S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 52

Ghost Murderer 20 - Foreign Visitors

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The group was shocked to see Zhan Zhao smiling. While Bao Zheng's heart was pounding, he looked at Zhan Zhao, "You're smiling, aren't you?"

Zhan Zhao nodded.

"It's interesting, isn't it?"

Zhan Zhao continued to nod.

"You found something, right?"

Zhan Zhao continued to nod.

"There’s no need for many people to die, right?"

Zhan Zhao stopped nodding when it mattered.

Bao Zheng's black face turned white with anxiety, but after a pause, Zhan Zhao slowly said, "It shouldn't explode."

"Huh?" Bao Zheng did not understand.

"Xiao Bai, look at that student's arm.” Zhan Zhao said to Bai Yutang, 

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, and after taking a look, he suddenly smiled as well.

Bao Zheng was puzzled, but he saw Bai Yutang climbing over the railing and running to the student, who suddenly screamed miserably and growled for Bai Yutang not to come. The other police officers were stunned.

When Bai Yutang reached him, without panicking, he reached out and took his hand that was holding the remote control and pulled it down… Then something surprising happened, and the student's arm was seen to be ripped off – it turned out to be a prosthetic.

Bao Zheng froze, so did the senior police officers, and no one knew what to say.

Bai Yutang took the student and the fake arm back to Bao Zheng and the others. Zhan Zhao went over to look at it and asked Qin Ou, "Is this controller real?"

Qin Ou took a look, shook his head and said, "I've never seen a blasting remote control in this shape in my life, it looks like a plastic toy bought for a dollar on the roadside." As he said this, he was about to take the remote control away, and the student hurriedly shouted, "Don't! If you take it, it will kill you!"

Zhan Zhao looked at him and asked, "Who told you to wait here with this thing?"

"I don't know, a man. “ The student answered with a bitter face

"What did he look like and who was he?" Bao Zheng asked, "What did he say when he gave you the bomb? Say it all at once!"

The student was frightened by Bao Zheng's big black face and hurriedly said, “… I was complaining on my Weibo a few days ago, saying that I had failed the college entrance exam and was a cripple with a missing arm, so I'm not going to make it in life, I'd rather kill myself… and then I got a private message."

"The message said that he had also failed his entrance exam and didn't want to live either. He said we might as well wander the world together and do something big!"

Bao Zheng frowned and said, “Make a long story short, talk about the bomb first!"

“Oh… he gave me a QQ and we had a private chat. Then, I came here and he let me in, gave me something to clip onto my fake arm, and then opened the door so I could see the cop inside who was tied up with the bomb."

"He told me to wait here and said that someone would come to defuse the bomb. When the time came, I had to extort the police for as much money as I could, then slam the security door shut, remove the prosthetic arm and place it on the shelf, and flee… I was to join him as a desperado. He also said that the controller can’t be moved or else it will explode, and that I’m not allowed to call the police to evacuate the crowd, otherwise the bomb will be controlled remotely."

"Do you have any brains?” Bao Zheng was furious, "You don't even have this much common sense?!"

That student was frightened and said, “I… who knew I was that unlucky."

At this time, they saw that Qin Ou had already taken that remote control apart, opened it, and taken a look. He then took the remote control and handed it to Zhan Zhao and the others to look at, saying, "It's empty, it's really a plastic toy."

"Then… then why is he?" The student was anxious.

"What else did he say?” Bai Yutang asked him.

"No… nothing more."

"Captain."

At this time, several junior police officers from the bomb disposal team all ran over and handed him a small case.

Qin Ou opened the case and looked at it, it was filled with tools. He closed the case and carried it towards the shop.

"Hey," Bai Yutang pulled him back and asked, “you're not wearing a blast suit?"

Qin Ou smiled and said, "With a bomb this big, it doesn't matter if you have that suit or not…"

"Tch…" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both frowned, how could he still make such jokes at this time.

Qin Ou indifferently took the box and went over.

The student asked Zhan Zhao and the others, "I… This has nothing more to do with me, right? Can I go?''

Bai Yutang looked back at him and sneered, "In your dreams!"

"I… Ah, officer! I was tricked into coming here, okay!"

