Women only affect the speed of my reasoning!

The dumpling was flattened easily, but when Qin Xianshu moved his palm away, it stood up tenaciously and elastically.

"It's not a big problem. I just went over to check it out." The high school student detective shrugged, "Besides, people are collecting corpses, so I can't just jump in and swim. I can at most take a look at the shore."

"Then, then I want to go too!" The girl clenched her pink fists.

"Let's go then, we just want to go and have a look together." Qin Sanshu didn't care.

"Well... that's right! Xiaoxue, do you want to come with us..."

Yuigahama Yui seemed to have remembered something. She turned to Yukinoshita Yukino, who was preparing lunch ingredients like other elementary school students by the stove and sink, and cast a look for advice.

The cold girl holding a half-peeled potato shook her head slightly.

"I can't, you go ahead, I'm not interested in this kind of thing."

"Okay... okay."

Tuanzi couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

Qin Ushu looked around, and then said to Hiratsuka Shizuka, who was standing against the wall with his arms folded and smoking.

"Then we're off."

"Yeah, let's go."

The female teacher waved her hands casually, as if she didn't want to keep them for a moment longer.

"Just remember to come back before dinner starts, otherwise you'll find a place to cry when the curry is all gone."

"learn--"

Qin Sanshu waved his hand without looking back.

"gone!"

So a group of five people set off from the camp and walked towards the huge lake.

It is worth mentioning that Miura Yuiko didn't want to come at first, but when she saw that Yuigahama Yui was there, she finally followed her out of worry.

It's amazing. Although she looks aloof and queen-like on the surface, her actual personality is that of a arrogant golden-haired old lady with a sharp mouth and a heart.

The first half of the journey basically followed the previous orienteering trail, going up the mountain from the village and then over the mountain along the mountain path and then down the mountain.

The height of the entire mountain is actually not very high. It can only be regarded as a large mound at best. However, when Qin Xianshu and others crossed the top of the mountain and descended to the foot of the mountain again, the huge lake was already in front of them.

Qin Sanshu couldn't tell the specific area of ​​the lake, but from what he could see visually, it was at least three-quarters of the size of the Alamo Sea in GTA 5. It was indeed a fairly large freshwater lake, and the water was as clear as a seal engraved on it. The mirror of the earth.

The wind blew across the water, creating sparkling waves.

As for the speedboat mentioned by Sho Tobe before, it was parked in the middle of the lake. There was a man standing on the boat with a large bundle of diving ropes at his feet. One end of the rope had already entered the water and was pulled down and moved twice from time to time. .

It was obvious that the work of recovering the bodies had already begun.

A couple who looked a bit older and well-dressed were standing on the shore. The husband held an umbrella for sun protection with one hand and gently held his wife's shoulders as if comforting. The two looked anxiously towards the center of the lake. There was a scorching sun above their heads, but they were completely unmoved.

Beside them stood an old miko and a villager who looked like a villager from a nearby village.

Of course, this refers to the traditional Japanese miko, not the one who exposes her armpits all year round and only needs 10 yuan to do whatever she wants...

The old miko had white wrinkles on her temples and held an imperial coin in her hand. The sky in the lake was reflected in her slightly narrowed lower triangular eyes, her gaze was very calm.

As for the villagers... there is nothing much to say about the ordinary villagers. They have ordinary looks, ordinary clothes, and thick joints in their hands. It can be seen that they are old farmers. They don't have a dick on their faces. They can only say "um ↑ um ↓" when meeting people.

"Go, go up and ask them if this is diving work."

Qin Ushu poked Hayama Hayato's side with his elbow.

Hayama Hayato was stunned and blinked, not understanding.

"Eh? Why, don't we already know that they are fishing for corpses? Wouldn't it be bad to go up and ask like this?"

"Because you don't know, that's why you think you know, that's why you don't know." Qin Ushu made a detour casually.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense, listen to me and go ask quickly, and use your charm of killing young and old alike."

"It's too much to kill young and old alike..."

Hayama Hayato couldn't hold himself any longer.

However, he still walked forward honestly and said hello to the villagers beside the old witch.

"Um...Hello, is there any diving work going on here?"

"Ok?"

After hearing this, the villagers turned around and took a look. When they saw it was a group of high school students traveling during the holidays, they immediately smiled kindly.

"It's not diving work, it's retrieving corpses."

"Salvage the body?"

Although he already knew it, Hayama Hayato still showed a somewhat frightened look, and his tone rose four or five times perfectly.

"Yes." The villager sighed, pointing to the lake in front of him.

"Have you seen this lake? People here call it Corpse Lake. As the name suggests, a lot of people drowned in it."

"But it's not that there's anything wrong with this lake, it's that there are monsters in this lake."

"Yo, monster?!" Yuigahama Yui also entered the scene.

"Yes."

The villager smiled mysteriously.

"Water monkey, have you heard of it? In this lake, if anyone swims in this lake, they will be dragged down by the water monkey and drowned."

"But these monsters seem to only catch outsiders, not locals like us, so every time a foreign tourist drowns in this lake, their family members will come over and ask us to help salvage them. Over time, There is just such an additional profession.”

"With so many people drowned, would anyone still go swimming?" Yuigahama Yui said in disbelief.

"Curiosity~"

The villager spread his hands helplessly, raised his chin and said towards a sign on the lake not far away on the right.

"Before, a club from a university in Tokyo came to explore the secrets, and several people drowned. We here specially made our own warning signs and placed them all around the lake. It was useless. People who should go down would still go out. Can't stop it."

