S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 91

Lucky Murderer 21 – Scam

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With his white coat on, Bai Yutang turned into a well-mannered doctor. He was walking with a clipboard, taking notes as he went, when he rounded the corner and saw a uniformed police officer standing there.

Bai Yutang glanced at him, a hint of doubt coming into his eyes, and asked, "Haven't seen you around before."

“Oh," The police officer smiled, "I'm covering for the shift, the original colleague had some matters to take care of and asked for leave."

"Oh." Bai Yutang nodded and turned to leave, then after some thought, he asked, "By the way, what was the name of that psychology doctor?"

"Huh?" The police officer froze, "What?"

"Oh, the very gentle police officer who is talking to the patient." Bai Yutang said, "Saying something about treasures and memories... If he's not a psychologist, then the case you police are investigating now would be too interesting, wouldn't it?"

"Oh..." The police officer laughed dryly, "Really? By the way, is there a conversation going on in the room?"

"Hmm." Bai Yutang nodded, “Mysterious, and stumping the police."

"Oh... yeah, so mysterious, I wonder what's being investigated?"

Bai Yutang shrugged his shoulders, indicating 'who knows', and turned to walk away.

When Bai Yutang turned and went down the stairs, the officer glanced in the direction of the room and saw two plain-clothed men leaving the door of the room, which was hidden, and walking to the end of the hallway, standing in front of the bay window looking out.

After returning to the wall, the officer reached back and pulled his gun from his pocket, carefully carrying it behind his back, and as soon as he flashed out, he walked quickly in the direction of the room.

The two plain-clothed officers were completely oblivious to the fact that the door to the room was open, and he broke in carefully, pulling out his gun to fire, only to find the room empty.

He suddenly froze. At that moment, someone appeared behind him, reached out and snatched the gun out of his hand, sneering, "As an assassin, you can't even figure out the location, you're really a failure."

The officer was startled and turned around, only to see Bai Yutang standing behind him. The other two plain-clothed officers also came over and reached out to take the gun from Bai Yutang's hand and handcuffed the officer, while saying, "Captain Bai, you're really good, you've captured the man without bloodshed, really impressive!"

Bai Yutang smiled faintly and called for the police to escort the killer back.

Back in Lian Qianyi's room, Zhan Zhao had already finished his conversation with Lian Qianyi. At this moment, he was standing by the window, watching downstairs as the police officers escorted the killer disguised as a police officer into the police car. There was also a police officer who had been knocked unconscious being helped and gasping for breath at the door.

"Finished asking?" Bai Yutang walked in and asked Zhan Zhao.

"That move should be considered a diversion." Zhan Zhao looked back at him and smiled faintly, "You found out that someone had infiltrated the ward posing as a police officer, so you motionlessly asked the two plain-clothed officers at the door to open the door of the empty room next door, and guard the door of the room next door. You then took the clipboard yourself and pretended to come out of that room, while the assassin subjectively judged that room to be Lian Qianyi's room. You then went back out and said hello to him. This action is tantamount to telling him that the patient you are looking at is none other than Lian Qianyi... So that idiot was fooled by you and took the desperate step of going into the empty room. You then tail him because all his attention will be on those two police officers in front of him when he sneaks in and won't care about his back!" When Zhan Zhao finished, he couldn't help but clap his hands, "If that was recorded just now, it could be textbook material for protecting the officers who are on their way, ah, Captain Bai."

Bai Yutang raised an eyebrow slightly and didn't say anything.

"How clever." Lian Qianyi heard it too and sighed, "Sure enough, things come in groups, and it's impossible to become the partner of a clever person."

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, gesturing – Have you finished asking?

Zhan Zhao nodded and said to Lian Qianyi, "You take good care of your injuries, we'll leave first... By the way," As he was leaving the room, Zhan Zhao turned back to him and said, “don't try to escape!"

"Heh, why would I?" Lian Qianyi laughed and continued to lie down and sleep.

Bai Yutang arranged extra men to protect him and took Zhan Zhao back with him.

“Have you heard anything interesting?" Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao.

"Well..." The look on Zhan Zhao's face was complicated, “how can I put it… it's more uninteresting than interesting."

