S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 122

Mad Doctor Murderer 17 – An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth

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Walking up the stairs, the hospital has two floors in total. The iron door to the rooftop was locked and the first floor was completely unlit and dark. There was a regular ‘creak creak’ coming from the room, as if the chandelier hanging from the antenna was swaying.

Bai Yutang raised his hand to signal for the group to disperse; in a moment, he would go in first, followed by Luo Tian and Qin Ou, and Ma Han and Zhao Hu would guard the door so that he could not escape!

The crowd nodded, and Zhan Zhao, Gongsun and others who were completely defenceless and suspected of dragging their feet, followed behind.

Bai Yutang did not draw his gun, after all, being the first to enter this unknown dark environment, it would be unsafe to draw his gun and he would be vulnerable to being robbed of his gun after a sneak attack, which would threaten his safety instead.

He pressed his backhand against his waist and entered the darkness.

The surroundings were dim but not quite pitch black, after all, it was dark clouds outside rather than the sun setting.

Bai Yutang had just entered when another bolt of lightning flashed across the sky. There was a loud clap of thunder as the sky rumbled and the blue lightning shook the room for a moment.

Bai Yutang caught a glimpse of a man in the corner, his huge figure almost made him wonder if it was a human.

At the same time, the man surged into motion and lunged towards Bai Yutang, moving swiftly but with a somewhat awkward posture, as if his body was not well coordinated.

Bai Yutang stepped aside then turned around and elbowed him in the side of the waist, but there was a ‘thud'. Bai Yutang threw his arm away. Did it hit iron? How can a man have such hard bones?

Luo Tian and Qin Ou also came in.

At this moment, the nearby police officers all shone their flashlights in, and Zhan Zhao instructed everyone to shine the light in the big man's eyes!

The powerful flashlight was no joke. The big man's face was illuminated, and he seemed to hate the light, reaching out to hastily block it.

It was during his flurry of movement that the crowd noticed the ugly, long, slashing scar on his face!

The man was a little overwhelmed for a moment after being surrounded by the crowd all at once, as if he had never seen so many people before. A strange wailing sound came out of his mouth, carrying some sort of low growl.

Gongsun, who was standing beside Zhan Zhao, frowned and whispered, "He seems to have had his nose worked on."

Zhan Zhao looked at his face, "That is to say, this is the result of a failed cosmetic surgery? Is it true that cosmetic surgery has such risks?"

Gongsun looked at Zhan Zhao with admiration, as if to say - you really have the heart to joke.

Seeing that there was nowhere to escape, the man let out a shout before turning around and rushing towards the window.

"Shit!" Bai Yutang chased after him, but saw the monster slamming its head through the glass window and leaping out into the air.

The SCI crowd's eyes widened.

Bai Chi shrieked in shock, "It's so high up here!"

Bai Yutang chased him to the window and looked down, and saw that the man had landed on the ground, rolled on the spot without falling and ran awkwardly away.

By now, the sky had begun to rain heavily.

Bai Yutang stepped to the window and was just about to give chase when Zhan Zhao yelled from behind, "No jumping!"

The others were already chasing him down the stairs.

Bai Yutang let Zhan Zhao, who ran over, pull him back with a hug.

"Cat... I'm not jumping, don't get so worked up." Bai Yutang helplessly turned back to look at Zhan Zhao, who was staring at him intently, "Don't want to live anymore? How about breaking a hand or foot?!"

Bai Yutang had no choice but to draw his gun from his waist and watch the man run towards the gate, then he raised his gun and aimed it at his leg, hesitating slightly. A moving target was not easy to hit, and the facts of the man's crime had not yet been established, so it was better to try not to wound him. But what if he was the one who had killed Cen Yi? It would be hard to find the man if he got away.

Luckily, at this time, Luo Tian and the others had already rushed out. Luo Tian and Zhao Hu both ran as fast as they could, rushing after the man.

Zhan Zhao calculated the distance and felt that it was only a matter of time before they caught up.

The rain was already pouring down outside, and at that moment, a jeep was seen driving by at the intersection.

Zhan Zhao frowned, "Is it a pick up?"

Bai Yutang frowned as well, "This car... I seem to have seen it before."

Just as his words finished, the strange man had already run up to the car.

The car braked sharply and the strange man tried to escape, but the door of the jeep slammed open and slammed into the strange man. It was quite a powerful blow, and the big man was knocked to the ground.

The man in the car leapt out with a firm grip on the roof and kicked the man in the face.

The strange man fell on his back.

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows, "Not bad!"

Bai Yutang nodded, "Quite good."

