S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 107

Mad Doctor Murderer 02 – Unknown Ending

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After conducting a very careful autopsy, Gongsun and Ma Xin told Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, "This can't be considered a murder case because there's no body at all! There was only patchwork human skin. And the skin had been embalmed, it was soaked in formalin. Also, all the internal organs, even the head, are made of metal bones, blown muscles, plus imitation skin, which is why the eye sockets and eyes don't quite match and the eyes wobble around."

"We'll have to take DNA samples of the skin, eyes, etc., and then search for a match to confirm the source.” Ma Xin sighed and started counting the pieces of skin, "Looks like another massive project, but it's fun!"

Gongsun nodded cooperatively, "Yes, it will be fun!"

“Who makes this kind of perverted doll?" Zhan Zhao muttered to himself, "And throwing it away when they're done?"

"Well, could it have been thrown away because it wasn't done properly?" Gongsun carefully measured and recorded the data of every internal organ, as well as the proportions of the bones, "Tsk, it's very delicate, but there are some areas that could be improved. This person must be a surgeon, not a forensic doctor!"

It suddenly occurred to both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang that if the man had invited Gongsun to come along for the ride, he would have joined without a second thought.

"Old Yang thought it was a serial murder, did he have his reasons?" Zhan Zhao asked Ma Xin to ask Forensic Doctor Yang.

A moment later, Ma Xin brought Forensic Doctor Yang up.

Old Yang was close to sixty years old and about to retire. At first, he thought it was a patchwork corpse, so he thought it was a serial murder taking corpse pieces and putting people together, just like the case in that 《Astrology Murder Magic》 by Shoji Shimada. But now that he had seen the aftermath of the autopsy, he too was dumbfounded.

"Aiya, a divine work!" Old Yang came over with narrowed eyes.

"Right?" Gongsun grinned and pushed his glasses, "There's hydraulic cylinders between the bones that expand and contract!"

"Let me see." Old Yang put his old-fashioned glasses on for a closer look, "Oh! This is quite accurate! Godly man!"

Ma Xin recorded the figures excitedly, "His eyes are still moving, he just scared me!"

"Yeah? Hahaha..." Old Yang's elderly laughter created an eerie aura in the forensic room.

At the door, Zhao Hu pulled Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "Captain, can we change places, I can't stand it anymore!"

Zhan Zhao and the others also felt a bit sick to their stomachs and retreated.

After they left, all the SCI officers could not help but shiver, leaving the three forensic scientists to admire the "artwork" corpse with great interest.

Just as they reached the door of the SCI office, they saw the elevator doors open and a young, petite girl came out. She was wearing a black leather plaid skirt and big riding boots, standing in the elevator doorway with her hands in her pockets and a pout on her lips.

"Er... Le Le?" As soon as Zhao Hu saw that it was Qi Le, he went up to her with some confusion and asked, "What's wrong? Your face is so stinky."

Qi Le flattened her mouth, "I'm going to suffer a lawsuit."

The crowd looked at each other and the corner of Zhao Hu's mouth twitched, "What kind of lawsuit?"

"I hit someone yesterday." Qi Le muttered.

"Who did you hit?" The crowd was curious, Qi Le's bratty nature seemed to be unchangeable.

"A very bitchy, bitchy actor!" Qi Le said unhappily.

"Do you have a brokerage company, just settle privately, why get into a lawsuit?" Bai Chi has been taking care of Zhao Zhen for so long that he knows a little bit about all this.

"No." Qi Le was brought into the SCI office and sat down, tilting her face up to look at the crowd, "Well, you're not allowed to call me a troublemaker if I say it!"

The crowd didn't feel their eyelids twitching, Qi Le, like Brother Bai, was known for his calamity constitution, so nothing would have happened again, right?

"Say it!" Zhao Hu was also anxious.

"The actor was found dead in his condo this morning, and his body was cut up." Qi Le said with a tearful face.

......

The crowd was speechless.

