S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 133

Mad Doctor Murderer 28 – Counter Sniping

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At around 11:30 pm, on the helipad of the tallest building in the area where a hospital in S city was located, a simple tent was set up, inside which was Jiang Ping's computer array… N computers, N displays to capture the entire panoramic view of S City, and a command table with a large traffic command map laid out, which could be used to contact patrol cars in various places. The temporary headquarters for this arrest operation was here. Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao were already prepared, and Bao Zheng was also here, personally supervising the operation.

Everyone was in position, waiting for the crucial shot from Ma Han when the time came.

At the police station, Luo Tian called and said that they had arranged for a car to take Chen Keqing to the hospital. Chen Keqing squirmed for a while before she gave in, but in the eyes of the crowd, she was just trying to make a show of it.

Zhan Zhao took out his walkie-talkie, "Zhao Hu, where are you now?"

"Behind the fence on the top floor of the hospital." Zhao Hu lowered his voice and spoke.

"Where's Ma Han?"

“In a daze with a lighter."

“How's his condition?" Bai Yutang asked as he came over.

"Well..." Zhao Hu glanced back and found Ma Han's eyes staring straight ahead at the tall building, his face completely expressionless.

"I don't know how to describe it." Zhao Hu scratched his head.

"Head." At that moment, Jiang Ping called out, "The satellite surveillance in this area arrived, and the various rooftops are empty right now."

"He's an old hand." Bai Yutang shook his head, “He won't go up to the roof, a room is the best place."

"A room?" Zhan Zhao thought for a moment, “It’s not that easy for people to enter an ordinary house. Free to enter and exit... a hotel?"

"If it's a private house, it's possible to enter by force." Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, "If killing Chen Keqing with his own hands was that important to the killer, I don't think he would hesitate."

"That's right, Ma Han should have considered this. On the three-dimensional diagram I gave him this morning, he densely drew lines all over it." Zhan Zhao nodded and turned around to see Bao Zheng standing there with a frown on his face. Thinking of the phone call from Zhao Jue last night, Zhan Zhao tentatively asked "Bao Sir, last night..."

But before Zhan Zhao could finish his sentence, Bao Zheng gently waved his hand, "Let's talk after finishing the matter at hand."

Zhan Zhao had no choice but to make a face at Bai Yutang, who smiled and shook his head. At this time, Bai Chi, who was in charge of monitoring the hospital from the surveillance room, suddenly turned on the walkie-talkie and reported, "Brother, there is a situation!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other.

Jiang Ping received the image coming from Bai Chi's side.

"I found a woman who isn't a hospital doctor and is wearing a white coat and mixed into the hospital. You guys would never expect who it is."

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were curious, and when the picture appeared in front of everyone's eyes, Zhan Zhao froze when he looked at it. Bai Yutang was even more puzzled, "Isn't this Xue Qin?"

Bao Zheng also frowned, "Xue Qin has escaped?"

Bai Yutang had already taken out his phone to get Ai Hu on the line.

"No, Xue Qin is in the room, we can see her!" Ai Hu sent someone to confirm, and answered Bai Yutang with certainty, "Captain Bai, we've already lost one person, if anything goes wrong with this again, I'll kill myself as an apology."

Bai Yutang put down the phone. After Jiang Ping quickly tapped on the keyboard, he looked up at Bai Yutang, "Head."

"Hm?"

Jiang Ping smiled, "It turns out that Xue Qin is a twin and has a sibling, it says that she died in a car accident a long time ago."

"What?" Bai Yutang frowned, "When did she die?"

"It has been more than ten years since she died, so we never looked into it before." Jiang Ping investigated some leads, "When she died, she was still in middle school, she once won the junior archery championship, and I heard that she originally had hopes of being trained for the Olympics."

"Archery..." Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, who took out the photo, "The person in the photo is not Xue Qin, but Xue Qin's twin sister!"

"What's her name?" Bao Zheng asked Jiang Ping.

"Xue Li."

"Now, everyone is accounted for." Zhan Zhao smiled faintly, "She is the mysterious person who has been helping Cen Yi all along. And it's not like she's never shown her face like Cen Wen, because she and Xue Qin look exactly alike and the two of them can swap their identities at will. That's why we've been unable to find a third suspicious person."

