After meeting Adam's first girlfriend, Kai almost pulled William and fled the scene quickly. I can't help it, it's too embarrassing. It was Adam, not Kai, who was deeply remembered by Pepper. But the problem is that Kai is carrying Adam's name again.
First love is always unforgettable. Adam and Pepper are no exception. During his senior year of high school, Pepper's parents had to move back to Connecticut due to work commitments, and the two young children almost elope. But he was stopped by Pepper's father. That time, Adam was almost shot to death with a double-barreled shotgun by Pepper's father.
Really, Pepper's father actually fired the gun at that time! Of course, looking back now, it's obvious that Pepper's father was aiming at a target ten meters away from Adam.
But the problem is that Adam was still young at that time. According to his memory at the time, Adam almost peed in fear. Like all little boys, Adam was so frightened that when Pepper left, he didn't even see him for the last time. What’s even more amazing is that Adam never fell in love again. To say that he is obsessed with Pepper would not be called it. After all, in modern society, it doesn't cost much to find Pepper. What's more, the Adam family is not short of money.
Kai guessed that Adam was frightened by Daddy Pepper's shot. There is a psychological shadow.
But no matter what, seeing the way Pepper looked at him, Kai felt extremely uncomfortable. As if he had done something bad, he felt very guilty. But it was clear that he and Adam had a fair deal. Adam was about to die at that time, and he wanted to avenge himself and his comrades. Kai helped him achieve his wish, but the price was his body.
William and Mills were both a little confused. Although they had not been in contact with Kai for a long time, they could both feel that Kai was a very reliable man who didn't talk much, was calm and steady. Like now, like a junior high school student falling in love for the first time, they run away when they see the girl they like. They are very uncomfortable.
…
Seeing Kai Luo running away, Pepper was stunned for a moment, then seemed to think of something and laughed. The smile was very cheerful and brilliant. But immediately, Pepper felt a strange gaze staring at him.
Turning his head, Tracy was looking at him with a gossipy face.
"Tell me the truth, what is your relationship with that Adam?"
"No way! We are just ordinary high school classmates!" Pepper always felt that although her first love was not perfect, it was pure enough and interesting enough. But then again, whose first love is not full of regrets? People like Tracey and Mills are rare.
"Really?" Tracy didn't believe it. She raised her hands as if to tickle Pepper.
Pepper felt that it was too embarrassing for someone so young to do this in front of the hotel, so she immediately apologized and said, "Okay, okay, I'll just say that...he is my first boyfriend."
"Really?" Tracy's whole body was glowing, and everyone loved the gossip. What's more, it's gossip about his best friend. "Then how did you break up? He's quite handsome, what? Did he cheat on you?"
Pepper was reluctant to share that past experience. After all, her father scared her boyfriend to wet his pants with a shotgun, which was really nothing to be proud of. So she immediately changed the subject.
"By the way, Trish, have you seen Mills work?"
"No... Mills is not willing to let me know those things." Sure enough, Tracy's attention was immediately diverted. In Trish's life, Mills always came first. Tracey indeed rarely learned the specific content of his work from Mills. He never talked about those cases with Tracey when he went home.
"Then do you want to see Mills at work?" Pepper breathed a sigh of relief when Trish's attention was diverted. Unlike Tracy, who focuses on her family, although Pepper has been going smoothly in recent years, even so, intrigues in the workplace are inevitable. This little trick is so easy to come by. Of course, this was also related to Tracy's understanding. She could tell that Pepper didn't seem to want to say those things, so she just went with the flow.
In fact, just at that moment, Trish had deduced countless soap opera-style relationships in her mind, such as the scumbag changed his mind, the girl met someone better, and others such as amnesia in a car accident, the female protagonist/male protagonist was mistakenly diagnosed with cancer, etc. A bloody series of plots. Anyway, there is no rush, there is plenty of time to dig out slowly. Sometimes it is more interesting to take your time like this than to learn the truth all at once!
And Tracy was indeed interested in Pepper's proposal.
