Ming Lu, My Criminal Investigation Notes

In the autumn rain in Huaihai in 1984, Lu Tianming, a retired scout, stood on the platform with his certificate in hand. After ten years of military service, he had nowhere to rest until he met the old detective Gu Chunshan. "The soles of the criminal's feet are thicker than the soles of the suspect's shoes", a leather notebook illuminated the "clear path" for him from confusion to perseverance. This is a criminal investigation notebook that spans forty-two years, hiding both cases and the transformation trajectory of Chinese criminal police. On a rainy night in 1989, strange Morse code came out of Rongbaozhai Radio. Lu Tianming relied on his military camp radio skills to crack the fraud conspiracy of the retired communications soldiers; in the case of the floating corpse in the Haihe River in 1994, he used hydrological deduction and trace fibers as evidence to expose the freight driver's perfect lie. He is well aware of the principle that "evidence is stronger than confession." Times have changed and cases have escalated. In 2008, he and Chen Mo, who graduated from the Department of Computer Science, clashed over their conflicting ideas, and finally jointly cracked the online theft and forfeiture case using "sole touching + IP tracking"; in the GOIP anti-fraud battlefield in 2023, the big data model allowed him to glimpse the shadow of the radio station case thirty years ago. He already had Chen Mo, who was on his own, and his daughter Lu Xiaowen, who had reconciled due to anti-fraud. From handwritten survey maps to AI research and judgment, from guilty father to spiritual leader, Lu Tianming's forty-two years were a path of personal growth and a path of transformation for the criminal police profession. Gu Chunshan's notes were digitized, and the police number 037589 was passed on to his daughter. On New Year's Day in 2026, after he retired, he received a clue consultation from Chen Mo. The writing on the last page of his notebook was still hot: "037589, mission accomplished. But the road to justice will never end with retirement."