S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 4 Chapter 90

Toothless Murderer 13 – Cat's Trick

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"So sleepy." Zhan Zhao yawned, wiping his hair as he walked out of the bathroom, and felt his body aching as he flopped onto the bed.

Just after lying down for a while, "boom"...

"Aiya!"

......

After going downstairs to make a midnight snack and distributing it round from room to room, Bai Yutang, who took Zhan Zhao's share upstairs, heard a miserable scream coming from the room.

Bai Yutang was startled and hurriedly pushed the door in...

He saw that Zhan Zhao was lying on the bed rubbing his waist, and Luban was sitting on his waist and licking his fur.

Seeing that Zhan Zhao was going to be crushed to death by Luban, Bai Yutang couldn't laugh or cry as he put down the plate in his hand and went to lift Luban up.

"Meow~" Luban was flicking his big fluffy tail and calling out as he was lifted by Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang placed him by the side of the bed and reached out to pat Zhan Zhao, who was paralysed with exhaustion on the bed, "Get up and eat your snack."

Zhan Zhao smoothly wrapped his arm around Luban, "He's also a cat, why does he get to eat and sleep every day, while I have to catch perverts every day?"

"Meow~" Luban broke free and jumped to the side, lying down and licking his paws.

Zhan Zhao rolled over and sat up, reaching out to take the macaroni Bai Yutang handed over. Smelling the aroma, his mood improved quite a bit.

Bai Yutang climbed onto the bed and sat down, taking his own portion and looking at Zhan Zhao as he ate.

Seeing that he seemed to have something to say, Zhan Zhao leaned over and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"Ahem." Bai Yutang coughed and leaned in close to Zhan Zhao, "The belt of the bathrobe is loose."

Zhan Zhao looked down, puzzled, "It's not loose."

Bai Yutang smoothly drew his hand, "It's loose."

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang speechlessly and reached out to pull his belt...

"It's going to spill!" Bai Yutang held the plate and looked at Zhan Zhao who was attempting to "molest" him.

"Brother, are there any more sausages?"

At this time, Bai Chi pushed the door in... and saw Bai Yutang holding two plates, and Zhan Zhao wrapping his arm around his waist to pull the belt of his clothes.

Bai Chi silently withdrew and helped close the door.

Zhan Zhao squinted at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang held the two plates and asked him, "Want to eat or continue?"

Zhan Zhao then felt his stomach rumbling. He let go of Bai Yutang's bathrobe and went to grab his plate to eat, asking Bai Yutang as he did, "Do something fun for dinner to refresh yourself, right?"

Bai Yutang leaned over to look at him, "You're not tired? You have to get up early tomorrow."

Zhan Zhao stared at him for about three seconds before suddenly lifting his foot and kicking him, "Horny mouse! What are you thinking about, I'm talking about doing refreshing things."

"Doing it certainly refreshes the mind." Bai Yutang ate his macaroni, suddenly feeling less tired.

Zhan Zhao reached out to touch the cell phone on the bedside table.

Bai Yutang continued to help him with his plate.

Not a moment later, after Zhan Zhao grabbed his cell phone and clicked on it, he continued to eat his midnight snack, with a bit of a mischievous grin on his face.

Bai Yutang looked at him in disbelief, "Who did you provoke now?"

Zhan Zhao smiled faintly and turned his cell phone off.

Bai Yutang realised it was his own phone and looked at Zhan Zhao, "You can't turn it off! Should something happen..."

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows, "Just turn it off for a while." Saying that, he turned off his own cell phone as well, then smiled cheekily as he continued to eat.

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S City, at the entrance of the suite on the top floor of one of Bai Group's high–end hotels.

Carrying two late–night snacks and two cans of beer, Bai Ye opened the door and entered the room, and saw that on the plush rug by the bed, Zhao Jue was holding a phone in his hand, tilting his face in concentration as if he was thinking about something.

"What's wrong?" Bai Ye took out a serving of macaroni and offered it to him.

"Shhh!" Zhao Jue signalled for him to keep quiet. That look, it was as if he was mentally calculating something...

"Seventeen!"

A few moments later, Zhao Jue suddenly shouted a number, then hurriedly texted, "The answer is seventeen, this time I'm definitely faster than that cat!"

After sending it, he joyfully put his cell phone down and picked up his late night snack, eating it while waiting for a text message.

Bai Ye picked up Zhao Jue's cell phone to have a look, and saw that there was a very long and complicated maths question on the screen. At the end, there was only one sentence – Zhan Zhao said to compete with you in mental arithmetic, after receiving the text message, start after counting to three.

Bai Ye saw that the sender was Bai Yutang, and looked at Zhao Jue with some confusion.

