S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 4 Chapter 124

The Murderer Who Returned From Hell 23 – From Hell

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Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao entered the elevator.

At this moment, almost the entire police station was ready to go out. The SWAT team, the criminal police and police cars drove out one by one.

Walking over to the command car in the underground garage, Bai Yutang synched watches with the rest of the group.

After finishing, Bai Yutang patted Zhan Zhao and said, "Cat, you guys go first."

Everyone was slightly puzzled, looking at Bai Yutang.

Zhan Zhao was curious, "You're not going? Then who's directing the operation?"

"You and Bao Sir will take command first." Bai Yutang said as he reached for the tablet at the side.

The computer rang at the right time, and an email was received.

Bai Yutang opened the email.

Zhan Zhao was quite curious as he moved over to look at it, and saw that it was a three-dimensional map of the official roads.

From the command vehicle, Jiang Ping poked his head out, "Chief, is this what you want, right?"

Bai Yutang nodded.

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang raised an eyebrow at him.

Zhan Zhao smiled, "Then be careful."

"There is help, no need to worry." Bai Yutang said as he walked towards the elevator.

Zhan Zhao brought the other members of SCI, who were baffled, to the car and rushed to the apple orchard.

Bai Yutang walked into the elevator and as the doors closed, he pulled out his phone and made a call.

The call was quickly connected, "What's going on?"

The one who answered the phone was one of the two family members who had stayed at the SCI office.

Bai Jintang held the phone and looked into the lounge, and saw Chen Yu sitting and peeling oranges for Qin Yanfen, and Xu Lie joking with the two of them on the side.

"The wind is calm." Bai Jintang said.

"Where's the policewoman? In place yet?" When Bai Yutang asked, Bai Jintang saw the elevator door open, and a twenty-something, tall and thin female police officer arrived at the door, holding a gift box in her hand.

Bai Jintang frowned slightly, "So thin, is this okay?"

Bai Yutang couldn't laugh or cry, "She's a third dan in judo! The national martial arts champion."

Bai Jintang raised his eyebrows and nodded to the policewoman, who then turned around and walked towards the women's toilet at the end of the corridor.

The elevator door opened, and Bai Yutang walked out with his cell phone in hand. In front of him was the economic crime section below the SCI office, and essentially everyone in the entire section was there, with large piles of information on the table. The people in the economic section were burying their heads in checking the data.

Bai Yutang knocked on the door.

The group of bookworms from the economics section looked up in unison.

Bai Yutang snapped his fingers and waved his hand outside, "Clear the area."

The corners of the economic section's mouths twitched as they hurriedly lined up and ran outside.

When the people from the economic section were all gone, Bai Yutang said to Bai Jintang on the other end of the phone, "You can start now."

Bai Jintang put the phone away and winked at Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen stood up and wandered into the lounge.

Zhao Zhen and Chen Yu were familiar with each other, so he went in and asked, "Where's Ma Xin?"

Chen Yu looked around, "Did she leave with Dr. Gongsun?"

"Tsk." Zhao Zhen frowned slightly.

"What's wrong?" Chen Yu asked.

Zhao Zhen was helpless, "I bought a gift for Chi Chi, there were a lot of people just now, so I asked Ma Xin to hide it, and the damn girl hid it for me in the women's washroom."

"Pfft." Chen Yu was amused, "I'll go get it for you."

Zhao Zhen nodded.

Chen Yu got up and ran outside. When she got to the door, she bumped into Bai Jintang who was smoking in the hallway smoking area.

Bai Jintang and Chen Yu met.

Chen Yu smiled and called out, “Boss."

Bai Jintang nodded and asked, "You look that bad? Not feeling well?"

Chen Yu froze and touched her face, "Do I?"

Bai Jintang nodded.

Chen Yu hurriedly ran to the washroom, ready to fix her make-up.

When she arrived at the washroom, Chen Yu saw a blue gift box sitting on the sink and hurried over to take it, looking at herself in the mirror in the process.

She looked from side to side, did her face look pale? Chen Yu looked at the mirror to check the make-up on her face and thought, is this foundation a little bit lighter? Recently my skin has been a little dry ah, should I put on a mask when I go home in a while?

As she was looking, suddenly... her eyes were attracted to the mirror, to the vent at the ceiling of the washroom.

Not sure if it was an illusion, Chen Yu felt that the vent's grate was moving.

Chen Yu subconsciously looked up, and then saw the vent grate fall down, smashing on the ground with a loud clang.

