S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 97

New Year's Day Extra – New Year's Day Rounded Egg

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On New Year's Day, the police department organised a small party. The participants included all members of the police department and their families.

Due to the special occasion of New Year's Day, it was requested that all the activities should use the concepts of circles and balls, and it was called - the Police Department Round Egg Athletic Gala...

However, in order to hold such a small competitive party, each section had to prepare a competitive activity and, in addition, set up their respective offices as activity rooms. The entire police station was now busy. It was said that how well the event was prepared was directly related to the amount of New Year's Day bonuses, so all sections were working hard.

Bai Chi was in charge of spying, so he went up and down the station and found out what each section was doing - but the problem was that everyone was doing all the usual activities. For example, there were five basketball shooters, a lot of indoor football, bowling, baseball, tennis, ping pong, etc.

The SCI crowd looked at each other in disbelief. Zhan Zhao had his eye on the first prize, not so much the prize money, but the accompanying gift of a chibi Ultraman alarm clock that said "Particle Cannon, Fire!"

After Zhan Zhao saw that alarm clock, he kept following Bai Yutang like a spirit behind him. Bai Yutang looked helpless, "Cat… the gala is not a fight, I can't necessarily win it for you."

So, Zhan Zhao's eyes became gloomy.

Bai Yutang was helpless, and had to have the whole SCI team try to do their best, anyway, the bonus would be used to buy everyone a big meal. And the Ultraman alarm clock could be regarded as the lifting of Zhan Zhao's spirit.

Now the first step - is to choose a sport!

The group of SCI members, excluding Zhan Zhao, Gongsun, and the otaku Jiang Ping, are basically all okay with sports. Bai Chi has been practicing very hard and now knows simple combat and is a great runner!

"This tournament is all about points! On the one hand, to have people come out to your side of the field to play and get points for a home win. On the other hand, you have to send someone out to someone else's event and get points for a win. In this way, at the end, the people with the most total points win and are split into first, second and third place prizes. Of course... the Ultraman that Zhan Zhao had his heart set on was only available for the first place prize.

Zhan Zhao looked around and felt that he was alone, so he finally decided - to find outside help!

So, Bai Jintang, Zhao Zhen, the twins, Luo Yang, and Xiao Yi were all brought in.

Let's start with their respective strengths. Zhan Zhao sent everyone out separately to grab more points, so basically everyone was sent out, leaving Bai Yutang at home.

Bai Yutang opened his mouth to look at Zhan Zhao, "Cat, do you want to tire me out?"

Zhan Zhao raised an eyebrow, "I'll give you a reward for getting Ultraman."

"Really?" Bai Yutang was a little surprised.

Zhan Zhao nodded and came over, saying conspiratorially, "So make sure you win!"

"Then what are we going to do ourselves?" Gongsun asked Bai Jintang beside him as he leaned back on the sofa and flipped through a sports magazine.

"Golf." Bai Jintang replied and the crowd looked at him with contempt in their eyes - where were the clubs?

"I'll ask the twins to bring you a set for indoor use." Bai Jintang was just about to pull out his phone when he was stopped by Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao - Showing off your wealth is forbidden within the police station!

Bai Jintang shrugged.

Gongsun suddenly laughed, "Or else, we'll make a haunted house?"

Zhan Zhao looked to the sky, "Gongsun, have a ball or a circle?"

Gongsun reached out and gently pushed his eye glasses, "A human head! Also spherical, I can guarantee to bring down everyone who comes in!"

Ma Xin immediately got excited, the two discussed the details of the haunted house in detail and decided to go to the forensic room to make one. Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao both held their foreheads

Seeing Luo Yang and Xiao Yi watching UU Ball, Zhan Zhao asked, "Do you two have any good suggestions?" (Angel: UU Ball is a Chinese professional sports live broadcasting app.)

Luo Yang and Xiao Yi looked at each other and looked at Zhan Zhao with UU Ball in their hands.

Jiang Ping came over and asked, "How about playing billiards?"

Zhan Zhao was helpless, "Why are all the sports you like so nerdy?"

Jiang Ping reached out and pointed to his super advanced gaming equipment, "Everything can be played there, why don't we all come in and play together virtually?"

"Hmm..." Bai Jintang seemed very interested in Jiang Ping's set of equipment. He was recently preparing to start a large virtual playground, and asked Jiang Ping to help develop the program, he was ready to buy his patent at a high price and produce the game equipment. That price scared Jiang Ping so bad that he almost fainted.

"Head!"

At this time, Ma Han came back, holding a point card, he had completed his mission.

"That was fast!" Bai Yutang wondered, "What did you go for?"

Ma Han shrugged, "The gang from the sniper team were playing darts."

