If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

"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 faces. The silver-haired principal opposite the desk was giving earnest advice with his fists in his hands and his chin in his hands.

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.

It's normal for young people to fight, especially over beautiful girls.

If it were normal, this matter would probably not be brought to the principal's office to be dealt with, and people 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. It's just a short period over and over again, which makes people even more drowsy.

Lin Nian, who was beside Mandy, 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 much he threatens or intimidates, he still looks so stern and stubborn.

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 can 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 could go 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 make a U-turn and leave if you can't stand it. But don't start a fight over who should make a U-turn."

"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!”

Chu Zihang and Caesar didn't even look at Mandy, but focused 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 it was bleeding. 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 substantial." Mandy hurriedly threatened, then 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.

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After walking out of the faculty building and being basked 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 on the side 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 and 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, including 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, and even asked for an extra orange. Mandy glanced sideways. This guy wouldn't really rely on her to feed her every day in the future, would he?

There were a lot of people in the cafeteria. The two of them found a relatively quiet 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.

"Do those guys have something to do with 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, who was lost in thought across from him.

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 almost like It was like she was looking at a rare treasure. The last time she saw this 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 Amara away. The murderers in Fir Grove and the house were all the same people." Lin Nian asked.

"It's impossible. Ordinary people can't do that scene in the living room. Teacher James's matter and Amara's matter were done by different people. The group of transfer students in the former have unilaterally admitted it to me, and the latter... must be It was some kind of monster that did it," Mandy said. "I know it's weird for me to use 'monster' to describe the murderer, but my gut tells me I'm not wrong."

"Well, women's intuition, 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 you so violent?" 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 stupid, 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 that there seemed to be a lot of bleeding in her living room, and 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, and assuming she has not died, she also needs treatment."

"Holmes, what do you think? You have 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 Nothing good will happen if you get close to that group of people.

"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 to waste your efforts and time elsewhere?”

"They're crowded and they're problematic."

"The large number of people is not a problem." Lin Nian never forgot to eat as he spoke. 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 problem made her depressed, then the history teacher was stabbed, Amara was dragged to the party and went home alone and was kidnapped again. It seems that all the problems started when those group of transfer students appeared!

"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 universe of the former does exist. Compared with the latter, the two conditions have one more questionable condition. According to the razor theory, options with 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 Charizard in his garage, and I was skeptical, so I said I don't believe it until you show me. And he explained, well, you can't see it because the Charizard is Invisible. I said, then he always breathes fire, let me feel the temperature? He said 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 incident ? 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 material for criminal investigation." 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 think the transfer students are more 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 had a group fight and were 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. Is that right? 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'm at odds with those transfer students or are you at odds with them?" Mandy was a little confused.

"I don't know why, but I felt a little unhappy when I saw the golden retriever in the lead, the guy from Gattuso." Lin Nian said.

"Why are you upset? Do you think he is more handsome than you?"

"It's not that I'm unhappy, and he's not as handsome as me. I don't have any bad feelings, but I just want to knock out a few of his teeth."

Putting aside your excessive narcissism, Mandy narrowed her eyes slightly. Now you want to punch someone's teeth out. How can you say that you don't have any bad feelings?

"Let's go find them now. They should have come out of the principal's office." Lin Nian picked up the last banana on the table, peeled it, stuffed it in his mouth, and bit off half of it.

"No, you'd better." Mandy was about to get up and hold Lin Nian down, but suddenly stopped and turned to look at the surrounding canteen.

Even Lin Nian looked around for a while, because they found that there had been a commotion in the cafeteria at some point. The originally normal and noisy environment suddenly seemed like a lake branching off into a tributary, and all the students were They inexplicably rushed out of the cafeteria, just like a reverse version of rushing into the cafeteria to grab food.

"Something happened outside." Lin Nian glanced in the direction of the food opening and reacted first. He finished another banana, threw the peel into the plate and stood up.

Since the lunch boy was still in the cafeteria and did not fly out, the reason why these students rushed out of the cafeteria could only be because something more sensational than the lunch meal happened in the school outside.

"What's going on?" Mandy pushed the dinner plate away, and when she stood up, she found that Lin Nian had picked up her banana, peeled it, and handed it to her.

"Eat as much as possible, otherwise it will be bad for your stomach."

Putting the banana into Mandy's hand, Lin Nian ran out in two steps and reached out to hold down a freckled boy wearing a baseball cap who was about to run out with the crowd and asked about the situation.

A few seconds later, Mandy walked over and noticed that Lin Nian actually raised his eyebrows as if he was a little surprised. She let go of the freckled boy in her hand and let him squeeze into the crowd.

"What's going on outside?"

"Oh, nothing happened. Someone died." Lin Nian raised his head and looked at the campus outside the cafeteria. "A transfer student died. What was his name? Lancelot?"

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