Start at the pet store

Ji Ling and Ding Mimi looked at him, and then nodded vigorously together: "Hmm..."

Lu Jingxing raised his head and said, "But this matter is obviously difficult to handle. Does he own this house?"

Ding Mimi thought for a while and shook her head: "Probably not. I remember he seemed to say that he rented it, but he has rented it for a long time. He has been here since I got here."

"Sister Ding, tell us what kind of person you know about him..." Ji Ling said.

Ding Mimi smiled slightly: "I'm not very familiar with him, but because we are similar in age, we did have some interactions, but at most, he would come to drink a cup of coffee occasionally, and then he would send some cat food or something from time to time. Come here We usually just talk about cats and stuff.”

"Do you know where he is from and what experiences he has had?" Lu Jingxing asked.

"I heard, I heard, I heard that he had very good grades when he was studying. He was recommended to a prestigious school, but he did not graduate from the university. It seems that he was dismissed by the school, but I don't know why he was dismissed. He is a local He's a guy, but not from this street. I hardly saw him having any friends. Anyway, I didn't see him going out with anyone. Another thing is, I actually don't dare to stay with him for too long. After chatting with him for a while, I would find something else to do and ignore him," Ding Mimi said.

"Why?" Ji Ling asked curiously.

"I can't really tell. I just feel depressed after being with him for a long time, and his smile makes me uncomfortable." Ding Mimi didn't know why she felt this way, maybe it was just an intuition.

Lu Jingxing nodded after hearing this and didn't ask any more questions: "Then let's think about it again and see if there is any other way."

"Do you think that basement is where he usually operates? As long as we go in there, we will know the general truth?" Ji Ling said suddenly.

"But we can't break in without any reason, there must be a reason..." Ding Mimi said.

"Do you have a property here? Is his house rented or has a landlord? Can we ask the landlord?" Lu Jingxing took a sip of coffee and said.

"There is a property, but the landlord doesn't know. As for the property, we do have such a rule here, that is, every store will leave a spare key to the property, and he must have put it in his store, but if it is It's just a suspicion, the property management will definitely not open the door. Besides, if it's not the case, let's put it this way, the property management won't be able to explain it then..." Ding Mimi thought for a while and said.

Lu Jingxing nodded, that was indeed the case.

"Sister Ding, do those storefronts opposite have basements?" Ji Ling looked at the row of storefronts opposite. On the left side of the bookstore was an advertising and graphic store, and on the right was a small hairdresser's shop. The hairdresser's business was pretty good at the moment, with people coming and going. of.

"They should all have the same apartment type, but I've never been to their basement, so I don't know what it looks like." Ding Mimi said.

Lu Jingxing and Ji Ling looked at each other, with smiles in their eyes.

Ji Ling then said: "How is your relationship with the owner of the advertising shop or hairdresser over there? Can you tell them that there is a leak in the basement of the bookstore, and ask the real estate agent to take a look. In this way, the real estate agent should agree. Bar?"

Ding Mimi's eyes lit up: "This seems to work..."

Lu Jingxing smiled and nodded, looking at Ji Ling with admiration. This girl is really smart.

"I'll call them now. I have a good relationship with the two proprietresses. They often come to my store to see the cats and have a cup of coffee." Ding Mimi quickly went to the bar and took the phone. , made two voice calls and went out.

Then he raised his phone and turned to look at the two of them: "They will be here soon..."

Soon, the proprietresses of the two shops came out of their shops, and they walked to the coffee shop together.

"Hey, did Mimi come to see you too?" The proprietress of the advertising shop, who was in her thirties, greeted the proprietress of the hairdressing shop with a smile.

"Hmm...have I sent you a message too?" The proprietress of the hair salon looks younger, but Ding Mimi said that she is actually the oldest among the three of them. However, she pays more attention to maintenance, so she looks younger. young.

"Mimi..." the two of them said, laughing together as they entered the door. After opening the door, the voice of the proprietress of the advertising shop came over.