Zhao Jue chewed on his macaroni and took his cell phone, "Still no reply? That cat is definitely slower than me this time!"

Bai Ye shook his head, ignoring these two's childish rivalry, and drank his beer and ate his snack.

However, Zhao Jue had finished a serving of macaroni, and Bai Yutang's reply still hadn't come.

"Could it be that that cat is trying to play tricks after losing?!" Zhao Jue narrowed his eyes and dialled Bai Yutang's number...

"The number you have dialled cannot be connected right now, please dial again later..."

"Hmm?" Zhao Jue looked at the phone and thought, "Ah, it might be out of battery!" After thinking about it, he dialled Zhan Zhao's phone, but he couldn't get through to him either.

Zhao Jue narrowed his eyes, "Did he actually calculate it? Why are neither of them answering the phone, so outrageous ah!"

Bai Ye sipped his beer and looked at the cranky Zhao Jue speechlessly. He shouldn't have bought him a midnight snack just now, it would be better to let him starve and not have the strength to be cranky. Now that he has eaten his fill, he can probably make trouble for the rest of the night.

Zhao Jue dialled back and forth between Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's phones, and after half an hour, it was still fruitless!

Zhao Jue kicked a pillow, "Young people nowadays are so unreasonable!"

Bai Ye looked up at the clock. One–thirty in the morning, the person who calls someone at this time is the one with the brain problem, right?

Zhao Jue thought about it, flipped through his address book to check, and decided to call Zhao Zhen.

At this moment, Bai Chi, who had eaten a late–night snack and overused his brain, was lying on his back beside Zhao Zhen, sleeping peacefully.

Zhao Zhen's phone was always set on vibrate. When it vibrated, Zhao Zhen frowned – Wrong number?

But the phone continuously vibrated, and Zhao Zhen was speechless. Who was calling in the middle of the night? It seemed that the caller displayed was Zhao Jue...

"Hmm..."

At this time, Bai Chi moved, wrapped his arms around Zhao Zhen's waist, and asked in a daze, "Who is it?"

"It seems to be Zhao Jue." Zhao Zhen had to pick up the phone, "Hello?"

"Tell Bai Yutang to answer the phone!" Zhao Jue's voice came through.

Zhao Zhen blinked and looked at the clock, it was one–thirty in the morning.

"Tell Bai Yutang to answer the phone ah!" Zhao Jue yelled on the other end of the phone.

Bai Chi half opened his eyes and asked Zhao Zhen, "What's wrong?"

"Uh... Zhao Jue said to ask Bai Yutang..." Zhao Zhen was also confused.

Bai Chi laughed, put his arm around Zhao Zhen and rubbed against him, muttering, "Brother is busy... he he."

Zhao Zhen immediately understood, and said to the phone, "It seems like he's busy, why don't you call again in the morning." After saying that, he hung up the phone, and in the process turned off the phone, so as not to have someone call again and affect the rest of his Xiao Chi Chi.

Zhao Jue was hung up on, and impatiently dialled Bai Chi's phone... but Zhao Zhen's eyes were quick, and as soon as Bai Chi's cell phone lit up with an incoming call, before it had time to vibrate, it was switched off by the great magician.

"Hmm?" Bai Chi moved again.

Zhao Zhen wrapped his arms around him and touched his head, "Good boy, go back to sleep."

"Mmm..." Bai Chi comfortably went back to sleep.

Zhao Jue held his cell phone and kicked the bed, "You've got to be kidding me! Nowadays, young people like to hang up on others so much ah!"

Bai Ye silently looked at the clock that was approaching two in the morning, and at Zhao Jue who was in high spirits, and felt that a peaceful sleep was unlikely, and that he should have added two tablets of Valium to his midnight snack just now. So, the helpless Bai Ye stood up and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Zhao Jue went through his address book again and called Bai Jintang.

Bai Jintang was sleeping with his arm around Gongsun when his phone rang. He reached out to pick it up, and saw that Zhao Jue's name was displayed on the screen.

Bai Jintang turned to look at Gongsun.

He saw that Gongsun was sleeping soundly. Without his glasses, Gongsun's sleeping face was somewhat childish, which was inexplicably adorable.

Bai Jintang stared at Gongsun and answered the phone.

Zhao Jue saw the call connected, and felt that Bai Jintang on the other end answered, but there was no "hello" said.

Zhao Jue suddenly regretted the fact that he should have called the twins directly, as the Bai family's eldest son had a bad temper.

"What?" Bai Jintang asked when he heard that Zhao Jue was silent on the other end, while stretching out his fingers and gently touching Gongsun's chin.

"Erm... tell Bai Yutang to answer his phone." After Zhao Jue finished speaking, Bai Jintang on the other end didn't speak.

