National Forensic Doctor

Chapter 1317: Chapter 1243: Turbulent Storm Clouds

"Oh, suddenly I feel all stirred up!"

Li Guangnian rubbed Shen Changfeng’s neck, speaking with much emotion, "Rainy night killings, there have been three victims, the killer’s methods are brutal, and they have a strong anti-investigation awareness. The bodies found so far are all in a state of decomposition, Director Jiang himself has not participated in the first autopsy, yet... but..."

Shen Changfeng, having been trained by his captain for years, immediately called out reflexively, "Yes, yes, stirred up! Emotions have become agitated."

"Then stay here and accompany Director Jiang, quickly help with whatever needs to be done, and handle any connections needed," Li Guangnian quickly issued a string of commands.

"Yes." Shen Changfeng habitually undertook the tasks without a slightest bargain.

"Director Jiang, we’ll go investigate the situation in the days before the victim’s death." Li Guangnian smiled and said his farewell.

"Make sure to pay attention to his surrounding people’s occupations. Especially those who might come in contact with various knives, and their hobbies should also be noted." Jiang Yuan reminded.

"I understand. Nowadays, some people like to play with knives and guns, just like some otakus who can’t understand Gundam and start buying Frostmourne, what Warcraft peripherals are good to buy..." Li Guangnian said a few words, waved his hand, and left.

Cui Qishan and the others also gradually left.

Once Shen Changfeng and the others left, the room was left with only Jiang Yuan, Miao Ruixiang, Mu Zhiyang, Wen Ming, and a corpse, Shen spoke quietly, "Our captain really admires Director Jiang, he used to talk about your stories before he had the chance to meet you, and now he met you, he’s especially excited..."

"I could tell, he seems to hit you quite hard." Mu Zhiyang closed the door of the dissection room and had the space to make a jibe.

Shen Changfeng hurriedly said, "Looks painful, but actually not that painful, and all familiar places, all got used to it."

"This can be considered workplace bullying." Mu Zhiyang said.

Shen Changfeng quickly shook his head, "No, our captain is a post-80s, an old Otaku, he does things according to the template of Akagi Gangai, in fact, he’s quite nice to me."

Mu Zhiyang pursed his lips, "You should resist when you need to."

Miao Ruixiang next to them asked curiously, "What is Akagi Gangai?"

"A character from the manga ’Slam Dunk.’" Shen Changfeng explained.

Miao Ruixiang expressed understanding, "In ’Slam Dunk,’ what is it about?"

...

When Jiang Yuan performed the first autopsy on the male corpse, he took out all photos involving wounds and placed them in front to read them carefully.

In murder investigations, the weapon is always of utmost importance, Jiang Yuan, when he was younger, faced such tight funding in Ningtai County, Huang Qiangmin would drain the small river to find the weapon, Shen Yaowei also once searched through heaps of garbage to find it.

A murder case is not clear just because police say it is, how can you say it’s clear without finding the weapon!

Especially during submission to inspection, during the court phase, the absence of a weapon represents two different circumstances. Not to mention domestically, taking the USA for example, without the weapon, how do you ensure that American police didn’t use the Great Recovery Technique, how do you ensure the suspect wasn’t tortured? How do you ensure the foolish American police wouldn’t make investigation errors, wouldn’t make mistakes substituting one for another?

Of course, having a weapon doesn’t necessarily prove everything, it requires a chain of numerous pieces of evidence, including the weapon, to prove the case.

In murder investigations, the weapon often acts as a key, especially in such chaotic situations, with many traces on the corpse washed away by rainwater, the night and suburbs also hinder surveillance, at this time, finding the weapon would naturally bring a series of clues.

Especially with this male corpse, when Jiang Yuan realized the wounds weren’t caused by professional-grade blades, he already decided to try finding the weapon.

By professional-grade blades, Jiang Yuan actually meant ordinary blades, more likely ordinary blades owned by professionals rather than professional-grade blades owned by ordinary people.

For Jiang Yuan, who possesses "Trace Examination-Tool Mark Examination (LV6)," this was the easiest clue to investigate further.

Although the wounds made by the killer were not easily resembling the shape of the weapon due to interference, it wouldn’t be more than LV3 to LV4 difficulty. If it’s a single autopsy, using methods like injection or scanning, Jiang Yuan estimated it could be a LV3 great accomplishment, paired with a max-level LV2 unit with funding, basically an approximate conclusion could be reached.

Unfortunately, the first autopsy was handled by Shen Changfeng.

This is no surprise, even East Birch City isn’t much better than Qinghe City, when Jiang Yuan is not in Ningtai County, the local forensic doctor was either Miao Ruixiang or Wu Jun, similarly, circumstances aren’t much better there.

Pathological autopsies aren’t hard themselves, once nausea and vomiting problems are tackled, ordinary forensic science grads get proficient in about a year and a half of practice, daily post-mortem reports can be written fluently. The key is murder cases are hard to find, serial killers even rarer.

Even though Shen Changfeng dreams of encountering a major case in his dreams, dealing with it swiftly and receiving applause from colleagues and otaku, his daily work involves car accident deaths, suicide deaths, accidental deaths, which means his entire career operates like a cog in society, suddenly, a slightly decayed corpse appeared before him...

Expecting Shen Changfeng to make judgements was already challenging, expecting him to cover all bases would be unrealistic.

Fortunately, Shen Changfeng’s basic operations were standardized, photos were taken where necessary, and post-mortem examinations were video-recorded from start to finish. A benefit of young people who graduate from technical schools, especially from good schools, regardless of how fervent inside, they can always maintain poise and finish basic tasks.

However, expecting him to deduce the weapon’s shape from the wound shape shouldn’t be demanded from any forensic doctor. noveldrama

A typical forensic doctor needs 10,000 hours to develop a LV3 skill, but today’s corpse requires deducing the weapon shape, tomorrow’s corpse needs skull restoration, and the day after tomorrow’s corpse calls for forensic anthropology, how could grassroots units have such people.

Aside from Jiang Yuan and various Eight Tigers.

As for the experts following from East Birch City, there should be one with a tool assessment level above LV3, or they wouldn’t be called experts. However, tool assessment difficulty for this corpse was high to begin with, and the difficulty of second autopsies increased even more, combined with decomposition factors, even significantly LV4 could be less effective.

Yet, these weren’t difficult for Jiang Yuan.

Besides LV6 Trace Examination-Tool Mark Examination, Jiang Yuan also had LV4 Skull Restoration Skill, LV5 Image Enhancement Technology, LV5 Image Recognition and Analysis, the latter three involving modeling, far more complex than assessing a weapon.

He could handle all those tasks, but the steps required shouldn’t be skipped.

Jiang Yuan first needed to screen the photos, not only those involving wounds but also considering lens and distortion control—Shen Changfeng managed to complete the photo task calmly, which is commendable, but still some way from LV2 Crime Photography.

After screening the photos and evaluating them for quality, Jiang Yuan then undertook data calibration for the necessary photos, calculating actual length corresponding to each pixel, and finally choosing a reference point to align multi-angle photos spatially.

When performing this step, Jiang Yuan used Agisoft-Metashape.

It was during this step a child studying hard and eagerly taking notes beside him quietly sighed.

Until Jiang Yuan began two-dimensional feature extraction, commenced parameter modeling, then opened ImageJ, analyzing tissue tear direction to reconstruct stirred trajectories, Shen Changfeng broke into laughter.