S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 4 Chapter 107

The Murderer Who Returned From Hell 07 – Residue

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Bai Yutang led the crowd back to the police station, and as soon as he walked through the door... he felt that the atmosphere was a little tense.

He saw many people running around, and did not know what had happened.

Xu Lie followed at the back, "Aiya, this police station is busy enough, has public security really been bad recently?"

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao were a bit puzzled, but they were too lazy to care and went upstairs first.

But just as the elevator door opened in front of SCI's office, they saw a person wearing a white chemical-proof suit wander over.

"Wow!" Lou Waigua was startled, "What's the situation?"

Bai Yutang walked out and saw that it was Ma Xin, wearing a white chemical-proof suit and a plastic mask, which was quite exaggerated.

"Captain."

At this time, Luo Tian walked out from the SCI office and said to Bai Yutang, "Gongsun checked the blood sent by Old Wang just now and said that there's radiation reactivity in it."

"Ha?!" The crowd was shocked.

Lou Waigua and Xu Lie silently retreated to the elevator.

"It's just a trace amount, it has no effect on people at all." Gongsun walked out from the forensic room.

The crowd looked at Ma Xin again.

Gongsun laughed, "She didn't intend to wear it just for fun, she even took a couple of photos earlier to remember it."

Zhao Hu patted his chest and Ma Han sighed. Zhao Hu said a famous quote before – That lass Ma Xin was originally well-rooted, but since she started mingling with Gongsun, she's been running wildly down the road to perversion, even running with a thief's joy. Now, after marrying herself off, she's become even more unscrupulous.

Bai Yutang walked into the office and asked, "What are those people downstairs doing?"

"Bao Sir issued a wanted notice." Bai Chi ran out and said, "There's some trouble this time."

"What trouble?"

Bai Yutang's head ached when he heard about trouble.

"Xu Lie was arrested by the police before, so there are paparazzi lying in ambush near his building." Jiang Ping pulled up the video while reporting to Bai Yutang and the others, "I don't know how those reporters were so powerful, they captured several videos and a section of the building's surveillance footage was copied as well. It was the section where that dry corpse opened the door to Xu Lie's room, and the paranormal incident is making a lot of noise."

As soon as Zhan Zhao heard this, he immediately looked for a computer to open a webpage.

Bai Yutang curiously leaned over, "Cat, what are you looking at?"

"Watching the video." Zhan Zhao said.

The crowd looked at each other in disbelief, and sure enough, several videos were on the internet.

It's just that when the video was playing, rows and rows of comments rushed by in front of it...

"What is this?" Bai Yutang was puzzled.

"Captain, how outdated are you?" Jiang Ping was helpless, "That's called a barrage!"

Bai Yutang finally understood why Zhan Zhao had been spending his free time these days swiping through videos with his cell phone, laughing all day at the sight of them.

Bai Chi came over to watch and read at the same time.

"Damn, SCI can really stumble into anything!"

"Captain Bai!!! A-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ah!!!!"

"Ah! Dr. Zhan, my husband! Marry me, marry me!!!!"

"Lick the screen!"

"Damn, this is a ghost film!"

"Is Xu Lie shooting a horror film and running into a ghost?"

"That policewoman almost fell off."

"A-a-a-a-a-a-a-ah! So scary! It seems to have run into our neighbourhood!"

"No wonder there are so many cops downstairs."

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Bai Yutang asked Jiang Ping with some confusion, "Why are they licking the screen?"

"Ahem..." Zhan Zhao coughed, signalling for the crowd to continue with the case.

"The neighbourhood around Xu Lie's house is a downtown area, and there are many residential buildings. Those residents are too scared to go out, and are calling to ask if that dry corpse has been caught or not."

Qin Ou turned the TV on and showed the wanted notice to the crowd, "The news only said that it was a dangerous person wearing a mask, and gave a rough portrait indicating extreme danger. People who see it are told not to go near it, and to call the police immediately."

"Then Bao Sir sent a lot of police officers to the city to start a manhunt." Luo Tian told Bai Yutang, "Ai Hu and the SWAT team totalled a few hundred people and surrounded all the neighbourhoods in that area to search floor by floor, but no one has been found so far."

Bai Yutang nodded.

At this time, a young girl from the forensic department downstairs came up holding two large iron trays of evidence, "Captain Bai, we found a lot of things."

When Luo Tian took the trays, Bai Yutang asked, "Did you find a football?"

"Yes!" The girl pulled out a bag from the lower layer of the tray, and inside was a broken football.

"Ah!" Xu Lie recognised it at once, "Who cut it?"

"Right, what a pity!" The girl poked at the bag, "This ball should be quite valuable!"

Xu Lie also felt some pity, and turned the bag over... to see that the back of the plastic bag wrapped around the football had a yellow label attached to it, with a black radiation hazard sign...

"Fuck!" Xu Lie threw the bag and hurriedly took a step back, "No way?!"

"It's isolated by the bag, what are you afraid of?" The girl waved her hand.

"Is there some kind of nuclear waste in this football? It doesn't matter that it's been hidden around me for so long, does it?" Xu Lie opened his mouth wide, "I'm going for a physical examination!"

