S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 106

Mad Doctor Murderer 01 – Movie, Dentist, Corpse

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"How far is it?"

"Almost there."

"You've said that many times..."

"Just hold on a little longer and you'll be out soon."

"Maybe you won't get out for the rest of your life."

"No, don't be ridiculous!"

"I might not make it."

"Don't say anything stupid."

"Don't leave me."

"Mhm, I won't!"

......

"We're out! Look there, see, the highway!"

That grey dirt highway, you still didn't see it in the end, I'll take you back, for sure.

END

Music, subtitles...

“Wu wu... it hurts."

"Who told you to move!" Yang Fan used medicine sponges to help Bai Chi plug the hole he had just ground, "Wait three days for the swelling to go down, don't eat anything hard for a few days!"

"Mmm."

"What's with the crying?" Yang Fan looked at Bai Chi, who had red eyes, in confusion, "How old are you to be crying when you have a tooth pulled?"

"That’s not it! That film was so touching!" Bai Chi complained to Yang Fan, "Why are you showing me this kind of film?"

"Hey, are you being reasonable?" Yang Fan was helpless, "You said you were afraid of the dentist, so I pulled your tooth, and you still said you were afraid and wanted to show a film to watch. You’re still crying after watching it!"

"What kind of film is this?" Bai Chi covered half of his still swollen cheek and moved over to look at the DVD box.

"《The Town of Mad Doctors》?" Bai Chi wrinkled his nose, "It's a very literary film, why is the cover so scary? I wouldn't normally watch it."

"I didn't expect it to turn out to be a horror movie either." Yang Fan looked at the sky.

"Oh!" Bai Chi looked at Yang Fan discontentedly, "You wanted to put it on to scare me, didn't you?"

Yang Fan shrugged and packed up his things, "I'm going back to work at the hospital, remember not to eat anything raw or cold, I'll come back in three days to follow up with you!"

"Mhm." Bai Chi nodded and thanked Yang Fan.

Then he looked down at the plot description on the disc – only to find that it didn't match up!

The plot synopsis of 《Mad Doctor Town》 says that a crazy doctor arrives in a small town, uses all the people in the town for medical experiments, and later triggers a large disease outbreak that turns the entire town into monsters that kill people everywhere. There are some post-apocalyptic moody horror movies like 《The Walking Dead》, 《28 Days Later》, and the like. But the disc taken out of the box just now was clearly a tender story about a couple walking into a deserted forest, getting lost there, trying to get out and find their way home, only to end in tragedy.

"Chi Chi, are you finished?"

At that moment, the door was pushed open and Zhan Zhao walked in.

Bai Chi had been suffering from a toothache for a few days, which turned out to be a wisdom tooth. It was so painful that he couldn't even eat, and his face had swollen up to a large size. Yang Fan checked him out and said it was time to get it extracted.

He was originally planning to go to the dentist, but a while ago, Zhao Zhen encouraged him to watch a horror film called 《The Dentist's Fright》. The dentist in the film was a psychopathic killer who used a dental drill and a pair of messy tools to dissect people from the inside of their mouths. After watching the film, Bai Chi seemed to have developed a phobia of dentists, so he pushed it to tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, but did not dare to go to the dentist's office. He was already afraid of dentists, but this time he was even more afraid.

Gongsun said that he could extract his teeth and asked him to go to the forensic room.

Bai Chi was puzzled and said to him, "There's no dentist's chair in the forensic room."

Gongsun smiled and said, "It's the same as going to the dissecting table!"

Bai Chi was so shocked that he avoided Gongsun when he went to the SCI office.

Fortunately, Yang Fan is licensed as a dentist and borrowed a room in a clinic from a dentist friend to extract the torturous wisdom tooth for Bai Chi.

"Brother, the film is very nice, but it's in the wrong box and I don't know the name." Bai Chi walked outside with the disc and Zhan Zhao, and saw that friend of Yang Fan's, Qiu Yiwen, Dr. Qiu.

"Chi Chi, does it hurt?" Dr. Qiu was thirty-five years old, but looked like she was in her early twenties, stylish and pretty, just never married.

"It doesn't hurt." Bai Chi was a little embarrassed, it was all Zhao Zhen's fault for watching that horror film.

"What's the name of this film?" Bai Chi asked Qiu Yiwen.

"Oh... I don't know, the disc was like this when I bought it!" Qiu Yiwen said with a smile, "It might have been put in by mistake."

“I see." Bai Chi thought it was too much of a coincidence.

"You liked it, huh?" Qiu Yiwen said, "Then I'll give it to you, I don't really like watching this kind of literary films anyway, I prefer watching horror ones." Saying that, she winked at Bai Chi, "Have you seen 'The Dentist's Fright' yet?"

