S.C.I. Mystery Vol. 1, Ch. 34

Killer Training Camp 06: Probability

The cooking skills of Mrs. Bai and Mrs. Zhan were absolutely world-class! Because they had been quite busy recently, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao had been relying on fast food to get by. They were quite contented. It was delicious~~

Bai Yutang gave Zhan Zhao dishes as they ate, and Zhan Zhao took the dishes he didn't like and threw them into Bai Yutang’s bowl.

"I don’t want shiitake!"

"Picky Cat!"

"Not white radish, either!"

"It has vitamins!"

"Then you eat it yourself!"

"I hate radish the most!"

"Why are you the only one allowed to choose?"

The two were just like that, eating and fighting. The adults of the two families were obviously used to it and they were talking by themselves.

Bai Chi stared blankly at these two idol-level police elites who were fighting over food while he ate, so shocked that he couldn’t take a bite.

After eating and drinking, everyone sat down to chat.

After five minutes, Bai Yutang couldn't sit still. He took a moment to slip out of the room, and after a short while returned with a basketball. "Cat! Let’s go!"

Zhan Zhao felt too full and he panicked. He asked Bai Chi, who was sitting on the sofa with a cautious expression, "Would you like to come?"

Bai Chi was shocked at first, and then just pleasantly surprised. He followed Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang slapped the ball and walked forward, Zhan Zhao stretched his back, and Bai Chi followed carefully.

There was a public basketball court in the neighborhood. There was no one there at night, but the overhanging spotlights still illuminated the entire court.

Bai Yutang walked onto the court surrounded by barbed wire and took a shot by himself.

Zhan Zhao walked down to the concrete steps used as audience seating. While he watched Bai Yutang shooting, he unconsciously remembered his time at university.

"Are you... not going to play?" Bai Chi sat next to Zhan Zhao and whispered.

Zhan Zhao laughed, "Strenuous exercise can lead to appendicitis if done within half an hour after a meal!"

"Then... then Bai..."

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Chi with amusement, "The Mouse's appendix was removed when he was young! It's because he played after dinner."

"Oh~~" Bai Chi nodded.

"You seem to be afraid of him?" Zhan Zhao asked him.

"..." Bai Chi blushed. "He... he took my bullets that day."

"Huh?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled.

"That is, I... forgot to open the safety." Bai Chi hesitated a bit. "He, isn't he saying that I'm not qualified to use... a gun?"

Zhan Zhao looked at him with a smile and said, "Does your family often mention that you have such a cousin?"

"Um." Bai Chi nodded. "They often ask me... to learn from him."

"Then, when you first saw him that day, did you feel like the gap between you and he was too large?" Zhan Zhao asked with interest, "Do you think it is impossible to be like him?"

"En!" Bai Chi nodded earnestly, "I... I was just barely able to graduate from the police academy... There’s no way I could..."

Zhan Zhao waved his hand, "That doesn’t matter! You can't fight, you can't shoot a gun, but that doesn’t mean you can't be a policeman!"

"..." Bai Chi looked up at Zhan Zhao in surprise, "Could there ever be such a policeman?"

Zhan Zhao pointed at his own nose cheerfully and said, "Why not? There is one right here!"

"You... you?" Bai Chi’s jaw dropped. "How is that possible?"

"I have never fired a shot except for during the exam." Zhan Zhao looked up at the moon in the sky and said, "I also have astigmatism. It looks like four moons are shining!"

"Hehe..." Bai Chi finally laughed, and he relaxed, "But you are still famous. They all say you are a genius."

"Actually, Xiao Bai simply unloaded your gun that day. He didn’t mean that you don't deserve it."

"So... why is that?" Obviously, this problem had troubled Bai Chi quite a while.

"He is simply an amoeba!" Zhan Zhao whispered, "You can't think of him as being very complicated!"

Bai Yutang in the distance sneezed explosively.

"Ah... Amoeba?" Bai Chi opened his eyes wide.

"It's a low-level single-celled creature!! If he doesn't think you deserve a gun, he will definitely tell you directly!"

"So... why did he do that?"

