S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 4 Chapter 119

The Murderer Who Returned From Hell 19 – Breakthrough

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Qin Yanfen took two things out of the box. The first was just an aged notebook, looking at the texture of the paper and the leather cover, it was clear that it had aged some years.

And the other thing, that is, the thing that had completely attracted the attention of Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, was a roulette wheel... to be exact, it was the Wheel of Caleb!

A small square box that could be cupped with both hands theoretically could not hold a complete corpse... But, if that corpse was a dried corpse, and, moreover, the corpse of a baby, then that would be a different story.

Bai Yutang looked at what Qin Yanfen took out of the box with an unprecedented look of disgust, something that somewhat looked like a dried foetus, and his brows furrowed.

Qin Yanfen calmly said, "This is the Wheel of Caleb made from a foetus of roughly six or seven months..."

Seeing Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's eyes both widen, Qin Yanfen said, "This is actually close to the original shape of a foetus, and the child was a stillborn baby before it was mummified, presumably because the mother had an accident..."

"So someone took him out?" Bai Yutang felt even more uncomfortable.

"You can imagine it as a pregnant mother in distress, and in order to save the foetus, the doctor took the risk of taking the child out for emergency treatment, but the emergency treatment was unsuccessful and the child still tragically died." Qin Yanfen said.

"Imagine it as?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "Then what was the actual situation?"

"I'm not quite sure, I didn't think much of self-mutilation." Qin Yanfen opened that notebook and laid it on the table.

"This is..." At first glance, Zhan Zhao saw the signature on the notebook's title page. The words were written with a fountain pen... or an old fashioned dip pen - Royce F. Ilyascu.

Bai Yutang frowned, they had seen this signature just a while ago, "It's the creator of that Wife and Daughter? The crazy artist?"

"This is his manuscript?" Zhan Zhao picked it up and flipped through it, frowning as he read it.

Bai Yutang also moved over to look at it, and saw that it was standard artist's drawing notes, with the process of making the Wheel of Caleb thoroughly drawn inside.

"No wonder it's so coordinated." Zhan Zhao frowned, "It turns out that there were so many meticulous calculations and repeated tests to produce the Wheel of Caleb, it's the same as the Wife and Daughter, it's made as a work of art."

The two continued to look, and finally...

Zhan Zhao saw the drawing of a small Wheel of Caleb, which was the one placed on the table at this moment. In addition, there was also a drawing of a large Wheel of Caleb... which was the one that Song Jiajia and the others had shipped back earlier.

"How could this be?" Zhan Zhao was surprised, "This means that that Wheel of Caleb is actually another piece of work by the creator of Wife and Daughter?"

Qin Yanfen nodded, "The exact time of completion of these two pieces should have been more than thirty years ago, and the place of completion, was in Royce's hometown."

"How did you obtain this thing back then?" Zhan Zhao was curious.

Qin Yanfen was silent for a while before opening her mouth, "It was many years ago, and as I recall, Chen Mi was around eight years old that year."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang did the maths, and that was more than twenty years ago.

Outside the door, Chen Mi frowned and listened to the dialogue of the crowd on the other end of the phone, but he didn't notice that at this time, at the door of SCI's office, the crowd was also gathered to listen. He couldn't hear what was going on behind the door, but he could hear what was going on outside the door, and it was quiet all around, with only the sound of Qin Yanfen talking.

"My teacher, Shen Bo, is an expert in the history of Eastern Europe." Qin Yanfen said, "Everything starts from the moment the Wife and Daughter was found."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other, listening intently.

"I'm sure you guys have some knowledge of that artwork!" Qin Yanfen said.

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded.

"This Royce person, when World War II ended, he was only eighteen years old." Qin Yanfen said.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang froze, "So young?"

"He was only sixteen when he joined the army, and..." Qin Yanfen took some information from the briefcase on the side, and said, "I have conducted a detailed investigation on him, and his PTSD is very serious. "

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded.

"However, there is a problem!" Qin Yanfen said, "He participated in the war about two years before the end of World War II, and during those two years, the war zone he was in was not the main war zone of the battle, on the contrary, it was close to the rear. In other words, he was only sent as a backup, and before he could even take the field, the war was already over."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other.

"The war zone he was in didn't have a concentration camp either." Qin Yanfen continued.

"In other words," Zhan Zhao frowned, "there's no reason for him to have such severe PTSD!"

