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Chapter 230

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That childish and rough painting originally had nothing special, just an ordinary character painting. However, among the few characters in the picture, there was a discovery that made his scalp tingle! In the distance, there was a figure whose head was covered under a hoodie!

Gu Changzheng's throat rolled with difficulty as he swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "Old Zheng! Is that the killer?! He has been to the Welfare Institute!"

Old Zheng said: "It should be. Asking the child who drew this painting might yield unexpected gains."

Xiao Yuanzhang, who was standing not far away, had already heard the conversation between the two. She came over and took a look at the bottom right corner of the painting and said: "Oh, this was drawn by Xu Xiaojia. I'll go call him over now!"

"Wait a moment!" Gu Changzheng called out to Xiao Fang who was about to go out and said: "Luo Fei, you go with Xiao Yuanzhang. Remember, don't scare the child!"

A strange look flashed in Xiao Fang's eyes, but there was no change on her face. She nodded and said: "Right, it's best for Officer Luo to go with me. I'm still scared to death right now."

Gu Changzheng smiled without saying anything, just looked at her. Luo Fei went to find the child named Xu Xiaojia with her.

"Old Zheng, do you think this killer will continue to commit crimes?" Gu Changzheng asked.

"Normally speaking, he won't. He kills so unscrupulously, completely provoking the public security organs! If he is not brought to justice, I'm afraid our city's nearly ten thousand police officers won't agree!"

"However, this killer doesn't seem to be a normal person!" Gu Changzheng sighed with worry.

Xu Xiaojia was a short little boy, but his eyes were clever. He stood behind Xiao Fang, his demeanor a bit scared and a bit curious.

"Xiaojia, this is Police Uncle. He wants to ask you some things. You must answer seriously, okay!" Xiao Fang bent down and said to Xu Xiaojia.

Gu Changzheng gave him a slight smile and then looked at Luo Fei: "Luo Fei, you go to her office with Xiao Yuanzhang. You understand the situation of Chen Mengyao first, and I'll come over in a while!" Saying this, he beckoned to Xu Xiaojia and said: "Xiaojia, come to Uncle, Uncle has some questions to discuss with you."

Xiao Fang understood that Gu Changzheng didn't want her at the scene, but she had no reason to refuse, so she had to follow Luo Fei out.

Seeing Xiao Fang leave, Xu Xiaojia seemed to relax his whole body. He slowly walked to Gu Changzheng, his big eyes flashing on his thin little face: "Police Uncle, are you investigating Sister Chen's matter?" Saying this, those bright big eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, and then his eye sockets turned red, and bean-sized tears were about to fall!

Gu Changzheng thought: This child seems to be only ten years old, but he is very smart!

He reached out and stroked Xu Xiaojia's head, saying softly: "Xiaojia, Uncle asks you, did you draw this painting?" He pointed to the painting and said.

"Hmm! Sister Chen taught us to draw! These are all!"

"Oh? Were these paintings drawn in one day?"

"No, some are from before, some were drawn recently."

"Hmm! Then when did you draw this one? Are the characters on it imagined by you, or were they all at the scene when you were drawing that day?"

"Hmm..." Xiaojia tilted his head, obviously recalling the scene that day, "Hmm! I remember now, it was a week ago. It wasn't raining that day, so Sister Chen let us draw in the courtyard, and then, and then I drew the people I saw. Look, this is Sister Chen, this is Xiaoyou, this is Feifei..." Xiaojia pointed to the various colored little people on the painting whose outlines could barely be distinguished and introduced them one by one. When he pointed to the gray figure at the end of the painting, he suddenly stopped the introduction: "Who is this, this, this? I don't know him!"

Saying this, he became anxious.

Seeing this, Gu Changzheng hurriedly comforted him: "Don't be anxious, Xiaojia, Uncle knows your memory must be very good, you just can't remember who he is for a moment, right? It's okay, Uncle asks you, this person was also at the scene that day, not drawn by Xiaojia at will, right?"

Xiaojia thought seriously for a while and said: "Hmm! Sister Chen said, our paintings should pursue true beauty, no need to add fictional characters."

Gu Changzheng nodded: "Then Xiaojia, go with Uncle to see the place where you were drawing that day, okay?" He thought of the scene, using the real scene to trigger Xiaojia's memory.

Xiaojia nodded. Several people left the dormitory (of course, when Xiaojia came to the dormitory, the technical department police had already handled the scene, Xiaojia didn't, and couldn't possibly see that terrible scene) and came to the playground outside. Xiaojia pointed to the open space in the rain and talked about the scene where Chen Mengyao took them to draw that day. Gu Changzheng looked at this small playground of about 100 square meters. The playground fence was a white plastic steel fence, and outside was a green belt. Several camphor trees grew on the green belt, and the huge canopy formed a natural barrier.

"Xiaojia, why didn't you draw those big trees in your painting?" Gu Changzheng asked.

Xiaojia blinked his eyes and said: "My practice content that day was to draw characters, so I didn't draw trees, but other children drew trees!"

Gu Changzheng was stunned for a moment. Thinking carefully, it was true. Some of the paintings indeed had flowers, plants, and trees as content!

At this time, Xiaojia said: "Police Uncle, I remember now, that gray one (he was referring to the gray figure in the painting) was under the big tree outside!"

"Are you sure!" Gu Changzheng thought: Sure enough! Chen Mengyao was not randomly chosen by him, but premeditated! According to Xiaojia's memory, the gray hoodie had already been watching Chen Mengyao a week ago, and during this period, he also killed Xia Fei and Su Yuqing!

It seems that they must have been watched by him for a long time before being killed!

What is the connection between these three girls? Selecting them, what kind of psychology is the killer in, or does he have some intersection with these girls...

At this time, the big tree outside the Welfare Institute rustled in the wind and rain, like some kind of ominous omen.

Gu Changzheng bit his alveolar, and a fighting spirit surged up in his heart! He knew that this battle with the devil had reached the most critical moment. And what was even more terrible was that he felt the killer seemed to be by his side, watching everything......

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