S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 125

Mad Doctor Murderer 20 – Ghost Face Raid

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"Where have you seen them before?" The crowd turned back to look at Bao Zheng together.

Bao Zheng opened his mouth and tapped his head, "I can't remember."

"Bao Sir, shall I hypnotise you?" Zhan Zhao said seriously, "It doesn't hurt at all, really!"

Bao Zheng gave him a blank look, telling him that he couldn't remember anything because of this anger, "I've only seen it in the past few days."

"Just these few days?" The crowd was even more curious, and Gongsun said, "Thought you and Old Yang knew each other before..."

"That's right!” Bao Zheng clapped his hands together, startling the crowd.

“I saw them with Old Yang, two days ago." Bao Zheng said as he thought, "That day I went out with Old Yang for a late night snack. Old Yang was probably a bit nostalgic, he insisted on going to the night market with me and walked a long way to the vicinity of the medical university. The night market in front of the school was very busy, and while we were eating, Old Yang suddenly saw someone and got so excited that he stood up and went after them."

The crowd was surprised.

Gongsun's eyes widened, "Old Yang can still run, huh? You are not being kind, you should help him chase them, he has a bad heart."

"By the time I caught up with them, that person had already left, and they told Old Yang that he had mistaken him for someone else." Bao Zheng shrugged his shoulders and pointed at the man on the screen, "Now that I think of it, it was this old man, only his hair and beard were white and he was particularly thin, so I couldn't tell if he was a foreigner or not."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other.

"I think I've seen him before too." Bai Chi suddenly said.

The crowd looked at him in surprise, "You've also had dinner with Old Yang?"

Bai Chi tilted his head, "No... but I've definitely seen this guy somewhere."

Gongsun pressed two fingers to his head, "Could it be that you just watched the movie for too long, so you're hallucinating?"

"Well..." Bai Chi hesitated.

The crowd all looked and also felt that the old man looked familiar, and hurriedly shook their heads, thinking that the film was not hypnotic.

"Hehe."

At this point, Zhan Zhao suddenly laughed, "It's not hypnotism, we've really all seen him before."

The crowd turned their faces to look at him in surprise.

Bai Yutang also seemed to remember something. He went and asked Jiang Ping to open his computer and pull up the video of Qi Le beating Qin Tian in the car park last time to watch.

As soon as the play button was pressed, it immediately dawned on everyone - they knew he looked familiar! It turned out to be the old man who was beaten up by Qin Tian in the car park!

Zhan Zhao asked Bai Jintang, "Brother, is he an employee of your company?"

Bai Jintang shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know, I'll have to ask the personnel department about that."

Jiang Ping pulled up the old man's facial structure to compare and tilted his face to tell Bai Yutang, "The same person!"

"This person is highly suspicious." Bao Zheng said, "He is wanted domestically, have Ai Hu send someone to search around the medical university itself, and bring him back immediately if you find him."

Jiang Ping nodded and did as he was told.

"Qin Tian should have a reason for chasing after him!" Bai Yutang frowned in thought and asked Zhan Zhao, "Do you still remember the day we went to see Cen Yi at Brother's office..."

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows slightly, “En! He said a line! If you can't run away, you can't run away for the rest of your life."

"It's a line from Mad Doctor Town." Bai Chi rewound the tape to show the crowd and found the place where the line appeared.

They saw that it was the teacher played by Qin Tian encouraging the village doctor played by Cen Yi, "There's always a way out!"

But the doctor, Dr. Wang, played by Cen Yi, was very pessimistic, thinking that if you can't run away, you can't run away for the rest of your life

"Actually, don't you think that some things are very sad?" Bai Chi suddenly lamented the plot of the movie, "These two people were actually the most careless and had no belief that they had to survive, they were completely lucky to have survived to the end. The others who were killed early by the zombies were people who had families and didn't want to leave."

"Is that some sort of hint?" Bao Zheng asked, "But it's usually like this, the more you don't want to die the easier it is to die, the more you're not afraid to die the more you can survive to the end. That’s how it is in war."

As the crowd lamented, they all went to look at the footage, watching it over and over again, trying to find out if there were any clues hidden in it.

After watching for a long time, the crowd felt that apart from some strange facial expressions of Cen Yi and Qin Tian, they could not see anything wrong at all.

Zhan Zhao poked Bai Yutang, "Am I seeing things?"

Bai Yutang went over to look at his eyes, and half a day later, he seriously stretched out even a finger and asked him, "How many fingers is this?"

Zhan Zhao slapped him, "You're the one that's two!"

Bai Yutang withdrew his hand and asked in all seriousness, "What did you find?"

Zhan Zhao pointed to the expressions of Qin Tian and Cen Yi in the picture, "I don't know how to act, but shouldn't you be laughing at this time?"