"Hello?" Zhao Jue was puzzled, "Hello hello? Hello?"

At this time, Bai Jintang's cell phone had long since been thrown to the end of the bed. It turned out that while he was listening to the phone just now, his finger slowly traced along Gongsun's chin to his lips, but Gongsun suddenly opened his lips and gently bit the tip of his finger, then closed his eyes and smiled.

Bai Jintang drew a cold breath, who is Zhao Jue? I don't remember!

So, the cell phone that had been kicked to the end of the bed and was in an unknown corner kept transmitting the "Hello hello..."

On this end, Bai Jintang and Gongsun turned on the late–night adult mode...

Zhao Jue listened to the increasingly ambiguous voices on the other end, and quickly cut off the call, flattening his mouth – It was the middle of the night, but also so interesting...

Helpless, Zhao Jue dialled the twins... However, Da Ding and Xiao Ding were wearing headphones and were duelling in a game, and it was a critical moment, so they didn't hear the sound of their cell phones. The little lion dozed off behind them, and seeing the cell phone keep lighting up, he pawed at it and played with it, and pressed the answer button...

"Hello?" Zhao Jue then heard a strange voice coming from the other end...

"Left left!"

"The city gates are open!"

"Wow! So many skeleton soldiers!"

"Bomb bomb!"

"Don't step on that mine!"

"You're a stupid teammate!"

"You're the stupid teammate!"

......

The corner of Zhao Jue's mouth twitched and he hung up the phone speechlessly – Sure enough, the lifestyle of young people nowadays was unfathomable.

After a busy day, Bao Zheng returned home and took a shower before lying down. He had lost some sleep over the SCI case these past few days. This case was very complicated, and the intention of targeting SCI was obvious, could the other party have something up their sleeve...

Just as he was thinking, his phone rang.

Bao Zheng picked it up and saw that it was Zhao Jue, and frowned slightly – Could it be that the case really wasn't simple? He hurriedly answered, "Hello?"

"Wu wu wu! Blackie!"

On the other end, Zhao Jue cried, "Those surnamed Bai and surnamed Zhan are so outrageous!"

The corners of Bao Zheng's mouth twitched – It seemed like it wasn't anything serious.

"You get Bai Yutang on the phone! Or Zhan Zhao will do!" Zhao Jue said.

Bao Zheng frowned, "Why don't you just call them? It's not like I live with them."

"They're not picking up!"

"If they don't pick up, why don't you call tomorrow morning!" Bao Zheng was speechless, "Don't make trouble, they've been busy for days, do you think everyone is as idle as you?!"

Zhao Jue opened his mouth wide, "I'm idle..."

But he didn't have time to finish, Bao Zheng hung up the call with a "click", turning off his phone in the process, and went to sleep with a smile on his face. When he thought of Zhao Jue's expression at this moment, Bao Zheng felt that he would surely have a good dream that night.

......

When Bai Ye came out of the bathroom and was drying his hair, he saw that Zhao Jue was yelling to the person on the other end of the phone, "Bai Yunwen! Tell your second son to answer his phone!"

After hearing this, Father Bai didn't answer, but just silently hung up the phone. Since the home had a landline, he unplugged the phone line in the process.

Mother Bai asked in confusion, "Who is it? Calling so late?"

Bai Yunwen was silent for a moment before saying, "An insurance salesman."

Mother Bai blinked, "Selling insurance at two–thirty in the morning?"

The corner of Bai Yunwen's mouth twitched, "Probably smoked."

Next door.

Zhan Qitian was woken up by the sound of the phone. When he picked it up, he heard Zhao Jue's pitiful voice coming from the other end, "Qitian, tell your son to pick up the phone!"

Zhan Qitian smoothly turned off the phone and stuffed it under the bed. Mother Zhan also woke up, "Who is it?"

Zhan Qitian was silent for a long time, and returned, "An insurance seller... smoked."

Bai Ye was holding a hair dryer and drying his head. He saw Zhao Jue ruthlessly stomping on a pillow on the ground, and then looked at the time, three o'clock in the morning.

"Go to sleep." Bai Ye blow–dried his hair and burrowed under the covers to get ready for bed.

Zhao Jue suddenly pounced over and mounted him, with both hands tugging on his bathrobe.

Bai Ye looked at him with one hand behind his head, "So proactive today?"

"Take me to Bai Yutang's house!" Zhao Jue said seriously.

Bai Ye looked up at the sky and rolled over, covering his head with the blanket.

"Hurry up! Go now!"

"You're insane..." The blanket that Bai Ye used to cover his head was lifted off, so he had to use a pillow to shield his head.

"Get up and get dressed!" Zhao Jue swayed back and forth.

