S.C.I.谜案集 (Special Criminal Investigation) Book 2

Case 4. Love Murderer: Chapter 06. Opening An Investigation

"No." Zhan Zhao stubbornly opened it himself and muttered, "I want to see how many layers there are!"

Finally, after getting through 26 layers, Zhan Zhao touched the thing inside. He then tore the last layer open. Inside was a small white box with a cartoon mouse and a cartoon cat printed on it. There were the words 'Happy Birthday' written on it in gold.

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows, feeling a lot better. He looked at Bai Yutang and said, "did you do this?"

Bai Yutang smiled. "I'm not that boring."

Zhan Zhao wrinkled his nose and looked at the people in SCI. They all shook their heads innocently, indicating it was not from them.

"Da Ding, Xiao Ding!" Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang thought for a moment and said, "it does seem to be their style, but didn't they already send a box of snacks and CDs the day before our birthday? The weird ones you really like."

Zhan Zhao blinked and asked, "those dried Panamanian bananas, Nepalese sausages, shredded Cambodian squid and so on?"

"Mmhmm." Bai Yutang nodded.

"Oh... they're from the twins? I thought it was from my mom." Zhan Zhao said, as he lifted the lid of the box. There was a picture on it. The back of the photo was facing up, and it had a sentence written on it with pen. The sentences said, 'I won't give it to you! Hmph! Never!'

Zhan Zhao frowned, looked at Bai Yutang, picked up the picture and turned it over.

"Hahaha!" Bai Yutang couldn't help but burst out laughing at the picture, while Zhan Zhao was livid.

Bai Chi also curiously leaned over to have a look and saw that the man in the picture had long black hair and white clothes. It was Zhao Jue, whom they had not seen for a long time. He seemed to be in some big courtyard, with five or six lovely little lions lying at his feet. In his hands was a chubby white lion that Zhan Zhao had always dreamed of, smiling proudly at the camera.

"Cat... Forget it." Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, who had a gloomy face. "What he wants to see is the look on your face right now."

Zhan Zhao hummed angrily, then turned to stare at Bai Yutang. "That's too much!"

Bai Yutang was helpless. "Not my problem..."

Zhan Zhao looked at the picture for a long time, then wrinkled his nose. "The little lion is so cute..."

Everyone pretended not to hear, as they lowered their heads and went on with their work.

"Is there anything else in the box?" Bai Yutang asked, while taking a look at the box in Zhan Zhao's hand. He saw that the box was empty, with a layer of wool on the bottom. However, using such a box just for this picture seemed a little strange.

Bai Yutang put the box on the table and pressed around inside with his hand. Sure enough, he touched something hard. He reached out and took a knife from the table, then cut the inside layer along the edge of the box. There was a small piece of black plastic with a yellow circuit in the middle. It was like a little chip.

"Jiang Ping?" Bai Yutang called Jiang Ping and asked, "what is this?"

"Oh, it's the chip from a memory card." Jiang Ping picked it up and looked at it. "You have to restore it to its original state before you can use it."

"How long will it take?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Two days," Jiang Ping said before getting to work.

"I wonder what Zhao Jue got for us this time." Bai Yutang turned to look at Zhan Zhao, who wrinkled his nose and said, "it can't be anything good." Then, he looked at the lion cub again, completely forgetting about Zhao Jue.