538: Chapter 495: Co and Get the List 538: Chapter 495: Co and Get the List “Doctor Jiang, what do you think, is it too much?” The liaison sent by the Drug Enforcent Team was their squad leader, surnad Qian, a veteran in narcotics with an age over 50.
He had to put on glasses when looking at his cellphone and had a very kind appearance.
He was referring to the heap of various pieces of evidence on the conference table.
Jiang Yuan made himself a cup of coffee, placed it on the desk, and seed in no hurry as he said, “As long as the evidence is well-organized, the quantity doesn’t matter.”
“Should we start then?” the veteran in narcotics suggested with a hint of urging.
With so much stuff on the table, if they didn’t start soon, when would they finish?
Jiang Yuan saw this too, and with a smile, he agreed, but his eyes were still pondering over the task progress on the system interface.
The latest task progress had reached “405/X”, an increase of nearly 40 points.
More than half of it was because cases had been solved, with seven or eight points having co from treating guests yesterday.
Logically speaking, Jiang Yuan’s task progress would continue to rise as long as he kept working on cases and treating guests, but there had to be a limit.
Besides, he had no idea how the skills would be rewarded in the end.
Jiang Yuan held his coffee, sat in his chair pondering this, then glanced at the squad leader opposite him holding a cup of green tea, and asked, “Captain Qian, once I process the evidence here, I will liaise with you, right?
Will other mbers of the Drug Enforcent Team co over?”
“Under normal circumstances, they should not.” Captain Qian took a sip of tea and said, “You know, our confidentiality requirents are quite stringent.
Even if others do co, it would only be a few leaders.
You’ll mainly be liaising with .”
“So, I won’t be able to et the officers who collected this evidence?” Jiang Yuan continued to confirm.
Captain Qian humd in affirmation and then asked, “If you really want to et soone, give a reason, and I’ll report it to the higher-ups.
Would that be okay?”
He still seed quite approachable.
Jiang Yuan smiled and said, “Sure.” However, his real intention was to see if there were any more opportunities to receive “sincere praise.”
Since there weren’t, there was nothing more to say — it was ti to settle the task.
A thought crossed Jiang Yuan’s mind, and with a flick of his hand, the system interface flashed by.
Task completed: Sincere Praise
Task content: Earn the sincere praise of your peers
Task progress: 405/X
Task reward: Temporary skill level increase 1, lasts 405 minutes.
Cooldown 24 hours.
Jiang Yuan clicked his tongue.
This skill increase of 1, if used on a Level 6 skill, wouldn’t it grant Level 7 for 405 minutes?
It might sound like a trivial statent, but the potential for advancent was enough to frustrate many criminals to death.
Even rising from Level 4 to Level 5 or from Level 5 to Level 6 represented a qualitative leap.
Applying the sa effect to Wang Zhong would make him an elite in the police force.
Moreover, the skills acquired through legacy could also be temporarily enhanced with the skill 1.
Those Level 1 or Level 2 legacies, when raised by one level, imdiately beca much more attractive.
For instance, a Level 5 Dog Food skill, if temporarily raised, wouldn’t that reach Level 6 — a simple wave of the hand and the police dogs would have to beco obsequious.
Sitting in his chair, deeply imrsed in thought, Captain Qian was also contemplating Jiang Yuan.
With his years of experience, he had heard about the high demands of Huang Qiangmin, which was said to have even amused the squadron leader.
Now, as he observed Jiang Yuan’s expression and posture, Captain Qian thought: “Could it be he’s blown his own trumpet too much and has decided to give up?”
During this ti of observation, Wang Chuanxing, Tang Jia, and others gradually entered the room.
Jiang Yuan snapped back to attention, opened the laptop in front of him, and after so thought, said, “I’ll start with the fingerprints first.
You guys should first categorize the fingerprints and pick so out.”
The evidence and materials on the conference table were a ss, including photos, docunts, USB drives, hard drives, and laptops; it was all mixed up and definitely needed to be sorted again.
Besides not being allowed to take anything out, Captain Qian, who was sipping tea, was also there to guard the evidence.
Manpower is always a shortage in any police force, and only special task forces can be a bit more abundant.
Thus, until it’s ti to submit evidence, various clues form a pile of disorderly evidence, stored in either cabinets or piles, depending on the storage space of the unit.
Jiang Yuan began with the developed photos for review.
The photos ca with a USB drive, indicating their importance and priority were of the highest.
Many of these photos were from cri scenes, evident from the blood handprints and splatters.
Most of them had probably been matched already.
In the past, Jiang Yuan would have set them aside.
Fingerprints that had been compared but not matched were either not in the database or considered difficult cases.
Even if so evidence handlers had done a sloppy job, the fingerprints provided were at least screened carefully.
The difficulty was definitely higher.
If these prints were given to the Jiang Yuan of old, he would have had to compare each one ticulously before drawing a conclusion—an extrely inefficient approach.
It would be better to compare other fingerprints first.
Now, Jiang Yuan used the newly acquired skill, and a blue light flashed before his eyes:
Qingdao Single-Finger Fingerprint Analysis thod — Level 5 (Temporary)
Looking again at the fingerprints in front of him, Jiang Yuan saw that his judgnt had indeed moved up a notch, and his vision seed even clearer.
Jiang Yuan opened the USB accompanying the photos, quickly marked them, and threw them into the software’s background processing.
He set the software to select 30 candidate fingerprints at a ti.
If he didn’t see a match after one pass, he would give up on that fingerprint.
Compared to when he was at Fingerprint Analysis Level 3, Jiang Yuan’s current judgnt and confidence had greatly improved.
