National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 691 - 634 Brain-Eating

Chapter 691: Chapter 634 Brain-Eating

Jiang Yuan took over the case and went to have hotpot with the members of the Cold Case Squad, as well as the newly joined Qian Tongyi and others, including Liu Cheng from Beijing.

The Emperor wouldn’t let his soldiers go hungry, and for the members of the Cold Case Squad who had just been busy with a murder case, it was necessary to take a break and clear their minds.

As for Qian Tongyi and Liu Cheng, they were simply along for the ride.

Especially Liu Cheng, who had followed Jiang Yuan from Ningtai County and witnessed the entire process of how Jiang Yuan solved the "locked room murder case." It wasn’t stunning, but rather, devoid of any pretense.

From the perspective of a professional investigator like Liu Cheng, Jiang Yuan’s command in this case left little to be admired. His techniques could be described as effortlessly bearing a heavy weight, or more frankly, like wielding a large flag of technique and bringing it down hard. It was an efficient, if visually unimpressive, way to solve a deviously constructed pseudo-locked room murder case that the criminal had attempted to conceal with clever thinking.

But this was not the stage for selecting China’s best detective.

Liu Cheng, as a criminal police officer, especially a command officer, was constantly in awe of Jiang Yuan’s methods.

What could be more dazzling than sophisticated tactics, flexible application, and broad maneuvering?

Of course, it was the terrifying dominance of overwhelming force.

Liu Cheng dared to say that with Jiang Yuan’s technical capabilities and methods of application, most cases could be solved!

Seeing the case and cracking it right away, who would believe that?

Which detective wouldn’t be baffled by Jiang Yuan’s approach?

Therefore, even though things were quite busy at home, after Liu Cheng relayed what he had seen and heard to his superiors, he still obtained a three-day grace period to observe and understand Jiang Yuan’s new actions.

In these times, which police department didn’t have cold cases they wished to solve? There was no need to invoke cold cases; if any team could improve their case-solving efficiency and let everyone fully enjoy their legal holidays, that would be a great boon for the police station.

Liu Cheng, through the steam of the hotpot, observed Jiang Yuan, pondering how to say a few persuasive words.

At that time, Qian Tongyi had naturally started discussing the case.

The group wasn’t too familiar with each other, and the case was the focal point of their interest.

After Qian Tongyi waited for the waiter to serve all the dishes and let him leave, he stood up to close the door, then poured beer for Jiang Yuan and said with a smile, "The pressure on us for this particular case was actually quite significant."

Qian Tongyi took a sip of his drink and said, "Shang Geyong was called back by his classmates to start a business, and the capital was mainly invested by those classmates and loans from Shannan Province Bank. Such a project that started with tens of millions of yuan, Shang Geyong himself suddenly disappeared, and to be honest, although it’s annoying to receive calls about it, I still think it’s reasonable."

The person sitting across couldn’t help but laugh.

"Shang Geyong was very good at interpersonal relationships; he was the kind of person with special personal charm. You know what I mean, right? You wouldn’t feel jealous even when looking at someone as impressive as him. During the interrogations, several people shared this view with me. Moreover, he had some classmates who are also in our business community, really concerned about him, tried all sorts of ways to help, and even provided us with various investigative conveniences... Ah, he was a popular person, such a shame," said Qian Tongyi, both making conversation and providing some background information on the case.

Things like the victim’s personality, sometimes useless, can indeed lead to disaster because of that very nature.

In the course of investigating a case, the direction of the investigation is often not singular; it’s fair to say that for most of the cases detectives encounter, there are at least four or more ways to approach the investigation. Thus, it’s quite meaningful to gather as much information as possible in the early stages of a case.

Commissioner Ma, who came with Qian Tongyi, had some meat, put down his chopsticks, and said, "I had a talk with Shang Geyong’s family. His father is a professor at Shannan University. An ordinary university professor, he has three children, and Shang Geyong is the youngest... Mmm, the old man was very distressed, but he is well-educated. Shang Geyong’s mother is the same."

Commissioner Ma, reminiscing, said, "Above Shang Geyong, there’s a brother and a sister. His brother works in a central enterprise, currently in the Yangtze River Delta, and his sister is married in this city, with a well-off family, and her husband also works in a monopoly state-owned enterprise... We have already ruled out Shang Geyong’s family as suspects, one reason being the timeline, and another, the family atmosphere is quite harmonious, with no economic disputes or long-standing grievances..."

"The disappearance of the vehicle is also a factor. Shang Geyong’s office was in the factory area of Xinjian District. After leaving the urban area, his car no longer appeared in the surveillance area. We have initiated a search, yet didn’t find his car. From this perspective, the murderer should be familiar with the illegal vehicle market; otherwise, given the current environment, it is hardly possible for an ordinary person to completely hide a car."

Jiang Yuan polished off half a plate of tripe in one go, then took a swig of beer, blissfully exclaiming "ah," and cooperatively added, "In a month’s time, what should be found probably would have been found."

"So our initial direction was to look for the car. But as you know, we are too close to Pingzhou, and Shang Geyong’s car was a Honda CR-V, which, if it took a back road out, would be impossible to trace once it reached Pingzhou," Qian Tongyi quietly sipped his beer and heaved a sigh, "At first, we thought maybe one of his gambling friends had done something and finding the car would lead us to the person..."

"No surveillance caught anything?"

"Mmm, it feels like they had a seasoned route to run off directly," said Qian Tongyi. "Xinjian District is to the east, Pingzhou to the north; there are only a few routes to take, but it’s hard to say. If he headed straight out from Xinjian District and left the Changyang City boundaries, we would have no idea. The surveillance in the counties below is just so-so, and if he covered his license plate..."

Qian Tongyi spread his hands.

From his tone, Jiang Yuan could detect a strong bias pointing towards a habitual offender.

But to be fair, from what he had heard so far, Jiang Yuan also leaned towards the idea of a habitual offender. An ordinary person would likely have no idea where to dispose of stolen goods.

Even though Pingzhou, due to its grasslands and mountainous areas, has many people willing to buy unlicensed vehicles, even so, ordinary people wouldn’t know any buyers from Pingzhou.

Besides, the Pingzhou police force isn’t incompetent, with many large-scale car trafficking gangs getting busted every year. To say they haven’t cultivated informants within those car traffickers would be unbelievable. And for these informants, their mode of survival often involves selling out the novices.

When it comes to suspected criminals involved in a case of homicide like this, an informant would have enough from selling just one to celebrate the new year without any repercussions; otherwise, even the crime syndicates would have to value connections.

Jiang Yuan set down his chopsticks and furrowed his brow slightly, focusing his mind as he looked at the spicy hot pot and pondered,

"Put the pig brain in the pot. Let’s have some pig brain before thinking about the case more."