S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 4 Chapter 93

Toothless Murderer 16 – Sex in Doubt

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Who was the person in the photo? It was none other than the female reporter, Wang Yue, who had provided important clues to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang.

"Didn't she have nothing to do with this?" Zhao Hu was puzzled.

"That means she's not unrelated." Ma Han looked at the portrait, "It's necessary to investigate her in more detail."

Bai Yutang called Jiang Ping, and Zhao Hu scratched his head, "But she has a strong alibi."

Zhan Zhao prompted, "There are two possibilities."

"One is that she has accomplices, what about the other?" Zhao Hu asked.

"Her alibi is fake." Bai Yutang hung up the phone and answered, "There's something wrong with those villagers."

"Just those seven aunts and eight uncles in her neighbourhood?" Zhao Hu stroked his chin, "They joined forces to protect Wang Yue?"

Zhan Zhao habitually wanted to reach out and touch his chin, only to feel his hand ache when his arm was raised. He looked down at his hand that was wrapped like a pig's hoof.

Bai Yutang was very perceptive and didn't know whether he saw or felt Zhan Zhao's discomfort, asking, "Does it hurt? Do you want to take some painkillers?"

Zhan Zhao looked disgusted, "I'm not going to take it, what if I take it and get confused?"

Bai Yutang frowned, "Then why don't you rest for a while."

"I won't rest, I'll go see my mum." Zhan Zhao said.

Bai Yutang was a bit suspicious – Zhan Zhao dared to go see his mother at this moment? He's not afraid of being locked up to recover from his injuries...

But when he locked eyes with Zhan Zhao, he saw that the cat was pouting and making an expression.

Bai Yutang remembered, just now, Zhan Qitian said he had something to say to the two of them and was waiting upstairs.

Thus, Bai Yutang nodded cooperatively.

The two were about to go out when the door to the ward opened, and Luo Tian came over and said, "The old man is awake."

"Awake?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "That means he's not dead?"

"Uh, no..." Luo Tian awkwardly shook his head, "After he was resuscitated, his entire body was awake, as if he was suddenly cured of his mental illness." Saying that, he subconsciously glanced at Zhao Jue.

Zhao Jue was holding his chin in a daze, and when he heard that, he smiled, "Ah, he's cured, it's really great."

When everyone looked at his "sincere" face, they all felt uneasy in their hearts, and felt that he seemed to have some kind of conspiracy brewing.

"So hungry." Zhao Jue suddenly stood up, "Are there any good curry buns in the neighbourhood?"

"Curry buns?" The crowd all looked at him in confusion.

"Hmm... let's go find a bakery." After saying that, Zhao Jue slipped out with his hands in his pockets.

Although Zhan Zhao was full of doubts, he was more curious about going to see that old man. Schizophrenia being cured instantly, is that possible?

When the crowd arrived at the door of the ward, they saw Yang Fan reading a medical record. The door of the room was ajar, and the sound of the old man's howling came out from the inside, as well as the sound of a few doctors shouting at the nurses to get a sedative.

Zhao Hu was puzzled, "Didn't you say it was cured?"

"It was cured." Yang Fan looked up, "But cured is worse than not cured."

"What do you mean?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled.

"When the old man went crazy, he didn't just injure bystanders, he also seriously injured his own daughter, and his grandson was also injured. His daughter is still in the hospital ward now, his grandson has just been discharged from the hospital after recovering from his injuries, and his son refuses to come and see him. In addition... " Yang Fan hesitated.

"In addition what?" Everyone asked.

"Because he recovered suddenly, almost no one will believe it. He has to be sent to a psychiatric hospital for isolation and monitoring in addition to undergoing a series of tests, staying for a period of time to see if there will be a relapse until the possibility of him having a relapse is completely ruled out." Yang Fan pushed his glasses up, "In addition, due to the fact that he hurt too many people during his madness and now has suddenly recovered, the people who were hurt by him may file a lawsuit against him, after all, it is not a crime for a mentally ill person to cut someone, but for a normal person it is a big crime. No one would believe that someone who was so out of his mind yesterday that he wanted to kill someone is suddenly cured today, right?"

