National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 669 - 612: Doomsday

Chapter 669: Chapter 612: Doomsday

Under the meticulous explanation and education of the police officers, Granny Zhang, with her white hair, finally believed that what she encountered was not an internet celebrity company but a company that wanted to deceive her of her money.

Then, Granny Zhang sat down on the ground and started to cry:

"I can’t become an internet celebrity..."

Her voice was loud and her crying had a dramatic cadence.

Her granddaughter was both angry and helpless as she said, "So you can’t become an internet celebrity, what’s the big deal? Why do you have to be one?"

"Being an internet celebrity means people will support you, someone will give you money. After I become famous, I could buy you a car, buy you a house, wouldn’t that be nice?" the old lady asked, turning to look at her granddaughter.

The granddaughter was stunned for a moment, then turned her head and said, "Only if that were true. Becoming an internet celebrity isn’t that easy."

"It’s just 1,800, and none of you are willing to give it a try." The old lady was still reluctant.

The granddaughter said with exasperation, "That really was a scam."

"A scam? They were willing to sign a contract with me. How can someone who signs a contract be a scammer? Can you be cheated with something in black and white?"

The granddaughter could only bow her head and explain again.

The police officers had no choice but to smile beside her, putting in more effort than if they were dealing with girlfriends.

After much persuasion, they finally managed to appease the old lady. Granny Zhang took out her mobile phone, opened a karaoke app, and said to the police officers, "Then you add me as a fan."

The police officers were stunned, whispering, "I don’t have this app on my phone."

"Then you download it," Granny Zhang directly said.

The police officer didn’t want to download it, whispering, "My phone’s storage is almost full."

"You can delete some other apps, and then you’ll be able to download it. Isn’t that what you told me when you had me install the anti-fraud app?" The auntie was quite eloquent in her argument.

The police officers upstairs were about to crack up with laughter.

At last, the officer downstairs took more than ten minutes to satisfy Granny Zhang’s request and properly sent her on her way.

Jiang Yuan had watched enough of the excitement and contentedly returned to the meeting room.

In the evening, Tan Jing and others, who had mobilized for a full-force operation, kept surveillance all night but didn’t catch a single person, and eventually returned empty-handed, not knowing where the operation had gone wrong.

Tan Jing, after sleeping for a while, arrived the next morning, fuming with anger.

Having slept a full night, the visiting officer Pang Jidong was very comfortable, coming over with a cheerful demeanor, and consoled him by saying, "Not catching anyone is normal,dude. It was sent out on short notice without any intelligence support. If we could easily catch a few diesel thieves just by going out, then the security situation here would be considered seriously flawed, right?"

Tan Jing was speechless, covering his face with his hand, and he said, "I’ve disgraced the Ningtai County Bureau."

Pang Jidong laughed and said, "Ningtai Jiangyuan has brought enough honor for your Ningtai County Bureau. The occasional loss of face doesn’t affect the bigger picture."

Tan Jing thought Pang Jidong would continue to comfort him, not expecting the older man to start teasing him instead.

Before he could respond, he saw Jiang Yuan enter the room.

"Captain Jiang, what’s the plan for today?" Pang Jidong hurried over to ask.

"For me, I’ll continue looking at photos," Jiang Yuan said as he stretched his neck and began to brew tea for himself. He suggested, "Captain Pang, I recommend you start reviewing legal botany."

Just as Pang Jidong was preparing to brew tea for Jiang Yuan, his body stiffened, and the painful memories of the past surged up, much like the aftermath of drinking too much.

"You’re here for legal botany; don’t get it twisted," Jiang Yuan said, pulling a book from his bag and handing it to Pang Jidong. "You don’t have to become a botanist. Just read the Chapters I’ve marked. It’s enough to understand what the botanists are doing, so they won’t deceive you, right?"

Pang Jidong took the book, a starting textbook of over 500 pages, and saw the earmarked sections in the contents, with several pages covered in red lines and Jiang Yuan’s red corrections:

"Just need to read the preface."

"This part requires doing some exercises."

"It would be best to practice these."

Pang Jidong was filled with bitterness. As a middle-aged student, he was moved by Jiang Yuan’s enthusiastic high-pressure education. Yet, as a middle-aged student, faced with Jiang Yuan’s enthusiastic high-pressure education, he was truly struggling to keep up.

Tan Jing watched from the side, grimacing at the sight and feeling the curse of knowledge. His temples began to throb inexplicably.

"Station Tan," Jiang Yuan called out again.

Tan Jing quickly replied.

"These next few days, please gather more information on the ex-convicts involved in diesel theft, including their addresses and current status," Jiang Yuan reminded him.

Tan Jing nodded again, hesitantly asking, "Are we only going after ex-convicts?"

"First we catch the ex-convicts. Once we catch a bunch, we’ll see if we can expand from there," Jiang Yuan explained, his strategy so simple that everyone understood.