"Isn't it good? Will this disturb Mills?"
"No! Let's just see."
"Oh well!"
…
When William and Kai went to the scene, he wanted to ask Kai several times why he was so indecisive, but he finally held back. Because it was Kai's private matter, and he and Kai weren't that familiar. It's not good to speak casually.
Mills, however, was more impatient and asked.
"You know Pepper?"
Kai thought about it and felt that he couldn't hide it. So I simply admitted it.
"We are high school classmates."
As for falling in love, Kai was a bit unable to express it. Because it is really not your fault, it is Adam’s sin.
"Oh..." Mills said meaningfully, and the information contained in it was comparable to Tracy's imagination. You can't escape that thing between men and women.
Kai didn't want to talk about that, but grabbed the topic and said, "The one next to Pepper is..."
The two women basically looked exactly the same. Kai was so busy at first that he didn't care about Pepper. Now he changed the subject and used this as an excuse.
"That's my wife."
"Pepper has sisters?" This was Kai's first reaction. Because except for twin sisters, it is difficult to look so similar. But according to Adam's memory, Pepper is an only child.
Now Mills and William both laughed, and Mills also understood why Tracey and Pepper laughed so much when they heard William say the same thing.
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Soon Kai and the others arrived at the scene.
In the office of a law firm, a man was wearing only a pair of underwear and was kneeling on the ground covered in blood. His head was resting on a pile of books. He was tied, but his right hand was released, holding a butcher knife. , there was a scale beside him. On one side of the scale was a one-pound weight, and on the other side was a piece of meat. It was not difficult to see from the scene that this piece of meat belonged to the deceased.
At the same time, a piece of paper was placed next to the scale, with a paragraph on it.
"A pound of human flesh, no more, no less, no gristle, no bones, just fresh meat."
Holding this piece of paper, William read softly.
"From The Merchant of Venice."
Kai frowned. Although he didn't know this sentence, he knew about The Merchant of Venice. He seemed to have learned this when he was in school.
William continued: "As long as the flesh is cut off, he can be free."
At this time, Mills came over and said: "The technician found a lot of sweat on that chair over there."
"Of course, anyone who is forced to cut off a piece of flesh on his body at gunpoint will be covered in sweat." Kai squinted his eyes and observed the crime scene. "The murderer wanted him to take his time and decide which piece of flesh to cut off."
As he spoke, Kai pointed to a photo on the wall and said, "Who is the woman in this photo?"
It was a photo of a woman, and in the photo, the woman's eyes were circled with blood.
"That's Gould's wife." Mills flipped through the site inspection records and said.
Gould was the name of the deceased. He was one of the most famous defense attorneys in Chicago. He specialized in defending wealthy criminals and made a lot of money as a result. His name is well known throughout Chicago law enforcement. One of the most hated people by any police officer.
"Why do you think the murderer did this?"
The murderer was extremely cunning and left no trace at the scene. He will only do what he thinks is necessary and will do nothing else. So Kai didn't think that he just left this behind to disgust the police officers handling the case. Just like before, after Kay left, Mills and William also found a note left by the murderer in the home of the first victim, which already predicted the next target.
"Is it because this woman saw something?"
Mills speculated.
"Impossible!" But William decisively rejected this guess. "If this woman really saw something, it wouldn't be a body now. This murderer was very cautious!"
Kai heard Mills's guess, but did not overturn it in a hurry. Instead, he said thoughtfully: "What did she see..."
After thinking about it, Kai saw the picture on the opposite wall. There is a painting hanging there.
An abstract painting. From his previous life to this life, Kai didn't have any artistic talent. Anyway, he couldn't understand what was good about those abstract paintings. For example, this one was full of chaotic color blocks and vertical and horizontal lines. It was gaudy and it looked like that, but Which one is better? Anyway, if Kai is asked to spend tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands to buy such a painting, Kai will never agree to it.
Thinking about all this, Kai came to the picture.
