S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 4 Chapter 95

Toothless Murderer 18 – Secret Past Events 

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At this time, the SCI officers were all gathered in the office, the case had gained a big lead and a meeting was needed.

The so–called progress was really somewhat out of everyone's expectation. Zhao Jue unexpectedly knew the person behind the scenes who, through a variety of means in the shadows, threatened to command the five pawns and make an enemy of the SCI. Moreover, listening to the tone of speech, there seemed to be some grudges.

After Zhao Jue dragged Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang to vent his anger, he twisted his face to look at Bai Ye on the side.

When Zhan Zhao and the others turned their faces, they saw Bai Ye leaning against the door frame with a complicated expression, looking at Zhao Jue inside.

Zhan Zhao glared at Bai Yutang, which meant – Ask Bai Ye!

Bai Yutang didn't care if it was Zhao Jue or Bai Ye, he just asked, "Who is he?"

Zhao Jue narrowed his eyes, "Bastard."

"I know he's a bastard, you've said it already." Zhan Zhao was speechless, "Now I'm asking you what the bastard's name is?"

Zhao Jue didn't know what the fuss was about, and it was Bai Ye who spoke up, "His name is Xie Tiancheng."

"Xie Tiancheng?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "So familiar..."

"I also think it's familiar." Bai Chi blinked.

However, it was Zhao Zhen who suddenly asked, "Is there any relationship with that Xie Tianlang?"

"Ah!" Zhan Zhao was startled, "Right, Xie Tianlang!"

The rest of the SCI were wondering who Xie Tianlang was, and Gongsun curiously asked Bai Chi, "Help me remember, who is he?"

"You forgot?" Bai Chi reminded Gongsun, "In Qin Ou's case a while ago, the beautiful woman we caught pretending to be Zhen's agent was that Xie Tianlang pretending to be someone called Li Ying."

"Oh..."

With Bai Chi's words, everyone woke up from their disorientated state.

"It's that shemale?" Zhao Hu asked, "The great beauty with big wavy hair?"

Ma Han asked, "Aren't they locked up? The names Xie Tianlang and Xie Tiancheng are so close, are they related?"

"They're brothers." Bai Ye said.

Zhao Jue suddenly gave him a blank look, and Bai Ye looked quite helpless.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang keenly sensed that there seemed to be something at play here, in short, this Xie Tiancheng made Zhao Jue quite upset.

"Which one of you will describe this Xie Tiancheng to me?" Bai Yutang asked Zhao Jue and Bai Ye.

"He's a pervert." Zhao Jue spoke decisively.

Zhan Zhao glanced at him, "I got that, can you say something else besides an adjective?"

"Pervert is not an adjective!" Zhao Jue was serious, and Zhan Zhao pushed him aside to prevent him from speaking.

Zhao Jue was dissatisfied and was about to resist when Zhan Zhao suddenly covered his hand, "Aiya, my hand hurts."

Zhao Jue froze on his chair and looked at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao raised an eyebrow and pointed at the chair, "Don't move! Just sit!"

Zhao Jue flattened his mouth, but remained honestly seated and didn't move.

On the side, Bao Zheng and Bai Ye glanced at each other, seemingly somewhat surprised and astonished.

Zhan Zhao asked the two, "You two, choose one and say it."

Bao Zheng was helpless, "I'm not familiar with these two brothers."

The crowd then looked at Bai Ye.

Bai Ye opened his mouth as if he was trying to think of how to describe them.

"Xie Tiancheng ah..."

At this time, another person suddenly spoke.

The crowd all looked over and saw that it was Bai Jintang.

"Well, I probably know what kind of person he is." Bai Jintang said, "He and the woman with the big wavy curls have appeared together."

"You've seen them too?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were surprised.

Gongsun gently tugged on Bai Jintang while winking to signal to him – Bao Zheng is also here, is it okay to say it?

Bao Zheng was suddenly very hurt, they all take him as a bad guy...

Bai Jintang didn't care. Except for Zhao Jue, even if he really let Bai Yunwen and Zhan Qitian know that his memories had been restored, no one would be able to do anything to him.

"Hmm..." It was unclear what came to Bai Jintang's mind. He looked at Bai Ye with a complicated expression, then at Bai Yutang, and frowned as he let out a "tsk".