"It's just, how did she get her death certificate?” Bao Zheng looked at the death information on the computer screen.

"Officially, there was another person, right?" Bai Yutang said, "If someone could cover up the truth about the plane crash back then, it shouldn't be difficult to create a death certificate."

Bao Zheng's face turned grim as he furrowed his eyebrows. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly turned around and walked out the door.

"Bao Sir?" Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao were both puzzled.

"You guys continue, I'm going to run some errands." Bao Zheng said, reaching out and pointing at the two men, "Catch those people for me."

The two men nodded.

Bao Zheng quickly walked down the stairs.

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang, "Guess where he's going?"

Bai Yutang smiled lightly, "To catch some people we can't catch, like the black sheep within the higher ranks or something like that."

Zhan Zhao shook his head and reached out to poke him, "Thief rat!"

"Head."

At this point, Jiang Ping looked up at Bai Yutang, "Xue Li seems to be very experienced, she disappeared from the range of the surveillance cameras."

"Other than the main entrance, you can indeed avoid the cameras in other places." Bai Yutang was puzzled, "Just where has she been all these years since she disappeared? Why is she so professional?"

"No amount of professionalism will help." Jiang Ping switched the surveillance screen to show Bai Yutang, "These are the ones Qin Ou installed around Chen Kefeng's ward last night, micro cameras with three hundred and sixty degree panoramic coverage without blind spots."

"The description sounds so awesome.” Zhan Zhao went over to see.

"That kid Qin Ou is worthy of being a bomb disposal expert!" Jiang Ping tsked twice, "He's very good at machinery, and he's a genius when it comes to structuring space and stuff. And of course, we have Chen Mi to thank for providing the equipment."

Bai Yutang crossed his arms and looked at him, "When did you guys do all this? I didn't even know."

Jiang Ping smiled awkwardly, "Brother Bai offered the money..."

Bai Yutang was angry.

"Time's up." Zhan Zhao looked at his watch and raised his head to speak to Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang immediately put away his joking thoughts and spoke to Zhao Hu through the walkie-talkie, “How is it? "

Zhao Hu looked back and saw that Ma Han had already set up his sniper rifles, two in total, one was terrifyingly large and one was more normal.

"Wow, Xiao Ma Ge, is that a gun or a cannon?"

Ma Han looked at him, "One is two thousand metres and one is eight hundred metres, which one are you talking about?"

"How do you travel to extremes... wait, this two thousand metre is the legendary TAC-50?" Zhao Hu said with bright eyes, "It is said that the world record of two thousand five hundred metres was achieved with this gun isn't it?"

Ma Han gave him a speechless look, asking him which one?

Zhao Hu took out a coin, "I also thought about it for a long time yesterday before I came up with this. You want my luck, so don't use my brain. Heads will be two thousand, tails will be eight hundred." After saying that, he tossed the coin into the air, reached out to catch it and brought it before Ma Han's eyes, then opened his hand... tails.

"Eight hundred!" Zhao Hu glanced at the small one.

Ma Han smiled and began to aim with the TAC-50.

Zhao Hu wondered, "Aren't you going to listen to my luck?"

"You've had a lot of bad luck." When Ma Han finished speaking, he paused and waved to Zhao Hu, gesturing for him to come and see.

Zhao Hu went over and looked into his scope, and saw someone with a gun aiming from behind a roof terrace window, some distance away!

Zhao Hu took a closer look and saw that it was Cen Yi, who should have died a long time ago.

"Captain, Cen Yi has appeared!" Zhao Hu simultaneously looked at the hospital entrance not far away, "Luo Tian and his car just entered the underground car park."

Bai Yutang took the walkie-talkie, "Ma Han, where's the other one?"

Ma Han held his gun, "A total of thirteen more suitable sniper spots, I'm still looking."

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were a little nervous. From the other end, news also came from Bai Chi, "Brother, Xue Li has appeared again, she seems to be trying to hide near Chen Kefeng's ward."

"Tell Luo Tian where her location is. Be careful, she should be very alert, don't spook the snake!" Bai Yutang finished his instructions and asked Zhao Hu, "Have you found her yet?"

