S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 4 Chapter 86

Toothless Murderer 09 – Stalker

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When Gongsun and Bai Jintang took the elevator to the lobby downstairs, someone had already delivered a slim-fit suit, and the size, colour and style were all very suitable for Gongsun.

The twins helped Gongsun empty the washroom in the ground floor lobby, and Gongsun went in to change, while Bai Jintang waited for him at the door.

With one hand in his trouser pocket and one hand holding the work schedule given to him by the twins, Bai Jintang stood imposingly in the hallway, and the little staff members on either side didn't dare to get close to him.

Bai Jintang was indeed unapproachable, and there were various rumours about him within the company, some saying that he used to be in the mafia, some saying that he was at odds with his family, and some saying that he had done countless earth-shattering things...

However, everyone who had worked at Bai Group would clearly tell you that no matter how terrifying Bai Jintang was in the rumours, the reality was definitely a hundred times more powerful.

The employees of Bai Group, whether they are cleaning aunts or high level executives... couldn't figure out what this profound and silent man was really thinking about.

It takes a lot of courage to knock on the door and enter the president's office, because when you go in, Bai Jintang might just have his back to you, staring out the window, or he might just be looking down at a document... At that time, the atmosphere is so silent that it's scary, but you need to report your work to him. This process, you will even doubt whether he really heard you, but the fact is that he did hear, and his answer is given without any emotion. Even if he spoke calmly, such as "good, very good", the person who heard it will wonder whether he was saying, "rubbish, stupid" and so on...

In short, this man is unpredictable.

However... such a man has been eaten to death by another man.

Obsessed!

Probably the only word that could be used to describe Bai Jintang and Gongsun's love, a love that belonged to adults, unrestrained.

Perhaps their personalities were normally too cold, and their only outlet for release was this love. This kind of love, surging, romantic and unrestrained, makes people not know what to think. Anyway, they didn't care what other people thought, because both of these two were extremely attractive.

Gongsun changed his suit and walked out... Bai Jintang threw back the schedule in his hand.

Da Ding rushed to catch it, helpless – People do not love rivers and mountains, they love beauty, when Gongsun's beauty is in front of their big boss, the rivers and mountains are just like a piece of shit to be flushed out of the washroom...

Bai Jintang immediately reached out to Gongsun, grabbed the hand that was stretched out, and regardless of whether or not there were other people around, pulled him over and tidied up every detail of his suit. After tidying him up properly, he took Gongsun's hand and walked through the crowd in a dignified and even inviting manner, walked out the door and got into the car, and gently waved his hand to the twins.

Xiao Ding hurriedly started the car, really wanting to kowtow to Bai Jintang and shout "obey the decree"...

"Where to first?" Bai Jintang finally remembered something serious and asked the twins.

Da Ding took out an invitation and said, "First we'll go to Old Ye's hotel inauguration, and then we'll talk business afterwards."

Bai Jintang looked at the sky, "It's just socialising, a waste of time."

Da Ding narrowed his eyes at him, "Socialising is a must! Just go and wander around for a bit, give Old Ye some face."

Bai Jintang yawned, "Looking at Gongsun who is reading a newspaper on the side, I always feel that bringing Gongsun to talk about business is very fresh but it's also a waste of good time, it's good to go travelling together."

"We've arrived." The twins stopped the car and the group got out.

Gongsun tilted his face up to look at the newly built luxury hotel and aesthetically despised the owner of the hotel while...

"Jintang Jintang." Gongsun waved at Bai Jintang.

Bai Jintang, who had already walked out, turned around and saw Gongsun waving at him, so he walked back.

Before he could speak, he heard a loud bang from not far behind him.

The crowd then erupted into screams.

Bai Jintang didn't turn around, he simply felt a pain in his temples... throbbing.

Gongsun touched his chin, "Good boy, it's not your fault, it's all because there was no traffic jam today."

Bai Jintang was speechless.

