S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 131

Mad Doctor Murderer 26 – Trap

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Qiu Yiwen gave the crowd an odd clue, and the identity of the mysterious stalker, confirmed by Ma Xin, turned out to be a doctor who originally worked at the school... Linked to that director's previous encounter, was it really related to the case?

"What is this person's name?” Zhan Zhao asked Ma Xin.

"I just know his surname is Chen." Ma Xin shrugged, "I stopped living at the school after I defected to Gongsun, I rarely went to his place and he was expelled a long time ago for harassing girls." Ma Xin said, quite smugly, "But even if I went he wouldn't dare harass me, Brother would kill him!"

The crowd all nodded patiently, their expressions saying - yes, yes, having a big brother is great! Not to mention that that big brother is Xiao Ma Ge.

"Chen?"

At this point, Qiu Yiwen looked at Ma Xin in confusion, "Isn't his surname Cen?"

Everyone was stunned as Zhan Zhao walked over and asked, "You said his surname is Cen? Shan Jin Cen?"

“En, I looked at his medical records when he had his teeth filled and he used his medical insurance card. He also introduced himself several times and said his name was Cen Wen."

"The surname Cen isn't very common." Bai Yutang and the rest of the crowd thought of Cen Yi - the dead body's DNA was found to be similar to Cen Yi's but didn't match, and Gongsun projected it to be a brother. This man's surname was also Cen, so could there be a connection?

"Right." Gongsun asked Qiu Yiwen, "Do you have anything on this Cen Wen? Something that would allow for DNA extraction?"

Qiu Yiwen shook her head, "I did have his teeth at one point, but they were so disgusting, I threw them away."

"We might be able to find it at his house." Jiang Ping quickly pulled up an address, “That dean made a record of it before, and the family status column does say married, with the husband's name being Cen Wen."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other and smiled - there was a clue.

"Luo Tian, you and Qin Ou go together."

"I'll go too." Ma Xin volunteered to follow, quickly shoving the report in her hand to Gongsun before fleeing as if she were running away. Luo Tian and Qin Ou were both a little surprised and followed.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao both looked at Gongsun in confusion. Gongsun seemed to be able to understand Ma Xin's unease and pulled the two of them to a farther place, opening the report for them to read.

"Back then, when identifying the plane crash victims, the DNA comparison between the families of the deceased and the remains of the victims was used to confirm that the one who died was indeed Hao Ling, but look at Qiu Yiwen's identification report."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at the two reports for half a day - they were identical!

"Is Qiu Yiwen really Hao Ling?" Although Bai Yutang had guessed a while ago, he still couldn't accept the truth when it was right in front of him, "What a weird feeling."

“Exactly." Zhan Zhao handed the report back to Gongsun, "Can her face be restored?"

Gongsun nodded, "It should be possible, look at the previous photos."

Zhan Zhao compared the two pictures, "There's no resemblance at all."

"That's where the plastic surgeon was clever." Gongsun smiled, "Hao Ling was originally very pretty with a very small face, and while Qiu Yi Wen was not bad, compared to the original, her face was on the round side, her nose was on the high side, her lips were on the thick side, her jawbone was more pronounced, her brow bone was slightly padded in places, and her face and ears were all slightly larger."

"Hmmm... the way you put it, she was adding things to her face but not subtracting anything?"

"Indeed! Usual cosmetic surgery uses bone chipping and liposuction and such to make people's faces smaller, but this one is getting bigger and bigger." Gongsun smiled, "I can see that the surgeon who gave her a facelift took into account that she might take all that out later and restore her original appearance."

"Then wouldn't the skin loosen up? Zhan Zhao's mind really went in a bizarre direction.

Gongsun was amused by him, "A facelift."

The corners of Zhan Zhao's mouth twitched.

"Actually, Qiu Yiwen looks good..." Gongsun was quite emotional, thinking of Lan Qi's death and her heartbreaking phone call to Zhao Qin.

All of them sighed, "That's true, some things are better to live without remembering."

