S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 2 Chapter 39
Murderer vs Murderer 12 – Students
"Self-mutilation?" Zhan Zhao looked at Bai
Yutang, "Xiao Bai, are you sure?"
Bai Yutang frowned slightly, “I have seen a similar
case before.” After he spoke, he called Zhao Hu, “Hey, Hu Zi. Come down to Li
Fei’s dormitory to check something out. Also, have Gongsun come with you.”
As he hung up the phone, Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao,
“Hu Zi will know if it’s the same or not after seeing it.”
Zhan Zhao nodded and walked around the corpse to look
at the furnishings in the room. As he looked around, he thought that the room
was too clean and tidy to be a male dormitory. Zhan Zhao stretched his hand out
and touched the bed frame; there wasn’t even a trace of dust.
Looking back at Bai Yutang, he saw that Bai Yutang had
turned around to talk to the teacher whose legs were shaking, “The boy’s
dormitory in your school is very clean.”
The teacher took a deep breath, shook his head, and
sighed. “This is the only one that is like this.”
“Oh?” Zhan Zhao looked at the teacher, “Why do you say
that?”
“Li Fei is well-known for having a cleanliness
addiction.” The teacher shook his head helplessly.
“His two roommates don’t mind it?” Bai Yutang was
curious.
“Wang Peng rarely lives here; there was an empty room
in the dormitory so he stays there. His other roommate is a local, so he
basically lives at home; he only uses this room to store some things.” The
teacher replied.
“In other words, Li Fei has always stayed here alone,
right? Zhan Zhao asked.
The teacher waved his hand and shook his head, “I know
what you are thinking, but it’s actually the opposite of that. Li Fei is quite
popular. The others don’t live with him as they are worried that he will have
to clean up after them.”
“Captain.” Zhao Hu spoke as he opened the door. He
entered the room with Gongsun following him.
“Take a look at it.” Bai Yutang nodded his head toward
Li Fei’s corpse.
Zhao Hu frowned when he saw it. He squatted down to
look at Li Fei’s feet and saw that his feet were tied to the legs of the chair.
Zhao Hu stood up and said to Bai Yutang “The boss… has cleaned up the door.”
“Can you tell which group did it?” Bai Yutang asked.
Zhao Hu thought for a while and said, “Captain, this
is indeed ‘cleaning up the door’, but something is off about it.”
“Oh?” Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other
and asked Zhao Hu, “What’s wrong with it?”
“Well, the so-called ‘cleaning up the door’ is
actually a way to punish a traitor based on their identity and the number of
brothers they have killed.” Zhao Hu
whispered. “Traitors are usually tied to a chair, with their hands and feet
being tied to the chair legs. Then a knife is used to start to cut pieces off
of them, one for each brother killed, starting from the left arm.”
“But his hands are not tied.” Zhan Zhao looked at the
wrists of the deceased, and there were no marks on them.
“He was placed here after he died.” Gongsun squatted
down to look at the deceased’s ankles that were tied to the chair, “There are
no marks on his ankles either. Anyone who is being tied up while they are alive
would struggle and try to get out. Judging by the amount of blood on the ground,
he was definitely placed here after he died.”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, “There
are at least several hundred pieces of flesh in the bag… Did he kill hundreds
of gang members? If that were the case, the police would have noticed it by
now.”
“Also,” Zhao Hu added, “There are no major active
gangs in S City right now.”
Bai Yutang nodded, “I agree with this. The current
economic crisis is making it difficult for gangsters to make money, so many
have changed careers.”
Zhao Hu smiled and said “Also, it’s usually the big
gangs that use techniques like this.”
“Listening to you, the layout of this scene seems a
bit unprofessional.” Zhan Zhao said, “It’s like someone is imitating the
techniques of the major gangs.”
Bai Yutang nodded again, “But there are not many
people who know about this technique. The purpose of using self-mutilation
should be to convey a certain message. Also, this technique is not a formal
one. It’s possible that someone is imitating the technique in order to send
some kind of message.”
