National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 450 - 450 415 On the Verge of Emerging

450: Chapter 415: On the Verge of Emerging 450: Chapter 415: On the Verge of Emerging The next day.

Jiang Yuan got up early to investigate the logistics company with Zhang Qi.

There were several officers following up on Guihua’s leads.

Despite the withdrawal of the entire Third Squadron due to the Dongyan Machinery Factory inside job and the subsequent case involving Jia Chengfeng, the Miaohe County Criminal Police Corps Fourth Squadron had taken over the task, following up on a series of leads related to Guihua.

This involved tracking vehicle license plates, dog market buyers and sellers, frequent dog dealers in the county, and even all sorts of dog meat restaurants, with someone specifically scouring local short videos to find photos with Pugs to compare.

Compared to the police officers of the previous Third Squadron, the newly transferred members of the Fourth Squadron seemed to have more energy.

Based on the experience of the past few days, following Guihua’s trail would at most waste everyone’s time for two or three days, dealing with cases as they arise and soon being able to extricate themselves.

Considering that Jiang Yuan was set to participate in the Guihua-related case, the officers following Guihua’s trail stood a great chance of directly hitting the jackpot.

The feeling of eating crabs someone else has shelled is something unforgettable for those who have experienced it, and definitely something those who haven’t would want to try.

Thus, the local police in Miaohe County no longer found following Guihua’s leads to be grueling.

While they still refrained from vocalizing their excitement due to social decorum, each one of them was secretly looking forward to the thrill, like someone expecting a rush from car sex at the famous scenic spot Siningshan, yet keeping quiet about it.

Jiang Yuan, on the other hand, was no longer in a rush to follow Guihua’s leads.

After losing a dog for 20 days, if it had been slaughtered for meat, by now it would have already been excreted.

And without any related leads, Jiang Yuan couldn’t be of much use temporarily.

The three pillars of criminal investigation are criminal intelligence, forensic technology, and special operatives.

Special operatives refer to informants or undercover agents, like officers who go undercover in drug rings to crack major cases, journalists disguised as clients to collect and secure evidence in brothels, and even female lawyers who disclose information on leaders having foursomes out of dissatisfaction from being ignored.

Criminal intelligence is more about traditional methods of solving cases by collecting and organizing information for analysis and reasoning.

What Jiang Yuan excelled in was forensic technology, and in the absence of technical advancement, he had to hope for breakthroughs in intelligence or special operative information.

In contrast, Jia Chengfeng’s logistics company showed great potential for a breakthrough.

Jia Chengfeng had been under control since yesterday, and the people at his company, unable to get through with two phone calls, didn’t pay much attention.

When Zhang Qi led half of the Third Squadron’s troops, along with half borrowed from the Fourth Squadron, to raid Jia Chengfeng’s office, several of his company’s employees were clueless about what was happening.

“Squad leader Zhang, we’ve found several controlled blades.” Without an overly complicated search, the police officers found several daggers, short swords, stun guns, and batons underneath Jia Chengfeng’s office desk.

Zhang Qi wasn’t surprised.

While putting on gloves and examining the weapons with Jiang Yuan, he said, “Nowadays, logistics has become a sedimentary industry, attracting all sorts of people.

If Jia Chengfeng keeps this up, he’ll soon form a dynamic criminal organization.”

“Isn’t it already?” asked Jiang Yuan.

“We could communicate that with inspections,” Zhang Qi replied, “but, defining such things can be easy and difficult at the same time.”

Jiang Yuan responded with an “Oh,” and did not question further.

Every place has its own operational models, and as external forces, they couldn’t assume too much.

“We have more here.” Another officer called out, summoning the camera to take pictures.

Despite everyone wearing body cameras, for important evidence collection, the criminal police of Miaohe County still preferred calling out for photography, feeling as if they had been bitten by a snake before.

The newly found items were even more numerous, not only weapons like swords but also hydraulic cutters, crowbars, wrenches, and other various objects.

One of Jia Chengfeng’s employees, anxious, said, “These are our daily tools.

Whether it’s changing a truck tire or cutting a metal chain, that’s all common work.

The same with spray guns; sometimes we go to extremely cold places where the brake pads can freeze overnight, and we have to use the spray guns to thaw them before we can move.”

