S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 127

Mad Doctor Murderer 22 – Test

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The presence of both the ‘Devil's Water' and the 'Mermaid Totem' gave the SCI team a new clue to the case, but the new problem was how to connect the dots.

Only knowing the terrain but not the scale and coordinates of latitude and longitude would make it difficult to find the place. In addition, the map was so large, but there was no island that large and named Devil's Waters that the crowd could remember.

Comparing it with satellite photos was like looking for a needle in a haystack, and the worst part was that those islands kept changing the shape of the exposed land with the changing tides.

Jiang Ping searched for translations of 'Devil's Waters' in various languages and found mostly disturbing information.

For example, when mentioning the Devil's Waters, almost all of the results that popped up pointed to the Bermuda Triangle, and there were also inland seas and lakes that showed the legend of water monsters. But none of them had the right shape to match that picture.

Bai Yutang told Jiang Ping to ask for help from the marine police and some relevant experts.

In addition, since Bobby was in the country and was a prime suspect, Bao Zheng issued a wanted notice for his arrest.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's attention then turned to the big man in the interrogation room.

The big man had been sitting in the interrogation room for half a day, and he hadn't moved a muscle during that time. Just now, his appearance was similar to a machine.

Zhan Zhao leaned against the door of the interrogation room with his arms crossed, looking at him through the one-way mirror.

Bai Yutang walked over, "Cat."

Zhan Zhao turned his face and saw that his hair was a bit messy and wet, probably because he had just washed his face, so he took a tissue to help him wipe his face.

Bai Yutang reached out to take the tissue and asked him in a low voice, "Are you hungry?"

"Not really." Zhan Zhao said, reaching out and gently knocking on the glass.

But the big man inside still didn't respond.

"So strange, this person." Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang, "Can an average well-trained and highly focused soldier do this?"

Bai Yutang shook his head, "Concentration is one thing, it's more like he's slow."

“Hmm..." Zhan Zhao put one hand on Bai Yutang's shoulder, "Guess how old he is?"

Bai Yutang smiled and brought Zhan Zhao's hand that was placed on his shoulder down, then reached back over and rested his hand on his shoulder, reminding him, "Cat, I fought with him that day. According to his strength, he should be at most a youth in his prime, but look at the reaction... I think he should be over fifty years old."

Zhan Zhao nodded and seemed to agree with Bai Yutang, “Ai, Yutang."

"Hmm?" Bai Yutang heard Zhan Zhao say ‘Yutang’ and his heart rate rose slightly, full of smiles.

"Do you think there is a way to make him talk other than hypnosis?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Bai Yutang was stunned for a moment then shook his head, "I can't beat him to force a confession, and looking at him, I don't think it would be effective."

"Hmph." Zhan Zhao laughed, "Guess, why is he following Bobby?"

Bai Yutang wanted to laugh a little, “Cat, this is unlike your style, shouldn't you just hypnotise him? Or is it difficult?"

Zhan Zhao crossed his arms, "I suspect that his head was modified, he doesn't have some senses, and some of his nervous system is damaged."

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Zhan Zhao, "If his nervous system is damaged, you can't hypnotise him?"

Zhan Zhao squinted at him, "Have you ever seen me hypnotise Luban?"

Bai Yutang was a bit speechless, "What are you hypnotising that fat cat for?"

Zhan Zhao raised the corners of his mouth, "When I succeed and hypnotize Luban to teach it to stand upside down, I'll be world famous!" Zhan Zhao winked at him smugly.

Bai Yutang shook his head.

At home, Luban, who was lying on the sofa with Lilia surrounded by a circle of kittens, suddenly shivered and tilted his face up to look around. He saw Lisbon lying on the edge of the sofa, licking the fur of the sleeping lion cub, and there was no one around... Lilia raised her paw to paw at him – go to sleep!

"So how do we get him to talk without hypnosis?" Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao with interest.

"Well..." Zhan Zhao suddenly smiled, “Like I said, why should he listen to Bobby? He's just an ordinary old man."

"Cat, you're making me guess a lot today." Bai Yutang was quite helpless, "Well, if Bobby is a medical genius, could he be the one who has saved this weirdo's life with all those scars on his body?"

Zhan Zhao listened and nodded, "Anything else?"

Bai Yutang frowned and thought, "Or else, he is a robot, that old man made him, and we can make him listen to us by giving him a new battery or changing a computer chip?"

Bai Yutang was joking, but when he finished, Zhan Zhao was staring at him.

Bai Yutang was a little puzzled by his look, "Cat?"

“Hmm...." Zhan Zhao took out his mobile phone and dialled Yang Fan's number, “Yang Fan, is there a portable X-ray machine?"

"Huh?” Yang Fan was dumbfounded.

Not long after, Gongsun hurriedly came over with a portable metal detector.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at him a little dumbfounded, "Gongsun, what are you doing?"

"Don't you guys want to see if there's anything in his body... use this to test it first, and take him to get an X-ray if there is." After saying that, he took the instrument and went inside the interrogation room.

In the room, the big man was still sitting there as steady as a mountain. Gongsun took the tennis racket-like instrument from behind him and moved it from top to bottom... The machine chirped.

Gongsun stood behind him dumbfounded.

The big man was originally unresponsive, but at the moment the machine turned on, he seemed a little annoyed and looked back twice, as if to avoid the machine.