Qin Yanfen nodded.

"Huh?" Zhan Zhao might have felt that his memory was a bit confused, but thinking about it, it was impossible, his memory hadn't been confused since he was born, "But I remember that that psychology professor's research doesn't seem to be in the same context as this one ah..."

Qin Yanfen smiled, "That psychology professor, Dr. Stephen?"

Zhan Zhao nodded.

"He also participated in World War II, did you know that?" Qin Yanfen asked.

Zhan Zhao nodded, "He was a field doctor during World War II and came into contact with many patients with PTSD. His original research direction was PTSD, but he never thought that he would later take a wrong turn and make a big breakthrough in the field of delusions. However, back then, people's understanding of PTSD was too low, and the department classified it as a mental illness..."

Qin Yanfen shook her head.

Zhan Zhao was slightly stunned, "Is it not right?"

"Everything else is right, but one thing is missing." Qin Yanfen said, taking out a copy and showing it to Zhan Zhao, "This is the medal he received, he made a great contribution in World War II."

Zhan Zhao was slightly stunned.

Bai Yutang moved over to look at it and frowned, "This is a war hero's medal, shouldn't medical personnel get the Red Cross Medal..."

"This Dr. Stephen, he had a rather high IQ, and besides being a medical student, he was also very knowledgeable about gunpowder, electrical circuits, and machinery, and he was the bomb expert at that time!" Qin Yanfen said, taking out a photo and showing it to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "This is that Dr. Stephen."

Zhan Zhao picked it up and looked at it, and saw that it was a photocopy copied from a very, very old original newspaper, and on it was the news of Dr. Stephen's award presentation.

"This Dr. Stephen's hometown is in the same war zone that Royce was responsible for back then." Qin Yanfen said, "He had his beloved wife, as well as a son and a daughter, all of whom were killed."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang froze slightly.

"Wasn't his old home a non-war zone?" Both of them were puzzled, "How could his family be killed?"

"Robbery." Qin Yanfen said, "In times of war, besides soldiers and refugees, the most abundant people are robbers. Most of these robbers have military uniforms, many of them are medical team outfits, and they can freely come and go in and out of war zones and non-war zones. Some of them specialise in robbing the dead in war zones, such as picking the watches from the hands of the soldiers on the battlefield, extracting belts, and so on. But there's a limit to the amount of money you can get out of this. And the most profitable practice is to take advantage of the fire to rob... On the edge of the war zone or in the non-war zone, while there are only old and weak women and children and the family's young and strong men have all gone to war, they rob the rich households."

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang frowned, it seemed like there was something that was on the verge of coming out.

"Royce was originally supposed to be a poor artist and a mental patient." Qin Yanfen said, "But... he became very rich after the war. This is the house he lived in before his death."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at the picture of the house Qin Yanfen showed them, "Isn't it an ancestral property?"

"He was an orphan." Qin Yanfen shook her head.

"Look at his notebook, the original design of his Wife and Daughter." Qin Yanfen flipped the notebook to a certain page.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked down and saw that on the original design of the Wife and Daughter, the wife was wearing a beautiful and luxurious ruby necklace.

"This is the financial loss recorded when Dr. Stephen called the police back then." Qin Yanfen took out another copy of an original document, "There is a description of a ruby necklace on it..."

"The ruby necklace was bought by Stephen at an auction." Qin Yanfen continued, "Stephen is the descendant of a famous family, in today's language, he’s the standard second generation of the rich. He bought this necklace while attending an auction, the reason being that it was quite a fitting match for the red hair of his childhood sweetheart and fiancée." Qin Yanfen took out another photocopy, "An early newspaper with a report about this auction."

"So... Royce was the one who killed his wife and children back then?!" Bai Yutang asked.

"One of the murderers!" Qin Yanfen continued, "Back then, there were a series of robberies and murders in the non-war zone. The murderer was never caught, but there were eyewitnesses who had seen them, it was a group of about six young men wearing medical soldier's uniforms. I guess that they were probably posing as medical soldiers, saying that someone was injured so that the residents would open the door to help... You also know that back then, in that situation, anyone would have opened the door to help."

Zhan Zhao frowned, "That's how his PTSD originated!"

Qin Yanfen nodded.

"Royce was only eighteen years old back then." Bai Yutang asked, "So he shouldn't have been the leader, there was someone else?"