Zhang Qi, failing to find the dog and adept at dealing with these kind of rough-and-ready scoundrels, scoffed and drew a knife to face the young man speaking, asking, “And this?

Is this also one of your daily tools?

What do you use it for?”

The young man was caught off guard and argued, “We encounter many situations when we are out on the road; using it to cut meat for cooking should be okay, right…”

“Not okay.

Open-blade knives exceed the permitted length and are therefore controlled items,” Zhang Qi measured with his hand and added, “You store the controlled knives with these heavy tools and then say they are just tools.

Do you think the law is joking with you?”

Zhang Qi’s last statement was loud and forceful, the intense pressure made the normally arrogant youngster involuntarily shrink his neck.

At that moment, Jiang Yuan was sifting through the items in the plastic box and, struck by a thought, asked, “This spray gun, who has taken it for a spin?”

The young man under scrutiny hurriedly said, “I don’t know.”

“Didn’t you just say that you need the spray gun to start a fire, to spray it open before the car can be used?

Who took it before and used it?”

The young man stammered in response.

“Then let’s check for fingerprints,” Jiang Yuan said succinctly, tossing the spray gun into the evidence bag.

Zhang Qi, curious, glanced at the spray gun and asked, “Did you notice something?”

“I remember a case I read about yesterday,” Jiang Yuan recalled, “where someone reported a robbery, and was even forced to transfer all their money to an online gambling platform, right?

His face was burned with a spray gun.”

“I remember the case you mentioned.” Zhang Qi was a detective from Miaohe County and had personally dealt with such cases; a mention from Jiang Yuan was enough to jog his memory.

He quickly asked, “Can we determine if it’s the same spray gun?”

“It’s likely; there were even marks on the man’s face from where the spray gun’s nozzle was pressed against it,” Jiang Yuan said with ease.

A middle-aged man in the office, upon hearing this, could not help but run outside.

But of course, he didn’t get far.

A few burly men, dressed in padded jackets, were waiting; upon seeing him run, they pounced and pinned him down.

“There, another case solved,” Zhang Qi no longer had time for astonishment.

The case-solving rate of domestic criminal police forces might not be as high as the public imagines.

In a place like Shannan Province, a city or county with a case-solving rate of around forty percent is considered to be doing well.

For a county bureau like the Miaohe County Criminal Police Brigade, there are annually over a thousand, even two thousand, unresolved cases.

Among these cases, some are genuinely unsolvable, but more often there’s just not enough time to handle them all.

Jiang Yuan’s efficient and accurate speed of case-solving was a stimulus to Zhang Qi that could no longer be described as ordinary—it weighed on him as heavily as the pressure of five men.

Zhang Qi took the people from Jia Chengfeng’s company into custody and then led a raid on Liao Baoquan’s company.

This investigation was conducted with even greater seriousness.

Since Jiang Yuan believed that there was something more to the cases of Jia Chengfeng and Liao Baoquan, Zhang Qi, with his two days of expanded knowledge, couldn’t take the matter lightly anymore.

However, Liao Baoquan’s company had only a nominal office; all his assets were tied up in three vehicles.

This peculiar detail of the case reached another level.

Just as Jiang Yuan had said, if he only had a few vehicles and a few men, even if bullied by Jia Chengfeng, he could have simply walked away.

So why escalate to the level of murder?

Furthermore, if he dared to commit murder, why not retaliate on the spot?

Anyone with a bit of bullying experience should know that bullies primarily target those who show no resistance at all.

Any semblance of resistance would mean the bullying is unlikely to succeed.

And Liao Baoquan’s identity, experiences, and abilities, did not fit the profile of a bullying victim.

Therefore, the leverage Jia Chengfeng held must have been extremely damaging.

After gathering information from all sides, even Zhang Qi felt that the answer was on the verge of being revealed.

“I’ll go and extort him,” Meng Chengbiao said enthusiastically, volunteering for the task.

The Brigade Chief, Xu Xuewu, nodded his approval, then turned to look at Jiang Yuan, only to see him scanning through past unsolved cases on his smartphone again.

Xu Xuewu couldn’t help but move closer and, looking at the Arabic numerals representing unsolved special cases on Jiang Yuan’s smartphone, felt his heart warm.