Chen Yu was startled. She turned back and saw a person jumping down from the dark vent.

It's a person, but it feels like a dry corpse. It's thin as a bone, and the sunken face made it feel more like a zombie, coupled with the sickly complexion.

Chen Yu has been following Ma Xin to watch The Walking Dead lately, and her hair rose when she saw it – Isn't this a zombie? The hairs on the back of her neck stood up in shock.

Chen Yu was worthy of being in a band, she usually practised her vocals with Qi Le, so it didn't matter that she was scared, her potential was stimulated and she shouted out, “Ya-ah-ah-ah-ah!" Her voice was so loud that it was heard by the entire SCI office.

In the lounge, Qin Yanfen stood up and rushed out.

Xu Lie hurriedly followed.

Who jumped down from the vent? Cheng Mu!

The sound of screams made Cheng Mu frown. He was about to jump over and grab Chen Yu when he heard a bang, a door of a stall was kicked open, and a figure jumped out and kicked him straight in the face.

Cheng Mu hurriedly dodged.

Chen Yu patted her chest and caught her breath only to see a policewoman come out of the stall and kick Cheng Mu in the face. Cheng Mu was extremely fast, dodging to the side. The policewoman did not chase him, but stood in front of Chen Yu, protecting her.

Chen Yu lamented that she was blessed with a great life, fortunately, this is a police station ah!

"Xiao Yu!"

At the same time, they saw the door to the washroom being pushed open, and Qin Yanfen rushed in.

"Be careful!" Chen Yu saw that Qin Yanfen was close to that dry corpse and shouted in fear.

The dry corpse froze after seeing Qin Yanfen, then suddenly pounced on her.

Qin Yanfen was about to counterattack when she felt her arm being yanked.

She was shocked, so powerful...

Bai Jintang came up behind her during this time.

Cheng Mu, who was almost in front of her, suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Behind Bai Jintang, Zhao Zhen and Xu Lie also arrived.

"Cheng Mu, you lost your mind ah!" Xu Lie became angry, thinking that he actually caught them off guard! And to attack Chen Yu, this kid simply doesn't know anything?

Cheng Mu saw that the situation was bad, so he turned around and leapt, scampering out of the window.

Chen Yu's eyes widened.

The policewoman was also puzzled, "This is the eleventh floor!"

The crowd arrived at the window and looked, but frowned – there was nobody downstairs that had fallen into a pulp, and there was no escaping silhouette... Cheng Mu had just, disappeared!

The window on the tenth floor was open.

Cheng Mu jumped in with a leap. The large office was empty, and the various desks were piled with documents of various colours.

Cheng Mu swept a glance... he was originally looking for the door, but... his eyes stopped on a desk.

He saw that on the desk closest to the exit of the office, there was a white clothed person sitting.

Cheng Mu's face, little by little, turned pale... At the door, Bai Yutang was folding an aeroplane with a snow white A4 sheet of paper.

Cheng Mu stood still, raised his head, and looked at Bai Yutang, "Did you deliberately set up a ruse?"

Bai Yutang held the paper aeroplane between his two fingers and gently sent it forward... The white paper aeroplane brushed past Cheng Mu's cheek and flew out of the open window, flying into the sky above S City.

"How did you know I would come back?" Cheng Mu asked.

"Because you were caught on purpose that day." Bai Yutang smiled faintly, "You went to find Chen Mi, you followed him from his house to the police station, you escaped, and you even left a message to lure us to the apple orchard... so I thought that there might have been something that you didn't get. Regardless of whether that something belongs to Chen Mi or Qin Yanfen, catching Chen Yu is the best way."

Cheng Mu looked at Bai Yutang for a long time and then smiled, smiling ruefully, "Even if we eradicate the apple orchard or kill the five Fs, it's useless!"

Bai Yutang looked at him, "Why?"

"Because he's still alive!" Cheng Mu said in a deep voice, "To exorcise a demon you have to kill the demon king, what's the point of killing a few little demons? Even if the demon king is dead, we have to burn his bones to ashes and burn down all of hell so that they can't harm people anymore!"

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and asked, "You mean, Stephen is still alive?"

"Only Qin Yanfen knows where the demon king is!" Cheng Mu said in a cold voice, "But this woman has been hiding it for so many years in order to protect her children..."

"Qin Yanfen doesn't know where Stephen is." Bai Yutang shook his head, "Don't you have a second plan? Could it be that the treasure is all pinned on Qin Yanfen?"