Bai Yutang asked Jiang Ping to investigate Qiu Yiwen's recent whereabouts and found that she had been very busy lately, spending most of her time at medical appointments or attending meetings, and there was nothing unusual about her.

Zhan Zhao subconsciously turned around and saw Qiu Yiwen sitting in the lounge looking around somewhat bored. Who had given her plastic surgery? Gave her a new life and made her forget her unpleasant past...

"Cat." Bai Yutang asked, "Is it possible that she's faking it?"

Zhan Zhao shrugged slightly, "If she can manage to control this hypnotised state freely, unless she has the capabilities like Zhao Jue, or..."

"Or what?"

Zhan Zhao looked back at Qiu Yiwen and muttered to himself, "That guy, he can't be so shady... it should not be related to him.

"But from the technique, it looks like the technique of someone with a very strange taste and a very bad character." Bai Yutang pointed out from the side, "And doing the math, Hao Ling's accident was three years ago, and at that time, Zhao Jue hadn't been released from the special ward, though it was later proven that this special ward didn't work on him at all."

"Well, he was practically in and out in a free state." Zhan Zhao sneered as he held his phone and thought about it, as if he was considering whether or not to call and ask about it.

At that moment, the phone rang.

Zhan Zhao wanted to smash the phone, thinking that he would not have been guessed again, but then he realised that it was not his phone that was ringing and turned his face to look at Bai Yutang.

"Luo Tian?" Bai Yutang frowned when he saw that it was Luo Tian who was calling - just arrived and already calling?

"What? I'll be right there."

Hanging up the phone, Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, "Luo Tian and the others just arrived and found the dean dead at home."

"Huh?" Zhan Zhao was surprised, "Aren't there police protecting her?"

"It looks like she just died." Bai Yutang shrugged and gestured towards his heart, "It's said that those crossbow arrows have reappeared."

"How long has she been dead?"

"Ma Xin said less than an hour." Bai Yutang sighed.

Zhan Zhao frowned, "Then it wasn't Chen Keqing who did it, was it the one who tried to assassinate Chen Kefeng?"

"Well, Lan Xi also said that the crossbow was different." Bai Yutang put away the phone, "Let's go, let's go to the scene."

"You're going now?" Zhan Zhao pulled him back, "Don't forget, you have to catch the murderer with Ma Han tomorrow!"

Bai Yutang had indeed forgotten about this too, and grinned as he thought about it with some mental burden.

Zhan Zhao saw Bai Yutang's rare nervousness and found it amusing, but unexpectedly Bai Yutang pulled him back, "Cat, you're going tomorrow too."

Zhan Zhao's eyes widened, "You are not afraid that I will hit innocent people or hit a UFO, but I care. "

"Tch." Bai Yutang gave him a powerless look, "Who asked you to touch a gun, I want you to help me judge."

Zhan Zhao resisted even more, "I won't, what if I guess wrong?"

Bai Yutang patted his shoulder, "I trust you, you can do it!" After saying that, he irresponsibly pulled Zhan Zhao, who was instantly mentally burdened, into the elevator.

Soon, the two of them drove to the neighbourhood where Luo Tian was situated, and when they went upstairs, they saw two small police officers standing at the entrance with their heads hanging.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other and went over to ask them both what was wrong.

"We passed out." Both of them were frustrated, "Suddenly we felt a pain in our necks."

Bai Yutang examined their necks and found a small red dot on the upper part.

"Is it a needle hole?" Zhan Zhao also looked, "An anaesthetic needle?"

"It should be noticeable if it's an anaesthetic needle." Bai Yutang pointed to his mouth, "It should be a blow dart or something."

"So primitive." Zhan Zhao nodded, "Similar in style to that mermaid mask of Kevin's."

When the two of them walked into the room, they saw that blood had trickled into the living room, and that the corpse should be in the bedroom.

Qin Ou was going through some old photo albums, Luo Tian was reading a thick notebook, and Ma Xin was probably in the room examining the corpse.

The two men walked to the bedroom door first and looked in, frowning, having just wondered how an arrow through the heart could have so much blood. Now that they saw it, it turned out that the throat had also been slit.

