National Forensic Doctor
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535: Chapter 492: 555 535: Chapter 492: 555 At Changyang City’s Image Reconnaissance Brigade, Qin Wei Yue was also very strong.

Whether it was professional skill, education, or salary, all were at the top tier within the Changyang City Bureau.

This was not only because salaries related to imaging were high and the competition fierce, but also because solving cases with image investigation was too easy, and during interrogation and prosecution, things were simpler.

Typically, criminals would give up resisting obstinately once they saw the surveillance footage.

Nowadays, as every city bureau was shouting about staffing strains and desperately pulling manpower from the lower-level county bureaus, they were also racking their brains to establish new Image Reconnaissance Brigades and Surveillance Analysis Squads, having truly tasted the benefits.

Being a provincial capital city, Changyang had invited relatively professional technicians when establishing the Image Reconnaissance Brigade.

Later, it absorbed several Internet professionals aged 35 returning to their hometowns, effectively setting up the framework of Changyang’s Image Reconnaissance Brigade and solving a significant number of cases over the years.

However, technicians of this mold had a high floor but a low ceiling; the top talents couldn’t be retained.

They had no issue with daily case pursuit and performed operations that normal people could understand.

But as for trying to discern what brand of cigarette a person was smoking under a camera…

A bunch of image investigators surrounded Jiang Yuan, curious to see how he went about it.

Mainly, it was out of a sense of dissatisfaction.

Although you’re quite strong, you start by teaching me how to do my job as soon as we meet, so show us how you do it!

Jiang Yuan, surrounded by a crowd, remained unfazed.

On one hand, he knew some admired him, pure admiration already proved by the system, and that was very good.

It showed that most of the Image Investigation technicians had a level of skill.

On the other hand, he genuinely wasn’t afraid.

He was now at LV5 in Image Enhancement—having used the opportunity for skill replacement from the second-class merit he received last time on Image Enhancement.

And since he had already been at LV3 in Image Enhancement, he could already dominate the field; at LV5, what he could do appeared to many at LV3 to be like magic.

“I’ll pour you a cup of coffee,” offered Qin Wei Yue, the captain of the Image Reconnaissance Brigade, very politely.

“No need to be polite, I’ll be done soon.

We’re in a rush to catch people,” Jiang Yuan said with a smile.

Right now, the competition was against time to trace the clues, and they couldn’t wait for the culprit to catch on.

Captain Qin Wei Yue laughed twice, “Ha ha,” and said, “I’ll make you a cup of coffee regardless.

Don’t be in such a hurry, just take your time.”

In his view, with Jiang Yuan’s requirements and goals, staying at the Image Reconnaissance Brigade would make more sense; finishing quickly was pure fantasy.

Jiang Yuan said no more and began working slowly on the computer.

Although they were all police computers, different individuals had them set up quite differently.

By the time Captain Qin Wei Yue came back, Jiang Yuan was still adjusting the computer.

“Will it work?

Do you need to find a different computer?” Qin Wei Yue asked amicably.

Jiang Yuan shook his head: “No need, it will be ready soon.”

Soon again, he said, laughing with the previous few people.

Jiang Yuan paid them no mind, organized the necessary software, wrote a few small programs, and then dragged in several photos the Image Investigation team had already sorted out.

The Image Reconnaissance Brigade of Changyang City used the Falcon Image Processing System, software produced by Hikvision, which was utilized in many provinces and cities.

The full range of Falcon software also included the Falcon Video Investigation System, Falcon Personnel Checkpoint Analysis System, and so on.

The Falcon Image Processing System could provide professional image processing functions such as low-quality image enhancement, blurry image enhancement, vehicle processing, face reconstruction, noise reduction, dehazing, and others.

Its underlying technology was very advanced, but the interface offered limited operational choices.

It was somewhat similar to Meitu Xiu Xiu, aimed at making it usable by the average police officer.

Of course, there wasn’t as much difference in reality, but given such a system, there wasn’t much room for the average image investigator to excel; in fact, it wasn’t designed for them to do so.

As for technicians with a higher level of technical skill, stepping away from Falcon to do their work meant reverting to the Photoshop “PS” era — it was not only difficult and time-consuming, the results weren’t necessarily better than a one-touch beautification.

But, once the technology surpassed a certain level, everything was completely different.

