National Forensic Doctor-Chapter 1179 - 1109 Fresh Corpse

Dai Mingsheng was sincere.

Due to the Lanyue Film and Television City, he often dealt with people in the film industry, so he quickly understood a principle: when playing mind games, you can never be as cunning as them. It’s not just that criminal police are less skillful; even the street con artists are no match. It’s better to be sincere.

Of course, Dai Mingsheng’s sincerity depended on the person.

For someone like Jiang Yuan, a revered figure, vetted and tested, carrying the aura of a Bodhisattva Arhat, Dai Mingsheng’s sincerity index skyrocketed. After mentioning the houses, he immediately took out his phone to show Jiang Yuan pictures of these houses.

While showing Jiang Yuan, Dai Mingsheng seriously said, "These apartments were reserved by our City Bureau specifically for the experts who come to support us. The furniture and appliances inside are fully equipped, the parking spaces downstairs, and the community greenery are all excellent. Household cleaning services can also be arranged. Captain Jiang, you can move in and stay as long as you like. Other tasks like cleaning can be left to others."

"Looks pretty good," Jiang Yuan said, giving his evaluation from a seasoned landlord’s perspective.

"They were all carefully selected..." Dai Mingsheng was also satisfied.

Shen Yaowei glanced over and commented, "Confiscated, right?"

"What nonsense!" Dai Mingsheng glared, then chuckled at Jiang Yuan and said, "These are our City Bureau’s own properties, akin to guesthouses. We often invite experts from all over to Lanyue City. Some experts might prefer cooking at home; some might bring their families; for long-term stays, our apartments are more comfortable than hotels..."

"I’ll just buy one myself. No need for your places," Jiang Yuan said, sending a WeChat message to his dad as he spoke.

Dai Mingsheng glared again, wanting to shout "What nonsense" once more, but he held back when he saw the "Dad" on Jiang Yuan’s WeChat.

With someone to call "Dad," how many people are willing to strive alone!

In Jiang Yuan’s Accumulated Case Team, those with partners were given holidays and took a break for four days. Those without partners assisted in the investigation, helping the Lanyue City Bureau solidify the case evidence.

Take the East Creek Lake corpse-burning case for example: the murder weapon Liu Chengming used, the car he drove, the ropes used to tie the victims, the channels for purchasing diesel, and the head thrown into the lake — all needed to be verified one by one, a very tedious process.

Liu Jinghui also burst out with great enthusiasm, deeply involved in the compilation of evidence, and once again exposed some of Liu Chengming’s lies, confirming Liu Chengming’s shopping trips, eliminating the possibility of a crime of passion, and turning it into premeditated murder, punishable by immediate execution.

If not for Mrs. Liu forcibly dragging Liu Jinghui away, he probably would have persisted until the submission was completed.

Monday.

Jiang Yuan’s Accumulated Case Team resumed work.

Most partners were sent back.

Jiang Yuan and Liu Jinghui conscientiously sat in front of their computers, starting to review the files.

Dai Mingsheng spent a lot of the budget on a big team-building event for the members of Jiang Yuan’s Accumulated Case Team, and his intentions were clear. Even Huang Qiangmin approved of his methods.

Even the Lanyue City Criminal Police Team members were happy to have Dai Mingsheng entertain Jiang Yuan and the others.

The budget is from the state, originally intended for solving cases; savings can’t be distributed personally. Yet everyone’s bonuses increased substantially, and rest time was genuinely implemented. Importantly, the high-profile cases that the top were concerned about were also solved without delay, making it a win-win situation. Even if it were West Lake vinegar fish, it’s only bound to get praise.

Dai Mingsheng placed a case of a decomposed corpse at the top of the file stack.

Jiang Yuan and Liu Jinghui read through it together. After a while, they looked up and exchanged glances, then turned their gaze toward Huang Qiangmin.

"This is a current case, just discovered?" Liu Jinghui pointed out, his eyes still on Huang Qiangmin’s face.

Huang Qiangmin came over, cleared his throat, and said, "I talked with Dai Zhi about it. Dai Zhi is indeed under quite a bit of pressure."

Dai Mingsheng sighed and said, "People are restrained by their circumstances. Here in Lanyue City, the number of cases is relatively high in the country. The locals have fiery tempers and are shrewd; the economy has been good in recent years, resulting in a high rate of homicides that ranks nationally."

"There’s also a large population," Liu Jinghui added.

"That’s right," Dai Mingsheng smiled and said, "While unsolved cases are challenging, if current cases pile up, they eventually become unsolved cases. It’s better to solve a few more current cases while you’re here, so we can have a bit of a breather. Moreover, although this recent discovery of a decomposition case is fresh, the condition at the scene shows it’s quite challenging. If Captain Jiang could take it on, that would be best."

Liu Jinghui clicked his tongue twice, "No wonder Lanyue folks have deep pockets..."

Exactly how Huang Qiangmin and Dai Mingsheng negotiated, Liu Jinghui didn’t know, but he believed with Huang Qiangmin’s appetite, it was impossible to only chew on one dimension; the frequency or number of cases was likely an important consideration.

However, Lanyue City’s fiscal situation was not on the same level as Ningtai County or even Changyang City.

