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Chapter 1044: Fine Bran
Chapter 1044: Fine Bran
Click. Click. Click.
In the corridor of Building 9, the rhythmic sound of metal colliding lasted for a long time.
After the series of noises stopped, Miao Ruixiang came out with a pot full of fried rice. Jiang Yuan followed behind him, wiping his hands with a towel.
The others quickly made way, took out the prepared bowls and chopsticks, and began to share the fried rice.
Bean-sized beef cubes, orange rice, soft but not mushy carrots, and various vegetables of varying colors but difficult to identify, make the smell of the fried rice extremely complex and sophisticated.
"It smells so good... It's worth the trip to Ningtai County just for this bowl of fried rice." Li Haochen, who came from Beijing by plane and then by bus, actively stepped forward to help.
What Jiang Yuan made today was based on Uncle Seventeen's egg fried rice (LV3), and combined it with his LV5 cooking skills (dog). The fried rice he made had plenty of ingredients and was fried separately, which was a bit of a fusion of the two.
This can be proved by the performance of everyone, including the two people in white shirts who came from ministries and provincial departments. They were reserved in their postures and had happy expressions while eating.
Jiang Yuan also wolfed down the first bowl before chewing the second bowl slowly.
Performing a full autopsy on corpse number one is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also very mentally taxing, and it's easy to get hungry.
Everyone ate and talked until the spatula made a clinking sound and then they gradually stopped.
Deputy Director Zheng from the ministry said with satisfaction: "I found that forensic pathologists are very versatile, but it's the first time I've seen someone cook such delicious food. I didn't expect that our Jiang Shen has this skill."
"Just call me Jiang Yuan." Jiang Yuan was full and still had some emotional intelligence. The other person was older than his Seventeenth Uncle, so how could he feel comfortable asking him to call him Jiang God?
Director Zheng smiled, said a few polite words, and waited until the table was clean before he said, "As far as I remember, most cases are solved in a few days in Ningtai, but this case should have been solved for a week... In fact, according to the normal process of murder cases, a week is not a long time. Does it need to be upgraded to the level of a departmental supervisor?"
"That's still necessary." Huang Qiangmin quickly replied. The supervision of the ministry is paid, if you ignore the responsibility part, the money is the main part.
As for the responsibilities... Jiang Yuan personally handled the case, and even if he failed to handle it, he definitely tried his best.
In fact, Huang Qiangmin did not consider the possibility that the case could not be solved. In the past two years, Huang Qiangmin had considered the possibility that the case could not be solved many times. The situation at that time also supported his judgment.
But in the end, as long as the case is handed over to Jiang Yuan, he will always find a way to solve it.
Huang Qiangmin no longer thinks about similar questions now, because it is useless to think about them. To some extent, Huang Qiangmin has become insensitive to the success or failure of the case.
Huang Qiangmin is more willing to believe Jiang Yuan.
Forensic botany, which seemed outrageous to an old detective like him, was actually successfully replicated in China by Jiang Yuan. Huang Qiangmin felt that the information he had was not enough to speculate on the outcome of the case.
However, no matter which method of solving the case is used, resources are necessary.
Director Zheng just asked that question, and after confirming Huang Qiangmin's attitude, he said: "Since Jiang Yuan finds this case difficult, and it is such a serious case, there should be no problem for you to apply for supervision by the Ministry. However, cases supervised by the Ministry must be solved within a time limit..."
"Understood." Huang Qiangmin certainly knew that the cases supervised by the Ministry were equivalent to the time limit given by the Ministry to solve the cases. However, the police in various places still took the initiative to apply for supervision by the Ministry.
On the one hand, if the case is not solved within the time limit, the consequences will be bad, but not so bad that it will affect one's future. On the other hand, most people have the same idea as Huang Qiangmin. Some cases are so bad that they must and should be solved as quickly as possible without supervision.
Moreover, if a case cannot be solved in a short period of time at the beginning, the probability of being able to be solved later is very low. Therefore, at the beginning, we must strive for resources as much as possible.
The "Ministry of Supervision" is the most powerful resource that police officers in small cities can get. In addition to the support of national experts, laboratories and related forces, the most important thing about the "Ministry of Supervision" is that it has a bonus. Once the case is solved, the money will be reasonably and legally distributed to the police officers at all levels who participated in the investigation.
