S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 104

Lucky Murderer 32 – Loose End

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Singh fell for Zhao Jue's trick and made his move early. For a while, his men were unprepared and the scene was a bit chaotic.

When they heard that shots had been fired, there was naturally chaos in the casino as the group of kidnappers rushed to control the scene and silence the crowd.

Zhao Zhen and Zhao Jue were in their room and could hear them clearly.

Zhao Zhen was about to open the door and go out.

"Hey." Zhao Jue pulled him to a halt, "What did your family teach you when you were a child? If you have an advantage, you should take advantage of it, if there is danger, you should run away, if there is a pervert, you should be more perverted. Didn't anyone teach you the three principles of the Zhao family?"

"That's right!" In the command ship, Bai Chi nodded, and Zhan Zhao gave him a helpless look.

"If I don't go, they won't be able to board the ship, they'll have to create a smoke screen." Zhao Zhen said, going out and running towards the top.

Zhao Jue had no choice but to follow him, fearing that he would be in danger, as the Zhao family had only one seedling left in this thousand hectares of land and he did not want to bear the reputation of having the Zhao family cut off, although it seemed that it was only a matter of time before they were cut off.

Zhao Zhen went up to the platform, and Zhao Jue looked at his watch, "When they understand, they will go up to the high ground for control, we will have two minutes at most.

Zhao Zhen nodded and took the tool out of the small case he carried with him; a projectile net made of single-sided cellophane.

Zhao Jue coolly asked from the sidelines, "Is this a magic reveal?"

Bai Chi yelled anxiously, "Don't distract him!"

When Zhao Jue heard this, he was furious that the little thing was shouting at him! In his anger, he reached out and pinched Zhao Zhen's arm, making sure that Bai Chi saw him, saying, "I'm pinching him, what are you going to do?"

Zhan Zhao waved his hand at the anxious Bai Chi, "Ignore him, the more anxious you are, the more vigorous he will be."

Zhao Zhen shot the two ends of the cellophane projectile net at the two railings under the boat. This type of cellophane was a necessary prop for performing large magic tricks and was thought to be quite expensive, divided into two models for day and night use. Zhan Zhao had seen it once before and jokingly referred to this as a sanitary napkin for magic tricks. Every time this was mentioned, it drove the cleanliness freak Bai Yutang crazy, so Zhan Zhao often said it to tease him into a rampage.

Thinking of this, Zhan Zhao spoke to Bai Yutang over the intercom, "Xiao Bai, it's for night use."

The people in the helicopter at that end saw Bai Yutang pinching the walkie-talkie and scratching his head. The assault team members looked at each other with blank faces, what night use?

Only Zhao Hu was covering his mouth in amusement, and Ma Han kicked him, signalling - don't move, my hand is shaking!

At this moment, Ma Han was holding a sniper rifle in his hand. His task in a moment would be difficult; he had to shoot off a single cellophane hook attached to a railing from a helicopter, so as to create a scene where the helicopter appeared out of nowhere, preferably when all the police members were airborne and the snipers were waiting to ambush, so he had to get used to the position first.

After Zhao Zhen had finished setting up the surrounding area, he wanted to leave with Zhao Jue.

Just as they reached the stairway, they heard footsteps downstairs and someone complaining, "What's going on! I can't believe he's ten minutes early, is this old man confused?!"

Zhao Jue and Zhao Zhen looked at each other. Zhao Zhen pulled Zhao Jue and hid in the doorway, only to see two people coming up. Zhao Zhen pulled out two daggers.

Zhao Jue looked at the two pathetically small daggers and scowled.

Zhao Zhen looked at the sky, as if telling him not to be picky.

When Bai Chi saw that Zhao Zhen wanted to attack those two people, he couldn't help but frown slightly. Zhao Zhen was an ordinary person, not a policeman, he had never killed anyone before. Out of selfishness, Bai Chi didn't want to let Zhao Zhen kill someone, which would leave a shadow for the rest of his life, just like how Bai Yutang doesn't let Zhan Zhao kill anyone.

He then saw Zhao Jue reach out and point to his neck.

Zhao Zhen did not understand.

