S.C.I Mystery vol 1 Chapter 48, The Magic Killer 03: "Ghost"

S.C.I Mystery《S.C.I.谜案集》 Mi An Ji
S.C.I Mystery vol 1 Chapter 48, The Magic Killer 03: "Ghost"

December 12, morning, 8:30 a.m., Police S.C.I. Office


The faces of the people in the conference room were grim, and the bloody photos of the scene on the table irritated everyone's nerves.

Gong-sun was the last to come in, holding Sun Qian's autopsy report in his hand with a gloomy face.

“Yeah?" When he sat down, Bai Yutang asked somewhat eagerly, and the congregation was now very much concerned about a point that Zhan Yao had said, whether it was true or not - that the crimes committed yesterday and today, were different two people!

Gong-sun rubbed his brow and said, "Two."

Although everyone trusts Zhan Yao's judgment 100%, there is one last hope that the ending will not be so bad, but the coroner's conclusion is ironclad evidence.

"Zhang Zhenzhen's corpse incision started from the lower left to the upper right, that is, the killer was accustomed to using his right hand." Gong-sun gently drew a comparison in the air, and continued, "Sun-sun's wounds extend from the lower right to the upper left, meaning that the killer is a left-handed man, and, moreover, the depths of the two cuts differ."

"That means the strength of the two is different?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Exactly!" Gong-sun nodded, “Zhang Zhenzhen's wounds are relatively shallow, while Sun Qian's are deep.

"Explain what?" Wang Shao said, "The killer's physique is different?"

Gong-sun shook his head and said, "There are actually a lot of factors that contribute to the difference in the depth of the wound, and besides, Sun Qian is a small child, so she's a better uniform than Zhang Zhenzhen..." There was a pause, "However, I'm personally biased towards Little Zhao's point of view, with the first killer being a novice and the second killer a veteran."

"Why?" Zhao Hu inexplicably asked, "It's been so many years since the killer committed a crime, and suddenly they show up again and kill a small child?"

Bai Yutang sighed for a while and said, “Right now, we have too little information in our hands, so let's divide up and gather clues first. Wang Shao and Zhang Long went to check around the school to see if there were any witnesses. Ma Han, you go check out that construction site, and Zhao Hu and Xu Qing go visit the families of the victims and investigate their social connections. Gong-sun found all the autopsy reports from those previous cases and compared them. Cat'er and Bai Chi get the old cases out this afternoon, Jiang Ping, you go find out the message about the magic map. I'm going to ask the officers who used to be in charge of these cases about the situation, and I'm going to split up today, and I'm going to come back first thing in the morning and gather it up, you got it?"

"Yes." The people took their orders and departed.

Jiang Ping banged his head on the keyboard; Gong-sun rushed to the data room; Zhan Yao and Bai Chi plunged headlong into the sea of books and newspapers and began to browse the text at a rate that defied all beings...

Bai Yutang looked left and right to find that there was nothing wrong with him, and slunk downstairs.

The first floor of the police station was where ordinary cases were handled: civil disputes, rowdy punks, minors on drugs, petty thefts...

"Uncle Wen." Bai Yutang walked into the messy office and patted an old man who was making an interrogation statement.

"Yo! Little Bai, ah!" The old man who was called Uncle Wen hurriedly stood up, "How did you busy man get up here?"

"Are you busy?" Bai Yutang asked with a smile.

"Not busy or not, you'll have to put it down even if you find it?" Uncle Wen cheerfully found a police officer to continue his work and greeted Bai Yutang to sit in his office in the upper lobby.

"What's wrong? What can I do for an old man like me?" Uncle Wen asked while pouring tea.

"Oh~~ I wanted to ask who was investigating that magic serial murder case ten years ago..."

Just as Bai Yutang's words fell, he heard a "clang" and the whole cup in Uncle Wen's hand fell to the ground, splashing hot water.

"What's wrong? Uncle Wen. "Bai Yutang hurried up to take the electric kettle in his hand and helped him sit down when he saw Uncle Wen's pale face and slightly shaking hands.