Bai Yutang couldn't take it anymore, and thought to himself, do you guys have to be so secretive?

"The image I remember is of that man," Bai Jintang thought for a moment and pointed at Bai Yutang, "molesting you."

"Cough cough..." Bai Chi, who was drinking milk tea, choked on a mouthful of tea, and Zhao Zhen helped pat him on the back.

Zhan Zhao glanced at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang looked innocent and shook his head – How did I not know about this?

"Wait a minute." Zhao Hu asked, "If it's Big Brother Bai's memories from when he was a child, then Captain wasn't even born yet."

"That means..." The crowd looked at Bai Ye, who looked super similar to Bai Yutang right now. He should have been exactly the same twenty years ago, right? In other words, the one the other party molested should be Bai Ye?

Everyone subconsciously opened their mouths wide, Bai Ye's violence index wasn't normally high, wasn't that looking for death?!

Zhao Jue narrowed his eyes at Bai Ye.

Bai Ye was rather speechless, "That one wasn't me, at least not completely."

"Who was it then?" Bai Jintang was puzzled, "He obviously looks the same as you, but his temperament is very different..."

As he said that, Bai Jintang froze, then stopped talking, stroking his chin with a frown.

"So what happened afterwards?" Zhan Zhao curiously asked Bai Jintang.

Bai Jintang said, "Oh... I saw him harassing him... after that..." He glanced at Zhao Jue.

"After that?" The crowd urged him to hurry.

Bai Jintang pointed at Zhao Jue, then stretched out two fingers, bent them into a claw shape, and made a motion of gouging out his right eyeball.

Everyone's eyes widened.

Bai Jintang pointed at Zhao Jue again, which meant – Zhao Jue had gouged out one of his eyeballs.

Zhan Zhao glanced at Zhao Jue, gently tapping his chin in silence, then asked, "Why is he targeting SCI? Does it have anything to do with the case back then? "

Zhao Jue raised his eyebrows, "How do I know? Who knows the mind of a pervert."

Zhan Zhao stared at him.

Zhao Jue saw that his eyes were not kind and was dissatisfied, "What?!"

Zhan Zhao covered his hand and squatted down, "Aiya aiya..."

Zhao Jue was speechless, "You're pretending again!"

"It hurts!" Zhan Zhao tilted his face to look up at Zhao Jue.

At this time, Bai Yunwen and Zhan Qitian seemed to have finished explaining about the affairs of the hospital outside and had rushed over to see what was going on, just in time to see this scene.

The corners of Zhan Qitian's mouth twitched, and Bai Yunwen was surprised and nervous as he looked at Zhao Jue's situation.

Zhao Jue's mouth straightened.

Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes and held his wrist, "It's all your fault."

Zhan Qitian frowned slightly, and Bai Yunwen wanted to stop him, but Bai Ye gently stopped them both, which seemed to mean – Let Zhan Zhao be.

Zhao Jue stared at Zhan Zhao and asked, "You think it's all my fault?"

"That's right." Zhan Zhao nodded and stretched his hand out in front of Zhao Jue's eyes, "So you have to be responsible."

Zhao Jue looked at Zhan Zhao's hand that was wrapped up like a mummy, "Do you want me to cut one of my hands off to compensate you?"

Zhan Zhao tilted his head and asked rhetorically, "If you cut off a hand, will my hand be instantly better, will I be instantly healed and not in pain anymore?"

Zhao Jue gritted his teeth, "Then I'll go help you slaughter the person who injured you."

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows, "So what if you kill him? So what if you kill everyone related to him? Will my hand get better?"

Zhao Jue was silent for a long time and asked, "Then how do you want me to compensate you?"

Zhan Zhao smiled and stood up, pointing a finger at Zhao Jue, "Mental compensation!"

Zhao Jue blinked, "You want me to hypnotise you so that you don't feel pain?"

Zhan Zhao raised his hand and slapped him on the head, "Stupid."

Zhao Jue opened his mouth wide, so did the rest of the SCI, and the corners of Bai Ye's mouth couldn't help but lift upwards –What a relief.

Zhao Jue rubbed his head and glared at Zhan Zhao, "Are you rebelling?!"

