S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 5 Chapter 34

Inheritor of the Three Murderers 03 – Extremely Aggressive

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About half an hour after the crowd arrived at the banquet hall, the banquet was considered to have officially begun.

The lights were a little dimmer than just now. Bai Jintang came out, toasted a glass of wine, and with the champagne in his hand caught a glimpse of a few acquaintances.

The Bai family's elder brother frowned and tugged on the collar of Xiao Ding, who slipped past him.

Xiao Ding grabbed his own bow tie and looked at Bai Jintang with dissatisfaction, these two brothers are the same...

Bai Jintang puzzledly pointed to Bailey Yang and Eleven who were chatting at the other side of the room, feeling that the picture was a bit bizarre, and asked Xiao Ding, "What's the situation?"

Xiao Ding spread his hands. Before he could say anything, a beautiful woman wearing a white dress with dark blue hair "floated" in front of their eyes. When their eyes met, the beautiful woman winked at the two of them and then helped Xiao Ding to straighten his bowtie before "floating" away.

Xiao Ding joyfully touched the bow tie that the beauty had straightened, "Oh... she is the legendary Melissa?"

Bai Jintang shoved the cup to Xiao Ding and scanned the entire banquet hall.

Xiao Ding looked at Bai Jintang's expression and came up to ask, "Big Brother, do you want some suxiao jiuxin pills?” (Angel: Suxiao jiuxin pills are a pure traditional Chinese medicinal pill that many people consider as life-saving medicine in emergencies.)

Bai Jintang smoothly grabbed Xiao Ding's bow tie and yanked him in front of him.

Xiao Ding felt that it might be the lighting effect, but it seemed like Bai Jintang's eyes were on fire, so he blinked and verbally remedied the situation, "That... try not to kill anyone..."

Bai Jintang speechlessly took two deep breaths to calm down, shook his head and turned to leave.

Xiao Ding straightened his bow tie and saw Bai Jintang pulling the still bewildered Gongsun into the elevator, which meant - Out of sight, out of mind tonight.

Xiao Ding narrowed his eyes and smoothly tugged on the passing Cello, “Hey, keep your heads down a little bit."

Cello laughed, pulling out his cellphone and showing it to Xiao Ding.

Xiao Ding was a little puzzled and took a glance... He saw that on the screen of his cellphone was a surveillance feed of the hotel's surroundings. He saw that several black cars were stopping, and a few people dressed in waiter's clothes stepped out of the cars. As they walked, they loaded silencers on the guns in their hands, and after they put them away, they went through the back door of the hotel.

Xiao Ding opened his mouth wide and kept it open as he looked at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang was not far away, and Jiang Ping's voice, who was monitoring all the camera footage in this vicinity, was already coming from his earpiece, "Boss! There's a group of seven people coming, all with guns, dressed as waiters."

Bai Yutang looked up right at Xiao Ding, who had his mouth open, and reached out to make a gesture to him.

Xiao Ding blinked and hurriedly ran away.

Why did Xiao Ding run off? He ran over to Qi Le and Chen Yu, who were drinking and chatting, and dragged the two girls, “Ai! Play a tune to help boost the atmosphere!"

Qi Le and Chen Yu both looked at Xiao Ding.

Qi Le pointed at herself, "Are you sure you want us to help out?"

Chen Yu was also speechless, "On such an occasion?"

"This kind of occasion is just right, hurry up!" Xiao Ding pushed the two of them towards the stage not far away.

Ma Xin and Chen Jiayi also looked at each other, puzzled - Qi Le and Chen Yu are rock musicians, Qi Le plays the electric guitar and Chen Yu plays the drums. This dinner party has a jazz atmosphere, so how can the two metal punks play music to boost the atmosphere?

But at this time, the lights had completely dimmed. This hall was probably multi-functional, as under the dim light, flickering laser beams lit up.

Xiao Ding dragged the lighting engineer who specialised in lighting Qi Le and the others' concerts to the lighting room.

The guests who were drinking and chatting were also looking around curiously, all wondering if it was some sort of entertainment programme for the dinner party.

Just as they were puzzled, they heard a distorted electric noise like a helicopter blade rotating... The guests froze and looked up at the stage together.

At the same time, the drums that accompanied the sound were explosive, like glass shattered by a gunshot.

The guests froze for about three seconds before realisation dawned on them - Wow! So this is the style of the dinner party!

There were quite a few other bands present, as well as some top DJs, who saw that the lighting was just right and thought that everyone was having fun, so one by one, two by two, they all went up to the stage to collaborate with Chen Yu and Qi Le, improvising as they went.

Instantly, the entire banquet hall began to resonate with rhythmic, aggressive music... It's not clear if it was the result of a collective secretion of adrenaline, but people began to get excited.