"Ugh... I'm fine, shame on me, I can't stand the excitement at my age." Uncle Wen slowed his mind and his face improved a lot, "It's all from over a decade ago."

"Uncle Wen, why are you reacting so badly?" Bai Yutang asked probingly.

"Huh..." Uncle Wen chuckled and pointed at him, "You're just like your old man, you're a human spirit!"

Bai Yutang smiled and waits for Uncle Wen to continue speaking.

"That cop's name is Wei, Wei Yong... He's been investigating this serial killer for years, his fiancée, who was also killed by that killer, and then ah, he's been pursuing like crazy day and night, but ah, that killer evaporated from this world ten years ago, because Wei Yong's behavior was a bit radical... So in the end, he just left the police force." Uncle Wen said, "This case lasted a long time, the other officers were either changed midway, or they were not very attentive like me, in short, the only one who chased from start to finish was this Wei Yong."

"So what about him now?" Bai Yutang asked.

"..." Uncle Wen was silent for a moment and said, "Specifically, I'm not very clear what happened to him, only that he's opened a detective agency of his own and has been still pursuing it."

"Oh..." Bai Yutang nodded knowingly and was about to say something else when he heard a commotion outside the door.

Uncle Wen stood up and walked out.

In the large office, several police officers were seen pushing a bloodied, cursing punk into a chair. On the other side, there was a young woman who was shouting, dressed in casual cowboy attire, who appeared to be drunk and was snapping at the man. The two younger girls around her were struggling to pull her along. The two girls, whom Bai Yutang met, are Qi Yue and Chen Yu.

"What's going on?!?" Uncle Wen let out a loud yell before both sides fell silent.

"This bitch is drunk and hitting random people!" The punk covered his head and said, "I went my way properly, and she rushed out and hit me over the head with a bottle! I'm going to sue her for physical assault!"

"You be calm now!" An officer on one side pinned him back down again, "If you didn't go messing with her, would she hit you for no reason!"

"Officer, haven't you seen her drunk..." The punk turned around and shouted, and saw Bai Yutang standing to the side, and quickly fell silent, coughed, and sat upright as a rule.

Qi Yue also saw Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang raised an eyebrow at her and asked, “Haven’t you changed? Why are you still out there?"

"No!" Qi Yue argued continuously, and then, muttered in a small voice, "She came out early in the morning to hang out, she's a shared room sister, she didn't come back last night, we just went to find her on Bar Street."

Chen Yu, who was beside him, nodded his head in an instant, “That's right! We were afraid she had something happen to her and followed her to the police station."

Bai Yutang nodded and looked at the punk, "How are you?"

"No... Nothing..." The little punk smiled, "It's all my fault for not walking carefully... Oh."

Qi Yue and Chen Yu were amazed, but the other police officers knew it, as a gangster, not even a big brother would dare to offend Bai Yutang, let alone these little brothers.

The punk stood up and was about to leave, "It's okay, ladies and gentlemen, misunderstanding... Let's go."

"Wait a minute." Bai Yutang called out to him, seeing his face brush white and laughing, "What are you afraid of?" After saying that, handing him a few bills, "Take it back and take care of the wound."

"Ohhhhhh, thanks..." The punk took the money and ran away.

Qi Yue was embarrassed and whispered, "I'll pay you back."

Bai Yutang turned back to see that Uncle Wen and the two of them were already busy with other things, keenly sensing that Uncle Wen seemed to be reluctant to talk more about what happened back then.

At this time, the woman who was being held by Qi Yue and Chen Yu on one side suddenly stared at Bai Yutang and laughed happily as she drunkenly reached out his hand and pointed at Bai Yutang and said, “Huh... Good... Good person..."

"Li Xu, stop it!" Qi Yue was afraid that Bai Yutang would get angry and hastily pulled her, but Li Xu broke away, still pointing at Bai Yutang and saying, “Bane! It's a scourge... Haha... You'll get killed! Look! The karma is coming... It's all because of you!"

