S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 128

Mad Doctor Murderer 23 – Unjustified Attack

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The big man's reaction was extremely interesting and there were very subtle changes in his demeanour when he was shown the photos. Especially when he saw some of the landscape photos.

Zhan Zhao first picked out one of the photos from the set Chen Yin had brought and gave it to Jiang Ping, "He has probably lived in this place for a long time, this is the one he is most familiar with."

Chen Yin roughly calculated the location, and Jiang Ping took it to compare the terrain in detail.

Then came the photos of the people. The big man didn't react much to the people, only Bobby's photo, which he showed familiarity with.

Zhan Zhao looked deeper, and the thick stack of photos played over and over again. Zhan Zhao watched intently as his expressions changed, and some electrode pads captured his mood fluctuations and recorded them in detail.

Bai Yutang knew that Zhan Zhao had recently been doing research in this area, it was a new topic in his psychology research and he was probably collecting data.

Only Gongsun could help Zhan Zhao at the scene. Bai Yutang just stood by and didn't dare to make a sound to disturb him, but Zhan Zhao simply pushed him out, "Go eat something and get some sleep."

After being shooed out of the interrogation room, Bai Yutang went to look for the others and saw them all gathered in the lounge.

Around the corner in the smoking area, Bai Jintang, Ma Han and Zhao Hu were standing chatting, each with a cigarette. Luo Tian was on the phone with Luo Yang, and Qin Ou had a pen cap in his mouth, writing and drawing along with Wang Ba, who was studying something.

Bai Yutang walked over.

Zhao Hu asked curiously, "Head, what is Dr. Zhan studying?"

Bai Yutang shrugged and gestured – we'll see when the time comes, he probably has his reasons.

On the other side, Luo Tian was talking to Luo Yang on the phone, "Why don't you go to bed early for the competition tomorrow? What kind of Olympiad questions, don't be too tired, okay."

Bai Yutang asked Qin Ou, "What competition is Yang Yang participating in now?"

"Oh, their junior tennis tournament." Qin Ou said, "Tomorrow's opponent in the final beat Xiao Yi in the semi-finals and he's been yelling for two days that he wants Yang Yang to avenge him."

Bai Yutang raised an eyebrow, "Wasn't Luo Yang doing judo, how come he's playing in a tennis tournament again?"

Qin Ou shrugged, "Judo exams are over!"

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, he had been too busy lately to know what was going on at home, it was time to celebrate the children.

"Flash?" Luo Tian frowned, still chatting with Luo Yang on the phone, "Is there anyone else at home... then you tell Uncle Zhen, let him take a look, go to bed early ah!"

After hanging up the phone, Luo Tian seemed a little worried.

Bai Yutang asked him, "What's wrong?"

"Oh, Yang Yang just had Zhao Zhen bring him back to the mansion for the night and said that he saw a strange bright light outside the window while he was doing his homework." Luo Tian said, "I told him to tell Zhao Zhen."

Bai Yutang asked, "What kind of bright light?"

“He said it was green and flickering."

"Aren't the twins there?" Bai Jintang asked before remembering, "Oh yeah, I told them to keep an eye on Old Yang."

"Don't worry, Zhen will take care of him." Bai Chi walked out and poured drinks for the crowd.

"What light did Yang Yang see?" Ma Han asked, "A spot of light or a halo?"

"He said green light, a little one, with some flickering that would move horizontally." Luo Tian tensed up, "It's not infrared so it should be okay, right?"

Ma Han frowned at the thought, "Green..."

Luo Tian couldn't help but get worried, "Could it be dangerous?!"

Ma Han frowned "Could it be a night vision scope? The flickering is not surprising, but the horizontal movement is a bit suspicious."

"Isn't the scope a red dot?" Zhao Hu wondered, "Maybe it's a firefly?"

"Yang Yang said it went through the glass, it was quite bright..."

"Penetrating light?" Ma Han was slightly taken aback, "That's not a light, it's a ray, a scope! Maybe it's from a cold weapon."

As soon as they mentioned cold weapons, the crowd instantly thought of the bow that had attacked Chen Kefeng earlier.

Bai Yutang rushed back to the villa area with Luo Tian, Ma Han and Bai Jintang.

"Don't worry." The crowd all reassured Luo Tian, "Zhao Zhen is at home, as well as Lisbon, it will be fine."

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And at this time in the villa, Luo Yang ran downstairs to the living room with his workbook, and saw Zhao Zhen leaning on Lisbon, practising with some balls on his fingers in a bored manner.

