S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 80

Lucky Murderer 10 – Army Engineering Team

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"A big secret?" Chen Yu and Qi Le both looked at Lian Shuli in surprise, "What secret?"

Lian Shuli moved closer "Did you know that my father is a grave robber!"

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The moment this statement was made, everyone froze.

Bai Yutang glanced at Zhan Zhao – Isn't he a legitimate businessman?

Zhan Zhao picked up the corners of his mouth and shook his head – Considering Lian Tongli's age, to have that much wealth, the start-up capital was indeed important. The heirloom of Boss Lian, there is no need to ask, there is nothing better than that set of maps… after all, they are a national treasure.

"So Lian Tongli has gone against the teachings of his ancestors?" Gongsun tilted his face, "Well... that's interesting."

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "Could it have something to do with this murder case?"

The crowd was filled with suspicion and continued to listen.

"My dad ah... he can be bad!" But Lian Shuli was a girl after all, and was more concerned with the emotional aspect.

She grabbed Qi Le and Chen Yu, crying as she talked about how her father was not a human being. Chen Shufen was originally the girlfriend of her elder brother, Lian Qianzhong, and her father liked her to the extent that he stole his son's girlfriend to take her home to be a young mother. The three siblings were originally very close. The older brother was very filial, filial to the point of being a bit silly. The second brother and her were more forward-looking and couldn't stand it anymore so they had a row with their dad... but in the end, they got married and even had a child early on, which was simply shameless.

The people at the door were quite embarrassed to hear this, while Chen Yu and Qi Le were gossiping to their heart's content.

Zhan Zhao coughed and reminded Chen Yu and Qi Le over the microphone, "Ugh, before she gets drunk, take her back to the tomb raiding aspect, that's the key!"

Qi Le and Chen Yu hurriedly understood and changed the subject.

Lian Shuli vaguely said, "All I know is that Dad has half of the family heirloom in his hands and he wants to find the other half. He only lets Eldest Brother get involved in his business, Second Brother and I never had a share in it! But something may have happened in the last few days, so he's particularly cranky... and Second Brother is giving him a hard time at the moment, so he's trying to find Second Brother."

"What did your second brother do?" Chen Yu puzzled, "Father and son, what can't be said properly."

"Second Brother is a psychology student, he likes to do research and has a great sense of justice." Lian Shuli was quite helpless when she talked about it, "He has been very unhappy with what Dad and the others have been doing... Not long ago, he mysteriously told me that he had discovered a big secret!"

"Another big secret?" Chen Yu and Qi Le tensed up, saying to themselves, "As expected of a big family, a family with so many big secrets!" The people outside were naturally even more nervous, holding their breath as they listened.

"They're secretly selling cultural relics!" Lian Shuli said, her face getting even more ugly, "Second Brother, apart from taking pictures, also inadvertently stole an important thing, he said it was so important that he had to hide it."

"What is it?" The crowd inside and outside the room spoke in unison.

"Er..." Lian Shuli shook her head, "I don't know."

"Then do you know where he's hiding?" Chen Yu then asked.

Lian Shuli shook her head, "They have used every method to find Second Brother, they even charged him with theft and embezzlement of public funds, so as soon as I heard that they had called the police, I went back to see... afraid that they would harm Second Brother. My dad was also trying to lure me back because he thought he could find out from me where Second Brother was."

"Ask her how she escaped." Bai Yutang was interested, with such tight security all around.

"It was Ah Zhong who released me, he and Second Brother are good friends... ugh." Lian Shuli picked up a glass of wine and took a hard sip, wiping her tears and saying, "Others look at us as a family of great wealth and say that I am Miss Qianjin, enjoying endless glory and wealth. But I can't even live a normal life, I have to pretend to be crazy to keep from being imprisoned, what do you think the point of my life is?" (Angel: Miss Qianjin generally refers to a girl who is not married yet and is doted on at home, and is also a title for spoiled, disobedient, and willful girls.)

The alcohol kicked in and Lian Shuli pulled Qi Le and Chen Yu into a fit of tears, and it wasn't long before they fell asleep.

"Talking for half a day. " Bai Yutang said to Zhan Zhao, "The clues are incomplete."

"Tomorrow we'll be able to follow up on these clues and ask questions, we'll have something to go on, but she doesn't know much." Zhan Zhao clapped his hands.

After that, Bai Yutang had someone help Lian Shuli rest first and sent someone to protect her secretly.

