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I haven't seen Hanako all day, and it turns out it's because she's gone missing. I have a feeling this might have something to do with me. In fact, ever since she didn't feel any strange gazes behind her when she went to school this morning, Qin Jing had felt something was off.

Hanako's stalking skills weren't something that could be mastered in a day or two. Qin Jing had known for a long time that she was following him from time to time, but he ignored it because he found it troublesome. He never expected that something like this would happen today.

'They're probably on their way to my house?'

'I shouldn't have let her hide in the back. If I had talked to her properly, or at least let her into the house this morning, perhaps this wouldn't have happened.'

The more Qin Jing thought about it, the more concerned he became. As soon as school was over, he went to Hanako's house. He had been dragged there by Hanako and her friends a few times before.

Because of Hanako's disappearance, the Higashino family was in complete chaos, with several police cars parked outside.

The Higashino family is a renowned scholarly family with a long-standing tradition of helping others. Their ancestors included a prominent educator who published numerous works on the darker aspects of student psychology. However, with the increasing severity of bullying incidents in recent years, the family has once again come under public scrutiny. As a family of intellectuals, the Higashino family is highly respected locally. The disappearance of their only daughter has compelled the police to take the matter seriously and immediately launch an investigation.

Hanako's father was a man with a scholarly air who valued etiquette. When Qin Jing explained the purpose of her visit, the Dongye family knew that he was a classmate who was very close to their daughter, so they did not refuse and invited him in to sit down. However, at this moment, they were too preoccupied to take care of this child who was close to their daughter.

Subsequently, a police officer from the National Police Agency arrived with a group of people.

A tall, thin man in a suit with a mustache was followed by a high school girl and a bespectacled elementary school boy.

These three familiar and classic figures reopened Qin Jing's long-dormant memories.

"Ah... isn't this just a case that happened last week, happened this week, and will happen next week? In the anime it's a murder case, but in the movie it's an explosion case! And the famous detective who solved the case while sleeping tonight..."

"Mr. Mori!"

At this moment, the victim, the Higashino family, rushed over excitedly, grabbed the mustachioed uncle's hand, and treated him as their savior.

"Thank you so much for coming," Mr. Higashino said.

"Mr. Mori, please, you must save my child!" Mrs. Higashino pleaded.

"Sir! Madam! Don't worry. Now that I, Mori, am here, I certainly won't let the criminal get away with this!" Facing his beautiful wife, Uncle Mori suddenly became righteous and made his promise in what he thought was a cool tone.

The bespectacled elementary school student behind him seemed unimpressed, rolling his eyes. Just then, he noticed that Mr. Higashino had brought in a child he didn't recognize.

'Where did this little brat come from? Isn't this family an only child? What's going on? Why is he looking over here with an expression like he's seen a wild panda?' The perceptive elementary school student wondered.

"Uncle, what if that kid knows something?" the bespectacled boy warned.

"No way, she's probably just a relative or something?" Reminded of this, Uncle Mori still asked the Higashino family about Qin Jing's identity.

"Ah, this is the kidnapped child's classmate. He disappeared on his way to his house. He came over by himself and insisted on staying. The Higashino family didn't refuse, so we didn't stop him," Inspector Megaku explained.

The gentle Xiaolan bent down and asked Qin Jing, "Little friend, is there something you need?"

Qin Jing hesitated, feeling that the incident was related to him, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

"Ah! I know!" Detective Mori slapped his thigh in sudden realization, and said with a smug smile, "You want my autograph, right! I can't do anything with you. Here, give me the autograph board."

"No, please do your best to solve the case as soon as possible. Let's forget about the autograph! Goodbye." Qin Jing said calmly and walked away. She had originally thought that she could rely on these professionals who seemed to have special abilities, but now it seemed that she had been thinking too much.

"Hey! How dare this brat talk like that... cough cough, he's right... alright! Let's solve the case!" Uncle Mori said with a wave of his hand.

"This won't do. We don't even know how they disappeared. There are no traces, no witnesses, and no criminals here who would confess. Are we supposed to use our imagination to deduce the truth?" the bespectacled elementary school student thought to himself.

After that, knowing that she couldn't really help, Qin Jing could only say goodbye and go home.

Section 37 How can one tell if I am male or female?