At this time, Xiao Ding ran over, "Boss, there is no need to talk anymore, Old Ye jumped off the building and fell to his death."

Bai Jintang was once again speechless – Sure enough.

Gongsun saw that the crowd was getting bigger and bigger, luckily he had his badge with him, so he walked over and asked the security guards to block the crowd, and squatted down to check the body himself.

"Another person died?"

Bai Jintang looked up and saw Lin Ruo wandering over with his hands in his pockets, "Sure enough, the rumours are true."

"What rumours?" Xiao Ding was curious.

Lin Ruo reached out and pointed at Bai Jintang, "Don't invite him for weddings and funerals, he's possessed by the god of death!"

Bai Jintang could only remain speechless.

"No need to call the police." At this time, Gongsun walked back, "Call your two younger brothers directly."

Bai Jintang raised his eyebrows slightly.

Gongsun pointed to his mouth, "Another one with loose teeth."

Bai Jintang frowned for a long time and suddenly said, "In other words, the problem isn't actually with me."

Gongsun blinked.

After a long time, Xiao Ding tugged at Da Ding and whispered, "It turns out that he does mind!"

"Yeah!" Da Ding was also surprised, "He does mind!"

"We were going to talk to Old Ye about business today, right?" Bai Jintang asked the twins.

"Well... he's got something going on, so I guess nothing can be talked about."

Without waiting for Da Ding to finish, Bai Jintang pulled Gongsun, "You're taking a holiday."

Gongsun hurriedly tugged on the car door, "I want to do an autopsy..."

Bai Jintang stuffed Gongsun into the car, "Your task is to follow me, isn't your disciple available for the autopsy, give the young ones a chance." After saying this, he bound the struggling Gongsun with his seat belt, started the car, "kidnapped" Gongsun, and went on their holiday.

The twins looked at each other – What should they do? Should they take a taxi to go back?!

It didn't take long for Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao's car to arrive.

Ma Xin carried a toolbox, got out of the car and went straight to the body. Luo Tian and Wang Chao looked around to assess the situation and asked relevant people along the way.

Zhan Zhao got out of the car and searched around for signs of Bai Jintang.

Bai Yutang looked at him in confusion, "Cat, what are you looking for?"

"Where's Brother? I want to taunt him a little, this man possessed by the god of death!" Zhan Zhao tsked and shook his head, "Sure enough, the problem is not with us, think about how high the chances of running into a dead person are in our profession? But the chances of Brother running into a dead person are surprisingly higher than ours! It's definitely a problem with him!"

Bai Yutang helplessly tugged at the godly thinking Zhan Zhao and went to the scene to look at the corpse.

The twins were quite humane, staying and waiting for them... Of course, the real reason was actually because at this time of day, it was too difficult to get a taxi in this area.

The one the twins called "Old Ye" was named Ye Fu, he specialised in the hotel business and was considered to be a considerable boss, with an enormous family fortune.

Zhan Zhao glanced at the body, while Ma Xin was looking at the mouth of the deceased, "It's the same as that of the other victims."

Zhan Zhao stared at the corpse for a while and frowned, "That murderer is so tactless? How can we play when words don't count?"

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao and shook his head, "Cat, are you telling a joke? Didn't find anything wrong?"

Zhan Zhao sighed, "There's no need for psychology in a case of this calibre, we can easily reason it out and figure out who the murderer is."

Bai Yutang smiled and shook his head.

Ma Xin tilted her face up and smiled at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "I also know who the murderer is!"

Zhan Zhao nodded at her and pointed a finger at her, "It's yours! showtime!"

Ma Xin smiled as she put away the tools for the autopsy and asked Da Ding and Xiao Ding, "How's his love life?"

The twins glanced at the corpse, blinked, and asked, "Do you mean the public angle or the private angle?"

"Public angle?" Ma Xin gossiped.

"A person should not abandon his wife after making a fortune, the red flag will not fall!" Da Ding replied.

"What about the private angle?"

"You're welcome if you're a beautiful woman, the colourful flag flies." Xiao Ding spread his hands.

