S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 4 Chapter 31

A Requiem for a Murderer 31 – Origin

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"Eleven never accepts apprentices, he's been a lone wolf for twenty years since B.K. disappeared, so why would he teach you back then?" Bai Ye asked Ma Han, who was beside him, casually as he held his cigarette.

Ma Han shook his head, "I don't know."

"Xiao Ma Ge has talent." Zhao Hu had heard Ma Han talk about his encounter with Eleven before, so he gossiped about it to Bai Ye.

Bai Ye's eyebrows showed a look of understanding, "So that's how it was, that was twenty years ago, right?"

"More or less." Ma Han nodded.

"No wonder." Bai Ye smiled lightly, "It's really interesting."

"What do you mean?" Ma Han looked at Bai Ye in confusion.

Bai Ye was silent for a moment, "It's really thanks to you that Eleven has managed to survive these twenty years."

"What do you mean?" Ma Han was surprised.

"I told you he has a crush on you!" Zhao Hu shouted from the side. Ma Han kicked him away and asked Bai Ye, "What do you mean?"

"Don't get me wrong, Eleven likes bullets more than people, it's just that you have a special meaning to him." Bai Ye waved his hand, "Especially as a kid."

"Wow!"

Just as Ma Han was confused, Zhao Hu suddenly clapped his hands, "I get it, maybe he's your real father!"

Ma Han leaned across Bai Ye and struck Zhao Hu across the head.

"Why don't you call and ask your aunt?" Zhao Hu scratched the back of his head with an innocent look, "Otherwise why would he, a real cold-blooded killer, take care of you so well?"

Ma Han was speechless. At that moment, Ma Xin and Gongsun wandered over, and Gongsun was carrying a big box in his hand.

When they heard Zhao Hu say something about the possibility of Eleven being Ma Han's father, Ma Xin jumped up and pinched Zhao Hu's ear, "You're going to die, you're talking nonsense!"

Zhao Hu covered his ears and begged for mercy.

Gongsun examined Ma Han's face and shook his head, "No, there is no genetic relationship between his facial structure and Eleven, and their body shapes are not similar."

"Hear that!" Ma Xin pinched Zhao Hu's ears, "If my mother hears that, you're dead, you won't be allowed to come to dinner at our house in the future!"

Zhao Hu covered his ears and admitted his mistake, while looking at the two in confusion, "Why are you two here?"

"Big Brother Bai told us to come." Ma Xin said, "Told us to watch the show here while Luo Tian and the others went on a mission in the canyon."

"Huh?!" Zhao Hu was startled and beckoned to Ma Han, "Xiao Ma Ge, let's go too."

Ma Han nodded and wanted to follow.

Gongsun stopped him, "Jintang said it would be better for you two to wait here."

"Why?" Zhao Hu was dissatisfied.

"There are things for you to do later." Gongsun lifted the huge box and handed it to Ma Han, "This is from Zhao Jue."

Puzzled, Ma Han opened the box. It was the old homemade sniper rifle, the one that was dusty and sealed in the wall with B.K.'s body, but it seemed to have been refurbished. The gun had been modified so that it had a very long and powerful range, B.K. deserved his reputation as one of the best firearms experts.

Bai Jintang exhaled his cigarette and said, "Eleven took care of you so well because of fate."

"Fate?" Ma Han wondered, "What do you mean?"

"Zhao Jue said you had a lighter?"

"En." Ma Han held the lighter out to show Bai Ye.

"This is B.K.'s lighter, not Eleven's." Bai Ye looked at it and handed the lighter back to Ma Han.

Ma Han took it and examined it, "B.K. ..."

"Mhmm."

"Why was his body in the wall?" Gongsun was always curious about that unsolved case of B.K. from earlier, "He should have been dead for twenty years, but the body decayed at a completely different rate than a normal person, with an amazing amount of life in the various cells."

"You'll probably understand the specifics when Zhao Jue and the others finish their operation, it's too troublesome to talk about." Bai Ye was lazy and Gongsun was a little helpless. In some ways, he was not as attentive as Bai Yutang, but more like Bai Jintang.

"B.K. is a very interesting person." Bai Ye suddenly smiled, "The old Eleven was more like you, non-verbal, joyless and expressionless."

Ma Han looked at Bai Ye, "An overstatement, that description fits you better."

Bai Ye laughed dryly, "B.K. and he suffered the same experiences, working together as killers..."

"Why did he want to be a killer?" Ma Han asked the question that had been confusing him.

"They were born killers, they had no choice." Bai Ye said in a deep voice, "We were still young back then... and got caught up in this messy bureau and thus changed our lives, and it was somewhat related to them both."

"Bureau?" Gongsun hurriedly asked, "Are you saying that you guys discovered that particular organisation back then because of the two of them, and that Eleven and B.K. were both trained by that organisation?"

"I'll let Zhao Jue tell you the details." Bai Ye was his usual self, "Things were too complicated twenty years ago, but B.K. and Eleven were always together"

"What's the relationship between the two of them?" Zhao Hu was curious, "Friends, lovers, or partners?"

Bai Ye thought for a moment, "To be precise, they were kindred spirits."

"Kindred spirits?" Ma Xin blinked.

"The only person in this world who is the same as yourself." Bai Ye held his cigarette in a daze, "Whether the feelings were good or bad, once they are lost, then you are alone from then on."

