S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 16

Smiling Murderer 15 - Weird Split

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Zhan Zhao saw that Xu You was busy in the room alone, and felt a little weird. He frowned and touched his chin, as if he saw something that he couldn’t understand, and shook his head saying, “How could this be the case?”

“Cat, can someone with a split personality fight themself?” Bai Yutang asked.

“How is this possible?” Zhan Zhao said, “He doesn’t have split personalities, rather it looks like he’s possessed by a spirit.”

“Is there really such a thing as being possessed by a spirit?” Everyone looked at Zhan Zhao, and Zhan Zhao glared at everyone, “Find a doctor to give him tranquilizers to calm down first.” Everyone looked at Gongsun.

Gongsun glared back, “I’m a forensic doctor!”

Everyone swallowed. Bai Chi went to make the call, and soon, a doctor ran over. Luo Tian and Liu Qing went in and subdued Xu You first, then the doctor injected the tranquilizer.

Xu You quieted down and leaned back on the chair dejectedly.

Luo Tian glanced at the others, who were all looking at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao stood still for a while, then walked to Xu You’s side, stretched his hand out, gently opened his eyelids, and looked at his pupils. Frowning slightly, he said, “His pupils are abnormal, he is not quite right.”

“I’ve heard of this.” Liu Qing and Shen Zhongyuan both became spirited and asked Zhan Zhao, “Is it called hypnosis? I heard that you can make a normal person abnormal and make him listen to you after.”

Zhan Zhao couldn’t laugh or cry as he glanced at the two, “It’s not as exaggerated as that.”

“Cat, what’s wrong with this kid?” Bai Yutang asked.

Zhan Zhao shook his head, “He may… not have split personalities… rather, it is psychosis or an extremely severe delusional disorder, but this can only be concluded after a thorough examination.”

“Delusional?” Everyone looked at Zhan Zhao.

“En.” Zhan Zhao organized his words and said, “He was one of those people who imagined that he had a split personality and then mistook himself for having a real split personality, so he actually split. But the split was at the time when he developed psychosis, that is to say, before developing psychosis, he was a psychopath who was delusional and thought that he had a split personality. When he developed psychosis, he truly created a split personality.” He looked at everyone and asked, “Understand?”

Everyone was silent for a while, circulating their minds around the long string of words that Zhan Zhao had just said, before finally turning back and nodding, “It seems to make sense.” After speaking, everyone looked at each other and felt a little dizzy.

Zhan Zhao saw Gongsun standing next to him with his eyes squinted, and asked, “Gongsun? What are you looking at?”

Gongsun was silent for a while, then spoke seriously, “I figured it out, nothing is as good as being delusional.”

Everyone looked at him, puzzled, and they heard him slowly say, “Fortunately, he doesn’t have split personalities, but rather is a single personality with delusional disorder, otherwise isn’t it just unbelievable?”

Everyone was a little speechless, as expected, Gongsun’s way of speaking is the strongest.

“Cat, can he distinguish between reality and illusion?” Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao shook his head, “He is very sick and must be treated… right.” Speaking of which, Zhan Zhao asked Jiang Ping, “Is his name among those three psychiatric patients?”

“It is.” Jiang Ping answered, “Xu You has a very long history of psychiatric appointments.”

“Who is his doctor?” Zhan Zhao asked.

“Well,” Jiang Ping took out the information, flipped through it, and said, “They’re called He Lan, female… wow, so young?”

“He Lan…” Zhan Zhao frowned slightly and said, “He Lan is a world-class psychiatrist who runs a private clinic. Does Xu You have the money to hire her?” Zhan Zhao asked as he took the medical records. Flipping through them, he frowned, “It’s almost the same as having a private doctor. At her level, He Lan would cost at least 1.8 million yuan a year.”

“Impossible, right?” Liu Qing pointed to Xu You, “This kid is a gate guard, his monthly wage is only around 1,800 yuan.”

“That’s right,” Shen Zhongyuan nodded, “how can he afford it?”

