S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 4 Chapter 77

Bonus Chapter – A Little Extra for the Spring Festival

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The Spring Festival has arrived.

In SCI's office, Bai Yutang sat on a chair, his two long legs straddling the back of the swivel chair, and he looked sideways at Jiang Ping, who was furiously tapping the keyboard on the side, "How's it going?"

"I can't get in!"

"You, a top hacker, can't even get into a website that sells tickets?!"

Jiang Ping pushed up his geeky glasses and turned back seriously, "Captain, the internet is horribly congested! There are times when a hacker can't do a damn thing!"

"Then make it so that it's not jammed!"

Jiang Ping continued to push his glasses, "How can it not be jammed when everyone in the police station is on the internet to buy tickets?!"

"You're in charge of the entire police station's internet, just make it so they can't get on it first, can't you?!" Bai Yutang gave the order, "Hurry up, no matter what, I need two sleeper tickets!"

Jiang Ping looked disgusted, "How can I do that? You made a bet with Bao Sir, it's not like you're waiting for tickets to go home! Hundreds of people are buying tickets downstairs, I can't handle it if they kill me once the internet is down!"

"Tsk..."

"Still haven't bought it?" Zhan Zhao came over with an egg cake in his hand, "How long has it been?"

Bai Yutang held his forehead.

"Brother, what are you buying tickets for?" Holding a few cups of milk tea, Bai Chi, who walked in with Zhao Zhen, curiously asked Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang rubbed his chin.

It happened this morning.

In the parking lot, Bao Zheng stepped out of his car with a dark face, and bumped into Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, who had parked their car and were nibbling on egg cakes as they slowly walked in the direction of the elevator.

As soon as the two men saw Bao Zheng's big black face which was even darker than usual, they knew that it was nothing good, and the two followed Bao Zheng into the elevator.

Bai Yutang lowered his head and chewed on his own egg cake, while Bao Zheng stared at the ever-changing elevator numbers for luck, and Zhan Zhao went up to him, "Yo, Bao Sir, not in a good mood?"

Bao Zheng froze, then looked back at Zhan Zhao, squinting his eyes like he was contemplating something.

Zhan Zhao smiled faintly, "Is there another pervert? Have Xiao Bai go catch them."

"Cough cough..." Bai Yutang choked on the soy milk, pretending not to hear, and continued to nibble on the cake.

Bao Zheng thought about it and suddenly let out a laugh, curling his lips, "Your SCI can't do everything."

Zhan Zhao froze, and Bai Yutang looked up.

Zhan Zhao, fearing that the world was not in chaos, poked Bai Yutang, "Yutang, go!"

Bai Yutang glanced at him helplessly, thinking that it was almost New Year's Eve, they could have a happy and relaxing New Year's holiday with only a few things to worry about, so they should hurry and go out for a holiday, what kind of perverts were they thinking about all day long?

"Heh, this thing, your Bai Yutang can't handle it." Bao Zheng smirked, "Even if your entire SCI was on it, you couldn't handle it!"

The corner of Zhan Zhao's mouth twitched, and he looked at Bai Yutang – If this can be tolerated, what can't be tolerated!

Bai Yutang said in his heart – Bao Sir is using provocative tactics, we must not fall for it!

Bai Yutang doesn't want to stir up trouble, but Zhan Zhao was afraid that there would be no trouble, so he reached out and patted Bai Yutang's chest, saying to Bao Zheng, "What's the big deal, my Captain Bai will definitely be able to handle it!"

Bao Zheng narrowed his eyes, "Bet?"

Bai Yutang hurriedly winked at Zhan Zhao – No way!

Zhan Zhao smiled and nodded, "Bet!"

"What are the stakes?" Bao Zheng asked.

Zhan Zhao continued to pat Bai Yutang's chest, "Yutang will clean the toilets if he can't do it."

Bao Zheng raised an eyebrow.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, meaning – You're really willing to send me away!

"If Yutang does it, will you give us a month long holiday?" When Zhan Zhao said this, Bai Yutang wasn't anxious anymore, thinking that if he could really have a month's holiday, it wouldn't matter if he had to clean the toilets!

"Okay!" Bao Zheng patted his chest, then patted his own, "It's a deal!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other, and when the elevator dinged, they asked, "So what is it?"

Bao Zheng stretched out two fingers and spoke slowly, "I want two sleeper tickets."

After saying this, he whisked Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang out and closed the door, "Tickets for tomorrow! S City direct to G City."

When the elevator door closed, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other.

Zhan Zhao chewed on an egg cake, "Two sleeper tickets?"

Bai Yutang let out a 'heh', "Isn't that easy? Cat, pack your bags and prepare for a long holiday! Let's go to the seaside for the Spring Festival!" After saying that, he raced towards the SCI office with big strides.

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As a result, Jiang Ping went online to help grab the tickets.

Bai Yutang asked Jiang Ping to hack the ticket booking website, but Jiang Ping shook his head, "It's useless to hack it, there are no more tickets ah!"

So, as Plan A failed, Bai Yutang prepared Plan B.

