S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 1 Chapter 94

Shadow Murderer 03 – Gods and Ghosts

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The moment the shadow appeared on the wall, the crowd present could not help but feel a chill run down their spines, the sight was too eerie. Although this grey shadow had no facial features and no visible expression, it gave off an increasingly subtle feeling of malice that was invariably reflected everywhere. It was as if the most frightening thing was not a monster with a hideous face, but a monster without five senses. This was because you did not know what it was thinking, and if you rely on your imagination, it would only get more and more frightening the more you thought about it.

All those present, apart from the police officers, were gangsters, and fear was a distant term for them. However, that eerie, long-lost fear was now truly surging in the hearts of all of them.

Police officers from the forensic department took photos. Bai Yutang walked over to look at the shadow and reached out to pull the curtain open… The shadow was instantly concealed by the bright light, but in the eyes of the crowd, a strange image was created. The shadow, instead of being covered by the light, looked like it had hidden itself in the light with no trace left.

After a long time, the crowd returned to their senses, and Zhan Zhao turned to ask Qin Meng: "This shadow, does it have any special meaning?"

Qin Meng shook his head, "No, I've never seen it before." After saying that, she turned back to her men and asked them, who also shook their heads, saying that they had never seen it before.

Zhan Zhao nodded and turned back to look at Bai Yutang, and saw Bai Yutang staring at the gun on the wall, "This is a fake gun!"

"That's right." Zhan Zhao flipped through the information and said, "In the several other murders, the ones used were also fake guns."

Bai Yutang moved to take a closer look and beckoned to one of the officers in the forensic department, "Here, there seems to be a fingerprint!"

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Afterwards, the group split up and surveyed the scene and questioned Qin Meng and a few of her men, but found no useful clues.

Having no choice, Bai Yutang had to take the group and leave first. After exiting through the gate, arrangements were made for the teams to split up and go investigate the people involved in the other cases to see if there were any common enemies among the dead.

As the crowd dispersed, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao also got into the car.

"What now?" Zhan Zhao reached out and took the photo out of Bai Yutang's jacket pocket, "Should we go investigate that shadow murderer, or this Night Punisher?"

Having asked, but not receiving an answer, Zhan Zhao saw Bai Yutang staring through the car window, frowning at the villa owned by Wu Qiang. Zhan Zhao somewhat mischievously came forward and blew a breath in Bai Yutang's ear.

With a jolt, Bai Yutang jerked back, rubbing his ears and smiling, "Cat, why are you teasing me in public?"

After giving him a blank look, Zhan Zhao also looked through the car window at the place he was looking at, and asked curiously, "What are you looking at?"

Bai Yutang pointed to the first floor and said, "That window is the window of the study… It is at least ten meters from the ground and there is no support around it, it seems to be specially designed to avoid climbing..."

"Hm~~" Zhan Zhao nodded, then asked him in puzzlement, "What's the problem?"

"The bodyguards outside are like an iron barrel formation, the only way to get into the room undetected is to climb up through there." Bai Yutang seemed to be a little troubled, "I just checked, there is no sign of any tools being used."

"You mean the murderer climbed up with his bare hands?" Zhan Zhao's eyes widened in shock.

Bai Yutang nodded, "This is different from climbing a wall where you can just leap and flip over with one stride. This requires staying on the wall for a certain amount of time, which is difficult for an ordinary person to do."

"Let's go see the locations of the other victims." Zhan Zhao fastened his seat belt and said, "At least it means that this murderer might be a talented person, it's also a clue."

Bai Yutang nodded approvingly. He started the car and asked Zhan Zhao, "Cat, what do you think of the Night Punisher?"

Zhan Zhao took the photo and examined it for half a day, shaking his head, "No clue… Why would he send us a photo? And it was the same person you bumped into last night..."

