S.C.I. Mystery Vol. 1, Ch. 53

Magic Murderer 8: Kidnapping

Qi Le's "help" text message really frightened half of their lives out of Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao—if Li Xu knew about the events of that year, she would likely be a target for being killed like Zhang Zhenzhen... Qi Le still lived with her and was likely to be implicated.

Bai Yutang floored the accelerator to 200kph and all but flew to Qi Le's residence.

At the entrance of the apartment, they quickly got out of the car and entered the building. Nothing seemed different. Fortunately, Bai Yutang had taken them back that day. It seemed that he had heard Chen Yu say that they lived on the top floor or something, so they rushed up the stairs.

It was an old-fashioned apartment. The building was very old and only had five floors. Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao took out their guns as they ran.

As soon as they reached the fifth floor, they frowned—it smelled of blood...

The door to Room 503 was open, and there was a faint moan.

The two rushed in quickly and saw Chen Yu lying in a pool of blood. She was curled up, a knife in her lower abdomen. She was still bleeding.

"Chen Yu..." Zhan Zhao took in a breath and quickly stepped forward to turn her over, reaching out to hold the leaking, bloody wound.

Bai Yutang pulled out his cell phone and called the S.C.I. personnel and an ambulance.

"LeLe..." Chen Yu suddenly grabbed Zhan Zhao's hand and said in a weak voice, "That man, kill... Sister Li... LeLe took her... escaped... He chased after..."

Zhan Zhao quickly looked up at Bai Yutang, "Yutang!"

Bai Yutang turned and rushed out the door.

"Quickly... save..." Chen Yu's consciousness seemed to be gradually blurring.

Zhan Zhao saw that her face was getting whiter and paler, and she seemed to be going to sleep, "Chen Yu, hold on! Don't sleep!"

"Nn……" Chen Yu nodded, trying to keep her eyelids open as they grew heavier and heavier.

Soon, the sound of chaotic footsteps rang outside of the door. Zhao Hu, etc. rushed over with medical staff. They took Chen Yu to a stretcher, rushed downstairs, and Wang Chao followed them to the hospital.

"Qi Le and Li Xu haven't been found yet!" Zhan Zhao said, "Everyone split up to find out where they could hide. They may be hiding."

"Yes~~" Everyone dispersed.

Zhan Zhao stood in front of the building and looked around, trying to simulate Qi Le's mentality at the time... Qi Le was very clever, so she would run to a crowded place.

On the left was a pedestrian street, similar to a snack street. There were not many people there during the day, but it was livelier than the other two avenues—Zhan Zhao quickly walked towards the pedestrian street.

Chen Yu said she had run with Li Xu... then getting Li Xu to move would not be very easy—there were two corners nearby... Qi Le was left-handed, and if she was with someone else, it should be more convenient to turn right— Zhan Zhao walked into the alley on the right.

It was a small, dirty alley with garbage, discarded cardboard boxes, trash cans, and broken plastic sheets on both sides...

She had texted, but did not dare to call, indicating that she was hiding somewhere that was easy to find—Zhan Zhao's eyes fell on a cardboard box covered by a plastic sheet. Looking at it closely, it seemed to shake slightly...

"Qi Le? ... Qi Le, I'm Zhan Zhao!" He slowly walked to the plastic sheet.

"Qi Le..."

A corner of the plastic sheet opened and Qi Le leaned her head out, looking up with trepidation. When she saw Zhan Zhao, she opened her mouth and called with a trembling voice, "Police Officer Zhan..."

Zhan Zhao helped her lift the plastic sheet. Li Xu was lying beside Qi Le, seemingly unconscious. Zhan Zhao stepped forward and felt her pulse, and breathed a sigh of relief.

He reached out and pulled her out of the dirty dump, "It's okay... don't be afraid..."

"En..." Qi Le nodded. Just as she was about to speak, she suddenly looked up at the alley in panic, "Ah!"

Zhan Zhao turned his head sharply, and saw a man rushing from the alley. He was wearing a black hoodie and had a bloody knife in his hand.

He reached for his gun. The man had rushed forward to a place less than ten steps away, and Zhan Zhao subconsciously protected Qi Le behind him.

At that moment, a white shadow pounced down from atop the low building next to them—Bai Yutang.

He threw the man to the ground, and the knife in his hand clattered to the pavement. Before he could get up, Bai Yutang reached out and grabbed his collar, throwing him against the wall, "Ah..."

