S.C.I Mystery Series Volume 5 Chapter 53

Inheritor of the Three Murderers 22 – Dangerous Misplaced

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Bai Yutang rushed to the underground garage with Zhao Hu and had just started the car when Ma Han, who was in charge of following Lin Hai out, called, "Captain, Lin Hai stopped a taxi..."

Before Ma Han finished speaking, Bai Yutang's car had already arrived at his side. Zhao Hu opened the car door and Ma Han jumped into the car, pointing at the taxi that was speeding away in front of him.

"Ho," Zhao Hu sent the licence plate number to Jiang Ping as he said, "this is the rhythm of going straight to the airport highway."

Bai Yutang followed the taxi, but Ma Han kept looking in the rearview mirror.

"What's wrong?" Bai Yutang asked.

"That taxi behind us." Ma Han said, "That car was parked right in front of the police station just now and it drove right up to Lin Hai when he was flagging down a taxi, but Lin Hai ran to the side of the road and hailed another one."

"That kid is still quite alert." Zhao Hu turned back to look at the car behind them while calling Jiang Ping to ask him to tell the traffic police to stop the taxi.

Not a moment later, two police cars with their sirens blaring behind them came up and the traffic police officer riding a motorcycle in front of them waved his hand handsomely at that taxi, which meant – Pull over and stop!

Zhao Hu was excited, "When will we get a motorcycle like that to ride as well."

Unsurprisingly, after Lin Hai drove out of the city in that taxi, he went straight onto the airport highway.

Ma Han looked at the time, "Lin Hai's plane has already taken off, it's useless for him to rush over there now."

"If he's fleeing for his life, I guess he'll casually buy another ticket to board a plane." Zhao Hu contacted Jiang Ping and asked him to check if Lin Hai had bought any other tickets.

Jiang Ping quickly replied from his side, and it was really true, Lin Hai had bought a ticket for a flight that would take off in twenty minutes. He had bought it online just a moment ago, and it was a domestic flight.

"Where is he planning to run to on a domestic flight?" Ma Han was puzzled, "Taking off in twenty minutes? Is it too late?"

"Aiya..." Jiang Ping's voice came from Zhao Hu's cell phone, "this kid also bought hotel packages with his plane tickets... and he's booked a couple of other flights."

Zhao Hu raised his eyebrows, "There's this kind of manoeuvre?"

"This trick is quite smart, at least it's impossible to ambush him." Ma Han frowned and asked Bai Yutang, "Is this kid Lin Hai or Yue Hai? What scared him to run for his life like this?"

"That's right! If he's so scared, then just stay at SCI, right? We don't have much evidence and can't do anything to him." Zhao Hu grasped the car seat and asked Bai Yutang, "Boss, what is Dr. Zhan's move this time? I'm totally confused."

Ma Han nodded at the side.

In fact, Bai Yutang didn't know what Zhan Zhao's idea was this time, but the reason would wait until he went back to listen to it. Since he had said that Lin Hai was in danger, he shouldn't be wrong.

At this time, a voice message from Zhan Zhao was sent to Zhao Hu's cell phone, reminding them to be careful and that the fighting strength of the person who would attack Lin Hai afterwards should be very strong.

"Aiya."

Zhao Hu proceeded to read the booking information sent by Jiang Ping, "Someone else has bought tickets for all the flights Lin Hai just booked, almost at the same time."

"What do you mean?" Ma Han was puzzled, "Someone is preparing to follow Lin Hai on his flight?"

"Uh-huh." Zhao Hu nodded, "That's a clever move, they probably know we're following and don't want to do it at the airport, worst case scenario, they'll send more people to follow Lin Hai, follow him onto the plane then find a chance to do it."

"Then..." Ma Han asked Bai Yutang, "what should we do? Should we buy a plane ticket too?"

Bai Yutang's face was still quite dark at this moment, "Why is it so troublesome!"

Bai Yutang had just finished speaking when he saw the car in front of him suddenly make a turn and get off the highway.

"Eh?" Zhao Hu wondered, "Not going to the airport?"

Bai Yutang followed and also got off the highway, "He probably found out too."

"Going to the airport now is a dead end, he might as well go somewhere else." Ma Han thought for a moment, "I probably know where he's going."

Bai Yutang thought for a moment and asked, "The high-speed train station?"

"God, that place is even more crowded!" Zhao Hu asked Jiang Ping to check if he had purchased a ticket yet.

The voice coming from Jiang Ping's side was a bit explosive, "Dr. Zhan said he's not going to the high-speed train station!"

Ma Han and Zhao Hu glanced at each other, and Bai Yutang frowned... Just then, he saw that taxi drive into a residential area and stop in front of an apartment building.

Afterwards, they saw Lin Hai hurriedly get out of the car and go upstairs.