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, and Qi Yue hurriedly blocked Li Xu and turned back to Bai Yutang, "Don't you mind her, she's had too much to drink..."

In fact, what Bai Yutang was paying attention to was Li Xu's line about killing people for their lives, and after thinking for a moment, he said to Qi Le, “You guys help her to the door and I'll walk you back.

"Huh? No need..." Before Qi Yue had time to finish his sentence, Bai Yutang had already turned around and gone out to get his car.

On the way, Bai Yutang chatted with them casually. Qi Yue was more introverted but Chen Yu was very talkative. Bai Yutang asked around about the drunken woman named Li Xu, a stage designer.

Arriving at the place, Bai Yutang called Qi Le, who turned to help Li Xu upstairs, "Mobile phone."

Qi Yue didn't quite understand and still put his phone in Bai Yutang's outstretched hand.

Quickly entering a number, Bai Yutang handed the phone back to Qi Le, "Call me if you need anything."

Frozen for a moment, Qi Yue nodded, turned, and turned back again, "I... I've stopped taking my medicine."

Bai Yutang smiled and nodded, driving away.

Watching the car drive away from the view, Chen Yu pushed Qi Yue in surprise, "My God, is he interested in you?"

"..." Qi Yue gave her a blank look, "What are you imagining?"

"Then why is he being so nice to you?" Chen Yu asked as he helped Li Xu to walk inside.

Qi Yue naturally understood that Bai Yutang must have killed Qi Lei himself and felt responsible for her current state of helplessness... He's really a good person.

"He's got a dearly beloved" Qi Yue naturally couldn't speak to Chen Yu and could only stall.

"Dearly beloved? What does she look like? I wonder what kind of woman he's looking at..." Chen Yu asked with great interest.

"You're less of a bxtch." Qi Yue took out her key and opened the door.

"Let's hear it, isn't it beautiful?" Chen Yu asked curiously.

Qi Yue helped her help the person inside and sighed helplessly, saying, "... Not only is it beautiful..."

Close the door.

Around the corner in the corridor outside the door, the lurking figure probed halfway out, eyes, maliciously staring at the just-closed door.

Bai Yutang drove back to the police station, and he made a call to Xu Qing to check on Wei Yong, and Li Xu.

Years of experience and natural instinct made Bai Yutang vaguely aware of a hint of strangeness.

S.C.I.'s office was piled high with a spectacular mountain of papers, and Zhan Yao and Bai Chi sat browsing through them, exchanging a few words every now and then.

Gong-sun walks into the office with a few papers in hand, and when he sees the two, he shakes his head and sighs.

"Where about is Little Bai?" Asked Jiang Ping, who bowed his head and struck the keyboard.




"The captain said he went downstairs and didn't know why he hadn't come back." Jiang Ping also replied without raising his head, then pointed to the screen and asked Gong-sun, "Is this pattern the same as the one under Zhang Zhenzhen's body?"

Gong-sun came over, "Yeah!" He flipped through the information and looked at the photo, "Exactly the same!" What's this?

"I found it on a witchcraft enthusiast's website abroad." Jiang Ping box selected comment for Gong-sun to see, "The pattern of the eyes is called "Atkin" in the spell, which represents the fact that the evil deeds have not escaped the eyes of death, and that the time has come to settle everything, which is the punishment from heaven."

"What about the one under Sun Qian's body?" Gong-sun takes out the photo and gives it to Jiang Ping for comparison.

Just then, Lu Fang knocked on the door, “Little Bai..."

Jiang Ping looked up and shouted, "The Captain is out and will be back in a moment."

"Uh..." Lu Fang was a little embarrassed, so he heard a man behind him say, "That's okay, I'll just go in and wait."

Gong-sun thought the voice sounded a bit familiar and looked up to see Shen Qian walking in.

"Hi Gong-sun, we meet again." Shen Qian greeted her with familiarity.

Gong-sun looked somewhat puzzled at Lu Fang, who said, "Oh, Mr. Shen is the owner of the site where the second body was found, and he came to cooperate with the police investigation."

