S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 1 Chapter 86

The Murderer Is Not Human 19 – A Shocking Hoax

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9.12 pm, in the forensic room next door to SCI in the police building.

Gongsun stood alone in front of the autopsy table where he was dissecting the box corpses that they had gotten out from Tian Zhong's studio.

What he was doing now was carefully peeling off the hard shell that was meant to hold the bodies in place.

As he did so, Gongsun analysed the composition of the shell – hard and thin, transparent, with a crystalline lusture… What exactly was it?

At that moment, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Gongsun answered in a low voice.

It was Jiang Ping who pushed the door open and came in. He glanced at the corpse in Gongsun's hand and gulped, "Gongsun, we’re off duty, you're not leaving?"

Gongsun shook his head. "Well... I want to finish this."

"Oh..." Jiang Ping turned to leave and then turned back, "Wang Chao and the others are all out, Chief and the others won't be back until about midnight as well, are you okay all by yourself?"

Gongsun was amused at this, and asked Jiang Ping, "What could go wrong?!"

"Uh..." Jiang Ping glanced at the corpse again.

Gongsun shook his head and waved his hand at him, "It won't come to life, just go."

Jiang Ping said BYE BYE and went out. When he reached the elevator, he thought about it, went back to his office and made a phone call, said a few words briefly, then left the phone and went away.

Gongsun continued to dissect the box corpse, and the more he did, the stranger he felt. He tightened his brow, took off his gloves, took out the information of the last Tu Xi box corpse autopsy, and compared the data.His eyes suddenly widened in shock. Realising what he had found, he could not help but feel chills all over his body...

It was at this point that Gongsun suddenly felt as if someone was behind him, and was about to turn around before he was held by the waist.

"Ah~" The ghosts had their moments, and Gongsun, still lost in the discovery he had just made, let out a soft cry of shock at the sudden hug.

A familiar low laugh came from his ears, followed by a warm, moist sensation on his ears and neck.

Relieved, Gongsun turned back to glare at the man, "Haven't you ever heard of people being scared to death – hmm~~"

Just as he turned around, he was caught by the man, who pinched his chin and pressed his lips together in a gentle and slightly domineering kiss.

It was only after a long time that he let go of the panting Gongsun and asked, smiling, "You have moments of fear too, how cute."

After giving a blank look to Bai Jintang, who suddenly appeared, Gongsun broke away from his arm and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Jiang Ping called me." Bai Jintang said it lightly.

"Why would he call you?!" Gongsun was puzzled.

"I asked him to call me whenever you're the only one in the office." Bai Jintang raised an eyebrow, "I'll keep you company..."

"I'm at work!" Gongsun reached out against Bai Jintang who was coming up stickily once again, "This is unnecessary!!!"

Bai Jintang suddenly took him into his arms, reached out to gently close the door, and gave a silent gesture to Gongsun.

Gongsun was a little confused, but managed to see the seriousness on Bai Jintang's face… What's going on here?

"Hehe..." Bai Jintang suddenly let out a soft laugh, "It seems that I really have to thank Jiang Ping this time."

At this time, Gongsun heard a slight rattling from outside, as if someone was cautiously approaching, and there was more than one… he pulled on Bai Jintang's sleeve a little nervously.

Seeing Gongsun instinctively approaching him, the corners of Bai Jintang's mouth turned up uncontrollably and he looked down and said, "That's right."

Gongsun didn't understand what he meant and looked at him with wide eyes.

Bai Jintang lowered his head and kissed him again, smiling, "In the future, if you are scared or unhappy, you can come into my arms like this."

Gongsun's face immediately flushed red and he was about to let go, but Bai Jintang tightened his arms around his waist and asked, "Do you have a gun?"

Somewhat unable to keep up with his thinking process, Gongsun shook his head, causing Bai Jintang to frown, "Why doesn't Yutang give you a gun?"

"I'm a desk worker!" Gongsun gritted his teeth and glared at the man, "If I had a gun, I'd be the first to blow you up!!!"

Bai Jintang reached for a sharp and small scalpel on the tool holder and laughed, "How can you abandon it?!"

If he hadn't heard the sounds outside the door getting closer, Gongsun would have wanted to stab this heartless bastard who was laughing so hard~~

Bai Jintang told Gongsun to hide in a corner of the room. He himself took the knife and walked towards the door, when Gongsun suddenly whispered, "Be careful..."

