Tuesday, June 16, 2020

S.C.I. Mystery Vol. 1, Ch. 65

T/L note: There is still hope for a season 2!

I don't have a weibo account, so I can't read the full posts, but the drama's official weibo posted something like this back in May: Season 2 is going to happen, tell us what you think should be done for it.
 
So Weibo has been blowing up with people's hopes and dreams for S2.

Presumably, they've been cleared for filming (starting at some point this year). Nothing has officially been confirmed on that front yet, as far as I can tell.

I'll keep a casual eye on things, let you guys know when I get any solid information.

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Bai Chi was mysteriously called downstairs by the twins, who said there was an important gift they had to give to him... everyone at the S.C.I. also followed with curiosity. They saw a very cute car parked in front of the police station—It was a yellow beetle, and it also had several MashiMaro rabbits (1) pasted to the door~~

After staring at the car for a long time, Bai Chi asked the twins blankly, "This~~ is for me?"

"Yup~~" The twins nodded a few times, "You made so much money for us. This is a gift for you~~"

A look of suffering crossed Xiao Bai Chi’s face. Should he accept it? Or not? Several other people from the S.C.I. couldn't help but laugh so hard that they could not stand straight, and Bai Yutang looked at the twins with admiration, "You two are really good~~ If he drove about in this kind of car, the image of the police would be completely ruined."

"I don't like this kind of car~~~" Bai Chi whispered.

The twins glanced at each other and asked Bai Chi, "So what style do you like? We personally picked it because we felt it suits you best~~~"

Bai Chi wrinkled his nose and raised his head to look around. Suddenly, he pointed to an very large black jeep driving in the distance and said, "I like that style~~ Big, where driving it has quite a manly vibe."

"Pfff~~~" Everyone listening felt that it was rather gratifying to hear the word “manly” coming out of Bai Chi’s mouth.

Zhan Zhao suddenly patted Bai Yutang’s shoulder, his eyes signaling him to look at the approaching jeep.

The car stopped not far in front of everyone. The door opened, and a person with a cast on his left hand jumped out—Zhao Zhen.

Bai Chi happily ran over. Of course, not to Zhao Zhen, but rather to Lisbon in the back seat of the car~~

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other and walked towards Zhao Zhen.

"What were you looking for me for?" Zhao Zhen asked Bai Chi.

Bai Chi rubbed Lisbon's head, "I'm not looking for you... They are." He said, pointing to Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao who had come over.

Zhan Zhao had just asked Bai Chi to send a text message to Zhao Zhen earlier, asking him to come to the police station immediately~~ They didn't expect him to come so soon.

Zhao Zhen looked at the two men standing in front of him and shrugged weakly, "I know what you are suspicious of... if you want me to help you, give me evidence!"

Bai Yutang laughed, "If we don’t give you any evidence, you’re going to ignore your conscience and shield the murderer?!"

Zhao Zhen smiled bitterly, "If you were me, what would you do?"

Bai Yutang sneered, "If I was you, I would have said it ten years ago!"

"..." Zhao Zhen was slightly surprised, and then kept silent.

Zhan Zhao, seeing that the two were ready to leap at each other’s throats, turned to glance at Bai Yutang, beckoning him to stop.

Turning his face away, Bai Yutang pulled Bai Chi back a few steps and let Zhan Zhao and Zhao Zhen talk alone.

"Yutang has such a temperament." Zhan Zhao smiled at Zhao Zhen, "like a knife."

Zhao Zhen glanced at Zhan Zhao and shook his head. "It doesn't matter. In contrast, you’re a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Much more difficult to manage."

Zhan Zhao wasn’t angry and instead laughed, "You know, I have evidence~~ Bai Chi!"

Zhao Zhen's face colored slightly, "That would be difficult to use as evidence. It can only be used as a basis for your suspicions!"

"Indeed!" Zhan Zhao nodded, "So, I want you to cooperate."

"I refuse." Zhao Zhen thought about calling Lisbon to return, but Zhan Zhao unexpectedly said, "Did you know that he has lost control?"

"...What do you mean?"

"Sun Qian's death already shows that you no longer have any control over him." Zhan Zhao's eyes looked forward, as if he was talking to himself, "He will kill again soon~~ As soon as you leave his vision for more than a day, he won’t be able to help it... there will be another Sun Qian~~"

Zhao Zhen turned pale and looked at Zhan Zhao to ask, "What do you mean, if I leave his vision for a day..."

