S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 1 Chapter 82

The Murderer Is Not Human 15 – Opportunity

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"Bai Chi... wait." Zhan Zhao quickly caught up with Bai Chi, who was running out the door. He pulled him back, "Wait a minute."

Bai Chi's face burned, feeling angry and embarrassed. He wanted to break away from Zhan Zhao and continue to run, when he heard Zhan Zhao behind him suck in a cold breath with a ‘hiss’.

Bai Chi suddenly remembered that Zhan Zhao still has an injury on his arm, and hurriedly stopped. He turned back to look at his arm, "Does it hurt...?"

With a light sigh, Zhan Zhao reached out to rub his head: "Don't run, it's our fault. Don't be angry."

Bai Chi lowered his head and did not speak. His hands were behind his back, and his toes stepped on a small stone on the ground, crushing it.

Zhan Zhao pulled him to sit by a flower bed and said, "We didn't mean to tease you, it really was just a coincidence."

Bai Chi is not stupid, he knows that Zhan Zhao and the others could not have predicted that he would make soup for Zhao Zhen at this moment. It was his own bad luck that he ran into the muzzle and he blamed himself. Why did he come here to make soup for that person when he was looking for trouble...

Seeing Bai Chi hanging his head, Zhan Zhao smiled and added: "Zhao Zhen certainly does not have bad intentions either..."

Bai Chi's face reddened a few more times, his heart twisted, thinking, what is he doing if he doesn't have bad intentions, bastard, he only knows how to tease me...

Zhan Zhao saw his look and knew that he and Zhao Zhen still had a knot in their hearts. However, it was not easy to express, this little thing is quite squirmy. It seems that they can only take their time. In addition, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang are, after all, more biased towards Bai Chi. Zhao Zhen is mysterious and has an extraordinary relationship with Zhao Jue, so he is never really close to them...

"What a good job just now." Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Chi and said, "Xiao Bai kept praising you in the wardrobe."

"Really... really?" Xiao Bai Chi asked cautiously, but his eyes were shining and sparkling.

"What do you think of it yourself?" Zhan Zhao asked him.

Bai Chi looked down and thought about it, and smiled back beautifully, "It's the first time I've ever felt that way..."

"Which kind of feeling?"

"It's the feeling of... holding a gun and not being afraid." Bai Chi looked at his feet and muttered to himself, "In the past, I was always afraid of not hitting, I was afraid to shoot. The more people said about me, the more I panicked..."

"There used to be a lot of people saying bad things about you, and even coming after you, weren’t there?"

"En..." Bai Chi nodded, "They all said I wasn't meant to be a cop. That I was a disgrace to the Bai family, and they could pick out faults in everything I did, no matter how hard I tried."

"Do you know why they say that about you?" Zhan Zhao asked him with a smile.

Bai Chi lifted his head and shook it, looking at Zhan Zhao, and waiting for an answer.

Zhan Zhao reached over and patted Bai Chi's shoulder, "Because what you have, they can't get it even if they try!"

"It's like Morris..." Seeing the faint disbelief on Bai Chi's face, Zhan Zhao said slowly, "Morris only saw that he had worked hard for years but still had to be a useless assistant, but didn't see that he was actually already a successful photographer. He only saw that Zhao Zhen didn't care about him, but didn't see that he was already able to get very close to Zhao Zhen... And you, everyone doesn't agree with you and even you don't agree with yourself, but still have the courage to walk up to the dark rooftop alone... You say that you don't like Zhao Zhen, but then you still first consider that the drugs might harm his body..."

"Aren't these... basic..." Bai Chi said in a small voice, somewhat uncomfortable with Zhan Zhao's compliments.

"The most rare and valuable thing is that what seems incredible to others is the basic thing to do in your opinion." Zhan Zhao looked at the street lights as if talking to himself, "The sad thing about geniuses is that they have an extraordinary head and an extraordinary heart. If they were like you, with a genius head and an ordinary heart, there wouldn't be so many disputes... "

"So what you're saying is that I'm right to be like this?" Bai Chi asked Zhan Zhao seriously, "As long as I stick to my own, even if people keep saying that I'm not good, I can still face it with confidence!"