"Then why didn't you just let the officers approach and let everyone else leave?" Zhan Zhao asked him.

"I… he told me to do that. He said that if I didn't do as I was told, he would just blow me up." The student whispered.

Bai Yutang said, “What are you in a hurry for, we haven't finished asking questions yet."

"I have to wait here?" The student glanced inside that shop again. By now, Qin Ou had already entered the shop and brought the box to Chen Mi's side.

"That’s right." Zhan Zhao nodded.

"How long is it going to take?" The student cried.

"It won't take long." Zhan Zhao laughed, "Once the bomb is defused, it will be almost over."

The student was on the verge of tears, but Bai Yutang looked at him and asked, "You were planning to kill yourself, why are you afraid of dying? What are you afraid of? There are so many people with you!"

Inside the shop, Qin Ou put the case down and half-crouched in front of Chen Mi. Looking down to check the bomb on his chest, he asked, "What's going on?"

Chen Mi shook his head, "I was knocked unconscious on my way home last night, and when I woke up, I was here with this bomb strapped to me."

Qin Ou frowned and asked, "No clues whatsoever?" As he did, he removed the cover of the bomb and looked at the wiring inside. Once he looked at the structure of the bomb, he frowned and said, "It doesn't look like normal technology."

Chen Mi nodded and said, "This kind of bomb is commonly used by special forces, it's not an ordinary technique."

Qin Ou half-crouched and used a utility knife to pry out the wiring. Looking down, there was indeed a small glass tube.

"Damn it!” Qin Ou cursed, but he heard Chen Mi ask, “Do you watch basketball?"

Qin Ou froze, then looked at him dumbfounded, "You're still in the mood for jokes?"

Chen Mi laughed and said, "You can definitely dismantle it, I'm not nervous."

"Not necessarily," Qin Ou said, "my hands are very rusty." As he said that, he quickly removed the upper device.

"There's no bomb in this world that you, Qin Ou, can't defuse." Chen Mi suddenly said, "Everyone in the police department knows that you are a genius… and that I am a loser."

Qin Ou frowned, "It’s not like that."

"If you hadn't left, I wouldn't have been able to sit in this position at all." Chen Mi seemed to be trying to say all of the words in his heart before he died, "At that time, there were even many people who suspected that I was the one who had caused you to suffer."

Qin Ou couldn't help but laugh and say, "Don't listen to their nonsense."

"How could I harm you?" Chen Mi stared at Qin Ou and asked, "Did you ever suspect me?"

Qin Ou shook his head and focused on defusing the bomb.

In the distance, Bai Yutang was asking the student what exactly he had talked about with the man.

The student said that the man had first messaged him via QQ, asking him if he had ever seen the movie 《Desperate World》. (Angel: Desperate World,亡命天涯, is the name that the 1993 film The Fugitive went by in Mainland China.)

Bai Yutang's eyes twitched and he said in his heart, insane!

"Then… he went on to tell me about how life was not as good as it should be. You know, I was also unsatisfied with life, so I chatted with him more and more, and then we…"

"And then the so-called meeting to discuss great things began?" Bai Yutang asked him with a smile, "Don't you know that there are many scammers on the internet nowadays?"

The student frowned and cried.

"There are many people who have been tricked into pyramid schemes, and by those who trick you into dismantling you and selling your organs."

The more the student listened, the more scared he became, “Officer… I just thought I had made an internet friend, how could I have known something like this would happen…"

Bai Yutang let the police officers take him away and returned to the front, only to see Zhan Zhao holding binoculars and looking at the situation inside the shop. The most interesting thing was his expression. The corners of his mouth were raised, curved up in a very nice arc.

Bai Yutang was a bit puzzled and asked, "Cat, what's up?"

"Hmph." Zhan Zhao laughed and said, "Interesting!"

"What's interesting to you?" Bao Zheng seemed a little deflated, leaning against the side of the car to light a cigarette.

"Bao Sir, is everything alright?" Bai Yutang asked when he saw that his face was not good.

"Ah… old problem, stomach ache."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, he still has a stomach ache. They always thought he was an iron man, but you really can’t look at the body in black and white.