Unable to do anything about it, Bai Ye reached out and wrapped his arms around Zhao Jue, stuffing him under the blanket, rolling it up and wrapping it around him. Then he pulled out his belt and trapped Zhao Jue, who was rolled up like a hotdog, with the blanket, and switched off the lights.

"It's hot as hell!" Zhao Jue rolled around.

Bai Ye rolled over and wrapped his arms around him, feeling that the size was quite appropriate and quite comfortable to hold.

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The next morning, Bai Yutang woke up and found that last night, he fell asleep and forgot to turn on his cell phone. He hurriedly turned it on... and saw the three digits "198" on the missed calls list.

Bai Yutang had a bad feeling – Was the police station bombed or did a world war break out?

However, after checking the call records in detail, Bai Yutang instantly felt a sense of powerlessness – The caller was the same person, Zhao Jue.

Bai Yutang shook his head and looked at Zhan Zhao who was still sleeping beside him.

He saw that Zhan Zhao seemed to be sleeping exceptionally well. He was lying on his back, with one hand on the pillow, and one hand on his chest covering the blanket that covered his chest, and his mouth was slightly open, with a smile at the corner of his lips.

What was even more interesting was that Luban had run to the bed at some point and was now lying beside Zhan Zhao, lying on his back with his belly facing upwards, with one paw on the side and one paw placed on his chest – It was the exact same position as Zhan Zhao, and he was also sleeping very soundly.

Bai Yutang smiled and shook his head, gently got out of bed, and dragged his slippers out the door to make breakfast.

Just as he walked down the stairs, he heard the doorbell at the front door ring furiously. Bai Yutang wondered – Who was it this early?

Upstairs, Xiao Bai Chi rushed out with his toothbrush in his mouth to open the door, followed by Lisbon, who was stretching his legs.

Bai Chi walked to the stairs and saw that Bai Yutang was already up, "Brother, you're up so early?"

Bai Yutang nodded, walked to the door and looked out... and instantly was unable to laugh or cry.

He saw a car parked at the front gate, Bai Ye wearing sunglasses, leaning against the door of the car and looking around, and Zhao Jue standing in the entrance, with one hand on his hip and the other fiercely ringing the doorbell. From far away, Bai Yutang could see his dark circles under his eyes – Zhao Jue was tortured by Zhan Zhao this time, and it is estimated that he did not sleep the whole night.

Bai Yutang walked out and opened the gate.

Zhao Jue narrowed his eyes at him.

Bai Yutang asked Bai Ye, "So early?"

Bai Ye took off his glasses. He was in good spirits, and spreading his hands helplessly, he asked, "Do you have breakfast?"

"Just about to make it." Bai Yutang turned back. Zhao Jue had already gotten ahead of him, aggressively walking towards the house and asking as he walked, "Where is Zhan Zhao?!"

"Still sleeping..." Bai Yutang saw that Zhao Jue was already upstairs, so he followed behind.

"He certainly knows how to sleep!" Zhao Jue came to the door of Bai Yutang's room with big strides. At this time, it just so happened that next door, Bai Jintang also got up, and he looked at the sudden arrival of Zhao Jue in disbelief.

Zhao Jue opened the door to Bai Yutang's room, "Kitten..."

However, after Zhao Jue shouted "kitten" half a dozen times, he suddenly stopped moving.

Bai Yutang leaned against the doorway and looked at Zhao Jue, who was standing by the bed.

"Well?"

Bai Ye came in.

"Shhh!" Zhao Jue glared at him fiercely.

Bai Ye was bewildered.

He saw Zhao Jue holding the pillow that he had just picked up and wanted to smack Zhan Zhao with, and was rubbing it while staring at Zhan Zhao, who was sleeping on the bed in the exact same position as Luban, "Ya! So well–behaved and cute!"

Bai Ye held his forehead.

Bai Yutang smiled and shook his head, turning to go downstairs to make breakfast.

Zhao Jue was rubbing his pillow, when suddenly, there was the sound of wind...

He froze slightly, looked up, and was hit by a flying pillow.

When the pillow fell, Zhao Jue rubbed the bridge of his smashed nose and looked up to see that Zhan Zhao was sitting on the bed and had long since woken up.

Zhao Jue narrowed his eyes at him for a long time, raised his pillow and pounced on him, "You dead kitten!"

Zhan Zhao raised his pillow to return the favour. Luban had been woken up, he meowed and jumped off the bed, following Bai Ye out the door.

Bai Ye closed the door to their room, leaving the two people inside engaged in their pillow fight, and shook his head as he went downstairs to wait for breakfast.

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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: September 4, 2023 by Angel

Edited: September 28, 2023 by Angel