Gong-sun and Jiang Ping exchanged a glance, and Jiang Ping smiled, "That's really an enthusiastic citizen."

Shen Qian smiled and shrugged his shoulders as he said to Gong-sun, "Actually, I just wanted to see where you work."

Gong-sun turned his head to Jiang Ping and said, "When Little Bai comes around tell him to call me, I have something important to tell him."

"OK." Jiang Ping nodded.

Gong-sun turned to leave with the papers in hand, and Shen Qian followed suit, "Would you mind giving me a tour of the forensic room?"

"I would." Gong-sun grinned back, "I only like to spend time with the deads when I'm working."

Said it and left.

Shen Qian stood somewhat awkwardly, and Jiang Ping hurriedly bowed his head and stifled a laugh as he continued to write.

At this point, Bai Yutang pushed the door in.

"Captain! Gong-sun said there was something important for you call him about." Jiang Ping said successively.

"Call him, I've got something too and I need to talk to him," said Bai Yutang as he walked towards Zhan Yao's office and saw Shen Qian, who was standing in place, faintly froze.

"Oh, hello, I'm..." Shen Qian was just about to ask, when Jiang Ping said for him, "The site is his."

Bai Yutang nodded and asked Shen Qian, "What do you want?"

"I see what I have to work with." Shen Qian said.

Bai Yutang looked at him and said, "Not yet, we'll contact you if we need you, thanks for your cooperation."

By this time, Gong-sun had already received a call from Jiang Ping and walked in, while Wang Shao and Zhang Long also rushed back in a breeze, entering the door and shouting, "Captain! Something's up!"

"Go inside and talk." After saying that, Bai Yutang left Shen Qian behind and joined the crowd in the conference room.

Glancing out the door, Shen Qian left somewhat scornfully, and Bai Yutang asked Jiang Ping, "What do you mean?"

Jiang Ping shrugged his shoulders, pouted at Gong-sun, and whispered, "The drunken owner does not care about the wine."

Bai Yutang nodded in agreement, looked at the piles of information everywhere in the room, and asked Zhan Yao, “Cat'er, how's it going?"

Zhan Yao and Little Bai Chi looked up together, "Almost there."

"What's the status of it all?" Bai Yutang asked the excited Wang Shao and Zhang Long first.

The two men exchanged a glance, and Wang Shao said, "Captain, we asked around the school and didn't find anything, however, the school security said... The school was haunted last night!"

"Huh?" Hearing this, the congregation stopped the work in hand and looked up at the two men in amazement.

"Haunted?" Bai Chi let out a soft gasp and leaned over to Zhan Yao.

"Yeah!" Zhang Long said, "The school security guard came out around 10 p.m. and said he saw the dead woman's classroom with the green ghost fire and the figure of a long-haired woman hanging out the window, and he got scared and ran away.

With a look of disbelief on his face, Zhan Yao looked smilingly at Bai Chi, who was clutching at the corner of his shirt: "Are you afraid?"

"Hmmm!" Bai Chi nodded earnestly, drawing light laughter from the crowd and looking at them red-faced, "You guys... Aren't you guys afraid?"

Zhang Long crouched down and patted him on the head, "You're a cop, how can you believe this?"

"So, what was that about?" Bai Chi asked in a small voice.

"Did you notice that the classroom windows are green?" Gong-sun asked Bai Chi.

"Hmm." Bai Chi nodded.

"That means someone was burning something in there." Bai Yutang said, "A woman with long hair... if the security guard wasn't looking at it wrong."

"She ran out there to burn something..." Bai Chi looks at Zhan Yao.

Zhan Yao nodded, "Either a killer or a know-it-all."

Bai Yutang nodded and said, "Everyone take a break, let's go to the construction site tonight and wait for a night and see if we can catch a big fish!"

“Gong-sun, what have you got?" Bai Yutang asked Gong-sun.

"This is the previous autopsy report." Gong-sun took out and said, "Only the last victim was a child, the others were adults."




