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"Huh? Isn't it a crystal bead?"

As Xiao Ai said this, while He Ye looked puzzled, Yuanzi also stepped forward and asked in confusion.

In response, Xiaolan looked at Heye and asked:

"Kazuha, have you seen the... token in Hattori's hand?"

"Well, I've seen it before..."

Faced with doubts, Heye thought for a while and replied:

"How should I put it... I have only seen it once or twice occasionally. At least as far as I can see, it is indeed something with a transparent material like crystal."

"So, why does this girl say it doesn't look like a crystal? She obviously only saw the photo?"

Yuanzi couldn't help but glance at Xiao Ai depressedly, and said a little impatiently.

In this regard, Xiao Ai explained lightly:

"The key to the problem is not the specific material of that thing, but its shape."

"shape?"

Ayumi listened to Xiao Ai's words and looked carefully at the crystal bead-like thing held by Hattori Heiji in the photo. She didn't quite understand what Xiao Ai meant, and others felt the same way.

In response, Xiao Ai asked everyone:

"Have you ever seen crystal beads of this shape before?"

"this……"

Faced with this question, Yuanzi couldn't help but look solemn. After all, he had seen a lot of strange things since he was a child, but if he really wanted to say it, he really had no impression of things with this shape:

"It looks a bit like decoration on something..."

Probably, Sonoko feels this way, and Heye and Xiaolan also feel the same about this. After all, judging from the structure of this thing, the upper and lower ends look different, as if the lower end of this thing is specially embedded in something. on.

In this regard, when Xiao Ai saw a few people thinking so distressedly, she couldn't help but remind her:

"We've just seen this thing, haven't we?"

So, being reminded by Xiao Ai, Xiaolan, Yuanzi and others couldn't help but think hard. In the end, Bumi was the first to react. After recalling what he saw today, Bumi immediately said in surprise:

"Ah! That's right! It's the two things you saw just now... hmm? What's on the foreheads of the Buddha statues!"

Immediately, after Ayumi said this, Xiaolan and others couldn't help but pick up the magazine again and look at the photos, recalling that Ryuen just showed everyone the two remaining Bodhisattva statues after losing the "Yakushi Tathagata" statue. It looks like, and on the forehead of the Bodhisattva statue, there are two things that look like crystal beads. The appearance is almost exactly the same as the top of the crystal beads held by Hattori Heiji in the photo——

"Yes, that's what's on the Buddha statue!"

After seeing that everyone had realized the problem, Xiao Ai nodded in affirmation, and then reminded him again:

"Besides, do you still remember when Hattori Heiji got that thing?"

"Eight years ago..."

Heye replied naturally, and then remembered what he had just said:

"It's the same time as when the Buddha statue was lost at Sannou Temple! It was also eight years ago!"

"That's right. Eight years ago, the Buddha statue at Sannoji Temple was lost. At the same time, Hattori Heiji's brother got the crystal beads that were like the dots on the forehead of the Buddha statue... Do you think this is a coincidence? Moreover, the thief eight years ago He had already stolen the Buddha statue, so why did he wait until eight years later to send a letter to the temple where the Buddha statue was lost, telling them the location where the Buddha statue might be hidden with something like a puzzle?”

In this way, after the key information was pointed out, Xiao Ai began to explain and ask questions one after another.

In this way, after Xiao Ai pointed out these key issues, Xiaolan and others combined the clues hidden behind these issues to re-look at the so-called meeting of Hattori Heiji eight years ago when he met his first love and received a token. Things developed, and then involuntarily, Xiaolan, Heye, and Yuanzi all suddenly felt the problem hidden in it——

"Logically speaking, if the thief stole the Buddha statue, he should have found a way to sell it through black market channels, right?"

Yuanzi thought for a while and began to have an in-depth analysis of what was happening now. After all, eight years had passed since the theft of the Buddha statue at Sannou Temple. Under normal circumstances, this Buddha statue had already been stolen. We don’t know who the stolen items were sold to, and the person who bought the stolen goods cannot publicly display his collection. Naturally speaking, it is impossible for anyone to know whose hands this Buddha statue is now. unless……

"unless……"

Regarding this topic, Xiaolan also figured out the key and said:

"The thief of the Buddha statue didn't sell it at all! So after eight years, the other party was still able to send a letter to the temple where the Buddha statue was lost, telling them where the Buddha statue might be hidden..."

"I understand!"

At this moment, as several people took turns to analyze, He Ye also clarified his thinking and understood the key to this matter——

"If what Heiji got back then was the decoration on the lost Buddha statue, then in other words, the Buddha statue stolen by the thieves was not complete at all, and the incomplete Buddha statue would probably not be sold for a sufficient price, so that statue The Buddha statue has never been sold and remains in the hands of the thief. Until now, when it is about to consecrate the Buddha statue at Shanneng Temple again, the thief informed the monks of the temple about the Buddha statue..."

What He Ye said seemed smooth at the beginning, but at the end, He Ye's tone became weaker:

"But...why do they do this?"

"Indeed... Since the thief is the only one who knows about the missing Buddha statue, apart from the people in the temple, then the person who sent the strange letter to the temple must be the thief. However, even if the thief has not sold the Buddha statue because it is incomplete, there is no reason for him to tell the owner about it, right?"

Sonoko also nodded, agreeing with Kazuha's doubts.

But at this moment, Xiaolan was more concerned about this than Kazuha and the others:

"Hey! Wait a minute!"

Hurriedly, Xiaolan reminded:

"Let's not dwell on the issue of the sender! Now, what we know is that the so-called first love token held by Hattori is actually just a decoration on the Buddha statue, right?"

In this way, Xiaolan brought the topic back to the original intention of everyone coming to Sannoji Temple, and Sonoko was also surprised:

"Yes! Since the crystal beads held by Hattori Heiji now seem to be impossible to be a token, then his so-called use of the token to find his first love is simply impossible!"

For a while, Xiaolan kept nodding, and then said to Kazuha:

"That's right! Kazuha! It seems that Hattori's so-called first love may have a big problem behind it... Then maybe, if we tell Hattori about this, Hattori will give up looking for the so-called first love!"

But Kazuha was worried about this:

"But... If I tell Heiji about this... It seems..."