I Play Dungeons in the Police Station

Chapter 443 - 266: Zhou Jian’s Admiration

"Wow, Captain Li, you’re here so early today. I haven’t seen you for a week. Come on, tell us, where have you been this past week?"

Early in the morning, Ji Huanhuan walked into the office and saw Li Xiang sitting there.

That’s unusual. Li Xiang hadn’t been seen all week, so how come he’s in the office first thing today?

"Huanhuan, you’re out of line. Does our captain need to report his whereabouts to you? Who are you to him?"

"He Wenqiu, are you looking to die? Daring to joke with me like that?"

Lately, the team has been spending every day together, and they’re quite familiar with each other, so joking around has become common.

This fills the office with banter and energy.

"Have you seen Zhou Jian?"

"He should be here soon. I saw him heading to the cafeteria to eat."

Speaking of eating, Li Xiang’s stomach growled loudly, not having eaten all night, it was already empty and hungry.

Ji Huanhuan, standing nearby, heard it clearly and chuckled, "Haven’t had breakfast yet, huh? Let me get you something. Do you want buns or shumai?"

"Can I have both?"

"No problem, just wait."

Ji Huanhuan left the office to get breakfast for Li Xiang. Just as she reached the door, she saw Zhou Jian, "Zhou Jian, Captain Li was just looking for you."

"Looking for me, where?"

Being sought out by the missing-for-a-week Li Xiang surprised Zhou Jian. Thinking it must be something important, he quickly asked.

"He’s in the office, you better go check it out."

"Okay."

Zhou Jian went to the office and saw Li Xiang sitting there, "Captain Li, you’re looking for me?"

"Yes, how’s the progress on that headless body case?"

"Progress is slow. The police’s facial recognition system is too inefficient. We have to manually sift through the results it produces. Lately, we’ve been looking at so many photos we’re becoming face blind."

The team has been comparing digitally reconstructed victim photos with the outdated facial recognition system, which only gives a 60-70% similarity. The system produces hundreds of thousands of people who resemble the victim.

Finding the true victim among these is incredibly difficult.

Everyone’s faces look the same; saying we’re face-blind isn’t an exaggeration at all.

Some of our female colleagues even feel they resemble the victim when they look in the mirror at night.

"That facial recognition system optimization you talked about last week, I managed to complete it. Want to take a look?"

"What?"

Li Xiang nonchalantly dropped a bombshell that completely stunned Zhou Jian.

In just one week, Li Xiang optimized the facial recognition system? How is that possible?

Transitioning from a feature phone to a smartphone isn’t just a matter of changing appearances.

In one week, you can only change the software’s skin, tweak the UI, and swap an icon. Optimizing the software seems impossible.

Moreover, Zhou Jian understands the gap between the old and new systems isn’t just a simple optimization; it’s a version upgrade requiring a complete rewrite of the underlying code. A task not possible for even a hundred people in a week.

Yet Li Xiang claims he did it in just a week. Indeed, he hasn’t been seen much this week, but this... seems a bit of a stretch.

"Give it a try."

Li Xiang tossed a USB drive to Zhou Jian, urging him to test it.

Others, who were unaware, curiously gathered around, "Captain Li, what’s this?"

"What else? Seeing how tough manually sifting through victim photos was, I optimized the facial recognition system. Its success rate is significantly improved now."

"Really?"

Everyone was overjoyed at the news.

This past week, they’ve been tormented by these photos, seeing everyone as if they were the victim, and it’s been overwhelming.

Hearing that Li Xiang optimized the facial recognition system made them delighted.

They didn’t care if it was possible to optimize software in a week; they just needed to know their beloved Captain was here to save them.

"Quick, Zhou Jian, install it on the computer and try it out."

"Hurry, I’m already looking forward to it."

Zhou Jian, with no choice, wanted to explain it seemed impossible. But seeing Li Xiang’s confidence and everyone else’s excitement, he could only plug in the USB and find the installation program.

Click to install.

Installing...

Installation complete.

The familiar software icon appeared.

Great, even the icon hasn’t changed.

Zhou Jian thought Li Xiang might make some superficial changes for appearances, like changing the recognition system’s icon or tweaking the UI. Then he could claim it was optimized, and everyone would believe it.

After all, it was only a week, and he could understand that.

But now, not even the icon was changed, making it hard for Zhou Jian to support this claim.

Opening the icon deepened his sense of despair.

Not changing the icon is fine, but you didn’t even adjust the UI? Even changing the color could help!

That way, I could at least hype it up a bit. I have no idea what you were optimizing all week.

Li Xiang noticed Zhou Jian’s frustrated expression, puzzled, and asked, "Zhou Jian, what’s wrong? Is the software not opening?"

"It opens."

It does open, but where’s the optimization?

"Open it up and try it out. I simulated it and checked for bugs; see if there are any left."