S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 5 Chapter 23

Witness of the Three Murderers 23 – Déjà Vu

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Bai Yutang naturally wasn't interested in the corpse, he was only interested in the clues Gongsun got after they investigated the corpse, so Captain Bai simply leaned gracefully against the other doorframe next to Bai Jintang and waited.

Zhan Zhao was still a bit interested in this former curator's corpse, and curiously poked Gongsun, asking, "What does normal data mean? Are you sure he's dead?"

Gongsun nodded, "Yes, dead through and through."

Zhan Zhao thought for a moment, and to make sure he didn't misunderstand, asked again, "There's no way to resurrect him?"

The corner of Gongsun's mouth twitched, and the forensic scientists on the side all tilted their faces up and squinted at Zhan Zhao, which meant – Where did this layman come from?

At this time, he heard Bai Yutang suddenly ask Bai Jintang, "Speaking of which, where did so many forensic scientists come from?"

Bai Jintang said, "Recently there has been some kind of forensic science seminar or something, it seems that the top forensic scientists in the world are all here. Anyway, they are all Gongsun's peers, so I invited them to dinner."

Bai Yutang glanced at Bai Jintang – You are quite generous.

Bai Jintang crossed his arms and elegantly changed his posture to continue leaning against the door, "I'm being kind to the engineers of the human soul."

Bai Yutang, hearing it for the first time, asked Bai Jintang in disbelief, "Isn't the engineer of the human soul a teacher?"

Bai Jintang shrugged "I'm talking about engineers who dismantle the soulless kind of humans."

Bai Yutang silently turned back, his older brother had become humorous recently...

Bai Jintang turned back, wanting to find a place to smoke a cigarette, and at a glance, he saw Kai Bin, who had an empty eye socket and was standing there like a fool.

Bai Yutang noticed Bai Jintang's sudden motionlessness and looked back, only to see his older brother staring at Kai Bin, or rather staring at Kai Bin's empty eye socket.

Then, he saw Bai Jintang frown and gently rub his temples.

Bai Yutang wanted to ask him if he was uncomfortable, but he saw Gongsun running over and asking Bai Jintang, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Bai Jintang gently waved his hand, signalling for Gongsun to do his own thing.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other – Awesome! A frown from Brother could actually make Gongsun throw down the corpse and dart over.

Bai Yutang signalled for Gongsun to go back and continue to work, and he accompanied Bai Jintang to the side to get some air.

Gongsun nodded.

Bai Yutang and Bai Jintang went to the window not far away. After refraining from looking at Kai Bin, Bai Jintang returned to his normal self. He lit a cigarette and leaned against the window, looking into the distance and thinking about something.

Bai Yutang looked back at Kai Bin in the doorway with some concern.

In the room, Gongsun continued to study the data of the corpse with several forensic scientists, Xiatian was ready to close the box and transport the corpse back to the SCI office, and the rest of the crowd of forensic scientists applied for a visit to SCI. It seemed that the host of this forensic conference was the police department of S City, and a visit to SCI was also an event of the conference.

Gongsun's mind was no longer on the corpse and turned back to look at Zhan Zhao and Zhao Jue.

At this moment, Zhan Zhao was talking to Zhao Jue.

"After Brother's memory was restored, it has always been normal, why did he suddenly have a rejection reaction today?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled.

Zhao Jue had obviously just recalled this as well, and he said, "I almost forgot, he still reacts a bit to one-eyed people."

"One-eyed people?" Gongsun wondered, "I watched a film with him the other day and the main character only had one eye, but I didn't see him having a hard time even after two hours of looking at a one-eyed person."

Zhao Jue said, "That one-eyed person didn't wander around with an empty eye socket, right?"

Gongsun frowned, what?

Zhan Zhao suddenly thought of something, so he touched his chin, "You mean, Brother saw you as a child..."

As Zhan Zhao said this, he made a motion of two fingers clasping his eyes and asked Zhao Jue, "It was that time?"

"His memory barrier is defined by that time he was shot." Zhao Jue said, "A slight rejection reaction is normal, no need to worry."

"You're sure it's not dangerous?" Gongsun asked.

Zhao Jue nodded.

Zhan Zhao walked over to Gongsun's side and gently patted him, saying, "Don't worry, Brother will be fine."

