S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 1 Chapter 76

The Murderer Is Not Human 09 – Mutation

---

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao walked up to the interrogation room and saw an expressionless Qu Yanming sitting behind the one-sided glass. The two did not rush in, but stared at him from outside for a long time.

"Cat..." Bai Yutang suddenly spoke, "how is his mental state?"

After looking at him carefully for a while longer, Zhan Zhao spoke, "There's nothing wrong with him."

"You mean, he is sober now?" Bai Yutang confirmed once more.

"Mm." Zhan Zhao nodded, "Very sober!"

"I want to talk to him alone." Bai Yutang said to Zhan Zhao somewhat apologetically.

Zhan Zhao smiled faintly and patted him on the shoulder, "I also think this is a relatively wise decision." After saying that, he turned around and walked out of the interrogation room.

Opening the door of the interrogation room, Bai Yutang walked in and sat down opposite Qu Yanming without speaking, just staring at him.

After a long time, Qu Yanming's eyelashes faintly moved.

Bai Yutang sighed softly, "You have nothing to say?"

Qu Yanming was silent for a moment, opened his mouth, and asked in a soft voice, "How is he... doing?"

"Who are you asking about?" Bai Yutang asked knowingly.

"......" Qu Yanming's head lowered even further, "I'm sorry... I didn't realise I would hit him."

"You hesitated when you were shooting." Bai Yutang said faintly, "Otherwise Cat would be hurt more seriously."

"... That's why you didn't beat me to death..." Qu Yanming's shoulders, which had been tense, relaxed slightly, "He wasn't badly hurt... that's good."

"Tell me the truth, why exactly?" Bai Yutang stared at Qu Yanming.

"......" Another long silence followed, and finally, Qu Yanming shook his head with a bitter smile, "Captain... I can't say. "

"Why?" Bai Yutang frowned.

"I can't harm people..." Qu Yanming still shook his head repeatedly, "Don't ask."

"Harm people?!" The more Bai Yutang listened, the stranger he became, "Who would you harm by saying it?!"

...... Qu Yanming lifted his head and stared at Bai Yutang, "You..."

"Hehe..." Bai Yutang laughed in anger at him, "Are you saying that you will harm me by telling the truth?"

Qu Yanming nodded seriously.

"Never mind." Bai Yutang reached out and gently snapped his hand on the table, "I don't care, you can say whatever you want!"

"I'm not joking!" Qu Yanming suddenly became agitated, "I don't want to harm you! This matter is not something that can be solved by people!"

"...What?" Bai Yutang stared at Qu Yanming for a long time, "You said that people can't handle it? Isn't the real culprit a human?!"

"That’s right..." Qu Yanming nodded his head.

"Don't talk to me about curses!" Bai Yutang said coldly.

... Qu Yanming once again bowed his head, as if he had made up his mind: "You can lock me up, sentence me to death, or even shoot me... but I won't say anything even if I die!"

Seeing the determined Qu Yanming in front of him, Bai Yutang leaned back in his chair speechlessly. This matter, it was a bit too fishy.

Zhan Zhao slunk off to the SCI office alone, and saw Bai Chi rubbing his neck as he came out of his office.

"Did you find anything?" Zhan Zhao walked forward.

"Not yet... too much information." Bai Chi replied as he carefully stared at Zhan Zhao's right hand.

"They said you were injured." Somewhat distressed, he asked, "Does it hurt?" 

Zhan Zhao rubbed his head, "It's just a scratch."

At that moment, he heard Bai Chi's stomach growl.

The two of them froze, and Bai Chi's face immediately turned red, "Oh no, I was so focused on finding information that I forgot to eat.

Zhan Zhao pulled him up and headed for the canteen.

It was not mealtime, but the canteen was still quite crowded. The police station's canteen had to have food available 24 hours a day, as police officers were one of the professions with the most irregular diet in the world.

The two had just walked up to the front counter to order when they heard a commotion behind them. Curious, they turned around to see a middle-aged man in a police uniform lecturing two young officers: "Your first day as a cop, huh? You confronted a robber yourself, prepare to be fired!"