“Cat, do you recognize this doctor?” Bai Yutang asked.

“En, He Lan is a well known authority in the psychiatric field. Because of her young age and beautiful appearance, many medical magazines use her on their covers.”

“Hmm…” Liu Qing stared at her photo for a while, “Ah, don’t you think that once a woman becomes capable and authoritative, she will have a very strange aura?”

Everyone looked at him, not quite understanding what he meant.

Shen Zhongyuan looked at him, “Hey, what are you trying to say?”

“I mean…” Liu Qing pointed and asked, “why does this woman look so scary”

Everyone leaned over to take a closer look.

“She’s really scary,” Bai Chi said, “but she’s also really pretty.”

“She’s not,” Gongsun said, “she’s just a bit cold, not too bad.”

Bai Yutang nodded, “That’s right, where is she scary?”

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“He won’t wake up from his sedation for a while.” Zhan Zhao said to Luo Tian and the others, “Take him into custody first, don't scare him.” After saying that, he said to Bai Yutang, "Let’s go and meet He Lan, she may have first-hand information.”

“En.” Bai Yutang nodded, and Bai Chi followed. Zhan Zhao looked at him, “Didn’t you say you were afraid?”

Bai Chi smiled, “But I’m quite curious.”

Liu Qing also followed them. Shen Zhongyuan stayed to help Luo Tian and the others. Gongsun is a doctor, so he also followed Bai Yutang… Unfortunately, when they got downstairs...

“Brother?” Bai Yutang was taken aback when he saw a big black car stop at the door. Bai Jintang got out of the car, looked at everyone, and asked Bai Yutang, “Where are you going?”

“Uh, to go investigate this case.” Bai Yutang replied.

Bai Jintang nodded and said, “Eugene entered the country last night.”

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao’s faces immediately turned ugly, and the image of Eugene’s cauliflower hair flashed through their minds. They couldn’t help asking, “What is he doing here?”

Bai Jintang shrugged, “I thought it had something to do with the case you are investigating now. If not, then forget it. If so, I can have the twins catch Eugene and ask.”

“Ah…” Zhan Zhao suddenly asked, “Is that smiling mask made in Italy?”

Everyone was taken aback and looked at each other, “The neo-Nazis have something to do with the mafia,” Zhan Zhao continued, “Eugene would have come sooner or later. Why did he come at this time?”

Bai Yutang smiled and said, “Brother, please trouble the twins this once.”

Bai Jintang turned on his phone indifferently, dialed a number, and said only three words, “Pick the vegetables.” (Angel: The author uses 拔菜 as a code for saying pick him up.)

Hanging up the phone, Bai Jintang reached out and grabbed Gongsun.

“What are you doing?” Gongsun seemed to have a bad look on his face as he stared at Bai Jintang a bit fiercely. Bai Jintang helplessly asked, “Still angry?”

Gongsun ignored him.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, curious – What’s going on? Gongsun is angry?

“What are you doing when they are going out into the field?” Bai Jintang asked, “It’s time to get off work, isn’t it? Come home with me.”

Gongsun raised his eyebrows, “I’m working overtime.”

Bai Jintang glanced at Bai Yutang, and Bai Yutang quickly said, “Uh… working overtime is voluntary.”

Gongsun looked at Bai Yutang, and Bai Yutang laughed twice and said, “I don’t care.”

Bai Jintang lit a cigarette and asked Gongsun, “Will you come back?”

Gongsun shook his head.

Bai Jintang nodded and said, “Forget it, I’ll have the mummy removed.”

“Huh?” Gongsun was taken aback, grabbed Bai Jintang, and asked, “What mummy?”

Bai Jintang touched his chin and said, “The museum purchase I told you about last time. He happened to be passing by and I asked him to bring the collection for you to see. Didn’t you say you were interested in the mummy last time?”

Gongsun stood there and began to hesitate, his face expressing – He was very moved, but he reminded himself that he was angry.