Bai Jintang didn't know what case the SCI crowd was investigating, but with his boss' point of view, he padded over to see and nodded, "It's indeed weird."

"To be honest, although Qin Tian and Cen Yi are highly rated for this film and everyone says they acted very well," Bai Chi rubbed his arms, "I always felt that they both looked like psychos when they were acting."

"This kind of environment, which is nonetheless a horror film... neuroticism may also be a necessary performance." Bao Zheng rubbed his chin and frowned.

"They both seem to be laughing at the line." Zhan Zhao muttered to himself, "What does it have to do with this old man?"

No one could see why.

"By the way," Zhan Zhao asked Zhao Hu, “where's Qi Le? Find her and ask her about the old man... Didn't Qin Tian say that he was scolding and chasing the old man while beating him up? What was he scolding him about?"

“Le Le went to the hospital with Chen Yu to see Chen Kefeng today." Zhao Hu replied, "I guess they are still there now."

"Perfect." Gongsun was anxious, "Let's go see Old Yang, my heart is restless."

Bai Jintang nodded. For safety's sake, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao drove a bulletproof work truck to take Gongsun there, and it was estimated that the murderer had already called it a day by now.

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The crowd drove to the hospital, and in front of the emergency room, there were many people waiting.

In the middle of the room were some of Old Yang's relatives, his beloved granddaughter's eyes were crying like walnuts, and there was a huge crowd of students, young and old; it was simply overcrowded.

Zhan Zhao looked at Gongsun in amazement - The world is really full of students!

Gongsun nodded his head - That's true! Old Yang doesn't just spend his days in the underground forensic room, he's a veteran of the forensic field!

Da Ding and Xiao Ding were also there, and many good doctors had been consulted. Da Ding whispered to Zhan Zhao, "The doctor has just informed us that the situation has improved! There should be no problem in keeping him alive."

Zhan Zhao and the others all breathed a sigh of relief.

Leaving the crowd to wait, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went to the patient ward to look for Qi Le.

In Chen Kefeng's ward.

At this moment, Chen Yu was sitting at the end of the bed peeling an apple, while Qi Le was talking to Chen Kefeng about the music score.

"Weren't you feeling better before?" Qi Le saw that Chen Kefeng had no intention of reading the music score but was staring at Chen Yu who was seriously peeling apples, so she couldn't help but ask him, "Why is it recurring again?"

Chen Kefeng shrugged and coughed just a little, "It's nothing."

"It's not nothing." Qi Le was angry, "You vomited blood just after practicing the piano twice, it scared the hell out of me. Isn’t your sister a doctor? Why doesn’t she take care of you?!"

When Chen Kefeng heard this, he sighed and put down his music, "My sister has gone off somewhere."

Chen Yu lifted her head, "Isn't your sister working at the hospital?"

"With all the things going on these days, there's no point in going to work, she's taken a long leave." Chen Kefeng frowned, "I always feel like she has something on her mind."

Chen Yu and Qi Le looked at each other, hesitating. Should they ask Chen Kefeng about Chen Keqing? But they didn't dare to speak up, in case they revealed information and ruined SCI's plan.

At this moment, Chen Yu's cell phone rang.

When she took it out and saw that it was Lan Xi calling, she ran to the hallway to answer it, "Hello?"

In order to prevent Chen Kefeng from going crazy again, Chen Yu leaned against the hallway and lowered her voice to a very low level.

"Xiao Yu?" After leaving SCI, Lan Xi arrived at the entrance of the hospital with everyone else. His car was parked downstairs and he didn't come up, after all, he still wanted to avoid suspicion, but he wanted to see Chen Yu again, "I'm downstairs at the hospital, I followed Captain Bai and the others. When are you done, should we go eat together?"

"What should we eat?" Chen Yu chatted with him over the phone.

"Whatever you ah, what you want to eat..."

While she was dawdling outside, inside the room, Chen Kefeng looked out and frowned, “Le Le, who is Xiao Yu talking to on the phone?"

"Oh... her brother, I guess." Qi Le casually replied. In fact, there was no need to guess to know that it was Lan Xi.

Chen Yu chatted with him, then heard the sound of footsteps coming from the far side of the corridor. She had just received a text message and knew that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were coming, so she looked down the hallway, and at a glance, she was scared out of her wits.

In the room, Qi Le and Chen Kefeng suddenly heard Chen Yu scream.

The two were startled. Chen Yu had already dashed through the door, slammed it shut, locked it and then pressed against it, “Le Le, call Captain Bai and the others!"

Qi Le hurriedly took out her phone, and at the same time heard the 'bang bang bang' sound of the door being slammed sounded. The other side was so strong that the whole door was shaking.

Qi Le hurriedly came up to help hold the door in place and threw the phone to Chen Kefeng, "Call!"

