National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 365 - 365 332 Hell-level Combined Harvester

365: Chapter 332: Hell-level Combined Harvester 365: Chapter 332: Hell-level Combined Harvester As the murder case remained unsolved, and they were starting a new case, the young detectives of Jiang Yuan’s Cold Case Squad were immediately thrilled.

For middle-aged and older detectives like Meng Chengbiao, the pressure of continuous combat was a bit overwhelming, especially with the mountainous paperwork from old cases still pending.

Investigating a “gang” on top of that made them feel like pulling their hair out.

But for the young detectives in Jiang Yuan’s Cold Case Squad, they weren’t afraid of having too many cases; they feared accumulating more and more cases without solving them.

With murder cases being solved like bamboo shoots being swiftly devoured, everyone was more than willing to take on a few more cases, without any resistance.

The current situation was, in fact, more akin to high-level accounts power-leveling the low-levels in a game.

While the novices kept busy running around and looting, who wouldn’t welcome the bonus of extra experience points from the veterans?

The situation was now quite clear.

If anyone thought the workload of Jiang Yuan’s Accumulated Case Team was too demanding and wanted to transfer out, it would only take a word to secure a better position.

But who would actually do that?

Zhang Xiang was still in the interrogation room, and on the desks of Jiang Yuan’s Cold Case Squad, the files of “Qing Shui Jian Yuan Pharmaceutical Parking Lot Security” had already been laid out.

“As it stands, we have a total of 18 current staff, led by the head of security, Bian Benwu.

There have likely been another twenty or thirty people who’ve worked in this role previously.

Additionally, these 18 individuals are each followed by a few underlings, some with one or two, others with two or three,” Wang Chuanxing and Tang Jia quickly summarized the gathered materials.

The young detectives in the squad, adept at their duties, did not need specific instructions from Jiang Yuan and immediately began investigating along their proficient avenues.

In a matter of two hours, they had assembled a comprehensive list of names.

Some obtained the current active roster of 18 people and a longer list of former staff from external intelligence.

Others checked Jianyuan’s social security records, and still others scoured various WeChat groups, pulling out members from a “parking lot resource sharing” group they all belonged to, which also added up to 18 people, matching the lists gathered by others.

After hearing their overview, Jiang Yuan asked, “Good, can we extract any information from their chat records?”

“Yes, and quite a bit at that.

We’re already sorting through it,” Tang Jia replied.

Wang Chuanxing said, “They’ve had numerous conflicts with former employees, some of which were reported to the police.

Most ended in settlements, but a few went into criminal proceedings.

From what I’ve seen, instances involving weapons are rare; most clashes involve fistfights and kicks, with minor injuries at most reaching a second-degree level.”

“So, they’ve essentially bred a group of thugs,” Tang Jia offered a summary judgment.

Jiang Yuan glanced over at Shen Yaoguo.

With Zhang Xiang’s interrogation not yet concluded, Shen Yaoguo was somewhat anxious, and feeling the heat from Jiang Yuan’s gaze, he couldn’t help but defend himself, “Jianyuan is a factory with tens of thousands of employees, constantly expanding in phases one, two, and three.

It’s natural for such a place to be rife with conflicts; it would be abnormal if there were no fights.”

Shen Yaoguo detailed to Jiang Yuan, “For a factory like Jianyuan Pharmaceutical, the workers have no formal job positions.

This means that every day hundreds are leaving and hundreds are joining the workforce.

At peak times, this could be in the thousands.

With such high turnover, conflicts are bound to arise.”

“Their factory area has now extended right up to the edge of a village.

The village land was requisitioned, so villagers either work in the factory or set up small businesses nearby.

Everyone wants to make money from the thousands of factory workers, so how could conflicts not erupt?”

“Moreover, Jianyuan Pharmaceutical employs female workers, and not an insignificant number, mostly around 20 years old.

With young men and women mixed together, jealous squabbles and brawls are inevitable.

Why else would they need parking lot security?

Even parking a car can lead to a brawl.”

“Beyond that, impatient truck drivers with road rage, refusals to load and unload goods due to dissatisfaction with parking spots, the variance in quality of materials delivered by logistics, with all the good and bad products—it’s really a lot to handle when the place is so big…”

“Finally, the most important point is that Jianyuan is based in Qinghe City.

Although they also have units in Changyang City, I basically can’t control them.”

After explaining for a while, Shen Yaoguo added, “Of course, I don’t condone their methods.

Jianyuan’s approach definitely needs to be dealt with.”

“I’ll communicate with the folks over in Qinghe,” Yu Wenshu chimed in at the right moment, making his presence felt.

Jiang Yuan nodded, also feeling quite bothered.

After thinking for a while, he comforted himself, “No big deal.

For those with issues, let’s first lock them up.

Once they’re inside, we can question them in detail.”

Jiang Yuan now had a prejudice against Jianyuan Pharmaceutical.

A small factory where several deaths had occurred was now also associated with this systemic gang of thugs.

Regarding what were called parking lot bodyguards, if any were involved in criminal cases, Jiang Yuan was prepared to send them all in.

Once locked up, they would be repeatedly interrogated, evidence sought, and cases could potentially be cracked more swiftly than through direct investigation.

