National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 833 - 774 Address

Chapter 833: Chapter 774 Address

"Jiang Yuan, are you tired? Do you need to rest?"

Tao Lu specifically came to the forensic doctor’s office and asked Jiang Yuan with concern.

Jiang Yuan moved his mouth forward, smiling, "Not tired. It’s quite interesting to work with so many people."

At this moment, the two long tables in the forensic doctor’s office, covered with black leather, were now fully seated on both sides, totaling more than 20 people.

There were naturally more people in the Legal Botany team, but since they limited the number of people to 20, that’s when enough people actively responded.

After all, what everyone had to do now was real work.

Tao Lu confirmed again, "Actually, if you want to rest, just let your senior apprentice take charge. He’s supposed to learn this stuff anyway, right?"

"I was planning to have Captain Pang command, but I’m not tired," Jiang Yuan said, handing Tao Lu a bottle of soda water. "Feel free to look around; I’ll get back to my work."

Tao Lu understood; this was Jiang Yuan’s polite way of saying he was in the way.

However, it was good that Jiang Yuan felt bothered by his presence; Tao Lu just didn’t want Jiang Yuan to really get exhausted.

For a cultural relic case involving tens of millions, it wouldn’t be worth it!

Tens of millions might be a horrifying amount in Ningtai County, but in Beijing, it really wasn’t much. Given the current market for cultural relics, just randomly selecting a few would, unless sold at a place like Panjiayuan, all be worth tens of millions.

In comparison, for Jiang Yuan who could crack over a dozen murder cases in one go, his time and energy were too precious.

If it weren’t for Jiang Yuan’s initiative, Tao Lu would never dream of using him for such a case.

Shasha shasha.

At the experimental table, the botanists were each busy with their tasks.

Some were collecting pollen, others were marking it, and some were classifying and comparing it.

Like Jiang Yuan, who found pollen under the microscope and then directly identified it, had Level 3 Legal Botany skills. Everyone present, no matter how good their basic knowledge in botany, were still beginners in Legal Botany. If not, they wouldn’t have come to learn from Jiang Yuan.

For these academics, once they grasped the basics, the rest was relatively easy to learn on their own. This was completely different from someone like Pang Jidong, who was clumsy in his methods.

Pang Jidong himself was quite happily wandering around the room, occasionally attending to the botanists’ needs. This included tasks such as fetching slides, looking up books, as well as serving tea, pouring water, and bringing coffee and other beverages.

Looking at Pang Jidong, Tao Lu couldn’t help but express to Cui Qishan how frustrating it was that others were pulling their weight, "Look at Captain Pang, he’s a big-city captain and still does all this."

"Just doing the grunt work," said Cui Qishan, who was already in his forties and felt no less capable, "Old Pang is eyeing retirement, looking to contribute while he can, seeking a sense of accomplishment; I’m not like him."

"What do you want to do then?" Tao Lu stared at Cui Qishan.

Of course, Cui Qishan wanted to be a deputy commander; no one stays a unit commander for life.

But faced with Deputy Commander Tao Lu, Cui Qishan naturally wouldn’t dare say so.

"I... I just want to solve a few more cases, regardless of the scale, catching some criminals and such, that would be pretty good," Cui Qishan said.

"You should also get along well with these botanists," Tao Lu snorted, "They’re all resources from Beijing. Don’t let them be snatched away by Pang Jidong."

Cui Qishan nodded in agreement and added, "I don’t even know if what they’re doing will be effective; using Legal Botany to solve cases, it all seems to take quite a long time..."

"While speaking," Zhao Tian raised his hand and said, "Captain Jiang, I saw ginkgo leaves and purple-leaf plum on this side. Someone just mentioned seeing Western Courtyard Begonias and lilacs, right?"

"Yes, I did see those," Jiang Yuan walked over.

Today, although they had gathered 20 botanists, their work was like an assembly line, where the identified plants were collected and then had to be sorted by different locations.

Zhao Tian took out a notebook from his side, looked down at it, made a few marks, and said, "If that’s the case, then we have ginkgo leaves, purple-leaf plum, Western Courtyard Begonia, lilac, mapleleaf viburnum, and climbing roses..."

"Right, that’s correct," Jiang Yuan also had a notebook in hand, which he opened and glanced at to confirm.

"I’m going to take a wild guess here. There should also be Hosta and Chrysanthemum ’Golden Baby’ among the perennial ground cover flowers," said Zhao Tian, naturally drawing the attention of the crowd.

"I’ve seen ’Golden Baby’ over here, but I haven’t confirmed it yet," Sulei spoke up.

Jiang Yuan immediately went over, looked at it under the microscope, and nodded, "It is indeed ’Golden Baby’."

Tao Lu and Cui Qishan also came over and asked, "What does this tell us?"

"It suggests that the location might be Olympic West Road. Because all these are types of plants used in green belts," Zhao Tian stated with confidence.

"Are you that certain?" Pang Jidong came over. He was quite familiar with Legal Botany by now but didn’t expect Zhao Tian to pinpoint a location directly without the need for a map or anything. It was something not even Jiang Yuan could do.

Zhao Tian smiled modestly and said, "We were involved in the landscaping there. I recognized these varieties at a glance—the central reserve with Chinese arborvitae, intersperse the rose bushes and mapleleaf viburnum, and then the main auxiliary isolation strip with sophora japonica, bigleaf privet, and surround it with various ornamental flowers, right?"

"It really is," someone had already opened the satellite image of Olympic West Road on a computer.

"The time is roughly in October," Zhao Tian pointed at the map and said, "Only then would there be so much pollen."

Listened with an invigorated spirit, Tao Lu and Cui Qishan couldn’t help but say, "So we’ve even got the time now? Both the location and the time?"

Zhao Tian smiled faintly, "I just happened upon it. Moreover, we haven’t found plants like the Chinese arborvitae and sophora japonica yet. Should we confirm these as well?"

"I’ll go check the surveillance footage. If we’re talking about videos from October, many places might have deleted them by now," said Cui Qishan. Despite saying so, he was very alert. After all, some places’ footage is retained a bit longer, particularly traffic police videos. With a specific time in hand, it would be much easier to investigate.

The botanists seemed equally energized, and many people gathered around.

Then someone asked, "Does this mean the case is solved?"

"No, not yet. We only have clues now," Cui Qishan hastily said, "We’re going to check the surveillance now, but we need to look at a month’s worth of footage, maybe more. We don’t even know if anything will turn up..."

"We could analyze the pollen further and find a more specific location. A relatively accurate address," suggested Jiang Yuan, and everyone nodded in agreement.

A pollen chart can be precise to about 10 meters if there is something to compare it to.

Of course, this also sets the bar quite high.

But for the botanists, it felt more like an engaging experiment:

"In this case, solving the case doesn’t seem too difficult."

"If we’re only looking at the downtown area, we could launch a project to standardize the various types of spores and pollen."

"The landscaping changes quickly," someone noted.

"So we update in real-time? That might be costly, but if it could simplify solving cases, the police department should have the budget," another person suggested.

Cui Qishan was on the phone instructing his subordinates to investigate the designated locations. Hearing the botanists, he wanted to object but didn’t quite know where to start.