The courtyard was plunged into darkness. The bright sunlight was suddenly blocked by dense dark clouds. Black wings several meters long flapped down, creating a strong whirlwind that swept away the fallen leaves and made the doors and windows rattle.

"I'm back!" A burly man, two meters tall, appeared in the room carrying a child.

"Wow, that's fast! Those with wings are really something else!" Su Jiu exclaimed. If it weren't for the power awakened in one of her tails that allowed her to travel through time and space, a monster like her wouldn't even be a tenth as fast as Qiongqi.

"That's right! The muscles on my wings are just as powerful as those of the Garuda of the Buddha Kingdom!" the big man said proudly of his strong body.

"It's fast, but we were looking for a cute boy. Why did you bring back a girl?" Guhuoniao stepped forward, took the child, lifted her skirt to examine her carefully, and after confirming that it was a girl, looked up at Qiongqi and asked in confusion.

"Hahaha! Qiongqi can be this silly sometimes?" Su Jiu lay down on the tatami and burst into laughter.

"Not this one? The fluctuations in spiritual energy are very strong!" Qiongqi exclaimed in surprise.

He only heard his drinking buddies, all monsters, saying it was a cub, a little kid. Ultimately, to monsters, human gender is completely unimportant; as long as it's fun, that's all that matters. Like pandas, as long as they're cute enough, who cares if they're male or female? Does anyone go to the zoo just to stare at the lower half of a body?

Are you comparing sizes or looking at fit? Then go find a walrus! Many of them retract into their shells, making them hard to see!

"Isn't there a photo?" Guhuoniao asked.

"Even after seeing the photos, I can't tell the difference. In my eyes, humans look exactly like apes, except for having very little hair. How could I possibly recognize them?" Qiongqi complained.

Because the humans they were choosing were those who were qualified to be chosen. So Qiongqi simply used spiritual energy as the criterion and went directly to the door of that house. He saw a little ghost squatting in the grass by the door, and the spiritual energy on his body was extraordinary. Among the humans he had encountered over the years, it was outstanding. Without much thought, he grabbed it and brought it back.

The qi of every living being is different; some are strong, some are weak, some are turbid, and some are clear.

Qi (vital energy) often reflects the inner state of a living being, and at the same time influences how others judge the person whose qi it is.

Some people are born with an aura that is domineering and dignified, while others are kind and friendly. Some people are naturally welcomed by animals, and naturally, some are liked by beings such as monsters and spirits.

For example, the child in front of me...

"Indeed, the spiritual energy is very special, turbid yet firm, merely the only rope connecting the abyss to the light. Lonely, profound, gloomy, but extremely tenacious and stubborn..." The experienced Great Tengu, having examined the sleeping child, made his assessment.

"Hey, I really like the feeling around this child. If you don't want him, I'll raise him," said Guhuoniao, raising her hand.

"If we're talking about that one, as the chosen one, their qi should be even more turbid, diverse, profound, and vast. By the way, Brother Qiongqi, do you not even know the difference between men and women?" The old man Tiangou waved his fan and teased.

"What! You're saying this human child is a girl?" Qiongqi exclaimed in surprise, suddenly realizing what was happening.

"Didn't you see she was wearing a skirt?" Su Jiu complained.

Qiongqi exclaimed in shock, "Huh? Women only wear skirts now? When I first traveled to the human world, humans were still wearing animal skins. Didn't both men and women wear robes later? And when I went to the West hundreds of years ago, men of high status there had the custom of wearing wigs and stockings. Last time I went back to my hometown, people there had started to like having half their heads bald and wearing pigtails. Has the world changed again? Why is human fashion so changeable? I don't understand at all!"

"Pfft, Qiongqi, you little scatterbrain! I know all this, but you don't? You can learn how people behave just by watching a few modern dramas." The dragon girl Jiaotu, sitting in the snail shell, covered her mouth and laughed.

"Why should I, like you, spend all day holed up in my shell watching TV shows made by humans for humans? Don't all humans look the same?"

And nobody told me that if the bottom half of the garment is covered, it's a woman! Aren't they all showing their legs? And if they're dressed up and wearing all sorts of colorful clothes, shouldn't they be male? Otherwise, how would they attract a mate?

Does this mean that humans are now competing for quality mates among females? Ultimately, just because a monkey wears a grass skirt doesn't mean it's female.

