Chapter 141: Whitechapel Serial Murder Case He was just a specially hired consultant...
"Jin." Judy called him.
Jin nodded at her.
Judy actually didn't know what Jin's attitude towards Lin Xi was.
Is this how you treat a friend? Are you using your friend as bait? And you're reminding yourself that this girl isn't just a simple person?
It was precisely because Jin and Akai Shuichi had behaved unreasonably in front of Lin Xi repeatedly, as if they did not regard her as an ordinary person, that Judy herself, although she had not yet begun to doubt it, had already determined in her heart that the girl was not an ordinary person.
It can't be an ordinary tourist, but...
She approached Jin and whispered, "After all, the girl has a child, and she's Chinese. Whatever you want to do to her, don't go too far... I don't want to deal with any more cases involving diplomacy."
Kim Bonnar raised his eyelids: "You seem to have some misunderstandings about your colleagues."
"I never said anything about doing anything to her."
JUDY STARLING: ...
Only a fool would believe that.
"She was called to the crime scene by Shuichi Akai," Judy said resignedly. "After you've examined the scene, go say hello to your new friend."
"No," Kim Bonnar replied.
JUDY STELLING: ?
Strictly speaking, she is the current captain of this FBI team... But why do none of her team members listen to her?
Her eyebrows raised, and just as she was about to speak, she saw Jin going straight in the direction of Lin Xi.
"Good evening." Jin stopped in front of Lin Xi.
"Good evening..." Lin Xi said weakly.
She looks a little depressed.
Jin paused, took out a few beautifully wrapped candies from his windbreaker pocket and handed them to Lin Xi.
Lin Xi:?
"Chocolate with liquor filling." Jin said calmly.
"You might have to work late."
Lin Xi was amused: "Is this considered overtime pay?"
"Bribe Jin," Jin said seriously. Judging from his expression and tone, it was impossible to tell he was joking. "For you and your sister."
“No alcohol,” he added.
"Thank you." Lin Xi handed the candy to Huihara Ai, kept one for herself, opened the package, and took a bite.
The syrup and wine—well, maybe it was syrup with alcoholic essence—flowed out, mixed with the slightly bitter chocolate, and melted in the mouth.
"It tastes good. What brand is it and where did you buy it?" Lin Xi smacked her lips.
Jin shook his head: "Homemade."
Lin Xi looked at Jin in surprise.
This guy doesn't look like someone who would have the leisure to make chocolate at home.
Changing it to "being a human being"... would be more appropriate.
Well, she definitely didn't mean to say that her new friend had the aura of a murderer.
Haibara Ai accepted the candy and whispered thank you. She was already indifferent to all the things that happened in the world that were not in line with her style.
After all, her sister and her new friend, oh, and herself, were exchanging greetings and daily small talk beside the bloody scene and the disemboweled female corpse. Sister Lin wasn't even bothered by the smell of blood and was able to eat under such circumstances.
Maybe it’s not that the world is crazy, but that everyone is more or less a little abnormal, Haibara Ai thought expressionlessly.
"tasty."
Lin Xi never hesitates to praise delicious food.
She was particularly pleased with the fact that it had no alcohol content.
The corners of Jin's mouth seemed to rise a few pixels.
"What do you think about this case?" he asked, with a matter-of-fact attitude, as if to say that since he had accepted the bribe, he had to help him.
I have to say that Kim Bonnar's way of getting her to help with the work was much smarter than Akai Shuichi's way of forcing people to stay.
At least it would be difficult for Lin Xi to refuse.
She licked her lips to remove the candy stains. "Has the crime escalated again? Honestly, you're more professional than me in this area. I'm just an ordinary college girl..."
"I never look down on anyone because of their superficial status," Jin said. "Besides, there aren't many ordinary people around you, let alone you."
Lin Xi:?
Who said she wasn't ordinary enough?
On the surface, she is just an ordinary person, okay... although the people around her are indeed not ordinary...
Alas, it’s all the system’s fault. She could have made a living with her looks, but she was forced to become the boss of the organization. What a miserable life.
"Well, but I don't know the specific details of the two previous cases." Lin Xi spread his hands, "Since it's a serial murder case, it must be analyzed in conjunction with the previous cases, right? I don't have any information about the previous cases..."
Jin glanced at her calmly.
Really not?
He didn't believe she hadn't seen it.
Lin Xi laughed awkwardly twice: "Okay, I've only seen a little bit."
In the afternoon, Noah hacked into the FBI system and sorted out the information about the Whitechapel serial murder case and showed it to Lin Xi.
In fact, Lin Xi has no interest in this kind of crime that seems to be committed by a mentally ill person.
Unless this person is crazy enough to kill her and everyone around her.
However, seeing that the dead were all Asian girls, she was a little worried about Sugishima June's safety.
So, Lin Xi wanted to get rid of him before leaving the United States.