Zhao Jue pointed to the place where his collarbone and neck met and made a stabbing motion to Zhao Zhen.

"What does he mean?" Bai Chi looked at Zhan Zhao in confusion.

Zhan Zhao smiled faintly, "It's the location of the vocal cords."

Bai Chi blinked.

"By stabbing here, a person will not die, but they will lose the ability to speak and make sounds." Zhan Zhao gave a slight shrug, "Zhao Zhen should easily be able to imitate the voice he just heard, and now he even has the high ground under control, everything is fine!

Bai Chi opened his mouth wide as he listened, and sure enough, he saw the few heavily armed guards open the door and walk onto the platform. Because of the vertical cover of the single-sided cellophane net, the two could not see the helicopter flying over in the distance.

Just as they stood still, they suddenly heard someone whistle behind them.

The two men jerked back and within 0.3 seconds of a human being able to make a secondary reaction, Zhao Zhen took his flying daggers in both hands and flung them... into the top of both men's collarbones, exactly where Zhao Jue had just pointed.

The two men opened their mouths and reached out to cover their wounds, trying to speak but unable to make any sound, only feeling that their throats were leaking.

Zhao Zhen went up to them and struck them on the back of the neck, and they fell to the ground.

At that moment, Singh's question came over the intercom, "What about the high ground?"

Zhao Jue picked up the intercom and mimicked the guard's voice that he had just heard, "Arrived."

"Where's the contact ship?" Singh frowned, "Why is it so slow?"

Zhao Zhen picked up his binoculars and looked, "I haven't seen it yet."

"What?"

"There really is nothing."

Singh rushed to the deck and looked back, yet because of the cellophane netting, there was no sign of the distant ships at all, only an empty sea.

"Bastard!" Singh was about to turn on the intercom when Bai Yutang and his helicopter had almost arrived. Bai Yutang took a military mechanical crossbow and shot a black jammer out.

The jammer landed underneath the cellophane net and onto the ship. Instantly, outside of the police communication signal set by Jiang Ping, all other signals were intercepted.

Only Zhan Zhao and the others could hear Singh's complaints, the other side could not.

At this moment, the aircraft was approaching the cellophane net. Bai Yutang led all the landing SWAT members to put on their masks and signalled - board the ship!

Everyone lowered their ropes, and Ma Han raised his gun to aim at the hook of that net, just waiting for Bai Yutang to give the hand signal.

At that moment, on the roof, Zhao Jue proceeded to tie up both of the guards who had passed out, drew their weapons, and handed them to Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen had a strong aversion to weapons, but when Zhao Jue glared at him, he had to take them.

Zhao Jue picked up a sniper rifle and walked over to the fence, aiming down.

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, "You know how to shoot a gun?"

Zhao Jue laughed, "Kitty, I'm a genius, and a genius has no limits."

Zhan Zhao bristled, "Blow it up, don't hit Xiao Bai!"

Zhao Jue laughed and shook his head.

Just then, Bai Yutang and the others had reached a position extremely close to the deck. He reached out, and made a shooting gesture at Ma Han.

Ma Han pulled the trigger and fired two clean shots, and the cellophane net quickly rose... The helicopter suddenly appeared over the deck of the ship and continued its descent.

Bai Yutang and the others leapt off the ropes and boarded the ship, quickly taking care of the guards at the two stairways and noiselessly following the route arranged from the drawings they had read earlier.

There were several guards on either side of the ship's deck who were lying in ambush.

But as a direct result of Singh's early action, they were not properly prepared and had just finished loading their guns and picked them up to take aim, but who knew that two bullets would come from different angles, killing each of them.

Ma Han was slightly stunned as he had only fired one shot, and glanced up at the top of the boat... and saw Zhao Jue giving him a thumbs up, signalling that there was another one there in the blind spot of his vision.

Ma Han followed Zhao Jue's guidance to find the hidden one, and shot and killed him. He was extremely puzzled, Zhao Jue used the special sign language for snipers, did he have special training?

At this time... Bai Yutang and the others had successfully gone upstairs and surrounded the casino.