Zhan Zhao nodded, "As for those people who keep coming after you, saying you're bad and picking on you to find fault, they just have a mental illness."

Bai Chi was puzzled, "Mental illness?"

"That's right." Zhan Zhao nodded, "When you are trying to move towards your goal, he find ways to come out and strike you down with words, create difficulties for you, with the intention of disrupting you and cutting your motivation... because by doing so, he can get some kind of psychological balance by striking you down and making it difficult for you while he cannot do it himself. In fact, you can laugh at this behaviour, which is also a kind of encouragement in disguise, and you will often find that the more people are like this, the more he is concerned about your every move, and he will even be chasing after you all the time, looking for trouble with you, obviously dissatisfied with you, but also keeping an eye on you all the time. However, all you have to remember is that while he is tailing you to vent his frustrations, you are on your own path, striding forward, and the insignificant obstacles he creates do not affect you! What you can do, he will never be able to do, and the appreciation and support you can get, he will never get! So... see what I mean?"

After a while of silence, Bai Chi nodded, "I understand, I work hard and confidently walk my own way, for myself and the people who love me, as long as I have these, it is the biggest motivation and happiness, and any obstacles are insignificant! No matter what they say about me, they can't stop me from becoming a real good police officer!"

Zhan Zhao nodded with satisfaction, "Correct!"

When Bai Yutang escorted Morris out of Zhao Zhen's house, he saw two people sitting beside the flower bed chatting... Bai Chi had been completely subdued by Zhan Zhao.

Bai Yutang felt that the tail behind Bai Chi was swaying, his ears were drooping, his eyes were blinking, and all the hairs on his body were smoothed out.

For the nth time, he sighed inwardly at the cunningness of this cat. Bai Yutang patted Bai Chi on the shoulder as he approached: "It was a good performance. It seems that it was right to give you the gun. It's Zhao Zhen who understands you."

Bai Chi slightly froze for a moment, then said to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang: "That, Brothers, you go back first, I... will go in and see Zhao Zhen." Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other, and took Morris into the car first and left.

Bai Chi stood at the door for a while, but walked back and entered the room.

Zhao Zhen was cleaning up the winter melons and ribs on the ground, and Lisbon was lying beside him. He wonder if it was an illusion, butBai Chi felt that there was some sympathy in Lisbon's eyes when he looked at Zhao Zhen.

He lowered his head and silently walked over to help him clean up the things on the ground. Seeing that Zhao Zhen was clumsy, Bai Chi went to the bathroom and gave him a towel: "Go in and take a bath!"

Zhao Zhen honestly took the towel into the bathroom and washed himself. When he came out clean, he was attracted by the smell from the kitchen.

When he walked to the door of the kitchen, he saw Bai Chi cooking soup with his apron around him, and the smell was – winter melon and pork ribs soup.

"Little thing..." Zhao Zhen pointed to the pot, "You’re not cooking the ones you picked up again, are you~~"

Bai Chi glared at him: "I just went to buy new ones! Counting the ones just now, there are two pieces of winter melon and four pounds of spare ribs!"

Zhao Zhen held back a laugh, "I’m not paying for it~~"

Bai Chi lowered his head and continued to cook the soup, "Forget it, it’s on me."

"Really?" Zhao Zhen smiled and walked over to Bai Chi...

～Cooking the soup ~

～Serve the soup ~

～Drinking the soup ~

The atmosphere is rarely harmonious.

When Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang brought Morris back to the police station, they got a very interesting piece of news - Just for a moment, for some reason, Lu Yan, Qu Yanming, and also Wu Kai and Xu Yadong who were in the special ward all took the initiative to explained that they were threatened and instructed by Shang Luo, and the person who controlled their actions was Tu Xi.

The time that everyone confessed was almost the same, and the calibre was almost completely the same, saying that Tu Xi was a god-like existence who could control people's actions and ability to think.