When the crowd returned to the office door, they saw Ma Xin standing in the corridor talking to someone... and the person chatting with her was Bai Jintang.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, thinking that Xin Xin is the most courageous, as soon as they met, she dared to take the initiative to get close to Bai Jintang and gained a lot of benefits by selling Gongsun's information. In comparison, Qi Le and Chen Yu didn't dare to talk to Bai Jintang much even after they had become so familiar with each other.

Gongsun saw that Bai Jintang was dressed formally in a smoky grey suit with a cigarette in his mouth, so he went over and tapped him on the shoulder, "Going for a wedding drink?"

"I have to meet a group of clients for a charity auction this afternoon." Bai Jintang replied indifferently.

"Hey," Gongsun reached out and grabbed his cigarette, "how many today?"

Bai Jintang looked at the sky helplessly, and saw Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang not far away, watching the situation like it was a good show.

Bai Jintang took the cigarette back and extinguished it on top of a metal bin to the side, asking Gongsun, "Are you coming along?"

"Charity auctions and the like are more for show, right?" Gongsun didn't seem too interested, "To do charity, I'd rather just help the needy."

"It's boring for me to go alone." Bai Jintang followed him with his hands in his pockets, "Let's go, let’s show some love in front of the media and grab the front page of tomorrow's newspaper!"

“The nerve." Gongsun laughed and nudged him in the chest, going to the forensic room to change and prepare to go to dinner with Bai Jintang.

As they watched from the sidelines, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang frowned – there was no need to be so intimate.

After the last incident, Gongsun seems to have changed his nature; he has not been mean to Bai Jintang, rather he has been doting on him. Bai Jintang was flattered at first, then uncomfortable. After all, in his memory from his childhood to adulthood, he had never been pampered... Of course, for a man like him to be pampered was a ridiculous thing, but not a bad thing. It is undeniable that this super pampering style of Gongsun has made Bai Jintang too addicted to wake up, he feels that his life is now super perfect.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang rubbed their cheeks to get rid of the sweet, greasy feeling that was pouring out of their teeth.

Bai Jintang reached out and took a card out of his pocket, giving it to Zhan Zhao. It was a voucher for his new restaurant, specialising in crab. Zhan Zhao loves seafood. He took the gold card, raised the corners of his mouth contentedly, and winked at Bai Yutang – Want to go eat now?

Naturally, Bai Yutang had no objection.

"By the way, Brother, have you been very busy these past few days?" Bai Yutang was still worried about Bai Jintang, "How is your health when you come back so late at night?"

Bai Jintang looked at him, reached out and took out a cigarette from his pocket, then lit it up. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had known him for a long time, and this was Bai Jintang's habit of hiding his emotions when he was about to speak or think.

"Mom called the other day and cried, saying she had two sons and couldn't see either one for a month. She asked if it would be okay if she divorced Dad and lived with you?"

"They're getting divorced?" Bai Yutang was shocked.

Zhan Zhao grabbed him by the shoulders, Mother Bai was probably anxious.

"She said she'll divorce Dad if you don't go home again, she'd rather not have her husband than her son." Bai Jintang saw Gongsun come out and hurriedly extinguished his cigarette, "What are you messing with them for, you're so old, go home."

Bai Yutang frowned, there were some things he couldn't say for fear that Bai Jintang would be upset, but for him to smile and face Bai Yunwen before he knew the truth, he really didn't have the ability to do that, he might have a quarrel at home.

When Gongsun walked up to the crowd and saw that the atmosphere seemed a little awkward, he pulled Bai Jintang away and reached out to pat Bai Yutang's head, "Listen to your brother."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao subconsciously shivered, wondering if this person was Gongsun.

Gongsun showed a sly smile and dragged the dumbfounded Bai Jintang into the elevator… Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang followed them. As soon as the elevator door was closed tightly, the two of them couldn't wait to embrace each other warmly.

"Wow...” Zhan Zhao took a long time to come back to his senses, shaking his head, “Didn’t those two take the sadistic route before, how did they suddenly turn sweet recently?"

"Uh..." Bai Yutang suddenly clapped his hands, "I forgot to ask Brother if he knows about Lian Tongli and if he knows about his business."

"Ahem." Zhan Zhao hid the gold card in his pocket and laughed, “Can we use the voucher next time? We can have a meal together."

The two exchanged a look and went downstairs to stop Bai Jintang's car, shamelessly acting as a big light bulb and following along to dinner.