Bai Chi frowned at first glance, the one who was lecturing people was his old superior when he was in the patrol, Captain Luo Peng. And the ones being lectured were none other than Wu Kai and Xu Yadong, who had just picked on him at the door.

"Their guns are gone..." Bai Chi frowned slightly, thinking, it couldn't be Zhao Zhen, could it?! Then he overplayed his hand.

"Bai Chi?" Zhan Zhao saw the strange expression on Bai Chi's face and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"Brother... have you seen Zhao Zhen?"

Zhan Zhao was stunned and shook his head, "Haven't seen him, wasn't he with you just now?"

At this point, Luo Peng's voice was getting louder and louder as he admonished the others, and the words that came out were getting harder and harder to hear.

Seeing that Bai Chi seemed to be in a bit of a hurry, Zhan Zhao thought for a moment, reached out and pulled him aside, asking in a low voice, "Do you think Zhao Zhen took their guns? Why?"

Bai Chi was a bit embarrassed, "That person is like that, he doesn't understand the seriousness of joking around... how..." Before he could finish his words, he saw Zhao Zhen at the entrance of the canteen, with his hands in his pockets, wandering around. He looked up and saw Zhan Zhao and Bai Chi,and greeted them with a smile, "I'm also hungry... your police station's food seems to be good..."

The two of them were staring at him with straight eyes, and Zhao Zhen asked, "What are you two doing?"

He soon spotted the commotion in the corner of the cafeteria and, upon hearing it, looked at Bai Chi with a smile, "What for? You think I did it?"

Bai Chi whispered, "Stop it, it's no joke!"

Zhao Zhen lost his smile, "I didn't take it, what do I need that for?"

"Ah! That's him!" As the three of them were talking, they heard Wu Kai suddenly shout from afar. He then rushed over together with Xu Yadong.

"Take out our guns!" Wu Kai shouted to Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen looked at him and sneered, "Which one of your eyes saw me take your guns?!"

"Who else but you?!" Xu Yadong was a bit agitated, "This is a police station, who would dare to come up here and steal a gun? You clearly stole our bullets without knowing it just now."

Zhao Zhen frowned and was just about to get angry when Bai Chi hastily stopped him and said to Xu Yadong and Wu Kai, "He didn't take it, you've misunderstood."

Wu Kai didn't care, he raised his hand to grab Zhao Zhen's collar, and Xu Yadong took out his handcuffs, "You're guilty as hell, let's go to the interrogation room and talk slowly."

Zhao Zhen staggered out of Wu Kai's way and tripped him with his foot.

Xu Yadong was furious, "How dare you assault a police officer?"

"I think it's called self-defence!" Zhao Zhen raised his hand and punched Xu Yadong in the ribs, causing the man to fall to the ground with his stomach covered.

Bai Chi looked straight up and frowned, but he saw Zhan Zhao reach out and take a cup of milk tea from the counter and drink it.

"Brother.." Bai Chi hurriedly pulled him, "That, you're not going to persuade?"

Zhan Zhao shrugged, "I can't beat him, no one in this police station can probably beat Zhao Zhen except for Xiao Bai."

"No..." Bai Chi was anxious, "Will things go too far? He is in the police station and beat the police!"

He took another sip of tea and shook his head, Zhan Zhao said indifferently, "He didn't say anything wrong, it's indeed called self-defence."

Seeing that Bai Chi was still at a loss for words, Zhan Zhao asked for a cup of pearl milk tea and handed it to him at the front desk, "Here, the original flavour."

……

"Stop it!" Luo Peng came up and spoke to stop it, glaring at the two subordinates who had managed to get up on the ground, "Not enough to be ashamed of?!"

After saying that, he looked up at the crowd and finally his eyes fell on Zhan Zhao, then he pointed at Zhao Zhen, "Dr. Zhan, is he from S.C.I.?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "No, there is no such person in SCI." He then added, "By the way, Captain Luo, you just said that they lost their guns, is it in the police station?"

Luo Peng nodded and said to his two men, "They're all trash. They should be suspended for now, go back to the station and think about how on earth you lost the guns!"

Wu Kai and Xu Yadong glared at Zhao Zhen and turned to walk away indignantly.

Luo Peng smiled at Zhan Zhao and turned to leave.

