National Forensic Doctor-Chapter 990 - 926: Gugu

Coo-coo.

A wild pigeon flew in from outside the courtyard wall, perched on the ground, and brazenly pecked at the bugs on the lawn, only reluctantly flapping away when a group of people passed by. It turned its head, saw it was just a few plump kids walking past, and then settled down again, reassured.

The head of the Chang Le Bureau was all smiles as he led the way and briefed the several leaders beside him.

For several consecutive days, supervising leaders had come to provide guidance, which was a very good sign for the Chang Le Bureau. Although some leaders actually had quite a bit of spare time, the time allocated for work was still limited. It was very important for the subordinates to vie for time resources. This was similar to entertainment platforms competing for user screen time; you may not know what specific benefits it entails, but you definitely cannot just hand it over to a competitor.

"Has Jiang Yuan arrived?" Knowing what the leaders were here to inspect, the director glanced at the pigeon and asked Lang Heng, who had hurried over.

"He’s here, doing something like image analysis, just sent us to buy a good computer." Lang Heng said with a chuckle, feeling that the tens of thousands of yuan spent was quite an honorable expense, and briefed on the general situation.

"Is the image analysis done by Jiang Yuan something we can do, and can we do it well?" The leader asked.

"This..." Lang Heng glanced at the director and honestly said, "We don’t have that capability reserved. In the past, if we needed to do it, we would ask for support from the Shannan Provincial Department."

"How is the level at the Shannan Provincial Department?" The question quickly got to the point.

Lang Heng still looked at the director, then said with certainty, "Jiang Yuan does it better, much better. The Shannan Provincial Department goes back to Jiang Yuan when they encounter difficult cases."

Jiang Yuan’s Image Enhancement is of LV3 grade, but this technology is not centered within the police field. Tech moguls work in various top-tier high-tech corporations far and wide, and those occupying the secondary tier are professors and researchers in prestigious world-class universities, followed by various application-oriented companies. Trickling down level by level, the Shannan Provincial Department can’t retain a Level 3 technician in this field.

The superior was not surprised, calmly nodded, and said, "This can’t be helped, Jiang Yuan’s skill allows him to walk sideways in Beijing. The last time I went there for a meeting, when they heard I was from Shannan Province, you wouldn’t believe the enthusiasm from my colleagues in Beijing; it was just like visiting one’s own kin..."

As he spoke, he looked up at the sky, just as the wild pigeon took flight, its feathers gleaming with a healthy sheen, the picture of well-fed and regularly exercised.

"Shall we invite Jiang Yuan over?" Lang Heng volunteered to ask.

"If he’s working, let’s not disturb him. By the way, I saw Jiang Yuan ordered a meal from the Xing Yue Building yesterday. The signature dish at Xing Yue Building is roasted squab, isn’t it? Let’s order some roasted squab to be delivered." The director suggested.

"Okay." Lang Heng readily agreed, then added, "Jiang Yuan is treating himself. His family background is extremely good."

"The Jiang Village people," added the director with a chuckle, "the people from Jiang Village in the Siningshan mountains."

Then everyone resumed their cheerful chatting and laughing and moved into the conference room to listen to a new PPT by Wang Chuanxing.

...

Jiang Yuan directly activated a temporary +1 skill for Image Enhancement.

He never expected the Chen Nuan drowning case to be so prolonged. This time, Jiang Yuan was truly experiencing the work feeling of a standard homicide investigation team.

The body found downstream of Tai River, starting from the investigation in Ningtai County, consumed a great deal of time and effort to pinpoint the source of the body, then a large contingent traveled from the victim’s hometown to the workplace in Chang Le; dozens of personnel involved, and with the entire team numbering over a hundred, they shifted from one region to another and then moved the body to a new region. During this period, the expenses for fuel, vehicle, and travel fees accounted for a six-figure cost daily, even if nothing else was done.

And so many people following Jiang Yuan, being unable to return home for ten consecutive days, even if their morale was still high, gave Jiang Yuan, as the person in charge, a significant psychological burden.