Gongsun leaned on the railing and listened to Bai Ye's words, "Are you saying that B.K. and Eleven were the same existence, and once B.K. died, Eleven was alone from then on?"

"B.K. was not quite the same as a normal killer. He was manic and his personality was very elusive." Bai Ye said lightly, "He was sometimes crazy, but sometimes silent. Eleven preferred hunting to killing, and every time he aimed, B.K. would raise the barrel of his gun."

Ma Han froze and looked at Bai Ye, "Raise the barrel? Why?"

"So he wouldn't cause collateral damage, and if he really wasn't sure, he wouldn't shoot." Bai Ye said, "B.K. is considered one of the most famous killers, cruel and vicious, but he was vegetarian, adopted small animals, and treated them better than people."

"Wow, that's weird." Zhao Hu tsked twice, "How come weirdos always come together."

"So how did B.K. die?" Ma Han asked.

"Disappeared while chasing PTW."

"It was a ghost that killed him?" Gongsun frowned.

"Not exactly." Bai shook his head, "It was one of the remaining killers."

Everyone looked at each other, and Ma Xin asked in a small voice, "Are those the ones you're saving now?"

"When did we say we were going to save them?" Bai Ye seemed to find it quite amusing.

"So it's not Captain and Dr. Zhan's fault that those killers who tried to round up the ghosts this time got away with it?" Ma Xin asked rhetorically.

"This place has long since turned into a weird area." Bai Ye said, "The killers who had managed to escape from the demon cave and have the next generation still kept their perverted teenage forms, so they feared all external sources of danger. B.K., who had spent his life tracking down the organisation, found out that PTW would eventually appear here, so he came. But was treated as a source of danger and was killed by mistake at the hands of a lurking local assassin. B.K. has since disappeared and hasn't been seen again."

"Does Eleven know about it?" Ma Han asked.

"Perhaps. After B.K.'s death, Eleven was depressed for a while, and both Zhao Jue and I thought he might die on his next mission, but..." Bai Ye flicked the soon-to-be-extinguished cigarette butt off the platform. "Your presence gave him something to hold on to, and he set out to track down B.K.'s death and prepare for revenge."

"Revenge?" Ma Han frowned, "Why did he target the ghost?"

"That's right, it's not like a ghost killed B.K." Zhao Hu also found it puzzling.

Bai Ye shook his head, "That's why Eleven said you can never be a killer in this life. "

When he said that, he saw Ma Xin waving her hand around in the air, "Great King, I have a feeling."

Everyone looked at her.

Ma Xin then said, "Well, I think being killed is a killer's destiny. Every killer is psychologically prepared for it, so for a killer, the most tragic thing is not the end of a killer's career, but the beginning of a killer's career. Therefore, if you really want to take revenge, you have to find the source, don't you?"

Bai Ye raised an eyebrow slightly to show his admiration.

When Zhao Hu saw Ma Xin's smugness, he coldly said, "Aiya, Lass, you really worked hard to chase Luo Tian... Aiya."

Once again, he was punched.

"Then why do you say that Ma Han can't be a killer?" Gongsun asked, holding his chin.

"I know!" Ma Xin and Zhao Hu raised their hands at the same time.

Ma Han looked at the two.

"Because many people love him."

Bai Ye fished a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it, "Three years ago, Eleven and I arrived here."

"The two of you together?" Zhao Hu was surprised, "Did you know each other well? Didn't you shoot him?"

"Of course we weren't travelling together, we just happened to run into each other, I came to meet a friend and he came to kill someone." Bai Ye's voice lowered a few more notches, "I gave him some clues, but he gave me an unexpected tragedy."

The crowd tilted their heads together and looked at Bai Ye curiously. This man should be far more heavenly than Ma Han, so why would he have a friend in such an isolated place? Could it be a killer friend? Also, what did he mean by an unexpected tragedy?

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"You're saying that Bai Ye's friend is that Xin Xin who died?" Zhan Zhao looked at Zhao Jue in surprise, "So Xin Xin was also a killer? Could it be the same as the little lion, who maintains his childhood state?"

"No, he was indeed still a little kid, and couldn't be more normal." Zhao Jue said, "It's true that he and Bai Ye are quite fated."

"How are they fated?" Bai Yutang could already see the canyon in the distance as he drove and slowed the car down to descend the slope.

"Fated to the extent that Bai Ye was injured and that child saved his life." Zhao Jue laughed a little, "So Bai Ye often visits him."

"Oh..." Zhan Zhao nodded and thought about it, "Was Bai Ye injured because of a ghost?"

"That injury was caused by pursuing the cause of B.K.'s death. The ghosts are team fighters and very cunning, many killers have fallen into their hands. If Bai Ye hadn't been alert enough, he might have been dead too, fortunately that kid saved him." Zhao Jue shrugged, "This valley is their fortress. The ghosts are dead set on following PTW’s plan, using the law of genetic survival of the fittest to conduct research."

"The reason you're so jealous of PTW is because they're looking in the right direction, isn't it?" Zhan Zhao had read Zhao Jue's research information before. By mistake, PTW had indeed taken the right path, which was to discard the previous generation of the experiment and let them become petri dishes to breed the next generation, who would be the successful products with true talent. It's just that there is so little relevant information, and PTW is not a genius like Zhao Jue after all, so it's hard to gauge what the consequences will be.

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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: February 28, 2023 by Angel

Edited: March 20, 2023 by Angel