This was originally one method, even a primary method, of breaking through cold cases.

Particularly in the criminal investigation departments of county towns, there were few detectives with the capacity to follow the evidence from one case to the next, let alone consider the level of exhaustion—detectives like Jiang Yuan were scarce.

Only someone like Jiang Yuan, a hellish, multi-tasking combine harvester with an array of Level 4, Level 5, and even Level 6 skills, supplemented by an abundance of Level 3 skills, could methodically unravel cases.

In the case of others, not to mention a county bureau like Ningtai County’s, even in Qinghe City, being able to count a Level 5 expert would mean having a supersoldier emerging from the hinterlands.

A joint harvesting operation would be out of the question.

However, the county bureau also has a need to solve cold cases, so what to do?

Sometimes they just follow the people to find the cases.

Like with petty thieves and brawlers, especially those who come from outside the area with no local ties, if they commit a crime, they will definitely be scrutinized for any past cases.

The most powerful era of pretrial investigations was the time before fingerprints and DNA became widespread; most cold cases were solved through pretrial digging.

But after the advent of DNA, the value of pretrial investigations greatly decreased, and many criminals were identified with a simple run through the database.

Jiang Yuan prepared to go through a wave of cold cases targeting the security guards at Jianyuan Pharmaceutical, and Yu Wenshu and the others thought it was normal.

Actually, looking at the records, one could tell that this group of people were those who skirted the edge of the law year-round.

The likelihood of them crossing the line was very high; it was just a matter of how to secure the evidence.

Those who have been mixed up in society for a long time are experts at playing the wind; without sufficient evidence, they won’t easily confess.

Just like Zhang Xiang in the interrogation room, he only confessed to the things he couldn’t escape from; if he could get away with it, he would resolutely keep silent.

Even if he confessed to murder, he wouldn’t spill everything about the smaller crimes, making him a very troublesome criminal to deal with.

Now it was just a matter of seeing if the rest were all tough nuts to crack.

The members of the Cold Case Squad completed their reports and each chose a clue or a case to work on.

They went off on their own without Jiang Yuan having to arrange anything, which could be considered exemplary self-motivation.

Jiang Yuan felt comfortable, and so did the team members.

Actually, everyone hoped for some autonomy.

If Jiang Yuan manipulated the entire Cold Case Squad as easily as his own arm, it would not be a problem either; the team members would still cooperate very well, but it would just mean more work for Jiang Yuan.

Before long, a clever young man came forward with a bunch of fingerprints from assault cases.

These were fingerprints involved in cases near Jianyuan Pharmaceutical.

Jiang Yuan took them and thought, well, no need to bother with provincial databases, city databases, or national ones; he directly compared the fingerprints of the security guards at Jianyuan’s parking lot.

Jianyuan is a big company with registered security guards who had their fingerprints taken.

Naturally, these 18 tough guys had mostly been to the police station before, leaving their fingerprint records everywhere.

But the fingerprints of their underlings and retired security guards were not completely collected.

Jiang Yuan didn’t care about that; he first looked over the fingerprints he had found, then took the fingerprints from the cases to review them one by one.

If he felt there was a similarity, he would go back and check the fingerprints again.

This method even skipped marking the minutiae points.

Marking minutiae points is something done for computers; when human beings look at fingerprints, this step isn’t needed.

Whether two fingerprints are similar or not, the brain will naturally make a judgment.

With this approach, Jiang Yuan’s speed in reviewing fingerprints became even faster, and in just a short time, he had narrowed down three cases.

“What a shame, only these three fingerprints match,” Jiang Yuan shook his head.

Yu Wenshu, who had only stepped out to make a few phone calls, returned to find Jiang Yuan had finished reviewing the fingerprints and paused to ask, “Matched three fingerprints?”

“I compared the fingerprints directly with those of the suspects,” replied Jiang Yuan.

“That works,” Yu Wenshu’s eyes sharpened, “At least it proves one thing, this little gang is not clean.

Well…

Shen, how about we join forces and take down this parking lot security team all at once?”

Eighteen people, along with their underlings and an uncertain number of former members—to arrest such a group would normally require several hundred people.

Even the Criminal Police Brigade would feel short-staffed, but it would be manageable with the help of the Public Security Brigade.

Shen Yaoguo was surprised by Yu Wenshu’s decisiveness and couldn’t help but say, “Under what pretense?

Normally, shouldn’t we investigate first, set up a defense, and then make arrests?”

“They’re not the target, just a bunch of small fry.

Even if one or two escape, it doesn’t matter; the focus is on what to do after the people are caught.”

“Without evidence, you can’t hold them for long.

Jianyuan Pharmaceutical is bound to react.”

Yu Wenshu knew very well that Shen Yaoguo still didn’t understand Jiang Yuan’s forcefulness.

He gestured to Jiang Yuan and said, “How long did it take Jiang Yuan to work on a murder cold case?

These people aren’t that cautious, but if we don’t catch them all at once, by the time Jiang Yuan gathers the evidence, they might have already run away.”

Shen Yaoguo looked at Jiang Yuan.

The hell-level combine harvester laughed slightly, as if he were radiating fire from his body.