S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 3 Chapter 135

Mad Doctor Murderer 30 – Miracle

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Bobby went on to recount what happened back then.

"At that time, I found out that those former friends were being killed one by one and it seemed that some organisation was after them. At first I thought it was just a personal vendetta or a business dispute. But later, after investigation, I found out that the other party's real purpose seemed to be to find the substantial amount of money that they had hidden away."

"When did you find out about this?" Zhan Zhao was somewhat curious.

"Because they died one after another, I secretly looked at their corpses... there were signs that they had been tortured severely." The old man said and sighed lightly, "But their death certificates all stated that they died of natural causes or accidents, and no one reported the case nor did any police officers ever pay attention to it, so I suspect that someone within the police force was also involved."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other – they might also be the ones hiding the truth about the plane crash back then, so perhaps their power was not small. No wonder Bao Zheng had just walked off with a serious look on his face.

"Have you investigated this person's identity?" Bai Yutang couldn't help but ask.

"Investigated." Bobby smiled faintly, "And he's already dead."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang frowned.

At the door, Jiang Ping thought about it and told the crowd, "There was indeed an inside source about a certain retired senior official who died at home this morning, and the police found a lot of incriminating evidence in his villa and have already started the investigation."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao heard Jiang Ping's words outside through their earphones and subconsciously looked at Bobby.

Bobby only smiled faintly, "Killing everything is my style."

"Go on." Bai Yutang didn't say anything more and let him continue to talk about the truth of that year.

"Then something happened, something I didn't expect." Bobby leaned back in his chair, "My medical lab was built on X Island, where Stan and I lived."

"Is Stan the big guy?" Zhan Zhao was curious, "He was once seriously injured?"

"Well, Stan is a homonym for Satan, my nickname for him." Bobby nodded, "He used to be a soldier, a Yugoslavian. I happened to be in that area when his troop was disbanded, looking for experiments.”

"Experiments?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both found it harsh.

"Well, war always leads to a lot of injuries." Bobby's face was expressionless as he said this, "Doctors are meant to go where there are many patients."

"Do you go to places with a lot of patients to save lives or to do your medical experiments?" Zhan Zhao couldn't help but ask.

Bobby answered without even thinking, "Medical experiments, I like being a doctor not for the sake of healing people, I just like the sense of achievement of overcoming death and taking control of life."

The crowd at the door frowned at this – as expected of a mad doctor, the reason was crazy enough.

"Stan was the best experiment I found. I not only healed his wounds, but I worked him to perfection." Bobby spoke of it with great pride, "But my whereabouts were revealed when I was purchasing medical supplies. The gang kept tracking me and three years ago, they arrived at X Island, ready to kill me and steal those treasures."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other, "Three years ago?"

"It is no coincidence... this world might really have a sinful destiny." Bobby's expression dimmed, "I happened to appear on the set of a movie right before multiple difficulties. That's when I met Cen Yi and Qin Tian. Qin Tian was a family friend of some former pirate friend of mine, the informer at the time. Cen Yi, on the other hand, was obsessed with finding treasure. They had learned to shoot and fight, loved hunting and excitement, and were hell-bent on finding that treasure."

"Why would Qin Tian, who was a relative of the victim, work with Cen Yi?"

"Because they couldn't get the money at all."

"Why?" Zhan Zhao was a little confused, "Why didn't you share all the wealth you looted back then equally?"

The crowd outside the interrogation room were also very curious.

"What do you think the pirates are looting these days?" Bobby suddenly asked with a smile, then showed a hint of disdain, "Oil tankers carrying weapons... or kidnapping hostages for ransom, and kidnapping the most common kind of crew?"

Zhan Zhao slightly raised an eyebrow, "What about that year?"

"Gold and silver, all kinds of valuable porcelain, jewels and diamonds, precious works of art, in short, treasures..." Bobby was quite happy to say, "much more valuable than the worthless paper money of today. "

"You planned to save these riches for later?" Bai Yutang nodded, "So none of you ever took those treasures?"

"That's right." Bobby looked grim, "But people are different. For a while, Stan and I hid near Mad Doctor Town. Stan's memory was limited and he drew the outline of X Island on the wall. He really liked X Island... but it exposed our identities and whereabouts. Qin Tian and Cen Yi set their sights on us, and with them came their constant investigation."

"Even Hao Ling's identity was investigated?"

"Not really." Bobby shook his head, looking very bitter, "That's what I call a sinful fate. When I was watching her, I discovered that the group lived surprisingly close to her and crossed paths with her. The two brothers, Cen Wen and Cen Yi, in particular, had a crush on her, and that group of girls... were very unfriendly to her. Hao Ling is not from their world at all and shouldn't have been involved in the first place."

"Could it be that Hao Ling's plane crashed just as they went to attack you, and they were all on X island, thus the massacre that followed was created?" Zhan Zhao frowned, that was quite a coincidence.