"Hello? Twins!" Bai Yutang called Da Ding and Xiao Ding.

"What is it?" Xiao Ding, who was playing games, answered the phone.

"Help me buy two sleeper tickets."

"What?" Xiao Ding was distracted and stepped on a bomb.

Da Ding won the game and cheered.

Xiao Ding bristled, "Bai Yutang, you unlucky star!"

"What star, did you hear me?!" Bai Yutang was speechless.

Xiao Ding plucked at his ears again, "You said you wanted a sleeper ticket? Where are you going? A private jet will take you!"

"No, I want a sleeper ticket!"

"What's wrong?" Da Ding came over and asked.

Xiao Ding moved away from the phone, "Second Bai called, said he wanted to buy two sleeper tickets for tomorrow."

Da Ding's face wrinkled like a bun, "Tell him they're long gone!"

"Hear that?" Xiao Ding came back to talk on the phone.

"Where's your gang of brothers?" Bai Yutang was anxious, "If you send two to three hundred people to queue up at the major booking centres, can't they buy a sleeper ticket?!"

Da Ding bristled, "Forget it, the brothers have long gone home for the new year, who will queue up for you!" After saying that, he hung up the phone.

Zhan Zhao drew a cross on the 'B' Bai Yutang wrote on the table, and wrote a 'C' for him.

Bai Yutang looked at him, and Zhan Zhao clenched his fist, meaning – One month's holiday! Cheer up!

Bai Yutang had no choice but to resort to plan C – Booking tickets over the phone.

After half a day on the phone, he finally got through, patiently listened to a large series of phone conversations, and asked – No tickets! Not to mention the sleeper seats, there wasn't even a single ticket for the standing area!

Bai Yutang held his forehead, "I don't believe there's no way!"

"They should all be gone." After scanning through the lengthy data in the booking centre, Bai Chi told Bai Yutang, "There are no more upcoming tickets! The Spring Festival travel season is like this."

Bai Yutang was still reluctant and asked Zhao Zhen, "Do you have a solution?"

Zhao Zhen winked, "Why don't I make two for you?"

Bai Chi hurriedly pulled back, "Making fake tickets is against the law, okay! Besides, the tickets have been sold, so if we get on the train, we'll be discovered!"

"Let's talk about it when we get up there!" Zhao Zhen raised an eyebrow, "It turns out that those with tickets were knocked out and stuffed in the toilet."

"Tsk."

As the crowd was talking, Ma Xin, who wandered in with her hands in her pockets, looked at the crowd with disdain and shook her head, "You group of young masters appear to have never squeezed through the Spring Festival travel season!"

Zhan Zhao and the others all look at Ma Xin – What do you mean?

"On the Spring Festival train, if you knock someone out, they definitely won't be able to fit into the toilets, the toilets would have been full a long time ago!"

Zhao Zhen spread his hands at Bai Yutang – It can't be helped then.

Zhan Zhao wrinkled his nose and thought about it, then fished out his cell phone and reluctantly dialled a number.

The call went through, and a lazy voice came from the other end, "Yo, kitten, give me a meow to listen to."

Zhan Zhao looked at the sky, for the sake of a long holiday, he must endure.

Everyone came over to listen – Zhan Zhao actually called Zhao Jue for help, it was a miracle!

"There's one thing in this world that you definitely can't do!" Zhan Zhao decided to use a provocative method.

After hearing this, Zhao Jue hemmed and hawed, "Say it, apart from Spring Festival train tickets, there's nothing I can't do!"

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On this side, Zhan Zhao was silent.

Everyone held back their laughter.

Zhao Jue heard the sudden lack of movement on this end, so he asked, "Hello?"

Zhan Zhao was unable to say anything.

After another three seconds, Zhao Jue asked, "Do you really want Spring Festival train tickets?"

Another three seconds.

Zhan Zhao opened his mouth, "Yes, two sleeper tickets for tomorrow."

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This time, it was Zhao Jue's turn to be silent for three seconds, and then the sound of Zhao Jue laughing came from the other side.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang then heard Bai Ye's voice come through, "What's so funny?"

"That kitten... that kitten said that he wants two sleeper tickets for tomorrow! Ahahahaha." Zhao Jue laughed as he hung up the phone. At the last moment before the call was hung up, the crowd heard Bai Ye seemingly say, "Hasn't anyone taught him to book tickets in advance?"

Zhan Zhao furrowed his brows, while Bai Yutang drew a cross over the letter 'D', and the two of them stared at each other.

At this time, Gongsun and Bai Jintang walked in, and Gongsun asked, "Are you going to eat? There's a new cook that came in recently."

The crowd looked at the time, while Zhan Zhao looked at the still uneaten egg cake in his hand.

"Eating so early?" Bai Chi asked Gongsun curiously.

Bai Jintang walked over to the table and leaned in, saying, "You have to make reservations in advance, it's Chinese New Year these days, everything has to be booked a few days in advance, and personal chefs have to be booked at least half a day in advance."

The crowd silently glanced at Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao – Big Brother Bai's godly mind!

Bai Yutang looked at the sky.

