S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 4 Chapter 109

The Murderer Who Returned From Hell 09 – I Will Be Back!

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Chen Mi wiped his hair and walked over to open the door, and was simply stunned...

Bai Yutang and the others found that the elevator had stopped at the eleventh floor, and when Zhan Zhao pressed the button, the elevator started to go down... indicating that the person who had arrived at that floor had already exited the elevator. Xu Lie was so anxious that he couldn't wait for the elevator, so he rushed into the stairwell and ran up the stairs.

After all, Xu Lie was a professional Muay Thai boxer and a sports fanatic, so his physical strength was very good, and he disappeared with a swoosh.

Bai Yutang asked Qin Ou to go up with Zhan Zhao, and chased him up the stairs himself.

Zhan Zhao would never run up to the eleventh floor on foot, and stood waiting for the elevator.

Qin Ou scratched his head, "No need to be so nervous... Chen Mi is not defenceless, his power is pretty good."

When Bai Yutang and Xu Lie ran up to the eleventh floor almost instantly, they rushed out of the stairwell and saw that the door of Chen Mi's house was surprisingly open, and that there seemed to be a shadowy figure in the doorway.

"Fuck! Get out of here you perverted dry corpse..." Xu Lie roared and directly entered the door with a flying kick.

Bai Yutang followed him to the door to look in and quickly grabbed Xu Lei's arm. Xu Lei could see the person in the entrance clearly, and quickly braked sharply... Luckily, Bai Yutang had grabbed him.

Xu Lie's foot finally stopped less than a centimetre from the tip of the nose of the person in the doorway...

Looking again, the person standing in the doorway who was almost kicked in the nose by Xu Lie was Grandpa Chen, who was holding a pot of soup.

Grandpa Chen was so frightened by Xu Lie's flying kick that he stumbled. Chen Mi was also startled and hurriedly supported him, "Grandpa!"

Seeing that the old man was fine, Chen Mi breathed a sigh of relief and raised his eyes to glare at Xu Lie – what are you doing!

Xu Lie's neck was almost broken, fortunately Bai Yutang grabbed him, otherwise the consequences of this kick would have been unimaginable.

At the same time, the elevator opened with a ding.

Zhan Zhao and Qin Ou ran out... and saw the situation in the room.

Grandpa Chen patted his chest. He knew that Chen Mi had to work overtime during these past few days, so he stewed some soup and brought it to him. Tonight, Chen Yu went on a date with Lan Xi and the old man felt bored alone, so he came to look for Chen Mi to have soup and play chess. However, just as he entered the door and before he had the chance to say anything, a person came barreling in from behind, shouting something like – pervert?

Grandpa Chen turned around and glanced at Chen Mi, "What kind of pervert did you provoke now? Aiya, why are you and Xiao Yu so worrisome."

Chen Mi was helpless as he listened to Grandpa Chen's ramblings, and fiercely glared at Xu Lie again.

Xu Lie was embarrassed.

Grandpa Chen held the pot of soup and looked around. When he saw that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had also come, as well as Qin Ou, he was puzzled, "Eh? Why are you guys here too? Just in time, I've stewed a pot of good soup..."

However, before Grandpa Chen finished his words, Bai Yutang suddenly took a step back and looked in the direction of the stairwell.

Qin Ou seemed to have heard a click just now... and at this moment, the door to the stairwell was gently swaying. Bai Yutang turned around and chased after him. The light in the corridor was dim, and at the same time, a person was running downstairs at a fast pace...

Bai Yutang directly leapt over the stair railing to the next floor and quickly chased after him. Zhan Zhao followed him to the stairwell and saw that Bai Yutang had already chased the person downstairs, and Qin Ou also chased after him.

Xu Lie, Chen Mi and Grandpa Chen all ran over to look.

Chen Mi was puzzled, "What's going on?"

Xu Lie said, "That dry corpse seems to be coming for you."

Chen Mi didn't understand, but beside him, Grandpa Chen jumped up, his pitch a few notches higher, "A dry corpse?!"

Zhan Zhao, on the other hand, called Luo Tian and the others, "Where are you guys?"

"Almost there." Luo Tian tilted his face up and could already see Chen Mi's building, and Zhao Hu, Ma Han and the others were looking at him.

"It's in Chen Mi's building, Yutang just chased it downstairs, probably in the underground garage..." Zhan Zhao said.

"Understood." Luo Tian told Ma Han and Zhao Hu on the side, "Underground garage."

Zhao Hu opened the car window and put the police lights on, and the wailing siren sounded. The security guards at the entrance of the building moved the blockade barriers to make way, and Luo Tian drove the car directly into the underground garage.

Zhang Long and Wang Chao got out halfway and gestured to the other police cars following behind, signalling them to cordon off Chen Mi's building.

