I Play Dungeons in the Police Station

Chapter 444 - 266: Zhou Jian’s Admiration

"Okay."

Since Li Xiang had spoken, Zhou Jian would naturally comply.

But if nothing changed by then, he wouldn’t be able to cover up this lie.

The advantage of not changing the UI was that he didn’t have to get used to the software again. He began operating it according to his previous habits.

As soon as he tried it, Zhou Jian could clearly feel that the system ran more smoothly, and the response speed was much faster than before.

Could it be that Li Xiang really optimized the software?

Try again.

Zhou Jian continued by uploading the deceased’s photo, which was restored using cranial reconstruction technology, into the facial recognition system for comparison.

He selected age range, gender, and other parameters to start the comparison.

On the left side of the screen, countless photos flickered, and every successful match would be placed in the alternative box on the right side.

The filtering process was significantly faster than the previous system, and the quality of matches was relatively high. At least they looked somewhat similar.

"Captain Li, breakfast’s back."

At this moment, Ji Huanhuan came over with breakfast and handed it to Li Xiang.

"Thank you, Sister Huanhuan."

"Captain Li, you’ve got quite a sweet mouth. Go ahead and eat."

Li Xiang quickly finished the meal, as he was genuinely hungry.

After eating, Li Xiang felt sleepy.

Seeing Zhou Jian starting to attempt the task, he then felt it was pointless to stay there any longer and thought he might as well go back to the dormitory to sleep.

"You guys keep busy; I’m going to catch up on some sleep. I haven’t slept well these past few days, really too tired."

"Alright."

No one even looked up at Li Xiang; all eyes were glued to the computer screen as they casually responded.

"It does seem faster than before, and the quality is relatively higher."

"Indeed, after the software optimization, it is a lot better than before."

Everyone had used the previous facial recognition system, with its tractor-like response speed, which was really frustrating at times.

But they were helpless to change this situation.

It’s different now. Their Captain Li Xiang not only had significant achievements in criminal investigation but was also a leading figure in software engineering development.

The fusion of these two fields produced a fantastic chemical reaction.

Criminal investigation software not working well?

No problem, just optimize it yourself.

Just that willful.

"Quick, quick, quick, the results are out."

This time the speed was ten times faster than the old version. Regardless of the quality, the speed alone showed the optimization’s success.

How did he do it?

Zhou Jian was baffled; in just one week, to optimize the software to this extent was unheard of.

Being someone who works in computing himself, he knew that software development isn’t that simple; programmers have to write code line by line.

With potentially billions of lines of code, even if you type until the keyboard smokes, one person couldn’t finish it.

"Damn, only matched over three hundred similar photos?"

While Zhou Jian was in a daze, others had already looked at the final results and were utterly incredulous.

Finding similar people among billions of people was challenging; the previous facial recognition system, due to its outdated version, had a low recognition rate, ultimately identifying over a hundred thousand similar individuals, requiring them to manually verify each one.

The efficiency of that task was simply overwhelming.

But now it’s different.

After Li Xiang’s optimization of the software, this selection only identified a little over three hundred people and ranked them by similarity from high to low.

This greatly saved their manual verification time. Even if the last person turns out to be the one they were looking for, it’s only over three hundred people.

Compared to the previous workload of a million, it’s incomparable.

At this time, Zhou Jian was also awakened by the others’ cheers and saw the result, once again shattering his worldview.

"I underestimated it. I thought Captain Li spent just a week optimizing the facial recognition system, only tweaking some UI aspects while the core remained unchanged. I was wrong. Apart from the icons and interface, everything else changed. The core code must have been completely overhauled."

"How could he do it? It’s simply unbelievable."

Zhou Jian had an incredulous expression, muttering to himself.

For those who aren’t tech-savvy, this scene was shocking, but for him, a tech insider, it was practically miraculous.

An impossible task.

Li Xiang accomplished it.

"Is it that difficult?" Ji Huanhuan asked curiously, seeing everyone’s astonished expressions.

She studied law and didn’t quite understand computing.

Especially seeing Zhou Jian’s jaw-dropped expression, she found it absurd.

"Not just difficult, it’s god-level. Do you know? In my eyes, Captain Li is like a god right now."

For a computer specialist, knowing what this software signifies, and that Li Xiang accomplished this task in just a week, seemed heavenly to him.

This isn’t something a person could do; the only explanation he could think of was divine intervention.

"Personal hero-worship isn’t popular now. Don’t deify our Captain Li."

"Sigh, you don’t understand. Never mind, let’s not talk about this; the results are here, so let’s focus on verifying. It’s only a few hundred people, it’s quick."

"Alright."

This topic was temporarily set aside, and the guidance team busily resumed work today. Fortunately, there was hope in sight, and matching a few hundred photos compared to earlier hundreds of thousands wasn’t an issue at all.

For a moment, the office was quiet again as everyone continued working.

Everyone was meticulously comparing, and if uncertain, two or three people would discuss together for a conclusive decision.

Time passed unnoticed; after having lunch at noon, no one took a break and went directly back to screening and comparing.

They kept busy until 2:30 in the afternoon when Lai Jiyun’s group found some clues: "Everyone, come here and take a look, I think this person might be. Check it out too."

Her voice drew the attention of the rest of the guidance team, and they put down their photos and came over.

"Let me see." Qi Liyan came over and looked carefully at the computer.

"I must say, the resemblance in the brows is striking."

"Indeed, really, quickly check her details."

"Alright, I’ll check." Zhou Jian hurried to investigate the person.

"Tian Lifen, has had no online data for ten years."

Upon seeing this, Zhou Jian knew this woman could be the one they were looking for.

"Great, dig deeper."

Hope appeared before everyone; this person was a strong suspect.

"This person is from Yungui, notify the local police to investigate."

"Okay, I’ll get in touch right away."

Being quite far away, there was no need for their guidance team to verify personally; they could leave the verification work to the Yungui Police.

Verification required some time; the next day, they received Tian Lifen’s details.

"Tian Lifen is a child from the Yungui Mountain area. Her father died early, and her mother remarried, so she lived with her grandparents. Ten years ago, she got into college and left the mountains; after graduating, she said she found a job and then lost contact with her family. Her grandfather also passed away five years ago, still asking where Tian Lifen had gone before he died."

"Why didn’t they report it to the police?"

"The mountain roads are rough, and the elderly had no clue they should report a missing granddaughter. It wasn’t until Yungui Police arrived that they realized a death should be reported."

"Have they found her mother? We need a blood sample."

"It should be soon. Let’s buy tickets. He Wenqiu and Zou Ping, could you make the trip to Yungui and bring back the DNA material?"

"Sure, I’ll check the tickets and take the next available high-speed train."