Back then, if he couldn’t get a print right on the first try, he would attempt it several tis, filtering from 20 candidate prints all the way up to 100 before considering giving up.
After acquiring Level 4 fingerprint analysis, the overall process was similar, but Jiang Yuan observed that when he filtered down to 100 fingerprints, the number was quite small.
Basically, after examining 50 fingerprints, he could almost determine whether there were missing fingerprints from the database or a problem with his own labeling and essentially co to a conclusion.
Now that he had reached Level 5, his judgnt ability beca even stronger.
Additionally, the synergy between various related skills had also noticeably improved.
When Jiang Yuan now looked at a fingerprint, he had a good sense of whether image enhancent was necessary and where it should be applied.
This ant that if he possessed Level 5 fingerprint skills, even if he did not master image enhancent himself, collaborating with an expert in image enhancent would produce very good results.
Of course, it wouldn’t be as good as if he did it himself.
The fingerprints sent over by the narcotics squad clearly had not been examined by any high-profile experts.
Perhaps they had been checked by experts around Level 2.9, or by soone with a rudintary Level 3, but even then not very ticulously.
Most of the fingerprints were ordinary ones; they really just forwarded all the prints they had collected recently.
Jiang Yuan didn’t bother with any special strategies this ti.
Ard with Level 5 fingerprint skills leading the charge, followed by Level 5 image enhancent, Level 3 Chongqing Single-Finger Fingerprint Analysis thod, and a bit of trace knowledge—for these unidentified fingerprints, it was like a sweeping force.
He went through the photos one by one, discarding so on the left, matching others on the right, and placing the difficult ones at the top.
There were inevitably so troubleso prints, but the pile of matched fingerprints on the right kept growing.
405 minutes is six hours and 45 minutes, roughly equivalent to a week’s work ti for a deputy head of a unit.
Such a long ti spent on scanning fingerprints—the ones simply photographed—wasn’t challenging enough.
Soon, Jiang Yuan’s printer began to clack out resus.
Captain Qian, having finished his tea, got up bored and ambled about, eventually strolling over to the printer to take a sheet of paper, and began to look at it unceremoniously.
It was all evidence and docunts from their narcotics squad, so naturally, he was free to peruse the output.
Then, Captain Qian couldn’t take his eyes off it.
“Are these…
all criminal suspects?” Captain Qian wasn’t surprised by the extensive criminal records on the resus, but the quantity was overwhelming.
He picked up the freshly printed stack of papers, gave it a quick glance, and saw at least thirty to forty sheets, one person per page—that was thirty to forty criminal suspects.
Looking at the specific records, it seed as though none of them would be wrongly arrested if they were apprehended.
Those at the bottom of the drug chain, either using or selling drugs, were typically habitual criminals—not unless they had escalated to a certain level would they opt for drug trafficking.
Likewise, those addicted to drugs, when it reached a certain stage, would definitely turn to cri; both drug use and trafficking complent and facilitate each other.
The fingerprints the narcotics squad had sent were mainly evidence collected in the past few days related to two drug-trafficking gangs.
The source of the evidence ca from information obtained from cases solved by Jiang Yuan and his team.
Besides the drug-making building in the city center being quiet, both drug-trafficking gangs had a massive number of peripheral mbers.
Moreover, the Huang Li Drug Trafficking Gang had been under surveillance earlier, therefore so fingerprints and other evidence had been collected.
However, this evidence was only identified within the narcotics squad.
They neither compared it worldwide nor was it certain to pass through top experts’ scrutiny.
In fact, except for homicide cases—and even including most homicide cases—evidence was simply processed by the team’s criminal squad, the criminal brigade, or the Criminal Science and Technology Center.
Experts’ ti was limited, and there were so many special case teams in the world.
Huang Qiangmin could bite people all over the world and go unchecked for a reason.
For soone like Captain Qian, when working on cases in the past and needing to compare fingerprints, he had to wait for identification and even occasionally bribe with a cigarette.
Old criminal investigators preferred to conduct sudden interrogations because they could be completed by themselves.
Fingerprinting, in those days, required so technical expertise.
Now, the narcotics squad’s technical capabilities were considered robust, but compared with Changyang City’s criminal investigation force or the provincial bureau’s capabilities, they naturally couldn’t match.
Jiang Yuan, in processing fingerprints this way, piling up criminal suspects batch by batch, Captain Qian had neither seen nor heard of such a thing before.
Looking around and seeing Wang Chuanxing and others unfazed, he decided to sit by the printer and flip through these “resus” one by one.
Addicts, released convicts, compulsory detoxification subjects, repeat drug offenders, violent criminals, economic criminals, white-collar workers with clean records but whose fingerprints were collected, juvenile offenders, civil servants…
People from all walks of life, condensed into a stack of paper, uncomfortably tainted.
Captain Qian felt that arresting the people in this stack of papers would an his trip hadn’t been in vain.
And the printer beside him kept chugging along, spitting out paper.
“Are all these matches from today?” Captain Qian clutched the stack in his hand and approached Jiang Yuan.
“Yes,” Jiang Yuan replied, barely lifting his head.
It was best not to waste temporarily enhanced abilities.
After a mont’s thought, Captain Qian confird again, “All from the evidence we sent over?”
“Yes.
The specific evidence numbers are all there,” Jiang Yuandao replied.
“Alright, I’ve got it.” Captain Qian stepped back quietly; he dared not leave the conference room, and it felt awkward to make a call in person, so he pulled out his phone and rapidly typed in the narcotics squad’s work group chat:
“Oh my god, Jiang Yuan has already singled out dozens of people.
Send soone over to pick up the list ASAP.”
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