"Darts?" The crowd frowned - oh yes! The dartboard round! Ma Han had supposedly won three games in a row and won big, coming home loaded and handing his scorecard to Bai Yutang, which was prize number one!

"What are we playing over here?" Ma Han saw the crowd still standing in the office not moving anything and was curious.

Bai Yutang shrugged his shoulders, "Still thinking about it!"

"Captain."

At that moment, Luo Tian also came back, holding a scorecard in his hand.

"You're pretty quick too." Zhan Zhao wondered, "What were you doing there?"

"Ahem." Luo Tian coughed and said, "Lifting weights..."

The crowd was speechless.

Soon, Zhao Zhen and Bai Chi returned as well, both with their score cards.

Surprised that Bai Chi also won easily, Zhan Zhao asked, "What did you play?"

Bai Chi snickered, "Brother, the people from the Economics Section were playing Go, and then I went!"

Zhan Zhao and the others couldn't help but twitch the corners of their mouths - Go was considered a competitive sport? That should be considered brain power, right?

Zhan Zhao suddenly turned his head and asked Bai Yutang, "Why don't we play card games? Find a round table."

Bai Yutang couldn't laugh or cry, "Cat, how dare you think of that!"

Soon after, all the SCI people came back, and they brought all the score cards from the whole police station. Then, the sound of footsteps could be heard downstairs, and Zhao Hu, the last one to enter, hurriedly closed the door.

"Mother!" Zhao Hu wiped his sweat when he heard someone bang the door outside, "SCI! Open up!"

Bai Yutang looked at the crowd, "What's this for?"

Qin Ou came over and gave Bai Yutang the score card in his hand, "The score cards of the whole police department are at SCI now, aren't they all going to come to us and grab them?"

"Aiya!" Bai Chi was nervous, "Then won't they have to fight in a group, we have to prepare a sport that we definitely won't lose!"

Everyone looked at Zhan Zhao, who at that moment was leaning against the window with a frown on his face, seemingly thinking.

Finally... he sneered, moved over, and whispered a few words in Bai Jintang's ear.

Bai Jintang froze and looked at Zhan Zhao with an admiring face, "You’re kidding?"

"Why not!" Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes, looking determined to win!

Bai Jintang took out his phone and gave it to Zhan Zhao, "Text the twins yourself and ask them to get it for you."

The crowd looked at each other before realising that the twins were not in the room, could it be that they were stuck outside and had not come in?

Soon after Zhan Zhao sent a quick text message, a large van was seen driving up to the door and the twins rushed in with a group of people carrying large boxes and small crates. After easily eliminating all difficulties to enter the SCI office, Bai Yutang and Zhao Hu opened the door and let the competition in.

The police officers from the entire police station flocked to the door, staring intently at the crowd inside.

"What did you SCI prepare?"

With a smile, Zhan Zhao reached out and lifted the white cloth covering a large table in front of him with one hand

Everyone looked over and saw that it was a gambling table with a round spinning wheel on it. Zhan Zhao smiled, "Since there are too many of you, I would rather finish you off at once, so let's play roulette!"

When Zhan Zhao's words came out, all the police officers fell over.

Of course, in the end, Zhan Zhao, who could count the spinning wheel, won the first prize as he wished, and got the alarm clock.

As soon as he returned to the office with the alarm clock, he saw Luo Yang and Xiao Yi staring at the Ultraman with their eyes shining brightly.

Xiao Yi said, "Wow, that's so cute!"

"Yeah." Luo Yang whispered to Xiao Yi, "But this one is Dr. Zhan's ah, Xiao Yi, let's go shopping at the toy shop next time and see if it's available."

"Oh..." Xiao Yi listened and looked at Zhan Zhao suspiciously, then came up to Luo Yang's ear and asked, "Yang Yang ah, Dr. Zhan is so old, he still needs to play with toys ah, I heard from Dad that he has a high IQ! "

Luo Yang covered his mouth and whispered, "That… to each his own."

"Then let's go buy it too, okay?" Xiao Yi pulled Luo Yang's little finger, "I like that one so much."

Zhan Zhao was not far away, and his ears twitching as he listened.

Bai Yutang was beside him with his coffee, and went over to him and whispered in his ear, "Cat, do you feel no shame?"

Zhan Zhao looked at the Ultraman, which had just arrived in his hand and was still warm.

"Cat..." Bai Yutang whispered, "Don't let the kids laugh."

Zhan Zhao struggled, "I'll go to the toy shop tomorrow and find one for them."

"This one is a limited edition." Bai Jintang suddenly flipped through the newspaper and said, "It can record, and only fifty of them were released worldwide."

Zhan Zhao felt his heart break.

"There's no more ah..." Xiao Yi seemed frustrated to hear that, and Luo Yang stroked his head, "Good Xiao Yi, Dr. Zhan really likes it."