Bao Zheng personally arrived with the SWAT team, and a large number of SWAT officers got out and started to surround the building. They also asked the security guards to inform the tenants to close the doors and windows tightly and not to go out.

The security guards had never seen this kind of situation before and were so scared that they rushed to make phone calls. Many residents of the small high-rise building opened their windows to look down – so many police officers, who are they arresting?

Luo Tian's police car rushed directly down the underground garage without obstruction, and just after he stopped... he saw a black silhouette fly out of the exit of the emergency stairwell... and fell heavily on the ground, falling not too far in front of their police car.

Behind it, Bai Yutang walked out of the exit, taking off his jacket as he walked, which meant – if you don't surrender, he will settle it with force.

The thing bounced up as soon as it hit the ground and directly climbed onto Luo Tian's car, scrambling onto the roof of the car as if it wanted to escape outside.

Zhao Hu and Luo Tian were in the front seat and saw the thing stand up directly in front of them – it was the same dry corpse they were chasing this morning!

After two seconds, that thing directly climbed on the roof of the car to quickly run towards the exit... But sirens sounded loudly at the exit, and it saw that four or five SWAT cars had blocked the exit. Bao Zheng stepped forward, and dozens of loaded SWAT officers behind him blocked the intersection.

That dry corpse stood on the roof of the car and turned back. It saw that Bai Yutang had already walked to the middle of the open space in the garage. If it wanted to escape at this time, no matter where it ran, it would be caught by Bai Yutang...

At this time, Luo Tian opened the car door. That dry corpse suddenly bent over and grabbed Luo Tian's arm as if it wanted to drag him out to grab the car, but unfortunately, it grabbed the wrong person.

Luo Tian glanced at it and found that there was a layer of black something where its eyelids were located... Was it really makeup?

That dry corpse tugged Luo Tian's arm and found no reaction, and was stunned. At the same time, it saw Luo Tian suddenly grasp its arm with his backhand and throw it into the distance...

With a bang, the corpse was thrown away.

Zhao Hu and Ma Han also got out of the car, thinking – Competing with Luo Tian's strength? It's courageous.

Not far behind Bai Yutang, Zhan Zhao and the others also ran down, and other police officers poured in from the security exit, all of which were heavily armed SWAT officers.

Bai Yutang looked at the dry corpse that stood up, "You won't be able to escape."

That dry corpse looked from side to side in a bizarre state, seemingly looking for a way to escape, and finally... his black eyes lingered on the metal ventilation ducts above the parking garage for a moment.

Bai Yutang suddenly laughed, and at that moment... the dry corpse leapt up and rushed to a commercial vehicle off to the side, and the speed of its movements were astonishing.

Luo Tian frowned – This really isn't some kind of experimental subject? How could it be so swift?

However, while it was fast, Bai Yutang was even faster. He seemed to have predicted that the thing would jump onto the car and escape upwards, and lifted his hand to fling his jacket out, hitting the dry body right in the face. The dry corpse originally wanted to get on the car, but was hit by Bai Yutang's jacket... and couldn't grab the front of the car, slipping a little.

It barely managed to lie down on the car, and still wanted to climb upwards again, but Bai Yutang had already arrived and jumped up to kick it off the front of the car.

The dry corpse jumped up again after falling down, snarling at Bai Yutang who followed him. However, just as he shouted out, Bai Yutang unceremoniously kneed it in the face.

The dry corpse was kicked back, but then it immediately sprang up and stretched out two sharp claw-like hands that swung forward. This was exactly the same tactic that it had used when it attacked Liu Yu in the underground garage of Xu Lie's house before, and one could see the sharp steel claws on its hands... which appeared to be weapons!

Bai Yutang turned his head and avoided it, grabbed the top of his head and smashed him on the hood of the car. He pulled his scalp down with a ripping noise, and ripped off a large piece of its scalp.

However, what the crowd saw was not the flesh and blood, but black hair under the scalp, which seemed to be covered by a net.

"Sure enough, it's makeup." Zhao Hu raised an eyebrow.

Bai Yutang raised his hand to ward off the few kicks he had thrown at him, and realised – sure enough, he was practising Muay Thai!

Xu Lie also saw it and frowned slightly – It couldn't really be Cheng Mu, could it? Why does it feel like...

Bai Yutang saw that the dry corpse had no intention of surrendering, so he stepped forward and fought him in close quarters.

Bai Yutang blocked the dry corpse's punches and kicks. It was unclear as to what he was doing, but he seemed to be patting the dry corpse's shoulders and body… and then he suddenly grabbed the dry corpse's shoulders, and the crowd heard a cracking sound as a crack appeared in the dry corpse's waist.