"Cat, what do you think?" Bai Yutang looked at the records of everyone's questioning and asked Zhan Zhao, "So many people explained it almost at the same time, and they said exactly the same thing."

"Well~~" Zhan Zhao touched his chin,"this is really strange, could it be that they know that Morris was arrested?!"

"What exactly is that Tu Xi?" Gongsun was puzzled, "Apart from hearing the voice, he has never shown his face."

Bai Yutang asked Jiang Ping if Wang Chao and the others had acted yet.

Jiang Ping nodded, according to Bai Yutang's arrangement, Wang Chao and Zhang Long went to watch Fu Yishan's house, while Ma Han and Zhao Hu went to watch Mo Ning's two assistants.

As for Shang Luo, because of his complicated background, in order not to scare the snakes, there was no specific action, but Han Zhang and Xu Qing were sent to keep an eye on him.

At this moment, Bao Zheng pushed the door open and came in from outside.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other and said in unison, "It hasn't been a week..."

Bao Zheng glared at the two of them with a dark face, and said to Zhan Zhao, "Xiao Zhan, you have won an award."

"Huh??" Zhan Zhao was a little puzzled, and looked at Bai Yutang and then at Gongsun, and saw that the two were also puzzled.

Bao Zheng took out a letter and said, "This is a letter from the International Association of Criminal Psychology that arrived this morning. Didn't you write an academic book on hypnotic suggestion and split personality last time?"

"Ah! It's the one written at the time of the digital serial murder case." Bai Yutang remembered and asked Bao Zheng, "That one won the award?"

"En." Bao Zheng nodded, "The International Psychological Association will hold a small celebration at the International Hotel tomorrow, and you are invited to attend, here is your invitation."

Zhan Zhao frowned: "I never go for those kinds of awards, and I don't like to participate in that kind of event..."

Bai Yutang also said: "Bao Sir, what is it now?~~ We’re busy~~"

Bao Zheng smiled and looked at the two of them: "You two are quite enlightened... Do you think I am looking for you to be happy? Look at the list of invitees?!"

 The two took a look.

"... Shang Luo?!" Both of them shouted in surprise.

"Why is he there?!" Gongsun was puzzled, "He has nothing to do with psychology!"

Bao Zheng nodded: "That’s right, he is not a professional, but... this award~~ he has always sponsored it!"

Everyone glanced at each other.

Bai Yutang sneered: "Unexpectedly, Shang Luo is quite noble, supports academics, and supports anti-crime!"

Gongsun took the list and looked at it: "That's right, Shang Luo is running a security company on the surface, and is also involved in security work..."

"Bao Sir, you want us to take this opportunity to explore Shang Luo's bottom line?!" Zhan Zhao said, "This is indeed a good opportunity."

"That's half right." Bao Zheng smiled at Zhan Zhao , said, "I really want to take the opportunity to inquire about Shang Luo, but it's not you guys, it's you!"

"What?" Bai Yutang jumped up first, "Letting Cat go alone?!"

Bao Zheng nodded. Bai Yutang was just about to ask for details when he saw Gongsun handing him the list of invitees and saying, "Xiao Bai, it's useless for you to be angry, there's only Xiao Zhan's name on this list, not yours."

"Although you are attending the ceremony alone, there may be some risk, but it’s a rare opportunity, and it's also a public occasion, so there will be many people." Bao Zheng looked at Zhan Zhao, "You decide, there is a certain risk, but if Xiao Bai is around, the other party may be more vigilant."

Zhan Zhao tookIn the invitation letter and smiled calmly: "Go! Of course I’ll go!"

Bai Yutang stared at him for a long time, and finally sighed and said, "Okay, but I will follow the whole process, and you have to wear a bulletproof vest and have a bug on your body."

Zhan Zhao was just about to make a comment when he saw the other three give him a fierce glare and simultaneously say,  "All opinions are rejected! Just do it!"

With a raised eyebrow, Zhan Zhao could only give a ‘hmph' in his heart and obediently give in~~

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Translator Notes

Translated: March 12, 2022 by Turtle

Edited: June 7, 2022 by Angel