Lu Ke moved quickly and spread a thick layer of peanut butter on his toast.
Today will definitely be a busy day, and if he doesn’t eat a full breakfast, he’s afraid that his legs will be weak from hunger at noon.
He habitually nitpicked, "So what you mean is, as long as today passes, I'll be late?"
Robert almost spit out the toast in his mouth. He coughed several times and finally recovered after swallowing a mouthful of milk.
He rarely wins an argument with Lu Ke because his ideas are always not as clear as others.
The two men's verbal battle ended here, as they had a lot of things to do today.
After Robert finished eating the toast and drinking the milk, he stood up and urged Lu Ke to go out. Lu Ke drank the milk in a few gulps, took the half-eaten toast and went out.
Catherine came out quickly: "Aren't you coming back for lunch?"
Robert: "No, just buy something outside."
Lu Ke laughed and quickly took a large brown paper bag from Catherine. He then kissed her forehead with his mouth still full of bread crumbs: "Oh, that's great. Thank you for preparing lunch for me alone."
Robert's face suddenly turned dark.
It turned out that Catherine had made a little extra just now and wanted them to take it with them so that they could eat some when they were hungry.
Catherine smiled as she watched the two men, one with a gloomy face and the other laughing, get into the car.
The two of them felt much more at ease going to work together.
They are the people she cares about the most, and if they take care of each other, the danger should be reduced.
Of course, Robert may still be taking care of Luke now, but judging by Luke's performance since he was a child, he and Robert will soon be able to take care of each other.
Catherine never doubted that.
The police car sped towards Knox.
There was no medical examiner in the small town, so the autopsy had to be sent to the forensic department at Knox.
However, the forensic department in Knox is just average. If it cannot solve the problem, it depends on whether the town can send it to a more professional forensic department, such as Houston.
The United States and China are different.
Their administrative divisions are divided into states, counties, and cities from largest to smallest, followed by smaller towns and villages.
But the law enforcement system is backwards.
Areas that village and city police departments do not handle are the jurisdiction of county sheriffs and state police.
Moreover, the town police station is not under the jurisdiction of the municipal police station, nor the county police station. Instead, it is directly responsible to the townspeople, and the salaries of the town police officers are also allocated by the town's administrative system.
Therefore, it is common for police stations to compete with each other over cases.
After all, there is no direct superior-subordinate relationship among police stations across the country. Even when the FBI goes to various parts of the country to handle cases, they are often confronted by the local police stations, who think that they are interfering in matters within their jurisdiction.
The town police department is only responsible for the residents of the town, so if a case occurs, it is best to solve it themselves.
Unless the problem cannot be solved and has a serious impact, local police stations generally will not hand over the case to other departments, whether it is the FBI or other police stations.
Robert rushed to Knox to see the autopsy in such a hurry that he wanted to determine the nature of the case as soon as possible.
If the girl drowned accidentally, it has little to do with the police.
If it was man-made, he must solve the case as soon as possible.
There hasn't been a murder in the town for many years, especially since the victim is the daughter of a town resident. We can't relax at all.
The faster the case is solved, the more it proves that the officers in the small-town police station are not salary thieves.
The police car sped all the way and arrived at Knox Police Station in less than an hour.
However, the Forensic Department is not located in the police station, but in a four-story building next door.
Whether this was because the Knox police didn't want a morgue in the basement is unclear.
After getting off the car, Robert did not go in immediately, but looked at Lu Ke: "Do you know what you need to pay attention to as a policeman just now?"
Lu Ke pondered for a moment and replied, "Listen more, watch more, talk less, and move less?"
Robert: "... Damn it, where did you hear that? Well, this is so damn right, and so concise. It's decided, you are not allowed to say this to anyone else in the future, I will use it to discipline my subordinates."
Lu Ke: ... Can I say that this is the most commonly used golden sentence for newcomers in the officialdom literature I read in my previous life
After giving his name and position, Robert took Lu Ke and found Room 3 according to the instructions of the lady at the reception desk.
The so-called Room 3 is the third autopsy room.
Robert had no scruples. He just knocked on the door a few times and pushed it open.
A middle-aged man in his forties just nodded when he saw Robert: "You are here, wait a moment, let me finish this cup of freshly ground coffee."
Robert: _!
Lu Ke: (⊙_⊙?)
Did something go wrong? Lu Ke was deeply suspicious. Could it be that the place he came to was a coffee shop
Robert looked unhappy, but he didn't get angry. Instead, he lowered his voice and said, "He is just like that. Before work in the morning, he insists on making himself a cup of freshly ground coffee. He says that if he doesn't drink this, he won't be energetic for the whole day."
Lu Ke lowered his voice even more: "Are you sure he meant to drink coffee?"
Robert's cheek twitched. "He never touches those things, including weed. I think coffee feels like weed to him. He is addicted to it."
Lu Ke was silent.
But that’s not all.
While waiting for the freshly ground coffee to be ready, the middle-aged man turned on the speaker on his desk. The volume was not particularly loud, but it was very clear in the extremely quiet autopsy room.
It was a violin piece, but Lu Ke couldn't tell which one it was. He had no interest in it.
However, the song was unexpectedly nice.
It took a full thirty minutes for the middle-aged man to slowly make a small cup of coffee and drink it, with no intention of sharing it with Robert and the other man.
Robert was no longer impatient, as he knew the temper of the man in front of him, and he would never be impatient even if he was beaten to death.
Who can blame him for his ability? Well, the fact is that this guy is the only official medical examiner in Knox City.
The middle-aged man put away his coffee drinking equipment and looked at Lu Ke for a moment: "Newcomer?"
Robert: "My kid, Luke. He's also a policeman, and today's his first day at work. Mars, can you start quickly?"
The middle-aged man was amazed: "Haha, you brought me here on your first day at work, are you sure this is his biological child?"
Lu Ke smiled without saying anything, sticking to his policy of saying less. Wasn't Robert there
Sure enough, Robert's face darkened: "Mars, don't joke with my family."
The middle-aged man named Mars was stunned and smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, I'm used to playing jokes with those bastards in the bureau. You know, Hank... uh, never mind."