S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 4 Chapter 71

Ghost Ship Murderer 35 – Surfaced

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Probably because she had been sitting on the rocking boat for a long time, Jiang Nan felt dizzy and a little nauseous.

Lin Ruo dismissed Aria and was sitting on one side, leaning against the edge of the bed and tilting his face up to think, when he saw Jiang Nan's pale face on the side.

Lin Ruo sat up, "Seasick?"

Jiang Nan nodded with some embarrassment, she was obviously many years older than Lin Ruo, but he was the one who had to take care of her.

Lin Ruo reached out and picked up the two oranges that Aria had just brought to him, peeled off a slice of orange peel and handed it to Jiang Nan, "Smell it."

Jiang Nan took it and sniffed it, the smell of the oranges was a good distraction and made it much better.

Lin Ruo peeled a few more pieces of the orange peel and gave it to her, and simply ate the orange himself.

Jiang Nan looked at him and said with a smile, "You know quite a lot for a pampered son."

Lin Ruo smiled and shared half an orange with her, casually saying, "Han Wei taught me."

"Is he a friend of yours?" Jiang Nan took the orange, "Aren't all your friends pampered sons?"

"Of course they're not..." Lin Ruo stuffed the orange into his mouth and with a frown, took the half in Jiang Nan's hand, "It's bitter, don't eat it."

Jiang Nan hugged her legs and sat down beside him.

Lin Ruo felt that since he was idle anyway, and he had a more cheerful personality, instead of being bored, it would be better to chat with Jiang Nan, so he said, "I met Han Wei when we were in university, we happened to be in the same dormitory then, and he was very special."

"How special?" Jiang Nan was curious.

"Well... his grades were not particularly good but also not bad, his body was not too strong but also not weak, he was not too smart but also not stupid, his courage was not very great but also not small, and his temper was very good but occasionally he would get angry."

"Hehe." Jiang Nan was amused by Lin Ruo, "Aren't most people like that?"

Lin Ruo frowned and shook his head back and forth, "Mhmm hmm, of course not."

"Isn't it that all the people around you are proud sons of heaven with maverick personalities?" Jiang Nan laughed, "Most people are really this ordinary and plain."

"Then do you have such an ordinary and plain friend beside you?" Lin Ruo asked her.

Jiang Nan froze, "Well, this..."

"The kind of ordinary and plain people you mentioned won't be friends with you, so it's not that people are ordinary, but that you don't have the chance to get to know them." Lin Ruo smiled, crossing his legs in a princely manner, his voice the usual softness, "There's really not a lot of this warm water that's perpetually forty degrees and doesn't burn your hands or your face if you were to touch it."

Jiang Nan looked at Lin Ruo, "What's troubling you?"

Lin Ruo thought for a moment, pointed around and asked her, "Does this count as a trouble?"

Jiang Nan smiled bitterly and shook her head, "You know I'm not talking about the current situation, what happened to your friend? Did he cut himself off from you or did you get separated? You seem a bit sad."

Lin Ruo froze, then looked ahead, seemingly confused, "He was injured and fell into a vegetative state."

Jiang Nan was surprised.

"But he woke up two days ago."

"Isn't that good?" Jiang Nan asked.

"I feel as if he's changed into a different person." Lin Ruo frowned and rubbed the back of his neck, "I don't know if it's just me, as I only saw him once after he woke up, and I was taken home to be locked up before I had a chance to chat with him for a while longer."

"Maybe he slept for too long and needs to adjust." Jiang Nan comforted him, "People don't change that easily."

"Ha-ah..." Lin Ruo stretched out his arms and yawned, considering whether or not to take a nap.

"Aren't you worried?" Jiang Nan asked Lin Ruo.

"Worried about what?" Lin Ruo asked back.

Jiang Nan laughed in exasperation and reached out to gesture at the surroundings, "The way things are now, do you know where they're going to take you?"

"Not really." Lin Ruo frowned, "I might be worried if it was in the past, but there's nothing to worry about at this moment."

"Why?" Jiang Nan wondered.

"Well..." Lin Ruo stroked his chin, "I always feel that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang will find a way to come and save me."

Jiang Nan nodded, "That's right, you've been kidnapped, your parents will definitely call the police... But, will they know where to look for you? We are at sea."