As the two discussed the case, the car pulled up to a certain intersection in the city centre and slowly came to a stop when it encountered a red light. Just then, a car stopped next to it at the same time. It seemed that the car was driving extremely fast before it reached the zebra crossing and then braked sharply, scaring several passers-by. When Bai Yutang turned his face to look at the car, he was slightly surprised – the car parked next to them was also a Spyker C8. Though Bai Yutang's car was silver-grey, while the other one was black.

The Spyker C8 was a limited edition, sent by Bai Jintang from Italy to Bai Yutang, and was definitely the only one of its kind in S City. But the two of them were a little surprised when another one appeared beside them. The roof of that car was open, and the person in it seemed to be interested in the identical car beside him and was cocking his head to look at it with interest.

The man driving the car was a foreigner with exaggerated long red hair, sunglasses and an open-collared floral shirt. He appeared a bit unorthodox, and was also looking at Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao in the car. Soon, the green light came on and the foreigner raised his eyebrows at Bai Yutang and smiled, pointing ahead. Bai Yutang understood that he wanted to go for a race, but unfortunately it was in a downtown area. However, even if it was an open space, he was not in the mood, so he ignored him and started the car and continued to drive forward unhurriedly.

The man did not give up and followed them in his car, reaching out and knocking on Bai Yutang's car window, mumbling something.

Zhan Zhao leaned over to Bai Yutang's ear, "He's speaking Italian. He says, 'Handsome, don't ignore people.'" After saying that, he also gibbered a few words to the Italian man outside the car window.

The man nodded and drove on contentedly.

"Cat, what did you say to him?" Bai Yutang was puzzled.

Zhan Zhao smiled, "I said that there were too many people here to race, so I told him to wait at the second turn up ahead."

"The second turn up ahead..." Bai Yutang laughed bitterly, "Cat, you're messing with people again. No parking is allowed there, and there are traffic police guarding it every day."

Sure enough, as their car passed by, they saw the foreigner's car parked on the side, and he was hanging his head in frustration as he answered the traffic police's questions.

Seeing Bai Yutang's car drive by, he obviously noticed it, and before he could raise his head and say anything, he saw the two men in the car waving at him at the same time, signalling -bye bye~~ and then disappearing out of sight.

“That’s right!" Zhan Zhao suddenly remembered something and grabbed Bai Yutang's arm, "Xiao Bai, stop at the bank up ahead!"

"Why are we going to the bank?" Bai Yutang was puzzled.

"I've been busy this month, and I forgot to send the money to the orphanage." Zhan Zhao said, "Stop just ahead! There's a bank there."

"The orphanage?" Bai Yutang was even more puzzled, "Where did this orphanage come from?"

"Didn't my book sell for a lot of money when it was published?" Zhan Zhao said with a smile, "I asked you how to use it, you said it would be better to invest in a venture to build an orphanage."

Bai Yutang froze for half a day, "And then you went ahead and built it?"

"Well~~" Zhan Zhao nodded, "It's not exactly building it. It was there originally, I just helped refurbish it. I haven't finished it yet."

"Cat, you're really good..." Bai Yutang reached out and stroked his head, "If all rich people were like you, world peace wouldn't be a dream."

"En." Zhan Zhao nodded his head, answering with a straight face.

Pulling up to the entrance of the bank, the two of them got out of the car. Bai Yutang noticed a white van parked not far away, and a man was holding a cigarette in his mouth and looking into the bank from time to time. Bai Yutang's heart moved slightly, and without making a sound, he followed Zhan Zhao into the bank.

There were not many people in the bank, and there was a security guard walking around with a baton. Zhan Zhao went to line up while Bai Yutang surveyed the surroundings. His eyes stopped on the white van at the entrance. He saw a few people in the back seat who were putting black masks on their heads...

With a light sigh, Bai Yutang took out his ID and walked quickly to the counter. He showed it to one of the staff inside and said, "Call the police and ring the emergency bell!"