This is still quite rare. Nowadays, the police rarely get bonuses for solving cases. The only cases that can get bonuses are those that are "supervised by the Ministry", which are awarded or rewarded by the superiors. The number is very small, and it may not be possible to get a bonus once every three or two years.
On the other hand, once a case is labeled as "supervised by the Ministry", not only grassroots police officers, but also units and leaders at all levels will pay attention to it, thus forming a joint force. The so-called unity of strength requires a very high level of leadership art. Now that there is a label of "supervised by the Ministry", it is much simpler. With a similar level of leadership, everyone will naturally have a direction to focus their efforts.
Director Zheng obviously valued Jiang Yuan more. Even though Huang Qiangmin had confirmed it, he still looked at Jiang Yuan and asked, "Where is Jiang Yuan? How do you feel?"
"Uh..." Jiang Yuan hesitated for a moment, but followed the technical line of thought and said, "I have been studying these three bodies in the past few days. For the time being, there are no particularly good direct clues. I am now trying to use forensic anthropology to determine the source of the bodies, but it is still very difficult and there has been no breakthrough progress."
"Forensic botany. I heard that you are very good at this and your level is world-leading." Director Zheng was very interested.
Jiang Yuan said: "We need to extract the diatoms from the Taihe River first, and then we can have a basis for comparison after the database is completed. But it is still unclear whether it can be compared."
Diatoms in the water are actually regional. Diatoms in a river section will live in that area for a long time, just like a human village. Diatoms in a village often have similar or identical genes.
Because of this property, diatoms are the most widely used forensic botany technique in criminal investigation, just as flies are the most widely used technique in forensic entomology.
Director Zheng understood this a little better, so he said more positively: "So, you actually already have an idea."
"It's impossible to lock it." Jiang Yuan said helplessly: "Just analyzing the bones now, the stability is really insufficient."
In the past few days, Jiang Yuan has been studying these bones, trying to determine the source of the body through forensic anthropology. To put it more professionally, he is using forensic anthropology to identify individuals.
But it must be said that this thing is extremely difficult. If it were not so, forensic scientists would not have to invent skull reconstruction, forensic biology and other technologies.
Jiang Yuan has level 3 forensic anthropology, which is definitely enough. Scarcity makes things valuable. In terms of expert ranking, Jiang Yuan's level 3 forensic anthropology may be ranked comparable to that of a fingerprint expert at level 5.
But forensic anthropology is indeed unstable. Just looking at age, gender, height, etc. is fine, but when it comes to identifying individuals, there has to be a bit of fate involved.
Three bodies, or rather two bodies with some leftovers, Jiang Yuan studied them over and over again but still could not come to a conclusion.
Director Zheng understood Jiang Yuan to some extent. He looked at Huang Qiangmin, then at Jiang Yuan, and said, "The governor's sign is like a starting gun. Once the gun is fired, you have no choice but to run even if you don't want to. I think we should just run first, and study and investigate at the same time."
Huang Qiangmin agreed: "The task force has been set up, and Wang Chuanxing and others are on standby."
"The main thing is that we don't even have a scope for investigation right now." Jiang Yuan was not being pretentious. Taihe River was so long that even if a series of characteristics of the corpses were given, there was no range for investigation.
Huang Qiangmin waved his hand and said, "Let's check Qinghe City first. Didn't you already take the fingerprints of corpse No. 1? Now draw another line and we will check in Qinghe City. Whether it's missing persons or people who have temporarily left the country, the number of people won't be too large."
Director Zheng agreed: "Even if we can only determine an approximate age, it will greatly narrow the scope of the investigation. Can the age be determined?"
Jiang Yuan nodded: "The victim is a male, he should be 25 years old, for safety reasons, 24 to 26 years old."
"Okay, can you confirm the height?"
"172 to 174 centimeters." Jiang Yuan paused: "The shoe size should be 42 to 43."
"Uh..." Director Zheng hesitated for a moment: "Isn't this already confirmed?"
Jiang Yuan shook his head: "Occupation and lifestyle habits are still to be considered."
"This...haha..." Director Zheng smiled uncomfortably.
The officials from ministries and provincial departments present had similar expressions.
Several people from the Ningtai County Bureau and the Qinghe City Bureau quickly lowered their heads to hide their humiliated looks.