"Ah, there's no need to worry about this, Zhan Zhao is there, and his head is at the level of an alien, it's impossible to not see a clue that obvious and that big." Lin Ruo seemed very confident.

"Did you grow up expecting whatever you wanted?" Jiang Nan was suddenly very interested in the young master in front of her.

"No." Lin Ruo shook his head, "My parents are very strict, they are afraid that I will become a second generation ancestor who is arrogant and domineering, so they taught me from a young age to be patient, to be restrained, to learn to be humble, to be courteous, not to argue, not to go to steal things from others, to be compassionate... all sorts of things."

"You indeed don't have the same temperament as Stephen and the others." Jiang Nan held her chin, seemingly muttering to herself, "I found it hard to believe at first that you would be friends who play together, although you are all young geniuses, Stephen and the others gave me a more pointed and sharp feeling, while you are much gentler, it's surely because of your family's upbringing."

"Actually, I also find it strange as to why I get along with them." Lin Ruo instead said seriously, "I always feel as if they are especially good to me, so good that I feel guilty for not being good friends with them."

Jiang Nan smiled and nodded, "You are indeed likeable, you are very popular with women, right?"

Lin Ruo curled up the corner of his mouth, "Okay ah..."

"Actually, after meeting Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, I don't think I'm considered to be any kind of proud son of heaven at all." Lin Ruo leaned on the bed and looked at the swaying chandelier, "I'm just so surprised that people like Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao exist in the world, why are they so perfect?"

"These two people are indeed very special." Jiang Nan recognised that she had met quite a few people, but Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were indeed incomparably impressive.

"But you're actually pretty good too." Jiang Nan patted Lin Ruo, "I somehow want to meet, that friend of yours."

Lin Ruo smiled and nodded.

At that moment, a very soft, 'ding' could be heard.

Lin Ruo frowned slightly and looked around, and there was another 'ding'.

Lin Ruo tilted his face up and looked around, and finally saw that above the bed, there was a ventilation window.

The ventilation window had iron bars running across it.

Lin Ruo hesitated for a moment, and Jiang Nan understood and walked over. Sitting at the door, with her back against it, she listened to the movement outside, and no one was moving around. In order to prevent Lin Ruo and the others from escaping, the door was locked.

Lin Ruo climbed onto the bed, stood on it, and looked into the ventilation window, then saw a hand, gently tapping on the ventilation window.

Lin Ruo originally thought that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had sent someone to save them, although he didn't know how they got on the boat, but then he saw a face appear behind the barred window, a familiar face, calling out in a low voice, "Ruo."

Lin Ruo was startled, "Xiao Wei?"

"Shhh." Han Wei signalled him to keep quiet.

Lin Ruo nodded, Han Wei slipped something over and handed it to Lin Ruo.

Lin Ruo took it and found that it was a delicate dagger, very thin.

Somewhat puzzled, he looked at Han Wei.

Han Wei whispered, "Keep it for self-defence, I can't save you now, wait until we get to the place."

"How did you..." Lin Ruo wanted to ask Han Wei when he was discharged from the hospital and why he is here.

But he heard Han Wei hush him, "Someone is coming, get down quickly, don't let anyone get suspicious. Whatever Aria says to you, just say yes, don't go against her, also, don't get too close to Jiang Nan, or you'll get her killed."

Lin Ruo nodded and got off the bed, and Han Wei had already retreated.

Jiang Nan walked back and spread her hands to Lin Ruo – She didn't hear anyone coming from outside.

At the same time... the sound of the lock being opened rang out.

Lin Ruo hurriedly hid the dagger, and Jiang Nan deliberately walked farther away, lying on one bed, while Lin Ruo was at the other end again, pretending to be asleep.

At this time, the door opened.

Aria walked in.

"Young Master..."

Walking over to Lin Ruo's side and finding that Lin Ruo was sleeping, Aria lay on the side of the bed, holding her face to look at his face, while gently sliding her fingers over Lin Ruo's eyebrows. Lin Ruo slightly frowned and moved, and Aria couldn't help but laugh out loud, supporting her face as she continued to look at him.

Jiang Nan watched from a short distance away, and only felt that this Aria's love for him screamed creepy. If eating Lin Ruo could express her love at this moment, she would not have hesitated to swallow Lin Ruo alive... a spider-like love.