Everyone subconsciously frowned – After this disease is cured, it's really not as comfortable as being crazy.

Zhan Zhao looked out the window and saw that Zhao Jue was walking out of the building, inquiring about something with two young nurses from the hospital, who were eager to show him the way.

Zhao Jue smiled gently, and after electrifying those two young girls to the point of dizziness, he went out of the hospital gate.

Zhan Zhao sighed and looked back at the old man.

Bai Yutang frowned and asked Zhan Zhao, "Is there no other way?"

Zhan Zhao looked at him, "Do you have a bad feeling?"

Bai Yutang frowned, "I can't say..."

Zhan Zhao patted his shoulder, "Don't worry, this old man will be awake for two days at most. He only stabbed me, a small punishment will be fine, besides... even if it's Zhao Jue, it's not possible to instantly cure a mentally ill person."

Bai Yutang thought for a moment, "Oh... you mean, his sobriety is an illusion?"

Zhan Zhao smiled and nodded.

"I don't understand." Zhao Hu pursued, "Is there any truth in this?"

"It's very simple." Zhan Zhao said, "Zhao Jue remodelled a normal personality for the old man, so the old man may now be a living Bodhisattva with a super kind heart who sweeps the ground without hurting the lives of ants. Therefore, when he thinks of his own extreme viciousness which caused his children to suffer and his wife and children to be separated, it's a human tragedy that he can't bear to live with."

The corner of Zhao Hu's mouth twitched, "It's so tragic."

"This symptom won't last long." Zhan Zhao told Yang Fan, "It's still necessary to send him to a psychiatric hospital to receive professional treatment."

Yang Fan nodded.

The crowd all left.

Zhao Hu and Ma Han said that they would go check out that village and Wang Yue. Not to mention Chen Jiayi and Qi Le, several of them were staying in the hospital, making it easy to protect them. It's best for them to stay together until the case is solved, and with twins watching over them, they were the most secure.

When Ma Han and Zhao Hu left, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang entered the elevator.

Just as the elevator door closed, Bai Yutang reached out and put a hand on Zhan Zhao's shoulder, letting him lean against his shoulder, and whispered, "Just cry if you're in pain."

Zhan Zhao put on a long face and looked at Bai Yutang with a depressed expression, "It hurts, I've never felt so much pain in my life, it's a serious injury!"

Bai Yutang saw his appearance and knew that he was in pain. Hand injuries were the most painful, not to mention the fact that there were so many stitches in the heart of his hand, it must have hurt to death after the anaesthetic dissipated. But there were many people outside just now, and Zhan Zhao was holding on for dear life...

Bai Yutang inexplicably thought, isn't Zhan Zhao very good at hypnosis, can he hypnotise himself and stop feeling the pain in his hand?

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang, "You had this expression when Lilia gave birth."

The corners of Bai Yutang's mouth moved, "Yeah... at that moment, I guess she was in more pain than you."

Seeing that he smiled, Zhan Zhao smiled too, and then was quite pleased, "Count it as a work injury! Tell Bao Sir to compensate me!"

Bai Yutang gently stroked his soft hair, feeling frustrated in his heart. He should have followed Zhan Zhao downstairs just now... he really couldn't let this cat out of his sight for more than half a step!

Just then, the elevator door opened.

A woman with an excellent temperament was standing at the entrance of the elevator, ready to enter.

"Jiang Nan?" Zhan Zhao was a bit surprised, "Why are you here?"

The two of them exited the elevator to greet her, and Jiang Nan was in no hurry to leave, so she exchanged pleasantries with the two of them.

"I heard that Jiayi and Qi Le are both hospitalised, so I came to visit." Jiang Nan was dressed in a plain outfit.