"Then just say it’s boring, there’s no need to answer so seriously." Bai Yutang thought it was funny.

"But what about boring, again, it doesn't simply sum up how I feel." Zhan Zhao crossed his legs and said with some disappointment, "In Lian Qianyi's case, it is not a case of genetic memory... The so-called genetic memory is nothing more than a hoax, whether this hoax covers up his confused thinking or whether it covers up other truths will have to be checked.”

"Oh?" Bai Yutang wasn't sure how he should feel hearing that, "That's a bit disappointing."

"That's right." Zhan Zhao rubbed his nose, revealing a disappointed look, and sighed, "I hate it when this happens in the middle of a case, I was confident that it was going to be a big event, but I didn't think it was just a hiccup and that I would have to start all over again."

Bai Yutang thought for a moment and asked, "Are you that sure that Lian Qianyi doesn't have genetic memories?"

“Mm," Zhan Zhao nodded, “very sure."

"Tell me specifically, why?" Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao to explain it to him, Zhan Zhao thought about it and said, "Do you know which generation he remembers?"

Bai Yutang shook his head, "His great grandfather?"

"Uh huh, plus his own, so four generations in total!" Zhan Zhao replied.

"Then?"

"Then it's impossible!" Zhan Zhao was depressed, "At the moment, we can only use a tiny five percent of the human brain. All the organs, thinking system, nervous system, and so on, all the components of our body are only adapted to this five percent. Six percent would already make the world feel crazy, not to mention four generations, which is four times as much, reaching twenty percent... that would require his physiology to be equipped with three times as many components!"

Bai Yutang frowned, "For example... eight eyes?"

"Then everything is possible, how far the mind can change!" Zhan Zhao shrugged, "But looking at Lian Qianyi's physical examination report, especially his neurological functions... if I may say so, it's as normal as the average person, that would never be able to support his huge genetic memory of four generations! Not to mention the fact that he sorted out his thoughts on his own without any outside help! That's not human!"

"Then what is?"

"Superman!" Zhan Zhao replied decisively, "If he could really do it, there's no way we'd be able to catch him! Because his IQ would be two or even three times that of ours!"

Bai Yutang couldn't help but whistle, "In other words, if someone says he retains memories from thousands of years ago, it must be a lie, right?"

"If only that generation is preserved, then maybe there's a 0.00000001% chance, but if it's said that memories from so many generations are preserved, then that person is either a liar or crazy!" Zhan Zhao rubbed his neck, "Still, what Gongsun said about the corpse dissolving water is a bit more reliable!"

Bai Yutang laughed. Seeing that Zhan Zhao was not happy, in his heart, he could certainly understand his loss.

When the car pulled into the underground parking lot of the police station, Bai Yutang opened the door and saw Bai Jintang leaning against his car smoking, next to Zhao Hu and Ma Han who had also come out to smoke.

"What's the status of the stakeout?" Bai Yutang closed the car door and asked Ma Han and Zhao Hu.

"Head, the manpower is all arranged, absolutely no snake was spooked, and that betting shop indeed has some problems!"

"What kind of problems?" Zhan Zhao asked curiously.

"The old man alone can buy ten boxed lunches, but the boxes are not delivered outside, and there is a tar barrel in the backyard that is burned once a day." Zhao Hu chuckled, "And also... there must be several people who come to buy lottery tickets every day, going back and forth between the lottery betting shop and the archaeological site!"

"Hmm..." Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao exchanged a glance – They could basically determine where Lian Qianzhong was located.

"By the way, Brother..." Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Jintang, “why are you here?"

"I came to find Gongsun for dinner." Bai Jintang shrugged, "But I guess I can skip this meal tonight."

“Brother, have you lost a bit of weight?" Bai Yutang frowned, "Gongsun works irregular hours, but after Ma Xin came, the small fridge in the forensic room is full of food, he won't go hungry, so don't you follow him and not eat too."

Bai Jintang smiled, and Zhan Zhao moved over to examine him carefully, "Yes! It seems that you have lost a little bit of weight, your cheeks are sunken a little bit, and you feel more like Xiao Bai, but you are taller than Xiao Bai..."

Before he finished his words, Bai Yutang stabbed him with his finger. Bai Yutang was not happy about being a little shorter than Bai Jintang, but of course, Bai Jintang was ridiculously tall.