Qin Yanfen smiled, "Criminal police experience in handling cases?"

Bai Yutang sat up straight, a little more focused than earlier, and asked, "What you mean is that Royce got rich overnight after the war, but he developed a serious mental condition. And the psychiatrist who treated him was none other than the enemy whose wife and children he killed back then!"

Qin Yanfen nodded, "About thirty years ago, in the town where Royce lived, there was an explosion, and on the day of the explosion, Royce completed the production of his Wife and Daughter and committed suicide."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other, inexplicably. They thought of that recording from the harassing phone call to Chen Mi, could it be that the crying little girl in that recording... was the girl from the Wife and Daughter sculpture?

"What exploded?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"The cathedral in that town." Qin Yanfen continued, "In the church, five corpses that were blown into pieces were identified."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both frowned, "Five corpses, witnesses said that the gang that committed the robberies back then consisted of six people... So, together with Royce, there were a total of six people, do you suspect that it was Stephen who took revenge?"

Qin Yanfen took out some photos of the crime scene back then and said, "I found something special, the few more intact right hands that I found all had F tattoos, although I can't tell who's who anymore."

"F..."

"On Royce's arm, there's also an F tattoo." Qin Yanfen continued, "I had people investigate some of his comrades from back then, and they said that Royce was joined by a few others who all had an F in their names, it was like they had formed a society, and they treated each other as brothers."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both nodded, "You were able to find out, so... Stephen was also able to find out, and he killed those people to take revenge?"

Qin Yanfen nodded.

Bai Yutang was slightly puzzled, "This matter, in fact, is not very related to you, after all, the difference is a hundred thousand miles, so why..."

"Why would it have anything to do with me abandoning my children to live as a fugitive?" Chen Mi asked.

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded.

Outside the door, Chen Mi also frowned, he couldn't figure it out either.

"So far, what do you guys think of Stephen as a person?" Qin Yanfen asked.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other.

Bai Yutang said, "Those people deserved what they got."

Zhan Zhao also nodded.

"That's right! " Qin Yanfen nodded, "It was a time of war, any man would have avenged his innocent wife and children. Stephen probably spent more than ten years searching for and studying those murderers, before finally succeeding in his revenge. I'm not saying he's wrong, but then... it's different!"

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at Qin Yanfen in puzzlement, "What happened later?"

"On the day of the explosion, Stephen disappeared. In addition, five families called the police on that day, the male head of the family disappeared and the children were missing as well."

Zhan Zhao frowned, "The children were missing?"

Qin Yanfen nodded, "Five boys, all the youngest sons, in addition..."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang then saw Qin Yanfen take out some other documents and say, "Royce actually had two daughters, twins, the other girl didn't die and was later adopted."

"Twins?!" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were surprised.

"And as for the few children who were abducted, after the police conducted an investigation, an eyewitness said that they saw a middle-aged man take a child away, and the description of his appearance was close to that of Stephen." Qin Yanfen said, "And those five disappeared heads of households were none other than the comrades who were in the same war zone as Royce back then. They actually lived very scattered, and their common point was that they were very wealthy. At that time, the war was over a hundred years ago, and many people needed to start their lives anew, so they had children very late, and their young sons were not very old. And those guys were characterised by a tattoo of an F on their right arm. It's a shame that DNA technology wasn't widely used in forensics back then, so it went unnoticed."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang stared at Qin Yanfen, feeling that there was an overwhelming amount of information all of a sudden!

"I did some research." Qin Yanfen said, "The town where Stephen lived, the one where the bombing happened, there are many, many people missing for no reason!"

Zhan Zhao gently stroked his chin for a long time, "PTSD?"

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, "You think Royce killed them?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "It's not just Royce who has PTSD, Stephen himself has it too!"

Bai Yutang frowned, "If he was a medic when he joined the war and also blew up so many people... it's understandable."

"He exhausted his energy in searching for those Fs and designing their deaths." Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "Why did he kidnap those children? Wait..."

Zhan Zhao suddenly figured it out on his own, "If both of the Wheel of Calebs were made by Royce, and one is here with you while the other appeared in the border mountainous region... does it have something to do with the four telegrams case from back then?"

