"Today's young people, you should never be jealous. I know you are now 17 or 8 years old and in your youth, but sometimes you have to think about yourself as well as others..."

 In the principal's office, Mandy and Lin Nian were sitting on chairs with expressionless expressions. The silver-haired principal opposite the desk was giving earnest advice with his fists in his hands and his chin drawn.

Outside the floor-to-ceiling glass window of the principal's office is the corridor. Behind the blinds, you can vaguely see several transfer students with bruises and swollen faces sitting in a row outside, waiting for lectures. Occasionally, they pass by a few professors and lecturers. After seeing the stains on the faces of these students, they can't help but

Shaking his head and sighing, he didn't say a word more as if it was commonplace, and left holding his lesson plans and books.

 Young people...fighting is normal, especially fighting over beautiful girls.

If it were normal times, this matter would probably not be brought up to the principal's office to be dealt with. They would just verbally criticize what should be done, but the recent period has been too special, and everyone's nerves are tense.

.

Mandy took advantage of the principal's lecture and turned to look out the window. The sun shone through the window and the air seemed to be filled with golden dust. The cold white sun outside the window hung in the sky and went down little by little.

People on the campus were not invigorated by the yellow sunshine, but seemed a little tired and quiet. The entire campus and even the town seemed to be in a nap dream, or reminiscing about the dream, the dullness and dullness in their steps.

It's like using your fingers to play a minor tune on the black and white keys, and it's just a short period over and over again, which makes people even more drowsy.

Lin Nian, who was by Mandy's side, never paid attention to the principal. He committed the crime with Mandy, so Mandy became his protective umbrella. Even if he didn't give him any face, he still had to give Mandy some face. The principal

No matter how threatening or intimidating he is, he still looks so harsh and intimidating.

His eyes were always on the corridor outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. On the rows of seats in the corridor, a blond transfer student and a transfer student with the same black hair were sitting there, staring straight at him, like

Are you looking at some rare animal?

"Okay... basically what needs to be said has been said. You guys should go back. There should be classes in the afternoon, right? Don't be late." The principal stopped talking, took a sip of water, looked at the two of them and nodded to indicate that they were okay.

out.

"By the way, let the two people outside also come in." When Lin Nian and Mandy stood up and walked towards the door, the principal said, "We are all classmates, there is no conflict that we can't get over. I don't ask you to shake hands and make peace. We will see the truth in the future.

Just turn around and leave if you can't stand it...but don't start a fight over who should turn around."

"I know...Thank you, principal." Mandy sighed and turned the door handle, letting Lin Nian go out first. She turned to look at the old man behind the desk and nodded. The old man also smiled and waved to her.

After leaving the classroom, Caesar and Chu Zihang stood up on their chairs. Mandy immediately stretched out her hand to hold down Lin Nian beside her, stared at the two transfer students with ulterior motives in a warning manner and said, "You guys are now

Not in front of the prison gate of the police station, but in the principal's office. I guess you know why. I don't want to know what tricks you are playing or what conspiracies you are doing. I will only say it once now, stay away from me and me.

All our friends, stay away and get out of our lives!”

Neither Chu Zihang nor Caesar looked at Mandy. Instead, they cast their eyes on Lin Nian behind her, with incomprehensible emotions flashing across their eyes.

Lin Nian also stared at them, especially at Caesar. This handsome guy who was always sought after by girls wherever he went was now disfigured. His nose was covered with gauze, and his face was so red that it looked like blood was oozing from it.

But the other party didn't show the slightest annoyance or anger. He just stared at Lin Nian. His gaze made Mandy beside him a little scared, and she took the initiative to move her steps to ward off the two.

"The principal is letting you in. I hope you are sensible and don't let me catch anything substantive." After Mandy hurriedly threatened, she pulled Lin Nian and left from the corridor. Caesar and Chu Zihang said nothing.

Fa just stood in front of the door and watched the two people disappear from their sight.