Whether it's by solving the case or...
After all, Punch hasn't appeared in a long time. Solving social cancer is also a good appearance.
"The crime has escalated. The murderer has more requirements for the scene, and his sense of ritual is stronger." Lin Xi looked at the statue of the saint in the dark night and said, "If the murder scene before was like a massacre, now it is an artistic ritual."
"Perhaps for the murderer, this is just a ritual. Perhaps the goal is immortality, or perhaps resurrecting my lover... In any case, the goal is the same old clichéd reasons."
Jin nodded: "The information from the deceased today also tells us more."
"For example, the deceased was killed after she had been missing for two days. The cause of death was asphyxiation. The murderer killed her first and then dragged her body here for autopsy."
Lin Xi raised an eyebrow: "The autopsy results should not be out yet..."
The body was just taken down and sent to the examination department not long ago, and the forensic doctor should still be busy.
The most important thing was that Lin Xi hadn't received the autopsy report on her phone. If the autopsy results came out, Noah would definitely send them to her as soon as possible, perhaps even faster than the FBI would know...
"I guessed," Jin said flatly.
"Okay." Lin Xi gave him a funny look. "So, you're saying that the murderer's behavior has escalated from encountering prey and killing them to encountering prey, catching them, keeping them captive, and finally killing them?"
"Two more steps added?"
gold:"……"
I don’t know if Lin Xi herself noticed that when she said “two more steps were added”, her tone didn’t sound like she was describing a person.
It's like the tone you use when you realize you need to add two more steps to a dish.
Jin thought about what everyone who had met him had said about him. Everyone said he was not a normal person.
It was in order to understand the difference between normal people and abnormal people that he began to study psychology.
Later he met the girl in front of him.
After learning his reason for studying psychology, the girl complained, "Why study psychology if you want to understand this?"
“You should study philosophy!”
"Besides, human emotions are too unreliable."
"They say you're abnormal because they're afraid of you - if you can make everyone like you, no one will say you're abnormal."
"On the contrary, they will use all the beautiful adjectives to describe you, hahahahahaha... Don't you think it's interesting, Jin?"
Now it seems that perhaps they are both outliers.
In his own eyes and the girl's eyes, crime and cooking are two completely comparable things, and there is no difference between them.
In other words, people and everything related to people, like everything else in the world, are not any more special just because they are related to people.
The only difference between the girl and him is that her extraordinary learning ability allows her to hide her "abnormal" part and blend perfectly into the crowd.
But that strange smell... always emerges when they face corpses and death.
Jin licked the roof of his mouth.
"You're right, there are... two more steps."
"He may have more 'lambs' in his 'sheepfold'."
"When he thought the time was right, he killed the lamb, stripped it of its wool, ripped it open... and took out its internal organs as a sacrifice."
Jin said calmly.
He deliberately used words such as "lamb", "wool" and "sacrifice", comparing humans to animals, gazing at women as victims, and making them fall into the category of "prey" rather than "human beings" in his discourse.
He observed the girl's expression.
The girl seemed completely oblivious to his choice of words and paused for a moment. "If that's the case, the murderer's 'sheep pen' couldn't be too far from where he made the 'sacrifice.' Slowly lock onto it. You should be able to catch him soon, right?"
"After all, there's no vehicle on the surveillance footage, and he couldn't possibly be dragging a dead woman's body across a crowded street..."
She no longer concealed the fact that she had seen surveillance footage from near the previous crime scenes.
Jin couldn't help but smile--
Sure enough, hearing the girl completely agree with his analogy and even use the same words as him, this kind of behavior... not hiding the fact that she and he were the same kind, still made him feel happy after so much time had passed.
"That's right," Jin said.
"The FBI will begin searching the area for any residents who fit my profile."
Lin Xi raised her eyebrows: "Isn't that great? If you catch the murderer sooner, my sister and I can rest assured sooner."
"Honestly, I'm fed up with your FBI's 'hospitality'... and your inefficiency."
She didn't lower her voice when she said this, causing the new FBI agent not far away to glare at her.
Akai Shuichi, who was standing under the statue of the saint and smoking not far away, seemed to sense something, turned around, and met the gaze of Lin Xi, who was pouting.
Lin Xi really wanted to roll her eyes at him, but she had to maintain her ladylike image.
"Well..." Jin said slowly, "Strictly speaking, I'm not the FBI. I'm just a specially hired consultant."
He quickly distanced himself from his colleagues who were disliked by Lin Xi, then looked into Lin Xi's eyes and said:
"But... the FBI will be worried about those 'live lambs.'"
"Even if they find the 'sheep pen', they will slow down their pace because they are worried about the safety of the hostages."
"So, if you want to end this case sooner, why not listen to my suggestion—"
"--Kim Bonnar!" Judy hurried over and interrupted the white-haired man's next words.
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