National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 765 - 708 Fresh Scene

Chapter 765: Chapter 708 Fresh Scene

Over the next two days, Jiang Yuan focused on resting. He checked in at the Zhengguang Bureau in the morning, then picked out a few cases and headed back home.

The members of the Cold Case Squad were busy organizing the data from previous cases, cooperating with the criminal police of the Zhengguang Bureau, and completing various paperwork tasks.

"One-stop service still requires attention to service,"— Commissar Huang Qiangmin, who had laid down a decade’s foundation for the Ningtai County Bureau, said so at a mobilization meeting.

Solving the cases that others couldn’t was indeed the core competitiveness of the Ningtai County Criminal Police Team, but filling out paperwork that others were unwilling to handle could also be one of the core aspects of service.

As a result, the criminal police of Zhengguang Bureau’s Criminal Police Squad were quite happy. If a case were solved, the credit and rewards would go to the people of Ningtai, but the subsequent tedious work would fall on them, and the overall budget had even been cut, so naturally, there would be some dissatisfaction.

Now, since everyone wasn’t overworking, they weren’t too concerned about the attribution of credit. After all, solving cold cases did remove some worries for people, especially this kind of atmosphere that allowed for solving cold cases was incredibly enticing.

The atmosphere at Jiang Yuan’s home was also quite good.

Jiang Fuzhen had always enjoyed a lively atmosphere and was skilled in cooking delicious food. To the young people of today, if you fed them meat with one hand and offered them a drink with the other, they’d be so excited they’d spill all their guts just to hang out.

Jiang Fuzhen himself was even more excited.

It must be said, though the people of Jiang Village enjoyed eating the meat he cooked, after so many years, their fighting power had inevitably declined a bit.

Additionally, the folks of Jiang Village had been wealthy for a while now, indulging in all kinds of rare and expensive foods. They no longer ate three pounds of meat in one meal as they used to.

But the young people from the criminal police team could really eat three pounds!

Especially those in their twenties who had just joined the job, they could eat three pounds of meat at lunch and still manage another pound in the afternoon just for the sake of it, which excited Jiang Fuzhen.

"Before coming to Beijing, I thought people here, being so experienced and knowledgeable, might not fancy the meat we cook. But look how popular we are," Jiang Fuzhen said happily as he stayed in the kitchen, skimming the froth and boasting to Wu Jun, who was playing with beads beside him.

Wu Jun nodded with a smile, "It has the sense of an Anhui opera troupe entering Beijing."

"Anhui board?" Jiang Fuzhen was from a relocated family, with relatively specialized knowledge.

"Anhui opera troupes came to Beijing, and that’s how Peking opera was born," Wu Jun explained abruptly.

"It’s a historical reference," Jiang Fuzhen nodded, pondered for a moment, tapped his iron spoon twice, and said, "Then we could call it ’Southern Beef Heading North’. We could open a restaurant with that name. Or maybe, start a ranch? It’s probably hard to do that here, right?"

"If you have the money, it should not be difficult, though I don’t know what procedures you need to run. But if you want to do it, you should ask Tao and their team, they should know a way," Wu Jun, as a deputy department level official, felt arranging something like a squad leader was no pressure at all.

...

Evening.

Jiang Fuzhen specially had someone bring over a pack of fresh beef slaughtered from his own ranch, and called on the chefs to prepare a lavish table for "Southern Beef Heading North".

And unlike chefs who are fixated on a particular ingredient, Jiang Fuzhen also intentionally bought some crabs, fish, and shrimp, along with some exquisite vegetables—naturally, these were prepared by the chefs.

Jiang Yuan, returning home from work, was also very happy with the meal. The chefs were well acquainted with the father and son from the Jiang family, always having a few tricks up their sleeve to catch their appetites.

Thinly sliced boiled beef, the white and tender scallion-braised mantis shrimp, the slightly yellow yet tender emperor crab, the tender shrimp with hues of white, and a nest of noodles cooked with seafood trimmings, beef broth, unattended chicken soup...

Paired with some beer, red wine, a group of people eating to their heart’s content, sweaty heads and all...

Wuu wuu...

The sound of a phone halted everyone’s actions at once.

Jiang Yuan felt the vibration, wiped his hands clean, took out his phone to look, and then said, "It’s a video call from Director Qi. I’ll take it."

