S.C.I Mystery vol 1 Chapter 65, The Magic Killer 20: Curtain Call

S.C.I Mystery《S.C.I.谜案集》 Mi An Ji
S.C.I Mystery vol 1 Chapter 65, The Magic Killer 20: Curtain Call

Bai Chi was inexplicably called downstairs by the twins and said that there was something to present.... The S.C.I. congregation also followed curiously. There was a cute little car parked in front of the police station - a yellow "golden turtle" with a couple of round hooligan rabbits on the door...


After staring at the car for half a day, Bai Chi asked the twins dumbfoundedly, "This ~~ is for me?"

"Yes～" the twins nodded their heads, "You helped us earn so much money, this is a gift for you～"

Little Bai Chi was bitterly looking at the twins, "You two are really good... if he went out in this kind of car, the image of the police is completely destroyed."

"I don't like this ~~," Bai Chi whispered.

The twins glanced at each other and asked Bai Chi, "So what style do you like? We picked and chose and thought it would be perfect for you..."

Bai Chi wrinkled his nose, looked around, and suddenly pointed to an oversized black Jeep driving in the distance and said, "I like that style - the big one, the manly one."

"Poof, poof, poof," the words "manhood" came out of Bai Chi's mouth, and it was a joy laughter for those around!

Zhan Yao suddenly patted Bai Yutang, eyes gesturing for him to look at the oncoming Jeep.

The car stopped not far in front of the crowd, the door opened and out came a man with a plaster on his left hand - Zhao Zhen.

Bai Chi is already running happily past, not at Zhao Zhen, of course, but at Lisbon in the back seat of the car...

Bai Yutang and Zhan Yao exchanged a glance while walking towards Zhao Zhen.

"What do you want from me?" Zhao Zhen asked Bai Chi.

Bai Chi rubbed Lisbon's head, "It wasn't me who came to you... It was them." Said, pointing to Bai Yutang and Zhan Yao, who were walking by.

Zhan Yao just asked Bai Chi to send a text message to Zhao Zhen, telling him to come to the police station right away～～ Didn't expect him to really come so soon.

Zhao Zhen looked at the two men standing in front of him and shrugged somewhat helplessly, "I know what you guys are suspecting... If you want me to help you, give me proof!"

Bai Yutang laughed, "If you can't produce evidence, you'll have to cover up for the killer with your conscience?"

Zhao Zhen laughed bitterly, "You're my word, what do you want to do?"

Bai Yutang laughed coldly, "I'm your word, I said it ten years ago!"

"..." Zhao Zhen was slightly surprised and then fell silent.

Zhan Yao, seeing that the two were at war, turned his face to Bai Yutang and gave him a wink, gesturing for him to hold his breath.

Turning away from his face, Bai Yutang pulled Bai Chi back a few steps with one hand, leaving Zhan Yao and Zhao Zhen to chat alone.

"Yutang is just such a nature." Zhan Yao smiled at Zhao Zhen, "He is like a knife."

Zhao Zhen looked at Zhan Yao for a moment and shook his head, "It's okay, in comparison, you're more of a pain in the ass hiding in sheep's clothing."

Zhan Yao laughed back without anger: "You know I have proof... Bai Chi!"

Zhao Zhen's face paled slightly, "That's hardly evidence, it can only serve as the basis for your suspicions!"

"Right!" Zhan Yao nodded, "That's why I need you to cooperate."

"I refuse." Zhao Zhen tried to greet Lisbon back, but got cold feet and Zhan Yao said, "Did you know he's out of control?"




"... What do you mean?"

"Sun Qian's death shows that you are no longer bound to him." Zhan Yao looked ahead, as if muttering to himself, "He'll kill again soon... as soon as you're out of his sight for more than a day, he'll be unable to hold back... There will be another Sun Qian dead soon."

Zhao Zhen paled a little and looked at Zhan Yao and asked, "A day away... What does that mean?"

Zhan Yao stared at Zhao Zhen for a moment and coldly asked, "I don't think so, you haven't seen him for a day, have you?"

