S.C.I. Mystery Files Case 2 Chapter 31

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Killer Training Camp - Chapter 31 Student

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The people in the ballroom left after the police took down their information.

Gongsun massaged his eyebrows and exited the hall for the elevator. 

Looking at the elevator that was packed full like a can of sardines, Gongsun felt nauseated by it. He tried to shake it off and decided to take it the stairs. 

After pushing open the door to the stairwell, just as he was about to take a step down... a sudden force on his arm pulled him back!

Then, he was pulled into the corner of an empty corridor before he could even let out a cry of shock. 

When he lifted his head, he was greeted with the sight of Bai Jintang with a bright smile on his face.

"You... Uh nnn..." 

Without saying a single word, Bai Jintang pressed Gongsun against the wall and bowed his head to give the latter a wild kiss. 

...

Gongsun tried to struggle and push Bai Jintang off of him but to no avail. In the end, his only option was to bite down hard on Bai Jintang's lower lip.

"Hiss..."

The sudden pain gave Bai Jintang a shock and he finally lifted his head and released Gongsun's lips. Licking his lower lip that was bitten so hard it drew blood, Bai Jintang smiled like a Cheshire cat as he stared at Gongsun who was panting from the kiss.

Gongsun looked up and glared at him, saying, "What the hell do you want?!"

Bai Jintang simply shrugged, "Oh, you were of great help just now and I was just thinking of how I should thank you. Why not..." he paused a little and moved in to whisper intimately into Gongsun's ear, "I offer myself to you?"

Gongsun moved his head such that he was looking at Bai Jintang straight in his eyes and said, "Sure."

Bai Jintang was slightly stunned by how easily Gongsun agreed. Just as he was about to bow his head to give Gongsun another kiss, he suddenly saw a cold glint flash before him. He instinctively reached out and caught Gongsun's wrist in mid-air and... in the latter's hand was a polished scalpel.

"Hey hey hey～～" Bai Jintang held a firm grip on Gongsun's hand with one hand and restrained the struggling Gongsun with the other as he said, "Why do you keep flashing your blade at every turn?"

"Didn't you say that you're going to offer yourself to me?" Gongsun said menacingly, "Just nice, I've been wanting to try doing live dissection for a long time!"

"Kuku～～～" instead of getting angry, Bai Jintang simply chucked, "Do you know that this is just what I like about you?" Then, he lowered his head and captured Gongsun's lips. 

"Hmm... Jerk! I'm going to kill you... hnn..."
"Sure, whatever you want. If you want it, I can also give you my life～～"
"Who wants... Get your hands off me..."
"G-Go to hell... Ah..."

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In the stairwell, Ding Zhaohui handed a handkerchief to Ding Zhaolan, "Here! Wipe off your saliva..."

Ding Zhaolan took the handkerchief and after wiping away his saliva he returned it to Ding Zhaohui, "Take it back! And clean off that nosebleed..."

"But then again, Boss is really..."
"A ruffian～～～～～～"

"I'll give you a lift home," Bai Jintang couldn't help but say gently as he held Gongsun, who had all his strength to resist zapped out of him from the kiss and could only settle for glaring at the former through clenched teeth. 

"Who needs you to send me back?!" Gongsun steadied his breathing, gave Bai Jintang a hard shove, and tried to turn to leave.

"It's alright, it's on the way anyway," Bai Jintang said as he grabbed Gongsun and dragged him in the opposite direction, "There's a special elevator here."

Until he was dragged all the way down and stuffed into the car by Bai Jintang, Gongsun was still wondering what the man meant by, "It's on the way"??

It was only when he saw Bai Jintang insert the key into the door of the unit beside his that his mouth fell wide open in shock.
And before he could say anything, he saw the twins who had followed them at some point appear and insert the key into the door two units down. 

Oh, his boiling point...

"Y-You guys..."

Bai Jintang pushed the dumbfounded Gongsun into the house and shut the door. When he raised his head, he was greeted with the sight of large floor-to-ceiling windows that have been securely covered by curtains. 