Zhan Zhao stared at Zhao Zhen for a moment, then asked coldly, "Then, it ought to have already been a day since you’ve last seen him~~"

Zhao Zhen hesitated, but nodded in the end.

Zhan Zhao's expression immediately became grim, "That means that you either help us catch him immediately or wait for the body of the second child to be discovered.”

Zhao Zhen pondered for a long while, then finally opened the car door and picked something that seemed like a navigator.

Zhan Zhao gave Bai Yutang a significant look, and Bai Yutang brought everyone in the S.C.I. over.

"Is that a satellite tracker?" the twins of the Ding family, who were very familiar with unconventional technology, exclaimed.

Zhao Zhen nodded, "I just bought it recently, and I put it on him when he wasn’t paying attention. I was afraid he would act recklessly.”

He pressed the button and quickly searched for the target. The location that clearly displayed was—the cemetery of S City.

A "flap~~" sounded, and everyone turned around to see that all the documents in Lu Fang's hands had fallen to the ground, and his eyes had widened in horror.

"What's wrong?" Everyone had a bad hunch.

"Lu...Lu Zhen..." Lu Fang shivered, "Lu Zhen made an appointment with several children today and went to sweep Sun Qian's grave..."

"Go to the cemetery immediately!" Bai Yutang ordered, and rushed to his car with Zhan Zhao, Lu Fang following closely; Zhao Zhen jumped into his own car with Lisbon and Bai Chi... Everybody was flying towards the cemetery of S city.

As soon as they reached the top of the hill in the cemetery, they could hear the screams of children... In a clearing below the hill, five or six children sat back to back. A rickety figure was wandering around them.

Bai Yutang's sharp eyes saw that the man was cutting his wrist with a sharp knife and drawing images around the children with the blood that spilled onto the ground.

Some of the children were crying, and others were screaming. Their hands were tied behind them, but no one seemed to be injured.

One of them raised his head up and noticed the people coming over. He quickly shook his head at Bai Yutang, who was running in front, eyeing the waist of the man...

The child giving the meaningful look was Lu Zhen, and everyone followed his line sight and noticed a gun in the man’s pocket.

Bai Yutang signaled for everyone to leave. By that time, the man was already keenly aware of the arrival of the new group. He chuckled a few times and pulled out the gun, pointing it at the children.

Zhan Zhao took a step forward and said to him, "Stop resisting—Mr. Butler."

Standing in front of everyone was the skinny old man who was Zhao Zhen’s old housekeeper.

"How should we address you?" Bai Yutang asked.

"...Zhao Meng..." The butler replied coolly. He turned to look at Zhao Zhen standing to the side and smiled, "Young Master, I have raised you for twenty years~~ Yet, you just sold me to the police."

Zhao Zhen looked at the butler and then at the frightened children around him. After a long pause, he said, "Give up and surrender~~"

"Hehe~~" Zhao Meng smiled and said nothing, looking at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang. "Fortunately for you, I was betrayed. Otherwise, you would never have found me in your lifetime."

Zhan Zhao sneered, "Don't be so proud. Zhao Zhen simply helped us find you~~ As for the identity of the real murderer, we already knew it."

"What?" doubt crossed Zhao Meng’s face. "How did you find out?"

"At the beginning, we made a big mistake in your profile~~" Zhan Zhao said slowly, "We were confused by the intertwined cases, and thought that the murderer's behavior had evolved. So, we never doubted you... But, when the case was sorted out, we discovered that, in fact, it was not evolution, but instead degradation."

"What?!" Zhao Meng's face colored, "Degradation?!"

"Yes!" Zhan Zhao sneered. "The evolution of a serial killer means that his killing behavior has begun to be selective, and he has some kind of "philosophy" behind it. Such killers are generally in peak form... Degradation is characterized by the randomization of selected targets, and the crime gets simpler because the ability of the killer is declining—you are old!"

Seeing a trace of anger flashing in Zhao Meng's eyes, Zhan Zhao smiled again, "Ten years, it is nothing for people under the age of fifty, but for people over the age of fifty, it is not quite the same thing—Ten years ago, when you were in your fifties, you were free to choose who you wanted to kill. Now ten years later, you are almost seventy, and you can’t kill anyone but young children. Plus, you have enough ample opportunity to come in contact with and gain an understanding of magic arrays..."