Like Jiang Yuan, who threw the dozen or so video screenshots found by the image investigators into the software.

He started with batch processing, then moved to individual processing.

While the coffee was still too hot to drink, the images of several cigarettes had already been enlarged and enhanced.

Qin Wei Yue, who had just picked up his coffee cup, immediately set it down, and the smile on his face was replaced by shock.

“This is… you weren’t like this before…” Captain Qin Wei Yue looked at Jiang Yuan, having witnessed his capabilities in the past, indeed very strong, but not this kind of effortless strength, as if flying.

Several figures flashed through his mind, and he quickly dismissed each one, feeling Jiang Yuan surpassed all the experts he had seen.

But thinking this way seemed too much.

He himself was only average in capability, but he had indeed encountered true experts, even the cream of the crop.

If he were to say Jiang Yuan surpassed these—actually, without even outdoing them, it already sounded too exaggerated.

Qin Wei Yue couldn’t help saying, “There must be many companies trying to headhunt you, right?

Like Hikvision, the treatment for top experts is quite good…”

“I’m from Jiang Village.” Jiang Yuan replied, then stood up and said, “Just pick one person smoking Chunghwa, and track that person.

See where he came from.”

Jiang Yuan pointed to the man in the third photo.

Previously, he had made his judgment based on body shape and posture, but because the subject wasn’t walking but riding a motorcycle, the judgment wasn’t very accurate.

Now, with the cigarette as corroborative evidence, he could almost be certain.

The members of the Image Investigation Brigade glanced at their commanding officer.

“What are you staring at?

Get on with it,” the Image Reconnaissance Brigade captain waved his hand as if shooing flies: “You have no discernment at all.”

The Image Investigation members reluctantly went to work.

It wasn’t that they lacked discernment; they were doubting their own eyes.

Qin Wei Yue sat next to Jiang Yuan and said, with slight admiration, “I’ve been hearing about your case solving lately, but I didn’t expect you to have developed such a deep understanding of technology.

How did you learn all this?”

Jiang Yuan looked at Qin Wei Yue and said, “If I say it fell from the sky, you definitely won’t believe me, but I really didn’t do much myself.”

“Is it a gift?” Qin Wei Yue pondered.

The others in the office also pricked up their ears, wanting to know how someone in their twenties could enhance their skills enough to land a job with an annual salary of a million.

Jiang Yuan could only shake his head and say, “Basically, it’s as if I, too, received a ‘demolition compensation’ in technology.

I got the skills without much effort.”

Qin Wei Yue nodded in understanding: “Rebuilding your technical foundation from scratch?”

“Ah, it’s not related to that,” Jiang Yuan said helplessly.

Tech people sometimes thought too much, and he didn’t want to mislead anyone.

He added, “My method isn’t suitable for learning; it’s not the same as normal processes.”

“Many tech whizzes are irreplicable, I understand,” Qin Wei Yue said with a relieved expression, contentedly.

Jiang Yuan sighed and simply got up to watch the other Image Investigation members work.

Qin Wei Yue stood up: “It’s a rare opportunity for a tech expert to delve into grassroots work.

Everyone should do their best.

If there are any questions, it’s better to write them down.

Later, we’ll give them all to Captain Jiang to address.

Captain Jiang, does that sound good to you?”

What could Jiang Yuan say?

He just nodded in agreement.

Everyone seemed very happy.

The case was indeed important, but it wasn’t the Image Investigation’s own case; they were just there to provide support.

Some who didn’t like interacting with others didn’t even know what case they were working on.

But for those who pursued technology, they were willing to listen.

Not everyone wants to play with beautifying apps their whole life.

Two kilometers away from the scene, the suspect’s cycling became very normal.

Anti-surveillance requires specificity; it cannot be entirely hidden.

In fact, some traffic monitoring points nowadays use infrared cameras, so pure optical camouflage is useless.

The suspect, having left the dangerous area, clearly relaxed.

He slowed down his speed, became more casual, and even lit another cigarette.

Before long, he entered the camera-dense city center.

At this point, he cared even less about the cameras and plunged into an alley.

The Image Investigation personnel quickly accessed the images from around the alley and, after dragging the progress bar for a few minutes, saw the same motorcycle exiting the alley with a deliveryman in a yellow Kangaroo uniform riding on it, still clutching a 555 cigarette in his mouth.