  —

After walking out of the faculty building and basking in the warm yellow sunshine, Mandy let out a sigh of relief. The sun above her head had already climbed to the top. This delay lasted all morning, and she didn't even get to a few classes.

I have to find Lily and Amma afterwards...

Mandy paused for a moment, and her expression became ugly again. Lin Nian beside her had a normal expression, as if nothing had happened. He put his hands in his pockets and looked at the campus with people coming and going under the sun in a daze.

 “Let’s go, let’s eat.” Mandy tugged on his sleeve and said.

With Mandy, an old fried dough stick, leading the way, the two of them walked to the campus cafeteria in a few minutes and grabbed two portions of rice, mashed potatoes, pork knuckles, chicken salad, a carton of milk and a fresh banana.

Lin Nian didn't show any embarrassment at Mandy's invitation. He even asked for an extra orange... which made Mandy look at her sideways. This guy wouldn't really rely on her to feed him every day in the future.

?

There were a lot of people in the cafeteria. The two of them found a relatively secluded corner and sat down. After eating a few mouthfuls, Lin Nian took the initiative to start a topic, and the topic was indeed related to what happened in the morning.

“Are those guys related to those two murders?”

"Note that this is not a homicide. Teacher James is not dead yet, and Amara is just missing. There is no sign that anyone died in these two cases, so they are at most classified as violent cases." Mandy said uneasily,

Biting his spoon, he took another look at Lin Nian opposite, who was deep in thought.

I didn't expect that this junior fellow student was really good at fighting... Even though he was so cool when he singled out all the transfer students in the morning, there was no doubt that Lin Nian was also involved. The group of transfer students looked at Lin Nian in a very strange way.

It was as if she was looking at a rare treasure... The last time she saw such a look was that night in the teaching building, when she was almost pinned down by those idiots.

“Could they be the murderers? They were the ones who took Amala away. The murderers in the fir forest and the house invaders are the same people.” Lin Nian asked.

"It's unlikely... Ordinary people simply can't do that scene in the living room. What happened to Teacher James and what happened to Amara were done by different people. The transfer students in the former have unilaterally admitted it to me, while in the latter

...Must have been some kind of...monster." Mandy said, "I know I used 'monster' to describe this."

“So the murderer we are looking for is a monster?” Lin Nian nodded and said, “What does a monster look like?”

“…Do you just believe in the existence of monsters?”

"If not, I hope there is. If there is, I will be very happy." Lin Nian said, "I have never seen any other monster except me in my life. If I meet him, I can fight with him."

.”

“Are your violent tendencies so serious?” Mandy felt a little headache. She kept poking the mashed potatoes with her spoon and tilted her head to stare at the boy in front of her.

"What else? Hold it in, pretend to be a normal person, and keep pretending in society for many years, hoping that others of the same kind will discover you and accept you?" Lin Nian said lightly.

“You’re just an ordinary boy who can fight well, don’t be so chubby, okay?” Mandy couldn’t complain anymore.

"Let's continue talking about the murder case." Lin Nian brought the topic back, "Since you said that your friend Amara just disappeared, then we will find a way to find her, and then bring her back to the hospital for treatment. Listen to the rumors

Li said there seemed to be a lot of bleeding in her living room. A normal person would have gone into hemorrhagic shock and been on the verge of death within half an hour, but a full day has passed now. Assuming she has not died, she also needs treatment."

"Holmes, what do you think? You've only been in this town for a day...oh no, half a day." Mandy stared at the messy dinner plate with her eyelids drooped.

"Those transfer students." Lin Nian said, "My intuition tells me that those transfer students are the murderers. As long as we catch them, all the problems will be solved."

"...Can you please stop messing with them?" Mandy had a headache. She also knew that there was something wrong with those transfer students, and they might know a lot of things, but some hunch told her that she had to stay away from those inexplicable guys.

, as long as you get close to that group of people, nothing good will happen.