The sight of having one's throat slit always screamed discomfort, the speed and force of the blood instantly spurting out was similar to a cruel torture like a countdown to death.

Bai Yutang was puzzled, "Why do you need to cut the throat after piercing an arrow through the heart?"

"To be precise, it wasn't actually in that order." Ma Xin took off her gloves, "She was killed by someone slitting her throat first, and then she was pierced through the heart with an arrow."

Zhan Zhao bent his head sideways to look, "The arrow has a slight bend in it."

"It was an arrow that was stabbed after the person was dead." Bai Yutang was puzzled, "What's the point of being redundant, or does this feathered arrow have some kind of foreshadowing significance?"

Soon, colleagues from the forensic department arrived and began collecting evidence from the scene. As Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked outside, Luo Tian gave the notes in his hand to Zhan Zhao, "Dr. Zhan, the notes of a 100% resentful wife, I can't even read them anymore."

Zhan Zhao raised an eyebrow and revealed a happy look, this was what he loved the most.

While he was holding the notes and reading them, Bai Yutang continued to look around the house. He was not Zhan Zhao and would not be able to infer the character of a person through details, but he would infer certain characteristics of the house owner from the details.

He reached down and took a model hunting rifle off the wall, weighed it for a moment and put it back, then opened a drawer and rummaged through it, finding some atlases.

“Cen Wen seems to like hunting." Bai Yutang rummaged through quite a few more books on shooting, and finally... touched a slight bulge at the far end of the drawer.

Bai Yutang smiled, it seemed to be what he was looking for. Reaching out, he took the entire drawer out, lifted the bottom of the drawer, and sure enough - found a row of bullets lined up at the bottom of the drawer.

Qin Ou was looking at the photo album and caught a glimpse of the bullets, and looked at the shotgun on the wall in surprise, "Is that gun real?"

"Hmm..." Bai Yutang took out a bullet and handed it to Qin Ou, "Does it look familiar?"

Qin Ou took it and looked at it carefully, "A blasting bullet?"

"There's also these." Bai Yutang found two more.

“Subunition!" Qin Ou was bewildered and surprised to see Bai Yutang handing him another bullet, "Isn't this a homemade scatter bullet..."

"A master at making bullets." Bai Yutang smiled faintly, "This kid's background must not be simple."

"Are there any poached eggs?"

At this time, Zhan Zhao walked up behind the two with the notes in his hand.

Seeing him with a smile at the corners of his mouth, Bai Yutang knew he must have found something, "Any clues?"

"Let me show you a group photo." Zhan Zhao handed Bai Yutang an old photo. It was a group photo taken when the crowd was playing paintball. There were two men and two women in the photo.

Bai Yutang took a look at it and although they were a little younger than now, he could still recognise them, "The two men are Cen Wen and Cen Yi respectively, while the two women are Xue Qin and Chen Keqing."

Bai Yutang took the photo and stared at it with a frown, "They knew each other before and had a friendship?"

"Guess, who was the person who took their picture?"

"I don't know who." Bai Yutang handed the photo back to Zhan Zhao, "But I do know what kind of gun Xue Qin is holding."

Zhan Zhao faintly stared, looking at the gun. It was big and handsome, while the one in Cen Wen's hand was the shotgun that was hanging on the wall at the moment… a real gun?

"They're not playing paintball or some jungle safari." Luo Tian pointed to the wooded background behind the group, "This is a real wild forest in the middle of nowhere."

"They're probably hunting." Qin Ou pointed at the large hunting rifle Xue Qin was holding, "This is a sniper rifle, with a range of 800-1,500 metres, it's powerful and can also fire armour-piercing bullets." Saying that, he took out one of the bullets Bai Yutang had just given him, "Look, this is a submunition, the same as the one that pierced the bulletproof glass the other day!"

Zhan Zhao was surprised, "One of the snipers was Xue Qin?"

“Cat," Bai Yutang whispered, “the weapon Cen Yi used was a crossbow, Chen Keqing also used a crossbow, only Cen Yi's was a bit bigger, like a handmade one, and Chen Keqing used the one she used last night."

