National Forensic Doctor-Chapter 975 - 911: Isn’t This a Coincidence?

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Chapter 975: Chapter 911: Isn’t This a Coincidence?

The next day.

Early in the morning.

Professor Li was fast asleep with his dog when a phone call woke him up.

Opening his eyes, he saw the golden retriever looking at him with a face full of grievance.

Professor Li pushed the dog’s head aside and picked up the phone. After looking at the caller ID, he pressed the speakerphone button and said, "Xiao Ming, what’s up?"

"Professor, you better come to the office quick. Officer Jiang has brought people over." Xiao Ming was his Ph.D. student, much like an inner-door disciple, and they communicated quite frequently.

Professor Li laughed heartily: "He’s probably here to look at the skeletons, not to arrest you."

"No, he’s here for a project meeting."

Professor Li looked at the time on his phone with a puzzled expression and frowned, "Is there a project meeting today?"

"No. I told Officer Jiang, and he said we can hold it now."

Professor Li laughed out of irritation: "No matter how awesome he is, he can’t just schedule our working hours."

Hearing his master’s laughter, the golden retriever crawled over from the side of the bed and wagged its tail, seeking attention.

Professor Li gently stroked the dog’s head, feeling slightly better, and cheerfully said: "Tell him, we have a schedule for the project progress, and we’ll just follow that."

Xiao Ming internally retorted that the schedule was just copied from the internet. Turning back, Xiao Ming continued: "Officer Jiang said they’ve already determined the cause of death for each skeleton from Yong King’s Great Tomb, and he wants to hold a meeting today to update us."

Professor Li was taken aback for a moment and furrowed his brow: "He finished that by today... from yesterday? He’s messing around, right?"

Xiao Ming cautiously replied: "It doesn’t seem like it. He’s quite well-known. He wouldn’t make a joke out of this kind of thing. Professor Tao and the others are looking into it too."

Professor Li hissed in astonishment.

The golden retriever barked once.

Professor Li pushed the dog’s head away and got up, saying, "Fine. He thinks he’s so great, then I’ll head back to school now. Well, I said, is he really that impressive? He probably didn’t even take a close look at the skeletons."

"He examined a few and said he wanted to refine them. For the rest, the conclusions were made based on photos and provided data." Xiao Ming didn’t need to be too descriptive; insiders understand the critical points with just a few words.

"Forensic fairy, indeed." Professor Li had nothing to say, quickly brushed his teeth, and drove back to the school.

Upon entering the office, Jiang Yuan was there examining the bones.

The neatly arranged skeletons were stored in large containers similar to Tupperware, clean and odorless. Jiang Yuan simply poured them out to observe and had someone put them back once done.

Professor Li looked around and greeted: "Professor Sun, Professor Zhang, Professor Tao, you’ve all arrived."

"We had to, or Doctor Jiang would finish all our work," Professor Sun greeted with a smile.

When Jiang Yuan saw Professor Li enter, he nodded and said: "Everyone is here, let’s get started." freewёbnoνel.com

Being respectable figures themselves, the professors naturally didn’t argue with him over who should lead the meeting, which ended up being chaired by Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan, not caring much about formalities, simply nodded toward Tao Yajie and said: "I’ll start by discussing my findings and the information I can provide, then you can tell me what you need."

Overall, Jiang Yuan found the excavation of Yong King’s Great Tomb quite interesting. Having delved deep into anthropology, archaeology was a field he was bound to encounter. This was Jiang Yuan’s first chance to be involved and to participate in such a large project, which was truly in line with his own interests.

However, due to his technical advantage, Jiang Yuan didn’t have to go through the entire set of procedures with Tao Yajie and the others.

Jiang Yuan’s thought process and what he expressed were consistent. He resolved what he could, and Tao Yajie could bring up any further issues. This approach maximized Jiang Yuan’s efficiency. As for the coordination behind the project, Jiang Yuan didn’t concern himself too much with that.

While Tao Yajie didn’t guess Jiang Yuan’s thoughts, she was familiar with the thinking patterns of technical people. As soon as she heard Jiang Yuan’s words, she agreeably said: "Please go ahead."

Jiang Yuan then gestured to Wang Chuanxing.

Wang Chuanxing immediately opened the PPT he had created from working late the previous night.

Jiang Yuan took the remote control and pressed it as he said:

"Firstly, regarding King Yong. Judging from the remains of King Yong, he was 72 years old at the time of death. The cause of death could have been some type of cancer, as we can see that the sternum and the head of the femur have suffered destruction, with cavities and lytic areas. However, it is most likely bone metastasis, with the primary cancer type unclear."