Zhao Zhen hesitated a bit, but finally nodded.

Zhan Yao's expression immediately became grim: “Meaning, you either help us catch him right away or wait for the second child's body to be found.

Zhao Zhen mused for a long time, opened the car door and removed something that resembled a navigator.

Zhan Yao gave Bai Yutang a wink, and Bai Yutang walked up with the S.C.I. crowd.

"This is a satellite tracker?" The Ding twins, who were very familiar with unconventional electronics, exclaimed.

Zhao Zhen nodded, “I just bought it recently, put it on him while he wasn't paying attention in case he messed around.

He pressed the button and quickly searched for the target, the clear location showed to be - the cemetery in S City.

“Snap!” came from the floor, and the crowd turned back, just to see that all the papers in Lu Fang's hands had fallen to the floor, eyes wide with horror.

"What's wrong?" The crowds have a bad feeling about this.

"Lu... Lu Zhen..." Lu Fang's voice trembled, "Lu Zhen has an appointment with some friends today, to visit Sun Qian's grave..."

"To the cemetery at once!" Bai Yutang gave a command and rushed to his car with Zhan Yao, Lu Fang followed close behind; Zhao Zhen jumped in and took Lisbon and Bai Chi ... Together, the group rushed to the cemetery in S City.

As soon as they reached the top of the cemetery, they heard the children's screams ... In an open field under the mountain, five or six children were sitting back to back together, and a slouching figure was busy around them.

Bai Yutang's eyes were pointed, and he saw that the man was slitting his own wrist with a sharp knife and drawing around the children with the blood scattered on the ground.

Some of the children cried and screamed, their hands were tied behind them, but no one seemed to be hurt.

One of them looked up and saw the crowd coming, and shook his head at Bai Yutang who was running ahead, his eyes looking at the man's waist...

The child who did the eye-catching was Lu Zhen, and the crowd followed his line of sight and saw that there was a gun in the man's pants pocket.

Bai Yutang gestured for everyone to separate, and by this time, the man was already keenly aware of the crowd's arrival, he laughed a few times, took out his gun and pointed it at the children.

Zhan Yao stepped forward and said to him, "Stop resisting - Mr. Butler."

Standing in front of the crowd was a dry, thin old man who was talking about the old butler from Zhao Zhen's family.

"What do we call you?" Bai Yutang asked.

"... Zhao Meng..." The butler replied with little heat, turning his face to Zhao Zhen, who was standing to the side, and smiling, "Young master, I have raised you for twenty years ~~ you just sold me to the police like this."

Zhao Zhen looked at the butler and the frightened children around him for a long time before saying, "Give yourself up~"

"Huh~~," Zhao Meng laughed and looked at Zhan Yao and Bai Yutang, "Count yourselves lucky, I was betrayed, otherwise you would never have found out it was me in your lifetime."

Zhan Yao laughed coldly, "Don't be smug, Zhao Zhen just helped us find you - as for you being the real culprit, we already knew that."

"What?" Zhao Meng's face was full of doubt, "How was it found?"

"In the beginning, we made a big mistake on top of how we saw you～" Zhan Yao said slowly, "We were confused by the intertwined cases and felt that the killer's actions were an evolution of himself, so there was no suspicion about you... However, when the cases were sorted out, we realized that, in fact, it wasn't an evolution, but a regression."




"What!" Zhao Meng's face changed color, "Regression?"

"Exactly!" Zhan Yao laughed coldly, "The evolution of the serial killer, meaning that his murderous behavior began to exist selectively, had its own sort of 'philosophy' in it, and such killers, in general, were at the peak of their physiology. Degeneration, on the other hand, manifests itself in the randomness of the selection of objects and the increasing simplicity of committing crimes, as the killer's abilities declining - you're getting old!"