“No, Mr. Sun is a man, isn’t he?” Jiao Tu poked her head out of her shell and interjected.

"No way? Was Mr. Sun born from a stone? He shouldn't have a gender, right?" Su Jiu was also surprised by this question and seriously discussed it with Jiao Tu.

"Hehe, I didn't expect that someone like Brother Qiongqi would be so ignorant of the world," the old man Da Tiangou laughed.

Qiongqi roared in a frenzy, "Don't all human brats look the same? How can I possibly tell which one is male and which one is female?!"

As a great monster at the top of the food chain, he was certainly capable of distinguishing between male and female. However, he used to swallow several at once and still felt that they weren't enough to fill his teeth. He didn't really have much knowledge about humans, who were not tasty.

Among beasts, tigers are distinguished by the prominent "king" character on their foreheads, large faces, and thick mane; males are characterized by their large faces and thick mane, while females have short mane.

If it's a bird, like a chicken, the one with a big, bright red comb on its head is male, and the one without is female; for a peacock, the one with a beautiful tail is male, and the one with a bald tail is female.

Alternatively, you could simply observe their lower body carefully, which would also reveal the difference.

But these monkeys are wearing clothes, how can he tell them apart?

"Who can tell the gender of a cat or dog wearing clothes just by looking at them? Don't make things difficult for the monster!" Qiongqi said.

"That's true." With her eyes half-open and a slightly dazed look, Jiao Tu shook her long horns, nodded, and then shook her head.

"There's a saying in the Yuefu: 'The male rabbit's feet are twitching, the female rabbit's eyes are glazed over.' Let them walk a few steps and we'll be able to tell the difference, right?" Old Man Da Tiangou suggested.

"No need... Let me go next time. Just take off his pants and you'll understand, what to do... That child is so cute, I really want to take him to my room and raise him, maybe... I should just pull down his little pants and let him be naked, too shy to go out or walk home. Ahh... I'm so looking forward to that expression... Just imagining it makes me unbearable, sigh..." The Guhuoniao, now in human form and with her beak hidden, was drooling, and her smile looked exactly like a human lady...

“Indeed, nowadays, if you don’t take it off and look inside, you might not be able to tell if a person is male or female.” Su Jiu nodded in agreement.

"Huh? Is that so? I can tell at a glance whether a boy on TV is dressed as a girl or a girl is dressed as a boy!" Dragon Girl Jiao Tu tilted her head in confusion.

"As someone in the industry, I have to remind you, Jiaotu, don't believe what you see in TV dramas and variety shows," Su Jiu warned, then turned to Qiongqi and said, "Let your aunt go. That child might be in danger. We'll have to rely on you to go again."

"Hey!! I love kids the most, there won't be any danger!" the Guhuoniao exclaimed.

"Ah, even if it's a cub, we still have to consider the other party's feelings. After all, it's a highly anticipated candidate." Qiongqi nodded in agreement. Is Qiongqi, who seems to be the most violent, actually the most rational monster here?

"Then just touch it a few times through the clothes, I'll do it..." Guhuoniao said, sucking in her saliva.

"Yes, it's just a couple of touches, it's not offensive, is it?" Qiongqi said suddenly.

"No way, in TV dramas, if they touch each other, they usually end up getting married!" Jiao Tu retorted.

"No, Mencius said, 'Men and women should not touch each other.' Humans are very sensitive about this kind of contact," the old dog advised.

"Hahaha, you guys are really something..." Su Jiu was genuinely amused by his companions' joke.

She had long been aware of the unreliability of the monsters on her side. After all, monsters have their own circle, their own world, and their common sense and knowledge are completely different from those of the human world.

We can't expect too much from the understanding of society of great demons who live far away from the human world; after all, they're not like cats or dogs that like to stay with humans.

With his long, beautiful animal ears twitching slightly, the nine-tailed fox, Lord Su Jiu, was pondering a good idea.

Section 38 Things Yokai Aren't Good At

Humans refers to all human beings. Currently, only Homo sapiens remains as a human species. Its origin in human society is still unknown. The prevailing hypothesis is that it evolved from apes, but there is no evidence to prove how apes came to be.

'Yokai' refers to fairies and monsters, a general term for life forms that are different from humans and possess unique and strange powers; some live in seclusion and do not appear in the human world, some have become objects of human fear and symbols of evil, and some have become gods worshipped by humans.