"You seem to have been spending your nights in the police station these past few days, haven't you?" Bai Jintang remarked as he led Gongsun to the windows. He opened the curtains and a dazzling night view reflected in both their eyes. 

Gongsun stared blankly at what was once a dark, gloomy, and dilapidated building. It had become a brilliantly illuminated busy scene of renovation. 

"This area has great potential for development, so I've already purchased it. And that..." Bai Jintang said as he extended a finger to point to the window that once made Gongsun's blood run cold, "will be the office of the President of the Bai Group!"

"..." Gongsun felt a little uncomfortable, "You didn't have to..."

"Tsk tsk tsk..." Bai Jintang held out a finger and waved it, "From this angle, you can see me and likewise I can see you as well, so you can rest easy every night, it's perfect."

...

Gongsun turned around and looked at Bai Jintang with a little more seriousness for the first time, but then the latter added, "By the way, I've made a hole in the wall!"

Looking at the direction he indicated to, Gongsun noticed that there was a massive hole, which didn't exist before, in the wall. The two rooms were now——connected¹.

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"Bai Jintang, you get the hell out of here! You psychopath!!"
"Hey, this is the first time you called me by my name!"
"You... Ah! What are you doing? Put me down!"
"Let's go into the bedroom to discuss the specific of me offering my body to you..."
"Get lost! Get the hell out of my room!"

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It was in the middle of the night and Bai Jintang was lying on his bed, unable to fall asleep. After Gongsun had thrown him out, the former then blocked the hole with some large furniture. "Sigh～～～" That was the 30th sigh of the night. 
——Just why was this man so awkward?


The next morning, just as Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao arrived in the S.C.I. office all refreshed, they were called to the Commissioner's office by Bao Zheng. 

"What do you think?" Bao Zheng asked while throwing a document at the two men.

When they opened it, as they had expected, it was the regarding last night's case and a couple of other cases related to being sniped to death. 

"It doesn't look like it was done by a professional hitman," Bai Yutang replied after flipping through the document, "and the technique they used wasn't very skillful either."

Bao Zheng nodded, "And that's the most worrying part!"

Zhan Zhao frowned when he saw the information in the document, "The killer from last night was a student from M University? Qi Lei. And he just turned 20?"

Bao Zheng continued to nod his head, "This case is a little strange. Both Dr. Wilson and Jon King well-known expatriates, hence, the case has attracted a lot of attention. You guys better solve this case in half a month!"

Bai Yutang scratched his head, "Commissioner Bao, you're giving us a time limit again?!"

Zhan Zhao also chimed in from the side, "Yeah!"

Bao Zheng looked at the two of them in amusement and said, "Look at you two little cubs singing in harmony with each other. Solve the case in half a month. If you take even a day more, you'll wash the toilets for a year!"


Then, everyone in the S.C.I. was greeted with an angry Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao stomping into the office. 

"Ma Han!"
"Leader?"

Seeing that Bai Yutang was in a bad mood, Ma Han hurriedly ran over to receive his orders. 

"Take the technical team down to the four crime scenes to investigate!"
"Yes!"
"Wang Chao, Zhang Long, go investigate all the details of the victims and that what professor and whatever celebrity."
"Yes!"
"Xu Qing, find out where the gun came from!""
"Yes!"
"You guys had better solve this case in half a month!"
"Harh??"

Seeing the faces of his men, Bai Yutang chuckled, "If we take even a day more, we'll wash the toilets for a year!"

Everyone scattered like the wind...

Zhan Zhao glanced at a certain Mouse who vented his anger on his subordinates and muttered under his breath, "Hmph, villain holding sway!"

Bai Yutang narrowed his eyes at Zhan Zhao, "Stupid Cat, what are you muttering about?"

"What should we do?" Zhan Zhao asked instead, with his head tilted.

"Huu..." Bai Yutang sighed while picking up the files on the table, "Let's head over to M University and get to the bottom of this Qi Lei!"