The violent impact made him scream. Bai Yutang kept him in place by holding the back of his collar, and pulled off his hood. He turned around and asked Qi Le, "Is it him?"

"It's him!" Qi Le nodded, pointing at the man, "That’s him!"

Bai Yutang pulled out his handcuffs, put the man's hands behind his back, and handcuffed him.

"Boss!" From the distance, Zhao Hu and others rushed over.

Bai Yutang handed the man over to them, "Bring him back!"

Xu Qing and Zhang Long came over, propped up the unconscious Li Xu, and walked to a police car.

"How is Xiao Yu?" Qi Le asked Zhan Zhao nervously.

"She was seriously injured and has been taken to the hospital." Zhan Zhao said.

With tears in her eyes, Qi Le looked angrily at the man in Zhao Hu's custody. She walked up, raised her foot under the crotch of the man, and kicked him fiercely.

"Ah~~~~~" the man screamed in pain and knelt down on the ground, curled up.

The people present couldn't help but grimacing (1)... Now, that boy was probably going to be incapable of performing his duties as a man for the second half of his life... This girl was too cruel.

Qi Le, who seemed to be deflated, looked back at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "Thank you. I want to go to Xiao Yu."

The two looked at Qi Le, and they couldn't help feeling sad. The last time when they had told her that Qi Lei was dead, she had acted like that. She wanted to cry, but instead she endured desperately.

"Zhao Hu, go with Qi Le and watch her. Kitty and I will take this kid back to interrogation!" Bai Yutang took charge of the man from Zhao Hu.

"OK." Zhao Hu nodded and rushed to the hospital with Qi Le.

Bai Yutang shoved the man, "What's your name?" He walked in the direction of the police car.

"... Wei Yong ..." The man answered, exceptionally calmly.

...?!! ……what?

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang stared at him in surprise, "Why did you try to kill Li Xu?!"

Wei Yong's eyes were soulless, and he said lightly, "Because she deserves to die!"

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The Entertainment City of the Shen Group was called Happy World. The entire building looked like a luxury cruise ship. The nature of its operation, best known as Entertainment City, was large venues and hotel accommodations. However, the most important part was that there was a casino in the middle.

Zhao Yan took Bai Chi and Ma Han to the “ship". The scale of the casino was no less than that of a regular casino in Las Vegas... Ma Han frowned, wondering to himself why Shen Qian was not under the watch of the Commercial Crime Division. Couldn't he be making a bunch of dirty money?

Bai Chi rarely saw this kind of scene, and was slightly nervous. Zhao Yan was calm.

"ChiChi~~" He heard two voices of the same sound and tone. The Ding family twins had appeared beside Bai Chi, wrapping their arms around his shoulders from both directions.

"Ah~~ Elder Brother Ding, Second Brother Ding." Bai Chi obediently greeted them.

"Good boy~~~" Da Ding and Xiao Ding clasped him tightly and slowly moved forward, "You came to play too. Minors are not allowed here~~”

"I'm an adult!" He said, looking left and right before whispering to the twins, "Don't mess with me... I have a mission."

"Oh~~" The twins immediately came to their senses. "Is it that stinky bedbug named Shen?? He's a criminal?"

"Shhh~~" Bai Chi glared at them, "Why are you here?? Where’s big brother?"

"When the Boss heard the bug's name, he lost his appetite. When he received the invitation, he didn't even look at it, so he sent us~~" Da Ding waved his finger.

"Besides, he has more important tasks!" Xiao Ding said somewhat mysteriously, "It is necessary to take care of Sister-in-law~~"

"Sister-in-law?" Bai Chi was surprised, "Is Brother married? I haven't heard that..."

"Hehe~~" The twins smiled mysteriously.

"Let’s not talk about that!" The two successfully steered Bai Chi to the gambling table. "ChiChi, would you like to play?"

"I won't..." As soon as Bai Chi wanted to refuse, he heard Zhaohui whisper in his ear, "If you want to check on Shen Qian, it is best to get his attention first... today is the opening. If you win, he will lose a lot of money. This scum, the less money he has, the less evil he is!"

"Really?" Bai Chi nodded. "Then I understand~~"

While heading to the big turntable, Bai Chi started to move his all-powerful little brain......... Fast computation.