After finishing his words, Jiang Yuan clicked to answer the call and said, "Director Qi, we are having a family dinner."

He rotated the phone’s camera to show Qi Changye who was present, incidentally informing him of the attendees.

On the other end of the video, Qi Changye was also drenched in sweat, gasping heavily. Upon seeing a table full of fish, shrimp, meat, and crab, his expression immediately lost its composure as he said, "I’ve been running all day, didn’t even have breakfast, just climbed 16 floors, almost fell off the balcony, I can’t look at this..."

"Is it an emergency?" Jiang Yuan shifted the camera away, then took a sip of his ice-cold beer.

Forcing down his saliva, Qi Changye said, "We’ve tracked down the killer’s mistress. The mistress’s family has been silenced."

"Another death?" Jiang Yuan was also startled. As a forensic doctor who had been on the job for so long, he had never encountered a case involving a series of deaths.

Qi Changye made a sound of affirmation and continued, "The more brutal, the more it shows their fear. However, we must not take this case lightly. The female victim was a government employee, not of high rank, but in a key position, with access to a large amount of confidential information... When we arrived at the rented house of the victim, the killer was likely still there. Unfortunately, we didn’t catch him."

"The rented house?"

"Yes, it was looking for this house that delayed us, practically their love nest built by the two. Now it has become a crime scene. When we arrived, the killer, the second murderer, was probably doing a search and cleanup. He was very calm, probably notified by an accomplice in advance, but he almost waited until we were at the unit door before evacuating, extremely bold, and he had preselected his escape route but we still couldn’t catch up..." Qi Changye briefly described the harrowing scene.

Having said that, Qi Changye then asked, "Captain Jiang, can you come over now? I have already sent a car to fetch you. Do you want to take a video look at the scene?"

The fresher the crime scene, the more timely it is and the greater the volume of information. Qi Changye understood this principle, which is why he made a video call at the earliest opportunity.

"Okay." Jiang Yuan readily agreed, casually grabbing a crab leg and saying while eating, "I’ll eat a little more. After the investigation at the scene, I’ll probably need to perform an autopsy, and that can make one hungry."

"No problem, you eat. I’ll give you a brief look first, then you can say where to start from..."

"First, protect the scene well. Don’t touch anything now, wear shoe covers, a hood, and gloves. If there’s no plank bridge on the floor, then walk a fixed route..." Jiang Yuan continued to instruct while keeping an eye on the scene in the video.

The video’s resolution was low, making many things unclear. Jiang Yuan quickly directed Qi Changye toward the body.

The bedroom.

The body was half-draped over the bed, with legs dangling to the floor. Blood flowed from the lower half of the bed to underneath it, not yet fully coagulated.

On the face of it, the victim appeared to have been facing the assailant and was directly, coldly slit across the throat. During the process, the killer also pressed the victim’s head and neck with a pillowcase, preventing any struggle until she bled out and lost strength.

At the same time, the room showed many signs of being searched, suggesting that the victim could also have been interrogated.

Upon further reflection, the fact that the victim’s male lover, the number one suspect, had been caught, made her reasons for coming to this rented house seem less coincidental.

"Start from the entrance, get closer, and try to walk at an even pace." Jiang Yuan said, his eyes fixed on the screen.

Obediently, Qi Changye lowered the phone and slowly walked over, following Jiang Yuan’s instructions.

Upon reaching the body, Qi Changye asked, "What now?"

"Now... what do you want to know?" Jiang Yuan countered.

"Want to know what..." Qi Changye was momentarily taken aback before quickly asking, "Can I know anything?"

"Pretty much," Jiang Yuan said. "There’s a lot of information at the scene, except I can’t directly tell you the killer’s name..." Jiang Yuan added, considering that this was a fresh body from an ongoing case.

Brightening up, Qi Changye said, "Can we know the killer’s physical characteristics?"

"Yes," Jiang Yuan replied, taking another crab leg and dipping it unconsciously as he spoke, "180 cm tall, wearing sports shoes, the shoes might add about 5 cm in height. He’s muscular, weighing between 160 to 180 pounds, fit, with broad shoulders. He’s likely to have a military background or experience. His gait still bears certain distinct traces... Around 38 years of age, strong arms, large hands and feet, size 44 shoes, and thicker fingers..."

"I’ll have someone check the surveillance immediately," Qi Changye said, unable to resist giving the order upon hearing this.