National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 541 - 541 497 I Lead the Charge

541: Chapter 497 I Lead the Charge 541: Chapter 497 I Lead the Charge Several deputy directors, political commissars, and deputy political commissars of the drug enforcement unit, along with a few squad leaders or deputy squad leaders, arrived successively at the Criminal Police Detachment.

Everyone watched Jiang Yuan’s fingerprint identification demonstration together, and their attitude shifted from “What the hell is this” to “Dad, I want to keep this ghost.”

Jiang Yuan at first considered whether to display the politeness of a person from Ning County, but with a glance, he saw that the system’s timer had decreased to 220 minutes.

He no longer wanted to pay attention to anything beyond the evidence.

Whatever the matter, he decided it could wait until after the 220 minutes.

In the remaining time, less than 4 hours, he didn’t want to deal with anyone.

The 405 initial minutes were the most valuable.

By tomorrow, even if he could still use fingerprints to find some criminal suspects, the effect would diminish, and the efficiency would decrease.

After all, they would be second or third-generation fingerprints.

Besides, as he always says, the high complexity of fingerprints doesn’t guarantee their value.

Without knowing the source of the fingerprints, painstakingly spending an hour or two to produce a super difficult fingerprint might only narrow down to a decrepit drug addict, middle-aged, graduate, indebted, homeless, divorced, ragged, suffering erectile dysfunction, shriveled testicles, severely shortsighted, chronically sick, too ugly to lure others, without internet to browse adult content, too poor to solicit prostitutes, too feeble to rape forcefully, and too cowardly to commit suicide.

Therefore, once the cooldown ended tomorrow, assuming the drug enforcement unit still needed assistance, Jiang Yuan would also shift the temporary +1 point to skills other than fingerprint analysis.

On the meeting table, there lay not only fingerprint evidence but also a multitude of footprints, traces, and on-site photos, among other things.

The only exception was that DNA and other biological materials hadn’t been delivered.

Considering this, even 405 minutes were extremely tight.

Fortunately, it was 405 minutes.

If the time was too short, only one or two hours, he would have had to focus solely on individual fingerprints.

The opportunity to eliminate a gang-style organization and batch arrest criminals would have been scarce.

The members of the drug enforcement unit didn’t care about Jiang Yuan’s attitude.

Everyone had put aside their work and specifically returned to the Criminal Police Detachment, not just to experience the disposition of a youngster.

In fact, these individuals were usually busy with their own tasks and might not be able to see each other even once a week.

Now that they had met, they simply gathered and began to discuss in low voices.

Now that it was confirmed that Jiang Yuan had matched fingerprints with hundreds of criminal suspects, seeing such a long list of suspects—including some who had previously served time for drug trafficking—everyone started to have second thoughts.

When to make a move became the focus of debate.

The printer churned out paper with the relentless crankiness of a middle-aged man who runs five kilometers daily, climbing stairs on his worn-out knees.

Wang Chuanxing was busy organizing the evidence and couldn’t help but admire Jiang Yuan with a respectful glance.

In the presence of so many leaders, the fact that Jiang Yuan could concentrate on fingerprint analysis was something he himself would not have been able to do.

Given the same opportunity, Wang Chuanxing would definitely opt to flatter, get acquainted, add WeChat contacts, exchange phone numbers… He didn’t harbor lofty ideals or grand ambitions, but being a low-level beat cop was certainly not his goal when he joined the Changyang City Criminal Police Detachment.

Joining Jiang Yuan’s team and following his rhythm was his ideal scenario.

At least in the police system, excelling in operations was always a path for promotion.

Becoming a member of the core team, even if just for menial tasks, would more likely get him noticed.

What he didn’t expect was for Jiang Yuan to advance so rapidly, already impacting the drug enforcement unit.

Of course, that was a good thing.

In law enforcement, solving cases was akin to being a god; stepping out meant descending as a deity on earth.

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Two days later.

Shuidong District, Changyang City.

Jiang Yuan, Huang Qiangmin, and others gathered in the building across from the target with the leader of the drug enforcement unit.

Within those two days, Jiang Yuan had expanded the death records of the Huang Li Drug Trafficking Gang to 300 pages.

Among them, 200 were likely drug users or low-level individuals who sold drugs to support their habit, but there were also around 100 who were genuine members of the drug trafficking gang, at least directly controlling distribution personnel or important external members.

The size and scale prompted the drug enforcement unit to no longer wait.

In fact, since the 300 individuals might be scattered throughout the city, with a few having already left town, proceeding with the arrests was already very challenging.

Further delays could lead to suspects fleeing or becoming too numerous to handle effectively.

The strategy of “arrest first, interrogate, then arrest more” naturally emerged.

Among all the priorities, the headquarters building of the crime gang was key.

Calling it a building was generous—it was an ordinary old-style office building, six floors high, with a ground space of three to four thousand square meters but only a bit over a thousand square meters of actual floor area, and it had an underground parking garage as well as a small, separate surface parking garage.

Such a building was one of the early bustling buildings erected in Changyang City.

As more demolitions and renovations occurred, and the bustling center shifted, buildings like this one remained in a state of neglect.

If it were a military operation, there wouldn’t be much to say about this office building: a few blasts would quiet it down.

But in the heart of a provincial capital city, the police obviously didn’t have such military support, and even the deployed armed police were very cautious about using explosives.