S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 5 Chapter 35

Inheritor of the Three Murderers 04 – Sudden Events

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Zhan Zhao and Zhao Jue simultaneously saw a human figure in the light... Although it was only a figure, a silhouette... A'Mo reacted to him differently.

Zhan Zhao and Zhao Jue glanced at A'Mo beside them again – He was shaking, fearful and nervous.

Bai Yutang looked back and Zhan Zhao signalled to him – He ran in that direction.

Bai Yutang looked over and saw a figure walking into the crowd.

Even though the arena was full of people, that figure was still very distinctive!

Bai Yutang immediately walked over, but after that person walked into the crowd, he disappeared...

Bai Yutang was trying to look for him... when he heard Zhan Zhao's voice coming from his earpiece, "Yutang, A'Mo is reacting again."

Bai Yutang was puzzled and turned back to look in Zhan Zhao's direction... and saw A'Mo looking in the complete opposite direction from just now.

Bai Yutang frowned – What was the situation?

Also looking for the person from earlier were Ma Han and Zhao Hu, who had also heard Zhan Zhao's voice in their earpieces.

Zhao Hu then asked, "Could there be two of them?"

Everyone looked in the direction that A'Mo was looking and saw a wheelchair being slowly pushed over.

A woman pushed an old man in a suit and appeared in front of the eyes of the crowd... At this time, Qi Le's performance was over, the guests who had partied hard enough calmed down, and the lights around them were lit up.

The crowd got a good look at the old man in the wheelchair – Yue Hai!

This wealthy businessman who had been identified as a murderer three times, the purpose for which Zhan Zhao and the others had asked Bai Jintang to organise this banquet... had finally appeared in front of the eyes of the crowd.

And to the crowd's surprise, A'Mo had an even more intense "reaction" to Yue Hai than the mysterious figure just now.

A'Mo seemed to want to hide, it could be seen that he was very nervous, much more nervous than just a moment ago.

Zhan Zhao looked at Zhao Jue.

Zhao Jue gently stroked his chin, seemingly thinking about something.

"Where's that doctor?" Zhao Jue suddenly asked Zhan Zhao.

"Which doctor do you mean?"

"The forensic doctor of Jintang’s." Zhao Jue said, and Ma Xin's voice came from the earpiece, “He's on the third floor with Big Brother Bai."

"Have him come and see... if Yue Hai has had plastic surgery." Zhao Jue said.

Ma Xin hurriedly went into the elevator to rush upstairs, ready to justifiably break into Bai Jintang and Gongsun's room, not knowing if there would be any unexpected surprises.

Zhao Hu was a bit puzzled, "Plastic surgery? Is this person not Yue Hai or has Yue Hai had a facelift?"

Bai Yutang helplessly pressed his earpiece to remind, "Don't look together, you guys!"

Everyone hurriedly turned back.

Zhan Zhao felt that Zhao Hu asked a good question.

At this moment, the door opened and Bai Jintang arrived, bringing Gongsun with him.

Ma Xin followed behind with a drooping head. She originally thought that she could rush into the room and crash into something scandalous, but as a result, she ran to the door just as the two of them came out, and she didn't see anything.

Gongsun followed Bai Jintang to receive guests.

Bai Jintang deliberately walked to Yue Hai and exchanged a few pleasantries with him.

Gongsun followed at his side and carefully looked at Yue Hai's face.

Yue Hai was pushed in his wheelchair by his daughter, who was quite pretty and said to be very capable.

When Yue Hai and Bai Jintang finished chatting and left, Bai Yutang went to Gongsun's side and asked, "How is it?"

“A fake face!" Gongsun said with great certainty.

"Fake face?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang almost asked together.

"A human face mask or something?" Xiao Bai Chi got excited.

Gongsun shook his head, "It's not like we're making a film, I only know that his face should have had major plastic surgery."

"A'Mo doesn't look at faces anyway." Bai Yutang said, "So he isn't lame?"