Zhan Yao took a newspaper that had just been placed next to it and said, "Yes, it's called Xu Jiali, little girl, 13."

Bai Yutang looked at the autopsy report and the newspaper and asked, "What's the problem?"

"The other victims were all killed directly by a knife that severed the carotid artery, only she had trauma to the back of her head caused by a blunt force trauma," Gong-sun said.

Bai Yutang frowned in confusion, "This... indicates what?"

"The killer's methods have changed." Zhan Yao said, "It doesn't make sense from a behavioral analysis!"

"How so?" The crowd looked at Zhan Yao in confusion.

Zhan Yao said, "This killer's magic array diagrams all have a certain meaning, they're drawn with considerable detail, he's a perfectionist, and the lines of each one of his diagrams start from a wound in the neck and are drawn around the body, the whole picture is quite complete! But to have something else bleeding in place would destroy the integrity of the whole picture, which is something that a man of his type would never tolerate."

"What does that mean?" Bai Yutang frowned, "He didn't commit that murder?"

Zhan Yao nodded and said, "That's one possibility, and another is that something changed at the time he committed the crime."

"Perhaps, it was this change that caused him to stop committing crimes for the next ten years?" Bai Yutang Interface.

"Right!" nodded Zhan Yao approvingly.

"OK! Everyone get ready, action tonight!" Bai Yutang said, coming over to help organize the newspaper.

Bai Chi suddenly said to Zhan Yao as if he had made up his mind, "Catch a ghost tonight, I'm going too!"

...

The crowd laughed, and Zhan Yao rubbed his head: "They all said it wasn't a ghost!"

In the evening, the S.C.I crowd was excited to catch the "ghost", Gong-sun was naturally not interested, he went downstairs, just now Bai Jintang called to take him to dinner and told him to wait outside the police station.

And parked in front of the Gong-sun was a white BMW.

"Do you have a moment? Let’s have a meal?" Shen Qian appeared again, sat in the car, and opened the door.

Gong-sun looked at him somewhat helplessly, and by this time, Bai Jintang's black Mercedes had pulled up behind the Shen Qian BMW, the door opened, and Bai Jintang got out of the car and walked over to Gong-sun, "Been waiting long?"

"Just came down." Gong-sun smiled.

"Such a coincidence, Mr. Bai." Shen Qian got out of the car and stood in front of Bai Jintang, Gong-sun was once again sure that the two were not comparable, Bai Jintang's sense of presence was definitely stronger than Shen Qian's, and this man was just asking for trouble by pissing Bai Jintang off, though it was not known for what purpose...

"Let's go." Gong-sun pulled Bai Jintang and left with him. Shen Qian smiled and sat down in the car, smiling grimly, "The two brothers are the same, so excellent that it's annoying, but they both have good eyes."

Drove away.

S.C.I's congregation burrowed around the site in the cold wind.

It's 10:00 p.m. and still no movement. Ma Han, Zhang Long and the timidest Bai Chi look down at the top of the building site; Zhao Hu and Wang Shao were hidden at the rear of the site.

Zhan Yao and Bai Yutang sat in the car, staring at the entrance to the construction site.

"Cat'er, is it cold?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Hmmm~~" Zhan Yao shook his head.

"It'll be Christmas in a few days." Bai Yutang suddenly said, "Want to go over the mountains?"

"The mountains?" Zhan Yao was puzzled.

Bai Yutang waved out a set of keys and said, "Zhaohui gave it to me, said my brother recently built a hot spring vacation cabin in the mountains... Do you want to go to Christmas with me?"

Zhan Yao faintly froze, his face slightly red, and nodded.

Bai Yutang was a little nervous and confirmed again, “That, are you really willing to go with me? Just the two of us, over... Overnight."

Zhan Yao blushed even more and turned away, "Hmmm" nodding again.

At that moment, the intercom rang out, and Bai Yutang pressed the answer button without delay, and heard Ma Han say, "Captain, here it comes!"




~ S.C.I Mystery Volume 1: The Magic Killer ~



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