"Are you alone?" Bai Yutang asked, "Your manager isn't following you?"

"They're waiting in the car, I didn't let too many people come up." Jiang Nan said, and noticing Zhan Zhao's hand, she frowned, "You're injured?"

Zhan Zhao nodded.

Jiang Nan stared at Zhan Zhao for a while, then took a packet out of her bag and handed it over to Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao blinked and saw that it was a packet of biscuits and cupcakes.

The corner of Zhan Zhao's mouth twitched.

Jiang Nan said, "Condolences, I made them myself."

"You brought it with you?" Zhan Zhao was surprised.

Jiang Nan smiled, "I was going to go downstairs to see the children, it's fine, I brought a lot." Saying this, she patted the bulging bag.

"The kids downstairs?" Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were puzzled, "You have a relative who is sick?"

"No, they're a few sick children that I'm sponsoring." Jiang Nan seems to be in a good mood, "One recently found matching bone marrow, and will be able to be discharged from the hospital if the surgery is successful."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang secretly thought wow, Jiang Nan is a good person ah...

"I've escaped death once, I have to accumulate some virtue." Saying this, Jiang Nan was about to bid farewell to the two.

Zhan Zhao suddenly called out to her, "Jiang Nan, have you ever seen this person?"

Saying that, Zhan Zhao poked Bai Yutang and asked him to show the portrait drawn by Zhao Jue to Jiang Nan.

Jiang Nan glanced at it, reached out and touched her chin, and began to recall, "Hmm... it seems..."

"Look familiar?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Mhmm." Jiang Nan nodded.

"What about with a different hairstyle?" Zhan Zhao then asked.

"Ah!" Jiang Nan clapped her hands, "I remember her! It's just that she had short hair before and now she has long hair, so I almost didn't recognise her."

"How do you know her?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"She's a reporter and she interviewed me." Jiang Nan said, "Hmm, it was just a little while ago."

"Not long ago?" Zhan Zhao asked, "After you and Lin Ruo went through the experience with the Emilia?"

"Yes!" Jiang Nan nodded, "I remember this reporter because she asked very special questions."

"How special?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Wait a moment." Jiang Nan called her manager, "David, did you bring the hard drive?"

There seemed to be an affirmative answer on the other side.

Jiang Nan said, "Then bring it up here."

After that, Jiang Nan hung up the phone and said to Zhan Zhao, "I'm a cautious person. Every interview, even if it's just a recorded interview or a print media interview, I'll have my assistant quietly record a copy of it for the archives, both audio and video, so as to prevent anyone from writing any nonsense."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang raised an eyebrow – Awesome!

Not long after, Jiang Nan's manager brought up a hard drive.

"This is the video and audio of all the interviews I've done in the last six months." Jiang Nan said, "After being interviewed by her, I've been filming recently and haven't been interviewed, you guys can take a look at the last video, which shows the interview process."

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang said thanks and accepted the hard drive.

David went downstairs and waited first. At first glance, he was an experienced manager.

Zhan Zhao asked Jiang Nan again, "You got acquainted with Jiayi?"

"We got to know each other well recently, I have a drama with her. She's really a good girl, she wants to be a housewife, but she's a beauty, so she's lucky to have met the right person. It's perfect, that boy is pretty good too, that sniper." Jiang Nan went to the window sill and sat down, "I am also very familiar with Qi Le and Chen Yu, as I said before..."

"Do you like Qi Le's voice." Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang remembered that test Jiang Nan had done at the police station previously.

Jiang Nan smiled, "It's a young person's world now."

"What about Ran Shaoqi?" Zhan Zhao asked, "What do you think about this person?"

"Is he a person? Isn't he just a piano that can walk, eat and talk?" Jiang Nan said indifferently, "I recognise his musical talent, but I don't like him in person."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang raised an eyebrow – Sure enough, Jiang Nan didn't like this type of person.