"Oh..." Gongsun came out with the machine and closed the door to the room, only to see the big man regain his composure.

"What's going on?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were puzzled.

"This metal detector may have disturbed his internal parts." Gongsun pushed his glasses up and said slowly.

"Internal... parts?" Bai Yutang looked at Gongsun with admiration, "You mean to saying that he's mechanically put together internally?"

“It can be said that there is a lot of metal!" Gongsun shrugged, "Unless all the bones in his entire body were shattered and then put back together one by one with steel nails, it would be hard to have that effect."

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang, "Let's do an X-ray!"

Bai Yutang frowned, "Is there a portable one?"

"Of course not." Gongsun put the machine away, "It has to be tested with large equipment, and he has to cooperate."

"He doesn't even move..." Bai Yutang was troubled, "It will be difficult to transport him."

"There's always a way." Gongsun looked like he was standing up and talking without back pain, "Even hippos and whales can be transported, there's no reason why he can't be transported."

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, who tsked twice, “Aiya, it would be nice if the police station had an X-ray room."

Bai Yutang looked back in bewilderment and saw Bai Jintang standing near the interrogation room. He looked like he had originally come to get Gongsun, but he had obviously heard Zhan Zhao's words and raised his eyebrows slightly.

Bai Yutang held his forehead, his older brother would not build an X-ray room, it would be better to just build a hospital or something.

Jiang Ping called the major hospitals to ask about it, and after making arrangements for as soon as possible, the big man was put into heavy shackles and all of them escorted him to have a thorough X-ray.

Holding the X-ray film, Gongsun and Yang Fan tilted their faces in awe as they looked at it, tsking, "This X-ray should be similar to Wolverine's, all mechanised! No wonder he's so powerful."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also tilted their faces to look at it and found that the big man really had almost more than half of his bones fixed with machinery. It seemed that apart from the skin being pieced together, even the bones were also pieced together.

"There's nothing wrong with his head." Yang Fan told Zhan Zhao after carefully looking at his brain CT, "The body is riddled with problems, but the head is perfectly healthy. The interference should be due to the hearing aids."

"Hearing aids?" Zhan Zhao was curious, "Is he deaf?"

"Not really, his left ear was injured so he had a hearing aid fitted, and he also has problems with his left eye." Yang Fan explained to the crowd, "Most of his injuries are also on his left side."

Bai Yutang's brow furrowed, "Injuries that are concentrated on one side..."

"Did the explosion cause this?" Zhan Zhao asked curiously.

Yang Fan nodded, "There is this possibility, with the source of the explosion being on the left side. Generally everyone injured in an explosion suffered on one side, and people are basically divided into four sides, front, back, left and right. Therefore the corpse of a suicide bomber is usually the one with the head intact and the body missing, with no single-sided injuries."

"Such a big guy, the victim of the explosion... would there be some clues?" Bai Yutang asked Jiang Ping to continue looking. Jiang Ping had a mountain of documents piled up at the moment and had to look them up one by one, while Bai Chi helped him search on the sidelines.

Zhao Zhen yawned and waited on the big sofa in the SCI office, glancing at his watch. The SCI crowd had been working continuously for several days without much sleep, and looking at the busy Bai Chi, the more he looked, the more his heart ached.

When Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang returned with the big man, two other people came to SCI, both holding things in their hands.

One was Lan Xi and the other was Chen Yin, and both of them were holding photo albums.

Lan Xi handed something to Zhan Zhao, "Dr. Zhan, my brother's photo album that you wanted."

Zhan Zhao flipped it open and looked at it, and the crowd also came over to look at Lan Qi – He was a bit similar to Lan Xi, just a bit more mature, and gave off a very sunny and masculine feeling, a handsome man.

Zhan Zhao nodded and pulled out a few photos that he thought he could use.

Chen Yin also brought a photo album, "All the photos of tropical islands that could be found, there are big ants in all these places."

Zhan Zhao took it and found that there weren't too many, and flipped through it, "How can you tell which is which?"

Chen Yin smiled, "These islands are in different seas, and with the changes in climate and currents, the ecosystems on these islands are completely different. There is also some special vegetation, as long as you can pick out one of them, you will know which sea the island is in."

"With a specific range, it would be good to compare by outline and coordinates." Bai Yutang felt that this was a good way to narrow down the range.

Zhan Zhao nodded and collected the photos, and Bai Yutang then looked at him, "Cat, what are you going to do?"

"Test his reaction first." After Zhan Zhao finished speaking, from outside the door, Zhao Hu and Ma Han brought in a projector. According to Zhan Zhao's request, it was placed inside the interrogation room, after which, high-definition pictures flashed one by one in front of the big man's eyes.

Zhan Zhao stood behind the one-way mirror. The camera was pointed at the big man's face, magnifying his entire face so that Zhan Zhao could clearly see every subtle change in his expression.

The photos flashed one by one, and Zhan Zhao sandwiched in several other photos of the people involved, including the attacked Chen Yu, the dead Yu Xiaofeng, Cen Yi and Qin Tian... and so on. In an order that Zhan Zhao had arranged himself, one by one, these were played.

At the same time, a subtle change appeared on the big man's otherwise expressionless face, a change that allowed Zhan Zhao to see how the entire case had developed.

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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 13, 2022 by Angel

Edited: October 21, 2022 by Angel