“This boy’s obsession about cleanliness is very
serious.” Zhan Zhao pointed to the books on the desk and said, “All of his
books are wrapped in pure white book covers and are arranged in order of height
and thickness.”
“A cleaning addition is a type of obsessive-compulsive
disorder.” Bai Yutang shook his head, saying in his heart – ‘He is even worse
than me.’
Zhan Zhao seemed to have heard Bai Yutang’s thoughts.
He leaned over with a smile and said “Xiao Bai, if your condition gets worse,
you will be the same as him. How about it, do you want me to treat you?”
Bai Yutang smiled slightly. Seeing that no one was
paying attention to them, he leaned in to Zhan Zhao’s ear and spoke in a very
low voice “Okay, let’s try to do it outside tonight.”
Zhan Zhao glared at him, and Bai Yutang laughed, “It’s
tempting, isn’t it Cat?”
……
“He died earlier this morning.” Gongsun roughly
inspected the body and said, “From the knife marks, more that one person cut
his flesh.”
“Oh?” Zhan Zhao walked over to look.
“I have checked the pieces of flesh. Some of the
cutters are left-handed and others are right-handed.”
“Meng Kuangyue is left-handed.” The teacher spoke up,
“The twins are right-handed.”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other and
understood the meaning of the teacher’s words.
“Listening to your tone, it seems as though you
suspect those three students.” Bai Yutang asked the teacher, “Why do you
suspect those three?”
The teacher looked at Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, “Those
three students are socially isolated and exhibit weird behaviour. Because Li
Fei is the class monitor, he has often tried to communicate with the three of
them, trying to persuade them to change their ways and to be better people.”
“Did they find him annoying?” Zhan Zhao shook his head
slightly. “That is just tension between students, do you need to be so ruthless
towards them?”
“This is a murder case after all.” Bai Yutang smiled
slightly, “If I were you, I would tell us everything that should be said.”
The teacher turned pale. He thought about it before
nodding helplessly and saying “There were indeed some incidents that happened,
but the principal won’t let me talk about them.”
Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, “You’d better say it.
It’s better to tell us now then to have to come back to the police station,
isn’t it?”
The teacher sighed and said, “We found out a long time
ago that those three were dealing with some drug dealers and underworld people.
In short, they are contacting people outside the school and we can’t control
that.”
“Why were they not expelled?” Bai Yutang frowned
slightly, “This is the police academy. Aren’t all of the students here future
police officers? If they aren’t clean, doesn’t that mean that you are sending
black sheep into the police force?”
“Uh… about that... The school is actually having
difficulties.” The teacher explained, “That Meng Kuangyue has a very powerful
family background.”
Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other and had
nothing to say. A short while later, the forensic personnel had finished
collecting the evidence on scene. Luo Tian called and said that they had not
found the three students inside the school or out on the school grounds. He had
also called the students’ homes to inquire about them and their families said
that they hadn’t returned home for a long time. He got their numbers from their
families, but none of them answered his calls. Asking the other students, none
of them had good impressions of them. Wang Peng also said that the three of
them were last seen having a dispute with Li Fei at the school gate yesterday.
“What were they arguing about?” Zhan Zhao had people
bring Wang Peng to the door of the dormitory so he could talk to him.
“I didn’t hear them clearly, but they seemed to be
arguing and they looked like they were going to fight. Meng Kuangyue had the
twins and Li Fei was alone, it was three against one. Wouldn’t Li Fei have lost
if they actually fought? I approached them to try to calm them down.” Wang Peng
stood at the door of the dormitory, trying to see what was inside, but the door
was closed.
Bai Yutang laughed when he saw how curious he was,
“You’d better not look at it, otherwise you will be traumatized.”
“Meng Kuangyue told Li Fei to wait for him as he when
he was leaving. Making him wait like that, he must have wanted to make himself
look good to others.” Wang Peng said with a sad face, “He was really ruthless
at the time.”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other and
asked Wang Peng “Do you know where Meng Kuangyue and the twins are living off
campus?”