Cheng Mu looked at Bai Yutang, seemingly puzzled.

Bai Yutang was helpless, his slender index finger gently tapped his head, "Use your brain, if you were Qin Yanfen and really knew where Stephen was, would you hide for twenty years, or would you simply think of a way to kill him and then meet up with your children?"

Cheng Mu froze in place and looked at Bai Yutang, as if he had suffered a very heavy blow. After a long time, he said somewhat blankly, "She lied to me?"

Bai Yutang got down from the desk and looked at Cheng Mu, "What exactly happened after you pursued to Romania? Why did you become like this, and then... why did you come back?"

Cheng Mu suddenly jerked his head, "You can't go to the apple orchard!"

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, "Why?"

"Will be used..." Before Cheng Mu could finish his words, suddenly, his entire body froze, leaving only a trailing sound in his throat.

"Cheng Mu?" Bai Yutang hurried over.

But Cheng Mu had already collapsed, and he jerked out violently a few times, dying.

Bai Yutang measured Cheng Mu's pulse and sighed somewhat feebly, Cheng Mu was already dead...

He carefully searched and found a compartment inside Cheng Mu's clothes. He cut open the clothes, and inside, there was a black, very tiny wiretap.

In the command car, Zhan Zhao was studying the terrain near the apple orchard, and Bai Chi asked Zhan Zhao in confusion, "Brother, what is Brother going to do?"

Zhan Zhao smiled faintly, "Probably going to catch Cheng Mu."

"Cheng Mu?" Bai Chi was surprised, "Didn't Cheng Mu run away?"

"He didn't achieve his goal, so he should still go back to the police station." Zhan Zhao said, "Or he didn't leave the police station at all..."

Just then, Zhan Zhao's phone rang.

Seeing that the caller was Bai Yutang, Zhan Zhao frowned slightly and answered, "Yutang, how is it?"

"Cheng Mu is dead." Bai Yutang said, "He thought Qin Yanfen could find Stephen, so he tried to kidnap Chen Yu."

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, "Stupid."

"Before he died, he said 'she lied to me', 'can't go to the apple orchard', and 'will be used'." Bai Yutang paraphrased Cheng Mu's dying words, telling Zhan Zhao in passing, "I found a bug in his clothes, he was probably killed by remote control."

Bai Yutang watched Forensic Doctor Yang examining the body on the side while telling Zhan Zhao.

"Remote control..." Zhan Zhao frowned.

At this time, Forensic Doctor Yang looked up and told Bai Yutang, "He died of cardiac arrest."

Bai Yutang walked over.

Forensic Doctor Yang said, "His heart was fitted with a pacemaker-like device."

Bai Yutang frowned, "When he pretended to be sick when he escaped previously, he barely had a pulse or a heartbeat, was this thing behind it as well?"

Forensic Doctor Yang nodded, "It's quite subtle, the cause of Cheng Mu's death was because of this thing suddenly releasing an electric current."

On the other end, Zhan Zhao, who had heard the entire conversation, reached his hand out and gently stroked his chin, pondering.

At this time, the convoy had already arrived at the forest area on the outskirts of the apple orchard.

The vehicles stopped and the other officers stood by.

Bao Zheng raised his head to look at Zhan Zhao, who was still fidgeting with the phone, "How's it going? Will the operation continue?"

Zhan Zhao returned to his senses and suddenly mysteriously said, "As it turns out, this is a fight between Fs!"

Bao Sir looked at the sky, the accent of Zhan Zhao's speech was getting more and more godly every day, and just now, he was inexplicably reminded of Zhao Jue.

"What we deduced before was also a struggle between Fs." Bai Yutang heard it on the other side and said.

"Previously, we thought that F and F were in opposition." Zhan Zhao said, "But in this life and death struggle, in addition to the antagonistic relationship, there is another relationship!"

Bai Yutang froze slightly, then raised an eyebrow, "A rivalry relationship?"

Zhan Zhao smiled, "They're basically the same group, both from hell, both descended from the demon king."

Bao Zheng frowned, looking at Zhan Zhao, "The situation has changed? Then is the operation cancelled for now?"

Zhan Zhao, however, lightly shook his head, "There's no need for that! Continue with the operation!"

“You sure?" Bai Yutang asked.

Zhan Zhao smiled, “Mhmm, because I know where that hell that hides the demon king is!"

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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 23, 2023 by Angel

Edited: January 2, 2024 by Angel