Luban was playing with his fur with his paws, and Lilia was sprawled out on the sofa with a litter of kittens being fed.

Zhao Zhen had been waiting for Bai Chi at the police station, but seeing that he couldn't help and that Bai Chi was busy, he sent him back first to look after Luo Yang and feed the family's animals, big and small.

"Uncle Zhen."

Zhao Zhen and Lisbon looked up at Luo Yang together. Lisbon's tail swayed a few times, and the kittens on the couch tilted their faces up to look at him.

"I saw a light flashing.” Luo Yang reached him and sat down with his workbook in his hand, "A green light."

Zhao Zhen reached out and touched his head, "A green light? Did it move?"

"It moved." Luo Yang nodded, "Dad told me to tell you."

Zhao Zhen reached for the remote control and turned on the TV to switch to various angles of surveillance footage.

"Back or front?"

"Back." Luo Yang thought for a moment, "It didn't feel like it was too high."

Zhao Zhen raised an eyebrow and looked at the overall footage first, finding that the individual cameras were functioning normally, then he switched over to look at them one by one, “Nothing is different."

Luo Yang blinked, "Maybe it's a lamp outside, or a firefly..."

Before he could finish his words, he saw Zhao Zhen frown slightly, and the footage stopped at the angle near the western balcony.

"Yang Yang."

"Hmm?" Luo Yang tilted his head.

"Go and put the kittens away." Zhao Zhen stood up.

Luo Yang hurriedly went and brought the large basket over and put all the kittens in it, and Luban and Lilia were put in as well.

Zhao Zhen took the cat basket and put it in the storage room and closed the door, then reached out and took Luo Yang's hand, turned the light off and gave a slight wave to Lisbon.

Lisbon followed them.

When they bought the villa, the twins had constructed two safe-haven spaces, one being the storage room just now and the other was the basement. Both compartments could hide people, the steel plates were thick enough to stop bullets and heat, and inside were gas masks, sustenance equipment, weapons, and food. Zhao Zhen opened the door to the basement and told Luo Yang and Lisbon to go inside and hide.

"What about you?" Luo Yang refused to leave Zhao Zhen alone outside.

"It's okay, just send a text to your dad and say there's a situation." Zhao Zhen gestured for Luo Yang to go down and hide, and not to come out until the door was open.

Covering the door to the basement and laying the carpet down, Zhao Zhen hid behind the sofa, and at the same time, he saw a green fluorescent light penetrating through the glass window and shifting around.

Zhao Zhen was a little confused – was this a targeting ray or something? What kind of messy attack pattern is this?

Speaking of which, it was fortunate that it was Zhao Zhen who was there today, other people might not have been able to see the breach... In the surveillance footage just now, he noticed that the position of the row of shrubs at the back had changed somewhat, as if they had been broken into. As for why the alarm hadn't gone off, he couldn't figure it out.

Luo Yang hid below and was worried about Zhao Zhen, so he took out his phone and texted the general situation to Luo Tian. Looking back at Lisbon beside him, he looked up at the entrance above him, seemingly worried about Zhao Zhen.

Luo Yang saw Luo Tian text back "Be right there." Reaching out and stroking Lisbon's big head, "Don't worry, Daddy and the others are coming soon."

At this moment, a car pulled up in front of the villa. It was Chen Yu and Lan Xi who came. Chen Yu had originally gone out for dinner with Lan Xi, and Ma Xin had asked her to buy a new pair of rackets to deliver to Luo Yang. She and Luo Tian were both very busy lately and both felt a little guilty that they couldn't go and cheer for Luo Yang.

Lan Xi looked at the villa, “Wait, it's all closed, is no one there?"

"Xin Xin said Yang Yang is doing his homework. He has a tennis tournament tomorrow, so maybe he went to bed early."

"What's that green light?" Lan Xi suddenly reached out and pointed to the light coming out of the window and asked, "Some kind of laser bulb or something?"

"Laser?" Chen Yu narrowed her eyes and looked into the villa, "Is there such a thing? It's not like Zhao Zhen is doing some kind of exercise..."

Before Chen Yu could finish her sentence, suddenly, a 'clang' was heard, like the sound of glass breaking.

"What's going on?" Chen Yu was startled.

Lan Xi opened the car door, "I'll go check, you drive to the intersection where there are many people, call Bai Yutang and the others."

“Be careful!" After Chen Yu finished speaking, Lan Xi went to the entrance of the courtyard and entered over the wall.