The girl from the forensic department narrowed her eyes and looked at him. After a long time, she bristled, "Good disillusionment! Idols and whatnot are really just TV characters!"

"Is there really radiation?" Bai Yutang asked.

"A little bit." The girl gestured with her finger, "Because none of the other objects have it, just this football has it, there really could have been something hidden inside. That thing has trace amounts of radioactivity, so it caused it to be on the football as well. But it's really extremely minute and harmless to the human body. If there really was something hidden in the football, it wasn't highly radioactive, let alone nuclear waste, it was probably just some kind of metal."

"Which kind of metal?" Zhan Zhao was curious.

"This I'm not sure. Other equipment is required to test it, the boss said that if necessary, it should be brought to the professional department for testing." The young girl said, then lowered her voice and leaned over "But based on my personal speculation, it's possible that it's a piece of meteorite!"

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao froze and looked at her.

The young girl clapped her hands, "That dry body you guys are chasing, could it be an alien?!"

"Oh... that's how it is!" Zhan Zhao nodded, "Maybe it's not a meteorite, but a piece of a spaceship!"

"That makes sense!" That young girl was probably also a sci-fi fan, and her eyes lit up.

Bai Yutang hurriedly grabbed a packet of snacks from the table and shoved it to her, sending her downstairs.

When the girl left, Bai Yutang flicked Zhan Zhao's head, meaning – stop thinking about aliens! It's simply not possible!

Zhan Zhao flattened his mouth – Tch! Spoilsport!

After Gongsun's blood sample was checked out on his side, he waddled over with the report, "Type B blood, with trace amounts of radiation. Cheng Mu and Xu Sun are both type B. We have Xu Sun's blood sample, and the two samples of DNA don't match."

Bai Yutang nodded, "That's right, Xu Sun is dead and his body is still in the forensic room, there's no way he could run off and kill again."

"Also, Xu Sun's body has been examined for clues." Gongsun hooked his finger to the crowd.

The crowd all followed him to the forensic room.

Xu Sun's body was currently lying on its side on the autopsy table.

Ma Xin was holding a camera and taking pictures of the neck area of the corpse.

When she saw people coming in, she put down the camera, yanked over the lamp and shone it at the dead man's neck for the crowd to see.

Bai Yutang moved over and saw that on the right side of the corpse's neck, there was a protrusion similar to a mosquito bite.

"What is this?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Trace amounts of drugs were detected in Xu Sun's blood, which are classified as anaesthetics, yet the amount doesn't seem to be enough to be fatal." Gongsun said, taking out a report and showing it to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "I've checked Xu Sun's pathology report, he has a heart condition, and this period of time on the run has made his condition worse. This anaesthetic was measured precisely to trigger his cardiac arrest, and that's how he lost the little life he had left. And this one spot, which looked like a mosquito bite, was found to have a higher content of drugs in it after tests were done.

"We simulated it based on the wound." Ma Xin said, "Xu Sun should have been stabbed with an extremely tiny needle that injected anaesthetic directly into his vein, and that's the real reason for his sudden death! Rather than his soul being sucked away by the Wheel of Caleb."

Gongsun was a bit bummed out, "We didn't find the needle, but if it's an injection hole, it can't be that small, so we suspect that it's a needle made of ice or a protein that's been absorbed.

"This needle, roughly how long will it take to die after being stabbed?" Bai Yutang asked.

"This is quick, no more than half a minute."

"That fast?" Bai Yutang frowned, "Then wouldn't the murderer have been in the corridor that day?"

"The VIP corridor should have surveillance, right?" Bai Yutang asked Jiang Ping.

"There is, I looked at it before but not too closely." Jiang Ping replied, he had been focusing on watching the surveillance footage for a while.

Bai Yutang nodded and asked Jiang Ping to take the video out and show it to Bai Chi frame by frame so he could watch it carefully.

Zhan Zhao stroked his chin, "After all this, Xu Sun was killed at the moment he encountered the Wheel of Caleb, was it a coincidence, or was it intentional?

Everyone left the forensic room and returned to the office, and Lu Fang walked in, "Xiao Bai, the thing you asked for has been delivered."

As he spoke, two police officers behind him helped push two boxes in.

One of these two boxes, the one that was previously used to store the Wheel of Caleb, was cracked. The other, on the other hand, was a box in the exact same style and was intact.

Bai Yutang asked Wang Chao and Zhang Long to send the box that used to contain the Wheel of Caleb downstairs to the forensic section, and then pushed the new box, which was the same style, into the office.

Opening the box, everyone looked at Bai Yutang in confusion, not understanding what he wanted to do.

Bai Yutang looked at the box, then looked around the crowd and asked Bai Chi, "Where's Zhao Zhen?"

Bai Chi called, and Zhao Zhen was idle anyway, so he arrived shortly after.

A large number of people came with Zhao Zhen, including Bai Jintang, who also brought Chen Yu, and naturally, the twins couldn't be left out and slipped in.

Bai Yutang held his forehead, "I asked for Zhao Zhen, why did so many people come?"

