Chapter 36 Section 7

On that day, Kaoru brought Mase Hazuki to Teito University.She had already obtained Kusanagi's consent for Yukawa to meet Hazuki. "I'm looking forward to it. Tell him, I pray that he can solve the mystery as usual." Before leaving the police station, Kusanagi said to Kaoru. On the car to the university, Ye Yue kept silent.Kaoru had already told her that he would take her to see a physics teacher, but she looked neither nervous nor angry.She was willing to do anything as long as her mother could be cleared of suspicion—it seemed that was how she made up her mind. When he arrived at the school, Kaoru asked Ye Yue to wait in the corridor, and went to the thirteenth research room by himself.I saw Tang Chuan standing in front of the workbench, and there was a strange device on the stage: four pipes stood side by side, and the two ends of the pipes were hidden in the box.

"this is……" "It's the most common prospecting device. I'll use it to experiment with it if I think it's necessary. Put water in one of the four pipes and ask her to use prospecting to guess." See which pipe has water in it. I have already treated the device, so it won’t make the sound of water flowing.” Tang Chuan turned and looked at Xun, “Okay, I’ll trouble you to bring in that little girl who claims to be a prospector. Bar." "OK." When he came to the corridor, he saw Ye Yue standing by the window and looking out the window. Kaoru called her: "Ye Yue, are you ready?"

But Ye Yue didn't respond, she still turned her back to Kaoru motionlessly.Just when Xun was about to open her mouth to call her again, Ye Yue muttered: "It's really big." "what?" "The university campus is really big, our school is simply incomparable." "It's really big here, but there are also various universities." Ye Yue finally turned her head: "Sister detective, are you also a university graduate?" "Well, yes, but it's not a prestigious school." "Really. But yes, if you don't have a college degree nowadays, you probably can't even be a criminal policeman, right?"

"No, there are also people who graduated from high school." "Compared with college graduates, those people must work harder. And the speed of promotion and salary increase is much slower, right?" "Well...it's probably the same as ordinary companies or government agencies." After Ye Yue whispered "Yes", she looked at Xun with a look that refused to admit defeat and said, "But I don't want to go to any university. Even after graduating from university, there are still a lot of idiots. I plan to wait As soon as you graduate from high school, you work hard, and you will never lose to those college graduates."

"With your spirit, there will be no problem." Xun smiled at her, "Let's go see Mr. Tang Chuan." "Okay." Ye Yue replied. After looking at the crystal pendant carefully, Tang Chuan nodded and returned it to Ye Yue with a clear look.The two sat facing each other across the table, and Kaoru put a folding chair a little away from them and sat down. "The quality of this crystal is quite good. Where did you get it?" Yukawa asked. "It was given to me by my grandma, my late father's mother, when I was five years old." "Is your grandma still alive?"

Ye Yue shook her head: "Grandma passed away not long after she gave it to me. Before that, she had been bedridden for many years due to illness. Maybe she knew that she didn't have much time, so she thought of giving it to me. Leave it to me." "That's when you learned the prospecting technique?" "Yes. I heard that this is a treasure passed down from generation to generation, but grandma doesn't call it 'prospecting'." "What's that called?" "I heard from my grandma that when my great-grandmother taught her it was called 'Lord Water God'."

"Lord Water God... is the god of water, right? So that's the case." Tang Chuan had an expression of enlightenment on his face. "What do you mean?" Kaoru asked tentatively. "The so-called Lord Water God, as the name suggests, is the god in charge of water. For farming people, water is more important than everything else, isn't it? That's why people in ancient times would hold sacrifices at water sources. And her great-grandmother So this kind of pendulum is called 'Lord Water God', perhaps because someone used it to find water sources in the past." Tang Chuan turned his gaze back to Ye Yue and asked, "Since when did you , started using this pendant?"

She turned her head slightly and recalled: "I can't remember the exact time, I can only say that it felt unconscious." "Then when do you usually use it?" "There is no specific rule. Grandma told me before that I use it when I don't know what to do, or when I want to find an answer to a question." "Then you yourself have always believed in the answer given by Zhui Zi?" "Of course, because I asked it for answers." "Didn't it ever occur to you that the pendant might give the wrong answer?" "I haven't thought about it. If there is such doubt in my heart, Zhui Zi will not answer my question."

"Is it true that this pendant has not been missed once?" "No miss." "Not once?" "Yes." Ye Yue replied looking directly at Tang Chuan's face. Tang Chuan breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked her: "Is there no question it can't answer?" "I don't think so." "Then as long as you have this pendant in your hand, you will know everything, whether it's tomorrow's weather or exam questions?" Tang Chuan said in a slightly provocative tone. However, Ye Yue didn't look angry, but smiled slightly.Her smile looked completely wry, which surprised Kaoru a little.