Zhao Yan was stunned and watched Bai Chi accurately bet on the seventh turntable in an hour…… The little guy won a million dollars in one hour~~~ Of course, the first bet of 10,000 was put down by the Ding family twins. That is to say, Bai Chi was making money for the twins—but Zhao Yan was still shocked. From an early age until just now, he had felt that Bai Chi was a person with a bad head. But now, Zhao Ye was sure... That brain was not something humans should have~~ Another question popped up—why did he go become a police officer? He would be more suitable to making an atomic bomb~~

Not too accustomed to the noise, Ma Han walked out of the casino. The fresh air outside made him feel a lot better... He didn't understand why so many people would prefer to abandon this fresh outdoors and choose to stay in that kind of turbulent and noisy space.

The high-end casino seemed to be full of people, and Ma Han walked into the parking lot to feel the quiet.

He sat on the high platform on the edge of the parking lot and took out a cigarette lighter.

The parking lot was three-dimensional and spiraled. Ma Han was on the top floor. Sitting there and looking out, the view was very good.

Chen Jiayi stepped out of the car and raised her eyes. She saw Ma Han smoking a cigarette on the high platform in the distance.

From a purely feminine point of view, the man was attractive. Chen Jiayi walked slowly towards him and observed him carefully as she did so. Black leather jacket, black jeans, extremely short hair. Likely because his body was lean, he was not very robust. However, his contours were deep, but also not very obtrusive... He was sitting there quietly, holding a cigarette in his mouth.

Chen Jiayi regretted that she did not bring her camera out with her. The man in front of her had a very special temperament. If you stood in a crowd of people, you would hardly notice him, but when he was alone, he was easy to remember...

For further assessment she went up to Ma Han, "Do you have a light?" Chen Jiayi asked, taking out the cigarette.

Ma Han had actually found out that someone was watching him, but he was really not willing to bother. He turned his head and saw Chen Jiayi holding the cigarette. Ma Han was slightly surprised... He knew this person. He had seen her information before. Fang Jing was her agent. Chen Jiayi was a signing actor with Bai Jintang’s Company and was now apparently quite famous.

He took out his lighter and passed it to her, then continued to look back at the scenery.

Chen Jiayi lit the cigarette and laughed, "I don’t have good scenery, do I (2)?"

"...?" Ma Han frowned and looked at her a little puzzledly. He didn't understand what she meant.

Chen Jiayi was very satisfied with his response. His frown was very sexy.

"My name is Chen Jiayi." She gave her name without prompting, "What about you?"

Ma Han had a headache. He just wanted to find a place to stay quietly for a while and then watch Shen Qian at the opening ceremony in the evening.

"Are you an idiot?" Chen Jiayi asked with a smile. "A beauty proactively greets you, yet you still ignore her. Isn't it cool?"

Ma Han came down from the high platform and reached out to take back the lighter in Chen Jiayi's hand. He looked around and asked, "Where is there a beautiful woman?"

...! ...

Chen Jiayi had been so ignored for so long, and he still dared to say that she was not a beauty?!!

"Hey! Stop!" Just as she was about to chase him some more, they heard the sound of hasty car breaks and then a woman’s scream.

The two turned and saw a white van parked in the middle of the road. Two men wearing black hoods were dragging a screaming woman into the car.

"What are you doing? Let her go!" A man in a suit and leather shoes fell to the ground with blood on his face, apparently the victim of a few punches.

Before Chen Jiayi even screamed, Ma Han rushed over.

Instead of saving the woman directly, he rushed to the van. He raised his elbow and slammed it into the driver brutally. Then, he reached over and pulled out the car keys.

He casually threw the keys downstairs, and smiled at the two hooded men, "Are you going to carry her?"

The sudden change made the two men feel a little dizzy and confused, and they stood blankly in place. Ma Han started to walk back with his hands in his pockets, and said lightly, "Let her go. The security guard will be here in at most a minute, but there’s still time to run right now."

The men put the woman down from in their hands and turned and ran.

The man sitting on the ground hurried forward and lifted the woman up. She was was obviously extremely frightened. "Shen Ling, are you all right?"

Ma Han stopped walking back—Shen Ling?

While he was thinking intently about the name, Chen Jiayi, who had been given a cold-shoulder, came up. She raised her hand and grabbed Ma Han's collar before pecking him on the cheek, "Oh my god... you are so handsome!"







Translation Notes:

(1) “Baring their teeth” Like you do when you wince/grimace.

(2) I don’t have good scenery -> Am I not beautiful? From what I understand, Ma Han doesn’t get that she’s referring to her looks, not the view. 

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