There was a lot of chaos in the casino at the moment, the gambling crowd were on their knees, with their hands on their heads. The kidnappers were checking one by one according to the personal data shown on the computer, and the rich people to be taken away were pulled out and lined up.

Zhan Zhao looked at it and frowned slightly, "The iPad can still be used like this."

Bai Chi, however, had not yet recovered from his shock, and turned around to ask Zhan Zhao in disbelief, "Zhao Jue's shooting was so accurate! How could it be like that? Didn't Bao Sir and the others say before that he was completely incompetent at martial arts?"

Zhan Zhao frowned and smiled, "Genetic reformation, I guess, he probably gave himself some kind of drug."

"Are you jealous? You're not convinced?" At the other end, Zhao Jue was teasing Zhan Zhao while he went to the other side to lie in ambush. There was a visual blind spot for Ma Han, and the helicopter would have had to take a detour, which would have meant bypassing the protection of the cellophane net, which might have alerted the backup ships that were coming in the distance, and once they were exposed, they would have let the big fish go.

This time was just right, the helicopter flew low in the position Zhao Zhen requested, and was completely concealed.

The few ships in the distance were already getting closer and closer to Singh and their big ship.

At this time, a man came through Singh's line of communication and asked for information.

Jiang Ping intercepted the signal and brought the conversation into the computer to play it back to Zhan Zhao. He had already intercepted Singh's audio, and by processing it through the computer, the words that Zhan Zhao spoke into the microphone to answer the man would be transmitted in Singh's voice to the other man's walkie-talkie.

"Why did you do it so early?" The man's chiding voice on the other end fully convinced Zhan Zhao that this man was higher than Singh!

The excitement made Zhan Zhao focus even more.

After fully analysing Singh's character, Zhan Zhao felt that he should respond with: "There is no need for you to lecture me."

Bai Chi looked at Zhan Zhao in surprise.

The other party was annoyed, "You better stop, enough is enough, if you mess up this operation, I'm afraid you won't be able to explain to your superiors!"

"I told you, it's not your turn to tell me what to do!" Zhan Zhao smiled coldly, "If you don't come, I'll take the whole ship back, there's no one on the island anyway, so it's good to have some fun."

"You're crazy!" The other party scolded, "Where did you say that, how many people in the hall heard it?"

"Hehehe." Zhan Zhao laughed, "I'll kill them all."

"Idiot!" The other party clearly felt that Singh's success was not enough and instructed everyone to hurry closer to the big ship.

Standing on the roof of the building and noticing that the distant ship had picked up speed, Zhao Jue smiled faintly, it seemed that the cat had succeeded.

Bai Yutang and the others had entered the hall by now, and Jiang Ping displayed the location of several criminals captured by the camera onto the glasses of Bai Yutang and the others.

According to the number indications, the SWAT team members shot the targets that belonged to them with electroshock bullets, and those kidnappers were hit by the strong electric current and instantly fainted en masse.

Singh, by now dumbfounded by the unexpected situation, reached for his walkie-talkie and shouted, telling the other side not to come over.

However, the signal was intercepted and the SCI team was fully prepared, so it was impossible for them to escape.

Bai Yutang arrested all of Singh's subordinates and handcuffed Lian Qianzhong, who had tried to escape.

After he finished cleaning up the people, he heard Zhan Zhao say, "Xiao Bai, the ship has arrived and boarding has started!"

"Prevent them from jumping overboard, wait until all the people are on the big ship!" Bai Yutang was cautious in his handling.

Soon, word came from Zhao Zhen above, "All aboard!"

Bai Yutang spoke to the motorboat and the Marine Police members who were hiding in the distance behind the concealing netting Zhao Zhen had set up for them, "Move!"

Instantly, countless searchlights could be seen lighting up the sea, and the head of the Marine Police took a megaphone and shouted at the kidnappers on the cruise ship.

The strong lights lit up the entire sea, and the direct glare resulted in the kidnappers who had just boarded the ship going violently blind, and just as they tried to jump overboard, the ones who took a step forward were instantly shot dead.

The men tilted their faces up only to see a helicopter appear in the air with snipers aiming at them.

