S.C.I Mystery vol 1 Chapter 51, The Magic Killer 06: Misdirection.

S.C.I Mystery《S.C.I.谜案集》 Mi An Ji
S.C.I Mystery vol 1 Chapter 51, The Magic Killer 06: Misdirection.

In the time that followed, Zhao Zhen gave the crowd a detailed account of the general characteristics and origin development of the curse pattern.


Young people, again, are the best in every way, maybe there's something in common in the blood, or maybe it's some kind of indistinct destiny. Zhan Yao, Bai Yutang and Zhao Zhen chatted more and more speculatively, talking about Bao Zheng's inability to get into the conversation and joking with each other... The rustiness between them was completely erased with the conversation.

Finally, Zhao Zhen promised to go to the S.C.I. tomorrow to assist in the investigation before the crowd decided to leave.

When they came, it was four people, but when they left, it was three people- because some small change had occurred.

As he left, Lisbon clenched the corners of Bai Chi's shirt, not letting him go.

If, say, the one pulling Bai Chi is a cat, then the congregation can yank it away.

Again, if the person pulling Bai Chi is a dog, then the congregation can drive him away.

But the one holding Bai Chi is an adult African lion! So, Bao Zheng, Bai Yutang and Zhan Yao sensibly decided to leave Bai Chi at Zhao Zhen's house and let him come to the police station with Zhao Zhen in the morning.

The butler escorted them out, leaving Zhao Zhen, Bai Chi and Lisbon in the living room.

The atmosphere was awkward to the core...

"So your name is Bai Chi." "Ah..." Zhao Zhen said, "I didn't know until now."

Little Bai blanked him, "Yeah, you kept calling me 'Bai Chi' back then or it was 'Little Chi'."

"Cough ~~..." Zhao Zhen helplessly coughed twice and laughed awkwardly, thinking that this kid was so vindictive.

Bai Chi really wanted to pull away, but, again, Lisbon was rubbing up against him, with a look of sheer abandon. And Bai Chi really like Lisbon and want to spend more time with it...

Just as the two men were staring wide-eyed, the butler came in and said, "Young Master Bai, you will share a room with Young Master tonight."

"What?" The two men spoke in unison and turned their faces to the butler.

"..." The butler smiled, "Lisbon usually sleeps in the young master's room... So..."

Zhao Zhen snapped, thinking that this might be a good opportunity to ease the relationship between himself and Bai Chi, and stepped forward, wrapped his arms around Bai Chi's shoulders, and tried to put on an amiable look, saying, "Exactly, it's been a long time since we've seen each other, there's plenty to talk about..."

Bai Chi clamped two fingers on Zhao Zhen's sleeve and lifted his hand from his shoulder, throwing it away like a dead cockroach, then dusted his shoulders in disgust...

With his movements, Zhao Zhen's face was green with iron and gritted his teeth... Annoying ...

Zhan Yao and Bai Yutang had a good night, sitting contentedly in Bao Zheng's car back at the police station. The three of them were still chatting happily, Zhan Yao slowly lost his voice, Bao Zheng looked back, Bai Yutang smiled and gestured to him to be silenced... Just then, Zhan Yao was already leaning on his shoulder, asleep.

Bai Yutang knew that Zhan Yao was tired these days, and he seemed to be very attached to the case, perhaps because, to a large extent, the killer had killed an innocent small child, which irritated Zhan Yao. Unlike himself, Zhan Yao was more precisely a pure scholar, not a cop... It was a bit difficult for him to face such bloody killings and remain detached.

Bai Yutang almost unconsciously reached out, somewhat pampered, to help Zhan Yao straighten his hair. Bao Zheng was slightly surprised to see the unmistakable love in Bai Yutang's eyes through the rearview mirror... These two children...

When they arrived at the police station, Bai Yutang wanted to take Zhan Yao to his car and send him home so that he could get some sleep, but then the phone rang...

The phone picked up, and Wang Shao's voice came: "Boss, that woman's condition is not good!"

"Not good?" Bai Yutang puzzled, "What's going on?"




