So, for one moment—just one moment—he actually thought Master Xiao's suggestion was a good one?
He really was still a long way off.
Meng Jixi shook his head.
He was a police officer.
Criminals had to face the punishment prescribed by law.
"What cause of death did the police give for Li Wei?"
Seeing Meng Jixi set down his teacup, Xiao Xiao asked.
"He was poisoned with corpse-dissolving liquid, then pecked to death by birds."
Meng Jixi poured himself another cup of tea. "Li Wei liked eating birds. He kept a lot of them at home."
"Besides eating them, Li Wei also prepared a chemical similar to corpse-dissolving liquid to dispose of the birds he tortured to death."
"An accident caused him to get the chemical on himself, and then a flock of birds attacked him."
"Li Wei looks clean now because the coroner cleaned him up."
Meng Jixi lifted his teacup and drained it again.
"It's a rather unbelievable cause of death."
"But the real cause of his death is even more unbelievable."
"Did Li Wei's family believe it?"
Xiao Xiao couldn't help wondering if that cause of death sounded a little too far-fetched.
This was a city, not a prairie or a forest.
Pecked to death and eaten by birds?
Most people would find that hard to believe, wouldn't they?
"Why wouldn't they believe it?"
Meng Jixi raised an eyebrow. "How else would you explain why all that was left of Li Wei was a skeleton?"
"The police couldn't just invent a nonexistent murderer."
"How would we cover our tracks afterward?"
"This explanation works."
"It's true that Li Wei ate birds and tortured them to death."
"Let's just say being killed by birds was his comeuppance."
"Li Wei's family all believed it."
Of course, they'd