"During this period of time before my hand gets better, you have to listen to me!" Zhan Zhao said.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhao Jue from the side. This cat is considered to have caught a hold of him, so why not take advantage of it.

Zhao Jue stared at Zhan Zhao, "That's it?"

"Yes." Zhan Zhao nodded, "I'm on a semi–vacation, so you'll have to share half of my work at SCI."

Zhao Jue looked at the SCI crowd and asked, "You want me to work with these cavemen?"

As soon as Zhao Jue's words left his mouth, he saw the faces of the rest of SCI crumple, and they said to themselves – Don't open your mouth, once you open your mouth, you'll need to be beaten up, that's the kind of person Zhao Jue is.

Zhan Zhao nodded, which meant – Just do it.

Zhao Jue touched his head and looked at Bai Ye.

Bai Ye shrugged and expressed – It was a very reasonable request.

Thus, Zhao Jue glanced at Bai Yutang, "That pervert Xie Tiancheng is like a gopher, it's hard to find him when he hides, but he won't suddenly pop up and come to trouble you guys without a reason."

"What reason?" Bai Yutang asked, "Will it have anything to do with the imprisoned Xie Tianlang?"

"The relationship between their two brothers isn't that great. Xie Tianlang dresses up as a young woman and is ambitious." Zhao Jue spread his hands, "But Xie Tiancheng isn't interested in many things, except for one person."

Everyone looked at Bai Ye.

Zhao Jue laughed, "Not him, he's nowhere near as cute."

"Ahem."

At this time, Bai Yunwen was suddenly heard coughing and he looked at Zhao Jue.

Zhao Jue had just rolled his eyes when Zhan Zhao snapped his fingers in front of his eyes, signalling for him to turn around and look at him.

When Zhao Jue turned back, Zhan Zhao asked, "Are there two Bai Ye's?"

Zhao Jue was just about to open his mouth when Bai Yunwen said, "What does this have to do with the case..."

"There is a connection." Bai Yutang said.

"What's the connection..." Bai Yunwen couldn't finish his question.

Bai Yutang said, "This is SCI, I have the final say as to whether there is a connection or not."

The crowd simultaneously opened their mouths wide – Aiya, it's reversed!

Zhan Zhao gritted his teeth to stifle a laugh – Bai Yutang had started his belated rebellious phase ever since that time when Bai Jintang's memories were almost wiped out. This mouse's psyche was really the most interesting of all.

Zhan Qitian appropriately held down Bai Yunwen who was about to lose his temper, while Bai Yunwen was looking at Bao Zheng with the meaning – You control him!

Bao Zheng was pretending to look aside, not receiving Bai Yunwen's glaring eyes, and thought, what's it got to do with me, this is your domestic affair, why do you want me to be the bad guy?!

Zhao Jue, on the other hand, slapped his leg and laughed, pointing at Bai Yunwen, "It's karma… ha ha."

After laughing for a while, Zhao Jue suddenly turned back and said to Zhan Zhao with a serious face, "There is only one Bai Ye."

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, could his estimation be wrong?

"There's also one that's a fake." Zhao Jue smiled, "Because someone loves him too much to let him go."

"So..." Zhan Zhao seemed to sense that something was about to come out.

"So a fake was created."

Without waiting for Zhao Jue to finish, Bai Ye helpfully added.

Everyone looked at Bai Ye, a fake?

Bai Ye pointed to himself, "A substitute."

"It's a perfect substitute and a continuation." Zhao Jue smiled slightly, then said a few words rather poetically, "The beginning of the most massive secret in this world may just be the simplest thing, a small trigger caused a small decision. I originally thought it was just a very personal and private thing, I never thought... it would open a door to another world and drag in countless resentful souls."

"I originally thought that behind the door was heaven, but I didn't think it would open up to hell! The person waiting for you behind the door is also no longer the angel you remember, but a perfect, monster..." As he said this, Zhao Jue laughed.

While Zhan Zhao looked at him and smiled cheerfully, Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Qitian and Bai Yunwen who were frowning on the side, as well as Bai Ye who seemed to find it quite amusing as if nothing had happened.