"I still remember how Lin Ruo saved me when I was trapped on the Emilia, and in the end, he even said things like 'the person you want to kill is me, let her go'... Some men just have a sense of responsibility and will carry the load even if it's not his problem, while others don't have any backbone at all. It's a shame, why was it Chang Yan who died? And what's most puzzling is why a woman like Chang Yan liked Ran Shaoqi."

"What about Wang Yue?" Zhan Zhao pointed to the picture, "Has this reporter ever interviewed Chang Yan?"

"Oh, I don't know about this." Jiang Nan shook her head.

At this time, her manager called, saying that she had to rush back.

Jiang Nan then stood up and said goodbye to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang returned to the ward, and sure enough... paper can't cover a fire, and Zhan Zhao's injury was discovered by Mother Zhan.

Now, Mother Zhan was almost healed and was about to get up to kick the person who hurt her son to death.

Zhan Qitian had no choice but to hold her down and tell her to stop tossing and turning, and that Zhao Jue's dark mode was on.

Both Mother Zhan and Mother Bai froze when they heard this, one looking at Zhan Qitian and the other looking at Bai Yunwen, both seemingly surprised and a little worried.

Zhan Zhao wanted Bai Yutang to see the change in the expressions of the parents and turned back, but he couldn't find Bai Yutang.

He saw Bai Yutang standing in the doorway, looking at the tablet in Bai Chi's hand. Bai Chi seemed to be flipping through photos to show him.

Zhan Zhao went over to him, "What are you looking at?"

"Looking at the group photo from Chang Yan's fan club." Bai Yutang said, "Wang Yue doesn't seem to be in it.

"There's no such person." Bai Chi and Zhan Zhao both shook their heads with certainty.

"I know there's no such person." Bai Yutang scanned through the people in the photo, "Even the manager and assistant were photographed... I'm more curious about who took the photo."

Everyone froze.

Zhan Zhao's eyes lit up, and he was about to reach out for the picture, but he forgot that his hand was still wrapped in a bandage, and as soon as he lifted his hand...

"Hiss!" Zhan Zhao stomped his foot in pain.

Startled, Bai Yutang threw away the tablet, but fortunately Zhao Zhen's quick eyes saved Bai Chi's possession.

Zhan Qitian pointed to the chair next to Mother Zhan and yelled at Zhan Zhao, "Sit down and don't get up!"

Zhan Zhao was escorted inside by Mother Bai and sat down, he was not allowed to investigate the case anymore.

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang nodded and went next door, holding the portrait drawn by Zhao Jue and asking Chen Jiayi who was eating cake, "Have you seen this person?"

Jiayi tilted her head, "Hmmm..."

"Think about it carefully." Bai Chi said from the side.

"Maybe... there is nothing distinctive about the common face, I see so many people every day, there are so many fans of the film alone, I don't remember for sure." Chen Jiayi was helpless.

Qi Le and Chen Yu also relaxed at this moment, both expressing that they want to see it.

Chen Yu said that she seemed a bit familiar, and Qi Le also said that she seemed to have seen her before... but these three girls all belonged to the unconcerned type, and they couldn't remember.

Bai Yutang took out the group photo on the tablet, "Do you remember the person who took the group photo?"

All three froze, then went back to look at the photo, tilting their heads uncertainly. This...

"He's the one who took the photo, that reporter."

At this moment, Chen Jiayi's manager interjected.

Jiayi tilted her face to look at her, "Really?"

"That's him!" Jiayi's manager nodded, then frowned, "But why is his hairstyle weird, do men like to wear long hair these days?"

"Wait a minute." Bai Yutang looked at her in surprise, "A man?"

"That's right." Jiayi's manager nodded, "The photographer? He seemed to be a friend of Chang Yan, specially invited to take pictures."

"A male..." Bai Yutang frowned, "A man?!"

Xiao Bai Chi also tilted his face and opened his mouth wide, Wang Yue was indeed a woman, where did she look like a man?

