I, who advocate giving up, feel like a disqualified person

"...? What's wrong? Is there something strange..."

"Look here carefully..." I pointed to the metal buckle, "look carefully at the scratches on it."

"Hmm? Scratches?" She looked at it curiously. "Indeed there are some... But this is normal, right? After all, it's not always possible to scratch them all at once..."

"Yeah, you're right." I suddenly interrupted her, "It's impossible to fasten it every time, so it's very normal to have scratches..." I returned the wallet to her and said, "Try fastening it as you normally would."

"...?" Although she looked confused, she did as she was told.

"Look, when you can't buckle it, it just slides up and down, so the scratch should only be here..."

I pointed to the upper and lower sections of the button with the hole.

"There are basically no scratches on the left or right. I confirmed this after watching your usual movements, but you'll notice it when you look at this button."

"There are scratches on both sides... and there seem to be quite a lot of them..." Luo Qinuo finally discovered something wrong.

"Yes, and here..." I pointed at the raised button again, "The degree of wear is a bit exaggerated... It's impossible for the entire area to be covered with scratches after just a few months... And even if there are any, they are concentrated on the left and right sides of the raised area. I believe you will understand if you look at the structure of the button..."

"Oh, that's true... This is indeed strange... So, what's going on?" She looked at me in confusion.

"...It's very simple." I sighed, "Because this is not your wallet at all."

Rules can also be followed

"It's simple. This isn't your wallet at all."

Faced with the answer I gave, Luo Qinuo was unable to react for a moment.

"In other words, the method used by the criminal is to prepare a wallet that is very similar to yours, and then take advantage of the chaos to swap it with your original wallet, giving you the illusion that only the contents of your wallet were stolen." I had to explain briefly again.

"Huh? Why do you do this? If it's just for the money...wouldn't it be very troublesome?"

She didn't seem to understand the perpetrator's motive.

"Well...actually, I don't understand either." I scratched my head helplessly. "For now, all I can confirm is that the loss of your wallet wasn't a coincidence...it was planned in advance."

I told Luo Qinuo the conclusion I had just reached.

"...Yeah, it must take a lot of time to prepare a wallet like this...it's really not easy..." At this time, she smiled helplessly.

"Yeah... that's right..." I smiled back at her. "Well, I'll continue investigating the rest... Anyway, haven't you encountered anything strange lately?"

"...The strange things seem to have stopped...I guess I feel relieved..." She said and glanced at the situation in the class, "It seems our teacher is here, it looks like we have to start class early...so..." She looked at me apologetically.

"Oh, it's okay. See you next time." I waved at her and walked towards my class.

Chapter 5: Rules can also be followed

One problem was solved...but it seems like many more have arisen...No matter how you look at it, I shouldn't have cared about this matter at the time.

That's strange... If someone steals a wallet... why would they prepare an identical wallet to hide it from others?

What is the reason for doing this...

I want to know...the reasons, the causes, and...the truth.

In the eyes of ordinary people, "reason" means "cause", or in other words, "truth".

Actually, these words have different meanings...

"Reason" carries some subjective connotations. It is most appropriate to call the perpetrator's thoughts and motives a reason, because this depends entirely on personal thoughts... The phrase "there is no reason" is simply an arrogant joke. Everyone has a reason for doing things... Even if it is absurd, it is still a reason... In other words, "reason" has no distinction between absurdity and reality, it only reflects the inner desires.

The "cause" is based on the victim's perspective...it can't be considered entirely objective. While the perpetrator's motive for a crime may be the cause, the victim's own circumstances must also be a factor. While this factor can be considered "objective," the perpetrator, armed with a "reason," will make this "objective" subjective.

Therefore, the conditions under which the victim caused the incident are called "causes", but they are not intentional on the part of the victim.

In my opinion, the "truth" is not "objective fact" but "subjective conjecture"

That's right, because the person who deduced the incident did not personally see the incident happen. He just deduced something called "the truth" based on the testimony of certain people and the objects he found that were close to the truth, relying solely on his own imagination and the so-called "theorem".

In fact, it is just an imaginary process, and the degree of consistency with real events depends entirely on luck.

The so-called "truth" deduced from this is nothing more than a joke made by someone who is extremely lucky.

So...how good can the luck be for a guy like me?

.....................

Let's think about the doubts first...

"Being targeted for no apparent reason" "Loss of money and belongings" "Wallet switching"

...Now it seems that there should be only these three things.

I drew three small circles on my notebook and marked them one, two, and three.

Hmm... let's do a simple matching problem... how many connections can there be between these three events?

First, "being targeted for no apparent reason" and "losing money and property"

Being targeted... being tripped... having soup spilled... being hit by a ball... doesn't seem like losing money...

Wait... According to Lin Yi's recollection, Luo Qinuo was eating in the cafeteria and was splashed with soup that was accidentally spilled... Let's call it the "cafeteria incident" for now... It seemed like it was a long time before he realized that the money in his wallet was missing, and in fact, it had been swapped.

However, what I'm most concerned about is when the switch will take place...

If it happened before the "canteen incident", then there were many perpetrators. At least we have to exclude all the people she came into contact with before entering the canteen that day.

