S.C.I. Special Crime Investigation // S.C.I.谜案集 [English translation] Book 1

[Digital Killer 21] Chapter 22 - Zhao Jue

When Bao Zheng stop the car, Zhan Zhao and Bai YuTang were shocked by the sight in front of them. They could not believe that this is in S City, it felt like they had just arrived in a foreign country.

They drove for nearly three hours before arriving at the destination — a desolate ravine and bunch of pure white buildings. Surrounded by power grid and guards who are heavily armed, patrolling around, this place is definitely not an ordinary place.

"So? How do you feel?" Bao Zheng looked at the two stunned kid with a smile.

"Feel like..." Bai YuTang raised his eyebrows "Like Guantánamo Bay..."

"... What is this place?" Zhan Zhao asked Bao Zheng.

Bao Zheng lit a cigarette and said "Special Pathological Phenomena Research Center."

Bai YuTang laughed "It look quite decent, is this a medical institution or a military base? Or is it a prison?"

Bao Zheng glanced at him "This is where the smartest lunatics in the country are staying in."

"The man that you want us to meet is in here?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"His name is Zhao Jue." Bao Zheng said after stepping on the cigarette "Let's go in."

Bai YuTang asked Zhan Zhao curiously "You don't even know such place exists? I thought you are an expert?"

Zhan Zhao quietly walked forward "They send me a letter, hoping that I could join them."

"Oh?" Bai YuTang was surprised "Why you didn't go?"

Zhan Zhao sneered "They are researching about human."

"This place lock up human isn't it?"

... Paused for a while, Zhan Zhao spoke again "It's experimental products..."

They could tell that Bao Zheng always visit this place, the research center staff who are in lab coats would greet him from time to time.

The three walked all the way through the hall, an endless corridor. The iron doors opened and closed one by one, as if the thing getting lock inside is a monster not a human — White walls, tiled flooring, cold and gloomy.

Finally, Bao Zheng stopped in front of a heavy iron door, pressed his finger against the fingerprint reader and the door was opened with a click.

Pushing the iron door, it is a huge glass wall in the center of the room and behind the glass it is a black metal railing — Like a cell!

The furnishing inside the railing is simple and clean. Surrounded by white walls, sunlight shining through the window above the ceiling and reflected through the glass wall making it very visible to see the marks on the wall. A row of green plants were placed along the corner of the wall, with some white flower bud and some African calla lily.

There is a red chair in the center of the cell. A man is sitting on the chair. He is back facing the glass wall looking at the calla lily on the ground and he is drawing something seriously with a pen and paper in his hand. Papers were scattered on the floor and there were drawing of the calla lily on the papers... It look so beautiful.

That man is extremely thin and slender, wearing full white, black hair and a metal ring around his neck. The complicated collar was very dazzling...

"Sound absorber?" Bai YuTang frowned. This metal sound absorber was specially designed for prisoners. The structure is complicated. Once it is put on, it can only be removed with a metal cutter. Wearing that collar, means that no matter how loud you shout, there won't be a single sound...