Zhan Zhao said with a smile, "He just felt that you were in a condition that was not suitable to wielding a gun."

"I see... is that so?"

"Hey~~~~" Bai Yutang patted the ball from a distance. "Almost done? You two should also come out to exercise! Smelly Cat, you’re full of food all day long. Be careful of your belly!!!"

Zhan Zhao rolled his eyes.

"His physical strength is so excellent. He threw sixty shots in the blink of an eye, and he isn't breathing hard." Bai Chi looked at him, "I wouldn’t even be able to get ten!"

"What did you just say?" Zhan Zhao turned to look at him in surprise.

"???" Bai Chi was puzzled.

"Xiao Bai!" Zhan Zhao called to Bai Yutang, "What number were you at when you called for us?"

"Ha?" Bai Yutang caught the ball and slapped it. "Almost sixty."

Zhan Zhao turned to look at the nervous Bai Chi, "Did you count them when you were chatting with me?"

"No... no. Yes, his rhythm…divided the total time..." Bai Chi stuttered.

Zhan Zhao thought about it, looked down, and found a small stone. He drew circles and crosses on the concrete steps with it.

Bai Yutang had come up behind him. "What are you doing?"

Looking at the irregular collection of circles and crosses, Zhan Zhao passed the stone to Bai Chi with excitement, and said, "Follow this pattern and draw the next five symbols!"

Bai Chi was baffled, but still obediently looked down at the symbols. He took less than a second to think about it, then drew a few crosses and circles just beyond the row of symbols.

"Oh~~~" Zhan Zhao took a breath.

"Cat, what the hell are you doing?" Bai Yutang stepped forward curiously, looking at the symbols on the ground.

"A part of Edward’s Intelligence Test!" Zhan Zhao said excitedly, "Did you know that your cousin probably has an IQ of 170 or more?!?"

"What is an IQ of 170?" Bai Yutang was puzzled.

"A normal IQ is 80, and a smart IQ is 100. Madame Curie’s was 150 and Einstein’s was 160!" Zhan Zhao said, "If he had studied physics, he might have achieved more than Hawking!!"

Bai Yutang blinked, then patted Bai Chi's shoulder with a smile. "Good boy! You definitely missed out on a chance!"

As soon as the words came out, Zhan Zhao kicked him fiercely. "What are you going on about!"

"Dammed Cat!" Bai Yutang patted the ball and walked towards the center of the court, "Stop resting and compete with me! This master (1) will defeat you!"

Zhan Zhao took off his coat and threw it onto the steps. He was going to ask Bai Chi to go with him, but he saw him standing still, his face flushed, "I... I haven’t helped… Has the Bai family lost... face?"

Zhan Zhao laughed. "You don’t have to use a gun to be a good policeman!" He said, nodding his head, "You have the best weapon from heaven!" After speaking, he rolled up his shirt sleeves. He ran over to Bai Yutang and grabbed the ball, "White mouse! Your arrogant days are over !!!"

"Cat! You fouled!"

"Who says I did?!"

"You ran away with the ball and didn't foul?!"

"Humph!"

"Hey! You might as well play soccer!"

"Shoot!"

"You dead cat, do you understand the rules?"

"I am the rules!"

...

The three continued to cause trouble until 9 o'clock. Actually, it was Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang causing trouble. Bai Chi just helped with picking up the ball...

Dididdi～～～
Bai Yutang's cell phone suddenly rang.

"Yeah?" Bai Yutang picked up the cellphone, "What?!... we'll come right away!"

"What's wrong?" Zhan Zhao saw Bai Yutang's grim expression.

"Something happened to Qi Le."

"What?" Zhan Zhao jumped in surprise. "How is she?"

Bai Yutang shook his head. "Don't worry. Fortunately, I had Zhao Hu follow her today. She was attacked with a knife when she was buying drugs on ‘Nishang Street’. Zhao Hu saved her, but the attacker ran away. "

"Was she cut?" Zhan Zhao's face was concerned.

Bai Yutang put away the ball and threw Zhan Zhao his jacket. "Qi Le was injured, but she refused to go to the hospital. Zhao Hu took her back to S.C.I. and asked Gongsun to bandage it.”