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"Lian Tongli and Lian Qianzhong?" Bai Jintang said as he ate, "The two of them are considered serious businessmen, although they are usually a bit mysterious, "Why? Did something happen?"

"We're still investigating.” Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang never hide anything from Bai Jintang, they live together anyway, so they told them the whole story.

Bai Jintang listened in disbelief for a long time and asked, "With memories of a past life?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were a little powerless. Bai Jintang was probably sensitive to the word ‘memory’, so he focused on this sentence.

"That's not the point." Gongsun smiled as he shoved a piece of steak into his mouth. Bai Jintang looked at him in a daze – He felt that Gongsun seemed to be a little more enthusiastic than usual! He wondered if he's busy this afternoon and if the suite upstairs was available...

Gongsun saw his silly look and nodded contentedly. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were shaking the whole way through the meal, and the meat was dead.

Gongsun didn't know what he was doing today and kept... how to put it? Flirting, active seduction or flirtation?!

"Brother." Bai Yutang called out to Bai Jintang.

"Huh?" Bai Jintang finally came back to his senses.

"The focus is on their father and son tomb-robbing case, the dumping of cultural relics, and this murder case." Zhan Zhao reminded Bai Jintang, "Are there any clues you can provide?"

Bai Jintang wiped his mouth with his napkin and picked up his cup to drink, thinking for a moment, "In that case… that's right, the twins mentioned to me the other day that that father and son were being followed by a very special team."

“A team?" Bai Yutang listened to the new information, "Security guards or something?"

Bai Jintang shook his head, "The twins only said it was a team but they couldn't tell the nature of it. A bit of research afterwards seemed to lead to some clues, but I didn't ask and they didn't say anything, so I guessed it was nothing important."

Putting down his cup, Bai Jintang got up and went to the service desk to book a room; it would be best to do a little exercise and burn some calories when he was full later.

Bai Yutang got on the phone and asked for the twins.

Zhan Zhao saw Gongsun holding a small notebook and wondered what he was writing down, so he asked, "Gongsun, what are you doing these days? What are you researching?"

"Mm-hmm." Gongsun nodded, "I'm researching how much men's mood swings affect their sexual function."

"Cough cough..." Zhan Zhao almost choked and he coughed for a long time before asking, "What's the point of studying this?"

Gongsun smiled faintly, holding his chin in one hand as he spoke softly, "To facilitate better control and harnessing, so that he can never escape me in his lifetime."

Zhan Zhao shivered for a moment as Gongsun waved the notebook around, "Want it?"

Zhan Zhao smiled and nodded his head.

Bai Yutang, on the other hand, hung up the phone and pointed behind Gongsun.

Gongsun froze and turned back. The notebook in his hand was taken away by Bai Jintang and he flipped through it.

"Hi." Gongsun's face was embarrassed and he hurriedly went to grab it, but Bai Jintang had already read it and frowned slightly after reading a few pages, "Two hour fatigue period after overtime, the effect needs to be improved, what does that mean?"

Gongsun flattened his mouth.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang hurriedly lowered their heads to eat.

"Your research is very constructive." Bai Jintang stuffed the notebook into his pocket and pulled Gongsun upstairs, "It just so happens that there is still a suite, let's do some field research on where the limits of human beings are!"

As the two entered the elevator, Zhan Zhao poked Bai Yutang, "How about we go on a trip after solving the case this time?"

"Sure." Bai Yutang hurriedly nodded, he had long wanted to enjoy a good sex life with the cat.

"What did Da Ding and Xiao Ding say just now?” Zhan Zhao asked, imitating Gongsun and stuffing steak into Bai Yutang’s mouth. Bai Yutang shivered and glanced at him, "Don't lead me on, it's your bad luck if you can't get up later!"

Zhan Zhao licked the fork that Bai Yutang had used, causing Bai Yutang to scratch his head.

"What did the two of them say?" Zhan Zhao then asked.

"Oh." Bai Yutang's face showed his confusion, "The twins said that it looked like an army engineering team."

“Army engineers?" Zhan Zhao had an odd expression on his face. (Angel: The author used 工兵, which is used for military engineers who also carry out certain comat tasks.)

"But army engineers and such, well at least there are clues. They gathered information at the time and they said they would pass it to Jiang Ping this afternoon, so we can go back and study it."

The two finished their meal quickly and went out. As soon as they got into the car, they received a text message from Gongsun – asking for a leave of absence!

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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: May 3, 2022 by Angel