Noticing two holes in the body on the ground, one of the leaders of the group of kidnappers subconsciously looked upwards, when he heard Zhao Jue say to the several helicopters flying overhead, "Give me a chase light!"

Zhan Zhao was helpless, "Give it to him."

With that, the light from the helicopters brightly illuminated the spot where Zhao Jue was.

There were two people standing in the chase light, the top one was Zhao Jue and the bottom one was a man about the same age as Zhao Jue. Also of Asian descent, he had a scar on the left side of his face, he must have looked good in his youth.

The expression on his face at this moment was wonderful, it was even more surprised than when Singh had just seen Zhao Jue.

Zhao Jue pointed his gun at the man below and sneered, "Chen Bi, you're still so photogenic after all these years, come on, smile!"

As the other side froze in place, Bai Yutang heard Bao Zheng shouting anxiously, "Catch him Xiao Bai! Make sure he's alive!"

Without another word, Bai Yutang took the SWAT team down and captured the men under the cover of the snipers, giving the criminals special masks to prevent anyone from committing suicide.

The one whom Zhao Jue had called Chen Bi raised his head and stared at Zhao Jue with a deadly stare.

Zhao Jue picked up the corner of his mouth and said in a low voice, "Greetings to you on behalf of Bai Ye."

Zhan Zhao couldn't hear too clearly, as the noise of the helicopter around him was too loud. He subconsciously asked Bai Chi, "What did he just say?"

"Bai... something." Bai Chi was also confused by what he heard.

"Wait a minute..." Zhan Zhao suddenly looked at the monitor and asked Jiang Ping, "Where is that man?"

Jiang Ping didn't understand and asked Zhan Zhao, "What man?"

Zhan Zhao stared at the monitor, he searched all the angles but couldn't find anyone, he had definitely just caught a glimpse of the mysterious man who resembled Bai Yutang, "Where is that man? I clearly saw him."

Bai Yutang heard on the other end of the intercom and asked Zhan Zhao, "What man?"

"He's not Bai Ye." Zhao Jue seemed to understand Zhan Zhao's intention and smiled, "Bai Ye is dead."

"Zhao Jue!" Suddenly a voice came over the intercom, "Shut up!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang froze, it was Bai Yunwen's voice, could he be with Bao Zheng?

Bai Yutang was a bit puzzled. Just when he wanted to ask for clarification, he heard Bao Zheng say to Jiang Ping, "Mission over, communication is cut off."

"Heh.” Zhao Jue sneered, "Oh yeah, did you not bring Jintang to pay his respects to him?…"

Before he finished his words, he heard Bao Zheng yell, "Jiang Ping!"

"Uh..." Jiang Ping had no choice but to switch off the communication and looked at Zhan Zhao somewhat apologetically.

Zhan Zhao stared at the display, then suddenly remembered that there was someone behind him and looked back.

He saw Gongsun standing with a white face, and behind the liquor cabinet, Bai Jintang, who had come at some point. He was holding a wine glass, leaning on the bar and gently shaking the glass, muttering to himself, "Who is Bai Ye? The name is so familiar..."

Taking off his mask, Bai Yutang went upstairs to find Zhao Jue, but he saw Zhao Zhen, who had come downstairs, holding up two injured guards.

"Where is Zhao Jue?" Bai Yutang quickly went up and asked.

Zhao Zhen frowned, "I dragged someone down from the elevator, he had to take the stairs..."

Bai Yutang frowned and told the police officers to hurry up and find him.

It was a pity that the cruise ship was turned upside down and no sign of Zhao Jue could be found. Had he disappeared out of thin air?

Bai Chi looked at Zhan Zhao, "Brother."

Zhan Zhao sighed, “They were prepared, keeping a set of diving gear and thrusters in the water, it was easy to escape... No wonder that person would appear, it turned out to be to pick up Zhao Jue to get away."

Zhan Zhao looked back at the thoughtful Bai Jintang and shook his head with a sigh. Taking off his headset, he got on the boat and went to wait for Bai Yutang to return.

Zhan Zhao was annoyed... Bao Zheng and the others were hiding something, it was clearly a great victory, but they left a loose end afterwards, it was really unpleasant!

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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 26, 2022 by Angel