Bai Jintang was stunned. After he came back to his senses, he smiled a little regretfully, "Those few ungrateful ones really don't know how to pick their time... otherwise doing it in the autopsy room must feel very exciting..."

Gongsun was furious, and thought, ‘Go to hell! Even now, there is still time to think about that kind of thing!’

Bai Jintang reached out and unbuttoned his trench coat. Holding the knife in his right hand, he walked casually to the door, turning to the side...

Gongsun looked at him, surprised to find that his movements with the knife were so skillful. The faint smile that crept out of the corners of his mouth, the look in his eyes… how to describe it~~ Excitement, or more precisely – bloodthirsty coldness...

The door handle turned slightly, Bai Jintang slowly raised his right hand, five fingers deftly grasped the knife. The door was slowly pushed open, and a man with a gun in his hand peeked halfway in. Bai Jintang raised his foot and kicked the iron door of the autopsy room, and the man grunted and was caught in the door.

Gongsun frowned as his expertise told him that the man had at least three broken ribs...

Bai Jintang raised the corners of his mouth in a smile, his hand rose and the blade plunged bottomlessly into the depression below the man's collarbone...

"Ugh..." The man's eyes widened, the intense pain made it impossible for him to scream even if he wanted to.

Bai Jintang reached out and took the gun from the man's already loosened hand and said to Gongsun, "Don't come out." Then he kicked the man out and closed the door of the forensic room with his backhand...

Gongsun then heard a series of gunshots ring out from outside the door… but listening to the terrifying gunshots, he was surprisingly calm in his heart ~ ~ miraculously, not at all worried that Bai Jintang would be hurt. Instead, he found himself deeply drawn to Bai Jintang's series of vicious, almost cruel actions just now… Almost instinctively, he walked over and opened the door – wanting to see!

When he opened the door, he saw that several people were already lying on the floor, all wounded right below the collarbone, off the heart – conscious, in severe pain, but incapable of any resistance at all.

Bai Jintang had already reached the door of the SCI office and the last remaining man, gun in hand, backed up to the elevator door, looking at Bai Jintang as if he were looking at a ghost.

At this moment, the elevator suddenly dinged and the door slowly opened.

Gongsun was startled, who was back at this time?

The one with the gun was not slow to react, he quickly raised his gun and aimed at the open door of the elevator, but after seeing the situation inside, he turned pale with fear.

A low roar of a wild animal was heard, and a huge white shadow lurched out of the elevator, pouncing on the man with the gun in his hand and delivering another roar into his face...

The man's eyes widened, maintaining a shocked expression as he lost consciousness and the gun in his hand fell to the ground.

Bai Jintang raised his eyes to the white lion that suddenly rushed out, then raised his eyebrows and whistled.

The one who rushed out of the elevator was none other than Lisbon, who noticed that there were people around him and turned his head to look at Bai Jintang.

Bai Jintang smiled faintly and raised his gun to aim at it...

Lisbon stared at Bai Jintang warily and took a step backwards slightly, appearing to be a little hesitant.

At that moment, someone in the elevator chuckled: "Lisbon, have you seen a ghost, why are you so scared?"

Gongsun hurriedly ran over and pulled Bai Jintang and said, "Don't shoot it, it's one of us."

Lisbon had often been brought to SCI by Zhao Zhen and was familiar with everyone here, but he had never seen Bai Jintang before. When he saw that Gongsun seemed to know him well, he relaxed his guard and sat down to lick his fur.

In the elevator, Zhao Zhen walked out with his hands in his pockets in a leisurely manner: "What's going on here?" As he said that, he gave Bai Jintang a look up and down.

"Why are you here?" Gongsun asked Zhao Zhen in confusion.

"I wanted to come and pick up Xiao Bai Chi from work." Zhao Zhen shrugged, "Then I heard the sound of gunshots in the elevator."

At that moment, scattered footsteps sounded on the stairs, another elevator door opened and a grim-faced Bao Zheng stepped out, glancing at the crowd and then at the man lying on the floor – a second shoot-out at the police station ~~

Bai Yutang's mobile phone, which was being watched in the car, suddenly rang, and when he picked it up, he froze for half a day without uttering a word...

Bai Chi saw Bai Yutang frowning and closing the phone, tapping his chin gently, seemingly unable to laugh or cry.

"What's wrong?"

Bai Yutang did not answer, but quickly dialled Zhan Zhao's phone.

………

After answering the phone call, Zhan Zhao stood up from the sofa and said to Shang Luo, "Something happened at the police station, I have to go back, thank you so much for today."