After Bao Zheng spoke, he looked back and saw Qin Ou inside the shop, making a gesture to the crowd.

Bao Zheng nodded. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were a little puzzled and asked,"What's wrong?"

"He's saying that he's going to cut that last wire. Let’s find cover in case it doesn't work out, as it might not kill us even if it blows up.” Bao Zheng said, squatting down.

Bai Yutang asked, "No evacuation of passers-by? "

Bao Zheng rubbed his stomach, "What do you think? Qin Ou won't cut the line until I instruct him to, we still have some time to think about it. "

"Evacuating the streets isn't that easy." Bai Yutang frowned, "Moreover, there will be a lot of movement, which means that it will take a lot of time."

"It doesn’t matter" At this point, Zhan Zhao shook his head at the two and said, "It should be fine, just tell him to cut it."

"Hehe." Bao Zheng smiled and said, "There was a saying that used to circulate in the police department."

"What?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at Bat Zheng in confusion.

"There's no bomb that Qin Ou can't defuse!" Bao Zheng said, "I don't know if it's still applicable today."

"It applies." Zhan Zhao smiled, reached out above the roof of the car, and gave a thumbs up to Qin Ou.

Bao Zheng was suspicious, "How do you know our secret code?"

Zhan Zhao raised an eyebrow, "I'm a psychologist!"

Just as he finished his words, Bai Yutang put his arms around him and hugged him tightly.

"What are you doing?" Zhan Zhao raised his eyes to look at him.

"In case anything happens…" Bai Yutang laughed, “remember to stay together when we go down. When we are reborn as childhood sweethearts or something, I'll remember to start earlier."

Zhan Zhao couldn’t laugh or cry. Seeing that no one was paying attention to them and that he happened to be close to Bai Yutang’s face, he lightly kissed him on the ear.

"Heh…" Bai Yutang drew a cold breath and looked at Zhan Zhao, “You…"

Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, and Bai Yutang was slightly depressed, this cat… Suddenly it occurred to him that it had been a long time since they had exchanged "feelings", and he hoped that this time things would not go wrong so that they could go back and "celebrate".

When Qin Ou saw that everyone was ready, he reached over to cut the wire, asking Chen Mi as he did so, "By the way, do you have a girlfriend yet?"

Chen Mi knew that this was Qin Ou's habit. When he cuts the last wire, which is the most dangerous, he will talk to the person with the bomb strapped to him or around him at the same time, asking them an interesting and distracting question. The result of this was that – even if they died, they would forget their fear.

Qin Ou didn't wait for Chen Mi's answer before he made the cut, but he heard Chen Mi suddenly say, "It's you I like…"

With a click, Qin Ou almost made a mistake with his scissors. Patting his chest, he yelled, "Hey, you should find something funny to joke about! You don't want my hands to shake and blow the both of us up, right?!"

Chen Mi frowned as he saw that Qin Ou had already defused the bomb on him. During this time, Chen Mi tried to look at him, but Qin Ou never looked up at him. Instead, he took the bomb and walked out, saying to the bomb disposal team in the distance, "Get a blast box!"

Bao Zheng hurriedly sent someone over. After they stuffed the bomb into the box and closed the lid, Bao Zheng let out a long breath and sighed, "Oh my God! I have to retire no matter what."

On the side, Zhan Zhao quietly asked, "Are you old enough?"

Bao Zheng's face darkened and he glared at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "Sooner or later I'll make you two clean the toilets!"

After saying that, he led a large group of people and prepared to leave.

Qin Ou returned to Zhan Zhao and the others. Zhan Zhao smiled and asked him, “Finished being confessed to, huh?"

Qin Ou froze, and after looking at Zhan Zhao, he sighed and shook his head, "Let's go."

In front of S City Primary School.

"Yang Yang, aren't you going this way?” A young girl walked out of the school gate with Luo Yang and asked him when she saw him walking in the opposite direction.

"No, I'm not going home today." Luo Yang went to a roadside florist and bought a butterfly orchid and said, "An uncle is sick, I'm going to see him."

"Oh." The little girl waved her hand at him, “Bye bye."