"But that's what happened." Bobby sighed, "At that time, those involved in the fight for the wealth on the island, apart from Cen Yi, Xue Qin, Chen Keqing and the others, there was also a force of men with not too much firepower, probably mercenaries. Myself and Stan were not able to resist in any way, luckily Hao Ling's boyfriend was there."

"You mean Lan Qi?"

Bobby nodded, "To keep the secret, those innocent passengers who survived the crash became targets of the attack and everyone died. Only Lan Qi took Hao Ling into hiding, and he was really very good, taking out all the militants by himself alone. But at Hao Ling's request, the students were spared… It's just a pity that they ended up being backstabbed by the students."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other – that day Hao Ling called Zhao Qin in tears, perhaps it was only because she regretted that she had spared Chen Keqing and the others in a moment of weakness, but ended up harming her beloved one.

“Then... what happened to the explosion later?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Hao Ling tried to leave with the dying Lan Qi, but they threw them both on a lifeboat and blew up the small boat with explosives, after which they burned the corpses en masse and used a tugboat to carry the wreckage of the plane and an equal number of bodies to another island, faking the scene of the crash. And as for the families coming to collect the bodies, they got mostly charred corpses or ashes.

"Chen Keqing and the others didn't get very wealthy after that?" Bai Yutang wondered.

"Heh." Bobby sneered, "They didn't take those treasures, they're all still there, hidden in places they'll never find."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang followed the clues provided by Bobby and combed through the case, "So, Hao Ling didn't die at that time?"

"I have three things to do for the rest of my life, two have been completed, now only this third one remains... Just one heart surgery and everything will be done." Bobby said indifferently, "And God has played a little joke on me, I have a terminal illness that can't be cured and I'm not going to live long."

The crowd looked at each other – what an ironic ending.

"If I guessed correctly, the first thing is to save Hao Ling, the second thing is to take revenge... then what is the third thing?" Zhan Zhao asked, "Why do you want to do theoperation?"

"To create a miracle." Bobby smiled, "I've been running around this matter for the past year or two, and secretly looking after Hao Ling... until I found out that Cen Wen was suspicious of her identity."

"The person who first knew was Cen Wen?" Bai Yutang frowned, not really expecting it.

"Hao Ling's memories were only selectively erased, so some of her basic habits are there." Bobby frowned, "Besides, my revenge on the group has never stopped for the past three years."

"What did you do before?"

"Made them miserable and tortured them slowly." Bobby looked calm as he said this, "They had it in their minds, always feeling that someone was secretly targeting them, and being thieves, they all thought that Hao Ling's spirit was haunting them."

"We've done some research on the financial situation and career status of these few people." Bai Yutang opened the information Jiang Ping had helped him compile, "It can be said that since three years ago, it has been going downhill until now, especially Cen Yi, Qin Tian and the others."

"Cen Wen visited Hao Ling's clinic at one point and found some clues... he secretly obtained Hao Ling's DNA, and after comparing it with Hao Ling's from back then, the results made him satisfied." Bobby's face was ugly, "He also used this to blackmail Cen Yi, because although that boy Cen Yi is ruthless, he was once sincere to Hao Ling... so, Cen Wen also became an abandoned son."

"Cen Wen and Yu Xiaofeng were both killed by you?"

"It should be said that both were within my plan." Bobby shook his head, "I just wanted to torture them, but of course, the ultimate goal was to have them die. Including the earliest one, Qin Tian, whom I provoked in the car park and left his reputation in ruins. The person who really killed him was Xue Qin. The previous acts of scaring them were all done by me, but it wasn't me who shot Chen Kefeng or who attacked Yu Xiaofeng... Of course, the ant in Yu Xiaofeng's body was put there by me."

"Those anaesthetics of yours, they helped too, right?" Zhan Zhao looked at the anaesthetic ingredients analysed by the Chinese doctor, "And the mermaid's song."

"Just little props, watching the hated ones suffer is the most wonderful thing in this world." Bobby smiled wickedly, "Collateral damage... I never thought about it. You interrupted my carefully prepared plan for revenge for no reason. That girl with Chen Kefeng, that phone booth explosion and those text messages were just a wake up call for you to not get involved."

"Cen Wen was killed by Cen Yi?" Bai Yutang couldn't understand what the mentality was of someone like Bobby who simply admitted he was the bad guy, so he simply asked the facts of the case.

"Because he harassed Hao Ling and... Cen Yi wanted to clear his name. After killing himself, naturally no one would investigate him again." Bobby twirled a ring on his little finger.

“According to your intentions, if we were not involved in the investigation and Hao Ling's identity has not been revealed... how would you retaliate against them?" Zhan Zhao asked the question in his mind.

Bobby smiled faintly, "For the rest of my life, I will never be able to forget Hao Ling crying on that boat."

"You can't be considered a good person either. After killing so many people, you should have heard many more miserable cries." Bai Yutang was not polite in his words.

