National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 811 - 753: The Truth

Chapter 811: Chapter 753: The Truth

"Excavating bodies at the scene? Are they really digging up bodies?"

Even with Jiang Yuan’s repeated explanations, a scholar still stood up and asked loudly to confirm.

Jiang Yuan nodded and said, "Yes, we really are trying to excavate bodies. The reason for inviting everyone here is to locate the burial sites associated with some plots of land."

"But... but..." the standing scholar repeated twice, seemingly in disbelief before sitting down again.

For most people, the matter of finding bodies is extremely serious, not something that can be casually searched for at the scene.

However, because of their lack of understanding, the scholar standing up was also unable to confidently articulate their thoughts.

Jiang Yuan cleared his throat twice and said, "Let’s move on to the next plot, U43. This location was also confirmed by me yesterday. Everyone, take a look. It seems quite obvious, a typical feature of the Seed Bank, right?"

The botanists below all perked up, their eyes widening as they observed:

"This tree looks older, probably over a decade. It’s a Corydalis shrub, commonly used in landscaping, looking pitiful growing in the woods."

"So, if we also dig up a body here, does that mean we are uncovering two bodies on the spot? Are there so many dead people now?"

"I have a question. Why are we digging now, instead of yesterday when it was discovered?"

Finally, a scholar stood up to ask Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan pondered for a moment before grasping his point, then said, "I started looking yesterday afternoon. Although I confirmed several locations by evening, organizing manpower for excavation during this period is relatively difficult. Moreover, the police officers scheduled to gather this morning were working overtime to complete their tasks yesterday. Calling them in ahead of time would have affected their work."

The scholar hesitated, then asked, "So you are saying, you found several bodies overnight?"

"The exact number of bodies we might find is still uncertain," Jiang Yuan replied.

"But... if you can find so many bodies in one night, shouldn’t we expand the search area? Search like this every day. Or, is it not so unusual to find so many bodies..."

"That’s certainly not possible!" Jiang Yuan immediately interrupted the ridiculous suggestion, saying, "The police take murder cases very seriously. Not to mention finding bodies, even suspected bodies would involve a substantial amount of manpower and resources. As for finding so many bodies overnight, there was a premise for that."

"What premise?"

"First, there must be enough video footage. Images from drone aerial photography need to be processed. Secondly, I have actually seen a lot of these drone videos before. Not to mention finding bodies, even identifying suspected burial locations is very difficult, and subsequent excavations have confirmed this," Jiang Yuan looked at Qi Changye, took a sip of water, and continued:

"The reality is, we might survey many plots and still struggle to find any suspected containing bodies. If not for this, I wouldn’t need to invite so many botanists to assist with our work."

His final remark was very logical and received the botanists’ approval.

If it wasn’t necessary, who would go to such lengths to gather such a group of people to help?

Those who have participated in projects know that having more people involved in a project isn’t always better. If it were novices they might randomly recruit people, but those with experience in projects wouldn’t recruit unplanned.

Jiang Yuan took another sip of water, seeing that everyone understood, and once again looked at Qi Changye before saying, "The plot we are currently using as a demonstration was also identified during my review due to some special characteristics. Simply put, this plot is likely to indeed contain multiple bodies. Of course, we haven’t dug up any bodies yet, so we’ll have to wait and see what happens."

As he spoke, others still didn’t quite understand, but Qi Changye’s expression suddenly stiffened.

They had followed a special situation to this forest area and went missing soon after arriving. Later, unable to find any leads on the special situation, they had to change the investigation direction to solve the case.

Yet, Qi Changye had never expected that under this forest, there would be more than one body.

At that moment, Qi Changye saw someone using a mobile phone to send messages, quickly stepped over, blocked the phone with his hand, and said sternly, "Ladies and gentlemen, we are dealing with a murder case here. If anyone leaks information, they might as well stay in the dormitory with me until the case is fully solved!"

The hand that was sending a message stiffened, and a low voice asked, "What extent counts as leaking information?"

"What’s discussed in the meeting shouldn’t be disclosed. Didn’t Captain Jiang mention discipline at the beginning?" Qi Changye looked almost fiercely ready to confine someone at any moment.

"I’ll delete it then," said the caught botanist, not willing to take a risk. He quickly opened his mobile phone, retracted the message, and deleted his social circle.

Everyone else followed suit. Qi Changye’s stern face exerted a heavy pressure.

Seeing this, Jiang Yuan changed the screen’s display from the PowerPoint to a live video from the scene.

An earlier adjusted channel, overlooking the scene from a high angle, didn’t offer much in clarity, but had a large coverage.

"Is this the first place we found just now?" someone easily identified the location based on the site’s vegetation.

Jiang Yuan hummed affirmatively, saying, "This is the first scene used as an example, plot K67, suspected of having buried bodies. Police officers are examining the scene, and soon a patrol dog will enter..."

As he spoke, a black-backed dog was brought to the edge of the camera.

It was a clever police dog that instinctively glanced at the camera before lowering its head to sniff lightly.

Inexplicably, in the conference room hundreds of miles away, everyone held their breath and watched intently.

The black-backed dog sniffed to the left, then to the right, then walked forward in circles.

Its handler quietly encouraged from behind.

In the room, people watched the dog with more effort than the dog itself.

"Come on!" Qiao Shengli clenched her fist with one hand and softly cheered.

"Come on! Come on!" Students who had accompanied their teachers responded enthusiastically.

"Come on!"

In the conference room, the cheers kept coming as if they could encourage the dog through the camera.

Sitting in the corner, Cui Qishan couldn’t help but stand up with a chuckle, finding these scholars’ minds quite interesting.

"Woof, woof!"

The sounds of the dog barking suddenly came from the speaker.

Cui Qishan looked back at the screen and saw the dog barking in front of a bush.

From Cui Qishan’s experience, the shape of this bush indeed looked rather suspicious!