Zhao Zhen was hiding behind the sofa when he heard a series of 'whooshes' and a steady stream of arrows shot in. The TV was still powered on, and one arrow hit the screen, causing sparks to shoot out.

Zhao Zhen hid behind the sofa and frowned, thinking, "What kind of crossbow is this? What a powerful piercing force!

Chen Yu had just driven to the intersection when Bai Yutang's car arrived, and she hurriedly got out to stop them and tell them the situation.

Bai Yutang and the others drove straight to the villa...

After Lan Xi rolled into the villa, he reached the door and glanced inside.

Zhao Zhen saw him. The two of them had just met at the hospital, and Lan Xi waved at him.

Zhao Zhen pointed behind him – signalling for him to go around through the front.

Lan Xi nodded and went around the back, and by now Bai Yutang and the others had also entered the villa.

Lan Xi crawled over in the direction of the bushes when he saw a dark figure, turning as if about to run out.

"Hey!" Lan Xi shouted. The man sprang to his feet and ran, and he hurried after him, while Bai Yutang and the others heard the commotion and chased after him.

The dark figure wasn't running particularly fast, and just as he reached the wall, he was pounced on from behind and held down by Lan Xi.

Zhao Zhen also ran out.

After Lan Xi pinned the man to the ground, outside the villa Bai Yutang and the others also rushed in.

It was only after Lan Xi had pinned the man to the ground that he realised something seemed wrong, and with a glance he saw that long black hair had fallen out of the hat, "A woman?"

Bai Yutang frowned and immediately thought of the mysterious woman who had shot Chen Kefeng with a bow and arrow, then went over and removed her black hat.

After taking off the hat, the crowd took a look and froze.

"Chen Keqing?!" Bai Yutang was surprised. Could it be that she was the one who shot Chen Kefeng? No, she didn't look like a murderer from all her reactions before. So why did she sneak into their residence?

After being handcuffed, Chen Keqing didn't say a word and glared at Lan Xi with a strange look on her face as she was escorted to the car by Ma Han and the others and sent back to SCI.

They then released Luo Yang, Lisbon, and a bunch of kittens.

Bai Yutang picked up the crossbow.

"It's not the kind of bow and arrow I make." Lan Xi took the crossbow and examined it, "It's not manually loaded and unloaded, it's about as powerful as a gun and used in the same way, no wonder a woman is able to shoot a crossbow with that much power."

Bai Jintang stood in the backyard looking around at the cameras and the tight security facilities, "How could she have gotten in?"

"The equipment is still on." Zhao Zhen said, "But the alarm system didn't go off, which is strange."

"A professional electromagnetic jamming system would work, as well as this crossbow." Bai Jintang, who had been silent on the sidelines, pointed at the black metal crossbow, "The realm of black market arms."

"Chen Keqing is just a doctor, right?" Bai Yutang frowned, feeling a little puzzled – why did Chen Keqing suddenly do such a thing? Was there a reason for it? Or was she being used? What had been a simple case seemed to be starting to get more and more far-reaching.

According to Lan Xi and Zhao Zhen's descriptions, Chen Keqing seemed ready to flee after shooting indiscriminately.

When they returned to the police station, Zhan Zhao had already come out of the interrogation room and was sorting through a large pile of information. When he looked up and saw Chen Keqing, a smile appeared on his face and he asked her, "Stealing a chicken without losing the rice, right?"

A trace of surprise flashed across Chen Keqing's face, and then she sneered, "I don't know what you're talking about, I'm not in a good state of mind lately."

"Heh." Zhao Hu laughed, "If you're not in good shape, you go and shoot arrows, what do you want to do when you're in good shape?"

Bai Yutang had her taken into another interrogation room first and asked Zhan Zhao, "Cat, she did something inexplicable."

"She did it for a reason, it's all because of her that our case is so muddled!" Zhan Zhao said, showing Bai Yutang a piece of paper with a chart drawn on it, "We need to arrest some more people and we'll basically be able to get to the bottom of the case!"

Bai Yutang looked down and carefully read it in the order marked by Zhan Zhao and nodded, "So that's how it is."

"Head, there's news!" At this time, Jiang Ping hurriedly ran over to Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao with a picture that had been printed out, "I've found a nameless island according to the roughly deduced geographical location, look at this shape map."

All of them took a look at it and were a bit bewildered – so this is what X meant!

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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 24, 2022 by Angel

Edited: November 4, 2022 by Angel