"En, I know." Xiao Yi nodded, he couldn't be the bad boy who grabbed toys from others.

Zhan Zhao looked at the sky, feeling his conscience being condemned. For word to get out that he, a doctor of psychology and chief criminal psychologist, had snatched a toy from a teenage child - wouldn't he be laughed out of town, especially by the one called Zhao Jue!

Taking a deep breath, Zhan Zhao pretended not to hear him and brought the toy to Xiao Yi and Luo Yang's side, asking, "Yang Yang, do you like it? You can have this Ultraman."

Xiao Yi was surprised and delighted, and asked Zhan Zhao with a wide smile, "Really? But don't you like it a lot, Dr. Zhan?"

"That’s right." Luo Yang also felt bad that Zhan Zhao had gone through so much effort to get it.

"No!" Zhan Zhao hurriedly shook his head, smiling frankly, "I'm so grown up, how could I like toys, haha."

All of SCI looked at the sky. Luo Tian and Qin Ou felt that it was not good and tried to stop it, but they saw Bai Yutang shaking his head at them, as if he had other plans.

In the end, Xiao Yi happily took the chubby chibi version of Ultraman and played with Luo Yang, while Zhan Zhao walked over to Bai Yutang and covered his chest – internal injuries!

At dinner time, the group returned home with the prize money, but Zhan Zhao was still in a dull mood.

When Bai Yutang came out of the shower, he saw Zhan Zhao leaning on the bed and flipping through the TV with the remote control, so he went to his side, opened the bedside table, took out a box, and handed it to him.

Zhan Zhao blinked and tilted his face up to look at Bai Yutang, "What is it?"

"It's something good, open it and take a look." Bai Yutang rubbed his hair.

Zhan Zhao opened the box and looked inside...

"Ah!"

Bai Yutang saw his excited face and smiled and shook his head.

From the box, Zhan Zhao took out an identical chibi Ultraman alarm clock and asked Bai Yutang in surprise, "How did you..."

"You've seen this in a magazine before, so I specially asked Brother to buy one." Bai Yutang smiled and padded over, "Do I get a reward tonight?"

Zhan Zhao nodded his head readily, "Of course!"

Bai Yutang was happy... At this time, Zhan Zhao unwrapped the package and pressed the button, and heard the Ultraman say, "Cat, Happy New Year!"

It was Bai Yutang's voice.

Zhan Zhao froze and pressed the button again, and it was still the same, "Cat, Happy New Year!"

Zhan Zhao slowly turned his head, and Bai Yutang laughed dryly, "Cat, Happy New Year."

Zhan Zhao was quiet, and asked mournfully, "Why isn't it ‘particle cannon, fire!?"

"Uh... I wanted to buy it for you as a New Year's gift, so..." Bai Yutang hurriedly tried to get out of bed, but Zhan Zhao had already angrily pounced on him, "I want the particle cannon firing one! You re-record it, re-record it! "

That night, Bai Yutang helplessly sat on the bed and recorded, "Particle cannon, fire."

Then he turned his eyes to look at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao tsked twice and shook his head, "It doesn't feel right, not enough!"

Bai Yutang looked at the sky… The two tossed and turned for most of the night, until Zhan Zhao finally was sleepy, lying under the covers in a daze.

Bai Yutang reluctantly put down the Ultraman, reached out to Zhan Zhao to cover him with the quilt, then turned off the lights and lay back, feeling Zhan Zhao grab his sleeve.

"Still recording, cat?" Bai Yutang looked helpless, "Sleep..."

"Who asked you to record?" Zhan Zhao muttered, "You don't want a reward?"

Bai Yutang was stunned, then surprised and delighted, his sleepiness immediately disappeared and he contentedly cashed in on the New Year's gift Zhan Zhao had given him.

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The next day, Zhan Zhao was happy to bring the Ultraman downstairs, saying to himself, "Particle cannon, fire!" as Bai Yutang said.

Putting the Ultraman on the coffee table, he sat down at the table and flipped through the magazines, while Gongsun took the Ultraman and looked at it with interest, "Same as the other one?"

"En." Zhan Zhao smiled and nodded.

Gongsun pressed the play button and the sound that came out was...

"Wow!" The twins came out of the kitchen, "Who is playing something R-rated so early in the morning? So open!"

Gongsun took the Ultraman that was making constant ambiguous noises and gave it back to Zhan Zhao with a shudder, "This... is even weirder than a laughing skeleton."

Zhan Zhao, who had long been blushing, grabbed the Ultraman and turned it off as soon as he could, then stood up and rushed upstairs, "Bai Yutang, you actually left it recording last night!"

Bai Yutang, who was doing his morning exercises in their room, rubbed his chin – he wondered if that Ultraman had an export function.

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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: July 2, 2022 by Angel