"I'm here..." Ding Mimi smiled and waved to the two of them.

"What's going on? You're so anxious. I washed someone's hair and ran over halfway. Who are these two?" the hairdresser's wife said in a crisp voice and sat down with a smile.

"Friend, do you love the owner of a pet shop and the owner... mother?" Ding Mimi smiled slyly.

Ji Ling blushed and looked at the two proprietresses: "Hello..."

"Hey, the little girl is so embarrassed...haha..." The advertising shop proprietress also laughed.

"Everyone calls me Sister May. You can also call me Sister May. Her surname is Huang, so she can be called Sister Huang..." The proprietress of the hair salon said with a smile: "Hey, Mimi, you haven't said anything yet..."

Lu Jingxing smiled and greeted the two of them, then looked at Ding Mimi: "Do you think it's better for me?"

"Let me tell you..." Ding Mimi waved her hand.

"What's going on? Why is it so mysterious? Has he thought of some way to make a fortune? Or did this little boss want to open a pet shop on our street? But speaking of it, it should be good to open a pet shop here. The nearest pet shop is three streets away..." May answered.

"What are you thinking about? It's like this. You have a basement in front of your store, right?" Ding Mimi asked.

May and Sister Huang looked at each other and nodded: "Yes, we have it all. What's wrong? They want to rent a basement?" This May always thinks ahead of time.

"I say, can you stop thinking too much..." Ding Mimi said speechlessly.

"Okay, okay, I won't say anything, you tell me..." May raised her hands and gave the right to speak to Ding Mimi.

Then, Ding Mimi told the whole story, from when she saw the bookstore owner burying the cat to when Lu Jingxing and his men came to her door, she told them everything.

Ji Ling and Lu Jingxing both listened quietly, and waited until Ding Mimi finished speaking before adding: "Our clerk was a little strange at the time, because when he sent the cat over that night, our colleagues saw that he had a lot of scratches on his hands. Those scratches were new and old, and obviously not recent. In addition, we also asked Boss Ding, and she said that the bookstore owner did not have a cat, so we all had doubts in this regard..." Lu Jingxing said.

May and Sister Huang looked at each other in disbelief.

"Although, he is a little... how to say it, it's just a little bit abnormal, but cat abuse?" This was the first time Sister Huang spoke after entering the store, and she felt it was incredible.

"Don't mention it. Now that you mentioned it, I also feel a little strange. One time, a close friend came to get her hair done. Because it was done very late, I didn't go back that night and rested in the basement. In the middle of the night, I did hear a cat meowing, and it was a very miserable meow. I was scared awake at that time. When he came to get a haircut the next day, I told him about it. He said that it might be a cat in heat that would meow randomly. Although I didn't think it was the meow of a cat in heat at that time, and it was not the season for cats in heat at that time, I didn't think about it elsewhere, and we didn't usually live in the store, so I didn't pay attention to this matter later. So, in other words, the cat meowing that time I heard might be him torturing the cat?" May frowned and said.

Several people looked at her.

"So, what do you want to do?" May looked at these people.

"It's like this, Sister May..." Ji Ling, who had been silent, said, "Because we don't have any evidence now, we have considered calling the police, and the police probably won't file a case. And even if they do, they will only lock him up for a few days at most, and they won't be able to sentence him or anything. So, let's discuss whether we can go to his basement and look for evidence."

"Go to his basement?" May and Sister Huang looked at each other, still not understanding: "What should we do after we get there? Call the police again? Will the police arrest him?"

Lu Jingxing shook his head gently: "Maybe they will, maybe not, but now that the Internet is well developed, maybe we can think of other ways to make him have nowhere to hide, at least it will be a deterrent to him."

May and Sister Huang finally understood, and they nodded without hesitation: "Then go to his basement, how? Call a locksmith company?"

"You can think of that, that's trespassing into a famous house, how can it be..." Ding Mimi sneered.

"What should we do then?" May didn't understand, this wouldn't work, and that wouldn't work.