"The bone quality of King Yong is porous, and the traces of kneeling and sitting are very obvious, indicating a habit of kneeling... The wear on the teeth is slightly more severe than that of modern people, with tartar, cavities, missing teeth, and overall maintenance not as good..."

"There are multiple traces of fractures, and the ankles also show signs of multiple injuries..."

"Long-term horse riding, changes in the spine, pelvis, and knees are evident, and indeed, the wear on the teeth is also related..."

In the first half, Professor Tao and the others listened and nodded. They could come to similar conclusions after detailed observation of the skeleton.

Of course, here, the detailed observations and studies are measured in weeks—a normal LV1 level anthropologist, let them examine what caused a trace, and they could talk about it convincingly as if they clearly understand. But if you give them a whole skeleton and ask how the deceased died, then for the next one or two weeks, unless they sleep next to the skeleton, they wouldn’t reach a conclusion.

It’s like when a stock rises at 10:30 in the morning during a trade, at the review, everyone can give reasons and causes, from international situations to the chairman’s son’s private life causing insider information. But if you ask whether the stock will rise or fall tomorrow, they would begin to falter.

Jiang Yuan was akin to having drawn out tomorrow’s candlestick chart of the stock.

Professors Tao, Li, Sun, and Zhang were greatly shocked.

The interns and outsiders’ disciples were even more world-shaken and began to exchange whispers.

"Any objections?" Jiang Yuan paused and politely looked towards the crowd.

The crowd shook their heads in unison.

Seeing this, Jiang Yuan was reassured, just like with the external police force, and nodded, saying, "Then I shall continue."

Jiang Yuan: "The Princess Consort of King Yong from Pit 2, female, 78 years old. The cause of death is not very clear, she has given birth. Osteoporosis..."

"Victim in Pit 3, among whom three were clearly murdered, suspected to be sacrificial victims. J4 and J5 were 24 and 28 years old respectively, and the causes of death are chopping of the atlas and the third cervical vertebra, with clear chop marks. The likely cause of death for J6 is suicide by cutting his own throat."

"Additionally..."

"Pit 4, mainly animal bones, let’s not discuss this for now."

Jiang Yuan’s presentation took about 10 minutes, with dozens of PPT slides shown.

Professors Tao, Li, Sun, and Zhang simultaneously took notes and had their students take multiple photos for preservation. Even though Jiang Yuan said he would provide a copy of the PPT to everyone, they did not fully trust his word.

This was like a moment to underline the key points; too lazy to take notes themselves, waiting for the teacher to photocopy notes for you, you’re only cheating yourself.

After Jiang Yuan finished speaking, he quietly took a sip of water.

The conference room screen displayed the END sign for several minutes.

Only then did Tao Yajie seem to catch her breath and cheerfully said, "Jiang has sorted out the personnel situation in Yong King’s Great Tomb, speaking wonderfully. To my understanding, we can proceed directly to the next phase, right?"

"In terms of anthropology, Yong King’s Great Tomb should have no issues," Professor Li immediately concurred.

"There might be areas that need supplementing later on, we will need Jiang’s continued help, including the writing of the later research papers, we might require Jiang’s effort..." Tao Yajie didn’t say it so bluntly, but she was worried that Jiang Yuan, being an outsider, might not be clear and felt it needed clarification.

Jiang Yuan replied breezily, "No problem. If you need help again, just send me a message."

"Uh... okay." Tao Yajie had invited Jiang Yuan with the hope that he would oversee this side and participate in the project group’s work. While this was indeed the idea, with the anthropology content of the project group already exhausted by Jiang Yuan, Tao Yajie shook her head helplessly, regretfully saying, "The most regrettable aspect of Yong King’s Great Tomb is that Pits 3 and 4 were robbed, not only resulting in the loss of many cultural relics, but more importantly, the destruction of a lot of information, diminishing the archaeological value of the great tomb."

Jiang Yuan understood what Tao Yajie meant. In terms of archaeology, the value of the funerary objects in a burial is only a small part of it. Archaeological excavations are done layer by layer, with great effort, to understand the living conditions of ancient humans and obtain firsthand information from thousands of years ago...

And tomb robbing obviously destroys the most valuable part of that.

Jiang Yuan thought about it, as it is said, help to the end...

On that thought, Jiang Yuan took the initiative and said, "Professor Tao, speaking of which, combating tomb robbing is the responsibility of us criminal police officers, I’ll pay attention to this case for you."

Professor Tao quickly said, "That would be great, wouldn’t it be too much trouble?"

"Let’s see. I’ll make some calls first, see if there’s anyone willing to turn themselves in voluntarily," said Jiang Yuan.