With the double assurance of Zhan Zhao and Zhao Jue, he should be fine, and Gongsun relaxed his heart. At this time, the box had already been lifted into the vehicle, and Gongsun was ready to go back with it.

Bai Yutang gave him that evidence bag as well, telling him to take it back and have Jiang Ping analyse it. There was a camera inside this eyeball and a chip at the back, it was quite sophisticated and could be connected to a person's cerebral nerves.

Gongsun was surprised and asked Ma Xin to put the eyeball in a sealed box and bring it back to Jiang Ping.

"There's a signal reception problem with the miniature camera." Zhan Zhao asked Zhao Jue, "Can we find G's hiding place through that eyeball?"

Zhao Jue said indifferently, "He should have run away, but he won't be able to escape this time because the thing he wanted to take wasn't obtained."

"What he's interested in are those five stolen exhibits?" Zhan Zhao asked, "What he wants to investigate is what Kai Bin said just now, the lost ability to control the human brain?"

"Is there really such a godly ability?"

Bai Yutang walked in, followed by Bai Jintang.

Gongsun came over and cupped Bai Jintang's face to look at it, and found that there were no abnormalities. He felt relieved and kissed him, then led a large group of forensic scientists, loaded up the corpse, and sent it back to the SCI office for the forensic scientists to study it.

Zhao Hu and Ma Han sent the crowd of forensic scientists back.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both asked Bai Jintang, "You're not following?"

Bai Jintang spread his hands, "Gongsun loves me too much, he'll be distracted if I'm there."

The corners of Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's mouths twitched, and they turned their heads to walk outside while cursing internally – These two shamelessly show their love all the time!

Bai Jintang glanced at Kai Bin again and asked Zhao Jue, "Is he also a capsule?"

Zhao Jue smiled slightly, "Mhmm."

"Is the parasite this time that person?" Bai Jintang asked.

Zhao Jue gently shook his head and patted Bai Jintang's shoulder, "No, but… we're already infinitely close, there's no need to rush."

Bai Jintang nodded and said, "Let me know if you need anything."

Zhao Jue nodded.

Bai Jintang walked forward and asked Bai Yutang and the others, "Are you going to the Bai Group?"

"Mhmm!" Zhan Zhao nodded, "We're going to pick up Chen Xiaofei from where Qi Le, Chen Yu and the girls are rehearsing, and then we'll go to his old house together."

Bai Jintang nodded, "They're all rehearsing in preparation for the dinner performance, let's go together."

Half an hour later, the group drove to the foot of a building of the Bai Group.

Bai Yutang tilted his face up to look at it and asked Zhan Zhao, "Is this building newly constructed? I haven't seen it before."

"It's newly built." Zhan Zhao said, "I heard the twins talking the other day, it's specially used for events, such as art exhibitions, seminars, business forums, dinners and receptions, and there's also a theatre and a concert hall."

Bai Yutang raised an eyebrow, his older brother's business was getting bigger and bigger.

"But he didn't dare to celebrate the completion of such a large building." Zhan Zhao said, winking at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang couldn't laugh or cry.

As the crowd headed inside, they saw that in the hall, there was a familiar figure standing at the entrance of the stairs, and the twins were on the side, directing people to move a huge fish tank.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao recognised that the figure was Zhang Yu, the "godly stick" who had been a great help in arresting Chen Xiaofei earlier.

"Why are you here?" Bai Yutang was curious.

Zhang Yu pointed at the twins and said, "To do business."

The twins mysteriously said, "We asked him to take a look at the feng shui first, to change those bad elements. This time, we will definitely prevent any murders!"

Bai Yutang looked at the sky. In that case, strengthening security is the right thing to do, right? What's the point of finding a godly stick?

Zhan Zhao moved to look at the fish in the fish tank. It was a marine tank that was quite exquisite, with several lionfish inside, which were swimming around leisurely.