"Then let's go!" Zhan Zhao put on his coat and followed Bai Yutang.

"Here!" Bai Yutang threw the ball to Bai Chi. "You go back first. We have to go. We have some business to take care of."

"Ah~~~" Bai Chi held the ball, hurried after them for a few steps, and said aloud, "I... I want to go too."

As soon as he said the words, Bai Chi was startled by his own action. For the first time in his life, he had spoken so loudly. He lowered his head, blushing.

Bai Yutang froze briefly, turned his head to look at Zhan Zhao, and gave him a thumbs up, meaning "Oh, Kitty, you can even cure people of Autism in half an hour!"

Zhan Zhao responded with a V sign, "I'm an expert!!!"

"Let's go." Bai Yutang succinctly said the two words to Bai Chi, and then ran quickly with Zhan Zhao to the car downstairs in the apartment.

Bai Chi didn’t react for a while before realizing that Bai Yutang was letting him follow. He quickly flung his legs into action to chase after him.



At the S.C.I. office.

Qi Le, wrapped in a blanket given to her by Zhao Hu, sat on a chair, shaking slightly. The knife wound on her upper left arm was still bleeding.

Gongsun walked in with the medical box and handed Qi Le a cup of hot tea. "Don't be afraid, I'll help you with the wound."

Qi Le shuddered, looked up at Gongsun with a little horror, and then nodded.

Gongsun looked at her arm gently. The cut was not serious, but he still needed to stitch it up. Taking out alcohol, cotton gauze, etc., Gongsun began to treat the wound.

Qi Le acted like she felt no pain. Gongsun frowned, feeling as though it was a tad strange.

Zhao Hu stood to the side with a dark expression. When Gongsun looked up at him, he took out a bag of powder from his pocket and showed him.

Gongsun took a breath and secretly thought, how old was this girl that she was taking drugs? And now she seemed...

As he was thinking about it, he saw Qi Le suddenly start to shake violently, and her facial expression gradually twisted.

"Crap!" Gongsun called out. "She’s going into withdrawal!"

"Ah~~~~” Qi Le suddenly stood up. Gongsun tried to catch her, but her strength was so great that she managed to shove him away.

Gongsun fell back and felt a pair of familiar hands catch him from behind.

"Bai..." Gongsun turned around and saw Bai Jintang standing behind him.

"I noticed that you hadn't gotten back yet, and it is late, so I came to check up on you." Bai Jintang helped steady Gongsun, then raised his head and looked at Qi Le with a complicated expression. She was struggling desperately against Zhao Hu, who was holding her in the chair.

The Ding family twins who had followed Bai Jintang in had already rushed up. One picked up the blanket and wrapped it around Qi Le on the chair, and the other took a rope and tied the whole bundle up. Zhao Hu used the entirety of his strength to hold on to the chair.

Qi Le struggled in pain, twisting her body desperately and screaming. She begged everyone to give her drugs...

As soon as Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao got out of the elevator, they heard this scream.

Seeing the chaos in the S.C.I.'s office and the miserable situation that Qi Le was in where she could neither survive nor die, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao ineffectively stood to the side, feeling quite panicked.

Bai Chi stood at the door and looked at everything in horror, afraid to step forward.

As time passed by slowly, Qi Le gradually quieted down, and the entire police station also quieted down. No one was more familiar with this type of screaming than the police. It was impossible to utter unless one was in the throes of withdrawal. Such misery...

Zhao Hu was paralyzed with exhaustion, sitting on one of the chairs, panting heavily. Ding Zhaohui untied Qi Le's body and wrapped her in the blanket. Then, he picked her up gently and placed her on a relatively wide lounge chair to allow her to sleep more comfortably.

Everyone in the S.C.I. was silent for a while until Bai Yutang asked Zhao Hu. "What is the specific situation?"