"There's more, there's more." Like a little kid talking about something interesting, Zhao Jue tugged on Zhan Zhao's sleeve and said, "There's two brothers, one extraordinarily extraordinarily cute, one extraordinarily extraordinarily annoying, and there is also an ordinary annoying but good looking best friend."

The crowd was confused as to who was who, but Bai Yunwen and Zhan Qitian looked like they couldn't stay.

"But the particularly annoying one gave birth to a replica of the particularly cute one, don't you think that's funny?" Zhao Jue said while turning back to ask Bai Yunwen, "Yunwen? You watched him grow up day by day, are you scared?"

Bai Yunwen's face turned extremely ugly, "Are you crazy enough?"

Zhao Jue leaned against the table with his face propped up and asked Zhan Zhao with interest, "How about this for mental compensation?"

Zhan Zhao smiled faintly and nodded, "My hand doesn't hurt anymore."

Zhao Jue smiled in satisfaction and plopped down on the edge of the table.

Bai Yutang saw that Bai Yunwen and Zhan Qitian who were present seemed to be embarrassed. Bai Jintang was also somewhat helpless, while the rest of the SCI didn't dare to utter a single breath of air.

"After we finish gossiping, let's talk about this Xie Tiancheng." Bai Jintang interrupted the awkward atmosphere and asked Zhao Jue, "What exactly is his purpose?"

"This shameless man is probably going to die soon, so he's finally preparing to make waves for a bit. After all, he's at the end of his time." Saying that, he stood up, "Why don't we go ask Xie Tianlang?"

Once Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang heard that they could interrogate Xie Tianlang, they both turned their faces together to look at Bao Zheng, "Is he still alive?"

"Well… sort of." Saying this, Bao Zheng looked at Bai Yunwen and Zhan Qitian at the side again.

Bai Yunwen sighed and said, "This is SCI's place, do you still need to ask me about what you want to do?"

Bai Yutang rubbed his nose – Aiya, the old man is so petty.

Zhan Qitian helplessly patted Bai Yunwen and said to Zhan Zhao, "You guys be careful investigating this case, I'm going back to take care of your mother."

Zhan Zhao nodded, and Zhan Qitian dragged the angry Bai Yunwen away.

Bai Jintang reached out, gently patted Bai Yutang and said, "Actually, he's not that bad... Don't talk to him like that."

Bai Yutang nodded, signalling that he understood.

"Let's go investigate Xie Tianlang." Zhan Zhao unexpectedly had essentially figured out the relationship between the older generation, and for the first time, he had a feeling of finally seeing the moon after the clouds and fog cleared, even though the moon wasn't very clear yet.

Lowering his head, Zhan Zhao looked at his injured hand. Not to mention that the injury was really righteous, this mental compensation that Zhao Jue paid him was really generous enough.

The crowd walked outside together.

Bai Yutang curiously asked Bai Ye who was following behind, "Were you originally a member of the Bai family?"

Bai Ye shook his head, "I don't know, probably not."

"But..." Bai Yutang had a lot of unanswered questions.

"I'm more like the Bai family than the Bai family, aren't I?" Bai Ye smiled and asked Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang nodded. He had once thought that Bai Ye was his own father, apart from his appearance, there were a number of features, and the mysterious "Bai family" bloodline, which was referred to as the strongest bloodline by Zhao Jue, seemed to be only found in him, Bai Ye and Bai Jintang.

Bai Ye reached out and pointed to his head, saying, "He said it before, I am the strongest finished product. To put it simply, someone obsessively travelled to hell to try and pull up a fallen angel, not realising that they did indeed pull back an identical one, but it was a devil."

Bai Yutang frowned and looked at Bai Ye.

Bai Ye patted him on the shoulder, "It's actually quite an amusing thing to say."

After saying that, he walked away.

Bai Yutang looked at Bai Jintang.

Bai Jintang patted his shoulder and didn't say much.

Bai Yutang vaguely felt that what Bai Jintang had witnessed back then could have been the so–called "trying to bring an angel back from hell, but pulling back a devil" process.

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Translator Notes

Zhan Zhao holds so much power right now 😂

Please feel free to comment any mistakes I made so I can improve and do better as I go through the book.

Translated: September 24, 2023 by Angel

Edited: November 2, 2023 by Angel