S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 2 Chapter 87

Password Murderer 25 – Deciphering the Password

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“Cat, can’t you wake her up?” Bai Yutang asked.

Zhan Zhao shook his head, “I don’t know what instructions the other person used when hypnotizing her, so there is no way…”

“Can you suppress it?” Jasmine asked Zhan Zhao, “We don’t know what instructions the other person gave Ling Ling back then, will she do anything?”

Zhan Zhao frowned deeply, “No, she already has affects of hypnosis in her mind, and she is extremely confused now. If I give her more psychological hints… she might completely lose herself.”

“Lose herself?” Bai Yutang was puzzled.

“It’s just that she may never find her original self again.” Zhan Zhao said, “She would become another person completely. That would be the equivalent of killing her with my own hands. It’s absolutely impossible.”

Bai Yutang nodded, “But her situation is still dangerous, I will find people to watch her in shifts.”

Zhan Zhao nodded. He reached out and patted Ye Ling, who still holding his arm, “Ling Ling, you can rest for a while, okay?”

Ye Ling listened to Zhan Zhao’s words intently and asked, “Mo Mo, are you leaving?”

Zhan Zhao nodded, “I still have work to do. Can I come see you again in a few days?”

Ye Ling seemed a bit reluctant, and asked, “In a few days? Will I not see you for a long time?”

Zhan Zhao shook his head and spoke with a smile, “Don’t worry, I will be back in three days. You can hold on for a while.”

Ye Ling nodded blankly. Zhan Zhao bent down and stared into Ye Ling’s eyes, saying seriously, “Ling Ling, promise me that you will hold on, okay?”

Ye Ling tilted her head and looked at Zhan Zhao in confusion.

Zhan Zhao smiled, “You are the real master of this body. No matter what terrible things want to drive you away and occupy this body, don’t let them, okay? I will come to save you.”

Ye Ling looked at Zhan Zhao’s eyes and nodded, “En, I believe you!”

Zhan Zhao stood up, and saw Jasmine looking up at him with red eyes, while holding a book with both hands. He asked her inexplicably, “What’s the matter?”

Jasmine swayed intoxicatedly, “I will come to save you… Ah, such a gentle knight. If you told me that, then I will go crazy too!”

Zhan Zhao couldn’t laugh or cry. Bai Yutang grabbed his arm angrily, “Let’s go Cat!” After he spoke, he pulled Zhan Zhao out of the room.

Jasmine waved her hand, “Oh, so jealous.” As she spoke, she turned around to cover Ye Ling with a quilt, “Ling Ling, you go to bed first. I will come see you in two days. What would you like to eat, should I bring it for you?”

Ye Ling shook her head.

“Then, I’ll see you soon.” Jasmine waved to her, opened the door, and went out. Ye Ling waved back to her.

When everyone was gone, Ye Ling got up from the bed, ran to the window, opened her eyes wide, and stared at the road leading to the building. She saw Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walking out.

Ye Ling reached out and grabbed the curtain beside her, quietly watching…

“How was it? Do you want to believe him?”

“… He seems to be very good.”

“Is he better than him?”

“I do not know.”

“I want to believe him, I’m so tired.”

“En…”

“Then what do you want to tell him?”

“… Wait, wait…”

Outside the sanatorium, Jasmine bid farewell to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang. Zhan Zhao suddenly said to Jasmine, “Jasmine, don’t come back for a while. Besides, Ye Ling’s treatment will be temporarily stopped, okay?”

Jasmine was taken aback for a moment, then nodded, “Okay, Professor.” After she spoke, she got into her car and waved at Zhan Zhao. Then she blew a kiss at Bai Yutang, “Bye, handsome man.” After speaking, she drove away happily.

Bai Yutang couldn’t laugh or cry. He opened the car door, “Cat, get in the car. Jiang Ping found out that the owner of Yanhe Tea Restaurant hasn’t changed for more than ten years. It seems that we can find a clue this time.”

Zhan Zhao nodded. He looked up at the sanatorium building in the distance, then got into the car.

Bai Yutang started the car and asked, “What’s wrong? Are you worried about it?”

Zhan Zhao was silent for a while, then asked, “Where do you think the best place to lock up a person is?”

Bai Yutang was taken aback and thought for a while, “In prison?”