M University was a third-rate private university. The student culture and dress styles were completely different from that of C University. Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao were in the office of the law school——that's right, Qi Lei was a law student. 

Jia Zhengyan was a young teacher who looked to be in his early thirties. He was the teacher in charge of class 2 of the 04 Batch that Qi Lei was from. 

He gave Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang a warm welcome and according to him, Qi Lei was an unsociable student who didn't really fit in with the rest. He moved out of the dorms to rent his own apartment outside after staying for half a year. 

"Why? Was he not on good terms with the other students in the dorm?" Bai Yutang questioned.

"Hmm..." Jia Zhengyan hesitated for a bit before answering, "Qi Lei had an illness which made it such that he couldn't live with his other schoolmates."

"What illness?"
"...Sleepwalking..."

"Sleepwalking?" Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao exchanged a look of surprise. 

"Can you elaborate more on?" Zhan Zhao asked with great interest. 

"Of course," Teacher Jia nodded, "Qi Lei would often attack his roommate in the middle of the night. He would set fires and hit others... and in the most serious incident, he almost smothered the roommate sleeping on the bottom to death."

"How did you know he was sleepwalking?" Zhan Zhao asked as he furrowed his brows.

Teacher Jia sighed, "Although Qi Lei didn't socialise much, he was a very gentle person. However, according to his roommate, he would become uncharacteristically violent, like a completely different person... And he wouldn't remember what happened afterward."

Zhan Zhao lowered his head and said nothing, he seemed to be lost in thought. Bai Yutang asked Teacher Jia a few more questions and during this entire duration, Zhan Zhao didn't utter a single word. He simply fell into deep thought while his brows creased. 

Once Bai Yutang was done questioning, that was when Zhan Zhao finally spoke, "Teacher, do you know where he lives?"

"Oh, there's a record of the student's contact information. I'll jot it down for you."

Then, as Jia Zhengyan took out a note to write down the address, he said, "You can try talking to the people in the band about the specifics, they should know more."

"Band?"
"Qi Lei was very talented in music and he was quite the bassist. He formed a band called 'Boiling Point' with several other students of the school. They've attained quite a fair bit of popularity on the campus and I've heard that there was a record company looking to release songs with them."
"Where can we find the other band members?"
"Oh, you can find them in the school's activity room. It's in the red building in the back."

Jia Zhengyan took a look at his watch and added, "They practice there every afternoon. You should be able to hear them when you enter the building."

The two of them exited the office building of the law school. And Zhan Zhao who had absolutely no sense of direction, turned three times at the same spot, trying to figure out where the activity room was. 

Bai Yutang checked his watch and said, "Kitty, it's 12 PM now. The timing is a little awkward, let's go over after having lunch."

...After Bai Yutang's reminder, Zhan Zhao suddenly felt his stomach grumbling. 

"What do you want to eat?" Seeing that Zhan Zhao started spinning round and round in circles another three times, Bai Yutang stopped him before he made himself dizzy and pulled him towards the school gate. 

"Where to?"
"I saw a Japanese restaurant that looked pretty nice outside the school when we came in."

"Japanese food?" Zhan Zhao got excited at the sound of it, "SUSHI! SUSHI²! I want to eat salmon rolls! 

"Okay, okay, salmon rolls."
"I wanna eat sardine rolls as well!"
"Un, un, sardine rolls."
"And salmon!"
"Un, salmon."
"And snapper fish sashimi!"
"Why is it all fish? Are you really a cat?"
"Washabi³!"
"No wasabi!"
"Why?!"
"People with weak stomachs are not allowed to eat it!!"
"Hmph!"

The two of them entered the Japanese restaurant outside the school. 

"By the way Kitty," Bai Yutang found a table at a quiet corner of the restaurant and sat down, "You were really distracted just now, did you find something?"

Zhan Zhao sat down opposite him and picked up the menu to order, "I'm not sure yet, I just have some doubts."

