Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 476 Unable to control the urge to take action

Keshi City Public Security Bureau, Forensic Laboratory.

With Wang Hao's support, Zhu Li and the others were able to enter the room smoothly. Led by the young male forensic doctor Tursunjiang, the group headed straight for the autopsy room.

As they walked, Julie looked around with some envy: "Tursunjan, you call this a county-level city, but it's actually a branch bureau. The facilities here are almost as good as our city bureau. Tsk tsk, they even have ice coffins for storing corpses!"

"Don't we have any in our department?" It was Chen Shu's first time entering the autopsy room, and he felt that the atmosphere and environment inside were not as scary as he had imagined.

Julie said with some regret, "Hehe, the Criminal Investigation Department's office building is tiny. We rented a room in the funeral home to set up the autopsy room. We had to borrow their ice coffins, shower rooms, and ventilation equipment. There was no other way; we had to hire someone to maintain all of these things. Compared to how often we only used them once or twice a month, it was too expensive."

"I remember the funeral home is quite far from your criminal investigation unit, so it must be quite inconvenient for work."

"As long as you avoid rush hour, it's fine. They're all in the same district, not too far apart. Easy parking is the most important thing." Julie smiled slightly and gave her colleagues a knowing look. "Equipment and conditions don't matter. We're not picky about the bodies anyway. What do you think, forensic pathologist?"

Chen Shu smiled and chimed in, "Your doctor-patient relationship is the most harmonious."

Tursunjan scratched his head sheepishly: "These were all just provided last year, thanks to the sponsorship from Brother Hao's bureau."

Money really does work everywhere. It's no wonder Wang Hao has such a big reputation. Everyone else is a police officer who came to help, but he gets the treatment of a bureau-level officer wherever he goes.

Everyone turned around and paid their respects to Wang Haoxing, who was following behind in a low-key manner.

Wang Hao spread his hands in front of him and smiled frankly: "It's common knowledge across the country that Shenchuan is rich. Otherwise, I wouldn't have traveled all the way from Northeast China to that place to take the police exam. Tsk tsk, but it's definitely fiercely competitive."

"How does this 'involution' work?" Jiang Hai, a prospective police officer who had just been admitted to the police academy, was quite curious.

Wang Hao chuckled: "My family is poor, so I went there for the high salaries. I didn't initially plan to become a policeman; I went to a local middle school first, since teaching has been my childhood dream."

"I didn't expect to find that all the applicants were PhDs when I applied. I wondered if I, a master's graduate from a bottom-tier 985 university, would even have a chance for an interview."
"Sure enough, after a year of going around in circles, I still hadn't gotten an interview. A friend told me that being a police officer was the easiest job to get into within the system, so I just passed the exam and got into a police station."

"Brother Hao, you have a master's degree and you're still assigned to a police station?" Jiang Hai was shocked.

Apart from Jiang Hai, everyone present was a veteran police officer who had worked in the public security system for many years and was quite knowledgeable. However, upon hearing that Wang Hao, who had a postgraduate degree, had also been assigned to a police station, they deeply felt the severity of the intense competition in the Shenchuan police station.

For example, the Public Security Bureau of Keshi City, where Tursunjan works, directly recruits police officers without examination as long as they are full-time undergraduate graduates from second-tier universities. Master's degree holders? As long as they are willing to come, their bureau dares to give them substantive positions and good benefits.

The Dongzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, where Chen Shu works, isn't quite that extreme, but they still wouldn't send a master's graduate to a police station for grassroots work—that would be a waste of talent. Usually, they're assigned to the municipal bureau, or at the very least, given a position in a branch office—they'll eventually have to move to the municipal bureau.

Jiang Hai's Donghai Provincial Police Academy has been working tirelessly for the past six months, with all its thousands of staff working overtime to apply for the institution to be authorized to grant postgraduate degrees.

All of the above demonstrates how valuable graduate students are to the public security system.