Luo Tian and Zhao Hu, who had reached the scene, pressed down on the two arms of the strange man. Luo Tian was pressing down hard and Zhao Hu was struggling a bit. When Ma Han arrived, he pressed down with him. Once their hands made contact, they realised how strong the man was.

The sky was clattering and frightening with the heavy rain. The crowd could hardly keep their eyes open and their bodies were soaking wet.

Zhang Long and Wang Chao took out their handcuffs and, for insurance purposes, handcuffed the big man with two pairs of handcuffs.

The man who happened to be driving by in his jeep and helped capture the big man was also standing in the rain, looking at the crowd with a puzzled expression.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other - Lan Xi! Why was he here?

Getting away from the downpour, they entered the hospital.

Patting the water on his body, Zhao Hu looked at the big man, "You kid, what are you running for!"

The big man seemed not to understand Chinese. He kept shaking off whoever was on him, and his eyes were wide with nerves, as if being handcuffed made him very unhappy.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao came down from the second floor.

Gongsun tilted his face to analyse the man, "Oh? Not an Asian! Those bones are quite huge."

"It's the size of a prehistoric human, right?" Zhao Hu frowned, "It's really about the size of O'Neill!"

Bai Yutang asked Lan Xi, who was shaking water droplets off his jacket, "What brings you here?"

Lan Xi shrugged, "Someone asked me to come." Saying that, he took out his phone and showed it to the crowd.

When Zhan Zhao took his phone, the crowd came over and saw Chen Yu as the wallpaper.

In unison, they all said "Oh?"

"Uh..." Lan Xi awkwardly opened a text message for them to see. They saw that an unfamiliar number had texted him: "If you want to investigate your older brother's death, come to Mad Doctor Town."

The text message was signed – X.

"Who the hell is this X?" Zhan Zhao handed his phone back to Lan Xi and found that the text message was sent about half an hour ago. Cen Yi had also been summoned by a text message. This X, was he in league with the big guy? There was no way he could have summoned the police to cause trouble for himself, right? And this case, if it had anything to do with Lan Qi, would be further proof that it was related to the air crash back then!

"He's the one who killed my brother?" Lan Xi looked at the large, eccentric man beside him in disbelief.

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang shook their heads gently - they felt something was fishy.

Bai Yutang looked at the big man and frowned, "He doesn't look like he knows how to drive. Cen Yi's car was rammed off the road, but he was the only one who could handle the corpse, which means that there was another person.

Everyone nodded and went off to search in all directions.

Zhan Zhao rubbed his chin with one hand and said hello to him in English. The man didn't respond, so he tried French, but still didn't get a response.

Zhan Zhao asked Gongsun, "Gongsun, where does he look like he's from?"

"According to the structure of the skull, there seems to be some reversion to ancestry. With such a large size and brown skin tone, he might belong to a mix of two major races. One side of the ancestry would have been the Nilotic people from Africa. These people were huge and lived mostly in the upper Nile. At the height of the slave trade, large numbers of Nilotes were sold to the Americas as slaves to run plantations."

"The big plantations in South America, ah, that's Latin." Zhan Zhao said hello to him in Portuguese, but he still didn't respond, so he eventually switched to Spanish.

He looked at Zhan Zhao and it felt like - he understood.

Zhan Zhao asked him what his name was but he shook his head, refusing to speak.

Zhan Zhao crossed his arms, "Your master is here too, isn't he?"

One question made him suddenly tense up.

The crowd could see that this big man was not terribly intelligent. With Zhan Zhao's ability to trick him into talking, it was simply too easy, his expression alone betrayed him, it was so obvious that anyone with an untrained eye would notice.

Bai Yutang gave a soft tsk and looked at Zhan Zhao, "It was raining too much just now, so the sounds couldn't be heard too clearly. With such a long delay, they might have escaped."

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Ma Han and the others to come back and say that they had seen the tire tracks of a vehicle leaving at the back entrance of the town and had sent someone to track it down, but their hopes were rather slim.

"Diverting our attention and abandoning the pawn to save the car." Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at the large man sitting at the stairway. Gongsun was beside him observing the ugly scars on his body.

"Gongsun, what have you found?" Zhan Zhao padded over, telling the big man as he did so, "Your master has escaped."

The big man sighed in relief and didn't resist or get anxious.

The crowd exchanged glances - quite loyal!

"The scars on his face are signs of cosmetic surgery." Gongsun said, "The nose is also fake."

"Really had a facelift, huh?" Zhan Zhao wondered, "Who made him so ugly?"