"En, bye bye.” Luo Yang waved at the little girl and continued to walk forward. Before he made it a few steps away, he saw a boy about his own age sitting on a stone bench not far ahead. This child looked like a foreigner, with snow white skin, big eyes, a cute high nose, and a head of blonde hair… but on closer inspection, the hair should have been dyed. Luo Yang was a little curious, how can such a small child dye his hair?

He saw that child sitting anxiously on a stone bench by the roadside, holding a photo in his hand.

"Ah." Luo Yang walked over and asked him, "Are you waiting for someone, or are you leaving class? Why don't you have a school bag?"

The boy looked up at him, frowned, and asked in very rusty Chinese, "Where is the police station?"

"You're going to the police station?"

The boy nodded.

"What are you going to the police station for?" Luo Yang took off his school bag, sat next to him, and asked, "Are you going to report a crime, or are you looking for someone?"

As he asked, he took out a biscuit and gave it to him.

The boy hesitantly took the biscuit and said, "I'm looking for my dad."

"What's your father's name?" Luo Yang asked.

"I can't say." The boy shook his head.

"Huh?" Luo Yang wondered, asking, "Why can't you say it?"

"Dad said that I can’t just tell anyone who asks."

"Then how about this, I know the police station, I'll take you to…"

Luo Yang hadn't finished his words when suddenly, he saw a black car stop in front of him, and when the door opened, two men in black got out and walked towards them.

"Oh!" The boy suddenly got nervous and looked around, holding the half-eaten biscuit in his hand.

Luo Yang was stunned. He himself was not like ordinary children, and it was not as if he had never seen such a scene before, so he reached out and grabbed the boy, saying, "Let's go!"

After saying that, he pulled him into the small alley and ran away.

A few men in black followed them, but they were not familiar with the road and the two children slipped away.

"Got away." A man in black went back and informed the man in the car, looking down.

In the car, a man in white smiled with one hand on his chin and said, "It's okay, I know that boy, just follow him to keep him safe."

"Yes!" The man in black turned on the locator in his hand, and the locator signal was flashing on the boy's body.

Several men in black then split up and followed him.

Luo Yang ran with the little boy and rushed to Bai Jintang's villa.

"Yo."

Luo Yang was holding a butterfly orchid in one hand and pulling the little boy with the other. They were both panting, trying to catch their breath in the courtyard of the villa. Xiao Ding slipped out just in time to see them and asked with a smile, "What's wrong Yang Yang, a little boyfriend?"

"What nonsense." Luo Yang said, "I came to see Uncle Jintang, and then this guy, who was being chased by a group of men in black, said he was going to the police station to find his dad."

Xiao Ding froze, and at that moment, Gongsun came out, "Who's his dad?"

"He said he wasn't allowed to say." Luo Yang replied. Pulling the little boy up, he said, "You can tell him, it's okay, he's a forensic scientist at the police station, he's a good guy."

The little boy nodded and looked at Gongsun with wide eyes.

Gongsun froze slightly, and judging from the structure of his face… he seemed to have seen it before, so he asked, "Little friend, who was chasing you just now?"

"Uncle Zhao's people." The little boy replied.

"Uncle Zhao?" Luo Yang wondered, asking, "They want to kidnap you?"

The little boy shook his head, "No, they're good people."

"Then why were you so scared?" Luo Yang didn't understand.

"Because… he doesn't allow me to eat what other people give me." The little boy said, "But you don't look like a bad guy. I was just trying to hide the biscuits and then you pulled me away."

"Uh…" Luo Yang was extremely embarrassed.

At this time, Bai Yutang's car came back. When everyone got out, Zhan Zhao asked, "Where did the child come from, a foreigner?”

Qin Ou also got out of the car too, and when he saw the child, he froze. But the little boy saw him and suddenly shouted happily, "Daddy!" and jumped over.

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Translator Notes

All of my suspicions surrounding Chen Mi were cleared as soon as he said that to Qin Ou. I wonder if that's how he really feels. I feel like it is because it felt like he was letting everything out of his heart in case he died.

Qin Ou's son has arrived! I'm excited to meet him!

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

Translated: December 20/22, 2021