Seeing a flicker of annoyance in Zhao Meng's eyes, Zhan Yao smiled again, “Ten years is nothing to someone under fifty, but to someone over fifty, it's completely different - ten years ago, you were in your fifties and could choose whom you wanted to kill at will, and ten years later, you're nearly seventy, and you can't kill anyone except young children. Plus, you're well-equipped to touch and understand the magic pattern..."

"And ~~," said Bai Yutang, "According to our investigation, originally you stayed in the country, and ten years ago, because of the death of Zhao Zhen's parents, you suddenly went abroad to continue to take care of his life and living expenses - excluding all the impossibilities, the one left behind, could not be more ridiculous!"

"And then, you made another very serious mistake!" Zhan Yao said, "You shouldn't have attacked Bai Chi!"

... Zhao Meng stared at the two: "How so?"

Zhan Yao said, "Because there was already suspicion about you, so I thought, why kill Bai Chi? He should know something! At this stage, everyone is investigating the case and is sensitive to clues, but he has nothing special to have had discovered, that is to say, it must be before this case! He finds the clue in a state of meaninglessness ~ and upon meeting again, you find Bai Chi's memory is too good to be true, so, feel threatened by him! So I asked him about some details from ten years ago - and guess what I got?"

Zhao Meng laughed, "Lisbon was playing around while I was drawing the magic pattern, and that day, it was lying on top of the magic matrix I had just drawn, with an undried pattern printed on it. Then it ran away, and I chased him to the library, and found the child playing with Lisbon in his arms, and the young master..."

Bai Chi shook his head blankly, "I... I don't remember anything about it..."

Zhao Meng froze and saw a slightly sly smile on Zhan Yao's face as he gritted his teeth, "You tricked me... Kid..."

"Why?" Zhao Zhen interrupted him, "Why kill?"

Zhao Meng looked at Zhao Zhen and smiled a little madly, "Because... Life has been so boring since Young Master Jue left..."

Zhan Yao and Bai Yutang... Young Master Jue...

"I've always taken care of Young Master Jue." Zhao Meng smiled, "I watched him grow up, he was a genius... However, this kind of him was taken away and he was imprisoned, and then, bored, I started to study the notes he left behind and found the magic pattern diagram~~ That's really something very interesting~~"

Zhan Yao and Bai Yutang exchanged a glance, Zhao Meng was surprisingly so close to Zhao Jue, and from him, it was very likely that he knew the truth about what happened back then.

"And then I started killing people, and I killed many, many people, but life was still boring..." He said while looking at Zhao Zhen, "Until you slowly grew up and you became more and more like Young Master Jue ~~ I found the joy in life, so I tried my best to raise you to be like him, but your father found out my intentions and took you away from me ~~ Then..." Zhao Meng suddenly laughed a bit grimly, "God willing, your father had a car accident... I raised you in name only... Ten years abroad, raising you was more fun than killing... but..." Some lamentation appeared on Zhao Meng's face again, “The older you got, the less you resemble him, or rather, sometimes you are like him, sometimes not ~~ Then, the interest in killing got the upper hand again! Especially when it is found that someone has used clumsy methods to imitate my crime..." Below, the text was replaced by Zhao Meng's pale old man laughter.

The crowd stared at this old man in horror, as if his dried-up body had lost its meaning and he was a complete ghost.

"Put the gun down!" Zhao Zhen suddenly said, he gently lifted his chin and looked at Zhao Meng with a smirk.

Zhao Meng was almost stunned: "... Jue..."

Zhan Yao and Bai Yutang were secretly staring at each other, and Zhao Zhen looked so much like Zhao Jue.

"I told you to drop your gun and come here!" Zhao Zhen repeated.

As if there was some kind of magic, Zhao Meng crouched down and tried to drop the gun in his hand, just as the gun was about to land, Bai Yutang was about to go up and put handcuffs on him when a light laugh suddenly came from afar.

The crowd was attracted by the laughter and turned their faces to see a figure - Zhao Jue - standing on a hill in the distance.

He stood backlit and stared at Zhao Meng with a look similar to disapproval, smiling faintly...

"Yikes..." Zhao Meng suddenly shouted, like a demon, and raised his gun again, aiming it at the children...

