National Forensic Doctor-Chapter 954 - 890 Initiative

The atmosphere of the explosion site was oppressive.

First, the smell was terrible; second, the visual impact was overwhelming.

Even though Captain Wang had said that the bodies had been moved away, in actuality, while the bodies had been cleared, there was still plenty of flesh paste clinging to the ground.

Here’s a morbid tidbit: if someone were within the blast zone, what changes would their body undergo? If the explosion was strong enough, such as the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, there would be many shadows resembling the remnants of bodies vaporized or sublimated. In other words, under an extreme explosion, a body could completely disappear.

And when the explosion is very strong, but not to that extreme, there’s also a poignant example. There once was a profession in Israel that specialized in cleaning up the remains of suicide attack victims. The use of "cleaning up" is because the attackers wearing bomb vests and the victims closest to them are turned into flesh paste, sticking to the ground.

Due to the hot climate, a lot of the flesh that landed on the tar roads would stick to the asphalt, making it even harder to clean up.

However, the power of the bomb vests was so large that the final remaining weight of those at the epicenter was often only about ten to twenty kilograms, making them somewhat easier to lift.

But from a forensic perspective, when a strong enough bomb explodes in a crowd, it’s very difficult to distinguish how many bodies there were.

You could say, count two eyes as one person, but many of the bodies don’t have eyes anymore, count a head as one person, but not all heads are intact...

Forensic anthropology, useful in fire or mass murder scenes, wouldn’t work well here, at least to say, it’s hard to come up with an accurate answer in a short period of time.

If Jiang Yuan came to the scene with only his scene investigation skills and forensic skills, he would now be retching from cleaning up bodies.

As for now... this task is still being carried out by the technicians and forensic doctors from Meiyang City.

Jiang Yuan looked around, silently labeling everyone and assessing their abilities.

His gaze naturally swept over the members of Jiang Yuan’s Accumulated Case Team.

Shen Yaowei shivered, as the earnest teachings of his older cousin Shen Yaoguo flooded his mind, indecision showing on his face.

This time, he had secured a third-class merit for himself, and the award ceremony for the merits had not yet been reported because the Poison Capture Net case had not been closed yet.

Shen Yaoguo was therefore very grateful to Jiang Yuan and repeatedly told Shen Yaowei to perform well.

As a lesser-known member of the family, Shen Yaowei indeed preferred fun and acted as he pleased in his younger years. However, as he grew older, many of the things he enjoyed before no longer seemed interesting; instead, society itself was becoming more attractive.

Working in Jiang Yuan’s Accumulated Case Team was a rare opportunity that Shen Yaowei knew was valuable.

Recently, Jiang Yuan had frequently given Shen Yaowei chances, which Shen Yaowei felt he had earned—If he had developed any skills in his life, the marksmanship he had honed out of interest as a youth was one of them.

Ever since he shot the drug dealer dead with two bullets, Shen Yaowei had been favored by Jiang Yuan, and he deeply understood the rarity of this opportunity.

Considering Jiang Yuan’s current status, his older cousin’s influence as the head of the Public Security Brigade was quite limited.

Shen Yaowei felt that Jiang Yuan’s sweep around the room was an encouragement for the members of Jiang Yuan’s Accumulated Case Team to step forward.

After all, the scene before them was indeed too terrifying. The local police had no choice but to take action, and Jiang Yuan’s Accumulated Case Team, as visiting forces... In fact, someone should be involved. Otherwise, the local process of handling physical evidence and so on wouldn’t include their participation, which would not be conducive to Jiang Yuan’s understanding of the situation.

Of course, only experts at Jiang Yuan’s level, who come out following the instructions of the Ministry, would need to understand the situation to this extent...

Thinking this, Shen Yaowei finally made up his mind and cleared his throat, stepping forward to say, "Captain Jiang, I’ll join everyone in dealing with the remains."

"Eh?" Jiang Yuan looked at Shen Yaowei in surprise, taken aback by his initiative.

Scraping corpse mud from the ground is certainly not a pleasant task, even for forensic doctors, it is an utterly disgusting activity. At this moment, the empathy one feels for their fellow beings would be shattered to pieces by the explosion, plunging one’s spirit into depression.

However, Jiang Yuan’s skepticism was taken by Shen Yaowei as encouragement, just like his expression when he drew his gun.

Shen Yaowei affirmed more confidently, "I’d like to go through the process with Captain Wang’s team and understand the work here, to learn a bit."

His words were very tactful, but as soon as Song Tiancheng heard them, he felt it was absolutely necessary and immediately encouraged, "Indeed, a young man with ideas."

"Shen Yaowei is seconded from Changyang City Criminal Police Detachment, but he is indeed very outstanding in all aspects, a young man full of ideas," Jiang Yuan, with his emotional intelligence still hung up on his shoulder like a badge, readily provided an assist to Shen Yaowei.

Shen Yaowei laughed with his mouth wide open, as happy as if there had been a detonation in his mouth.

Jiang Yuan then said, "Yao Wei, you’ll accompany Captain Wang’s team in surveying and handling the scene here."

"Yes," responded Shen Yaowei, turning to salute Wang Sheng, "Captain Wang, I’ll follow your command."

"In that case, get changed into your equipment, and I’ll have someone guide you..." Wang Sheng didn’t hesitate. The most important thing is solving the case, especially since Song Tiancheng is here on the orders of the Ministry.

Shen Yaowei changed into a full set of equipment and began scraping corpse mud alongside Meiyang City’s technicians and forensic doctors.

Jiang Yuan continued his survey.

The repair shop was not small, and the core area of the explosion was a conference room on the second floor of the repair shop, covering more than one hundred square meters, with two bathrooms, a pantry, and a finance room sectioned off at the back. The rest was crowded with gambling tables.

Nearly forty to fifty people gambled in such a large room – only gambling, an activity that could make people completely ignore their surroundings, but an explosion won’t ignore it. Following the explosion, the original prefabricated floor collapsed, and the ceiling and walls also caved in, so that some people who weren’t killed or injured by the explosion were instead killed or injured by the building materials.

"What do we know about the explosive device at the moment?" Jiang Yuan asked after a while, turning to Wang Sheng.

Wang Sheng immediately called over the trace examiner from the front line, "Sheng Bogong is the deputy head of our brigade’s Trace Inspection Unit. He’s most skilled at examining explosive traces."

This was now a matter of professional expertise.

Sheng Bogong had a long face and wore glasses, with distinct "^^"-shaped eyebrows. He was actually scraping bodies at the moment, and upon being asked, he sighed and said, "What we have found so far includes a suspected case of a storage battery, but we are not completely certain. The initial assessment of the central point of the explosion is at the entrance of the gambling den’s finance room, right around this area."

Sheng Bogong circled an area not far in front of him.

Jiang Yuan nodded, "To have this conclusion in a few hours’ time is good. Do we know the method of detonation?"

"We’re not sure yet, but the explosive power was great, and the explosive device is likely not homemade, at least at the level of industrial explosives used in civil blasting. It’s probably ammonium nitrate-based." Sheng Bogong paused, then continued, "Now there is another concern, as we neither know the cause of the explosion nor whether the perpetrator has perished. And since the explosive used is industrial, our first worry should be whether there will be a second explosion!"