Gongsun waved his hand and lifted the collar of the big man's shirt so that Zhan Zhao and the others could look at it, and they saw that he had large burn scars on his body.

"Burns?" The crowd frowned.

"He may have experienced a disaster like an explosion and suffered a lot of damage to his face, shattering part of his bones and causing extensive burns. Someone helped him reshape his nose and the skin grafts were successful." Gongsun tsked twice, "This is very a difficult operation to perform, and although it doesn't look good after the skin grafts, it's functionally sound. It’s simply a perfect operation."

Seeing that he was getting more and more excited, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang reached out and patted him, "What's the conclusion?"

When Gongsun saw that the two of them were 'not understanding the love’, he pouted, "The guy who operated on him is definitely one of the best surgeons in the world!"

"Then check the medical records." Bai Yutang called back to Jiang Ping, then put the phone down and asked Gongsun again, "What's in his waist? It's hard."

Gongsun faintly stared, squatting down and pulling open the big man's shirt to take a look. There was nothing special, so he felt the ribs and pelvis, and frowned, "The bones have been reshaped!"

"No wonder the bones are so hard." Bai Yutang was curious, "Just how many surgeries did he have?"

Gongsun stopped answering at this point and just stared intently at the big man, as if he was stunned by the succession of scars on his body. Finally, he touched a scar and his frown grew tighter and tighter.

"Ahem." Zhan Zhao reminded Gongsun, "If Brother sees you touching a living male like that, he'll go berserk."

Gongsun withdrew his hand and fiercely turned his face to look at Zhan Zhao, "It's the same!"

"What's the same?" The crowd was puzzled.

"The artificial man that we picked up that day!" Gongsun said, "The distribution of all the scars, they're all the same! That means the splicing points are exactly the same!"

"What?" Everyone in the room froze, immediately remembering the oddly patchworked man they had picked up initially.

"Even the stitches, the sewing and the knotting habits, they're all the same!" Gongsun muttered to himself, "That fake man from before was probably made for experimentation, he used the most reasonable technique to restore a man with a completely different face! It's simply a miracle."

The crowd looked at each other.

"The highly skilled surgeon, X, who sent a text message to inform the people involved, Cen Yi's murder, and the fact that the incident was related to Lan Qi's death." Bai Yutang looked at the large man, "To connect so many details, it looks like we have to get him to talk.

Zhan Zhao thought about it, "Aware of it or not, it seems that someone gave us this clue on purpose."

Everyone frowned and looked at Zhan Zhao.

"Just now the thunder was loud and the rain was crashing down." Bai Yutang looked at the main entrance and understood what Zhan Zhao meant, "If he wanted to escape, it would make more sense to go to the back than to the front!"

"There really was a car hidden in the back, and if it weren't for the heavy rain, we wouldn't have been able to discover it. This town is so small that the sound of a car starting would surely have been heard!” Qin Ou also saw some clues, "That means it was the unexpected downpour that helped them!"

"If it hadn't rained, we might have caught his master as well." Bai Yutang nodded, "That X, I hope we catch him and his master. If Lan Xi had come at the wrong time and appeared in Mad Doctor Town while we were investigating the case, it would have aroused our suspicions."

Zhan Zhao looked at the big man and crouched down to say seriously, "Your master is in danger!"

The big man tilted his face up to look at him, his eyes flickering a little, and it could be seen that... he was very worried about that so-called ‘master’. Although not smart, he had his doubts.

Zhan Zhao thought for a moment and whispered, "X found him!"

The big man's eyes widened with a hint of panic that did not escape Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's eyes.

"Where is he?" Zhan Zhao asked, "Tell us, we can protect him."

The big man hesitated for a moment, eventually dropping his head in frustration and shaking it gently.

"We really will protect him, you can trust us."

The big man jerked his head up and looked at Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang and the others. After a long time, he finally spoke, his thick voice coupled with a thick nasal voice, and said, “It’s too late."

"What did your master go to do?" Zhan Zhao wondered.

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." After saying this sentence, the big man was completely silent and no matter how much the crowd asked him, he no longer spoke.

Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao, “Can't you get him to talk?"

Zhan Zhao looked at the big man for a long time, “I can, it's just that Bao Sir said that if I dare to hypnotise someone casually I will be told to clean the toilet."

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, time waits for no man." Bai Yutang whispered in his ear, "Let's take care of him secretly! I'll accompany you if you really need to clean the toilet."

Zhan Zhao raised the corner of his mouth, “En."

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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: October 5, 2022 by Angel

Edited: October 13, 2022 by Angel