That taxi didn't leave and waited where it was.

Ma Han got out and followed him into the apartment building, while Zhao Hu ran to pretend to call a taxi and got into that driver's car.

"Ai!"

That taxi driver quickly stopped him, "There's already someone."

Zhao Hu narrowed his eyes and pretended to be quite rude, "There's no one? You're refusing me ah!"

"No, this Brother," The driver was busy explaining, "I drove a guest to the airport, he forgot to take his passport so he asked me to wait for him for a while and leave right away."

Zhao Hu's skin was quite thick, "It just so happens that I'm also going to the airport, why don't we share a car?"

"Er..." That driver seemed to be having a hard time, but there didn't seem to be much of a reason to refuse.

But at this time, they saw Ma Han quickly run out of the apartment building and get into Bai Yutang's car.

Zhao Hu narrowed his eyes.

From the exit of the underground garage next to the apartment building, a black Jeep drove out, and Bai Yutang's car followed that car.

Zhao Hu received a text message sent to him by Ma Han, "That kid drove off by himself."

"I'll go!" Zhao Hu slapped the driver, "Drive to the airport!"

"I'm still waiting for someone..."

"What waiting ah, that kid drove away!"

"Huh?"

"Hurry up and drive!" Zhao Hu took out his ID and let him see, urging him to hurry up and drive.

The driver had no choice but to hurry and drive to the airport.

Ma Han and Bai Yutang continued to follow the car, and sure enough, the black Jeep returned to the airport highway and continued to drive to the airport at a pretty fast speed.

Ma Han was puzzled, "What the hell is this kid up to?"

Zhao Hu took his cell phone and reported the situation to Bai Yutang and the others, "The taxi driver said he forgot his passport and went home to get it."

"Forgot his passport? Wasn't that the passport he just showed us?" Ma Han was confused.

"Who knows what's wrong with him." Zhao Hu was quite disgruntled.

The taxi driver on the side heard their conversation and asked, "Officer, is there something wrong with that man?"

Zhao Hu asked him, "Did he say anything just now?"

"He was mumbling, he just got into the car and said he was going to the airport then he started drumming on his cell phone and muttering to himself." The driver thought about it and said, "What did he say... that waste of a chicken." (Angel: Chicken, or 鸡, has the pinyin ji.)

Zhao Hu stroked his chin, "Chicken?"

While asking the driver to say it again, Zhao Hu sent a voice message to Zhan Zhao.

"It's G, right? Did he say anything else?" Zhan Zhao asked Zhao Hu to ask the taxi driver carefully.

"Oh, there's one more sentence." The driver was quite nosy, "Said something like, Zhan Zhao..." (Angel: he said 展找 rather than 展昭, the tone of the Zhao is different.)

"Zhan Zhao?" Zhao Hu asked.

"Probably, more or less the same pronunciation." The driver said, "He said 'Zhan Zhao, no matter how smart you are, can you catch the invisible man?'"

"Oooh... the invisible man has come out?" Zhao Hu was speechless.

Soon, the car arrived at the airport.

Lin Hai's car drove into the underground parking lot. Bai Yutang followed in his car, while Zhao Hu had the driver park directly at the entrance of the airport building.

Zhao Hu got out of the car, but he didn't know which flight Lin Hai would take. The S City airport was so big, God knows which terminal this kid would enter, maybe he would even take the ferry. As he stood outside the door waiting for Bai Yutang's instructions, Zhan Zhao's instructions came first, "He will go to Terminal 3. As soon as he pulls out his passport, arrest him."

"Huh?" Zhao Hu asked as he ran towards Terminal 3, "On what charge?"

"Fake passport." Zhan Zhao answered briskly.

But at this time, Bai Yutang said, "We're following Lin Hai, he went to Terminal 2."

Zhao Hu hurriedly stopped and prepared to change directions.

Unexpectedly, Zhan Zhao shouted, "Yutang, you guys keep following, that one is also a substitute, the real one is in Terminal 3, Hu Zi, go wait first."

Zhao Hu asked as he ran, "He's behind me?"

Ma Han and Bai Yutang glanced at each other, looked at the "Lin Hai" in front of them, and couldn't help but frown, "How many substitutes does this person have?"

Zhao Hu entered Terminal 3, found an unassuming place near the entrance and narrowed his eyes. Just as he was wondering what was going on, he saw a familiar figure had appeared at the main entrance.

"Oh." Zhao Hu couldn't help but curse, "This kid is a real thief! When he went to get his passport, he had a substitute arranged. After fiddling around, he changed his clothes and ran here."

On the other hand, Bai Yutang and Ma Han realised that there were already some people watching Lin Hai.

Ma Han and Bai Yutang pretended not to notice and continued to keep an eye on the fake Lin Hai. The information from Zhao Hu's side had already come over.

