flesh and curling octopus legs in the pot both seemed a bit brutal.

In Jiang Yuan’s eyes, the thick file, like the chopped octopus, showed no signs of progress (leg) or mantle (seal).

The body’s hands and feet had been shaved down, making it impossible to retrieve fingerprints or palm prints.

The body in plastic was completely naked, with its head smashed in.

This meant that even Jiang Yuan couldn’t use the Skull Restoration Skill to reconstruct the victim’s face. freew\ebno\vel..(c)om

In China, finding surveillance video based on the place where a body was discarded is a common approach, especially when determining an approximate time of death. By locating the transportation used for body dumping, there’s some chance of identifying the perpetrator.

But in Dama, the distribution and quality of surveillance videos don’t suffice for such investigations. Even the number of investigators is very limited. And the approach often used by members of Jiang Yuan’s Accumulated Case Team initially intervening wasn’t quite suitable for foreign cases.

At least not suitable for now.

"The body is still here, right?" Jiang Yuan finished reading the file and looked at Ni Cha, speaking in Chinese.

The translator invited by the Tianjin City Bureau translated this.

Ni Cha quickly replied, "It’s still here."

"Then let’s go take a look." Jiang Yuan turned to Cui Xiaohu and asked, "Mr. Cui, how do you think we should arrange this?"

"Ah, international cooperation, collaboration between two places, something we’ve always advocated. Let me report to the leaders, and you can start preparing." Cui Xiaohu made it very clear.

Ni Cha’s mood quickly lifted and said, "It’s good timing. Our business jet is still parked at the airport. Shall we head there now?"

"Let’s go now." Jiang Yuan got up and wiped his mouth, "By the way, have your forensic doctor take the body out of the freezer to thaw before I get there."

The chef chopping the octopus finally paused his day’s labor, looking at Jiang Yuan and the others with difficulty.

Honestly, as a knife skills expert making seafood hotpot for many years, he’d occasionally heard all kinds of stories, but he’d never encountered anything like this.

Jiang Yuan waved his hand and swiftly left under the entourage of Ni Cha and others.

An hour later, the business jet that had brought the smugglers now carried a cabin of police officers, flying back to Dama.

On receiving news, the Dama Police Station hastily assembled a new special task force, akin to China’s, just to make it more convenient for God Jiang.