Jiang Nan inexplicably thought of the Emilia that she had studied before... Speaking of which, back then, Emilia brutally murdered so many people out of love and hatred. Is Aria the same as her? Loving too deeply, loving too bizarrely, and being betrayed after being unable to extricate herself, thus how deep the love is, is how deep the hatred is!

Jiang Nan had to close her eyes tightly and pretend to sleep, not daring to disturb or attract her attention, only begging Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang to come and rescue them quickly.

......

After Lan Mi pointed to the photo and pointed at her brother, Zhan Zhao surprisingly said that he had figured out the whole case, which of course made everyone happy.

Bao Zheng was in a good mood on his end when he heard that the case had been solved.

"Is the drawing done yet?" Zhan Zhao went over to look at Zhao Jue.

It was only then that the crowd noticed that Zhao Jue had just taken the pen and notebook that he and Lan Mi had been playing go with and had been sketching something.

Seeing Zhan Zhao looking, Zhao Jue narrowed his eyes and hid the notebook.

Zhan Zhao frowned and kicked his chair.

Zhao Jue squinted at him, "You know how to do this too?"

Zhan Zhao raised one eyebrow, "I know how to make sketches."

Zhao Jue mocked him, "Can't draw ah... stupid... ouch!"

Before Zhao Jue finished his sentence, his long hair was grabbed by Zhan Zhao. He was shocked and reached out to touch his head, but Zhan Zhao smoothly snatched the notebook from his hand and took a look, nodding, "Mhmm, it's pretty much the same as what I guessed, it's just that the drawing is hard to look at!"

Zhao Jue rubbed his head and shouted into the microphone, "Dead charcoal, how do you manage your men...!"

"Hey!" Bai Yutang reached out and covered Zhao Jue's mouth with one hand, glaring at him with the meaning – Someone’s over there, you know! Be careful!

Zhao Jue was obviously dissatisfied, Bao Zheng... no, Qitian did not know how to educate, the children are so rude, they have no manners and no rules, annoying!

Everyone was preoccupied with looking at the drawing in Zhan Zhao's hand.

The so called a good calligrapher does not choose the pen, Zhao Jue was really good at drawing... even if it was just a piece of ordinary paper and a ballpoint pen with intermittent ink, the drawing was still exquisite.

Zhao Jue drew a portrait, it was a man... about forty years old, looking... how should I say it, between the eyebrows, there was a little similarity with Lin Ruo, especially in terms of temperament, and the eyes were especially similar. But it was not like Lin Ruo's relative, how should I say it, of the five features, there was absolutely no kind of genetic similarity, but the feeling, the temperament, was amazingly similar.

Of course, how a painted portrait could reflect a temperament, that was Zhao Jue's talent.

"Who is this?" Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao, guessing in passing, "Bruce?"

Zhan Zhao nodded.

Zhao Jue showed Xiao Mi, "Who is this?"

Xiao Mi looked up, and was shocked and delighted, "Ah! Doctor!"

"Where is he?" Zhan Zhao asked after him.

Xiao Mi stroked her chin, "I don't know, I haven't seen him for a long time."

Zhan Zhao looked at Zhao Jue – Could it really be that he died on the island as Bai Ye said? It's a bit of a shame, such a genius.

Bai Yutang was a bit curious, "How did you deduce what he looked like?"

Zhao Jue spread his hands, "Reasoning!"

Zhan Zhao gave him a blank look and said to Bai Yutang, "It's the same principle as how I deduced Emilia's appearance through Jiang Nan's psychological profile last time. This one is a bit more concrete because after all, they were seen by someone, and his resemblance to Lin Ruo is the reason why so many people are surrounding Lin Ruo and are unconsciously attracted to him."

Zhao Jue gave the drawing to Qin Ou, "Use that square machine to take a picture and send it over, ask that white cockroach if this is the one he saw back then."

Zhan Zhao raises his eyebrows – White cockroach?

Everyone touched their jaws, it turns out that Bai Ye's status in Zhao Jue's mind was similar to Bao Zheng's, he had previously scolded Bao Zheng for being a lowly animal… while Bai Ye was an insect.

Zhao Hu and others looked at each other, they were probably the primitive cells... Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao's status was quite high, cats and tigers are mammals, and they are also both sacred felines.

Qin Ou scanned the portrait over to the other side.

Bai Ye looked at the photo and stroked his chin, "It doesn't seem to be the same person I saw."