Zhan Zhao smiled and shook his head, “No.”

“Where is it?” Bai Yutang asked while driving.

Zhan Zhao raised his legs, stretched his hand out, and gently rubbed his eyebrows, “In your own body… You can never escape.”

Bai Yutang was silent… After about twenty minutes, the car finally drove out of the quiet suburbs. They slowly entered the high-speed road filled with traffic, and the surroundings became noisy.

Bai Yutang turned and saw that Zhan Zhao still had a bad face, so he said, “Cat.”

Zhan Zhao raised his head to look at him. Bai Yutang suddenly leaned over and kissed him. As soon as the car shook, they heard the sound of brakes behind them.

Zhan Zhao was so startled that he almost didn’t scream. Bai Yutang grabbed the steering wheel, laughed, and pulled the car back into the lane that it had deviated from. He heard the sound of honking and screaming behind him.

Zhan Zhao looked at the mischievous and presumptuous smile on Bai Yutang’s face, and the cloud in his heart dissipated. He wanted to scold him severely, but his words turned into laughter. In the end, he could only shake his head and grind his teeth, “Crazy mouse.”

“Are you hungry?” Seeing that Zhan Zhao’s mood had recovered, Bai Yutang asked, “Why don’t we go to Yanhe Tea Restaurant to try the chicken drumstick rice that is said to be delicious?”

“Hmm…” Zhan Zhao smiled, “I want two drumsticks!”

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, sped up, and drove to the restaurant on the riverside.

……

Gongsun looked at Qiao Weiming’s files at the desk in the forensic room for several days. He was dizzy, but still couldn’t find the so-called password, which was a bit annoying.

At that moment, Ma Xin walked in and saw Gongsun frowning while staring at the autopsy report, “Sir, why don’t you let your brain rest for a while?”

Gongsun turned his face to look at her, and saw Ma Xin with one hand in the pocket of her lab coat and a hot dog in the other. She walked and ate it in an unimaginative manner, with sauce on her mouth.

Gongsun sighed, “Xin Xin, you are such a beautiful woman, how come you have such a weird personality?”

Ma Xin shrugged, “This is the right of a female forensic pathologist. Anyway, if a girl is a forensic pathologist, no matter how gentle of a lady she is, she will be regarded as a freak. It’s better to just be comfortable, right?”

Gongsun thought it sounded quite reasonable, so he nodded. Thinking about it, he asked, “Have you read the report?”

Ma Xin couldn’t laugh or cry, “How many times have you shown it to me? My dreams are all scorched corpses now.”

“You can’t think of the password?” Gongsun was a little frustrated.

“En…” Ma Xin took another bite of her hot dog, “Sir, I think that since Qiao Weiming gave you these things and mentioned the password to you, it proves that you should be the only one who can crack it.”

Gongsun raised his head to look at Ma Xin, “Why do you say that?”

Ma Xin took a sip of the Coke on the table, “That Qiao Weiming, according to my analysis, actually really cares about you professionally.”

Gongsun waited for Ma Xin to continue talking with interest.

“He should really want to defeat you.” Ma Xin said, “In other words, I think what Qiao Weiming wants to see the most is that you can’t figure out the password, and you finally know the frustration of suddenly realizing and admitting failure.”

Gongsun nodded, “I can imagine what that expression would look like on his perverted face.”

Ma Xin laughed, put the last bit of hot dog in her mouth, and said, “This pashword musht be shomeshing schat you mhmalready know, you shusht shon’t remember.” (Angel: I had to change this from the original text so that it made sense in English. Ma Xin is speaking with hot dog in her mouth, making the words come out oddly.)

Gongsun reluctantly watched Ma Xin speak with a mouth full of hot dog, but he still understood what she said. Ma Xin meant, ‘This password may be something that you already knew… it’s just that you can’t remember it.”

At that time, Ma Xin heard the ‘kurukuru’ sound of drinking Coke. Gongsun looked up at the clock on the wall, and said, “It seems I’d better find a better place to reset my mind.”

Ma Xin nodded, and pointed outside, “By the way, when I went to buy the hot dog, I saw a black Mercedes parked downstairs, and a very handsome man unscrupulously smoking a cigarette in a public place in a posture that could kill women. All of the hot girls who pass by him winked at him as he smoked… Would you like to go see him and breathe the fresh air full of a sexy taste?”

