Chapter 1

Chapter 1

\n\nThe Innocent Murderer 01 – I LOVE YOU

The hot July weather finally came. The 30-degree temperature outside made people panic. The air conditioner was turned on in the SCI office but Zhao Hu and Zhang Long were still hot even with the fans.

 

The prisoners are probably also dead because of the hot weather, so the elites of SCI are about to start growing mushrooms. (Angel: this sentence made no sense to me but I tried to make it understandable. I guess they mean like its so hot and humid that mushrooms are going to start sprouting ¯_(ツ)_/¯)

Zhan Zhao is the busiest member of the SCI team. His first few books sold very well and he is now a best-selling author. The editors almost broke into the police station to grab the manuscripts as soon as they received the call. Severely dragging behind with the manuscript progress, Zhan Zhao has not dared to go out these days in fear of being caught by the editors

Bai Yutang spends his time exercising. Bai Jin Tang bought a complete set of fitness equipment for the SCI team and placed in it the lounge. The white rate, who was too idle, had to rely on exercise to consumer excess energy. Experience tells him that a certain cat must not be messed with when the manuscript is behind schedule. Once he provokes the cat, he will be scratched, and the cat will be aggrieved afterwards saying “It’s all because of you, I didn’t have time to finish it!” The cat is truly a cunning animal.

Bai Chi has recently become a super fan of Zhan Zhao. He is collecting books to read and he is more diligent in giving reminders than the editors.

 

Both Ma Han and Zhao Hu’s mobile phones are turned off all day long, otherwise they will be found and disturbed by some female celebrities who look like tigers and wolves.

Gongsun is even more free and his quirks have resurfaced. When he has nothing to do, he will watch horror movies in the forensic room… In the forensic room that was originally forbidden, there are often ghosts crying and wolves howling accompanied by cold laughter. Shocked, nobody dared to probe, even the flies did not dare fly over to the door. 

Luo Tian’s injuries healed a long time ago. Now he lives with Luoyang in the police dormitory. This father is always conscientious and persuaded by Luoyang, who doe not want to do all of the housework. Now, thanks to the care of Luoyang, Luo Tian has completely adapted to modern life and he looks very young. Luoyang is looking everywhere recently, wanting to find a stepmother for himself but there is no good candidate. 

“Huh…” Bai Yutang let out a sigh and got off the equipment.

Zhang Long leaned in, looked, and shook his head. “Boss, you want to train yourself into a Rambo… Tsk, look at this figure.”

Bai Yutang looked at the onlookers outside and frowned, “You should also exercise! You can’t just sit around and eat everyday when there is not a case, right?!” As soon as he finished speaking, he received a biting cold feeling and a certain mouse was instinctively surprised. He looked around and saw Zhan Zhao coming over with a piercing look in his eyes. Bai Yutang hurriedly shut up. ‘Why is the cat so angry? It’s better not to mess with him.’ Bai Yutang thought to himself.

Walking to the bathroom with the towel, Bai Yutang’s cell phone said “meow~~”, indicating that he received a text message. He opened it and saw that it was from Luoyang who wrote “Go to a place where no one is and call me.”

Bai Yutang blinked and turned to see Luo Tian was reading Luoyang’s textbook intensively, and he said in his heart “is this little guy getting in trouble?!”

When he reached the bathroom, Bai Yutang turned on the faucet and dialed Luoyang’s phone, “Hey, what’s the matter?”

“Uncle Bai~~” Luoyang called sweetly, so sweetly that Bai Yutang’s teeth were about to fall out. His goosebumps were coming out and he wiped his sweat and laughed, “What, did you get into trouble again?”

“Is my dad with you?” Luoyang asked cautiously.\n

“No, I’m in the bathroom. What’s the matter?” Bai Yutang asked while washing the towel.

“Can you come to my school?” Luoyang asked, “Don’t let my dad know.”

“Why?” Bai Yutang turned off the faucet and asked, “Why am I going to your school?”

“I… the teacher told me to call my parents… can you pretend to be my dad?” Luoyang said awkwardly.

Bai Yutang laughed, “What did you do to make the teachers so serious?”

“… Fight.” Luoyang replied, “Come on… Don’t let my dad know, he will be angry.”

“All right, just wait.” Bai Yutang hung up the phone, took his cell phone, and went out. When he ran into Zhan Zhao who was coming towards him, he said “Cat, have you finished writing?

Zhan Zhao slowly turned his head, blinked slowly, and slowly uttered a few words, “I want to seal the pen!” (Angel: I has to google seal the pen and apparently it is a real thing you can do. The more you know)

Bai Yutang smiled and took Zhan Zhao out, “Go, go out and move around. Always staying in the room is going to make you sick!” he said, dragging the listless Zhan Zhao away.

The car drove slowly to the entrance of the Fourth Elementary School in S City where Luoyang was. Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao got out of the car. They saw Luoyang sitting in the communication room at the entrance of the school, who beckoned then when they looked at him.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao saw that Luoyang’s face was hurt from a long distance. They glanced at each other in surprise and hurried over.

“Yangyang, what is the matter with you?” Zhan Zhao has always loved and doted on Luoyang, but stopped when he saw a wound on his face. “Who is bullying you?”

Luoyang pouted and said nothing.

Bai Yutang knew how it wasn’t possible for these elementary school students to injure Luoyang with his skills, so he asked “Who did you fight with? Senior students?”

Luoyang raised his eyes and looked and Zhan Zhao, then looked at Bai Yutang and muttered in a low voice, “Junior high school students.”

“How many?” Bai Yutang asked.

“… A class.” Luoyang hesitated for a while and answered honestly.

“Are you fighting with a classmate?!” Zhan Zhao was taken aback.

