Chapter 39 Section 3

Yukawa was pouring washing liquid into a plastic tray that seemed to have been stolen from the student cafeteria. Then he inserted the end of the straw into it and blew gently, creating a semicircular pile of soap bubbles. Yu Chuan took out a metal object from the pocket of his white coat, which looked like it was formed by stacking multiple coins. "It's a button magnet." He held it close to the soap bubble. The soap bubbles start to slide on the tray, approaching the magnet.Yukawa moved the magnet, and the soap bubbles followed closely behind. "Hey!" Kusanagi couldn't help but uttered, "What's going on? It's not metal, how could it be attracted by a magnet?"

"What do you think is going on?" Yukawa put the magnet in his pocket again, and asked Kusanagi. The physicist teased this good friend of the science idiot.It seems to have become a habit. "Maybe you have tampered with the detergent, such as mixing some metal powder in it or something." "If you mix it with metal powder," Yukawa said, "it won't be able to form soap bubbles." "Then you must have mixed it with something else. Are there chemicals that attract magnets?" "I don't mix anything, it's just normal detergent."

"Can ordinary detergent be attracted to a magnet?" "In theory, this is impossible, but the situation is different now." Yu Chuan said as he approached the sink and took out two cups from the kitchen cabinet above.Kusanagi thought glumly, it's instant coffee again. "What the hell is going on? Stop pretending here and tell me." "Attracted by the magnet," Yukawa poured coffee powder into the cup, looked back at Kusanagi, "it's not the detergent, but the air inside." "Air?" "To be precise, it is oxygen. Oxygen has relatively strong paramagnetism. The so-called paramagnetism is the property that can be attracted by magnets."

"Huh?" Kusanagi kept staring at the unpopped soap bubbles on the tray. "Human inertial thinking is sometimes very bad. Although people know that there is air in soap bubbles. But because the eyes can't see it, they often forget its existence. In this way, many things in our lives are ignored " Tang Chuan poured the hot water from the electric kettle into the cup, stirred it gently a few times, and handed it to Kusanagi. "Actually, you want to say that my life is full of neglected things!" "Ah, this is life, and it's not bad!" Tang Chuan drank his instant coffee as if intoxicated, "Go on!"

"Where did I go?" "Speaking of the soul coming out of its shell, it was said that the letter sent to the search headquarters said that a child's soul was coming out of its shell, so that's all you said." "Ah, yes!" Kusanagi also took a sip of coffee. The sender's name is Uemura Hiroshi. The opening sentence of the letter is: Regarding the murder case that happened in Suginami, I know some clues and I have to tell you, so I wrote this letter.Although he used the word "pencil," the letter was actually typed on a computer. Uemura repeatedly emphasized in the letter that he has nothing to do with this matter.On this basis, he added that his son was likely to be an important witness.He also said that it seemed to be related to the red car that the criminal police had been investigating these days.

To put it succinctly, his son, a teenager named Zhong Guang, saw a New Color Mini Cooper parked by the river during the daytime on July 22.The letter also recorded the sighting time in detail: around 2 pm. So far, the information in the letter has been valuable.The detectives thought that there would be some specific content below, but the following is not as simple as everyone imagined. The letter added at the end: My son did not see the car in the usual way, he saw it not far from his home when he was lying in bed with a high fever and after his soul came out of his shell——when reading the letter When the criminal policeman read this, everyone looked bewildered as if they were fascinated by the fox, followed by exclamation, and some people laughed uncontrollably.In the end, everyone became very angry.They listened so carefully, but they didn't expect it to be a prank.

But there are also some contents in the letter that cannot be completely ignored, and that is the painting drawn by the boy whose soul is out of the shell-a red Mini Cooper car jumps out of the paper.The sender took a picture of the painting with a camera and sent it along with the letter. "I also left a phone number on the letter, so I tried to call that number." Kusanagi said to Yukawa, "At first I thought, he might be a man with an abnormal mind. But when I heard the man Uemura talking on the phone It is well-founded. He said at the beginning that he wrote to us in good faith, and worried that we would misunderstand that he was playing a prank. He was very happy to receive my call. His words were very polite, and I Not a bad impression of him."

"What did you talk to him about?" Tang Chuan asked. "First of all, I confirmed the writing of the letter, that is, we wanted to confirm whether he was serious about writing the letter. Uemura said with certainty that he swore that what he wrote was the truth. He made us believe what he said. Time, especially earnestly." "If 'sincerity' can decide everything, wouldn't your work become easier?" Tang Chuan immediately asked ironically, with a meaningful smile on the corner of his mouth. This annoyed Kusanagi. "I don't believe him, I just introduced you to the situation of Shangcun."

"Then what did you say 'polite' and 'sincere', these words are meaningless for introducing the situation." Tang Chuan sat on a chair with a cup in his hand, "What we need now is evidence, the question is what Can the evidence prove that the boy's soul really came out of his shell?" "According to you, that kind of thing must be impossible?" "Scientists will never dismiss any phenomenon at any time. If you have evidence, you must provide it to me. I can state in advance that the painting itself cannot be evidence, and they may come from someone I heard from my mouth that you were conducting an investigation, and then painted this painting. Isn't it?"