"So Bruce isn't dead?" Zhao Jue was not surprised, "Then everything makes more sense. The tsunami was probably within the calculations, taking advantage of the special weather to make a fake scene of his own death just in time to escape from the organisation's pursuit and managing to save a portion of the test subjects he wanted to save, but what he didn't expect was the companion that was the most dangerous and should have been extinguished, the Emilia sister, would be lost."

"Are they trying to find Bruce through Lin Ruo?" Bai Yutang asked, "Why are they looking for him?"

"To kill him." Zhao Jue and Zhan Zhao almost spoke in unison.

Bai Yutang frowned – He inexplicably thought of the question of whether the chicken or the egg came first.

Zhao Jue looked at Xiao Mi again, "How long has it been since you've seen the Doctor?"

"Hmm... " Xiao Mi thought for a moment, "I don't remember, I've only seen him once since I left the base."

"Did he say anything to you?" Zhao Jue asked.

Xiao Mi shook her head, "I don't know, he spoke to Brother."

"Head."

At that moment, Qin Ou beckoned to Bai Yutang, gesturing for him to go over and look.

When Bai Yutang reached the surveillance screen, he saw that Han Wei's twin brother, who had been hiding in the corner, slipped into the cabin and familiarly padded his way to the bottom, finding those cabinets that Zhao Zhen had just opened and opening them with skilful movements before descending.

"He's here..." Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang, "What should we do?"

Bai Yutang raised an eyebrow, "Capture him alive."

"No need to be nervous." Zhao Jue, however, waved his hand and slowly said, "Spider-Man said that with great power comes great responsibility."

Zhan Zhao picked up a pillow and tried to smack him.

Zhao Jue ducked aside, "It's obviously two gangs of aliens fighting, the ones on this side are the Autobots and the ones on that side are Megatron."

Everyone looked at him.

Zhao Jue poked Xiao Mi and said, "Go bring your brother in and tell him that Bruce's idol has come to help."

Xiao Mi blinked and ran out.

Not long after, they heard the sound of hurried footsteps coming from outside.

At the door… Xiao Mi pulled a man and stood there.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang understood -- It was the Han Wei they saw in the hospital in the afternoon, only now, this person's entire temperament and tone was completely different.

Han Wei looked at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, and finally his eyes landed on Zhao Jue, "You're... Doctor's idol?"

Zhao Jue smiled slightly, holding his chin and picking up the corners of his mouth, "That's right, I'm the only genius he recognised as being stronger than him."

Zhan Zhao blankly glanced at Zhao Jue – What's so godly about him?

Zhao Jue smirked mischievously and glanced back at him, full of provocation – No matter how capable you are, you can't change the fact that I was born earlier than you!

The two began to glare at each other.

Bai Yutang reached out and shook his hand at the intersection of the two men's lines of sight – Can you two act like adults once in a while?

A smile appeared on Han Wei's face as he listened to Zhao Jue's words, then he asked Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, "How did you guys find this place?"

"Let's not talk about that for now." Bai Yutang waved his hand, "Someone has captured Lin Ruo, you know that, right?"

"I know, Xiao Wei went to rescue him, I didn't want to get him involved but..."

"So what's next?" Zhan Zhao asked, "Did you prepare this boat?"

"Not bad, but unfortunately the plan didn't work, the snakes were spooked, everything is God's will."

"What's your name?" Bai Yutang asked, they couldn't just call him Han Wei's twin.

"My name is Han Ling." Han Ling smiled, "That's the name the Doctor gave me, we originally didn't have names, only numbers."

"Whose number is 47893?" Zhan Zhao suddenly asked.

Everyone also remembered the number on this fake PT1001.

Han Ling was silent for a moment before saying, "Emilia."

"Is that the completed pair?" Zhan Zhao frowned.

Han Ling smiled, "The finished product is Han Wei and I. Emilia is a living demon..." After finishing, he looked at Zhao Jue again, seemingly inquiring about Zhan Zhao's identity.

Zhao Jue smiled and pointed at Zhan Zhao, "He is my disciple..."

Before his words were finished, Zhan Zhao sent a pillow flying over, "You've grown such a big face, you long-haired cockroach!"

Everyone drew a breath of cold air, and on the other boat, they heard Bai Ye suddenly let out a "pfft", and quietly speak, still in a cool tone, "It's so refreshing!"

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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: July 15, 2023 by Angel

Edited: July 24, 2023 by Angel