Bai Yutang and Ma Han were both unable to laugh and cry, Zhan Zhao didn't say anything just now, fooling them the whole way. Lin Hai's move was brilliant, but it was just a case of the mantis catching the cicada and the yellow sparrow being at the back. Fortunately, Zhan Zhao was clever.

The "Lin Hai" in Terminal 3 was just about to board the plane when his wrist was cuffed by Zhao Hu.

Zhao Hu felt quite pleased to see his dumbfounded look. He reached out and took his passport to have a look, and saw that this time the name on the passport was "Yue Yang".

Zhao Hu laughed, "I say Old Hai'er ah, change your waistcoat and you think I can't recognise you?"

Zhao Hu dragged Lin Hai to the gate of Terminal 3, where Luo Tian and Qin Ou's car arrived.

Zhao Hu directly threw the person into the car, and Qin Ou pointed to Terminal 2 across the street, "There's a fight."

"Boss' side?"

While they were talking, two armoured SWAT vehicles stopped at the entrance of Terminal 2, sirens blaring. The airport security guards were evacuating passengers in an orderly manner because they had been notified a long time ago.

Zhao Hu hurriedly ran to Terminal 2, it's just that he came a step too late. The three black-clothed men at the scene had already been beaten down by Bai Yutang, and the airport SWAT officers with loaded guns were escorting all of them.

"So fast?" Zhao Hu walked in and asked Ma Han. He saw that Ma Han's arm was bruised, and on the side stood the other Lin Hai substitute.

This person had a slight resemblance to that Lin Hai just now, but his appearance was not exactly the same. He took his passport and looked at it, and sure enough, it was the same one Lin Hai had just had.

Bai Yutang came over to check Ma Han's injuries and found that it was just a bruise while contacting Zhan Zhao, "Thanks to your reminder, these few killers feel that their bodies have been strengthened. Their fighting ability and strength are extremely high, and they are also resourceful, a few of them escaped."

"It's okay!" Zhan Zhao looked satisfied, "It's a great success, come back and we'll continue to do magic tricks!"

"Another trick?" Bai Yutang was somewhat speechless.

"Hurry back, if you're late, Lin Hai will probably be dissected by Gongsun." Zhan Zhao smiled and hung up the phone.

Bai Yutang was baffled, shaking his head as he went to communicate with the airport security department, then took Zhao Hu and Ma Han, who were also baffled, and escorted that fake Lin Hai back.

When the three of them returned to the SCI office, they heard a ruckus inside. When they entered, they saw that Ma Xin and Xiatian were struggling to hold Gongsun back.

Gongsun's extended hand was pulling on Lin Hai's face, and it did look like he wanted to dissect Lin Hai on the spot.

"What's wrong?" Bai Yutang asked, and at the same time noticed that everyone at the scene except for Zhan Zhao, including Bao Zheng, all had horrified expressions on their faces.

Xiatian stabilised the agitated Gongsun, and Ma Xin passed a piece of information over to Bai Yutang.

It turned out that just now, after Luo Tian and Qin Ou brought Lin Hai back, Zhan Zhao asked for his biological information once more, but strangely... it didn't match the one Lin Hai had left behind more than two hours ago.

"Impossible! It's simply impossible!" Gongsun obviously didn't believe it, "Something must have been done!"

The two medical students, Ma Xin and Xiatian, both had expressions like they had seen aliens.

Ma Xin said, "The current sensation is a very subtle change. Looking at the data, Yue Yang and Lin Hai should be related by blood."

"After a while, this relationship will be gone. if you don't believe it, wait for another two hours and sample him again, it will change again." Zhan Zhao smiled faintly and asked Lin Hai, "Right? You're not Lin Hai or Yue Yang or Yue Hai at all, you're I, or as you said yourself, the invisible man."

I stared at Zhan Zhao for a moment, then laughed coldly, walked over to the sofa and sat down, raising an eyebrow at him, "Did you find out yourself, or did Zhao Jue tell you?"

"Zhao Jue isn't very interested in you, he called you..."

"A common monster, right?" I sneered, "Although he doesn't care about my research at all, I still respect him. My field of research is not at all the same as theirs, I'm just a scientist, there's no reason for you guys to arrest me at all..."

Before I could finish his words, Bai Yutang placed the photos of those corpses that he had just taken from the storage area of the fire scene in front of his eyes.

"The inheritors you destroyed, there are at least a hundred of them." Bai Yutang shook his head, "It's not enough to convict you for murderer, this should be classified as a massacre, scientist."

After I heard Bai Yutang's words, his expression remained very calm, and he said nonchalantly, "That depends on how one defines a person."

"What do you mean?" Gongsun frowned.

"Not everything that possesses a human form and human organs is a human being." I smiled and asked Gongsun, "As an excellent anthropologist, do you think that a humanoid subject cultivated in a petri dish can also be classified as a human?"