Bai Jintang opened the car door, stretched his hand out to drag Gongsun into the car, and said, “He’s only staying for half an hour, if you come too late, you won’t be able to see it.”

Zhan Zhao also followed, but he was dragged back by Bai Yutang.

Zhan Zhao blinked – I want to see it too.

Bai Yutang glared at him – What? You need to be disinfected after seeing it!

After that, Bai Yutang dragged Zhan Zhao into the car. Liu Qing and Bai Chi looked at each other and followed.

“Bai Chi.” Bai Jintang stopped Bai Chi and took a ticket out of his pocket to give to him.

Bai Chi was a little puzzled, and looked up at Bai Jintang.

“Zhao Zhen’s performance is in a while, he said you should go, it’s a special set.” After Bai Jintang finished speaking, he got into his car and left.

Bai Chi looked down at the ticket and remembered that Zhao Zhen was going to perform today. Bai Chi looked at the ticket – VIP No.1. Bai Chi was taken aback. Hurriedly putting the ticket away, he looked at his watch, and calculated the right time to get off of work. He had to rush over to watch it later, Zhao Zhen has practiced this magic for a long time.

Everyone got into the car and Bai Yutang drove to He Lan’s private clinic. Zhan Zhao looked at the information in detail and said, “He Lan is also strange… Generally, people at her level will basically do pure research, they rarely do clinical work.”

“Is there a difference?” Bai Yutang asked.

“En.” Zhan Zhao said, “The meaning is different. If they do research, they can specialize in conquering some of the difficulties of the disease, thus facilitating other doctors to follow her method to promote treatment. The psychiatric discipline, like the psychological discipline, is not yet sound, so there is plenty of room for development.”

Everyone nodded and understood what Zhan Zhao meant. Bai Chi asked, “Brother, do you think He Lan is doing research?”

“It’s also possible.” Zhan Zhao thought for a while, then said, “Otherwise, why else would those three patients be in her hands?”

“Cat,” Bai Yutang asked, “I don’t understand, at that time, why didn’t you think that these people had a mental illness, but rather that they had psychosis?”

“Heh.” Zhan Zhao smiled helplessly and said, “Generally speaking, when people go to see a psychologist, most of them have depression or obsessive compulsive disorder. Even now, many people use psychologists as their trusted sister.” (Angel: Trusted sister, or 知心姐姐, is the amiable and amicable elder sister image of the confidant sister quickly gained the love and trust of the children in China Youth Daily in the 1960s.)

Everyone also thinks that this is the case.

“Basically, when there is a certain abnormal condition, everyone will think that that person is crazy, and they will go see a doctor… However, many people will realize that they have a mental illness, but few real mental patients will feel that they have a mental illness, therefore, most of the mental illnesses are sent to the hospital. Whether you can detect that they are sick or not is the most significant difference between a mentally ill person and a person with psychosis. According to Xu You’s situation, it is very likely that he was sent to a mental hospital. In other words, he may have friends or family, and we may be able to know more if we can find out who took him to the hospital.”

“By the way, Doctor,” Liu Qing couldn’t help asking, “I always wanted to ask, how are mental illness and psychosis different?”

Zhan Zhao smiled and said, “Many people think that the two are the same, but in fact, they are not the same. To put it simply, psychosis is just a mental illness, but in addition to psychological abnormalities, psychosis will also produce physical lesions. Some patients with psychosis will have abnormalities in their brain CT. Many people say that mental illness is mental cancer. There are overlaps in mental illness, neurosis, and psychosis, but each has its own differences.”

Liu Qing nodded, seeming to understand, and said, “I thought that people with mental illnesses were lunatics.”

Zhan Zhao shook his head, “Don’t just call the mentally ill lunatics. Only they know their pain.”

“Don’t they say that they were unconscious and unaware of pain?” Bai Chi asked.

Zhan Zhao sighed and said, “Who said that people who are sick aren’t aware of the pain?”

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Translator Notes

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

Translated: August 10,11,12 2021