"This is the only clue." Lin Nian looked up at Mandy, "I know very little about the situation that you know. In my opinion, those transfer students are the biggest clue. Why don't I seize this

clues, but waste your efforts and time going somewhere else?”

 “There are many of them, and...and there are problems.”

"There are not a lot of people." Lin Nian never forgot to eat while he was talking. The plate was almost empty and he was slowly peeling oranges. "You don't want your good friend to come back?"

 “...” Mandy was silent, her face full of annoyance.

In fact, if she just thinks about it, her life has always been so stable before. She went to and from school occasionally and attended one or two good-natured parties to calm down and relieve stress. Until one day, a group of inexplicable transfer students appeared and asked her some inexplicable questions.

The problems made her depressed, and then the history teacher was stabbed, and Amara was dragged to the party and went home alone and was kidnapped... It seems that all the problems started with the appearance of those transfer students!

“Solve the problem when you find it. Don’t think about monsters or complicated problems. Do you know the ‘Occam’s Razor’?”

"heard about it..."

"Don't add entities unless necessary." Lin Nian looked into Mandy's eyes and said, "For example, the 'Big Bang Theory' and the 'Theory of God's Creation of the World'. Compared with the former, the latter has one more for no reason."

God', and the former's universe does exist. Compared with the latter, the two conditions have one more questionable condition. According to the razor theory, options with extra unnecessary conditions are denied, so the 'Big Bang' is better than the 'God'

Creation' is more tenable."

"..." Mandy still looked a little strange in her eyes, "How do you know these things?"

"I have a very good memory and I usually read a lot of things." Lin Nian said, "Don't you understand yet? Let me give you another example. Do you know the fire-breathing dragon in the garage?"

"WTF?"

"One day someone said there was a fire-breathing dragon in his garage. I was skeptical and said I wouldn't believe it until you show me. Then he explained, oh, you can't see it because the fire-breathing dragon is

Invisible. I said, then he always breathes fire, let me feel the temperature? He said I'm sorry, the temperature of the fire that the fire-breathing dragon spits out is the same as room temperature, you can't feel it. I said, then he always has substance.

Does the volume exist? Let me touch it? He said no, only I can touch this fire-breathing dragon and only I can see it." Lin Nian said, "Such endless questions and answers are endless.

, according to the law of razor, this person added countless conditions to this fire-breathing dragon in this question, including invisibility, room-temperature flames, and inability to touch. And the other answer is very simple, this fire-breathing dragon does not exist.

.”

"According to the razor law, the one with the least conditions is correct." Mandy sighed, "Are you trying to tell me that monsters don't exist at all, and that all this was directed and acted by those transfer students? Including Amara's matter.

?But I overheard the secret conversation of that group of transfer students at a gathering before. They said that they were also looking for the murderer. If they were the ones who did what happened to Amara, then who was the murderer they were looking for?"

"You are not a criminal investigation material." Lin Nian looked at Mandy and said, "In my opinion, there is no need to worry about so many things when encountering this kind of thing. First, grasp the clues in hand and investigate clearly.

That's what we should do. At least in my opinion, in these two inferences, 'the murderer is a transfer student' and 'the murderer is a monster', the transfer student actually exists, but the monster is an additional condition you added, so

I even think the transfer students are suspicious."

"Don't forget that you are also a transfer student." Mandy complained, "What are you going to do? As soon as you entered the school, you got into a group fight and was interviewed by the principal. Then you continued to cause trouble for them in the afternoon, achieving the record of being expelled on the day of admission.

? Your sister will go crazy if she knows about it, right? I will also be scolded to death by your sister."

“Don’t you want your friend to be rescued?” Lin Nian asked.

 “Of course I do.”

“Then come with me to find trouble with those transfer students.” Lin Nian said while eating an orange.

“…Is it that I have a problem with the transfer students or you have a problem with them?” Mandy was a little confused.
To be continued...