Tan Jing slowly nodded, then added, "It’s not hard to find someone with a prior record, but the interrogation might not be that easy..."

Those who have been incarcerated tend to have a reduced fear of prison. It’s like how someone who has never been scorched views fire as a terrifying beast; once burned, though they may not wish to experience it again, their fear definitely plummets significantly.

Therefore, getting a confession out purely through interrogation isn’t going to be easy.

Jiang Yuan said, "Once I get some results from my research, we’ll all look for evidence together and confirm the people involved."

Tan Jing agreed somewhat vacantly.

"Second Squad, could you keep an eye on the ex-convicts in the county and the city?" Jiang Yuan asked Liu Wenkai for confirmation.

"Sure," Liu Wenkai responded.

Jiang Yuan then said to Wang Chuanxing next to him, "You guys do some organizing too, not just the ones dealing with diesel, but also those fencing stolen goods, thieves of all sorts—get on it. The main thing is to confirm these people’s places of residence and their current status to the point where if we call their name, we can bring them in just like that."

"Yes," Wang Chuanxing immediately complied.

He guessed somewhat what Jiang Yuan was planning, but his mind harbored many more questions. However, the police are indeed a force of discipline and in such moments, orders are to be followed first and foremost.

Jiang Yuan then continued to look at the photos.

Zoumadao Police Station thus remained quiet for several days.

If it wasn’t for seeing Jiang Yuan bring Pang Jidong over and the officers from Second Squad and Jiang Yuan’s Cold Case Squad spending their days in the station like attending a class and researching, Tan Jing would almost think Jiang Yuan was there to run a study session.

Monday.

Jiang Yuan had put in an extra shift over the weekend and had finally finished looking through all the photos.

Back at the station, there was a different air about Jiang Yuan.

"Today, we begin work on specific cases," Jiang Yuan said, with a laptop in front of him. He opened it, rubbed his hands together, looking somewhat excited.

Tan Jing replied with a smile, "Good," and said, "We’ve all been anxious too."

Wang Chuanxing, hearing Jiang Yuan’s tone, was already bracing for battle. He glanced at Tan Jing, thinking: You have no idea what you’re talking about.

Next to him, Jiang Yuan also began the first case and simultaneously applied a temporary +1 skill to Tool Trace Identification.

With LV7 Tool Trace Identification and the memory of those tool traces from the past few days...

"This case 223 should be the work of Xu Baiqiang," Jiang Yuan slowly named, while on another laptop next to him, he looked up the person Xu Baiqiang.

Tan Jing, who was about to take notes, was utterly dumbfounded. Is this how cases are solved now, without any process?

Seeing this, Jiang Yuan cleared his throat and said, "Let me quickly explain. Xu Baiqiang has a pattern when he commits crimes; he likes to use a crowbar, and if you notice, he always pry at around the two o’clock direction, which is quite distinct. His force is also quite precise, so the marks left on the fuel cover are not that heavy..."

Tan Jing stood up and went to Jiang Yuan’s side, looking at the so-called marks on the fuel cover on the computer.

The station lacked clear projection equipment, and what Tan Jing and the others usually used were only capable of displaying PPTs. However, whether or not they had similar equipment, it didn’t affect Tan Jing’s tranquil expression at that moment.

Yes, tranquil, because what else could he do? Tan Jing was completely at a loss in the face of Jiang Yuan’s method of directly linking suspects and evidence.

Or rather, he understood a little, and because of that, he felt it shouldn’t be done this way!

"Send a team to capture him," Jiang Yuan felt he had said enough.

Tan Jing was a bit panicked and quickly suggested, "Shouldn’t we first gather some evidence from the side?"

"That works too," Jiang Yuan was not in a hurry to arrest anyone and said, "Then this case will be assigned to Station Tan."

"Alright," Tan Jing hesitated for a moment, then took out his phone to start organizing his forces.

He quickly assembled a 7-person team, feeling it was about enough, and went out to make the specific arrangements.

When Tan Jing returned, he heard Jiang Yuan already discussing the third case:

"This case 1205 should be the work of Zhou Huijun. A very obvious knife-based prying and even left footprints on the victim’s car; his way of using force is quite sloppy. I’ve compared the footprints with previous cases, no issues there. Related cases amount to 8, all done within the last two or three months, which we can pull out for review."

Tan Jing sat down with his head buzzing next to him.

"Are you interested in this case, Station Tan?" Jiang Yuan asked politely.

Tan Jing replied, "This... I didn’t listen just now..."

"Then Captain Liu will take it," Jiang Yuan quickly arranged, then said to Tan Jing, "We have plenty more cases to come, no need to worry about running out of work..."

Tan Jing could only nod.

Liu Wenkai, seeing this, only arranged for 4 people to follow up on the case.

It turned out, even that was too many.