Bai Chi's face flushed white and he hurriedly pulled Zhan Zhao to say goodbye.

"So slow." Bai Yutang was waiting in the car reading the newspaper, and when he saw that Zhan Zhao and the others had returned, he started the car.

Zhan Zhao looked at the newspaper in his hand rather helplessly, "Xiao Bai, now only old men read the newspaper, where is the handheld computer that I bought for you?"

Bai Yutang looked at the sky, "That one is so troublesome to use, and so small."

Zhan Zhao was helpless, sitting in such a handsome car with such a handsome man, pulling out a newspaper and reading it – the visual stimulation was too strong!

"Brother, why didn't you go inside?" Bai Chi asked Bai Yutang.

Zhan Zhao smothered a laugh.

"What are you laughing at?" Bai Chi was curious.

"Ahem." Bai Yutang started the car and brought the group back to the SCI office.

Zhan Zhao whispered to Bai Chi, "For a cleanliness freak, his biggest fear is going into a dentist's office and seeing those horrible pictures of diseased teeth on the wall! Xiao Bai brushes his teeth one by one every day to avoid having cavities."

Bai Chi's eyes widened in surprise. Bai Yutang's divine invincibility also had a weakness.

In SCI's office, Ma Xin was hugging a hand warmer and watching Qin Ou dismantle a bomb that had had its explosives removed.

When Zhan Zhao and the others entered, Bai Yutang smiled and asked him, "What's wrong, itchy hands?"

Qin Ou smiled, “Bombs are being updated very quickly these days, so I'm afraid my hands will get raw if I don't practice."

The others came over to see the wisdom teeth that Bai Chi had extracted, and in the process, asked Bai Chi to open his mouth to see how good Yang Fan's hands were so that he could help with their extractions later. It turned out that many people had a phobia of dentists.

Zhan Zhao sat down, ready to continue studying the pile of information at hand.

Ever since Bao Zheng and the others had stopped blocking the two from investigating the case back then, the two had compiled all the information. They really didn't expect the amount of information to be so huge! It was a huge project to analyse, and there were still a large number of codes waiting to be deciphered.

"There's a case."

At that moment, Bao Zheng pushed the door open and waved his hand at the people behind him.

Bai Yutang and the others all looked out and saw three police officers behind Gongsun, pushing in a roller bed with a black body bag on it.

Gongsun and Ma Xin looked at each other and both walked out to see, "What's going on?"

The officers pushed the body into the forensic room and hurriedly exited.

Bao Zheng nodded to them and the men left.

"It's like this." Bao Zheng said to a puzzled Bai Yutang, "Not long ago, a man's body was found in a building behind the medical university. The caretaker reported it to the police and it seems the man was hit by a car or something else, in any case, he died in the parking lot. The body was originally sent to forensic scientist Dr. Yang to prepare for an autopsy, but just after taking off his clothes and taking a look, Dr. Yang said to send it to Gongsun, saying that it was good and that Gongsun would die of joy when he saw it, but SCI will have solved another serial murder case."

The crowd found it amusing that a serial murder case would be solved after a corpse was found. Dr. Yang is getting more and more divine these days.

"I'll go take a look." Gongsun and Ma Xin hurriedly ran to the forensic room, and the others followed curiously to see.

Bao Zheng called out to Zhan Zhao and said, "By the way, in the next few days, the medical university wants to organise a large seminar on psychology and would like you to attend."

Zhan Zhao frowned, "I am a criminal psychology researcher, not in medical counseling, why should I attend?"

"You're famous and good looking, is that a reason?" Bao Zheng patted him, "Just think of it as supporting the psychology research of the students, once you're there, you might be able to toss in some more funding." After saying that, he waved his hand at Zhan Zhao and walked away.

Zhan Zhao was helpless, and then he saw Bai Chi sitting on a swivel chair at the side, still staring at that disc.

"Chi Chi, are you poisoned?” Zhan Zhao asked him.

“That’s not it!" Bai Chi chuckled, "It suddenly felt very subtle, the disc introduced that in the original horror film, only two people escaped from Mad Doctor Town, but there was no ending. And that literary film inside also has two people escaping, as if someone deliberately misplaced it. Does it foreshadow some kind of ending?"

Zhan Zhao reached out and touched Bai Chi's head, saying, "Chi Chi, do you know why most of the world's masterpieces of drama and literature are mostly tragedies?"

Bai Chi shook his head, "Tragedies make people remember, right?"