Shang Luo hurriedly stood up as well, "In such a hurry? What happened at the police station?"

Zhan Zhao smiled lightly and said to Shang Luo, "Mr. Shang had better go and get more security personnel as well."

"Uh... I don't really understand." Shang Luo had a puzzled look on his face.

"There are a lot of people trying to steal box corpses lately, and they are stealing them from the police station." Zhan Zhao smiled faintly, "Luckily, they were all caught alive."

As he spoke, Zhan Zhao observed the look on Shang Luo's face.

He saw Shang Luo's facial expression stiffen uncontrollably for a moment, but he soon turned his face away and reached out to guide Zhan Zhao outside.

Refusing Shang Luo's offer to drive him to the police station, Zhan Zhao said goodbye to Shang Luo and walked out of the neighbourhood alone.

Bai Yutang's car pulled up to the entrance of the neighbourhood, and Bai Chi had already gotten into Ma Han's car to go back to the police station first.

After Zhan Zhao got into the passenger seat, Bai Yutang roughly told him about how they caught Qiu Yu just now.

"Those people who went to the police station should be related to Shang Luo." Zhan Zhao unhooked the monitor on his tie.

"That's right." Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao with some confusion, "Just now, I only told you that someone broke into SCI with a gun, how did you know it was to steal the box corpse?"

Zhan Zhao smiled faintly, "We really made a lot of profit today, not only did we catch Qiu Yu, but I also found out a big secret."

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, "You sneaky cat, what have you found out?!"

Zhan Zhao reached out and took out a saucy purple thing from his pocket which was wrapped in a napkin, "Let’s go back and give this to Gongsun, he will definitely give us the answer.”

Bai Yutang stared at the piece for half a day, and finally asked cautiously, "Why does this look somewhat familiar?"

"It's from that dry corpse, ah." Zhan Zhao said indifferently, "Skin tissue..."

"You crazy cat!" Bai Yutang shouted with a look of disgust, "You go back and disinfect your whole body! How dare you put something like this in your pocket, throw this suit away for me! No, burn it!"

Zhan Zhao shot him a glance, laughed twice, and suddenly reached out and grabbed onto the sleeve of Bai Yutang's white windbreaker...

"Damn cat, you're disgusting!" Bai Yutang looked at his sleeve in horror.

"Hmph, have fun!" Zhan Zhao rubbed and rubbed on his sleeve, just to get a black paw print on it

"Dirty cat!"

"Clean rat!"

............

Back at SCI, Bai Yutang entered to see Bao Zheng's grim face...

"You two better give me some good news..." Bao Zheng stared at the two with a peevish smile, "or I'll have you all collectively clean the toilets~~"

Bai Yutang unconsciously shivered and hurriedly glanced at Zhan Zhao – Cat, it's up to you.

Zhan Zhao smiled faintly, "Bao Sir, the case we have solved this time is not a small one, get prepared to give your commendation~~"

All the people present were stunned and looked at Zhan Zhao with wide eyes.

Handing the napkin-wrapped skin tissue to Gongsun, Zhan Zhao said, "This is from the dried corpse in Shang Luo's collection."

Gongsun took a look at it and hurriedly took out two reports, "It's the same as what I found! It's really shocking this time."

"What are you two playing at?!" Bao Zheng frowned at the two.

Gongsun opened the reports and said, "A box corpse from hundreds of years ago, a dried corpse from thousands of years ago, the composition of the skin and the embalming technique are exactly the same as the fresh box corpse found in Tanaka's house, from the same modern technique."

Everyone looked at each other in disbelief at this statement.

"So that means they were all made by modern people?" Bai Chi asked in surprise, "Then Tu Xi..."

Zhan Zhao smiled faintly, "Everything from the myths of Tu Xi, the origins of Tu Xi civilization, Tu Xi books, paintings, totems... is a hoax."

Bai Yutang shook his head in disbelief, "World famous writers, photographers, painters, and collectors... came together to create the Tu Xi civilization, whilst making unidentified rotten wood and corpses all as valuable as antiques."

"But as soon as the creators all die... then the forged civilization becomes real." Zhan Zhao concluded, "With the technology already developed it would be possible to keep producing artefacts from the time of the Tu Xi civilization – a stunning hoax of history that could lead to endless wealth!"

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Translator Notes

Translated: July 23, 2022 by Turtle

Edited: June 28, 2022 by Angel