Zhao Hu was also worried, "Not yet."

Ma Han whispered, "All the sniping positions are empty."

"Hey, what should we do, Luo Tian and the others will be here soon." Zhao Hu scanned with his binoculars, "Did you look carefully?"

As he was talking, he suddenly stopped moving his binoculars and reached out to poke Ma Han, "Ai, come and see, isn't that that old man?"

Ma Han was a bit surprised and went over to Zhao Hu, who moved aside a bit and held the binoculars still, "Look."

Ma Han looked through the binoculars and saw a man standing guard in a very inconspicuous and completely unsuitable position for sniping.

"So that's it." Ma Han looked at Zhao Hu with an admiring face, "You can find such a place, as expected of shit luck."

Zhao Hu scowled.

Ma Han roughly described the location, and Jiang Ping pulled up the surveillance footage and really found it. It was a building that was being painted, with a cleaning crane that could hold two people hanging from the wall. This kind of crane was very stable, with controllable movement, like a large alcove, which was very common, as painting and cleaning tall buildings is a necessity. The key is that you can squat in the alcove and set up your gun to aim, so you can't be easily spotted.

Zhao Hu was sweeping with his binoculars when he saw it, and asked Ma Han, "That angle, can they hit the hospital?"

Ma Han shook his head. What was he doing standing there? It's not the right position.

At this time, news came from Luo Tian's side that he had arrived near the ward and was ready to enter Chen Kefeng's room.

Zhan Zhao looked at the appearance of the old man squatting on the crane in the surveillance, "It's Bobby, right?"

"Although he's wearing a hat, his appearance looks right." Jiang Ping tapped on his keyboard to help him calculate the shooting angle and found that it was nowhere near reliable, "Unless his bullets can curve, it's impossible to hit."

Zhan Zhao rubbed his chin, "Could it be that he is shooting a missile and not a bullet?"

Bai Yutang looked at the sky and picked up his walkie-talkie, "Ma Han, do you know what he wants?"

Zhao Hu was confused, while Ma Han nodded, "Well, I can probably guess."

As soon as the words left his mouth, Luo Tian and the others had already taken Chen Keqing into Chen Kefeng's room, and at the same time, they saw the cleaning crane that Bobby was in start to suddenly and slowly descend.

“Oh, shooting while descending!" Zhan Zhao was impressed, "This old man is smart enough to first wait in a non-sniper spot, wait for the opportune moment to quickly turn on the crane, shoot when he is in the best position to move and then quickly flee. This way, after he fires, we may not be able to find out where he was in the first place, making it easy to escape."

"In this situation, can you really hit the target?" Jiang Ping asked with concern, "Xiao Ma Ge, don't force it."

Bai Yutang commanded the police officers who were crouching nearby, "Both sides have been found. Everyone keep your positions, don't be impulsive. Catch Bobby later, let Cen Yi go, catch Xue Qin, follow Cen Yi to find Zhao Qin's whereabouts, understand?"

"Understood." The SCI crowd stood at attention, waiting for the moment when that final shot would be fired.

"Ma Han," Zhan Zhao took the walkie-talkie, “don't force it."

Ma Han was lying on the ground, and his answer was somewhat irrelevant, "Cen Yi can spot Bobby from his position, as soon as Bobby fires, he will immediately become a live target for Cen Yi."

Zhan Zhao smiled faintly.

Bai Yutang also understood that what Ma Han meant was that if he shot and hit, he could save both Chen Keqing and Bobby's lives. If he didn't, Chen Keqing and Bobby would probably both die. If he missed the shot, another innocent person could die or the snake could be alerted.

Zhao Hu wiped his sweat from his palms - his palms were cold and sweaty, he was more nervous about this than anything else.

At noon, Chen Keqing appeared in Chen Kefeng's hospital room on time, while the crane Bobby was descending to the perfect position for sniping.

The crowd watched as he raised his gun to aim... at the same time that Ma Han had already pulled the trigger.

"Action." Bai Yutang didn't even look to see if he had hit and immediately ordered action.

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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 10, 2022 by Angel

Edited: November 28, 2022 by Angel