"Which coloured flag was with him just now?" Ma Xin asked.

"Hmm..." Xiao Ding hooked his finger at a middle-aged man next to him who wore glasses and was wiping sweat from his face, "Who was your boss with just now?"

That person seems to be Ye Fu's secretary, and was sweating profusely, "I... this… Boss, he..."

"What are you stuttering about?" Xiao Ding said to him, "Be honest, which woman was your boss with just now!"

"Yes... I'm not too sure, just now there was a woman wearing sunglasses, she was quite tall, and she went up in the special elevator." The secretary stuttered.

After hearing this, Luo Tian went to fetch the surveillance footage and caught a woman, who was very fashionable and had a hot body wearing sunglasses...

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang tilted their heads and looked at it for a long time, expressing that they didn't recognise her.

The twins glanced at it, "She's a model." Saying that, they made a few phone calls and told the crowd the address.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao drove off to find the person, and Ma Xin was anxious – What showtime ah! There was no showtime!

Seeing her disappointment, Luo Tian smiled and asked, "Xin Xin, how did you find out that the murderer was that woman?"

Ma Xin smiled and narrowed her eyes, it's still her uncle who's considerate, so she pointed at the corpse's neck, "There's a lip print! Look, the colour is so flirtatious."

Luo Tian nodded and patiently listened as Ma Xin told him her reasoning process – It was nothing more than messy clothes, which were half unbuttoned or something.

The twins sighed on the side, no wonder young girls nowadays like to look for older men, how considerate.

On the other side, when Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao arrived at the door of that model's house, they bumped into the great beauty rushing out with a suitcase, looking like she was going far away from home.

Bai Yutang flashed his police badge, and the beautiful woman was dejected.

This model was a mixed race, her English name was Kerry, she didn't have a Chinese name, and she was a famous model in the industry. She didn't hide anything, saying that she and Ye Fu were lovers, belonging to the pure flesh and blood business, no feelings and no responsibility, she looked at Ye Fu's money and doorways, and Ye Fu looked at her young and beautiful appearance. The relationship between the two was stable, Kerry didn't find any trouble with Ye Fu on weekdays, and Ye Fu's wife turned a blind eye, so everything was peaceful.

"Then why did you poison Ye Fu?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled.

Kerry looked shocked and shook her head, "I didn't! He called me earlier and asked me to go to the banquet, he also said that he would introduce Bai Jintang to me, and perhaps could get me into the Bai Group to shoot a film. I was so happy! I was going to give him some sweetness to make him happy, but who knew that he..."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang listened attentively, "What about him?"

"He drank two mouthfuls of wine and said he was a bit uncomfortable. He has a bad heart, so I grabbed the medicine he usually takes and gave it to him!" Kerry said, with a face of innocence, "He was fine after he ate the medicine, who knew that later, he said he was thirsty again, drank two mouthfuls of water, and suddenly foamed at the mouth and died!"

Zhan Zhao stroked his chin, "Foaming at the mouth?"

"Yes!" Kerry looked at the sky, swinging her hands dramatically as if she felt wronged, "I felt his nostrils, and he unexpectedly died on me! I was in a state of confusion, if I called someone, then I couldn't get out of it. Although I'm not a big star, if my relationship with him is exposed, then how can I still work in the future? But running away like this, in the event that you guys catch me, it would be even more difficult to jump into the Yellow River to wash away, after all, I was the one who fetched the medicine for him to eat."

"So you pushed him off the building to create the appearance of a suicide and then snuck out?" Bai Yutang asked.

"These two handsome men, I'm telling the truth." Kerry leaned against the door of her expensive sports car.

Zhan Zhao suddenly asked her curiously, "You're quite pretty and have a decent career, aren't there any high-profile rich men pursuing you? Why do you want to be a mistress to that awful old man Ye Fu?"

Bai Yutang held his forehead.

Kerry's eyes widened as she looked at Zhan Zhao, "You want to court me?"

Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "Why do you ask?"

"You just complimented me on my beauty, asked me if I had anyone chasing after me, and said that Ye Fu doesn't deserve me." Kerry shrugged.

"Oh..." Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "So hooking up is the same as species mating, there is some sort of signal being emitted."

"Huh?" Kerry didn't understand.

Bai Yutang couldn't stand to watch anymore and asked Kerry, "Where did you get that bottle of medicine from? And what happened after that? Where did you put the bottle of medicine?"

"The medicine was on his desk!" Kerry said, "He was so afraid of dying that he always had to have it on hand, all within easy reach. And everyone around him knows that he takes his medicine whenever he's not feeling well. I put it back on his desk after I gave it to him."

Bai Yutang took out his phone and asked Luo Tian to go to Ye Fu's office to look for the bottle of medicine.

Luo Tian quickly found it, and Ma Xin took out a few capsules and briefly tested them before saying, "Captain, all of the pills inside are poison."

Bai Yutang nodded and asked Kerry, "Did Ye Fu prepare today's banquet?"

Kerry thought for a moment, "This is not too clear, other than being slightly lustful, Ye Fu is quite good at everything else, especially work. Each of his hotels has a floor that belongs to him, with offices and private rooms, and exclusive elevators to reach them. Of course, besides working, it's also convenient for him to have an affair with a woman. This was the first time I came to this one..."

Saying that, Kerry sighed, "Ai... in fact, he's quite good to me. Originally, the opening of this hotel was scheduled for two days from now, but I have to fly out in a couple of days to go to a show elsewhere, and it seems that Bai Jintang was only available today... so he purposely moved the time up, wanting to give me a surprise."

"You're saying he was originally going to come two days from now?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang asked in unison.

Kerry was taken aback by the sudden seriousness of the two men's expressions and nodded, "Yes."

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao nodded, "If it went according to the original plan, it would be three days later."

"Does Ye Fu have anything to do with Chang Yan?" Bai Yutang suddenly asked Kerry.

Kerry was stunned, "Chang Yan? The singer? She just passed away."

Zhan Zhao nodded.

"I don't know about that, but Ye Fu was a fan of Chang Yan's songs, he was crazy." Kerry smiled, "Although he's quite old, he loved listening to music, the place he lived will definitely have the best stereo. He especially liked to listen to Chang Yan's songs, saying something like, listening to Chang Yan's songs can calm him down, and he's not lonely..."

The corners of Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's mouths twitched, this Ye Fu didn't look tall and stout, why did he have a literary youth style.

"I remembered something!" Kerry suddenly said, "I might know who poisoned Ye Fu!"

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By the side of the road, Gongsun sat on a bench in front of the convenience store at the gas station, squinting at Bai Jintang.

Bai Jintang walked out with a bottle of water, opened the cap and handed it to Gongsun, "Let's continue to elope after refuelling."

Gongsun looked at the sky, "I have to work tomorrow."

Bai Jintang sat beside him, "So let's elope to a place without a police station."

Gongsun pinched his chin and shook it, "Don't make trouble, fill up the tank and we'll drive back."

Bai Jintang smiled, but his gaze fell on a small yellow car parked not far away, at the entrance of the petrol station.

Gongsun noticed that Bai Jintang had looked at that car several times, so he asked, "What is it? Did that egg yolk-like ugly car provoke you?"

"He followed us all the way and flashed his lights in broad daylight, don't you think it's strange?" While Bai Jintang was talking, the little brother who was pumping the gas waved at them, signalling that it was full.

Bai Jintang stood up, and at the same time, the car slowly made a U-turn and drove away.

Bai Jintang frowned slightly.

"Let's go, it's probably just a coincidence."

Bai Jintang raised his eyebrows, "Such a coincidence?"

Gongsun tugged on his collar, "It's true that the outside world is dangerous, let's go, let's go back to the police 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 27, 2023 by Angel

Edited: August 29, 2023 by Angel