"Also~~" Bai Yutang added, "According to our investigation, you originally always stayed in China. However, ten years ago you suddenly went abroad to continue to take care of Zhao Zhen after the deaths of his parents—Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth (2)!"

"Then you made another serious mistake!" Zhan Zhao said, "You shouldn't have attacked Bai Chi!"

..... Zhao Meng stared at the two of them, "Why do you say that?!"

Zhan Zhao explained, "Because I already had my suspicions of you, I thought, why did you try to kill Bai Chi? What would he know? At this point, everyone has investigating the case and have been quite concerned with finding clues, but he hasn’t found anything special. That is to say, it was from before! He completely inadvertently and unknowingly found a clue~~ and when you met again, you discovered that Bai Chi's memory was too good, so you thought that he was a threat! So, I asked him some details about ten years ago—guess what I asked?!"

Zhao Meng laughed, "I was disturbed by Lisbon when I was drawing a magic array. That day, he was lying on the magic array I had just drawn, and the pattern had dried onto his body. Then he ran away, and after chasing him, I came to the library. I found that a kid was holding Lisbon and playing with him, and the young master was also..."

Bai Chi shook his head blankly, "I...I don't remember this at all~~"

Zhao Meng stared blankly, saw the crafty smile on Zhao Zhen’s face, and gritted his teeth, "You played me... kid..."

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

Zhao Meng looked at Zhao Zhen with a crazy smile, "Because... After Master Jue left, life was really boring~~"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang froze—Master Jue~~

"I always took care of Master Jue." Zhao Meng laughed, "I watched him grow up. He was a genius... But, just like that, he was arrested and locked up. Then I got bored. I began to study his notes and I found the magic array~~ It was really interesting~~"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other. Zhao Meng was so closely related to Zhao Jue. From him, it was very possible to find out the truth of the past.

"Then I started killing people, killing a lot~~ a lot, but life was still boring..." He continued, looking at Zhao Zhen, "Until you gradually grew up. You and Master Jue become more and more like~~ I found a new delight in my life, so I tried my best to train you to be him, but your father discovered my attempts and took you away from me~~ Then..." Zhao Meng suddenly smiled a little eerily, "God has eyes. They had a car accident~~ I had the proper authority to raise you~~ In the ten years abroad, it was much more interesting to train you than to kill you~~ But..." A bit of aggravation crossed Zhao Meng’s face, "The older you got, the less like him you became. Sometimes you were similar, sometimes not~~ Then, my interest in killing rose again! Especially when I found that someone was imitating my crimes with such clumsy techniques..." His remaining words were replaced with Zhao Meng’s forceful laughter.

Everyone stared in horror and amazement at the old man who already had one foot in the grave. He seemed like a shriveled-up husk that had already lost all purpose. He was practically a ghost~~

"Put the gun down!" Zhao Zhen said suddenly. He lightly raised his chin, and looked at Zhao Meng with a smile~~

Zhao Meng stared at him in awe, "...Jue..."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were secretly speeechless. Zhao Zhen looked so much like Zhao Jue.

"I asked you to put down the gun and come over!" Zhao Zhen repeated.

It appeared as though there was some kind of magic. Zhao Meng squatted down obediently, intending to put down the gun in his hand. Just as the gun was about to fall and Bai Yutang was ready to go up and handcuff him, a sudden laugh came from the distance~~

Everyone was attracted by this laughter and turned to look. They saw a person standing on the hillside in the distance—Zhao Jue.

He stood backlit, staring at Zhao Meng with disapprovement—smiling slightly...

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

Gunshots cracked through the sky~~

Immediately followed by the screams of the children...

Zhao Meng's head had been shot several times by Bai Yutang—blood splattered everywhere, and the police officers quickly stepped forward to rescue the children.

On the opposite hillside, Zhao Jue has disappeared. Without saying anything, Zhan Zhao ran over, and Bai Yutang hurriedly kept up, "Kitty, wait~~~"

At the bottom of the hillside, Zhao Jue walked slowly forward, then suddenly stopped. He looked at a car that stopped in front of him with some surprise. The car door opened, and an impeccably dressed middle-aged man stepped out. He looked surprisingly young, but his face was ice-cold, without any expression. He bore an uncanny resemblance to Zhan Zhao, though he was slightly more mature.

Zhao Jue ran forward a bit and stopped ten steps away from him, laughing, "I thought you wouldn't come~~"

After a short stretch of silence, the man asked coldly, "What do you want from me?!"

