S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 34

Ghost Murderer 02 - Unbelievable Sight

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In the villa.

“Big Brother, there will be a business meeting in a while.” Xiao Ding followed behind Bai Jintang with a notepad. 

Bai Jintang had worked all night last night. He had just woken up and was changing his clothes, “Cancel it.”

“No more negotiations?” Xiao Ding crossed it off with his pen, “Let Da Ding go.”

“Have you bought the thing yet?” Bai Jintang asked Xiao Ding.

“Da Ding has gone out to get it and will bring it over later.” Xiao Ding finished and said, “By the way, the entertainment company just called, saying that Yuan Lin wants to see you to discuss the contract.”

“Which Yuan Lin?” Bai Jintang tied his tie, picked up the suit hung on the hanger, and asked, “Has the table been booked yet?”

“It’s booked.” Xiao Ding took a card out of his pocket and handed it to Bai Jintang, who stuffed it into his pocket.

“It’s that world-class dancer,” Xiao Ding said, “the one who dances the ghost dance and brought a team over.”

“Don’t remember.” Bai Jintang said, putting on his watch and asking, “Did you deliver that wine I asked for?”

“En, it was delivered to the restaurant.” Xiao Ding closed the notebook and asked, “That means that today, Big Brother, you don't care about business at all, do you?”

Bai Jintang raised an eyebrow, “That’s right.”

“Why?” Xiao ding was puzzled, “A fancy restaurant, wine, and gifts, what special day is it today? It’s not like it’s Valentine’s Day.”

“Today is my first wedding anniversary with Gongsun.” Bai Jintang lifted the corner of his mouth.

“Shit!” Xiao Ding stuffed the notebook into his pocket, “Then you should have said so, an hour of my time is worth a lot of money!” Saying that, he extended his hands, “Give me two red packets.”

Bai Jintang gave him a blank look and asked, “Where’s the car?”

“It’s parked downstairs, do you want me to give you a ride?”

“No need, I might be back late tonight. You and Da Ding can take the rest of the day off, we’ll talk about business tomorrow.” Bai Jintang said, elegantly sticking one hand into his pocket and heading out the door to go pick Gongsun up from the SCI office so that they could have dinner together and have a romantic wedding anniversary.

Xiao Ding went to find Da Ding and went to have a barbeque.

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At the police station.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were driven out of the office by Bao Zheng.

The two described the serial crashes and the death of the taxi driver. Bao Zheng listened attentively at first, but as soon as the two men said the word ‘ghost’, Bao Zheng became furious, “Are you two still police officers?! How dare you talk about ghosts committing crimes in my office?!”

Before Bao Zheng exploded with swear words, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang obediently ran out.

“Bao Sir has been getting grumpier and grumpier lately.” Zhan Zhao muttered, “Is he going through menopause?”

Bai Yutang laughed, “I think he's just a hard worker, look how relaxed the other old men are.”

“That’s right.” Zhan Zhao nodded. As they walked to the entrance of the SCI office, they heard the sound of laughing inside.

After glancing at each other, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked in, only to see the group surrounding a man who was joking and laughing. The man was wearing camouflage, and had some luggage next to him. Seeing him from behind, their spirit was so tall and upright…

Bain Yutang and Zhan Zhao were stunned, and saw the man turning around, “Captain, Dr. Zhan!”

“Luo Tian?!” Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang almost didn’t recognize him, Luo Tian had trained too well over the past two months. 

Bai Yutang walked over, reached out, and patted him on the shoulder, felt that it was hard, and nodded, “Good, not bad.”

Luo Tian nodded and said, “That… Yang Yang…”

The group was speechless, even if he had become Rambo, Luo Tian was still a twenty-four filial piety dad. (Angel: twenty-four filial piety dad means that the father is especially fond of the child and meets all his requirements.)

“Sent to school. You can pick him up later, he said he missed you this morning.”

“I miss him to death.” Luo Tian smiled.

“Oh, just thinking about Yang Yang, huh?” Zhao Hu squinted his eyes and smirked, “Did you miss anyone else? Someone else was taking care of your Yang Yang twenty-four hours a day, besides going to work, and is more than a mother.”

Luo Tian’s face showed a little embarrassment, and he rubbed his head.

“There are no cases lately.” Zhan Zhao said to Luo Tian, “After you pick Yang Yang up later, go and treat Xin Xin to a meal, she’s been working quite hard for a while.”

“There have been no cases recently?” Luo Tian asked.

“Don’t mention it.” Jiang Ping crossed his legs, leaned back in his swivel chair, and yawned, “There hasn’t been a case since the last one. We’ve had a summer vacation and we’ve all put on a lot of weight.”

“It’s a good thing that there are no cases.” Bai Chi was off to the side making milk tea in the blender. It had been so hot recently that Bai Chi made iced milk tea every afternoon.

At this time, there was a knock at the door, “Xiao Bai, Xiao Zhan.” 

The group turned around and saw Lu Fang standing there, with two men in traffic police uniforms behind him.

“Lu Fang.” Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao walked over.

“A colleague from the traffic division said he wanted to talk to you.” Lu Fang said, leading the two men in.

“Hello Captain Bai, Dr. Zhan.” The one who spoke was probably in his thirties and looked very competent. Behind him was a younger man who looked strong and intelligent.