"It involves the post-apocalyptic mentality and survival instincts of humans!" Zhan Zhao tsked, "These two exist in tandem, without facing the apocalypse, there is no need to survive, and the act of survival is only most meaningful in the midst of the apocalypse. The tragedy of the end, on the other hand, satisfies the hopelessness of fatalism, and the three-pronged approach can inflict great torment on a person, so they remember it!"

Bai Chi listened in a cloud of confusion and was about to ask more questions when he heard a shout of surprise from next door.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Chi looked at each other and hurriedly ran out, rushing to the forensic room to take a look inside.

Only to see a male corpse lying on the bed, and the shocking thing was... that the man's body looked as if it had been pieced together and sewn together with rags. The body was divided into several large pieces, all carefully sewn together with white plastic thread. Various parts of the skin had different conditions and clearly did not belong to one person, while the stitching was extremely beautifully threaded. For the first time, the crowd felt that a gruesome corpse might be a work of art.

On top of that, the deceased was very handsome, near perfect in appearance, and perfectly proportioned in stature.

"His face was done too!" Gongsun was examining the skull of the beautiful male corpse.

While this was going on, suddenly... he saw the corpse jerk his eyes open.

"Mother!" Zhao Hu jumped up with a loud voice.

Ma Xin was also so shocked that she took a step backwards. She had been inspecting corpses for so long and it was the first time she had come across such a situation. The key was that the man's eyes actually moved slowly from side to side, as if he was looking at them.

Everyone in SCI went white.

But this time, what made it even more terrifying for everyone was Gongsun.

He was seen still holding the corpse's face, staring at his pair of slowly moving eyes.

"Gongsun?" Bai Yutang walked in, and Zhan Zhao's eyes widened in curiosity, "Is it possible that the corpse is fraudulent? There's no way a corpse in this condition isn't dead, right?"

"His pupils are dilated, there's no way he can see me or be alive. The eyes are open because the eyelids are dipped in some kind of mucus, and the temperature here is cooler than in Old Yang's basement, so the mucus contracted and the eyelids lifted. The eyes are moving because they are filled with mercury, which makes a bearing. As soon as there is a slight deviation in position, the mercury will oscillate like a wave, so the eyeballs will follow.

Zhan Zhao and the others all stared at Gongsun silently.

Gongsun pointed to the dinner knife on the table and said to Ma Xin, "If he suddenly sits up, stick the silver knife into his heart, it happens sometimes, he might not be completely dead."

The crowd all took a step back, and Gongsun smiled, "Fooled you!"

The facial muscles of everyone involuntarily twitched so many times, such a strong mental capacity!

Zhao Hu rubbed his hair, a little grumpy, "I don't believe it, I don't believe you weren't scared at all just now!"

Ma Han patted him helplessly from the side, "Forget it, resign yourself to your fate."

Gongsun smiled and shook his head, "Give those prank-loving students in the forensic science department a few years of lessons and you won't be surprised no matter what happens with the corpse."

The crowd gasped, what a horrible job!

Gongsun placed the body on the metal bed and stared at it.

Bai Yutang walked over and asked, "Are the body parts... from one person?"

"Looking at the skin condition it shouldn't be one person's!" Gongsun replied, "And the body has been well embalmed, it smells of formalin!"

"What about the internal organs?" Zhan Zhao walked over to look at the corpse whose eyes were still rolling around, "Did we find Frankenstein's monster?"

Gongsun rubbed his hands together and said with a look of excitement, "We'll just have to dissect him and see!"

Everyone frowned slightly and retreated to the back with good sense.

After Gongsun did an examination of the corpse, he began to dissect it... But after dissecting the corpse, both he and Ma Xin were stunned.

"What's wrong?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Gongsun waved to the crowd.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked in. They had originally wondered why the corpse didn't stink at all, but now that they took a closer look, they all froze in silence.

After opening up the skin, they saw that there was a layer of fine, realistic blow-moulded muscle. Even the blood vessels were fine tubes, precisely positioned. A skeleton made of stainless steel, standard shaped internal organs made of snow white ceramic, and the most amazing mechanical pumping heart.

After looking at it for a long time, Gongsun suddenly tilted his face up with a serious expression and asked Bai Yutang, "Can I have the corpse after the case is solved? Would it be okay?!"

Everyone looked to the sky...

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Translator Notes

Hello! I am back from my little break and I bring good news! Someone reached out to me over the last week and has joined me in translating SCI! For now, upload schedule won't change, but if the two of us have a good pace, uploads may increase in the future. Please look forward to that and welcome Kanna to the team!

Please feel free to comment any mistakes I made so I can improve and do better as I go through the book.

Translated: August 2, 2022 by Angel

Edited: August 26, 2022 by Angel