Kai did not study the content of the painting, nor could he study it clearly. He just stared at the frame. He found that there were traces of movement behind the frame. It looked like the painting had been hanging here for a long time. The color of the wall covered by the frame was slightly different from the surrounding walls because no one would be bored enough to clean the painting. behind the box.
"This painting has been moved!"
After hearing what Kay said, Mills immediately called in technicians to inspect the frame, canvas, and back of the frame. But still found nothing.
"He's playing tricks on us!" Mills couldn't help it. The murderer kept setting up mysterious puzzles. He was playing tricks on them!
Kai looked at Mills a little unhappy because he didn't act like a qualified police officer.
"Mr. Mills, as a police officer, the most basic quality is to keep a cool head. Getting angry will have no effect on your job!"
Faced with Kai's obvious reprimand, Mills wanted to refute, but when he saw Kai's stern and oppressive eyes, for some reason, he was instantly frightened. Mills is not a timid person. The medal he received in the army is the best proof. But facing Kai, he found that he really didn't dare to choke.
After lecturing Mills, Kay continued to look at the frame. Then he discovered that there was something wrong with the frame.
This picture frame was mounted upside down on the wall because there was a mark of a hanging nail on the picture frame.
"The frame was moved..." Then Kai thought of something and said to the technician next to him: "Check the wall."
Soon, technicians found more than one fingerprint on the wall behind the frame.
After the technician irradiated all the fingerprints with ultraviolet light, all the fingerprints formed two words.
"help!"
help me!
"That guy has absolutely nowhere to escape now!" Mills was very excited.
"ah!!!"
At this moment, a scream interrupted Mills's excitement. Everyone turned around and found that two women who looked exactly the same had entered the crime scene at some point!
Seeing these two women, Kai's first reaction was to look at Mills and William!
He didn't expect there to be such amateur police officers. Are all Chicago police officers pigs? Actually let two unrelated women enter a crime scene that is still under investigation? If this had happened in his previous life, he would have left everyone from the criminal investigation captain to the leader in charge!
This is a pretty serious malfeasance!
It will even become a powerful proof for the defense during the trial! This would cause the judge to conclude that the evidence from the on-site investigation was unreliable, allowing the criminal to go free!
Mills and William were also confused.
They never expected that two women would come here.
"Mr. Mills! Although I am not a Chicago police officer and have no jurisdiction over you, I still have to remind you. You are in big trouble! Now, immediately! Now! Get your ladies out of here!"
Mills's face turned red immediately. It was one thing for him to be grumpy, but it was another thing for him to be unreasonable.
It was the first time for Tracy to see Mills so embarrassed. She was so frightened that she was at a loss and her face turned pale. Of course, this half was also frightened by the dead.
Pepper immediately felt uncomfortable when she saw her best friend being so frightened by 'Adam'. Although Pepper is just a secretary, as the assistant to Tony Stark, the world's number one playboy, she is in a privileged class. Maybe they made a mistake by showing up at the crime scene. But Pepper was sure to suppress this matter and let it never happen.
"Don't worry, Trish, it'll be okay. I'll find someone to sort it all out!"
After speaking, Pepper turned to look at Kai, with an expression on her face that was definitely not happy. She didn't expect that Kai would show off to her when he saw her again!
Pepper's words and expression made Kai's frown deepen. In his view, handling cases is an extremely serious matter. Upholding justice for the innocent and punishing the guilty are originally the most sacred things, but Pepper's words are completely insulting to everyone here!
Kai waved his hand and asked Kim and Hailey to come over.
"Arrest her. The charges are ready-made! And tell others to be careful about the traces left by these two ladies. If it is found that the evidence at the scene has been destroyed, then sue them again!"
"Huh?" Jin opened his mouth.
"What? Didn't you learn the regulations for protecting the scene in the police academy?"
"Oh oh oh!" Jin saw Kai's face become stern, and immediately threw aside Pepper's identity as the most famous secret in the United States!
"Adam!!!" Pepper was really angry.
Her identity doesn't just represent herself!