"Have you been back home yet?" Bai Jintang put out his cigarette and asked Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang scratched his head, "I've called Mom, I'm going back this week."

Bai Jintang nodded in satisfaction, "Tell Gongsun that I'm going back to take care of things and that he should call me when he's ready, I'll come to pick him up and take him home." After saying that, he got in the car and left.

"Remember to eat!" Bai Yutang shouted after him.

Bai Jintang reached out and waved his hand gently, signalling that he knew.

"Tsk." Zhao Hu rubbed his chin and saluted in the background.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Ma Han looked at him in confusion.

"Here, Xiao Ma Ge!" Zhao Hu hugged Ma Han's shoulder and said, "If you ask who is the most manly man in the whole of SCI... no, out of all the men I’ve met, which one is the most masculine, it must be Big Brother Bai!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at him in confusion, and Ma Han laughed out loud, "Then may I ask which is the least manly you've ever seen?"

"Pfft..." Zhao Hu stifled a laugh, "Xiao Chi Chi, boyish!"

"Ah-choo..." Upstairs, Bai Chi sneezed, leaning back on the sofa and anxiously waiting for the results from Gongsun and the others in the forensic room.

At this time, Bai Yutang and the others came upstairs, having long heard that Gongsun had found something good and were curious.

When they entered the office, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao watched the video first.

"What is this thing? Is it a person?" Zhan Zhao felt that the white shadow didn't look too much like a human, but it behaved and acted completely human.

"It might be a visual error from the infrared camera!" Jiang Ping shook his head, "I am looking for other surveillance footage, and the evidence upstairs has also been collected, but I just don't understand who is so capable of doing something like this from the roof of the police station without being discovered... You have to use a paraglider or something, if not a helicopter. I don't think ordinary people would have this kind of equipment or be able to do this kind of research, would they?"

"That's true." Zhan Zhao nodded, "By the way, what's the situation on Gongsun's side?"

"Still examining the body and fighting with a large batch of meat sauce!" Jiang Ping made a face in the direction of the forensic room, "Luo Tian and Qin Ou have probably already thrown up."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang laughed, put on their masks, and opened the door to the forensic room together.

Gongsun was removing his mask and the fan in the room kept blowing out; it looked like it was over.

Ma Xin was taking notes at the computer, and off to the side, Qin Ou and Luo Tian were both squeezing out of the doorway and taking deep breaths in the hallway, seemingly having had enough.

"How did it go?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang asked Gongsun.

"It's all over there." Gongsun pointed to the dissecting table, "The white ones are the cleaned up skeletons, and the ones in the airtight boxes are the meat sauce."

"So little?" Zhan Zhao was a little puzzled, "Did the three corpses fit into only three boxes?"

"The fat was all liquefied, and most of the water evaporated straight away." Gongsun said, shaking his head, "The whole corpse was destroyed. It did have about the same effect as the corpse-melting water, the waste water is in the barrel below."

"Was it artificially caused?" Zhan Zhao bent down and stared at the container after container of meat sauce, "Well... the murderer had a purpose for destroying the corpses, right? But these corpses have been thoroughly examined, why would they be destroyed?"

"Exactly." Gongsun came over, "At first I didn't have a clue, there was nothing special about these bodies at all, so why would the killer destroy them."

"So what did you figure out?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"So I thought of something!"

"What?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang asked in unison.

"By the way, have you guys ever played with the Ouija board?" Gongsun suddenly asked a question that seemed completely unrelated to the case.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang took a moment to react and shook their heads, "No... but I've heard of it."

"Ouija has a long history of existence and is a common trick used by ancient psychics or wizards when pretending to talk to spirits.” Ma Xin replied helpfully as she tapped her computer to write the report.

"It's said that bugs were put inside, right?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"That's right!" Ma Xin nodded.

"And then?" Bai Yutang asked Gongsun, "What does it have to do with these corpses?"

"Well, if this whole case is a scam," With a smile, Gongsun reached out and pointed to the white bones on the table, "then these corpses are the worms that were placed at the head of the bowl to make the deception perfect!"

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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: June 2, 2022 by Angel