Seeing this, Wang Hao smiled slightly and said with emotion, "When I first entered the police station, I was actually a little dissatisfied, but after seeing you top students from the People's Public Security University working at the grassroots level with your butts sticking out like me, I calmed down."

The People's Public Security University, as the top university in the domestic public security education system, has a postdoctoral research station and a doctoral degree authorization point. Its college entrance examination admission scores have been approaching those of the top 985 universities in recent years, making it a mecca for students from all over the country who aspire to become police officers.

Jiang Hai was shocked upon hearing this, his face full of disbelief: "Even students from the Public Security Bureau go to the police station?"

Tursunjan hesitated for a moment, then interjected, "Brother Hao, why don't you come work for us? We'll give you a deputy section chief position." Wang Hao patted Tursunjan's shoulder with a smile and joked, "Little Tu, don't even mention how quitting your job is harder than taking the exam here. Back when I was browsing the QZZN forum, all the posts were about getting a job and getting good pay, but here the posts were about how to quit your job."

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The group chatted as they entered the dissection room, which was brightly lit with large, white tiles on the floor and small, white tiles on the walls. To the right of the entrance was a washbasin and a long row of stainless steel cabinets; without a closer look, it could be mistaken for an ordinary home kitchen.

In the center was a stainless steel dissection table with a bulging body bag on it, which must have contained something.

The outgoing Wang Haohun acted as if he were one of the family. He stepped forward and pulled open the body bag. A burnt smell wafted out, and before him lay a half-blackened, half-charred corpse. All the hair and clothing had been burned off, and most of the skin on the body had been charred and peeled off, leaving it curled up.

"Huh? Where's your master?" Wang Hao asked.

"He went to a meeting in Urumqi. I'm the only one working here now. Sigh, there's been no progress at all. I'm going to get in trouble with Captain Zhao soon." Tursunjan said dejectedly.

"It's okay. You just graduated from university, so it's normal to not have work experience. Why don't we leave it for now and check it when your mentor comes back?"

"I really don't know where to start. I don't even know how I've been learning from my master these past few months. When he was here, I at least knew what to do. But as soon as he left, I was completely lost and didn't know what to do. Sigh, I don't know how to explain this to Captain Zhao when he comes over later."

"Alright, alright, it's nothing. Let's lift the body down first and put this thing in the coffin. It's too creepy to leave it outside."

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Then why are you in such a hurry to open it? Everyone should be ashamed.

Julie, who hadn't spoken since entering, suddenly lit up at the sight of the corpse. She breathed a soft sigh of relief and strode toward the dissection table, practically leaping onto it.

A blurry figure was curled up in the middle of the bed. Upon closer inspection, two empty eye sockets could be seen on the head, and a triangular hole remained on the burned bridge of the nose, with teeth exposed one by one without the cover of lips.

Julie beckoned to Chen Shu with her small hand, and the two of them tried to straighten the corpse with their bare hands, but they couldn't manage it after a long time.

Afterwards, Chen Shu took a few wet wipes from the table next to him and handed them over, feeling somewhat impressed by Zhu Li's work ethic as a second-generation official.

“First, we need to determine whether the person was burned alive or cremated after death. Fortunately, the burning wasn’t very thorough; it’s probably in the early stages of carbonization, so we can still find a lot of information!” Julie said, her hands resting on the edge of the bed, her eyes fixed intently on the half-charred corpse on the bed.

Tursunjan was immediately taken aback. He habitually reached into his chest pocket for his notebook and pen, and prepared to begin studying with a serious expression.

Chen Shu was taken aback, looking at Zhu Li who had taken the initiative, and a different feeling arose in his heart. He glanced at Wang Hao, who was also standing to the side, and saw that the other party also had a shocked expression.

That said, it's a bit incongruous to see such a beautiful girl doing autopsy work. Especially her big, bright eyes, staring intently at the corpse as if it were a priceless treasure—it's a sight too painful to look at.

What does Julie herself think?

She probably didn't experience the emotional turmoil that an ordinary girl would have upon encountering a corpse; at most, she just couldn't control the urge to take action.

(End of this chapter)