"It's like this, sister May, we just thought of a way. We all know that the property management company has the key. You can say that you think there is a water leak in the basement of his store, but you can't contact him. Even if the property management company can contact him, it doesn't matter. We may ask the property management company to open the door." Ji Ling told the plan discussed by several people.

"This is a good idea... No problem, I'll call the property management company right away..." May agreed immediately.

Several people smiled at each other. It seems that this problem can be solved soon.

May is a person who does what she says. She immediately called the property management company and told them the situation. The property management company asked her to wait for a while and they would contact the bookstore owner first.

After hanging up the phone, Sister Huang also called the property management company a few minutes later.

Sister Huang's tone was more anxious than May's: "You have to contact us quickly. The water has come to my store. I have printing equipment downstairs. If it floods, one machine will cost hundreds of thousands."

Several people secretly gave her a thumbs up after hearing this. This move was really great, and the property management had to solve it quickly.

Sure enough, the property management called back soon: "Hello, we haven't contacted the bookstore owner either. In this case, we will arrange our staff to come over immediately. Are you in the store?"

Sister Huang blinked at them: "Yes, yes, I'll wait for you at the door of the bookstore."

After that, they stood up together.

Then they looked at Ding Mimi who was sitting in a wheelchair.

Ding Mimi smiled and shook her head: "I'll wait for you in his store later. You can go to the basement. Anyway, you can take videos and photos. I don't have to be there in person. Besides, if it was really him, I don't want to see that scene."

So, Ji Ling helped Ding Mimi push the wheelchair, and they went out together.

The property management quickly sent a young security guard over.

Seeing five or six people standing in front of the bookstore, he was confused for a moment: "How many stores have been flooded?"

"Let's go in and take a look first, hurry up..." May didn't give the security guard time to react and urged him to open the door.

The security guard came to open the door anyway, so he didn't hesitate after being urged by her and opened the door neatly.

Entering the bookstore, the storefront was not big, and the books were piled up in a mess. It seemed that he left in a hurry. Lu Jingxing thought this was a good thing. Leaving in a hurry meant that the basement must not have been cleaned in time.

"The basement is usually at the back..." Several people walked to the back.

"His door is an anti-theft door. We don't have the key to this door..." The security guard led everyone to the door of the basement.

"Why did he install a door here? We don't have a door there, and this staircase is narrow..." May said.

"Then there must be a problem, but what can we do?" Ji Ling said.

"We have a special locksmith. Let me ask our leader if we can ask him to come over?" The security guard took out his phone.

"Okay, okay, thank you, young master, hurry up, it will be troublesome if the water floods into my storefront." Sister Huang looked anxious.

"Right away, right away..." The security guard immediately called the leader, and the leader agreed immediately.

Everyone waited for about ten minutes, and the locksmith came.

The master's skills were excellent. After just a few fiddles, in less than a quarter of an hour, the hard anti-theft door was opened by the locksmith. A foul smell came to the face, and even though there was a floor between them, everyone frowned and fanned their noses.

"Why is it so smelly? Is there something dead in there?" The security guard said as he walked downstairs.

He walked first, and the others followed him down.

The stairs were very narrow, the entire basement was made of cement panels, and the underground floor was not decorated. There were no handrails on the stairs. May wore high heels and followed carefully down.

"Ah..." The security guard who went downstairs first shouted, scaring everyone behind him.

Everyone quickened their pace and went downstairs quickly. It was pitch black downstairs. The security guard was standing at the entrance, staring at the light on his cell phone.

Although they had already prepared for what was going on, they were still shocked when they saw it.

Lu Jingxing found the switch and turned on the light. There was only a very weak light, which could barely see the situation inside, but even with the weakest light, the bloodstains on the ground were horrible.

There were cat hairs everywhere, and even body parts. There were even the bodies of cats that had died a long time ago in the cages lined up against the wall. They had all become mummies, just hanging by the side of the cages.

Several ladies were stunned.