Wang Peng hesitated for a moment before answering “I
only know that they are staying in the community behind the school. They live
quite close to the school.”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang asked the school for photos
of the three people then took Bai Chi and Luo Tian to search the community
behind the school.
“This police academy is outrageous.” Zhan Zhao shook
his head. “Who would dare to hire a student trained like this?”
Bai Yutang smiled, “Cat, Chi Chi went to school here.”
Bai Chi blushed. He nodded and spoke in a low voice,
“It has always been like this here.”
“By the way Chi Chi,” Zhan Zhao felt it was a bit
strange, “This is your alma matter. Why don’t you have any feelings about it?”
Bai Chi shook his head and whispered “It’s all bad
memories so I don’t think about it. In fact, most of the students that are
trained here end up being stuck as patrol officers or get transferred to a
clerical position.”
“Then you are considered one of the best.” Luo Tian
felt curious. “The principal seems to be quite powerful, why doesn’t he try to
get close to you?”
Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao also nodded with doubt.
“Heh…” Bai Chi scratched his head in anguish. “You
tell me. The teachers never knew about the relationship between me and the Bai
family because my father didn’t let me talk about it. He didn’t want me to be
treated specially. The principal used to scold me quite a bit. He’s not as kind
as he seems to be.”
As they were talking, the four of them had already
reached the entrance of Xingfu Community. They talked to the security personnel
and learned that Meng Kuangyue and the twins lived in Room 408 of Building 29.
Bai Yutang and the other reached the door of 408 and rang the doorbell.
The doorbell rang for a while but no one answered the
door. Bai Yutang frowned suddenly and whispered “There’s something inside!”
Luo Tian nodded and he laid down on the floor. After
listening for a while, he raised his eyebrows in confusion, “It sounds like
it’s an animal.”
“Do they have a dog?” Zhan Zhao wondered.
Bai Yutang winked at Luo Tian. The two of them stepped
back and prepared to kick the door down. Bai Chi was a little worried, “Is it
okay to go in like this?”
Zhan Zhao touched his head and winked at him, “If
someone asks, we heard someone calling for help. We suspected that the three
students were being threatened so we went in.”
Bai Chi was helpless; he was too honest to be a police
officer these days.
Bai Yutang and Luo Tian took a few steps back and
kicked at the same time. With a ‘boom’, the door was kicked open. As soon as
the door opened, a dark shadow rushed at them. Bai Yutang’s eyes were
quick and his hands were quicker. He reached his hand out and grabbed the tail
of the creature.
With a flick of his wrist, Bai Yutang threw the
creature. It flew quite a distance, hitting the wall and collapsing to the
ground. There was a low growl that came from its throat and it looked nervously
at the people by the door.
“A dog?” Bai Chi stared at the arched and toothy dog.
“What kinds of dog is this?”
Zhan Zhao frowned, “Why is it’s mouth so pointed?”
“Look at its tail.” Bai Yutang pointed to the ‘dog’s’ thick and drooping tail. “This is simply a wolf.”
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Translator Notes
I got a few chapters ahead over the last few days so I am uploading 2 today. ♪(ΰΉα΄◡α΄ΰΉ)♪
Please feel free to comment any mistakes I made so I can improve and do better as I go through the book.
Translated: March 29, 2021
Yaaay!~ thank you so much for the chapter!!!~ ππ»ππ»ππ»ππ»ππ»
ReplyDeleteYour welcome~~ (α¦˘⌣˘α¦)
DeleteA wolf?? Our boys are used to a lion, but a wolf is new ))
ReplyDeleteThis school seems to be not so decent.
I definitely wouldn't want to go to that school
DeleteThank you so much for translatingππ
ReplyDeleteThank you for reading it ♥♥
Deletethat is definitely not a high quality academy
ReplyDeleteIt really isn't...
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