At the same time, three men wearing black masks and holding guns rushed in, and the staff had already pressed the emergency alarm...

The three men who broke in were startled and were caught off guard.

Pulling out his gun, Bai Yutang turned around and fired two shots at the two robbers walking in the front who were still dazed.

The two men with guns were shot in the shoulder and dropped to the ground with their guns falling to the ground.

"Police, put the guns down!" Bai Yutang said, pointing at the man walking at the rear.

The man had the gun in his hand and was hesitating, but the door behind him opened at that moment and a man walked in.

The robber reacted quickly and turned around to take the person who came in hostage, but when he turned around, what caught his eyes was a flowery shirt and long red hair that fell to his chest. Then he heard the man say in a strange Chinese accent, "Your posture with the gun is really ugly." With that, he lifted his hand and pressed the wrist of the robber holding the gun, and wrenched it from him in one smooth motion.

The robber shrieked miserably and fell to the ground, covering his hand that had been deformed.

The one who came in was the foreigner who had just been tricked by Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang. He clapped his hands and looked up at Bai Yutang in front of him, smiling, "You have a nice pose with the gun!"

At that moment, sirens sounded loudly outside, and police cars that had received the alarm rushed over from all directions. The man who was waiting in the white van saw the situation and got out of the car, rushing into the alleyway at the side of the road.

With a frown, Bai Yutang chased him out.

"Yutang!" Zhan Zhao wanted to follow him out, but just as he reached the door, he was stopped by the foreigner with the flowery shirt: "Wait, wait!"

Seeing that Bai Yutang had already chased the man into the alleyway, Zhan Zhao was a little anxious and glared at the foreigner beside him, "What?"

"His name is Yutang, what's your name? You just deliberately tricked me!" The language spoken was standard without any odd accent.

Zhan Zhao looked up at him and sneered, "What's my name? Don't you know it?"

The man was slightly stunned, but he heard Zhan Zhao continue, "You can obviously speak Chinese, but you deliberately used Italian, how were you sure that I can understand you? You don't know that you can't stop at that intersection, but you wouldn't be stupid enough to stop when you see a traffic cop. You hear the emergency alarm going off and you dare to rush into the bank. You can joke at the muzzle of a gun, and your wrist flick is a Special Forces move… I don't care who you are and what you're doing here coming from Italy, but we've been busy lately, so just remember not to break the law! !" After saying that, he no longer cared about the man, rushed out of the bank and hurriedly went after Bai Yutang.

As he watched Zhan Zhao run off into the distance, the foreigner let out a long breath, when the mobile phone in his pocket rang.

"En, it's Eugene,I  arrived this morning." Walking out of the bank while on the phone and sitting back in the car, he laughed, "Met, he is cute, but just too powerful… for me to mess with."

When Zhan Zhao chased Bai Yutang deep into the alley, he heard a ‘bang’, a gunshot coming from the end of the alley and broke out in a cold sweat.

"Yutang!" Somewhat panicked, he ran towards where the sound of gunshot was  and turned the corner to see Bai Yutang standing there with a man lying on the ground. It was the robber from earlier.

"Cat." Bai Yutang looked back at Zhan Zhao, his face a little pale.

"What's wrong..." Zhan Zhao ran closer and saw that the robber lying on the ground had a bloody hole in his head and was dead.

"This is..." Zhan Zhao looked at the somewhat familiar sight in front of him and could not speak.

"I was only a step slow at most! I heard the gun go off as soon as he turned the corner, and by the time I turned, his body had just fallen to the ground." Bai Yutang raised his face and looked around at the dense high walls, "Even if he could fly, I should have been able to see him, but I didn't even see a shadow!"

Zhan Zhao was stunned and asked Bai Yutang, "Xiao Bai, did you just say… shadow?"

Both of them coincidentally thought of the high wall outside Wu Qiang's study – a shadow?

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Translator Notes

Translated: by Turtle

Edited: September 22, 2022 by Angel