“Let’s think of something to test him." Zhao Hu and Ma Han then wanted to test Yue Hai.

As the crowd was thinking of a way... Bai Yutang's phone suddenly rang.

Bai Yutang took it out and looked at it, and found that it was Bao Zheng calling. He was a little surprised that Bao Zheng would call at this time.

While observing Yue Hai, who was sitting in his wheelchair, greeting and chatting with people along the way, Bai Yutang picked up the phone, "Bao Sir..."

On the other side of the phone, Bao Zheng said, "Where are you and Zhan Zhao?"

"On a mission at Brother's hotel." Bai Yutang replied.

"You two come out!" Bao Zheng said.

"Now?!" Bai Yutang was anxious.

Zhan Zhao had already reached his side, listening with his ear pressed against his cell phone as he asked, "What's going on?"

"The mission on your side is cancelled..."

"No way!"

Before Bao Zheng could finish his sentence, Zhan Zhao jumped up.

“There's an emergency on my side, come to me!" Bao Zheng's side sounded quite anxious.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other.

The rest of SCI were not quite sure what the current situation was and looked at Bai Yutang.

Those few assassins also seemed to notice that there was something wrong here and all looked over.

Zhao Jue crossed his legs and leaned against the armrest of the sofa beside A'Mo, observing Yue Hai in the wheelchair and squinting his eyes slightly. The corners of his mouth hooked up a little, bringing out a hint of a smile. Zhan Zhao and the others were too focused on Bao Zheng's phone call, thus they didn't notice the change in Zhao Jue's expression.

“Bring everyone to X University!" Bao Zheng said, "Be there within five minutes!"

"Everyone?" Bai Yutang was surprised, "What happened?"

"Look at the news yourself!" Bao Zheng said and hung up the phone with a click.

Zhan Zhao hurriedly reached for his cell phone to read the news.

Bai Yutang realised that something might have gone wrong, and beckoned to Zhao Hu and Ma Han.

"Chief, what's the situation?" Zhao Hu ran over.

"Take A'Mo with you, everyone abort the mission and go to X University!" Bai Yutang said as he headed out.

The rest of SCI went to the car. Zhan Zhao went back and hauled A'Mo up, and Zhao Jue curiously followed him out.

Behind him, Bai Ye followed out as well.

The assassins looked at each other in disbelief.

Eleven asked Eugene, "What's going on?"

Eugene was looking down at his cell phone at the moment, wearing earbuds, and when he noticed Eleven asking, he handed him one of the earbuds.

Eleven took the earbud and put it on. Looking down at Eugene's phone, he saw that it was a live broadcast programme of breaking news... A serious violent incident had occurred at X University. Xu Ming, a teacher of the school's psychology department, had killed three psychology students with a gun and was now holding a female student hostage as they stood on the roof of the library at X University. Xu Ming seems to be in an emotional state, and the girl was shot in the arm. Blood stained almost half of her body, her face was pale and she looked like she was dying.

Eleven and Eugene watched the video and looked at each other – Why did it happen at this time?

......

At that moment, Zhan Zhao, who was sitting in Bai Yutang's car, was also watching the video.

Bai Yutang's car was already almost at the entrance of X University.

Zhan Zhao was holding his cell phone and playing that video over and over and over again.

Behind Zhan Zhao, A'Mo and Zhao Jue were sitting there together. Zhao Jue was leaning over the back of his seat to look at the screen of the cell phone in Zhan Zhao's hand with interest.

Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao, "Do you know that teacher?"

Zhan Zhao nodded, “Mhmm, I don't just know Xu Ming, I know that girl as well."

Bai Yutang was a little surprised.

"Her name is Guan Weiwei, she happened to be a freshman when I was teaching at X University, her grades were quite good and she is quite smart. She should be studying for her master's degree right now, and Xu Ming is probably her mentor." Zhan Zhao checked the three murdered students reported by the media earlier and frowned, "All of them are students I used to teach."

