National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 809 - 752: Live Effect

Chapter 809: Chapter 752: Live Effect

o’clock in the morning.

Jiang Yuan had arrived early at the meeting room, where he checked the computer, the projector, and even tested a few slides of the PowerPoint presentation before starting to inquire about the current situation at the crime scene with Qi Changye.

Qi Changye had been busy the entire night before too. With dark circles under his eyes, he said, "Several people from our unit have already gone over there, plus I borrowed ten more, so now there’s about a dozen people on the site... by around 10 o’clock, everyone should be in place. Some of them had assignments before, and were scheduled to start new tasks today..."

Police work is never done, and Qi Changye’s unit is a typical example of being highly equipped yet understaffed. The ranks of the unit and personnel are high, but the number of people is small, the workload is large, and they are perpetually busy.

Even those he had borrowed from other units had their own duties to perform. Police work is not like other jobs where you can simply say it will be done by tomorrow and expect it to be done by tomorrow. If the criminals don’t cooperate, a case can drag on indefinitely.

At this early stage of the special case, even if Qi Changye was eager, it wasn’t possible to throw all resources at it. In his mind, if Jiang Yuan could maintain the speed of solving the Zhang Lizhen case and find a corpse within a week or two, it would be miraculous—although in reality, Qi Changye just thought of it wishfully. After all, the Zhang Lizhen case had Xu Taining, and this case wasn’t so urgent.

Jiang Yuan was too busy to pay attention to Qi Changye any longer. He nodded and said, "During the meeting later, I plan to create some live effects. I’ll need the cooperation of the officers on the scene, and they may have to travel some distance. Oh yes, have the police dogs arrived yet?"

"The police dogs have been dispatched and should arrive within an hour," said Qi Changye, who could mobilize personnel, but he had to abide by basic law and couldn’t simply ask officers from other units to work overtime on short notice without special reasons.

Jiang Yuan nodded again and continued to review the PowerPoint slides.

Seeing how serious Jiang Yuan was, Qi Changye naturally began to feel a hint of skepticism.

His professional instinct made him quickly review the conversation he had just had with Jiang Yuan, and he realized something, promptly asking, "Captain Jiang, you just mentioned some kind of live effect. What kind of live effect do you mean?"

Jiang Yuan looked at Qi Changye with some surprise, then at the empty meeting room, and said, "Considering that the botanists coming this time are quite outstanding, a mere discussion on legal botany might not have a very good effect. So I was thinking of finding some points on site where bodies could be buried, dig on the spot, and see if we can locate a body right there."

"Ah?"

Qi Changye couldn’t help himself. Was this a game?

But could it really be played like this?

This is about a body!

If it was so easy to find bodies, his years of hard work would have been in vain. Wouldn’t those nights of drunken revelry seem as foolish as a naive young man who concocts sorrows to woo a young maiden?

If a body really could be found so easily, wouldn’t the technology of forensic botany explode?

Police officers around the world, in every country and province, would have to take up forensic botany!

Forget about difficulty. Once learned, wouldn’t it be worth a white-shirted position? You should know, nothing is too difficult if you have the right establishment!

So, looking at it from another angle, the live effect that Jiang Yuan was talking about seemed too far-fetched. What if they really found it... But then, the quick-witted Qi Changye thought again, this was coming from Jiang Yuan himself!

"Can we really find a body on site? Do you already know where the body is? Or..." Qi Changye wondered if Jiang Yuan could possibly think that he would help him bury a body.

Of course, if it were for a spy case, and if it could be cracked, he might think of asking for approval from higher authorities or simply handle it himself without informing Qi Changye. That wasn’t entirely out of the question.

But today’s situation didn’t seem to call for such measures...

"I did some homework yesterday," Jiang Yuan said, knowing that Qi Changye had questions. He explained in detail, "First, let me say that even if we find a body, it might not necessarily be the one you’re looking for, and it might even turn out to be a non-human corpse!"

Qi Changye nodded, his mind updating the technical details. In fact, if Jiang Yuan was just asking him to bury an animal corpse, they could manage such a level of deception quite well...

Jiang Yuan continued, "The basis for our search for bodies is actually the UAV footage from the recent investigation and search operations conducted by Director Xu Taining. I spent last night reviewing the designated search areas and quietly marked the questionable spots, conducting a fair amount of research."

Jiang Yuan added, "Although it’s a bit of cheating, during the meeting, I’ll mostly be presenting a case study. More importantly, we need cooperation on site. The better the cooperation on site, the more case demonstrations we can conduct, and... the chances of digging up a body at one go are still not too high."

Jiang Yuan addressed Qi Changye, "Director Qi, please coordinate and provide support on your end."

"No problem at all," Qi Changye understood, though he was concerned again, "What if we search several times and either don’t find any bodies or only find animal carcasses?"

"It’s just that we might not achieve a shocking effect. It doesn’t affect the work itself," Jiang Yuan reassured him.

"You have a point there," Qi Changye said, pausing thoughtfully, and then remarked, "Captain Jiang, you’re really putting a lot of effort into these botanists."

"The workload of legal botany is quite significant," Jiang Yuan sighed.