But Kai doesn't care about this. Indeed, Pepper and Adam have a relationship. But the question is, what does this have to do with Kai? If it were normal, in order to avoid embarrassment, Kai would naturally stay as far away from this woman as possible. But what time is it now?
Let’s not talk about the case itself, let’s just say that Susie’s mother is also involved behind it, and Kai must take it seriously! More importantly, Kai didn't like Pepper's behavior. What did she think the police were? Their security guard?
So just like that, our secretary to the president of Stark Group was personally sent to the police station detention room by her old lover on the first day she met her.
When the two policewomen handcuffed Tracey and Pepper, Tracey panicked and Pepper felt betrayed. She still can't believe that Adam would treat her like this.
Mills opened his mouth, wanting to say something. But in the end, I didn't dare to say it. He only dared to chase after him and go back to the police station with Tracy.
"Also, whoever let them in just now? Go back and find your immediate superior!"
Kay was not a Chicago police officer, and most of the police officers present didn't even know who he was. But when Kaihu gave orders with a straight face, everyone at the scene subconsciously obeyed in panic, for fear that no one would be scolded. But in fact, they don't know what they are afraid of.
"Okay, let's continue." Kai ignored the others. Instead, he continued to chat with William about the case.
William hesitated to speak, wanting to intercede. Kai saw that William couldn't work at all, so he could only tell the truth. "Don't worry about them. Remember, I'm not a Chicago police officer."
The reason is simple. Kay is not a Chicago police officer, so the order he issued is naturally a piece of waste paper. He simply didn't like irrelevant people entering the crime scene and Pepper's indifferent attitude. He was just trying to scare the two women. Of course, if the Chicago police had to prosecute them, there was nothing Kai could do.
He wasn't really familiar with them.
But William knows what he means, it depends on how he and Mills operate.
In fact, apart from the fingerprints on the wall, there were not even any footprints on the ground at the scene, which destroyed all the evidence. With William's status in the Chicago Police Department, it can be done with just one sentence.
Of course, the behavior of these two women is indeed not worth promoting.
"By the way, where did we just talk?"
"Oh, I just said these are the fingerprints of the murderer."
"Oh, what do you think?"
"I... can't say. Although we have only found two cases, this does not meet the criminal marks shown by the murderer."
The so-called criminal marking behavior refers to a special behavior performed by the criminal to satisfy certain psychological or emotional needs. It is a special and obvious habit of the criminal to commit crimes. The criminal psychology and criminal motivation pointed to by the marking behavior at the crime scene provide clues for the investigation, which is helpful for the analysis of serial cases and the investigation of combined cases.
Both the gluttony case and this greed case had several characteristics. The scene seemed messy, but in fact there were no clues or evidence available. Not to mention hair and fingerprints, all traces of the murderer had been removed from the scene. In this regard, the two cases are almost identical, and all fingerprints at the scene have been wiped clean. Except for the ones on the walls.
Secondly, it seems that the murderer did not simply want to kill these two victims, what he did was more like punishment! And it’s related to religion.
Finally, the murderer seems to be giving instructions intentionally, which is a warning of murder.
Just like the note left in the first case.
Although there is also a note here, there is no warning about the content of the note.
"I think so too. If nothing unexpected happens, this should be a warning left by the murderer!"
"You mean these are the next victim's fingerprints?"
"very possible!"
…
While Kai was studying the case, the Chicago Police Department was already in trouble.
Kai really didn't know that Pepper was Tony Stark's secretary. The arrest of Tony Stark's secretary caused an uproar among the upper echelons of the Chicago Police Department, especially when Stark Industries had just planned to hold an industrial expo in Chicago!
You know, next year's Industrial Expo has become Chicago's most important event in recent years, which has an extraordinary impact on Chicago's economy.
If it were anyone else, perhaps neither the Chicago government nor the police would think that the arrest of a small secretary would have any impact on such a major event. But if this person is Tony Stark, that's a different story.
In addition to his unparalleled talent and countless tidbits, this playboy is most famous for his willful personality. He can really do it!