Zhao Jue's focus was kinda off, saying to Zhan Zhao, "Your students are older than you."

Zhan Zhao stopped on a frame and handed his cell phone to Zhao Jue.

Zhao Jue took it and glanced at it, tilting his head slightly, "Hmm... interesting."

"What's interesting?" Bai Yutang drove the car into the passageway blocked off by the cordon and drove directly in front of Bao Zheng.

Bao Zheng was standing next to a command car at this moment, with the SWAT team leader by his side.

Bai Yutang got out of the car.

Bao Zheng was standing next to the command car rubbing his eyebrows.

Zhao Jue also wanted to get out of the car, but Bai Yutang signalled him to stay in the car and watch A'Mo.

Bai Ye's car also arrived.

Bai Yutang told him to stand by the car. What happened here had nothing to do with the two of them, the two of them were responsible for protecting A'Mo, so that no one would take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble... Thinking about it a little, why did this kind of thing happen at this critical moment, it's very likely that it's not an accident.

Zhan Zhao had already arrived at Bao Zheng's side and asked, "What's going on."

"There's a survivor." Bao Zheng waved to the side.

Lu Fang then brought a female student over.

The girl was thin, pale and elegant. She wore a pair of rimless glasses, her eyes were red and swollen, and her face was bruised.

Seeing Zhan Zhao, the girl shouted, "Dr. Zhan!"

Zhan Zhao knew her, she was also a psychology student from when he used to teach. Her name was Zhang Yue, she was good friends with the one who was taken hostage, Guan Weiwei, and her grades were also very good.

"What's going on?" Zhan Zhao asked her.

Zhang Yue said that they were preparing their thesis these days, and the five of them were having evening study sessions in the library when Xu Ming suddenly ran in and asked if they had poisoned his coffee.

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly.

Bai Yutang and the rest of SCI also found it baffling.

Zhang Yue cried as she spoke, saying that they had no idea what had happened, they only knew that Xu Ming's eyes were red, his face was sweaty and his lips were pale and purple, it really looked like he had been poisoned.

They said they had not seen his coffee, but Xu Ming forced them to hand over the antidote, and the two sides argued... At that moment, Xu Ming suddenly pulled out a gun.

It wasn't until he opened fire that they understood what was happening... The librarian and the other students who were studying in the evening were terrified and ran out screaming.

Xu Ming killed the three students who were with Zhang Yue and the others. Zhang Yue was near the hallway, so she followed the other students and escaped, but Guan Weiwei ran a little slower and was caught.

According to the police, Xu Ming took Guan Weiwei into the elevator and went up to the top floor of the library, and he was now on the rooftop terrace. The artery in Guan Weiwei's left arm may have been injured, she was bleeding heavily and wouldn't be able to hang on for long in this condition.

The SWAT team leader said, "The situation is a bit troublesome... There are no high-rise buildings near the school, and the top floor of the library is already the highest floor, so it is impossible to arrange a sniper.

The crowd subconsciously looked around – Indeed, the campus of X University was located on the outskirts of the city, surrounded by no buildings taller than the library.

"Where's the helicopter?" Bai Yutang asked.

"It'll irritate him." Zhan Zhao shook his head, "We have to think of a plan, is there a way to contact him?"

Bao Zheng waved to the sweaty headmaster on the side.

Naturally, Zhan Zhao also knew the headmaster of X University.

"Xiao Zhan ah..." the headmaster cried, holding a cell phone, "you can try calling him."

Zhan Zhao took the phone and handed it to Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang asked, "I'll contact him?"

Zhan Zhao nodded, "Mhmm, try to stall for as long as possible, just say that I haven't arrived yet, and negotiate with him to see if we can get the medical staff to go up and treat the girl's wounds."

Bai Yutang pressed the call button.

Not a moment later, the phone connected, and Xu Ming's voice, which came through, had a slight tremble to it.

Bai Yutang followed Zhan Zhao's words and told him.