"The guns were lost at the police station... and they still don't know how?" Zhan Zhao mumbled to himself as he drank his milk tea and walked back.

He was greeted by Bai Yutang who walked out of the interrogation room with a stinky face.

As soon as he saw his face, Zhan Zhao knew that the interrogation must not have gone well, "Xiao Bai, how did it go?"

"Hoo..." Bai Yutang reached over to take the cup in Zhan Zhao's hand and took a sip, "Inexplicable!"

Bai Chi on the side blushed looking at Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, a cup of milk tea for two people to drink... is this not considered an indirect kiss?

Bai Yutang just wanted to explain the situation to Zhan Zhao and his eyes fell into the distance and he froze.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Chi followed his gaze to the distance, and saw the end of the corridor, Lu Fang walked over with two people. One was Hu Lie, the lawyer who had left and returned, and the other was an old man with a head full of white hair and wearing glasses.

"He's a psychiatrist." Zhan Zhao said softly to Bai Yutang, "Probably the one Hu Lie found to prove that Qu Yanming wasn't normal."

"Hehe..." Bai Yutang laughed dryly twice, "No need to prove it, even I don't think he's normal!"

Sure enough, Lu Fang walked up to the three of them and after a short introduction, he said to Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, "Lawyer Hu has a professional medical certificate stating that Qu Yanming's mental condition is not good and his testimony is not credible."

"We will apply to the court to give Qu Yanming proper treatment, but in the meantime," Hu Lie paused for a moment and looked straight at Bai Yutang, "you cannot interrogate him again."

After sending the lawyer and psychiatrist away, Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao, "Cat, what do you think?"

Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, "I feel... as if they are afraid that Qu Yanming will say something."

"That's called a confession without a fight!"  Bai Yutang shook his head.

At that moment, several shots were heard in quick succession.

It was a big shock... Gunshots?

At the same time, people in other offices of the police station also poked their heads out to look, how could there be gunshots?

Then, a chaotic scream could be heard from downstairs.

Then, there was another series of gunshots.

"Cat, how many times did it go off?" Bai Yutang pulled out his gun and ran towards the stairs, with Zhan Zhao and Bai Chi following, "12 shots!"

Walking downstairs, he snapped to see two policemen in police uniforms loading their pistols in the corridor, while on the floor, several wounded officers were lying.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Chi were startled. The two men with guns were Wu Kai and Xu Yadong... who had just said they had lost their guns. At their feet lay a corpse that had been shot in the head - judging from the clothes, it was none other than Patrol Captain Luo Peng.

As soon as the two men looked up and saw Bai Yutang and the others, they hurriedly raised their guns, and before they could aim, they heard two shots in the distance. The two men were shot in the shoulder and their pistols fell to the ground, one after the other.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked up and saw Bao Zheng standing not far behind them, with a gun in his hand and a blue face.

A few police officers ran out and subdued the two men... and saw these two men, with bloodshot eyes and drool hanging from the corners of their mouths, with a horrible and unusual appearance.

Luo Peng and another police officer had died on the spot, and two more were injured...

Bao Zheng looked at the medical staff with an expressionless face as they busied themselves. After a long time, he said to Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, "You two, follow me!"

A police jeep stopped in front of a separate villa on the outskirts.

Morris jumped out and said to Ma Han and Zhao Hu, "This is the place."

The two men followed Morris into the villa.

"The ground floor is all for piling up material..." Morris briefly described, heading straight upstairs, "The studio is on the first floor..."

Zhao Hu followed Morris upstairs, but saw that Ma Han was standing downstairs staring at the corner of the room and reaching for the gun pouch on his waist...

The first thing he did was to take out his gun as well. Zhao Hu made a silent gesture to Morris and slowly walked downstairs, and followed Ma Han's gaze.

He saw a large amount of furniture piled up in one corner of the room, sofas, chairs, and some wooden boards...

The two of them both sucked in a breath of cold air.

After a long time, they heard Zhao Hu say: "Quick... call the chief!"

‿︵‿︵ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ・❉・ ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ‿︵‿︵

Previous Chapter | TOC | Next Chapter

Translator Notes

Translated: March 9, 2022 by Turtle

Edited: May 6, 2022 by Angel