"What's up?" Bai Jintang looked at Bai Yutang in puzzlement.

Bai Yutang held out two fingers.

Bai Jintang blinked, "Do you want twenty million or two hundred million?"

Everyone's mouths twitched.

Bai Yutang said, "Neither, I want two sleeper tickets."

Bai Jintang was silent for a while, "I'd better give you two hundred million."

The crowd silently glanced at each other again – Big Brother continued to spit in God's face!

"Isn't it just two sleeper tickets?"

Just as the crowd was at a loss, Gongsun chimed in, "It's easy."

Everyone turned their faces together to look at Gongsun, "You have a solution?"

"Ask around the entire police station to see who's going to G City tomorrow and has bought a sleeper ticket a long time ago, ask them to give up their ticket and we'll use a private jet to send them home, won't that be enough?"

The crowd was silent for a long time, then Bai Yutang snapped his fingers, ordering everyone in SCI to take charge of one floor each and ask floor by floor!

Thus, the SCI crowd went out, one person to one floor, asking for tickets.

Not long after, the crowd came back with their heads hung low.

Ma Han came back and said, "The entire intelligence department only got standing tickets, saying that the ticket sellers put out false information and they collectively didn't get sleeping tickets."

Luo Tian came back and said, "The narcotics control team said they all only had standing tickets, saying that the drug traffickers had asked people to buy all the sleeping tickets in retaliation."

Zhao Hu came back and said, "The forensics department originally bought sleeper tickets, but the pharmacist accidentally spilled chemicals on the tickets, and the tickets were all washed white, so Xiao Wang was beaten into a pig's head."

Zhang Long came back and said, "The economic unit only bought one sitting ticket and the rest are all standing tickets, they kept complaining that it's not scientific that the standing tickets and the sitting tickets are the same price..."

Wang Chao came back and said, "The SWAT team said that they could not buy a ticket, everyone is ready to ride a bicycle home for the New Year, to strengthen their physical fitness, cultivate their temperament, protect the environment and avoid traffic jams..."

Qin Ou came back and said, "The bomb squad said that there would be no sleeper tickets even if they blew up the booking centre, so they just gave up."

Bai Chi came back and said, "The data room said that since there have been records, buying a sleeping ticket a day in advance has never happened!"

Zhan Zhao seriously picked up the desk calendar and wrote – E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N...

Bai Yutang drew crosses on each of them.

On that day, the entire SCI begged for tickets, but were unsuccessful, and each went home.

At night, Bai Yutang tossed and turned in bed and couldn't sleep, the long holiday was gone.

At two in the morning, Zhan Zhao suddenly tapped Bai Yutang, "Yutang, I thought of a method!"

Bai Yutang turned back...

Three seconds later, the cell phones of all of the SCI members rang wildly, and the crowd was awakened from their slumber

Bai Chi picked up the phone and saw that the call was from Bai Yutang, but it had already disconnected. There was also a text message. It was obvious that the phone call was used to wake him up, and the text message was the purpose.

Bai Chi clicked on the text message and looked at it, holding his chin, "Huh?"

Zhao Zhen rolled over and wrapped his arms around him, "I'm sleepy."

Bai Chi put down the phone, tucked Zhao Zhen in and got out of the quilt – to carry out his mission.

Ma Han took his phone and finished reading the text message, then looked at the sky in silence and got up.

Zhao Hu yawned and got dressed, "What is this..."

Luo Tian got dressed, passed by Luo Yang's small room and went in to take a glance.

Luo Yang seemed to have heard the commotion and asked in a daze, "Dad, going out so late?"

Luo Tian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Urgent mission..."

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Early the next morning.

Bao Zheng rode the elevator upstairs, and as soon as the elevator doors opened, he saw two people in his office, Bai Yutang, who was leaning against the door, and Zhan Zhao, who was sitting in the swivel chair and dozing off.

"So early?" Bao Zheng walked in and saw Bai Yutang suddenly pull something out of his pocket and wave it in front of his eyes, "One month long holiday, no denying it!"

Bao Zheng froze and reached out to take it, "Wow! A sleeper ticket!"

"What about the holiday?" Zhan Zhao tilted his face and asked Bao Zheng.

Bao Zheng patted his chest, "I'll honour my word."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded in satisfaction and stood up, ready to go home to catch up on their sleep.

"How did you two get sleeping tickets?" Bao Zheng asked curiously.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao glanced at each other and smiled slyly, "It's a secret!"

That day, the entire police station was immersed in a happy atmosphere, because the SCI crowd that had begged for tickets floor-by-floor yesterday had taken a stack of sleeper tickets to hand out floor-by-floor today.

"Oooh, SCI is awesome enough to get sleeper tickets?"

"Haven't you heard?"

"Heard what?"

"Last night, the SCI officers went out and arrested all the ticket sellers at the railway station."

"=0=! SCI is also responsible for catching ticket sellers?"

"More than that! I heard that Dr. Zhan split ten or so scalpers, and right now the scalpers are sending tickets all over the station."

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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: August 5, 2023 by Angel

Edited: August 11, 2023 by Angel