The sound of the elevator doors opening was drowned out by the music.

Bai Yutang pressed his earpiece, wanting to notify the SCI crowd that the killers coming in were carrying lethal weapons and to be careful... but at this moment, not to mention talking, even a gunshot would probably not be heard.

Bai Yutang took his earpiece out as soon as he could and glanced at Eugene, who was swaying along with the rhythm on the side.

The corners of Eugene's mouth curled up as high as they could, revealing a slightly bizarre smile under the dark light. Raising his eyebrows, he smoothly took a table knife from the table and walked away with a smile on his face.

Bai Yutang turned back.

He saw Zhan Zhao and Zhao Jue sitting beside A’Mo, one on each side. A three-person sofa was occupied by the three of them.

A'Mo had his hands on his knees, seemingly not quite used to the noisy music around him, but the music wasn't hard to listen to, and his white eyes looked out in all directions.

Zhan Zhao and Zhao Jue made practically the same movement, leaning on the armrest of the sofa with one hand, holding their chins and crossing their legs in a grandpa-like manner as they observed the situation around them.

Bai Yutang was looking at the three of them when he saw a red spot of light hidden in the flickering lights, slowly crawling along the sofa, climbing up to A'Mo's chest, and moving in the direction of his Adam’s apple.

Bai Yutang frowned and turned his head...

Almost simultaneously, a heavy drumbeat was heard...

A figure appeared in the window...

Bai Yutang could clearly see the outline of a back, as well as the reflective effect of the black leather jacket when the hand raising the gun was hit by the light...

That red dot disappeared as the drums sounded once more.

Bai Yutang saw a black figure fall from the skyscraper across from them.

By the window, the black figure turned its head, and under the dim light with a hint of blood, was the side of Eleven's face.

Bai Yutang held his forehead.

Zhao Hu pushed Ma Han, "Xiao Ma Ge, he's provoking you..."

However, before Zhao Hu finished speaking, Ma Han pressed down on his head, raised his hand and shot at the window on the other side...

The red spot of light that had climbed up to A'Mo's temple at some point also disappeared.

Ma Han put away the gun and said to Zhao Hu, who was arranging his hair, “There's one behind you..."

Zhao Hu took a step back and impartially stepped right on the foot of the person behind him, then said he was sorry and raised his hand to throw an elbow...

The people swinging to the rhythm of the music didn't see that in the darkness, a server fell to the ground.

Da Ding walked over to him and fished a pistol with a silencer out of the small waistcoat of the waiter who was covering his nose and waved to two of his men.

Two black-clothed security guards came over and dragged the man out.

In the hallway outside the door, Bai Chi was handcuffing a fourth waiter to a water pipe.

At that moment, the door swung open and Bailey Yang poked his head out to take a look.

Bai Chi looked at him and blinked.

Bailey Yang stepped aside... A waiter was thrown straight out, and Bailey Yang reached out to close the door.

Bai Chi and Qin Ou helplessly went to help the waiter up... But before putting the handcuffs on him, Xiatian performed three joint resettings on him, as both his shoulders and jaw were dislocated...

He was cuffed just like the others.

The door opened again, and a beauty in a white dress with high slit and high heels came out to fix her make-up. She wiped her lipstick on a glass and suddenly stepped aside, then a loud crash was heard... and a waiter flew out of the glass window.

He fell to the ground, still holding a gun in his hand, and wanted to get up.

Bai Chi and Qin Ou were about to rush over but saw the beauty applying make-up put her lipstick away while lifting a foot to step on the waiter's stomach.

Bai Chi and Qin Ou both drew a breath... and saw that waiter curled up violently with wide eyes.

The beauty in white lifted her long legs and strode away with a cat-like gait.

Bai Chi picked up the gun and Xiatian flipped the man over, well... there was a bloody hole in his stomach.

Qin Ou shook his head and dragged the man up to continue to cuff him. Xiatian took a bandage to stop the bleeding, and once again, he was sure that the high heels were really something aggressive...

At this time, the elevator opened.

Bai Jintang walked out of the elevator and looked up... to see the six waiters with injuries cuffed to the water pipe. He looked at the sky and walked into the banquet hall.

Bai Chi and Qin Ou exchanged glances.

About three minutes later, they saw Bai Jintang walk out with a plate in one hand, and there was a piece of cheesecake on the plate.

Bai Chi and Qin Ou tilted their heads.

Bai Jintang walked to the door of the elevator and pressed the elevator button. If it wasn't for Gongsun wanting to eat cake, he wouldn't have come down. Sure enough, it was too distressing, so he hurriedly went back...

Just as he was thinking, the elevator doors opened.