Bai Jintang originally did not like to keep ornamental fish, he thought that the fish were stupid and could not even blink their eyes, it was not interesting at all. However, Gongsun likes ornamental fish, so gradually, not only were fish tanks unknowingly installed at home, in the forensic room, and various new and old buildings of the Bai Group, but the fish they kept also became more and more strange. Because the new building has more foreign guests, the fish raised here were quite irregular. In the lobby of the building where Bai Jintang often stays, there is a monster fish in a giant fish tank, which was Gongsun's favourite. Every time Gongsun went there, he would always lean on the fish tank and chat with them for a while, and even gave it the name "Gongsun Bai Jiong". Zhan Zhao actually liked that fish quite a bit, the face looked like the character 囧.

Thinking about this, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other again – A fancy show of love!

Bai Jintang asked the twins, "How's it going?"

The twins made a list, "The godly stick has eliminated all the inauspicious factors that can be eliminated, but there's still the most inauspicious factor that can't be eliminated!"

Bai Jintang was a bit puzzled, "What is it?"

The twins reached out together and pointed at Bai Jintang, "You! You're the one possessed by the God of Bad Luck!"

Bai Jintang gave them both a blank look and waved his hand, which meant – Get lost.

The twins dragged Zhang Yu to the second floor to continue sweeping the dust.

Bai Jintang had other things to take care of and left with a few staff members. A receptionist came to tell Zhan Zhao and the others that Qi Le and the girls were rehearsing in the theatre on the third floor.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang took Zhao Jue into the elevator.

The elevator opened on the third floor. Just as they stepped out, they saw two black-clothed bodyguards on either side of them glancing over. As soon as they saw that it was Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, they turned their heads back and continued to "stand guard".

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang exchanged a glance, then walked out of the elevator and saw that there were still a few "men in black" at the entrance of the theatre.

Bai Yutang was curious and found a familiar figure amongst the men in black, one of Bai Group's security chiefs.

Bai Yutang asked him why there were so many people guarding the theatre, and that person replied in an amusing manner, saying that the twins had asked them to prevent any serial killers, psychopaths or the like from getting close to the group of unlucky gods in the theatre.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang shook their heads helplessly. Zhao Jue pushed open the door and saw that the lights inside were cool, the music was loud, and people were practising on the stage.

In addition to a few scattered staff under the stage, there were only two spectators. They saw Grandpa Chen and Chen Xiaofei sitting side by side in the first row of the audience, holding cups of oversized milk tea in their hands and staring at a certain star singing on the stage without blinking.

The grandfather and grandson had the same movements and appearance, even the rhythm of drinking the milk tea was similar. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had to lament a little, this was the magic of the bloodline.

Next to the stage, Chen Yu and Qi Le seemed to have finished practising and were standing and chatting with the two brothers, Lan Xi and Lan Qi.

Not only were they there, but there were also several acquaintances, Xu Lie, Lin Ruo and Jiang Nan were all there, as well as several big and small stars on and off the stage. They were bright and glamorous, but Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang did not recognise most of them.

Zhan Zhao heard two barks and turned his face to see a "mop" charging towards him.

"Dunbu!" Before Zhan Zhao could say anything, Zhao Jue flashed in front of his eyes, spread his hands and squatted down...

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang watched Dunbu enthusiastically pounce on Zhao Jue, wagging his tail and licking him excited, feeling like he had seen his brother...

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang with dissatisfaction.

Bai Yutang spread his hands – You are a cat, Dunbu is a dog, you will not have a future, give up.

Zhan Zhao raised his hand and pushed Bai Yutang.

"Tsk tsk tsk..."

The two heard a voice behind them. They turned around and saw Chen Jiayi walking up from behind them, crossing her arms, "It's been a while since I've seen the two of you, you've become more handsome again ah, don't imitate your big brother and show your love everywhere." After saying that, she took a microphone and slipped away.

"Yo!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang turned their heads and saw Xu Lie greeting them.

The two of them went over, leaving Zhao Jue and Dunbu to "exchange feelings".

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang greeted their acquaintances.

Lan Qi had tanned a lot.

"Back from your honeymoon?" Zhan Zhao asked him.

Lan Qi nodded. After he and Hao Ling got their lives back on track, they organised a wedding and then went on a honeymoon. The location of the honeymoon was peculiar, it was the very same X Island where they had their accident. After Bobby's death, Satan also died. Hao Ling and Lan Qi buried the ashes of both of them on X Island, near Bobby's original medical lab. The two had found a lot of research materials from Bobby's previous life, which were so valuable that Hao Ling and Gongsun had been sorting them out for a while, preparing to publish them into a book for the benefit of future generations.