After a long time, Zhan Zhao patted Qi Le, "You can go pay your respects with Brother in a few days."

"The police suspect you?" Bai Yutang asked, "Why else would you be facing a lawsuit?"

"I went out of town for an event last night and only came back this morning! The alibi is strong!" Qi Le stressed.

"Then why did they still file a lawsuit against you?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled.

Qi Le grunted, "His wife said I bought the murder... it would look like I extorted some money from the company, otherwise I would have made a big deal out of it."

The crowd looked at the sky, that wife was determined, her husband's corpse was not cold and the first thing that came to mind was to get money.

"The police won't accuse people unjustly without evidence." Bai Chi gave her a cup of tea, while asking, "By the way, why did you hit someone? Playing a big game?"

"No way!" Qi Le jumped up, "I saw him hitting an old man who was sweeping the floor, so I went up and scolded him a bit. He didn't stop and proceeded to hit him, and his mouth still spoke without restraint, so I punched him."

"Wow... what kind of woman are you?" Zhao Hu blurted out, and Qi Le chased after him and hit him.

At this time, the elevator door opened again and Da Ding and Xiao Ding walked in, “Le Le, it's all done, go back and continue practising your song."

“Oh." Qi Le left. Zhao Hu looked at Bai Yutang, who nodded and told him to send Qi Le back.

"How can it be such a coincidence?" Zhan Zhao asked the twins, "Could it be Qi Le's fans who did this?"

"Don't say it, it's really possible!" The twins gave Jiang Ping a USB stick and told him to open a video inside, saying, "It's all because of this video!"

The crowd came over to look, and saw that it was a piece of entertainment news

The footage on the news should have been recorded using surveillance. Yesterday morning, in the car park of the TV station, an old man sweeping the floor accidentally scratched a male actor's car. The man came up and punched and kicked the old man. Qi Le happened to be driving in and stopped the car to stop him. When he didn't stop, Qi Le used the 'wolf-proof technique' that Zhao Hu had taught her, together with her super-sized bag containing a thermal water cup, to beat the actor and send him running.

"Qi Le is so tough!" Bai Chi looked on and couldn't help but exclaim, as everyone nodded, "Yes!"

“Le Le is already a bold and bright girl with many fans, and this time they even take her as a hero." Da Ding shook his head, "It was recorded by the TV station surveillance and cut directly into the news, which was broadcast last night."

"If they knew the actor had died, it would have been even more sensational, right?" Bai Yutang frowned as he asked Zhan Zhao, "Who is this actor, a big guy who hits an old man?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head.

The twins looked at the two as if they were monsters, "You two don't know him?"

The two shook their heads. The twins then looked at a few other people, and all of them shook their heads.

"Why is the spiritual world of you cops so empty?!" Xiao Ding looked at the crowd in a sympathetic manner.

"This man's name is Qin Tian." Da Ding introduced him to the crowd, "His seniority is much higher than Qi Le's, but his career is going downhill lately, and there are many doubting voices. I got to know him and originally he wasn't such a domineering personality, I guess he's been under a lot of pressure lately."

"A lot of pressure?" Zhan Zhao played back that video just now and frowned, "It does seem like he's out of control."

“Cat," Bai Yutang patted Zhan Zhao, “leave it to Ai Hu and the others, it's not our case!"

Zhan Zhao nodded.

At this time, the satisfied Forensic Doctor Yang, who had finished studying the artefacts with Gongsun in the forensic room next door, wandered out and went to the SCI office to ask for a cup of milk tea made by Bai Chi.

"By the way, Old Yang,” Zhan Zhao asked him, “did you have Qin Tian's body in your autopsy today?"

“I did." Old Yang nodded and took out his phone, "I even took a picture with him."

"Wow..." Bai Chi looked at the photo of Old Yang and the dead man, “Old Yang, you're so sick! Do you have respect for the dead? This is not good!"

Gongsun also nodded, "Yeah, even more perverted than me."