Xu Ming was on the verge of an emotional breakdown, "It's too late! It's too late! Tell Zhan Zhao to come immediately..."

The crowd listened to Xu Ming's voice through the speakerphone.

Bao Zheng frowned, "Is he mentally ill?"

Zhan Zhao, like the others, put on his bulletproof vest and said to Bai Yutang, "Tell him that I'm already on my way in a helicopter, tell him to calm down and that I'll be right there."

Bai Yutang nodded and called Xu Ming again, who agreed, repeating over and over again on the phone, telling Zhan Zhao to hurry up and come.

On the side, the SWAT team leader and Bao Zheng looked at each other – With two calls from Zhan Zhao, the helicopter was allowed to approach the building naturally.

Ma Han took out his equipment, and Bai Yutang told him to hide in the helicopter's cabin to cover Zhan Zhao, while the others followed him up the elevator.

The police helicopter quickly lifted off, Bao Zheng sat in the co-pilot's seat, Zhan Zhao sat in the doorway of the cabin, and Ma Han sat in the rear of the cabin with a sniper rifle, watching the situation outside.

Soon, the helicopter slowly landed on the small tarmac on the roof of the library building.

On the other side, Bai Yutang's elevator stopped at the floor below the top floor, and with guns in hand, the group climbed the stairs to the top floor, quietly approaching the iron door leading to the terrace.

That iron door was unlocked and ajar.

Luo Tian reached out and gently opened the iron door. Bai Yutang went out and hid behind a column, pointing to the right side to the crowd behind him, signalling – Approach from the right side.

Zhao Hu and the others went out one after another, hiding behind several transformers.

Bai Yutang peered at the platform behind the pillar.

At this moment, Xu Ming was holding the girl hostage and hiding in a corner that was blocked by a column. Needless to say, he was hiding quite well, even if there was a sniping position in the vicinity, this position would be difficult to hit.

Before Zhan Zhao opened the cabin door, he said to Ma Han, "I want to talk to him."

Ma Han nodded in understanding as he leaned back on the seat at the tail end of the helicopter. He stepped on the window with his knee bent, the sniper rifle rested on his knee, and he aimed at the pillar that Xu Ming was hiding in.

Zhan Zhao opened the door and got out of the aircraft.

"Xu Ming!" Zhan Zhao took a few steps forward and shouted.

The helicopter's blades had stopped rotating, and the entire rooftop was quiet.

Bao Zheng sat nervously in the co-pilot's seat, watching outside the cabin as Zhan Zhao walked step by step towards where Xu Ming was hiding.

Xu Ming poked his head out a little bit...

In fact, the very moment he poked his head out, Ma Han could have shot him, but Zhan Zhao had said that he wanted to talk to him, so Ma Han didn't pull the trigger and continued to wait.

Zhan Zhao asked, "Are you okay?"

"They poisoned me!" Xu Ming was so emotional that he spoke in a sobbing voice, "I won't live much longer! I want the antidote!"

Zhan Zhao nodded, "Who poisoned you?"

"Those students!" Xu Ming hissed, "Blisters have already started to grow on my face! Those damn students!"

Zhan Zhao frowned, blisters on his face?

On the helicopter, Ma Han was puzzled – Just now, the moment Xu Ming poked his head out, he didn't see any blisters on his face!

Bai Yutang, who was lying in ambush on the other side, also took a look... Although he was a bit far away and it was dark, there were indeed no blisters on Xu Ming's face as he had claimed...

Zhao Hu looked at Luo Tian.

Luo Tian shook his head, he didn't see anything either.

"Why did those students poison you?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Because I'm an inheritor! I'm an inheritor..." Xu Ming muttered as if he were talking to himself, "They want to kill me, they want to kill me..."

Zhan Zhao heard the word “inheritor" and was slightly stunned – When Zhao Jue saw A'Mo, he also said the word "inheritor"!

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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: February 1, 2024 by Angel

Edited: May 3, 2024 by Angel