1PIAADITSB Chapter 44

Song Yang wanted to continue listening, but his phone vibrated inappropriately. He went outside the observation room, glanced at the number, and saw it was the girl calling.

He answered the phone and found the other end was sobbing. Helpless, Song Yang could only leave the Investigation Bureau without saying goodbye and return to the hotel.

He found the room where the girl was resting, knocked on the door, and said, “It’s me.” Then he hung up the phone, pushed the door open and entered, as he had a room card.

Mu Wanqing was crying, her face filled with fear of the unfamiliar environment, and a dazed expression caused by the shock of the facts, unable to accept them.

Seeing Song Yang enter, a look of ‘I’m still alive’ appeared on her face, as if she had survived a disaster.

Sighing inwardly, he glanced at the glass of water he had left on her bedside table, now empty, and said, “Are you hungry? Let’s go out and get something to eat!”

Mu Wanqing wiped away her tears and silently followed behind him. They found a nearby noodle shop and ate a small bowl of noodles, which improved her mood a lot.

For a moment, Song Yang couldn’t find any words to comfort her. After all, she had personally experienced that terrifying scene that morning. Time might dilute everything, but not right now.

Putting down her chopsticks, Mu Wanqing lowered her head, stared at the bowl, wiped her mouth and asked, “That, that murderer, has he been caught?”

You──me, big──small, more──less, up──down, left──right….

Song Yang concocted some lies he thought she could accept and replied: “He’s been caught. He’s also confessed some things. We can basically confirm he’s the murderer. He won’t escape.”

Hearing this, the girl couldn’t help but sob again.

Song Yang reached out and patted her shoulder, saying, “You think I can handle all this!”

Mu Wanqing nodded.

“Wanqing, how did I find, um, find the murderer? Can you tell me about it?” Afraid of touching her sore spot, Song Yang changed his wording.

“Actually, I’ve been searching for the truth about Xiaozhi’s murder.” Mu Wanqing became the seemingly shy girl again, not daring to look at Song Yang, tilting her head and continuing, “Because I hadn’t been to school for a long time, my homeroom teacher asked me about Xiaozhi’s situation. I said I didn’t know, and then she told me that Xiaozhi had given her a bag.”

“A bag? Why didn’t anyone mention this when I came to understand the situation?” Song Yang’s expression was strange.

Noticing the girl seemed frightened, he quickly relented, “It’s okay, you go on, it’s not about you!”

“Okay, she gave you Dazhi’s bag, you found this card inside.” She took out a Clow Card and placed it on the table.

The card depicted a humanoid creature, and behind it, a huge white hand descended from the sky, seeming to press it to the ground, unable to move.

“What is this?”

“This is my card, called〖The Controller〗. The meaning of this card is a manipulator behind the scenes.”

“Simply put, someone is controlling everything from behind.” Speaking of her own things, the girl seemed very willing.

“So, the card in the photo Xiaozhi sent me is this card? Why is it in the photo?”

Song Yang was at a loss.

“I divined the murderer who killed Xiaozhi through the existence of this card.” Mu Wanqing stated the reason she came here.

“Hold on!” Song Yang stopped her. “Don’t you know that I would know if I had more cards in my own card set? Secondly, how could the card be in Feng Zhizhi’s hand? If the card in the photo is 〖The Controller〗, then why would it be in the bag Xiaozhi gave the teacher? Are you sure there’s only one 〖The Controller〗?”

“My card set has never had the same cards. All the cards are unique.” The girl replied.

“Only…” She glanced at Song Yang, hesitating whether to say it or not.

“Only what?”

“My original card set only had ten cards.” She said cautiously.

“Huh? What does that mean?” Song Yang couldn’t quite understand.

“Now your card set has a full thirty-eight cards. They appeared directly in your card set. Sometimes one would suddenly appear every half month, and sometimes two or three would appear.”

“They just suddenly appeared in my card set, and each card perfectly matches my description and function of a new card in my mind, as if…as if I made it myself.”

She continued, “In fact, from the drawing of the patterns and the writing of the text, it seems that you did it yourself.”

“But I have no memory of making other cards at all. So, I’m not sure how the card in Xiaozhi’s hand came to be?”

Song Yang stared at the shy girl until she lowered her head in embarrassment, then frowned and said, “It’s possible that the other cards in my card set were added by Feng Zhizhi. Have you discussed this with her?”

Mu Wanqing nodded and replied, “I have. She comforted me by saying that maybe the future me traveled through time and space and sent them to me.”

‘Again with this? Such an outrageous reason can actually be convincing?’

Song Yang clicked his tongue and said, “Can you be persuaded by this reason?”

She nodded, “Because you yourself have the ability to divination and have a certain foresight of the future, otherwise you wouldn’t be called a seer.”

“So, so…”

Song Yang finally understood why she was hesitant just now. To this, he could only say insincerely, “So, it’s very likely that the 〖The Controller〗 card in Feng Zhizhi’s hand was given to her by the future you.”

Mu Wanqing nodded, and Song Yang continued, “Then what information does the future you want to tell us? According to what you just said about that card, is there a hidden mastermind behind this matter? Even the future you isn’t a match? Or doesn’t know at all, so she sent that card back now to you?”

Mu Wanqing couldn’t keep up with his train of thought for a moment, and stood there blankly, not knowing what to do. Her face was flushed red, but with tears mixed in, she looked delicate and charming.

‘If that’s really the case, then it’s too illusory!’

Song Yang sighed in his heart.

He continued to ask, “Wanqing, your ability, um, your divination, what kind of method is it? Uh, I mean, what is the process like?”

“You feel like you can divine sometimes, and sometimes you can’t. What’s the reason?”

He opened his mouth again, “If Xiaozhi was missing, you should have been able to directly divine her whereabouts back then.”

“Actually, it’s like this.” The girl thought for a moment before continuing, “Your divination is a prediction of the future.”

“The first point is that the future can be changed. That is to say, you can do some things now to change the future outcome.”

“Secondly, your divination ability can only see the images of the future, and cannot divine the exact result.”

“Can you understand what I mean?”

“I understand in general!” Song Yang nodded.

In fact, what the girl meant was that she could divine fragments of the future, but that future could be changed.

‘So this ability is useless!’

‘Provided she really has it.’

After paying, the two returned to the hotel. On the way, Song Yang’s WeChat kept ringing.

〖RARA〗: Chen Banxian said that the person who has been directing him in the dark is a woman, and according to him, she is a powerful older woman.

According to him, this man suddenly appeared, not only said his name, but also revealed all his secrets.

She proposed that he could let him ascend to immortality, and also gave him the future of his successful ascension to immortality.

〖Little Dick〗: What the hell? Do I know what I’m saying?

〖A Cloud〗: What does the sentence “the future of his successful ascension to immortality” mean? @RARA.

〖RARA〗: He means that the man showed him the future of his successful ascension to immortality.

〖Little Dick〗, 〖A Cloud〗, 〖Sunshine Cheerful Boy〗: ???

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