Bai Yutang stepped on its right foot, and with both hands pulling on its shoulder, he raised his leg and directly slammed his knee into the dry body's abdomen... The crowd heard a clear tearing sound, as well as a muffled grunt from the dry corpse...

Bai Yutang kicked that dry corpse directly out of a piece of skin... That dry corpse flew about two metres away. Bai Yutang had two pieces of skin, one from its shoulder and one from its chest, in his hands, as well as some bandages, and underneath his foot was a prosthetic foot similar to a boot along with the skin of its leg.

What flew out from that dry corpse skin was a physically smaller, but overall much more harmonised in feel, pure human.

At this time, he was still wearing two pieces of fake dry corpse skin like cuffs on both hands, and he had the skin of his fake leg on one foot...

When he stood up, Bai Yutang had already arrived in front of him, grabbed both of his hands with both of his hands, and shook his entire body like a bedsheet… The two fake hands were peeled off, and at the last moment, he ducked his head to get out of the way of the foot that was kicked over. Then he stepped on the fake skin on the only remaining foot, grabbed the back of his neck with one hand, bent over, and yanked the person backward. When the dry corpse lost its centre of gravity, Bai Yutang stood up and turned around to kick it squarely in the jaw... The dry corpse let out an "ow" and flew away.

At this time, he was only wearing a black bodysuit, and all of his fake skin had been stripped clean by Bai Yutang.

All around, all the police officers watched Captain Bai beat up the dry corpse. That dry corpse was indeed ferocious, but in the end, it was still beaten honestly.

Xu Lie straightly spat out his tongue, "Aiya! Bai Yutang's force value is off the charts!"

Zhan Zhao stroked his chin – that was natural.

After the dry corpse was thrown away, it rolled twice on the ground, and by the time it reached Luo Tian and the others' feet, it no longer had the ability to fight anymore.

Luo Tian squatted down and yanked him up, twisting his hands behind his back to handcuff him.

Then he looked at the face... Although his face was painted with black pigment, it was obvious that he was a normal human being, only his body was lean and thin, and that that zombie skin was just a makeup technique.

Bao Zheng saw that the person was captured and told the SWAT team members to withdraw and go back. He himself walked down and went to the car to look at the captured person – Judging from his appearance...

"Cheng Mu?!"

At this moment, Xu Lie, who had run over to see what was going on, called out, "You're not dead?"

Zhan Zhao also reached Bai Yutang's side, and looked at that person together with Bai Yutang – Indeed... he seemed to be somewhat similar to Cheng Mu, but his state seemed to be a little thinner than Cheng Mu's at that time. However, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had only seen photos and had not seen the real person, so it was not easy to judge.

The crowd was a little puzzled. Why would this former Muay Thai champion level athlete disguise himself as a dry corpse, pretend to be a demon and kill people, and be so ferocious? His outfit or disguise was very professional, tailor-made, and could even be said to be a work of art. Did he make it himself?

Somewhat curious, Zhan Zhao asked him, ''Cheng Mu? Why are you pretending to be a dry corpse?"

Cheng Mu didn't say anything, coldly scanning the crowd...

Luo Tian couldn't help but frown – This kind of look was very familiar to him, it was a kind of "either you die or I live" look. This Cheng Mu didn't know what was going on, but at least at this moment... he felt that everyone around him was an enemy, he was a murderous murderer.

Zhan Zhao was of course more interested in his expression, examining it thoughtfully

Bai Yutang had the crowd take him away.

Cheng Mu struggled a few more times as he was escorted away, and he looked back in the direction of Xu Lie and Chen Mi.

Xu Lie looked at him with some puzzlement. He and Cheng Mu weren't very familiar, and at this moment, he felt even more unfamiliar with him.

Chen Mi was even more puzzled, what was going on?

Just when everyone was feeling confused, they saw Cheng Mu suddenly open his mouth and say, "I will be back!"

Everyone present heard it, and looked at Cheng Mu with some puzzlement, and then looked in the direction he was looking at... Everyone was standing together, who exactly did he say it to?

Zhan Zhao stroked his chin and muttered to himself, "I will be back?"

Bai Chi then tilted his head – Terminator fan?

Zhao Hu tilted his head – Tracy McGrady fan?

Luo Tian and Qin Ou also tilted their heads – Big Big Wolf?

Bai Yutang frowned slightly as he looked at Cheng Mu, who was being escorted away.

Everyone subconsciously looked at Xu Lie and Chen Mi – Which one of you is he looking for?

Xu Lie was even more puzzled, scratching his head with a face full of confusion.

Chen Mi asked Bai Yutang in disbelief, "What's going on here?"

Qin Ou handed him the information on the unsolved case concerning the bomb. Chen Mi opened it and glanced through it, then gently stroked his chin, as if he had thought of something.

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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 20, 2023 by Angel

Edited: November 30, 2023 by Angel