"I don't know what they are obsessed with. It doesn't matter if they don't value their own lives. They don't even value their parents' money. The salvage fee is not cheap. It costs [-] yuan to salvage in one day. It may not be possible to salvage a lake as big as that in one day. After all, who knows where they drowned."

"Not being able to find it is the second best thing. At worst, you can always find it if you search for a few days. The most scary thing is that the water monkey won't let you go and will cover you with mud. Unless you dig all over the bottom of the lake, you will find it. I will never find it until I die."

"If we don't let him go...what should we do?" Hayama Hayato asked hesitantly.

"Then we have to ask the witch from our village to come out." The villager glanced at the old witch next to him and nuzzled towards the couple in a vague way.

"Like theirs, I have been searching for four days and still haven't found it. I have touched the entire bottom of the lake, but I haven't touched anyone. If I can't find it again today, I'm going to ask the witch to help me. There are some water monkeys with bad tempers. He must be punished before he can be released."

"That's right." Hayama Hayato nodded sarcastically.

Needless to say, one day of salvage costs [-] yen. Asking a miko to do this kind of thing will only be more expensive, not cheaper.

"So, since you have been responsible for this salvage work, you should have seen water monkeys at some point, right?" Qin Ushu coughed twice and came up from behind and said.

He had a white mask on his face at some point, and combined with his cough just now, he seemed to be an ordinary high school student who unfortunately caught a cold before setting off for a trip.

"Yeah... I've seen it before." The villager was stunned for a moment, then nodded blankly.

"Elaborate, please."

"Probably-"

Then the villagers began to describe it with great expressions.

Qin Sanshu listened with his head sideways for a while, then nodded thoughtfully.

"oh, I see."

Chapter 73 What is more terrifying than ghosts and gods is the human heart

Qin Sanshu and others left after watching there for a long time.

On the one hand, it’s almost lunch time and I have to go back quickly to prepare for the meal.

On the other hand, they are still anxiously trying to get their son, and it is not good for outsiders like them to stand there and watch, as if they are just watching a good show.

Unlike the exciting atmosphere on the way back, the atmosphere on the way back was somewhat heavy. Even Tobe Sho, who was most looking forward to swimming, was reluctant to speak.

But it is true that any normal person would feel a little uncomfortable after learning that the place he had always wanted to visit was actually a lake of the dead.

"Um...you really don't want to go swimming or anything like that, right?" Tobe Sho said nonchalantly.

"Of course!" Miura Yuko said angrily, crossing her arms, "A place like that where so many people died, just being close to it is already very unlucky, why would you go swimming there? What if something unexpected happens?"

"I think what Yumiko said makes sense." Yuigahama Yui immediately expressed her position.

But this time it was not a pretense of agreement based on the atmosphere, but out of her own sincerity.

"Indeed, I think so too." Hayama Hayato also said, "For safety reasons, let's forget it. Let's wait until we get back to swim in a regular swimming pool together."

"That's it." Miura Yuko hummed.

"Xian Shu, what do you think?"

Hayama Hayato suddenly remembered what Qin Ushu had asked him to do before, so he turned around and asked.

But he saw the latter holding his cheek and saying nothing, moving his legs mechanically, as if he was still thinking about something while walking.

"Well, nothing..."

Qin Xianshu reacted and then responded.

"Oh, by the way, what the villager told you about the water monkey Balabala... is actually a lie."

"Eh?"

"fake!?"

"Yes, it's fake."

Qin Xianshu replied casually. After a pause, he suddenly felt something was wrong and turned around in surprise.

"Huh? You don't really believe it, do you?"

"I……"

Tobe Sho scratched his head in embarrassment, while Yuigahama Yui also shrank her head.

Obviously these two are idiots who really believed it.

"Wake up, it's obvious that it's a lie." Qin Shanshu sighed heavily, "Even if we leave aside whether there are creatures like water monkeys in the world, let's assume that they exist, then there are also There are a lot of loopholes.”

"The simplest point is that when I asked what a water monkey looked like, the villager who claimed to have seen it twice looked to the upper right when describing it."

"From a psychological point of view, turning the eyes upward to the right means that you are creating visual imagination, that is, creating something in your mind that does not exist in reality."

"In other words, that villager has never seen any so-called water monkey."

"Including their handling methods are also very problematic. They actually let people swim down to fish them out. Who can find such a big lake by searching the bottom of the lake?"

"As for what the witch did, it's even more nonsense. I admit that some areas in the world do have special magnetic fields, which will make that area particularly prone to vehicle crashes or missing people, but this does not mean that this area's The magnetic field can change due to small actions of individuals."

"It's not a superpower anime. Do you really think that if you do this to the lake, then wildly ring the bell and roar a mighty dragon, a bolt of lightning will clap down and split the lake in half, leaving a corpse bubbling. Floating up with a gurgling sound?"

"You really want to say this... Zaimokuza can do it too! As long as you put a miko costume on him, Zaimokuza can also be a miko!"

Qin Sanshu spread his hands helplessly.

"understand?"

"Well……"

Yuigahama Yui shook her head honestly to show that she didn't understand.

Hayama Hayato listened quietly and thought about it carefully. Suddenly his expression changed and became a little ugly, as if he had realized something.

"Xiangshu, you mean..."

"Yes, it's murder."

Qin Mianshu's tone was understatement.

"Didn't you hear what the villager said just now? One day of harvesting is worth 10 yuan. It has been four days. It is 40 yuan in four days. It is almost worth a month's salary of an ordinary person."

"In addition to price increases such as witch practices, one life alone can generate at least millions of profits."

"Besides, this is a farmhouse, so there is no need to worry about no tourists coming, and one person dying in half a month or something. Moreover, he drowned in a natural lake where swimming is prohibited. Even the police can't say what they want to investigate."