Zhan Zhao rubbed his chin and stared at the photo for a long time, then suddenly changed the question, "Does the background behind them look familiar?"

Bai Yutang took another closer look and realised, "It's similar to the photo of the plant that Chen Yin used to analyse the location of X Island!"

"Are they hunting on X Island?" Ma Xin came over to watch the fun, "Looking at the outfit, why does it look like they went to a military event to me?"

"The photo was in the notes?" Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao.

“En, it was hidden inside the compartment." Zhan Zhao showed Bai Yutang the last page of the notebook, where there was a gaping hole which was clearly where Zhan Zhao had just ripped it open to take out the photo. This was a very stealthy way to hide a photo, and if Zhan Zhao hadn't been careful, it wouldn't have been discovered.

"Could the person who took the photo be Cen Wen's wife?" Qin Ou deduced, "It was the dean who then hid the photo?"

"It should be, her words always sounded like she was holding something over Cen Wen." Zhan Zhao said, gently poking Bai Yutang's shoulder, "Tomorrow's sniping, there's no need for two people to go."

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, "Why..."

"Because there will only be one sniper." Zhan Zhao smiled, "But if either you or Ma Han kill that sniper, Zhao Qin will be dead too."

Bai Yutang thought for a long time with a serious expression, "You mean, Chen Keqing was caught on purpose? She and her accomplices set up a trap, with them kidnapping Zhao Qin and luring us to the hospital. When that avenger knew that Chen Keqing had been captured, he thought that if he doesn't do it, he may not have the chance to kill her, so will definitely appear!! Once the information of Chen Keqing's appearance at the hospital is revealed, there is a good chance that the other side will ambush. Perfect for killing someone with a knife."

"As expected of Captain Bai, a quick reaction." Zhan Zhao nodded in satisfaction

Luo Tian and Qin Ou seemed to have figured it out as well, sighing at the same time, "The sudden death of the dean is tantamount to a wake-up call. Is it a coincidence, or did someone help?"

"Maybe it's just a matter of a hundred secrets, or karma." Zhan Zhao smiled, "The avenger may not be smarter than the group, but is more persistent than them, and their hatred is deeper than they think, plus God's will is so..." (Angel: One hundred secrets is an idiom which refers to accidental negligence in extremely careful consideration.)

"You mean Qiu Yiwen's sudden visit?"

"If no one bothered her, she wouldn't have come. There’s still some truth to the cycle of karma." Zhan Zhao gently fanned himself with the photo as if he was considering something. Finally, he padded over and asked Bai Yutang, "Want to put some more pressure on Xiao Ma Ge?"

Bai Yutang smiled, "As long as I'm not the one shooting, it's fine to put as much pressure as you like."

Luo Tian and Qin Ou both felt some sympathy for Ma Han.

"We'll act accordingly tomorrow." Zhan Zhao said mysteriously, "If Xiao Ma Ge can hit accurately, he can also miss, do you think that it is possible to hit the barrel of another gun that is firing like a pool ball, so that the bullet flies off in another direction to hit other targets?"

When Zhan Zhao finished speaking, everyone looked at him dumbfounded.

Ma Xin saw an opening to sneak out the door and call Ma Han, "Brother, run, Dr. Zhan is trying to get you killed!"

Ma Han hung up the phone inexplicably, staring at it in disbelief.

"Xiao Ma Ge, what's wrong?" Zhao Hu asked curiously.

Ma Han was silent for a long time and reached out to tug Zhao Hu's collar, "You're coming with me tomorrow."

"Why?"

"I don't know, there's just something unsettling about it." Ma Han looked at him, "I need your shit luck!"

"Wow, Xiao Ma Ge, you need me, huh?" Zhao Hu snorted.

Ma Han shook his head speechlessly and walked away. Zhao Hu was caught by Qi Le who came running to ask for the results and grabbed him by the ear, "You're addicted to corruption!"

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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: November 4, 2022 by Angel

Edited: November 21, 2022 by Angel