Zhao Hu scratched his head and said, "As soon as I arrived at M University in the afternoon, I saw that girl walking out of school by herself, and she took a taxi to Nishang Street. I was surprised. Why would a female college student go to a place like Nishang Street? I followed her from close by, and later, I saw what she bought from a dealer on the street. I have seen that kid before, who specializes in this kind of drug (2). "

Zhao Hu took a breath and then said, "At that moment, I saw a kid in a black pullover walking up with his hands behind him, and he pulled out a watermelon knife. Noticing the direction he was headed, I rushed over to Qi Le. Unfortunately, the boy was very alert and ran away in an instant. I didn't dare to leave the girl alone, so I had to bring her back first. "

"What did he look like?"

Zhao Hu shook his head. "This guy was not just wearing a pullover, he was also wearing a hoodie. I heard a while ago that in red-light districts such as Nishang Street, there has frequently been an unidentified person attacking prostitutes and white powder girls. I didn’t expect Qi Le to get targeted this time! "

Bai Yutang frowned. "What a coincidence that they were targeting Qi Le."

Zhan Zhao also shook his head: "It's strange, we just met with Qi Le today, and something happened to her tonight?"

"No... it is unlikely to be a coincidence." Bai Chi, who had walked in completely unnoticed, whispered.

"Why do you say that?" Zhan Zhao looked at him.

Bai Chi looked at Zhan Zhao, hesitated a bit, and said timidly. "Take the time frame of one month as an example. The probability of you going to find someone today is 1/30. In a university, there are at least 10,000 students, so the probability that you find her is 1/10000. The probability of her going out tonight is 1/30, and at the same time, there are 1/10 drug cases at any given time, so the probability of a criminal going out today is 1/30. That is to say, the probability that two things are entirely coincidental is one in 10 billion, infinitely close to zero, so there is no possibility that the two cases are completely unrelated... "

Bai Chi's voice was getting lower and lower because he found that everyone present was looking at him with a surprised look.

"Who is this kid?" Bai Jintang asked Bai Yutang suddenly.

Bai Yutang smiled and said, "Our brother, the son of our Third Uncle, Bai Feng. His name is Bai Chi."

"Oh~~" Bai Jintang fingered his chin with interest and said, "Are you sure he wasn’t adopted?"

…………

Zhan Zhao reluctantly glanced at the two brothers. They were indeed alike!

"Zhao Hu, go to the serious cases team and bring all the relevant information about these attacks. We will deal with the case."

"Yes!" Zhao Hu ran downstairs.

"Hey! Little cousin!" Bai Yutang called to Bai Chi, who was horrified and was trying to hide behind Zhan Zhao, and said, "Do you want to transfer to the S.C.I.?"

...?!! ... what... Bai Chi's eyes widened incredulously.

Bai Yutang considered it and said, "You’ll be a temporary transfer for this case first! If you pass, you will be permanently transferred! But..." Bai Yutang added, "you can only do civilian work!"



E'en as a billow, on Charybdis rising,

Against encounter'd billow dashing breaks;

Such is the dance this wretched race must lead,

Whom more than elsewhere numerous here I found,

From one side and the other, with loud voice,

Both roll'd on weights by main forge of their breasts,

Then smote together, and each one forthwith

Roll'd them back voluble, turning again,

Exclaiming these, "Why holdest thou so fast?"

Those answering, "And why castest thou away?"

So still repeating their despiteful song,

They to the opposite point on either hand

Travers'd the horrid circle: then arriv'd,

Both turn'd them round, and through the middle space

Conflicting met again.

———————— "Divine Comedy"—from the fourth floor of Hell


He ignited the petrol bomb in his hand and threw it at the dense crowd, listening to the screams and laughing.

Waving the long knife in his hand, watching the silver light flashing, the blood gushing... his mouth murmured, "Only you can save them! Only you can save them!..."

Over and over, without rest.




Translation Notes:

(1)Refers to himself as “Grandfather,” but it can also be interpreted as lord or master. Funnily enough, I was watching the Google translate subbed version of Forward Forever just earlier today. Lemme tell you, it’s hilarious to watch everybody call the 20-something-year-old MC “grandfather” XD.

(2) It says “hydrocarbon powder,” which as far as I can tell, is not a thing. Hydrocarbons are inhalants, not powders. And I didn’t find anything in the Chinese dictionaries either...Anyway, it’s a white powder.

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