“This is Wei Dong, the head of the transportation department, and this is Wang Xueyang, the captain of the traffic police team.” Lu Fang introduced them, “They were originally looking for Bao Sir, who answered the phone and said to talk to you directly.”

“Oh.” Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other and nodded.

“Come, sit down and talk.” Zhao Hu moved over some chairs, and the two traffic police officers nodded and sat down. Bai Chi’s milk tea was done, so he prepared a portion for both of them.

With a mouthful of milk tea, the two traffic police officers, who were originally a little nervous, relaxed a little.

At this time, Gongsun and Ma Xin also came over. Because it was time for afternoon tea, they came to drink milk tea. Ma Xin, who had brought over a piece of black rice cake, froze when she saw Luo Tian.

Luo Tian smiled at her. Ma Xin looked him up and down for half a day, very satisfied with Luo Tian’s thickened pectoral muscles and biceps, as well as his shoulder and neck muscles which had become more defined, and of course… ahem, his abs should be good too.

Ma Xin thought about it, took a sip of her drink, then took a bite of the black rice cake. From the side, Zhao Hu reminded her, “Ugh, little girl, drool!”

“You two, do you want to talk about the traffic accident just now?” Bai Yutang asked.

Wei Dong and Wang Xueyang looked at each other, and Wei Dong asked Bai Yutang, “Captain Bai, you know about the traffic accident just now?”

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao both understood that the two men were probably not here to collect evidence for the traffic accident they had just had, so they nodded without further explanation and asked, “What’s the matter?”

“It’s like this.” Wei Dong said, “Has Captain Bai paid attention to the multiple car accidents in the newspaper recently?”

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded, “Yes!”

“The ghost harassing taxi drivers and causing many serious traffic accidents, does Captain Bai know about it?” Wang Xueyang asked.

“I do!” Bai Yutang nodded.

“I also saw that on the news.” Bai Chi asked, “Is it really a ghost?”

The expressions of the two traffic police officers changed, and Wei Dong said, “Captain Bai, I'm an atheist and don't believe in any of this, and no normal person should believe in it either, right?”

“En.” Bai Yutang nodded, as did everyone else.

“But…” Wei Dong said, “because there have been many traffic accidents recently and the drivers have all mostly said the same thing, we wondered if there was actually something going on. So, we randomly selected a few taxis that were out for the night and installed cameras.”

Hearing this, the group’s spirits lifted and they asked, “What happened? What was filmed?”

“Such a coincidence.” Wang Xueyang took out a small laptop from his bag and said, “That night, the car of the driver who had the accident happened to be one of the ones with a camera in it, and it caught something.”

As he said that, Wang Xueyang opened his laptop and clicked on a video, showing it to Bai Yutang and the others.

All the SCI members gathered around to watch. The picture quality was not bad. The car stopped and one person got into the car.

The camera was placed on the rear-view mirror, so everyone could clearly see the face of the person who got into the car… It was a girl in white clothes who looked rather young, like a high school student.

However, her face could not be seen clearly because she kept her head lowered.

The car started driving… Not long after, there was a sudden pause in the video… Looking again…

“Huh?” Bai Chi yelled, shaking his head in disbelief, “Where is she?”

“That’s right!” Everyone found it unbelievable that the girl was gone. The person who had just been sitting alive in the back seat was gone.

“Has this video been edited?” Zhan Zhao asked Wei Dong.

Wei Dong and Wang Xueyang both shook their heads, “We had it assessed by a professional technician, but it hasn’t been!”

After that, the car slowly stopped and the driver looked back… and froze.

The group then saw the driver panic, hurriedly start the car, and drive forward… Then something even more unbelievable happened.

They saw a human figure slowly appear on the video… Not long after, the girl who had disappeared suddenly appeared again. She slowly raised her face, and her face appeared in front of the camera. Her face was pale, with dark circles under her eyes, dark purple lips… and a weird smile appeared on her face.

Then, they saw the driver stepping on the brakes in a panic.

Just as it stopped, the car shook violently and the whole screen shook. At the same time, the girl disappeared again.

After watching the video, everyone was frozen in place, speechless.

“This… is a clip from a horror movie, right?” Bai Chi was a little in disbelief that it was real, “How can this kind of thing happen?”

“This kind of thing kept happening, and at first we didn't believe it was real,” Wang Xueyang said, “until after we saw this video.”

“This video hasn’t been released to the media yet, right?” Lu Fang asked.

“It absolutely cannot be made public!” Wei Dong shook his head repeatedly, “The result would be unthinkable. On one hand, it will be said that the traffic police are causing the public to panic. On the other hand, in the future, no matter what private car violates traffic rules and has an accident, won’t they just say that they were haunted by a ghost?”

“But speaking of which,” Zhan Zhao suddenly reached out and rubbed his chin, saying, “it was daytime when we had the accident, ah… are ghosts allowed to be out in the daytime?”

The group froze and glanced at each other, and they couldn’t help but frown.

“We never believed it was a ghost,” Both Wei Dong and Wang Xueyang said, “but this kind of case is far beyond the capacity of the traffic department, so we want to pass the case on to SCI so you can find the truth.”

Bai Yutang frowned, looked at Zhan Zhao, and raised an eyebrow – Cat? How about it?

Zhan Zhao nodded – Interesting!

“All right,” Bai Yutang stood up and shook hands with Wei Dong and Wang Xueyang, “we’ll take it. Starting today, this case is officially transferred to SCI.”

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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: October 5/6, 2021