Gongsun frowned as he looked at him, while on the side, Luo Tian's face was even darker, the experience of once being used as a test subject fresh in his mind.

Zhan Zhao reached out and gently patted Luo Tian, signalling for him to ignore him.

Luo Tian calmed his emotions.

"Human experimentation is expressly forbidden." Gongsun blankly glanced at I, "To take so many lives to exchange for something utterly trivial, in the end, isn't it just transforming yourself into a freak?"

I stubbornly shook his head, "You guys don't understand at all, and I don't need you to understand my pursuit..."

Before he finished his sentence, Zhan Zhao waved his hand, "No one cares about your pursuit, you will sit in jail for at least the rest of your life, so take your time to pursue it then, I have other questions for you now."

Zhan Zhao slid his swivel chair towards I and asked him, "Who is N?"

I raised his head and looked at Zhan Zhao, frowning, "Didn't Zhao Jue tell you?"

Zhan Zhao wrinkled his nose and shook his head.

I stared at Zhan Zhao with a look of surprise, "So... you guys deduced my research on your own and then caught G and me on your own?"

Zhan Zhao nodded.

I looked up at the rest of the SCI in utter disbelief.

The others all raised their eyebrows at him, which meant – Awesome, right? Of course SCI relies on itself to solve cases!

I looked at Zhan Zhao once more, hesitated for a moment, and then spoke, "That year's experiment gave birth to three successful test subjects."

Saying that, I glanced at A'Mo, who was sitting in the doorway of the lounge drinking tea, "The witnesses."

The crowd nodded.

I pointed to himself, "The inheritor."

Finally, I looked up and reached over to pick out one of the many photos on the desk.

They were photos of the men in black who had staked out the fire investigation, taken by Jiang Ping with his small drone at the scene of the fire earlier. It could be seen that these black-clothed men were from the same group as the ones who were preparing to attack I at the airport today, "There's another kind of them, the misplaced!"

"So they're called the misplaced..." Zhan Zhao smiled, "G isn't interested in you at all, but he's so interested in N, and N is so interested in you. You guys are chained to each other, and you want something from each other. What do you want from each other? But Zhao Jue is not interested in any of you! Obviously, once ING is put together, King will come next."

"Wrong." I raised his head and smiled at Zhan Zhao, "After ING comes K. After K, it's King!"

A hint of surprise flashed through Zhan Zhao's eyes, "So that's how it is... Do you guys have duplicates of these letters? Can someone like Xie Tianlang be ranked?"

"King is just a coincidence." I helplessly smiled, "The letter is just a letter in the name, and King is just used to cover the real person behind the curtain."

"Then who is the real King?" Bai Yutang asked.

I sighed, "I don't know either. Our uppermost level is K, but what you guys have to go through first is the N level."

Saying that, his face chilled a few degrees, and he said in a cold voice, "Don't say I didn't warn you, N is an extremely dangerous existence."

"How dangerous?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang asked together.

"Dangerous to the point of threatening King!" I let out a laugh, "The reason why G wants to find N is because while I'm just doing my own research, N, on the other hand, is a traitor."

"To be a traitor you should have capital, right?" Zhan Zhao was quite curious and asked I, "What does N have that King doesn't?"

"You should have read all the research, what do you think are the flaws of all the experiments?" I asked rhetorically.

"The problem of excessive ageing." Zhan Zhao replied, then raised an eyebrow, "N completely solved the problem of excessive ageing?"

"That's right, strengthening the limbs, strengthening the intelligence, and slowing down ageing." I said lightly, "N crudely solved a series of problems and created a near-perfect misplaced, but... strengthened is not invincible."

Zhan Zhao smiled and nodded, "Reinforced and then made invisible, that's invincible, isn't it?"

I smiled, "No matter how mysterious King is, people will eventually grow old, and with the speed at which they age, you can boil them to death. Zhao Jue's purpose should be to boil King down to white bones, then seal the past and take that history to the grave."

Zhan Zhao gently stroked his chin, "Yet N seriously wants to usurp the throne and take his place?"

"Zhao Jue surprisingly has no interest in N?" Bai Yutang found it unreasonable.

"Do you guys think Zhao Jue really wants to save the world?" I gave a dry laugh, "He only wants to find K!"

"What exactly is K?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were puzzled.

"Only N knows." I shrugged his shoulders.

"Then how can we find N?"

Everyone in the room was scratching their heads as they listened, thinking that their dreams must be full of k, i, n, and g tonight...

"You don't have to go looking for them." I sneered, "Just be prepared, they'll find a way to come and get me."

Speaking of which, I laughed out loud, "I'm your only bait, so you guys have to protect me well!"

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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 15, 2024 by Angel

Edited: May 16, 2024 by Angel