Before he finished speaking, the other elevator also opened. Lisbon ran out, accompanied by Luo Yang and Qin Yi who just got out of school and were wearing their backpacks, and the two of them were leading an even smaller child, with snow-white skin and big eyes, who was all sorts of cute.

"Eh?" Lu Fang hurriedly ran over.

"Dad." That child called out to Lu Fang.

It turned out that this child who was brought along was Lu Zhen, who he hadn't seen for several days.

"School is dismissed so early?" Luo Tian was puzzled.

The last one to walk out of the elevator was Yang Fan, he was the one who went to pick up the children, "The school let out early, the streets were chaotic and there were a lot of police, they were probably afraid that it would be even more chaotic during the evening rush hour so they informed the parents to pick them up at a certain time."

The crowd thought about it, it seems that Luo Yang's school district was near the one where the accident happened before.

"Right." Zhan Zhao asked, "Does Xu Sun have any children?"

"No." Jiang Ping shook his head, "He and his wife never had children, and Liu Yu is still unmarried."

Zhan Zhao nodded.

Bai Yutang had no choice but to tell all the family members to go wait off to the side. When he saw Chen Yu, he was a bit puzzled, "Why are you here as well?"

Chen Yu glanced at Xu Lie with a disgruntled face.

"I called her here, you guys are busy." After saying that, he dragged Chen Yu towards the hallway.

Chen Yu kicked him as she walked, "You're so unlucky."

Lou Waigua also turned and followed them out.

The twins stroked their chins.

Da Ding was a bit nosy, "Xu Lie has been very close to Xiao Yu these days."

Xiao Ding was also curious, "No way, Xiao Yu and Lan Xi are very sweet, does Xu Lie want to be a third wheel?"

"No, if Xu Lie was hitting on Xiao Yu, Lan Xi wouldn't need to make a move, Le Le would be the first to kick him to death." Ma Xin winked slightly mysteriously, "It's not Chen Yu that he's interested in."

The crowd all looked at her nosily – who was it then?

Ma Xin smiled wickedly, "It's a pity, he's kicking an iron wall."

Bai Yutang coughed twice.

The crowd twisted their faces, and Captain Bai squinted at them, meaning – gossip outside!

As a result, the group of family members had to obediently go to the sidelines to watch.

Bai Jintang found a sofa and sat down, looking at the box. The twins ate snacks and waited to watch the show.

Bai Yutang tried to ignore them as much as possible, and gestured towards the box for Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen was puzzled, "What?"

"Can you hide in it?" Bai Yutang asked.

"No way..." Everyone frowned, the box was so small.

"Of course I can." Zhao Zhen, however, found it funny, "Such a big box can fit a bear with no problem."

Everyone frowned at him – can such a small box hold a person?

"The box that I hide in when I do magic is only half as big as this one, it's just a matter of using the right method." Saying this, Zhao Zhen squatted down and looked at the box, then shrank inwards and went in.

The crowd watched his movements, which seemed quite comfortable.

"That person is probably quite a bit shorter than you, and is probably thinner than you." Bai Yutang was also watching from outside.

"That would make it even easier." Zhao Zhen said, "They could spin around inside or something."

"Brother."

At this moment, Bai Chi, who was watching the video, called out to the crowd, "I see how Xu Sun was shot."

The crowd all went over to look.

Bai Chi showed the video to the crowd, "I watched all the footage of Xu Sun in the minute before he fell to the ground. Those two officers were escorting him one after the other. Because the corridor was very narrow and the box next to him was moving slowly, they were walking by the side of the box. During this time, there was no one else close to Xu Sun, but look at this..."

As Bai Chi spoke, he froze the image.

Jiang Ping used his new equipment to make the image extremely clear, and they saw that when Xu Sun passed by the box, there was a white reflection between the box and him.

The reflection was particularly thin.

Jiang Ping zoomed the screen in n times, and then played it.. Everyone finally saw it clearly, it turned out to be a needle, shot out from the box at high speed, which hit Xu Sun's neck exactly where the small bump on his neck was located.

Bai Yutang grabbed the phone on the desk to call the people in the forensic department and asked, "In addition to that hole in the box, is there another opening?"

"There is!" Old Wang replied, "On the top of the box, someone used a razor blade to make a gap of about three centimetres."

The crowd looked at each other in disbelief.

"So, the murderer was in the box at the time?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "Did he deliberately kill Xu Sun, or was he just randomly picking someone?"

"But the commotion of Xu Sun's sudden collapse did facilitate his escape." Bai Yutang said, then asked Old Wang, "Is there anything radioactive inside that box?"

"No, we tested it as soon as we brought it here, and there was no reaction." Old Wang replied.

Everyone looked at each other – So that radioactive thing was really hidden in the football? What was it? The radioactivity was weak and harmless to the human body, and it could be hidden in a football, so what exactly was it? Could it really be a meteorite or something? But if there was a rock in the ball, there would be a sound when it was shaken, right? Alien cotton?

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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: November 13, 2023 by Angel

Edited: November 23, 2023 by Angel