"What doubts do you have?"
"Hmm..."
"Say it, damn Cat! Don't leave me hanging like that!"

"Based on the teacher's description of his actions, I don't think Qi Lei was sleepwalking," Zhan Zhao said while poking at the roasted eel over rice in front of him. 

"What do you mean?"

"Generally speaking, the likelihood of adults sleepwalking was very rare. And most of the time, there are no purpose for their actions. For example, their behaviour would be them wandering around aimlessly and they should be in a semi-conscious state," Zhan Zhao mused as he continued to poke at his eel rice. 

"His teacher said that he would be extremely violent during that time and has no knowledge of his actions after the incident," Bai Yutang said while staring at that poor eel ricebowl. 

"That's the strangest part!" Zhan Zhao said, "Sleepwalking is mainly a result of activity in the human cerebral cortex. Brain activity includes two main processes, 'excitation' and 'inhibition'. Normally, when one is asleep, the cells in the cerebral cortex are in a state of inhibition. If there are a group or a few groups of nerve cells that control movement that are still in an excited state, it will result in sleepwalking. The scope of movement of sleepwalking is limited to the environment most familiar to the sleepwalker and repeated actions that they often do..."

"Kitty," Bai Yutang tapped on Zhan Zhao's bowl with his chopstick and said, "you're speaking in alien again."

Zhan Zhao rolled his eyes at Bai Yutang and picked up a big sushi roll. "Simply put, it's not likely for sleepwalkers to go through a major change in their temperament! Furthermore, they will remember what they did after some time. What feels like something that happened in a dream are things that happened in reality!" He opened his mouth wide and took a big bite.

Bai Yutang said after some thought, "Are you saying he did it deliberately?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head with the sushi roll in his mouth. "Hmm... Unlikely."

"Then what is it?"

"...I have no way to confirm it now which is why I want to have a look at his living environment," Zhan Zhao replied while continuing his ongoing battle with the food.

"He couldn't be another crazy, could he?" Bai Yutang sighed helplessly, "Why are there so many abnormal people these days?"

Zhan Zhao pointed a fried shrimp at him and said, "White Mouse! Don't you ever say the word 'crazy' again!"

Crash～～～～

Before Zhan Zhao could finish saying his piece, a table not too far from them was overturned, followed immediately by the sounds of an argument.

"Say that one more time if you have the guts!"

The two turned their heads to the source of the commotion and they saw two people arguing by the table near the entrance. 
One of them was grabbing the other by the collar and after cursing at the other party, it evolved into throwing punches and kicks. 

To Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao's horror, the one doing the beating was a woman and the one being beaten, completely unable to fight back, was a man. 

The woman wore black tights and her outfit looked kinda like punk fashion. After giving the man a harsh beating, she even spat on him before turning to leave...

"Hiss~~" The man who was beaten to a pulp, his face completely bruised, got up from the ground and cursed, "Aren't they just a campus band, yet they think they're all that..."

He threw down some cash and left as well. 

After their meal, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went down to Qi Lei's apartment, located near the campus, first by following the address Teacher Jia jotted down for them. 
It was a low-rent unit in a hostel. The two of them walked upstairs and knocked on the door. No answer.

"It looks like he was living alone," Zhan Zhao glanced around and said, "Should we get the key from the admin?"

Bai Yutang waved his suggestion off, "And where are you going to find the admin? It's too much trouble." Then, he raised a leg and kicked right in the centre of the door. 

And the door opened right up with a bang.

They couldn't help but frown at the weird smell that attacked their nostrils when the door opened. Just as they were about to enter the room, they heard someone shouting at them, "Stop right there! Who are you people?!"

When they turned around, they saw someone standing not too far away glaring at them. It was that punk girl who was beating the living daylights out of someone at the restaurant just now. 

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1. Basically, think of those hotel rooms with a door in the wall between them that you can pass through to the other room (if both rooms were booked by you/your family)^↩
2. It was written in English. ^↩
3. Misspelled on purpose as he says it in Chinese '瓦沙比'^↩

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