Chapter 607 Father Meng's Request

Xiao Xiao walked into the coffee shop, looked around, and soon found Meng Jixi sitting by the window.

Meng Jixi lowered his head as if thinking about something, until Xiao Xiao walked to his side, he looked up as if suddenly awakened, his eyes revealing a bit of sharpness and vigilance.

Then the hard facial features softened a little, "Master Xiao, you are here."

Xiao Xiao walked over to sit opposite him and ordered a cup of coffee. After the waiter left, he raised his eyebrows at Meng Jixi, "I remember you are the student."

At first, Xiao Xiao was completely occupied by the suspicion that there might be another monster killing someone.

After he hung up the phone and walked out the door, he realized that Meng Jixi was just a student, and a case involving a death was not something a student should be involved in.

However, since he was already out, he didn't mind taking a look.

And considering Meng Jixi's family background, he must know more inside information than the average person.

……

"My dad asked me to come."

Meng Jixi gave an unexpected answer.

"Captain Meng?"

Xiao Xiao restrained his expression a little. The meaning of Captain Meng looking for him and Meng Jixi looking for him were completely different.

It seems that the police have really encountered a difficult case.

……

"Have you been following the news lately?"

Meng Jixi picked up the phone, tapped a few times, then turned the screen to Xiao Xiao and pointed it out to him.

He swiped through the pages, each of which contained a news report about a body being found somewhere.

The report did not describe the details of the case in detail, but simply introduced when and where the body was found. It hoped that relevant insiders would provide clues to the police, and also reminded citizens to pay attention to safety at night and not wander alone in the suburbs.

"In just one week since the first body was found, there have been seven victims."

"That is to say, the murderer kills one person every day."

Speaking of this, Meng Jixi's brows were gloomy and there was anger in his eyes.

Xiao Xiao replayed every report he had seen in his mind and asked his doubts, "How do you know that it was done by one murderer?"

"After all, although each body was found in the suburbs, the locations were not close to each other."

You have to know that the suburbs of Yanjing are not small. If it was really done by one person, and the frequency of the crime is so high, one person every day, the difficulty is very high.

Killing is not that easy.

Not to mention serial killings.

Rushing to change locations, identifying the target person, subduing the opponent, killing him, and doing the finishing work afterwards, these are far from being as simple as one plus one equals two, especially when they all have to be completed within one day.

The urgency of time will increase the murderer's chances of making mistakes.

If one link goes wrong, the entire plan may collapse.

Moreover, Xiao Xiao noticed that the victims were not vulnerable groups such as children, women, and the elderly, but all adult men.

Perhaps it is because it is difficult to find a good target late at night, and the limited time does not allow the murderer to have more time to be picky.

However, this undoubtedly added a lot of difficulty to the murder.

After all, men living in the suburbs are different from most white-collar workers in the city who sit in offices all day and are thin. Years of hard work make them strong and healthy.

It would cost a lot more to subdue them.

Maybe you will fail to kill someone and end up being subdued instead.

However, so far, the murderer has been doing "very well".

There were no fatal mistakes.

If this was really a single crime, the murderer's ability must be top-notch.

His cold-hearted nature is even more evident.

… “As soon as you see the victims, you know they were all killed by the same person.”

As if thinking of the tragic state of the victim when he was found, Meng Jixi frowned, "The murderer's modus operandi is the same."

"It's cruel."

Meng Jixi said solemnly.

……

At this time, the waiter brought the coffee.

"Thank you."

Xiao Xiao said with a smile.

……

After the waiter left, Meng Jixi continued, "The nature of the case is very bad."

"The police also took it very seriously and set up a special case handling team."

"But because the crime scene was in the suburbs, surveillance was limited."

"No useful information was found."

"Not to mention any eyewitnesses."

"There was no connection between the seven victims."

"The police investigated their background information and found that it was all clean. They were not involved in any financial disputes or any grudges with anyone."

"The killer seemed to be picking his victims at random."

Meng Jixi picked up the coffee and took a big sip. The bitter taste made his already frowned brows even tighter.

"My dad is the person in charge of this case."

"It's been a week, they've spent a lot of energy and deployed a lot of police force, but to no avail."

"The number of victims is still increasing."

“The suburbs are just too big.”

"The killer kills people with no pattern other than in the suburbs."

"Today it is in the east, tomorrow it may be in the west."

"No matter how many police officers there are, it's impossible to cover the entire suburb. There must be a focus."

"But my dad and his friends couldn't find the basis for the murderer's choice of location, and they couldn't guess where the murderer would commit the next crime."

"Moreover, the police's actions were not small, and the murderer could not have been unaware of it. So, even though he knew that the police were investigating the case, the murderer still killed one person every day. It was as if he was deliberately provoking the police!"

The more Meng Jixi spoke, the darker his face became. It was a good thing that the murderer did not hide, so that the police would not worry that he would get away. However, the murderer committed the crime so blatantly, but the police still found nothing. This had to be said to be a slap in the face of the police.

Father Meng has been living in the police station these days, and later he followed other team members to the suburbs to ambush and monitor. When Meng Jixi saw Father Meng yesterday, he found that he had an untidy beard, dark circles under his eyes, and reeked of cigarettes.

He really wanted to do something to help Father Meng.

But he also knew that as a mere student he could not do much, and from the various information he had gathered from various sources and from what he had heard from his father, he had to admit in frustration that even if he had read all the information he had collected over and over again countless times, he had not found any breakthroughs.

Originally, Meng Jixi and Meng's mother thought that Mr. Meng came back yesterday because there was some progress in the case.

As a result, when Meng's father asked him for a favor at the dinner table, he was stunned.

Meng's mother also asked Meng's father curiously: "How can this child Axi help you?"

Father Meng put down his chopsticks, looked at Meng Jixi and said three words: "Master Xiao."

"You guys your age should be more talkative."

"Just ask him to help with the case."

"I'm afraid if the police come to look for him, it will make the child feel uneasy and it will have a bad influence on the child."

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