The Numbers Killer - Chapter 9 Ambush

It was 10.20pm at night, when Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang finally walked out the prison gates.

Bai Yutang exhaled deeply and said, "I say, Cat, are their words credible?"

Zhan Zhao shrugged in response, "These two have pretty severe delusion disorder, but they didn't have a chance to collude with each other. So what they said should be credible."

"That means that the murderer is some guy dressed up like a doctor?" Bai Yutang suddenly raged, "This is some broken prison! It doesn't even have a single surveillance camera along the corridors!! We wouldn't have to go through so much effort if there were!"

"This murderer is very cunning. There were so many prison guards around, yet not a single one of them noticed him..." Zhan Zhao rubbed between his brows and continued, "Let's discuss this after we see Gongsun's autopsy report tomorrow."

The two of them chatted as they walked, down a flight of stairs to the car parked on the side of the road. When they reached the main street, Bai Yutang suddenly saw a glimmer of light from his peripheral. Something seemed to be charging out from the darkness...

"Cat!!"

By the time Bai Yutang realised that it was a car speeding towards them at top speed, he had already pounced at Zhan Zhao. Pushing Zhan Zhao out of the way, rolling forward as he did so. When he lifted his head again, that car that came out of nowhere, almost crashing into the both of them, was gone. Although everything happened very quickly, Bai Yutang still managed to see that it was the black Honda that had been tailing them in the afternoon.

"Are you alright, Cat?" Before he could think deeper into it, he hurriedly checked if Zhan Zhao, who was in his embrace, was hurt.

"I'm fine," Zhan Zhao said as Bai Yutang helped him onto his feet. He noticed that there were only some light abrasions on his hands.

"What about you?" He asked, shifting his gaze to Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang patted the dust off of his body and held out his arms to show that he was fine. Then, he grabbed Zhan Zhao's hands and pulled them over to have a closer look. Seeing that a large part of Zhan Zhao's palm had been badly scraped, Bai Yutang frowned, "Let's go to the hospital first."

"There's no need. It's just a small injury..." Zhan Zhao wrinkled his nose in refusal and shook his head.

"That's not up for discussion!!" Bai Yutang declared, dragging him away.

After some simple bandaging at the hospital, it was almost 12 am by the time they returned to their dorm. Zhan Zhao sat on the couch in his living room.

Silence... silence... He finally couldn't take in anymore and blurted, "Why are you in my apartment?"

Standing in front of him, Bai Yutang was munching on an apple while casually flipping through the newspaper, "To protect you."

Harh??

Zhan Zhao got up and snatch away the apple in his hands while trying to drag Bai Yutang out the door, "Who needs your protection!! Go back to your own place, I want to sleep!!"

Bai Yutang grabbed onto the sofa, refusing to leave. "Hey!! I'm doing this for your own good!! What if some pervert chases you all the way here? A bookworm like you will be dead before you can even scream for help!! Your death is not even the biggest problem. The issue is that our mothers will skin me alive!!"

"You!!" Zhan Zhao wrinkled his nose in anger, "How do you know that they're coming after me?? You act so cockily most of the time. Who knows if you've offended some mob boss on the streets and they want to get rid of you?? You get out of my house!! Don't drag me into your mess!!"

One was pulling with all his might while the other refused to let go...

The tug of war lasted till half-past 12 before Zhan Zhao finally surrendered. After all, he was an academic, while Bai Yutang was a soldier. He couldn't get his words through to a soldier1...

Round 1, defeat!

"Kitty, lend me some pajamas. I want the Doraemon one, not the Hello Kitty one."

(lilies: why the heck does Zhan Zhao even have hello kitty pjs aaaah secute!!)

...Tolerate it...

"Kitty, I'm so hungry, do you have instant noodles?"

...Tolerate some more...

"Is your refrigerator used to store dead bodies? Why is it so clean?"

...Patience is golden...

"Kitty, do you have any CDs? Let's watch some horror movies..."

...He snapped!!...

Zhan Zhao who was trying to prepare for his lessons had exploded. He grabbed a pillow and smashed it at Bai Yutang, "Go the hell back to your apartment!! Watching a horror movie in the middle of the night, you're the only pervert here!!!"

Yet another half an hour had passed by the time the pillow fight finally ended. Zhan Zhao huffed and grabbed the Doraemon pajamas on his way to the bathroom. He took a look at Bai Yutang, who was buried under the pillows, and said, "I going to shower first!! The next person to shower has to clean the bathroom!!"

Round 2, victory!

When Bai Yutang was done with his shower and cleaning the bathroom, it was already 2 am in the morning. He walked out of the bathroom in the Hello Kitty pajamas to find that the lights in the living room were still on.

Zhan Zhao lolled in the sofa with a document in his hand, fast asleep. Bai Yutang walked over with light steps and removed the document from his hand.

Zhan Zhao seemed to be in deep sleep. He was unusually quiet as he took steady breaths. Bai Yutang sighed softly. This was the only time that the cat was slightly more docile.

Bai Yutang reached out to Zhan Zhao, placing one hand on his shoulders and the other under his knees, and gently lifted the latter. He then carried Zhan Zhao to the bedroom with great effort as Bai Yutang scolded Zhan Zhao in his heart, "This damn cat. Is he actually made up of weights? He looks so skinny, but he's so darn heavy..." Despite so, his steps were as steady as ever as made his way into the bedroom.

 He placed Zhan Zhao onto the bed, turned off the lights and it was time for bed.

5 minutes later.

Thud.

Bai Yutang had gloriously fallen off the bed from Zhan Zhao's kick.

Anger!!

Bai Yutang jumped to his feet. Just as he was about to turn on the bedside lamp and start Round 300 with that cat...

Zhan Zhao was still sound asleep, hugging his pillow in his arms. This man usually looked very graceful, but he had such a terrible sleeping posture. He even muttered, "Damn mouse... hmm... Round 3, victory..."

Hugging his pillow, Bai Yutang felt like crying a little.

Just why is this happening?!

Written as '秀才遇到兵' This is only part of the phrase, "秀才遇到兵，有理說不清' which generally means that it's difficult for a scholar to reason with a soldier who's more brawns than brains. ↩

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