Chapter 33 Chapter fifteen

April 9.Monday.Afternoon, 17:39. "I——believe." Yoko Yuta's expression changed slightly, and she turned around and picked up her seven-year-old son, put her on the bed and covered her with the quilt, and spoke a series of Japanese.Shota obediently closed his eyes. "I'm sorry." Faced with the child asking such a question, Ye Xiao felt a little guilty. "Why," the young mother lowered her voice, "ask this?" "This is a question one of the six of you survivors asked me. She thinks that during the seven days and seven nights you were trapped underground, you encountered countless terrifying ghosts." Ye Xiao also lowered his voice very low, lightly Sit on a chair and sit opposite Yoko.

"I don't know..." She always paused, maybe because as a Japanese, speaking Chinese has to constantly switch the language of thinking, "When I thought the world was ending in those days, I didn't care about other people, I just wanted to To protect my son and prevent him from any harm." "So, you didn't notice what happened to the others?" She was silent for a while, but bowed her head without answering. "Well, I believe you have some secrets that you don't want to say." Considering that there are children in the ward, Ye Xiao tried his best to soften his tone, "So, do you know the whereabouts of the professor?"

"Professor? He disappeared later, probably on the sixth or seventh day underground. I never saw him again." Staring into her eyes, Ye Xiao believed that she was not lying.He looked at the wife on the bed, the seven-year-old boy seemed to be really asleep. "I have a question, maybe it's not very polite, but I have to ask. Zhengtai, why is his complexion so white?" "He is Japanese, both of his parents are not of mixed blood." Perhaps because he had encountered this kind of misunderstanding before, Yoko Tamada made a special explanation, "I understand your doubts, he is just sick."

"What disease?" "I can't tell. The illness is personal privacy, and even the police have no right to ask." "Okay, you don't have to say it, but I can ask the doctor." "I didn't tell the doctor either." Ye Xiao rarely encountered such a situation, and took another look at the sleeping Zhengtai, his pale complexion was like a dead person sleeping forever. "I'm sorry, you are irresponsible to the child." "No one understands him better than me and cares about him. How can you people understand? Only I can give Zhengtai safety."

"However, whether you say it or not, everyone will have this opinion - Zhengtai is not an ordinary child." "Yes, he is very special. He has some abilities that other children, or ordinary people, don't have." "What is it?" "Prophecy." These three short words immediately aroused Ye Xiao's interest, and he deliberately lowered his voice: "Can he predict the future?" "I have discovered this ability since Zhengtai was three years old. One night, we were walking outside, and he suddenly stopped and said, 'Mom, let's cross the road later', but the intersection is obviously a green light, so everyone Everyone was moving forward, and Zhengtai also understood the traffic lights at that time. I was very puzzled, but Zhengtai hugged my thigh desperately and refused to let me cross the road. At this moment, a large truck came across the red light, and it was later found out It was drunk driving, and it hit several people who were passing the green light. At that moment, I was stunned, and immediately hugged Zhengtai tightly, he saved our lives."

"Can he predict the impending disaster?" "A few years ago, in China, at two o'clock in the afternoon on '5·12', Shota cried out uncharacteristically. Ten minutes later, I felt the ground shaking, and then I heard that a major earthquake occurred in the distant Sichuan Province. Before the earthquake and tsunami in Japan , we were in a hospital more than ten kilometers away from the coastline, when Mrs. Zheng suddenly let out a terrible scream, which almost broke my eardrums, and he took my hand and ran up the stairs. I didn't realize that the disaster was coming, and followed him I ran to the top floor of the hospital. I saw huge black waves rushing in, submerging a large area of ​​land in a blink of an eye, and the whole area within a few kilometers became the sea. He climbed up to the roof and was swallowed by the sea just like that...he is still on the missing list."

"Really, it's very special." Ye Xiao looked at the boy with the "prophecy" superpower, but had more questions, "On the night of April 1st, did Zhengtai predict the future disaster in Meng Mansion?" "I'm sorry, my son is not a prophet. His premonition of future disasters can only be more than ten minutes in advance. And as a child, it's normal to cry a little. Sometimes I can't tell which ones are true. It was just him making trouble. That night, when we came to the second basement of the Calfort Supermarket, Zhengtai really started running around. I didn’t expect such a big disaster to happen. I thought it was just that something happened somewhere. Because, I brought Let him settle in this city because he thinks that compared to Japan, there will never be a big earthquake here."

"Understandable. So, did Shota predict the end of the world?" "No, he is just a seven-year-old child, it is impossible and unnecessary to predict such a big proposition." "If everything you say is true, then when he is seventeen, twenty-seven at most, I believe he will become a great prophet." Yoko Yutian shook her head: "If that's the case, I'd rather not give birth to him—what would life mean to him? He won't control his own destiny because of the prophecy, but because of this special ability, It will be his greatest tragedy to become a tool used by others. If prayers are useful, I will pray to God to make Zhengtai's super power disappear, so that he can no longer predict anything."

"You're an amazing mom." "I think every mom does that." "Don't you have anything else to say?" Ye Xiao didn't want to talk about Zhengtai any more, he looked at Yoko's face from the side, the yellow light smudged on the tip of her nose, like a textured oil painting, "For example, those people How did you die?" "Officer Ye, I've said it - I don't care about this, and I don't know. I know that many people died during the seven days and seven nights underground, but I was devoted to protecting my son and didn't ask other people, so I always I don't know."

"You're lying." Time was running out, Ye Xiao had to question it directly. "Well, since you doubt me, I have the right to remain silent until my lawyer arrives." After finishing speaking, she nodded to Ye Xiao, actually wanting to drive him out. Ye Xiao was a little surprised. He had interrogated so many people, but few people mentioned lawyers, because there is no such thing as "you have the right to remain silent" in China.However, Yutian Yoko is not Chinese after all, if a complaint is caused, it will be a diplomatic incident, and even the director may not be able to cover it.He regretted saying one more sentence, probably because the other party spoke Chinese so well that he almost forgot that she was Japanese.

"Okay, one last question, is your father the famous mystery novelist—Matsukawa Guyue?" "yes." "Nice to meet you, Yoko Tamada, goodbye." Ye Xiao got up and walked to the door of the ward, and she kept the courtesy and sent it to the door. After she bowed and raised her head, he whispered in her ear: "I like Matsukawa-san's works very much, especially the posthumous work "Hell Turned into a Murder Case"."