“I didn’t fight back or I could have hurt them!” Luoyang was not convinced, “Dad told me that my physique is different from ordinary kids and that I can’t easily start fights with others.”

“Why?” Bai Yutang asked, “They bullied you for no reason?”\nLuoyang shook his head, grabbed Zhan Zhao’s hand and said “The teacher is waiting in the office and said he wants to see my dad.”

Bai Yutang sighed, entered the school with Luoyang, and walked into the teacher’s office on the third floor of the teaching building.

“Mrs. Zhao” Luoyang’s head teacher was a female teacher who had just graduated from university. She was correcting homework when Luoyang came running in, “My father is here.”

Teacher Zhao raised her head and saw Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang behind Luoyang at a glance. She opened her mouth and was stunned.

Bai Yutang was wearing a clean white T-shirt and white jeans, he is handsome in the sun; Zhan Zhao was dressed in a white shirt and slacks, he is gentle and handsome. The young female teacher immediately blushed and stammered “You… who is Yang? Yang’s father?”

Bai Yutang walked to the teacher, moved a chair, sat down, and said “I am.”

“Oh…” The teacher’s face was even redder, as Bai Yutang’s handsomeness was a little unavoidable. The young teacher didn’t dare to look at him, nervously flipping through the workbook on the table.

“Teacher, you have something you need to discuss with me?” Bai Yutang asked.

“Hmm… Ah, yes.” The teacher recovered and said “It’s about Yangyang’s injury.” As she said it, she raised her head and saw Zhan Zhao with an unusually beautiful pair of eyes beside Bai Yutang. Staring at her, the teacher was a little dizzy; ‘Why is there a man in this world who looks so good’ she thought to herself.

“It’s like this…” After adjusting her breathing, the young teacher said, “Yangyang’s injury this time, I need to explain it to you. It was caused by him protecting his classmates.”

“Oh…” Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhan Zhao touched Luoyang’s hair and said, “It’s just for the sake of righteousness?”

The teacher nodded and said, “However, you can’t blame the senior students, as there is a reason for the incident. But after all, this child is injured so I want to explain to the parents on behalf of the school, and I hope you won’t hold the school accountable.”

Bai Yutang nodded and asked, “What’s going on?”

“Well… In Yangyang’s class, a new student was transferred. He is called Fang Xing.” Teacher Zhao said, “His identity is a bit special.”

“Why is he special?” Zhan Zhao puzzled.

“His father… is called Fang Wo. I don’t know if you have heard of him…” Teacher Zhao asked.

“That felon Fang Wo?!” Bai Yutang was stunned when he heard it, “Modern Ripper?!”

Teacher Zhao nodded and said, “Hearing from Yangyang that you are policemen, I think you must know him.”\n\nThe three of them returned to the SCI office with a large pile of ice cream. Everyone came to share the food. Luo Tian was stunned by Luoyang’s injury. Later, Zhan Zhao explained the cause and effect to him. Only then did he feel relief in his heart. Bai Yutang tacitly omitted the part of the story where Luoyang asked him to pretend to be Luo Tian. Luo Tian is probably one of a few people who are spoiled by their sons.

After the cool and refreshing ice cream, everyone’s heat was gone. Just when they felt so refreshed, Lu Fang knocked on the door, came in and said “Xiao Bai, there is a case. Bao Sir asked you to go and see.”

“Where?” Bai Yutang stood up. The people who hadn’t had a big case for a long time didn’t know whether they should be grateful or discouraged. To be honest, they would rather stay idle all the time.

“In the western-style garden district at Lane 6, 19th Street, S City.” Lu Fang looked at the address recorded on the file and said slowly, “Dismembered.”

“Ahem…” Zhao Hu’s ice cream caught in his throat and he coughed.

“Dismembered?!” Bai Yutang frowned.

“A family of three, the scene is protected. Gongsun has already arrived.” Lu Fang gave Bai Yutang the document in his hand and said “Take someone to see it. It is said that Gongsun said a word after seeing the scene.” (Angel: I don’t even know how to start changing this to make sense so I will leave it; maybe Gongsun just doesn’t talk very much while on the scene so they are shocked when he does.)

“What?!” Everyone preparing to travel was curious.

Lu Fang reached out and took a bite of an ice cream on the table and slowly said “There is enough perversion!”

………………

In front of an apartment building in the western-style garden district of S City there are many people outside the cordon. Next to the garden district is a woman’s college which is now on its lunch break. A large group of curious girls are standing outside the yellow line looking inside.

The police car sopped slowly on the side of the road. Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, leading the SCI team, got out of the car, crossed the yellow line, and walked into the community. They heard the girls outside shouting sharply “Ah… those policemen are so handsome!”

The girls’ screams were quickly blocked by the door of the apartment building. The murder scene was in Room 02 on the 17th floor. As soon as everyone got out of the elevator, they were hit by the strong stench.

“How many days have passed since they have been dead? How come it smells like this?!” Zhao Hu frowned and walked out of the elevator first. He saw Gongsun smoking a cigarette with the forensic box in his hand. Several police officers were vomiting in the distance.

“Aren’t you trying not to smoke?” Bai Yutang looked at Gongsun.

After exhaling a smoke ring, Gongsun pushed his glasses and said lightly “I had to.”

Zhan Zhao was surprised and asked, “So serious?”

Gongsun stretched out his hand and gently pushed open the concealed door, saying to Zhan Zhao, “You should analyze it, what mentality did the murderer have to make the corpses like this?”

Everyone turned their faces and looked around. Behind the open door, the floor had a large, dry pool of blood covering it with the limbs of three corpses placed atop in a pattern. When they took a closer look, the limbs spelled out the English letters ‘I LOVE YOU’!

Staring at the weird picture in front of him for a long time, Zhan Zhao couldn’t help but take the lead and yelled out “Abnormal!”