Bai Chi and Qin Ou saw Bai Jintang suddenly reach into the elevator... Then, they saw Big Brother Bai lift a man in a suit by the neck as if he were lifting a small chicken.

The suited man's neck was strangled and he was struggling.

Bai Jintang strangled him outside the elevator and shook him twice... A gun and a dagger were shaken out of the man's clothes.

Bai Chi went over and picked up the weapons.

Bai Jintang threw the man over.

The man fell onto the body of the waiter at the front.

Qin Ou smoothly cuffed that unlucky man as well.

Bai Jintang carried the cake and shook his head as he entered the elevator.

......

Bai Chi counted the number of people and told Qin Ou, "Didn't they say seven? There are six waiters here, one is still missing..."

Just as Xiao Bai Chi finished speaking, he saw the door open and a waiter walked out.

Qin Ou saw that he was holding a gun in his hand, so he moved in front of Bai Chi and drew his gun on the man... But the waiter's eyes stared stagnantly ahead, and then... he fell straight forward.

Bai Chi and Qin Ou were dumbfounded, only to see that the waiter had a table knife inserted in his back.

Inside the door, Eugene, who was dressed in his flowery clothes, smiled and reached out to grab the doorknob, closing the door...

Xiao Xiatian stroked his chin and tilted his head as he surveyed the table knife in the man's back, contemplating whether or not to pull it out for him.

Qin Ou and Bai Chi, on the other hand, crouched down to study - Is this man still breathing?

All seven killers have been captured, just...

Bai Yutang looked around, feeling that there was still danger nearby.

At this moment, someone could be heard talking behind him, "This is just an appetiser."

Bai Yutang turned around, only to see Bai Ye standing next to him, opening his mouth to say something... Bai Ye's voice was muffled by the music with a strong sense of rhythm... Bai Yutang could only see the shape of his mouth under the flickering lights - Feel it...

Bai Yutang frowned slightly as he glanced back at where A'Mo was.

Zhan Zhao and Zhao Jue were sitting beside him. The two of them were observing A'Mo's facial expression, but they were indifferent to the danger that might be approaching from the outside.

Bai Yutang was about to look elsewhere, when suddenly... an inexplicable feeling arose. In this banquet hall where sound, colour and smell intertwined and crashed, it was as if his senses were open... The sound of clothing rubbing against a metal surface was matched with the smell of gunpowder, and the danger signal came from above...

Bai Yutang raised his head and saw a metal shuttered exhaust vent diagonally above where A'Mo and the others were.

Zhao Hu and Ma Han were observing the situation around them when they saw Bai Yutang suddenly walking forward with quick steps.

The two glanced at each other and followed two steps forward, only to see Bai Yutang yanking the white tablecloth on the dining table below the tall champagne tower with one hand and jerking it outwards...

The white tablecloth was jerked out from under the champagne tower, and Ma Han and Zhao Hu subconsciously looked at the one-person-high champagne tower... that surprisingly didn't collapse.

At the same time that the two raised an eyebrow, they saw the huge white tablecloth being jostled away.

Zhao Jue and Zhan Zhao both raised their heads, only to see that diagonally above them, almost at the same time as the tablecloth was pulled out, the shuttered metal cover of the air vent flew out, and a person leapt out of it...

At the very moment the person descended, the white tablecloth expanded completely.

Bai Yutang flicked the hand that was throwing the tablecloth... The tablecloth wrapped around the person who had coincidentally landed precisely where the tablecloth was.

Swinging the hand grasping the tablecloth away... the person wrapped in the tablecloth flew over the heads of the crowd... and fell away from the crowd, rolling to the doorway of the banquet hall.

Eugene, who was standing in the doorway holding the door handle, gave the door a smooth push... The man slid out on the smooth marble floor.

At the doorway, Xiatian was about to pull the knife out of that waiter when the door suddenly opened... and a person flew out. After hitting that waiter, they slid into the emergency exit passage together, and the two of them grunted and rolled downstairs.

Bai Chi and Qin Ou frowned and stood at the top of the stairs, looking down at the two assassins lying motionless. Xiatian beside him was holding the table knife in his hand, blinking, "So violent!"

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang, who had rolled up the tablecloth and handed it over to a dazed black-clothed bodyguard next to him, and smiled... He heard Zhao Jue lamenting from the side, "It's true that dangerous environments can stimulate the aggression of dangerous animals."

As they were speaking, the two felt A'Mo in the middle suddenly move, his hands shaking nervously in his lap.

Zhan Zhao and Zhao Jue simultaneously turned their faces to look at him and saw that he was looking in a certain direction. The two of them looked over in the direction he was looking at... only to see that a person was standing in the distance amongst the dim and bright lights...

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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 30, 2024 by Angel

Edited: May 3, 2024 by Angel