Dai Mingsheng had always operated in a mode of seeking external help. His Lanyue City Criminal Police Team was never large, but Lanyue City’s homicide rate remained high, due to various factors.

In small towns like Ningtai County, there are just over a dozen unnatural deaths per year, with possibly one or two homicides. In Lanyue, a district might have double-digit homicides, with over 200 unnatural deaths in the central city annually, and more than 20 or 30 homicides wouldn’t be surprising. Although most are still crimes of passion that don’t require investigation, various murders or unexplained corpse abandonments are still inevitable.

And each murder and corpse abandonment is not easy to crack.

Especially drowning cases, cases involving decomposed corpses in the wild, all belong to very difficult cases. When luck is good, you might blow the case wide open; when not, it could consume a lot of manpower and materials.

And precisely because Dai Mingsheng’s business capability is not strong, his understanding of the difficulty of such cases is very clear.

The type of cases that might incur huge costs, and in the end require external assistance, perhaps even top-notch external assistance—such judgments, on the contrary, Dai Mingsheng is quite adept at.

Sometimes a current homicide case might be solved by inviting some good external assistance; when they didn’t want to spend, the case dragged on, revealing difficulties in breaking it; if then they try to invite even generally good external assistance, they might not be able to. Even if they have the ability to solve it, if the difficulty is too high, external assistance may still back out.

In the end, the savings at the start do not manifest, but the waste later on is unavoidable.

Dai Mingsheng actually quite likes Huang Qiangmin; both are captains with average skill, just one has money, and one lacks funding, really a match made in heaven.

Dai Mingsheng saw Jiang Yuan did not oppose taking on the current decomposed corpse case, and immediately struck while the iron was hot: "Then let’s go to the scene, I have already had someone protect the place."

"Let’s go then." Jiang Yuan quite liked his forensic doctor identity, immediately started to gather his equipment and arranged for the kitchen to stew beef brisket.

The decomposed corpse is highly likely to be examined at the scene because they usually belong to the collapsed building type, and once brought back, their appearance certainly changes, some surface inspections are also difficult to perform. Thus this morgue visit will likely be more arduous, lunch must be adequately arranged.

Jiang Yuan led a team of technicians, taking an hour to arrive at Lanyue City’s... Film and Television City.

Film City’s chairman Yue Hongxu, vice president Dong Xifeng, and others stood by the roadside early, wearing bitter expressions as they watched Jiang Yuan and others who had not long temporarily parted.

Colorful flags fluttered, slender girls tugged at the heart of middle-aged men.

"Captain Jiang, you’re here." Yue Hongxu stepped forward to greet.

Jiang Yuan roughly knew their thoughts but didn’t care, only asked, "Do you know the identity of the deceased?"

"Us? We don’t know." Yue Hongxu shook his head.

Vice President Dong Xifeng hurried forward, saying, "Captain Jiang, I have let people self-check once over, at least special guest actors and above are basically here. However, now some stars’ agents see everyone as crazed fans, could be some who don’t tell the truth."

His words were as if he hadn’t spoken at all.

Jiang Yuan didn’t expect to get any information from him, leaving Shen Yaowei behind to chat, then took people to view the corpse.

The corpse was only a few hundred meters from the far edge of the Film City, but since the Film City itself was very remote, edge buildings were sparsely used, this few hundred meters of wildland had already blocked most people.

"How was it discovered?" Jiang Yuan walked in dirt with deep and shallow steps.

"A couple having outdoor sex discovered it." Wei Shikan reported enthusiastically, bypassing team leader Jian Louyuan, actively reporting: "The woman is a minor actress, played many supporting roles of that kind. The man is a club male model."

"Nowadays people don’t hide?" Liu Jinghui wiped sweat, feeling his age couldn’t keep up.

"Hid indeed." Wei Shikan laughed heartily, "The man claimed to be a model, but couldn’t name any works, attended what activities, ended up being a crowd actor. Then by checking hotel records and stuff, the truth was uncovered."

"This wildland is hard to traverse, average folks would pick somewhere with good transportation for outdoor activities, right?" Jiang Yuan recalled Ningtai County’s car shock hotspot Siningshan, beautiful scenery, sparsely populated, convenient parking, easy for exploration and adventure.

"I asked them." Wei Shikan seriously replied, "They said they are public figures, outdoor activities can only be in more remote spots."

Liu Jinghui least appreciated such illogical language, couldn’t help but criticize: "Remoter places don’t necessarily mean bad transport areas. The grass here is so long, isn’t that actress afraid of her legs getting scratched?"

"The two wore hiking outfits." Wei Shikan answered.

"Search the surroundings later, the murderer might not be dressed that appropriately." Liu Jinghui reminded.

Jiang Yuan nodded.

While talking, a few people reached the fresh decomposed corpse at the foot of the mountain.

The not so strong smell wafted with the breeze, intermittently.

Compared to the more common decomposed corpses Jiang Yuan saw, this belongs to current fresh decomposed ones. Not to mention the teeming masses of wriggling white larvae flipping on the corpse, evoking a sense of long-lost reunion.

Jiang Yuan stared at the decomposed corpse for quite a while, then turned to Wang Chuanxing.

Wang Chuanxing stood solemnly.

Jiang Yuan thought and said, "Let’s add a fish head tofu soup for lunch, and fry some clams, haven’t had them for a long time."