"She was yelling and screaming that she had to go back or she would die." Wang Shao replied somewhat eagerly.

"Go or die?" Bai Yutang was astonished.

"Let's go see." Zhan Yao, who had woken up at some point, rubbed his somewhat sore neck and said.

"We'll be right over." Bai Yutang hung up the phone and reached out to rub Zhan Yao's neck, "Have you had a lot of neck pain lately?"

"Hmmmmm ~ some." Zhan Yao moved his shoulders, and Bai Yutang forcefully gave him a soft sigh of comfort with a moderate squeeze.

The two then walked side by side toward the elevator.

Just as he arrived at the door of the detention room, he heard a woman's noisy voice coming from inside, and Wang Shao came out rubbing his swollen temples, "Captain!"

"Did you get her information?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Checked." Wang Shao pulled out a document and said, "Her name is Kong Liping, 31, a cashier at a foreign trade company in the city, and two years ago, her husband died in a car accident, leaving her to live alone with a child less than two years old."

Bai Yutang looked at the information, "No wonder she has to say she's having a bad time."

"What did she say about not going back or she will die?" Zhan Yao asked.

"Oh~~," said Wang Shao with a sigh, "She said her baby is home alone, and if she doesn't return early tomorrow morning, the baby might starve or freeze to death or something."

Bai Yutang frowned slightly and asked Zhan Yao, “Cat'er, should we let go of her now?"

Zhan Yao thought for a moment, “Yeah, that's about it."

Wang Shao turned around and went inside, taking Kong Liping to the interrogation room and telling her that she could go home as soon as she cooperated with the investigation.

Kong Liping immediately fell silent and sat quietly in the interrogation room waiting.

Zhan Yao and Bai Yutang did not rush inside, but stood in front of the single-sided reflective glass and observed the people inside.

Kong Liping looked much older than 31 years old, with an average look and rough skin, her hair was long and somewhat disheveled, with no makeup. Cheap clothes, a bit of austere...

Zhan Yao watched her movements intently: the twinkle in her eyes, the anxious look... From time to time, her right hand turned the ring on her left ring finger...

Faintly wrinkled her brow.

Bai Yutang saw that Zhan Yao looked different and asked, "Cat'er, what's wrong?"

Zhan Yao mused for a moment and said, "She's lying."

"Lying?" Bai Yutang asked, "How so?"

"She's upset..." Zhan Yao watched Kong Liping's movements and said, “Her eyes kept looking down to her left... This indicated that she was thinking about the current situation, perhaps as she had once envisioned it. She's plain but not unkempt.... That means she's a very organized and self-controlled person, with more anxiety than worry in her demeanor, and she's not thinking about her child at the moment..."

Bai Yutang listened to Zhan Yao's narration and also stared at Kong Liping intently for a while, “Cat'er, what you mean is... She was caught by us on purpose?"

Zhan Yao rubbed her chin and smiled, "Maybe... There's something she wants to tell us, but can't just tell the police."

"So..." Bai Yutang rubbed his hands together, "What do we do?"

One look at the other – We have a plan!

The decision was made and the two walked into the interrogation room.

Sitting down face to face, without waiting for Zhan Yao Bai Yutang to open his mouth, Kong Liping said eagerly, "Mr. Police, can you make a long story short, I... My child is still at home... He's too young and alone..."

"So..." Bai Yutang sulked for a moment, "We can ask the social security staff to look after you first."

"Ah! No, no, no!" Kong Liping was startled and waved her hands, "My son is very afraid of other people since birth... If he wakes up and not see me, he'll cry..."

The two men glanced at each other.

Zhan Yao raised an eyebrow – What is that about?

Bai Yutang nodded knowingly, it had been at least four hours since Kong Liping had been taken to the police station! A mother, in this situation, refuses Social Security to take care of her child... There are only two reasons, either she doesn't love her child; or, she knows in her heart that her child is safe.

"Then let's get started." Bai Yutang nodded, "Long story short, you were the one who went to the kindergarten classroom last night, right?"