The corner of Bobby's mouth gently twitched, "For me, it never felt that way, human emotions don't interest me at all, but at least I won't laugh when these people are crying."

Neither Bai Yutang nor Zhan Zhao said anything as they finished the interrogation and handed over the final closing documents to Zhang Long and Wang Chao to follow up. After a thorough investigation into the plane crash back then, several other people also gave honest accounts of their crimes. Chen Keqing and the others did not hesitate to kill each other in the end to save their own lives, using the SCI crowd to take out Bobby, but unfortunately, they were too clever for their own good.

The case was successfully solved, and the last thing left behind was Bobby's so-called miracle.

That night, the group went to Bai Yutang's house for a small celebration. Bai Yutang personally cooked the meal and when Yang Fan's operation was over, the group would have a small holiday. After the holiday, it would be time to rush off to Zhao Jue's place together. He seems to have made some sort of agreement with Bao Zheng, who has sent the entire SCI staff to support him in his current case solving efforts.

Yang Fan was surprised after reading the operation plan, "The operation is unimaginably difficult!"

"So complicated?" Zhan Zhao sat beside Yang Fan holding a family bucket and nibbling on a corn cob.

Yang Fan looked up at the family bucket he was holding, "Too many calories, you're not afraid of gaining weight?"

Zhan Zhao shrugged his shoulders, "It's better to be fat, only fat cats can keep the rats down!"

Yang Fan couldn't laugh or cry, and looked Zhan Zhao up and down, "Well, you're still on the thin side, mental work can consume a lot of sugar and calories, using your brain a lot and exercising a lot are similar, it’s just that your body coordination..."

Before he finished his words, Zhan Zhao shoved a piece of fried chicken into his mouth.

In the kitchen, Bai Chi wore an apron and brought out the dishes Bai Yutang had cooked.

"That's unusual, rarely do we see Captain cook Chinese food."

"Because Chinese food is too troublesome to clean up from, and he doesn't have the time.” Zhan Zhao moved over to Yang Fan to take a closer look at the illustrations, "What's that machine next to it?"

"It's an extracorporeal circulation system." Yang Fan replied, "Definitely the most advanced equipment."

"Extracorporeal circulation?" Zhan Zhao thought about it literally, "Is it a replacement for internal circulation? It's only needed for very serious injuries, right?"

"He recorded the whole process of the previous treatment and almost brought a corpse to life." Yang Fan sighed with emotion, "It's a pity that such a genius is a psychopathic murderer, otherwise it would really benefit humanity."

"Dinner is ready."

Bai Yutang and the others brought the food to the table, and the crowd settled down to eat.

Gongsun grabbed Luo Yang and sniffed him, frowning, "Why do you smell like peach?"

Luo Yang whispered with a tearful face, "Sister Xin Xin said I've gotten a tan from playing football recently, so she got me a bottle of milk and peach face cream for kids. Before I left the house, she coldly smeared a handful on me."

"Pfft... cough cough." Zhan Zhao choked on a mouthful of soup, coughing and laughing at the same time.

"How are the preparations for the competition going?" Yang Fan asked him with a spoon in his mouth.

"The day after tomorrow at 1pm, the youth division championship competition!” Luo Yang said excitedly, "It's going to be televised!"

"So grand?" Zhan Zhao was surprised.

"Dad's going to cheer you on." Luo Tian gave Luo Yang a dish to eat, and Luo Yang smiled and narrowed his eyes.

"I am doing my operation early tomorrow morning, it will take about ten hours, I will be able to sleep for a while and I will go to the game the day after tomorrow." Yang Fan tasted a bite of the dish, and was shocked... Bai Yutang definitely has the craftsmanship of a five-star chef.

"Such a long operation?" Qin Ou was worried, "You are only one person, can you hold up?"

"I'm not the only one, Dr. Qiu will also participate, and I have invited a few helpers, all with Bobby's permission, and of course, Gongsun will also help."

"Mmm!" Gongsun nodded with his spoon, "I have to record it, Old Yang can't go, but he wants to see it, and Bobby says it's the legacy of his life."

"This kid used to be a felon." Bai Yutang frowned, "Who does he want to operate on?"

"Don't worry, this is a life-saving surgery." Zhan Zhao patted him on the shoulder.

"I am more concerned about whether the one being saved will be a killer of some kind." Bai Yutang tasted a mouthful of drunken shrimp and felt just the right amount of alcohol, so he chucked one into Zhan Zhao's bowl.

After eating and drinking, Bao Zheng called and spoke in a rather odd voice, "The operation is not being done at the hospital."

"Then where?" Gongsun wondered, "It won't be some kind of shady workshop, right?"

"Hu... I've sent someone to pick you up, I'm here now." Bao Zheng said and let out a long breath, "Maybe there really is a miracle."

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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 18, 2022 by Angel

Edited: November 28, 2022 by Angel