Xiao Xiao walked into the coffee shop, looked around, and soon spotted Meng Jixi sitting by the window.
Meng Jixi lowered his head and seemed to be thinking about something. It was not until Xiao Xiao came to his side that he suddenly looked up as if he was awakened, his eyes showing a bit of sharpness and vigilance.
Then the cold facial contour softened a bit, "Master Xiao, you are here."
Xiao Xiao walked to sit opposite him and ordered a cup of coffee. After the waiter left, he raised his eyebrows at Meng Jixi and said, "I remember you are a student, right?"
...
At first, Xiao Xiao was completely preoccupied by the suspicion that he might have another monster hurting people's lives.
After hanging up the phone and walking out the door, he thought that Meng Jixi was just a student, and a student shouldn't be able to intervene in such a life-threatening case.
However, since they were all out, he didn't mind going to take a look.
And considering the background of Meng Jixi's family, he must know more inside information than the average person.
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"My dad asked me to come."
Meng Jixi gave an unexpected answer.
"Captain Meng?"
Xiao Xiao calmed down a bit. The meaning of Captain Meng looking for him and Meng Jixi looking for him were completely different.
It seems that the police really encountered a difficult case.
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"Have you followed the recent news?"
Meng Jixi picked up the phone, clicked a few times, and then turned the screen to Xiao Xiao and pointed it to him.
He scrolled through the pages, and each page contained a news report about a body found somewhere.
The report did not describe the details of the case in detail. It only briefly introduced when, who and where the body was found. It hoped that relevant insiders would provide clues to the police. It also reminded citizens to pay attention to safety at night and not to wander alone in the suburbs.
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"In just one week since the first body was found, there have been seven victims."
"In other words, the murderer kills one person every day."
Speaking of this, Meng Jixi's eyebrows were gloomy and there was anger in his eyes.
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Xiao Xiao replayed every report he had seen before in his mind and asked his doubts, "How do you know it was a murderer?"
"After all, although the locations where each body was found were in the suburbs, they were not in close proximity."
You must know that the suburbs of Yanjing are not small. If it is really committed by one person, the frequency of crimes is so high, one person every day, it is not easy to say that it is not easy.
Killing is not that easy.
Not to mention serial murders.
Rushing to change locations, identifying the target person, subduing the opponent, killing the killer, and the finishing work afterwards, these are far from as simple as one plus one equals two, especially if they have to be completed within one day.
The urgency of time will further increase the chance of the murderer making a mistake.
If one thing goes wrong, the whole plan may collapse.
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Moreover, Xiao Xiao noticed that the victims were not children, women, elderly and other vulnerable groups, but all adult men.
Maybe it's because it's hard to find a good target at night, and the limited time leaves the murderer no more time to be picky.
However, this undoubtedly adds a lot of difficulty to the murder.
After all, men living in the suburbs are not as thin as the white-collar workers in the city who sit in offices all day long. Years of hard work have made them strong.
It will cost more to subdue them.
Maybe he won't be able to kill him, but will be subdued instead.
...
However, so far, the murderer has been doing "very well".
There are no fatal mistakes.
If it is really a single person who committed the crime, the murderer's strength is definitely top-notch.
His cold nature is even more evident.
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"Whenever you see the victims, you know they all died at the hands of the same person."
As if thinking of the tragic situation when the victim was discovered, Meng Jixi frowned, "The murderer's methods of committing the crime are the same."
"It's cruel."
Meng Jixi said solemnly.
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At this time, the waiter brought coffee.
"Thanks."
Xiao Xiao said with a smile.
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After the waiter left, Meng Jixi continued, "The nature of the case is very bad."
"The police also attach great importance to it and have set up relevant case-handling teams."
"But because the crime scene was in the suburbs, surveillance was limited."
"No useful information found."
"Not to mention any witnesses."
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"There is no connection between the seven victims."
"The police investigated their relevant background information and found that they were all clean and there were no financial disputes or grudges involved."
"The killer appears to have chosen his victims at random."
Meng Jixi picked up the coffee and took a long sip. The bitter taste made his already frowning brows tighten even more.
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"My dad is the person in charge of this case."
"For a week, they have spent a lot of energy and deployed a lot of police forces, but they have achieved nothing."
"The number of victims is still increasing."
"The suburbs are really big."
"The murderer kills with no pattern except in the suburbs."
"Today it is on the east side, but tomorrow it may be on the west side."
"No matter how large the police force is, it is impossible to cover the entire suburb. There must be focus."
"However, my dad and the others couldn't find any basis for the murderer's choice of location, and they couldn't figure out where the murderer would commit his next crime."
"Moreover, the police's actions are not trivial. It is impossible for the murderer not to know about it. So, even though he knew that the police were investigating the case, the murderer still killed one person every day. It is as if he was deliberately provoking the police!"
The more Meng Jixi said, the darker his face became. It was good that the murderer did not shrink back, so that the police would not worry about him running away. However, the murderer committed the crime so blatantly, but the police still found nothing. This has to be said to be very strange.
It's a slap in the face to the police.
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Meng's father has been living in the police station these days, and later he personally followed other team members to the suburbs to ambush and monitor him. When Meng Jixi saw Meng's father yesterday, he found that Meng's father was unshaven, his eyes were black and blue, and he was covered in cigarette smoke.
taste.
He really wanted to do something to help Meng's father.
But he also knew that he couldn't do much as a student, and judging from the various information he collected from everywhere and from his father's insinuations, he had to admit in frustration that even if he turned over all the collected information,
I've read it countless times and haven't found any breakthroughs.
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Originally, Meng Jixi and Meng's mother thought so when Meng's father came back yesterday because there had been some progress in the case.
As a result, when Father Meng asked him to do a favor at the dinner table, he was stunned.
Meng's mother also asked Meng's father strangely: "How can this child Axi help you?"
Father Meng put down his chopsticks, looked at Meng Jixi and said three words: "Master Xiao."
"It's easier to talk to people your own age."
"Just ask him to help handle the case."
"I'm afraid that if the police come to look for him, his children will be wary, and it will have a bad influence on them."