Bai Yutang asked Lan Qi what he was busy with recently. Lan Qi said that he was working as a consultant for some charities, and since he had a family, he couldn't go on any adventures.

On the side, Lan Xi reminded Lan Qi, "Didn't you have something to tell the two of them?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang froze and looked at Lan Qi.

"Right." Lan Qi said, "I just heard Lan Xi say that the two of you would be coming over, and before that, Xiao Ling asked me to find a chance to give you something." Saying that, he took out a file bag and handed it to Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao took it, feeling that it should be a book or something like that inside, and was a little puzzled.

"When Xiao Ling packed up Bobby's belongings, she found a few notebooks, one of which had nothing to do with medical care, it was about a person he met in prison after being caught by the police back then, and there were some things about that person."

Zhan Zhao was a bit surprised, "Bobby was actually interested in things outside of medicine?"

Lan Qi smiled, "Xiao Ling and I studied what he wrote for a long time and thought it was simply a pie in the sky, maybe you'll be interested."

"When and where was he imprisoned?"

At this moment, they saw Zhao Jue come over and ask.

Lan Qi thought about it, "He was imprisoned on Alcatraz Island. Alcatraz Island was abandoned in 1963, and he escaped from prison at that time... He should have served no more than three years in Alcatraz Island Prison."

"Alcatraz Island ah…" Zhao Jue smiled thoughtfully, "He even escaped from prison?

"From his notes, it seems that he escaped from prison thanks to that person's help. The two of them escaped together, he was rescued by the pirates, but he didn't know what fate that person had."

Zhan Zhao took the information and thanked him, looking at Zhao Jue in the process.

Zhao Jue stroked his chin as if he was calculating something, while quickly pressing his cell phone with one hand.

When Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang came over to see what he was doing, he had already pressed send, then put the phone away, crossed his arms and looked around.

Xu Lie had long since taken a liking to Zhao Jue, he put his arm around Lan Xi's shoulder and asked him, "You're the great god that Xiao Yu and the others always talk about?"

Zhao Jue looked at him, "Mhmm, I reckon I can't solve emotional problems."

Xu Lie was demoralised.

Zhan Zhao was surprised, "You still haven't handled Chen Mi?"

Xu Lie looked at the sky.

"But there is one thing I can help you with." Zhao Jue opened his mouth.

Xu Lie blinked in surprise, "What is it?"

Zhao Jue pointed at his pant leg, "You should change your pants..."

Xu Lie froze, lowered his head and immediately screamed miserably… He saw that Dunbu had bit his pant leg and started shaking his head.

"Again!" Xu Lie climbed onto the railing on the side, but Dunbu bit down and didn't let go.

Xu Lie was lying on the railing and didn't dare to come down. Dunbu was sitting under the railing, tilting his face up and barking at him, barking and wagging his tail at the same time. It looked like he was having a great time bullying the big star.

Bai Yutang looked at his watch and found that it was almost time, so he waved to Chen Xiaofei in the distance.

Chen Xiaofei ran towards them, having made an appointment to take Bai Yutang and the others back to his home.

Zhan Zhao suddenly seemed to remember something and asked Lan Qi, "Have you ever run through the jungle when you were adventuring before?"

Lan Qi nodded, "A lot, I've been to the rainforests of South America, Africa and Southeast Asia."

"Do you know about totem culture?" Zhan Zhao asked as he took out his tablet and pulled up some photos from this case to show him.

Lan Qi clicked on the photos one by one and had little impression of the Grim Reaper's mask and the dried corpses on display in the museum.

Seeing Zhan Zhao's disappointment, Lan Qi said, "I know quite a few experts in this field, so I can help you ask..." Before he finished speaking, Lan Qi froze as he stared at a photo, "Hmm..."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other and moved to look at the photo. They saw that the photo that Lan Qi was reacting to was the one that Ma Xin had sent to them earlier, which was the hand-drawn pattern of the genealogy chart that was captured at Qiao Yuanxin's house.

Lan Qi pointed at that pattern and said, "I've seen this before!"

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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: January 19, 2024 by Angel

Edited: April 9, 2024 by Angel