Bai Yutang also nodded, "The fact that the Wheel of Caleb is man-made means that there is no such thing as a curse killing people. The people in the village who were involved in that case of the four telegrams back then were all killed. That cave, the Wheel of Caleb, the dug up graves, and those four telegrams... are all fake! "

Zhan Zhao stroked his chin, "This village and Royce's village aren't too far away geographically, but there's a difference of more than ten years in time... Did Stephen bring those children to live in that small mountain village on the border all that time?"

"Back then, the village was isolated from the world because of a mountain collapse caused by a mudslide." Bai Yutang frowned, "There are actually many ways to cause a mountain to collapse, for example, an explosion."

Qin Yanfen smiled, "No wonder you guys were able to investigate the Xinglong case back then and have saved Xiao Mi and Xiao Yu so many times..."

Zhan Zhao pointed to the notebook and the small Wheel of Caleb and asked, "Who gave you these?"

"A girl." Qin Yanfen said.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other and asked, "Which country are they from?"

Qin Yanfen smiled and shook her head, "I'll be blunt, she’s Royce’s surviving twin daughter!"

After thinking about it, Zhan Zhao suddenly took out his tablet and clicked on a photo to show Qin Yanfen, "Is it her?!"

Qin Yanfen frowned and looked at it, saying, "When I saw her back then she was only in her teens, and was brought in by a guardian, uh..."

Qin Yanfen picked up the photo and looked at it carefully, nodding, "It should be her!"

"How are you sure?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang asked.

"There's an obvious mole on her neck!" Qin Yanfen pointed to the mole on the woman's neck.

Bai Yutang looked at the photo. What Zhan Zhao showed Qin Yanfen was the photo of the female photographer that Cheng Mu had a crush on. Cheng Mu had chased her to Romania and disappeared, and when he came back, he turned into the "dry corpse" that was now being held in the interrogation room.

"She's actually Royce's daughter." Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "Her guardian is..."

"The owner of the Wife and Daughter, the collector who later died." Qin Yanfen said, "This girl hasn't appeared since then, every collector who collected the Wife and Daughter was unfortunately killed, and now the owner of that sculpture is very secretive."

"Why did she give these things to Shen Bo?" Bai Yutang wondered.

"Back then, that collector gave the things to Shen Bo because he was an authority in archaeology, and he hoped that he could investigate the Wheel of Caleb and the truth of Royce's death... I discovered something I shouldn't have because I was investigating the truth of Royce's death." Qin Yanfen smiled bitterly, "As you all know, I have a not-so-ordinary husband."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang froze slightly and looked at Qin Yanfen, "Chen Xinglong discovered something?"

Qin Yanfen nodded, "In my research materials, there are some detailed pictures about the church explosion... among which are pictures of the bomb. Xinglong suddenly told me that that bomb wasn't made by an ordinary person, it was made by F."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both wondered, "F? He knew about F at that time?"

Qin Yanfen nodded, "Mhmm! He was obsessed with bomb making and knew a lot about it. He said that there was a man who sold bombs to mercenaries, and people called him Dr. F. These bombs couldn't be defused by ordinary bomb disposal personnel!"

"So..." Bai Yutang stroked his chin, “Dr. F, that's Stephen?"

Qin Yanfen nodded.

“But... isn't F his enemy?" Bai Yutang didn't understand, "Why call himself F?"

Zhan Zhao frowned, "Stephen's entire outlook on life had been turned upside down, and while he was seeking revenge, he may have turned into a brutal demon himself. The fact that he raised the young children of those enemies is a typical act of substitution, he was using those children to make up for the heir he lost... His reasoning for only wanting a son and not a daughter is - a son is a continuation of him, and a daughter is a continuation of his beloved. His findings were not about Royce but about himself! The son, like him, was a devil, the daughter, like his dead lover, was an angel... He would raise those five children to be devils... No, there were so many missing at the time, maybe he adopted more than just the five children, or killed n number of people. He spent years studying Royce, who may have been driven mad by him step by step, and the Wheel of Caleb was made of all human materials, which may have been provided by him as well."

Qin Yanfen was helpless, "I'm not very clear in this regard. I can only check the historical materials, I'm not good at criminal investigation and psychology."

"That collector, why did he ask you to investigate?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"That collector only knows that Royce died and that these are his artworks, he is trying to understand the academic value of these artworks so that he can assess the price. He doesn't know about Royce and Stephen's relationship. It was only out of sympathy that he adopted the little girl... The girl was probably too young when the incident happened to say anything. But this small Wheel of Caleb and the notes, it was that girl who was holding them. I still remember how she looked back then, very thin, with gloomy and withdrawn eyes, holding this box."

Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "What happened to her back then?"

"When the police arrived at Royce's house, apart from the Wife and Daughter and Royce's body, they found her in the basement clutching this box. She was terrified and didn't say anything. Later, that art collector adopted her when she had no one else to turn to." Qin Yanfen said, "The timing is a bit misplaced, I didn't investigate until the end, but Shen Bo, who investigated until the end, didn't disclose any of this."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other, "Why?"

Qin Yanfen said, "At that time, Xinglong told me not to go too deep, he said that F should be dangerous. And at that time, I had to keep our relationship a secret... but unfortunately it was discovered by someone."

"Who?"

"Fang You."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang froze, "Fang You?!"

Qin Yanfen was helpless, "He was a faculty member of the Department of History and Archaeology back then, and he had been pursuing me... until later on, when he found out about my relationship with Xinglong."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were surprised.

"Fang You told Shen Bo about this matter." Qin Yanfen said, her complexion slightly bleak, "Shen Bo told me to leave the institute."

Zhan Zhao froze slightly, then smiled and asked, "Shen Bo was jealous of your talent, then... wanted to monopolise the research results?"

Qin Yanfen smiled bitterly, "I didn't think too much about it, I only know that F has his eyes on me."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang froze, "He knows you're investigating him?"

"Him knowing that I'm investigating him isn't a problem at all!" Qin Yanfen smiled indifferently, "What I have a so-called problem with is that Fang You went to see Xinglong, and he saw Xiao Mi!"

Zhan Zhao nodded, in Chen Mi's memory, he had indeed seen Fang You.

"I started to feel that someone was secretly watching Xiao Mi, and I was afraid that they would find Xiao Yu as well." Qin Yanfen said, "So I did something."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at him, "What did you do?"

"I published a painting." Qin Yanfen took out a picture of the painting and handed it to Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao picked up the painting and looked at it.

Bai Yutang frowned as he glanced at the painting, feeling a little dizzy. There were so many lines that were so messy... but there seemed to be some regularity to them. However, in the centre of the painting, there was an F, which looked like a signature, and the composition was very subtle.

Zhan Zhao slightly raised an eyebrow, "You used this painting to warn F?"

Qin Yanfen nodded.

Bai Yutang asked, "Warn him of what?"

"This painting actually splits up many of the characters, disrupting the order of everything. After reorganising, it should read - I have all the evidence of your crimes, don't come near my child, or we'll die together." Zhan Zhao said, "And the one drawn by Chen Xinglong, the incorrect diagram of the bomb disposal method!"

"That wasn't the wrong diagram." Qin Yanfen shook her head, "That bomb, in this world, only Xinglong can disarm it, that's our leverage! If we disclose the dismantling method of that bomb, his arms business will be completely unsustainable! You have to know that raising five children, as well as carrying his ambitions, is going to require lots and lots of money."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao were silent for a long time, then asked, "That's why you started running away, without seeing your own children?"

Qin Yanfen nodded, "Actually, I don't have complete proof, I'm just bluffing, so I can't let them find me! As long as I stay far away, they won't dare to come near Chen Mi. In addition, I've been investigating the whereabouts of F and those children he took away. After Xinglong's accident, I became isolated, I only had the ability to protect Xiao Mi, so I gave up seeing Xiao Yu, and the world thought that Xiao Yu was Xinglong and Yu Feng's daughter and had nothing to do with me at all. Like this, I could make sure that she wouldn't be dragged down by me." Saying that, Qin Yanfen smiled bitterly, "I became a mother too early back then, thinking that I had plenty of time to spend with my children, I didn't expect..."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both looked at her helplessly, sure enough... her reason for fleeing was to protect that pair of siblings.

At the door, the eavesdropping crowd probed out to look at Chen Mi, and saw him looking down at his phone. Because he was facing sideways, they could not see his expression at all.

"It's only logical... that after so many years, Stephen is at least over ninety years old, right?" Zhan Zhao asked, "He should be dead right, he can't threaten Chen Mi anymore, so why did someone suddenly start looking for trouble with Chen Mi and Chen Yu recently?"

"They are looking for me!" Qin Yanfen said.

"They?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang thought of Cheng Mu at the same time, but why would Cheng Mu be involved with this case?