Chen Kefeng was also a bit panicked, and his hands were fumbling.

Chen Yu was so frightened that her face went white. Against the door, her phone was still in her hand. On the other end, Lan Xi was also frightened when he heard the commotion and hurriedly shouted, "Xiao Yu, what's wrong?

Chen Kefeng covered his chest and tried to get up to help.

A loud ‘bang' was heard and the door was broken open.

Chen Yu and Qi Le stumbled and fell into the room.

Tilting their faces up, they saw a tall man wearing a black hoodie and jeans barge in. His clothes were secondary, the key was that he was wearing a very bizarre mask on his face... not a mask to be exact, but he had a face painted on. The face was not the usual Beijing opera face, but a kind of ghost face that had never been seen before. The colours were bright and unique, and at first glance it was similar to actually seeing a live ghost.

As soon as he entered the room, he rushed towards Chen Kefeng, drew out his dagger, raised it and stabbed towards his heart, not caring at all about Chen Yu and Qi Le.

Although Chen Kefeng was seriously injured, his survival instinct made him grab the man's wrist, and his arm was immediately cut. He was injured and not strong enough, and he was about to be stabbed by the knife. On the side, Chen Yu and Qi Le grabbed a stool and hit the man furiously while shouting, "Help!"

The masked man panicked and pushed Chen Yu and Qi Le away with one hand, and tried to kill Chen Kefeng again...

In the nick of time, a man in white rushed in.

The three people in the room could breathe a sigh of relief - it was Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang entered the room, he didn't say a word as he grabbed the man by the neck, drove his knee into the crook of the man's knee and brought him to his knees. With his other hand, he grabbed the wrist of the hand holding the knife, which was instinctively raised, and pulled it upwards with a skillful grip.

There was a ‘click'.

"Ah!" The man shouted, his arm was dislocated...

Chen Yu frowned at the voice and looked at Qi Le. Chen Kefeng also froze, staring at the man in black who was subdued by Bai Yutang.

After seeing Bai Yutang nod, Zhan Zhao hurried inside the room and went to help Chen Yu and Qi Le.

Bai Yutang handcuffed the man.

Qi Le walked up to the man and took out a napkin to wipe his face to see who he was.

Zhan Zhao hurriedly stopped her.

"Wait Le Le, let me take a picture first." With that, he took out his phone and took a picture of the mask of the ghost-faced man, thinking that the face was so peculiar!

Qi Le wiped his face with a napkin, and the man's original face was revealed.

The crowd took a look and was astonished. After half a day, Chen Yu shouted out, "Kevin?"

Chen Kefeng also recognised the man, surprisingly it was the brother she had worked with for so long, "Are you out of your fucking mind?!"

Kevin was handcuffed by Bai Yutang and his dislocated arm was put back in place. It should have been an excruciating pain, but he stared at Chen Kefeng with a deadly stare. His eyes were bleeding and he struggled desperately, and his wrists immediately started bleeding.

Bai Yutang frowned, he felt that this man's strength was greater than average, but it was not right, he had seen it before... that Kevin was just a big rookie, not only did he have no strength but also little guts. Could it be that he was faking?

Chen Yu and Qi Le also saw that something was wrong. Chen Kefeng looked at the knife on the ground and the blood on his own body, but Kevin was completely unaffected. He couldn't help but ask, “You... don't you have hemophobia and a hospital phobia?"

At this moment, there were extremely fast footsteps coming from the door again. It was Lan Xi and Zhao Hu who came.

Lan Xi was scared when he heard the commotion on Chen Yu's end. When he entered through the door, he ran into Zhao Hu who had come out to buy water to drink, and once he told him the situation, Zhao Hu was also scared out of his mind.

"Hmm." After staring at Kevin for a long time, Zhan Zhao stretched out a finger and wiped a small piece of colour off his face, then brought it up to his nose and sniffed it. Then, he said to the frightened nurses at the door, "Go to the emergency room and call a forensic doctor named Gongsun for me, and... do you have any traditional Chinese medicine doctors here? Can you invite one for me too?"

The nurses looked at each other and went to do as they were told.

Bai Yutang let Zhao Hu grab the still struggling Kevin, and came over to ask Zhan Zhao, "Cat, what's wrong with him?"

"The person who harmed him may be the same person who killed Yu Xiaofeng." Zhan Zhao rubbed the paint on his hands, "The paint on his face smells like herbs. I have heard before that certain primitive tribesmen would mix herbs into the paint and apply it to their skin to make them more brave in battle. In fact, it is because the herbs applied to their bodies have anaesthetic ingredients that can reduce the pain. And some of the pigments that were rubbed on their faces were laced with psychedelic-type drugs that mostly made people manic and ferocious."

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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 8, 2022 by Angel

Edited: October 20, 2022 by Angel