The sound of the gun rang out in the sky...

Immediately afterward, the children screamed...

Zhao Meng was shot several times in the head by Bai Yutang - blood was spattered all over the place and the police officers rushed to rescue the children.

Across the hillside, Zhao Jue was nowhere to be seen. Zhan Yao ran over without saying a word, and Bai Yutang followed suit: "Cat'er, wait..."

Down the hill, Zhao Jue's feet moved slowly forward and suddenly stopped. He looked with some surprise at a car that had stopped in front of him. The car door opened and a middle-aged man in a suit ~~ unexpectedly appeared, just with an icy cold face and no expression, similar to Zhan Yao's face, slightly mature.

Zhao Jue ran up a few steps and stood ten paces away from him, laughing, "I thought you wouldn't come ~~."

There was silence for a moment, and the man asked coldly, "What do you want with me?"

"I wanted to see you..." Zhao Jue said a little playfully, "It's been so long, don't you have anything to say to me?"

"There's-" staring at Zhao Jue for a moment, the man said in still in an icy tone, "Stay away from my son!"




"Haha~~" Zhao Jue suddenly started laughing, "Are you sure he's your son? Qitian?"

The man opened the car door, "Even if he's not my son, I'd advise you to stay away from him!" After saying that, Zhan Qitian sat back in the car and left...

Zhao Jue's face suddenly appeared with the usual joy of a successful prank, he glanced back at an earthen wall behind him, turned back and hummed a small song to leave.

Behind the earthen wall, Zhan Yao stood dumbfounded, looking up and asking Bai Yutang, who was surrounded by a worried face, "What did they just say..."

Bai Yutang, also confused, saw the amazement in Zhan Yao's eyes and reached out to pull him into his arms and hold him close: “Cat'er, don't do that."

Zhan Yao just grabbed Bai Yutang's shirt with both hands and asked, "What did they say ~~?"

On Christmas Day, it snowed unexpectedly, because S.C.I. had solved this big case that spanned 20 years, and Bao Zheng gave everyone three days off...

The group went home, and Zhao Hu was still in the hospital with Qi Yue taking care of Chen Yu.

Ma Han looked at Chen Jiayi, who suddenly appeared at his doorstep, and felt as if he had a big head, and his sister, Ma Xin, who happened to be a fan of Chen Jiayi's, quickly sold out her big brother. Ma's mother has been looking forward to this for more than 20 years, and finally Ma Han "brought back" a girl, and she's still so pretty, she sold her son out right away, and Chen Jiayi has been coming to visit every day since then, just as she said.

Gong-sun was "kidnapped" by Big-Ding Little-Ding and taken to Easter Island.

Little Bai Chi's Christmas is not only about taking care of the baby temporarily, but also about Zhao Zhen, who "can't take care of himself" in order to save his life, and Lisbon...

Christmas Eve arrives in silvery-white snowflakes and colored lights...

Bai Yutang sits on the steps in front of the spa villa...

Zhan Yao had taken a leave of absence since that day, said he wanted to be alone, and then lost his shadow.

The ease of solving the case, the joy of Bai Jintang sending him on a plane, all became dull and tasteless...

He couldn't find Zhan Yao. Bai Yutang walked to the door of the hot spring villa. The outside was very cold, but he didn't want to go in. he don't know how long he sat there, his eyes were suddenly attracted by a figure coming from afar, and he stood up in disbelief and took a few steps.

The dim light of the streetlights made the figure seem a little unreal.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Yao, who was walking in front of him, and both of them were covered in snow, which made them look funny.

Zhan Yao stared at the stunned Bai Yutang, "What are you looking at? Don't want to go in?"

"You... I..." Bai Yutang's hands and feet are so busy, I don't know what to say.

"It's freezing," Zhan Yao whispered, "I walked here, I can't call a cab, and I can't drive myself..."

“Cat~~"Bai Yutang couldn't hear anything else but a handful of Zhan Yao, "Cat'er





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



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