Speaking of which, up to this point in the case, there had been little room for him to utilize his technical expertise.

Thus, when the opportunity for Image Enhancement arose, Jiang Yuan didn’t even hesitate to lever all the applicable skills.

The newly purchased computer emitted a robust hum, and its untouched fan, which likely never expected that its very first boot would require such an all-out effort, was quickly growing louder.

Starting from the area where Chen Nuan was too blurry to see, Jiang Yuan tried enhancing the image section by section.

At present, knowing Chen Nuan’s last known location and when her cell phone signal disappeared along with its approximate area, we can deduce... a range.

The different angles of the surveillance cameras gave too many varying images, and Image Enhancement is not about enhancing the entire picture; when you strengthen one part, you often have to give up another.

Jiang Yuan wasn’t playing with math; he just honestly started from the section where Chen Nuan disappeared and worked on the Image Enhancement, covering a distance of several hundred meters, only to see that the video’s sky had thoroughly darkened. Just when it seemed Image Enhancement was getting futile, he saw Chen Nuan enter a building.

Jiang Yuan immediately looked at the top right corner—the timestamp "19:12" was starkly apparent.

Calculating the time, in three more minutes, Chen Nuan’s cell phone signal would disappear. freewēbnoveℓ.com

"Sheng Hong Building." Jiang Yuan exhaled; this was where Chen Nuan had vanished.

Jiang Yuan took another sip of tea and glanced at the time in the bottom right corner, and in a trance, he realized it was already the afternoon.

"Chuanxing." Jiang Yuan opened the door and called out, to see the office outside already packed with people.

The office he occupied, whose department it belonged to he didn’t know, had an inner office that was not very large, about 10 square meters, with lots of frosted glass. The main office area with concrete partitions was a good hundred square meters and was now packed full, feeling like it contained one and a half times the number of the Cold Case Squad.

"Jiang Yuan." Lang Heng stood up to greet and then smiled, "The leader said not to disturb you, so we’re just checking out cases outside. How’s it going on your side?"

With not much EQ left, Jiang Yuan smiled briefly and went straight to the point, "Chen Nuan entered an apartment building, inside the Sheng Hong Building."

Lang Heng did not expect there to actually be results and he was quite surprised, saying, "I know that building... it’s quite complicated inside, with companies and business operators, some doing private kitchen businesses... I don’t know if they have installed surveillance in the elevators..."

As Lang Heng spoke, he quickly arranged for staff to investigate.

With that, the Special Case Team sprang into action. After being busy for a moment, Lang Heng introduced, "Near the Sheng Hong Building there’s a small business district, and the buildings in front are these twenty-plus-story mixed-use commercial and residential buildings. Owners bought some for personal use, while others have been rented out and modified into coffee shops, private kitchens, kindergartens, and the like, with small companies being the most numerous. Almost every week there’s a dispute report; it’s one of the most complex areas in our city."

"I’ll go take a look." Jiang Yuan could no longer sit still upon hearing this. There were many such mixed-use buildings in Ningtai County and Qinghe City; even his father in Jiang Fuzhen had bought quite a few but later began to gradually clear them out, as these mixed-use buildings were easy to lease but had a high tenant turnover rate, plus property management often preferred to create trouble. For yield, it was better to sell them all and buy entire commercial buildings.

Upon saying this, Jiang Yuan got up and departed.

The chief and others hesitated for just a moment, only to see the back of Jiang Yuan leaving.

"Should we start preparing the pigeon milk...?" An attendant from Xing Yue Building stood far off in the hallway, only to see a throng of people coming out, and hurriedly waited on them.

"Let’s wait to make it." The chief, reminded of the tale ’Drinking Warm Wine to Slay Hua Xiong’, felt a surge of poetic inspiration and casually called the publicity officer over to draft a statement on the spot.

The publicity officer was perplexed and quietly asked, "What if the case isn’t solved? What do we write then?"

The chief glanced at him indifferently: "Then we write it for Jiang Yuan and Huang Qiangmin to read."