The crowd looked at him with amusement and some self-awareness.

"Heh, I don't like every single one of them, he's rather special!" Old Yang shook his head, "I really liked the one he acted in with Cen Yi, 《Mad Doctor Town》! Alas, Qin Tian is really good in acting, it's just a pity that he then stopped acting in horror and literary films and went for that kind of urban romantic comedies instead. He chose the wrong route and his career has been on the decline."

"Mad Doctor Town..." Bai Chi froze and took out the cover of this morning's disc packaging and showed it to him, "Is this it?"

"Yes!" Old Yang nodded his head when he saw the disc.

Zhan Zhao went over and saw that one of the male leads on the cover was indeed Qin Tian, who was a little younger then than he is now.

"How does this film end?" Bai Chi asked curiously.

"All dead!" The old man said.

"All dead?" Bai Chi was a little frustrated.

"I also thought that in the end, Qin Tian and Cen Yi's friends would walk out, but when they reached the entrance of the town, Cen Yi, the village doctor, was also infected by the virus, and Qin Tian didn't escape alone in the end, and died with him in the town." Forensic scientist Yang tsked twice, "It's a real shame when you watch it!"

"By the way, Old Yang," Bai Chi asked again, “do you really really really like watching movies?"

Old Yang was amused by the three 'really's in a row and asked, "What do you want to ask?"

Bai Chi then told Dr. Yang about the film he had watched at the dentist's office this morning and asked him what it was called.

The moment Forensic Doctor Yang heard it, he knew, "The movie is 《Lost》, it's an award-winning film, it's very famous, but it's slightly older."

"Oh!" Bai Chi contentedly ran off to the internet, searched for 《Lost》, and went to read the movie reviews.

Not understanding why the crowd was discussing the film, Bai Yutang asked Old Yang, "What's the situation with Qin Tian's body?"

"Oh, it definitely wasn't Qi Le's doing." Forensic Doctor Yang replied, "The body was precisely divided into several pieces, the killer should have medical knowledge, and the body was treated with a good clotting treatment before being dissected, so it was clean and there was almost no blood flow."

"Blood clotting treatment?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "Is this kind of technique very common?"

"Of course it's rare!" Forensic Doctor Yang laughed, "Most of the psychopathic killers I've dealt with before were too unstimulating and wanted to see more blood, but this murderer was like a clean freak, he was afraid of too much blood, so the corpse was clean!"

The crowd couldn't laugh or cry, there were all kinds of killers.

Although they were interested, they couldn't take over the case, and after Old Yang left, the SCI team had to remain idle.

When Zhan Zhao saw that everyone was watching the movie, he went over to them, and it turned out that Jiang Ping had found online versions of 《Mad Doctor Town》and 《Lost》. With milk tea and popcorn in hand, the crowd watched both films.

"Geez, Qin Tian is a good actor, what a shame he died!” Zhan Zhao was clearly more interested in horror films.

"The two films seem to be somewhat connected." Bai Yutang said, "Look, there is a teacher and a doctor in Mad Doctor Town. In Lost, there's also a teacher and a doctor. Both end up in front of the highway, with Mad Doctor Town implying that both are dead, and Lost having an unknown meaning... How exactly did it end?"

The crowd shook their heads, are all the endings of recent films so subtle? It doesn't hurt to watch.

Bai Yutang looked at the time and saw that it was almost time for dinner, so he stood up and pulled Zhan Zhao, "Come on Cat, let's go eat."

Zhan Zhao took his laptop and document bag, packed up all the information, and prepared to go to dinner with Bai Yutang.

But the door of the forensic room opened, and Gongsun walked out with his hands in his pockets, "We can't go eat."

Everyone was stunned and looked at him, "What?"

Gongsun brought a copy of the information to Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang took it, opened it, and frowned, "Is it really a serial murder case?"

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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: August 5, 2022 by Angel

Edited: August 26, 2022 by Angel