Kusanagi snorted and sat down on the table. "It's also possible." "Yeah," Yukawa looked up at Kusanagi, "then isn't there any more convincing evidence?" "Well... on the day the child's soul emerged, Uemura showed the painting to an editor he knew. He wanted to discuss with the editor whether to publish this matter in a magazine. By the way, I forgot Having said that, Uemura is a freelance writer by profession.” "Is it July 22 when the child's soul emerges?" "Yes, it was the day when Nagatsuka Takeko was killed in Suginami. Of course Uemura would not know what happened at that time, let alone predict how important that painting would be."

Kusanagi found that the eyes behind his friend's black-rimmed glasses finally shone with a ray of light, and the expected goal of making the old friend interested in the case finally came true. "How?" Kusanagi said, "These are strong evidences!" However, Yu Chuan did not answer, but spent a long time drinking the coffee that was no longer delicious.His gaze was also looking out the window. It was their leader Mamiya who said, let's discuss it with that Galileo teacher.Kusanagi has a good friend who is an associate professor in the Department of Physics. So far, as long as he encounters any difficult cases, he can get valuable advice from this great person.This is already known to everyone in Kusanagi's team. In fact, in the search headquarters, everyone was confused about how to deal with this letter.Originally, this information was very important, but there was a problem with the method of obtaining this information.The police can't handle it as official search information at all.So is it okay to just ignore it?No one has yet dared to draw such a conclusion. Uemura is a freelance writer, which also caused headaches for the police, because the search authorities wanted to keep the media from knowing about it as much as possible. "Isn't there a book that describes it?" Tang Chuan put the cup on the table, "One out of ten or twenty people has a soul out of their shell. To be precise, the book describes the separation from the body, and the author seems to have personally experienced it." I have experienced it. It is said that at that time he felt as if his body was floating, not only could he hear people’s voices, but he could also see the scene of a completely unfamiliar distant place. After the investigation, it was found that the scenes she saw and the reality were in the details They are completely consistent. There are many such examples, and I heard that this is called long-distance perspective. Two scholars in the UK have done long-distance perspective experiments, and they have come to the conclusion that consciousness can really be separated from the body in some form. Get information elsewhere." Speaking of this, Yu Chuan looked at Kusanagi with a smile and said, "That boy may be in this situation. If you choose a sample, whether it is out of the body or long-distance perspective, it will be helpful to your search work." "Even you would say that?" Kusanagi frowned, "I'm not joking with you, it's impossible to write a report now." "What's wrong, just write it as it is, I think it will definitely become a particularly novel report." "You just think it's none of your business." Kusanagi scratched his head and said. Tang Chuan laughed softly. "Okay, don't be angry! The reason why I quoted the words in that book and told you that someone has raised such an incredible subject is to say that this kind of thing is not uncommon. Don't always be confused by some peculiarities. If you are dizzy, only by focusing on the objective facts can you find other answers!" "what do you want to say in the end?" "After listening to your description, I first thought of two possibilities. Assuming that the person named Uemura and his son are not lying," Tang Chuan raised two fingers, "The first possibility is that the child's soul is out of his body." The dream coincided with the facts by accident, and the car he drew after waking up coincided with the suspect's confession by accident." "Our section chief said the same thing." Hearing what Kusanagi said, the associate professor of physics nodded in satisfaction. "As I said before, your section chief is still very logical." "It's a pity that he's just a little brainless. What's the other possibility?" "The boy's real memory." Tang Chuan said, "Actually, the boy did see the Mini Cooper with his own eyes. Of course it was when he woke up. But he didn't leave any special impression, and even forgot that he saw the Mini Cooper." Been in the car. Probably because of the fever, he took the real experience as an out-of-body experience." "If you want to talk about the first possibility, it's a coincidence that the memory of the dream and the confession of the suspect are so consistent. Even the white color of the roof and the white line on the hood are completely consistent. Even in the Among the Rover Mini cars of the same model, only the Mini Cooper has this feature." "The boy may also be a car fan." Hearing Yukawa's words, Kusanagi shook his head. "According to Uemura, the kid didn't know much about cars." "yes?" "The second possibility is that if the teenager has actually seen this car, it is directly related to our search." "If you want to investigate this, it's not too difficult," Tang Chuan said, "compare the child's drawing with the actual terrain. You are not allowed to guess where he saw the car. If you can get It would be better to know when he saw it." "I see." Kusanagi nodded in agreement. "Well, you have to work hard! If you have any new progress, you'd better let me know." "What? Won't you come with me?" "As far as what I said today, it is enough for you to go alone." Tang Chuan raised his eyebrows and said. "Didn't you just say that this is a guess made on the assumption that Uemura and his son did not lie, that is to say, it is still impossible to deny the possibility of them lying. I want to meet Uemura and his son by the way when we are investigating the scene , but you..." Kusanagi stood up and put his hand on Yukawa's shoulder, "Do you think I, a science idiot, can see if they are lying?" After hearing Kusanagi's remarks, Yukawa looked disgusted. "I never dreamed that I could be praised so much by you!" He put the cup on the table and stood up from the chair.