"I wanted to see you~~" Zhao Jue said a little saucily, "I haven't seen you in such a long time. Do you have nothing to say to me?"

"Yes~" He stared at Zhao Jue for a while, then continued in the same frigid tone, "Stay far away from my son!"

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

He opened the car door, "Even if he is not my son, I still advise you to stay away from him!" After that, Zhan Qitian got back into the car and left...

Suddenly, the joy of a successful hoax spread across Zhao Jue’s face. He glanced back at the earthen wall behind him, then turned his head and hummed away.

Behind the earthen wall, Zhan Zhao stood blankly. He looked at the concerned Bai Yutang next to him, "What did they just say..."

Bai Yutang was also very confused. Seeing the surprise in Zhan Zhao's eyes, he reached out and pulled him into an embrace, holding him tightly, "Kitty, don't do this."

Zhan Zhao just grasped Bai Yutang's clothes tightly with both hands and asked, "What did they say~~~"



On Christmas Day, snow fell unexpectedly. As the S.C.I. had beautifully broken open a big case spanning 20 years this time, Bao Zheng gave everyone three days off~~

The group members went home one after another, and Zhao Hu was still taking care of Chen Yu with Qi Le in the hospital.

When Ma Han looked at Chen Jiayi, who had suddenly appeared at his door, he felt discomfort in his heart, but he didn’t know how to deal with it~~ His sister Ma Xin was a fan of Chen Jiayi, and had soon sold her big brother. Mother Ma had been looking forward to this day for more than 20 years, and finally Ma Han had "brought back" a girl~~ And one so beautiful~~ and she immediately sold her son~~ Since then, Jiayi Chen has justifiably come to visit every single day.

Gongsun was "kidnapped" by Da Ding and Xiao Ding and taken to Easter Island. When he woke up, he saw a huge stone statue and the shameless idiot Bai Jintang.

For Xiao Bai Chi's Christmas, he not only needed to look after the baby temporarily, but he also had to take care of Zhao Zhen in order to save him from the fate of "one incapable of caring for themself," as well as Lisbon~~

Christmas Eve arrived against a backdrop of silvery white snowflakes and colorful lights...

Bai Yutang sat in a daze on the steps in front of the hot spring villa~~

Since that day, Zhan Zhao had taken a leave of absence, saying he wanted to be alone, and then disappeared.

The relaxation of having solved the case and the joy from Bai Jintang sending him a plane became dull~~

Unable to find Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang nevertheless drifted spiritlessly to the door of the hot spring villa. It was very cold outside, but he didn't want to go in... He didn’t know how long he had been sitting when and his lax gaze was suddenly attracted to a figure approaching from the distance. He stood, unable to believe his eyes, and took a few steps forward~~

The dim light of the streetlamp made the figure seem unreal.

Bai Yutang looked at the Zhan Zhao who had come to stand before his eyes. Both of them had accumulated a lot of snow and looked a bit ridiculous~~

Zhan Zhao stared at Bai Yutang’s shocked expression in surprise, "What are you looking at? Do you not recognize me?"

"You... I..." Bai Yutang was rarely ever flustered, but he didn’t know what to say~~

"It's extremely cold~~" Zhan Zhao said softly, “I walked here~~ I couldn't get a taxi, and I can’t drive myself..."

"Kitty~~" Bai Yutang was already not listening to anything else, but simply hugged Zhan Zhao firmly, "Kitty~~~"







Translation notes:

(1) This is a MashiMaro rabbit: 
12 Best Mashimaro images | Kawaii doodles, Korean stationery ...

(2) Yes, he’s actually quoting Sherlock here.





7 comments:

  1. Wait, why The End? Is this the end of the novel? Of the case? Please tell me there will be more T.T

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    1. The end of the case hahahaha.
      The original author titled it that.
      There are about 60 more chapters in this volume and then 4 more volumes after that, so no worries.

      As proof, there's a new chapter posted for you all.

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  2. Suddenly i miss Tom & Jerry show when in my childhood 😭😭😭

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  3. Mashimaro so cutee~~~ πŸ°πŸ‡

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  4. such a weird case, honestly i didnt understand some parts, but since i've watched the show i already know wassup hahaha,
    thankyou so much for the update!!

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    1. Weird cases are going to make translating post-drama cases very...interesting... At least I have some basis for what's going on for these ones!

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