"Yes..." Kong Liping nodded, "It's me."

"What were you doing at the murder scene?" Zhan Yao asked.

"I'll... I'm going to give the dead some peace, and burn some money..." Kong Liping said.

"It's not the paper money you're burning but the runes." Zhan Yao chuckled, "Like doing something legal... Or do you think this case wasn't done by a human being?"

Kong Liping faintly trembled and said somewhat nervously, "It's... Yes, I know it's a ghost..."

"Whose ghost is it?" Bai Yutang asks, "Xu Jiali's?"

"You... How do you guys know?" Kong Liping asked in alarm.

Zhan Yao braced his chin in one hand and asked her seriously, "How exactly did Xu Jiali die?"

"She... She was killed by someone..." Kong Liping said.

"By whom?"

"I... I don't know."

Bai Yutang pulled out a document and said, "You attended a dance school with Xu Jiali when you were a child, and Xu Jiali is the one who died in the school locker room... Do you know something?"

"..." Kong Liping took a deep breath and seemed to have made up his mind, "Jiali... It wasn't the serial killer who killed her."

"Who killed her?"

"I don't know... we, when we went in, she was already dead." Kong Liping shook her head and said, "I just... Just faked that scene."

Zhan Yao and Bai Yutang exchanged a glance and asked Kong Liping with some surprise, “Did you draw that magic formation diagram? Why are you helping the real killer fake the scene?"

"I..." Kong Liping seemed to be rubbing her hair in some confusion, we were just having fun...” Besides, and Jiali doesn't even look at us normally. We wanted to teach her a lesson..."

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Yao, meaning, this lie is too obvious, right?

Zhan Yao nodded, gesturing for him to come up with a plan!

"So you think it's Xu Jiali coming back for revenge this time?"

“Yeah..." Kong Liping said, “Zhang Zhenzhen ... She was with us."

Zhan Yao held out a piece of paper and handed it to her, "Write down the names of all the people who were with you at the time to fake the scene, everyone."

Kong Liping held her pen somewhat shakily and wrote down a string of names.

Taking the paper she handed her, Bai Yutang nodded, "You can go back now."

"... What?" Kong Liping seemed somewhat unconvinced and looked at Bai Yutang suspiciously.

"You can go back now, or, what else do you have to say?" Zhan Yao asked.

"Oh... No more... No more." Kong Liping hastily stood up, walked outwards, took a few steps and came back, saying somewhat hesitantly, “Mr. Police... That... Xu Jiali has a sister, did you know that?"

"Sister?" Bai Yutang was somewhat surprised.

"That's right... Xu Jiali and her sister were orphaned and later adopted by different people... But they're very close."

"What's her sister's name?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Uh... This, I don't know, I haven't seen her, just heard her mention her sister from time to time." After saying that, Kong Liping left in a panic.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Yao, "How about Cat'er? She seems to have deliberately told us what was going on with Xu Jiali's case back then."

"And!" Zhan Yao smiled, "Reminded us that Xu Jiali has a sister."

Bai Yutang quickly dialed the phone, “Wang Shao, follow Kong Liping!"

"Okay." Wang Shao hung up the phone and carefully followed Kong Liping.

Bai Yutang turned his face to see Zhan Yao's pale face... "Cat'er, what's wrong with you?"

"Huh? No... I have a bit of a stomach ache." Zhan Yao laughed and said, “By the way, who are all the names that Kong Liping wrote? It's likely to be one of the next victim."

Bai Yutang looked at him somewhat worriedly, “Are you really okay? Let’s go to the hospital."

"It's not like it didn't hurt...it's just a fuss." Zhan Yao reached out and grabbed the paper from Bai Yutang's hand and read, "Hmm~~ Zhang Zhenzhen, Shen Ling, An Qingyao, Li Xu..."



"What!" Bai Yutang froze and looked up as soon as he grabbed the paper from Zhan Yao's hand.

"What's wrong?" Zhan Yao was curious.

"This Li Xu..." Bai Yutang pointed to the name on the paper, "Very problematic~"




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



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