Gongsun couldn’t laugh or cry. He shook his head, picked up the file, and walked out. Before leaving, he did not forget to remind Ma Xin, “Beauties should drink less Coke so they don’t get fat!”

Ma Xin raised her eyebrows, “I recently started learning to fight with my brother for two hours every day. I desperately want to be thicker so that it doesn’t hurt to fall on the ground.”

Gongsun was weak, and Ma Xin was a pistachio. He waved to her, turned around, and went out. (Angel: Being described as a pistachio means that the person is cheerful, can bring happiness and laughter to the people around then, is very humorous, and can make others forget unhappy things when they are depressed.)

Ma Xin looked around the room and touched her stomach, thinking, ‘How about cooking some instant noodles? With an egg! Ha!’

……

Gongsun took off his white coat, put on a jacket, walked out of the door of the police station, and looked up… He had to admire Ma Xin’s generalization ability. He saw Bai Jintang’s black Mercedes parked on the side of the road not far away. Bai Jintang should have come straight from his company, casually wearing a black shirt with an open neckline, no tie, and slightly messy hair. He was in a rush when he left in the morning, so he didn’t have time to shave, and there was a slight stubble on his chin… Like this, he looked a little different than usual. Bai Jintang knew that Gongsun would not go downstairs for some time, so he stood by the car and smoked quietly. Under Gongsun’s control, Bai Jintang now only smokes a few cigarettes a day, and regularly undergoes physical examinations. If he shows up too early to wait for Gongsun, he will still smoke one when he is bored…

Out of some selfishness, Gongsun actually didn’t want Bai Jintang to quit cigarettes completely. In Jiang Ping’s words, when Gongsun was wearing his white lab coat, smoking, and reading the newspaper, he looked like a bad young man who had entered the aging stage ahead of time, without any decadent beauty. When he asked about Bai Jintang smoking cigarettes, Jiang Ping’s answer was “Decadence, melancholy, loneliness, wildness, and sexiness are all present.” As he said it, he shook his head twice, “This kind of charm, standing in a crowd, is definitely a high-power hormone secretion machine that attracts all maternal creatures.”

“So early?” Gongsun had already walked up to Bai Jintang’s side while thinking about it, making him slightly surprised.

“En.” Gongsun stretched his hand out to take the cigarette that Bai Jintang was still holding in his mouth, put it in his own mouth, and took a breath, “I’m not busy today…”

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Jintang put one arm around Gongsun, and went up to kiss him…

With a cigarette in Gongsun’s hand, the two unscrupulously kissed on the sidewalk outside the police station. Wearing the same ring on their ring fingers, this scene caused people passing by to scream.

Gongsun put out the cigarette in the ashtray and said, "Well, I need to reset my mind today."

Bai Jintang laughed, “Why, did you meet someone who was scolded by you that you don’t remember?”

Gongsun was taken aback, then turned to look at Bai Jintang, "What did you... just say?"

Bai Jintang glanced at him with a puzzled look, "Last time you said you wanted to reset your mind, wasn't it because you met a student on the road who said that they had been scolded to death by you?”

Before Bai Jintang's words were finished, Gongsun quickly took out the autopsy report and read it. After a long time, he closed the document and said with some excitement, "That's it, that's it!"

Bai Jintang looked at him, puzzled. Gongsun suddenly turned around and grabbed Bai Jintang by the collar, "Jintang, you are a genius!"

Bai Jintang raised his eyebrows and smiled, "I'm more talented in bed!"

Gongsun was speechless, and he took out his phone to call Zhan Zhao, "Xiao Zhao, I know what the password is in the autopsy report!" After he finished speaking, he glanced at Bai Jintang and said, "You will be back at night, right? Let's talk about it tonight, I have something this afternoon."

After hanging up the phone, Gongsun looked at Bai Jintang who was smiling with the corner of his mouth. He stretched his hand out to touch his chin, being scratched by the stubble, and asked with a smile, "One afternoon, will it be long enough?"

Bai Jintang raised his eyebrows, "You are making trouble for yourself, Ce."

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Translator Notes

I wonder who Ye Ling was talking to...

Please feel free to comment any mistakes I made so I can improve and do better as I go through the book.

Translated: May 9, 2021