"Grandma once told me that this pendant cannot be used for selfish desires, such as betting on horses or buying lottery tickets." After finishing speaking, Ye Yue shrugged slightly, "But to be honest, I also asked about it A test question." "The results of it?" Ye Yue shook her head and said, "I didn't ask, it rejected me." "reject?" "When using a pendant, you must start from the first step. You must first ask whether what it is going to do is correct. For example, 'I want to know the test questions, is this the right way' and so on. At that time, the pendant gave My answer was 'no'. So I thought, sure enough, I can't do it, and I never did it again."

Yu Chuan opened his eyes wide and leaned back on the chair.He glanced at Xun, then turned his eyes back to Ye Yue, and asked her: "When you want to find the dog's body, you should first ask Zhui Zi, is it right?" "yes." "At that time, the answer given by Zhuizi was 'yes'?" "yes." "So what exactly did you do then?" "Start by having a mental image of what you're looking for. I've seen her dog a few times, so it's not that hard." "Can you please tell me about that dog, so that I can have an impression?" After hearing Yu Chuan's question, Ye Yue blinked again and again.Kaoru felt her shaken heart for the first time. "It's a black-haired dog that barks fiercely. It always looks like it's about to jump up and bite. It stares at people viciously, with its ears pricked up and its fangs sticking out of its mouth. It's just such a dog." "After imagining it?" "Leave home and ask the pendant along the way to move forward." "Then is there any need to ask whether this behavior is correct?" "ask." "Do you have to ask every time you encounter a fork in the road?" "Yes." Ye Yue replied in a low voice. Tang Chuan folded his hands and looked at her: "Besides, when have you used the pendant recently? Even if it has nothing to do with the case, it doesn't matter." Ye Yue lowered her head hesitantly, and after a while she raised her head as if she had made up her mind: "Two days ago, a senior who was one level higher than me asked me if I would like to date him. I have always liked him, so I thought it would be okay to agree to him, but I always felt that I didn’t have the time to play, so I asked Zhuizi. Zhuizi’s answer at the time was 'it’s best not to agree’, so I refused. killed him." Xun couldn't help being surprised when she heard it, she didn't expect that she would entrust these things to Zhuizi. "You don't regret it, do you?" Tang Chuan asked. "I don't regret it at all. Because it didn't take long before I saw that senior dating another girl. I guess he just wanted to have fun, and it doesn't matter who the other party is. I'm facing the entrance exam, so This answer is absolutely correct." She smiled and concluded, "The pendant is always right." Tang Chuan let go of his hands clasped in front of his chest, patted his knees, and said, "Thank you. I have finished asking my questions." "Have you finished asking?" Ye Yue seemed to have not recovered, "Don't you need to do the experiment?" "There's no need to do it, it's enough." Tang Chuan turned to look at Kaoru and said, "You can send her home." Kaoru said "OK" and stood up. "I don't know if that teacher believes what I said?" Ye Yue murmured in the car on the way home, "Every time I tell the adults about the pendant, they will think that I am fooling people, or else It’s just my illusion.” "He's not going to jump to conclusions without any basis." "yes?" After sending Hazuki home, Kaoru returned to Teito University.Because before she left, Tang Chuan had whispered to let her come back. "Why don't you do experiments?" Kaoru asked as soon as he returned to the laboratory. "Didn't I say it at the beginning, I will do experiments when I think it is necessary. During my conversation with her, I found that it is not necessary." "what happened?" "From the conclusion, she is lying. In fact, she didn't find the dog corpse with prospecting, but she knew it when she left the house." "Why do you say that?" "She said that she asked Zhuizi for the direction after she went out, but in fact, there was one thing she had to do before that, and that was to confirm the approximate location by looking at the map. If she didn't do this, she I don’t know if I can get to where I’m going on foot.” "Ah!" Kaoru opened his mouth wide in surprise. "And when I asked her if she wanted to find the dog's dead body, was it right to ask the sinker first, she said yes. Note, I asked for the 'dog's dead body'. That is, when she set out You knew the dog was dead before you went to look for it." Kaoru still had some memories of this conversation, and she was ashamed that she was too slow to notice the contradictions in it. "If that's the case, why didn't she go directly? At that time, she did squat down from time to time along the road and did something." "About this, I don't think she lied. She was indeed asking Zhuizi, but she was not asking for the way, but asking herself whether to continue walking every time she encountered a fork in the road." "You mean to say that she was advancing while hesitating?" "That's right. I'm afraid she used some evidence to infer the location of the dog's corpse. But she couldn't tell the police for some reason, so she decided to go and see it herself. But for her, it is also necessary It’s a very big decision, so she asked Zhui Zi tirelessly along the way if she should do this and if she should move on.” "What are the unspeakable things you say?" "If it were you, what would you do? Suppose you were aware of something significant about the case that the police might use to identify the real culprit, but you were hesitant to tell the police about it. What kind of situation do you think this feeling will arise in?" After a moment of contemplation, Kaoru got an answer: "In the case of knowing the real murderer..." "That's right." Tang Chuan nodded, "She was doubting the people around her, and when she was thinking about where this person would hide the dog's corpse, she thought of that place." "I'll ask her." Kaoru said standing up. "No need. The police will definitely be able to easily find the murderer." Tang Chuan said, "The murderer should already have some clues."