"I'm not really sure. I've been secretly protecting Xiao Mi and Xiao Yu," Qin Yanfen frowned, “but recently, something happened that made me very uneasy. I don't dare to gamble with the safety of the two of them, so I decided to cooperate with you guys, and ask you to protect the safety of the two of them no matter what."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at Qin Yanfen, and before they could say anything, suddenly, a figure jumped up behind Qin Yanfen, "Auntie! Let me protect you... ah!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang frowned, and then they saw Xu Lie being grabbed by the frightened Qin Yanfen and thrown away.

Xu Lie was thrown to the ground, and Dunbu looked at him before sitting on his face.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang couldn't laugh or cry. Qin Yanfen seems to have some physical skills ah… she has probably practised.

Qin Yanfen froze, then hurriedly bent down to help him, “Aiya, I am used to the motion... are you okay?!"

Xu Lie struggled out from under Dunbu's butt and plopped down on the sofa with tears streaming down his face, "Auntie, you can rest assured! I will protect you! It doesn't count just now, my Muay Thai punch was disrupted!"

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao held their foreheads, Xu Lie will somehow always be a mere dimwit.

Although there were still many details of the case that were not clear, and the timing was a bit confusing, it was already a big breakthrough in progress, at least the relationship between these people was known. Next, it needed to be sorted out in detail.

"How about taking a break?" Zhan Zhao looked at Qin Yanfen once more and felt that she looked tired.

"Oh, okay, I've basically said everything I know, I'm actually baffled by the recent happenings." Qin Yanfen seemed a little apologetic for not being able to help.

"It's already helped a lot, leave the rest to us." Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao stood up, and Qin Yanfen also stood up to move her muscles.

“Auntie, I'll get you a glass of water!" Xu Lie ran out to pour water.

But just as he went out, he was grabbed by Bai Yutang and yanked aside, which meant - don't make a mess.

Xu Lie patted Bai Yutang, which meant - give me a chance to suck up to Auntie!

Bai Yutang nudged towards the front, which meant - give someone else a chance first, you wait for next time.

Xu Lie looked up and saw that Chen Mi was at the door.

At this moment, the elevator behind him opened with a ding.

Everyone subconsciously looked over and saw Chen Yu running out with a bag on her back, "Brother?"

Chen Mi turned around and looked at Chen Yu with some surprise, "Why are you here?"

Chen Yu looked Chen Mi up and down and found that he was fine before feeling relieved, “Dr. Zhan said there was an emergency and asked me to come and take care of someone, scared me to death, I thought something had happened to you."

Chen Mi froze.

Zhan Zhao came over, holding a cup of hot water in his hand, and handed it to Chen Yu, pointing to the lounge and saying, "Oh, there's an auntie there who's an important witness, and she loves you, so I sought you out privately, please help me take care of her."

"Oh~" Chen Yu nodded her head and took the tea cup, "It's a small matter, I'll take care of it." Thus, smilingly holding the teacup, she went to take care of that "auntie".

Chen Mi looked at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao smiled and pointed to the snacks on the table, "If you're interested, go take care of that auntie as well."

Bai Yutang patted Xu Lie's shoulder and called Jiang Ping to go check the information.

Xu Lie ran to ask Chen Mi, "Are we going in?"

Chen Mi gave him the refreshments and said, "You can help, but keep your mouth shut in front of Xiao Yu, you'll be finished if you reveal anything."

Xu Lie tensed, "Then doesn't revealing the truth mean that it won't be over, so it means there's a show?"

Chen Mi looked at the sky helplessly and shooed him away, while he himself walked behind Bai Yutang. At this time, the other SCI members who had found leads were also reporting back to Bai Yutang.

"Let me participate in this investigation." Chen Mi said to Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang looked back at him, "You're not a police officer."

Chen Mi insisted.

Bai Yutang thought for a moment, "It's fine as long as Bao Sir agrees."

Before he finished speaking, Zhan Zhao raised his cell phone, "I texted and asked, Bao Sir agreed."

Bai Yutang smiled and nodded, beckoning to the crowd, "There's a breakthrough clue, let's rearrange the case!"

As he was talking, he saw Gongsun coming in with a report at the door, "Such a coincidence, I also have a breakthrough clue!"

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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: December 16, 2023 by Angel

Edited: December 24, 2023 by Angel