If it was during the "cafeteria incident"... then that incident and the wallet theft were connected. The "cafeteria incident" was just to cause a commotion and divert everyone's attention, including Luo Qinuo's. The real purpose was to exchange the wallet...

In other words... I need to confirm the wallet exchange time..

OK.. some gains.

So...there is certainly a connection between "loss of money and belongings" and "change of wallet".

In other words...the change of wallet is the cause of "lost money and property".

But what is very interesting is the reason for doing so.

Is stealing a wallet really that cumbersome? Apart from the money spent on getting a matching wallet, the money you'd get wouldn't be much... and you'd have to disguise yourself...

"despair!"

My forehead was suddenly flicked with a familiar force.

"What are you daydreaming about?" Brother Nan was standing in front of me at this time.

Washing the motor... I forgot Brother Nan was in this class...

"Um... I'm..." I thought about the reason for a moment and stood up, "I'm doing math problems. Look, this is the verification process..." I said and handed the notebook to her.

"But! I! am! a! Chinese! teacher!"

She emphasized this fact forcefully.

....Hey, it seems to be true...

What a joy.

....................

Humph...standing in the corner doesn't affect my reasoning at all, and the severe pain in my forehead doesn't interfere with my thinking.

So, let’s reason...or should we just say “blind guess”... Anyway, let’s just keep going!

It’s not that I’m particularly interested in this matter, I was just bored when I was standing outside as punishment.

This is also a sign of bad luck... I hope I can turn bad luck into good luck.

Hmm...following up on my previous thought...if "being targeted for no apparent reason" and "switching wallets" are related...

In fact, the conclusion we get is similar to the first one.

If this conclusion is true... then everything that happened to Luo Qinuo was actually just to exchange wallets...

...Wait...Swap the wallet...Just swap the wallet?

If it's just to swap wallets...

Why did he trip Rochino, and why did he hit her...

If it was just about exchanging wallets, the "cafeteria incident" in the middle would be enough.

So... although I am reluctant to continue thinking, now there are a few more guesses that are gratifying.

First... Actually, the first and last incidents were accidental. They just happened to happen at the same time as the "cafeteria incident". In fact, the perpetrator originally only intended to swap the wallets.

...so simple...

...There are too many coincidences...I just don't think it's reliable.

So let's rule out this conjecture for now.

So...what if these three things go together?

These seemingly disjointed events...are they connected?

Of course there will be...

Because the nature of the three events is basically the same, they all occurred in an unexpected form.

And if you think about it carefully, the impacts of these events are actually common.

The first incident involved tripping Rokino, causing documents to scatter all over the floor. This distracted her, causing her to focus solely on the scattered documents. The same thing happened with being hit by a ball; the pain and visual distraction also had a distracting effect... And in most cases, they were sent to the infirmary by their classmates...

It's exactly the same method as the "cafeteria incident"... No, there's something strangely similar about it...

So, it seems that... these three incidents were indeed committed by the same person... But what was the purpose...

Well, for the sake of better analysis, let's call the first one the "falling incident" and the third one the "ball-throwing incident."

If the result pursued by these three events is "wallets being swapped", then the decision is untenable.

Because before the "ball-throwing incident," there had already been a successful wallet swap in the "cafeteria incident," which meant...actually...

"Wallet swap" is not the final result...

But rather...

"No way..."

I couldn't help but mutter to myself as I realized something.

I think I understand... In fact, the "wallet exchange" is not the final result, but simply corresponds to the result of the "cafeteria incident".

Since the nature of the three events is basically the same, does it mean that each case actually corresponds to the same result?

In other words... the "falling incident" and the "ball-throwing incident" both had corresponding consequences, but they were similar to the "wallet swap" result, and the swap must have been something else... something I didn't notice...

No... that's right... that should be it... that's the decision, it fits the bill, doesn't it? Haha...

"I found it! I found it!"

This famous saying, which seems to be uttered by a madman, still retains the glory of human civilization and the excitement of naked sex even in modern times.

Yes... Archimedes.

I now have an urge to imitate the great Archimedes, but I am now on campus, and I am being punished to stand. Although I don’t have to run naked and shout, just running and shouting in the corridor is enough for me to write a self-criticism, not to mention it is during class time. To do such a thing, the courage given by Fish Leong is not enough, I need at least three boxes of emergency syrup.

....What was I thinking about just now?

"call..."

When I calm down and think about it, I feel a little bit of accomplishment... like I solved a difficult math problem...

Although I haven't done math problems for a long time.

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"Ah? No way... You mean these things..."

Lin Yi looked very excited after hearing my guess.

"That's right... If I'm not mistaken, these things weren't accidental... but rather had a specific plan and corresponding results. So, there must be more than one person who did these things. Maybe it's a gang."

"Wow... This is so scary..." She stuck out her tongue. "Luo Qinuo is being targeted by a group of malicious people..."

"It's just a guess..." I corrected Lin Yi, "It could also be just one person... Anything is possible. In short, the principle of the incident should be roughly like this." I paused and looked out the window.

I looked at Lin Yi and pointed a finger at her.