"Is Wang Yue's sex actually male or female?" Bai Yutang asked.

Bai Chi called back to have Jiang Ping check. Jiang Ping checked, and said that the ID card indicates that she is a woman all right.

"What's going on?" Bai Yutang was puzzled, "A man dressed as a woman or a woman dressed as a man?"

Bai Chi continued to tilt his face.

At that moment, Bai Yutang saw the doorway, and Zhan Zhao, who was being escorted by Zhan Qitian, waved at him.

So Bai Yutang followed him out, and the three of them entered the empty room next door together, while Zhan Qitian closed the door.

"How's it going?" Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang about the case.

Bai Yutang answered truthfully, and Zhan Zhao was so shocked that his voice went up a few notches, "Male?!"

"What male and female?" Zhan Qitian frowned.

The two obediently stopped talking, waiting for Zhan Qitian to speak.

"You guys, over the next two days, you have to watch over Zhao Jue." Zhan Qitian said.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao were slightly stunned.

Zhan Zhao asked, "Why are we watching him?"

"Solve this case as fast as possible and don't let him come into contact with the people behind the scenes." Zhan Qitian said, "As soon as possible, have Bai Ye take him away from here, in addition..." Zhan Qitian reached out and patted Zhan Zhao's head, "get better quickly. Also, in front of Zhao Jue, even if you are in pain, you should say that it doesn't hurt. Be happy, eat and sleep, understand?"

Zhan Zhao's eyes widened as he looked at Zhan Qitian.

Zhan Qitian sighed and touched the top of Zhan Zhao's head again, saying to Bai Yutang, "You watch over him. "

Bai Yutang nodded in understanding, and Zhan Qitian went out.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were the only ones left in the room. The two of them glanced at each other and didn't know what to say. Originally, Wang Yue's sex had become a mystery, and now Zhao Jue had been added as a mystery.

The two walked out and faced each other, but smelled the aroma of curry.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked up, and saw Zhao Jue chewing on a curry bun, leaning against the wall and looking through a document in his hand.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang moved over to look at it, while asking, "What are you looking at?"

Zhao Jue bit into his bun and replied, "That old man's daughter's visiting record."

The corners of Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's mouths twitched – They were beaten to the punch!

"Speaking of which." Zhao Jue suddenly raised his head, looked at Zhan Zhao, and asked him, "Does it hurt?"

Zhan Zhao froze, then hurriedly shook his head, "It doesn't hurt, I would have forgotten about it if you hadn't mentioned it."

"Oh... it's like this." Zhao Jue lowered his head and continued to gnaw on the bun.

Bai Yutang pulled Zhan Zhao aside first, Zhao Jue gave him the feeling – He was very weird.

When Zhan Zhao stroked his chin and stared at Zhao Jue in the distance, Bai Yutang asked him, "Is there something wrong with him?"

"There is a problem." Zhan Zhao nodded, after which he raised his head and said seriously to Bai Yutang, "I'm so hungry too."

Bai Yutang held his forehead and took out the biscuits and cupcakes Jiang Nan had just given him, "You can start with this, I'll go buy something later."

Zhan Zhao picked up a marble cupcake and stuffed it into his mouth. As he chewed, his eyes widened and he nodded to Bai Yutang, "It's delicious!"

"Is it?" Bai Yutang found it hard to imagine that a pastry made by a serious type like Jiang Nan would be tasty. He reached out, grabbed a biscuit and took a bite, raising an eyebrow – It was good.

"Ah!"

As he was eating, Zhan Zhao suddenly shouted.

Bai Yutang quickly looked at him, and Zhao Jue also poked his head out from behind the wall to look.

"Take out that video from Jiang Nan and take a look at it!" Zhan Zhao chewed the cupcake without having time to swallow it, urging Bai Yutang, "I have an important idea!"

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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 18, 2023 by Angel

Edited: October 5, 2023 by Angel