Everyone has their own unique talents and abilities. This principle becomes even more evident when applied to humans and monsters, as humans and monsters excel at different things.

Humans have things they excel at, and monsters have things they're not good at. If something could do everything perfectly and omnipotently, then there would be no need to consider how to coexist with other creatures in the first place.

They don't need to eat or drink, so they don't need animals, plants, or fungi. Perhaps they don't even need sunlight or water anymore. They are completely free from the constraints of nature and exist independently of a higher dimension.

Humans excel at using imagination and hypothesis, are skilled in mathematics and literature, and possess the ability to transform ideas and concepts into reality through the efforts of several or even dozens of generations.

Yokai are born with some strange abilities, are closer to nature, and have mastered the methods of improvement and evolution over a long period of time. Their long lifespan and strong bodies allow them to know many secrets that humans do not know, and with their abilities, they can do things that many ordinary creatures cannot.

Humans and monsters have different interests, hobbies, and values.

Just as modern people cannot understand the ancient people's fondness for riding in a sedan chair carried by eight people, monsters do not think that Mercedes-Benz, BMW, yachts and villas are anything special. A spiritual medicine that can increase lifespan by ten years may be worth a fortune to humans, but what is its value to ancient spirit beasts and monsters that have survived for millions of years?

Is living a long life something to be proud of?

"That's not the case! Humans have their own advantages and strengths. In fact, humans today surpass monsters in many aspects. For example, in terms of destructive power, humans possessed the power to destroy the earth decades ago, something that many monsters could not do."

Of course, there are also certain things in this world that only monsters can do. For example, exploring the mysteries of the deepest parts of the ocean that human machines cannot reach, or traversing through volcanic lava.

There are individuals dedicated to protecting the Earth, as well as beings capable of accessing real history. Furthermore, there have been instances of beings saving a species from self-destruction when it went berserk.

For example, when a major global flood occurs, it can help organisms migrate to higher ground, assisting humans in flood control and allowing many lives to continue.

For example, preventing the launch of missiles when they are aimed at various parts of the world, reducing the risk of Earth's destruction to just two craters.

There are all sorts of mysterious entities in this world that are unknown to most, but are of paramount importance.

A nine-tailed fox spirit with wondrous abilities, who has traversed several great nations and left behind numerous legends.

In ancient Chinese legends, Qiongqi is one of the four mythical beasts.

Jiaotu, the dragon maiden in the ancient legend of the nine sons of the dragon;

Recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Guhuoniao is a well-known monster that has appeared in ancient myths and has been the subject of many modern legends. It is even referred to as the "God of War" by some African ethnic groups.

The 'Great Tengu' is the incarnation of a shooting star and a great yokai who has lived in the country for thousands of years.

None of them are to be underestimated; they have left behind both merits and evil deeds in historical records, making them powerful beings who are both gods and demons.

By chance or for other reasons, Su Jiu befriended them and invited them to join his team.

But these so-called great demons... are all judged based on their abilities, deeds, and combat power.

If we change the evaluation criteria to common sense, then everyone here would become clueless and adorable fools.

For example, Da Tengu heard that his relative had taught a genius young general named Beef Ball military strategy. In order to plan and integrate the forces, he thought that it would be easier to get things done with a local demon, so he recruited him. He thought that even if the other party did not know military strategy, he could at least play the flute or something. But it turned out to be a drunken old man.

For example, the Ubume (姑获鸟) is quite formidable in both experience and combat strength. Although legends about her are rarely heard in modern China due to the ban on superstition, she remains active in the secrets of the Heian Kingdom, and it seems she even fought alongside Onmyoji (陰陽師) against the Yamata no Orochi (八骠大鳥) hundreds of years ago. But who would have thought! Who would have thought that such a creature! Would actually be a 'lady'! A lady pronounced hentai and written as '淑女' (shūnǚ)!

Then there's Jiao Tu, who is clearly a pure dragon, but she has none of the aura of a prehistoric overlord. She stays in the deep sea all day long, and avoids going out as much as possible. Even when she does come out, she simply stays in her clam shell. What use is a homebody girl who is unwilling to do anything but act cute?

Not to mention the destructive Qiongqi. During his rebellious phase, he liked to do the opposite of everything, like biting off the nose of a truly kind person and sending prey to a villain who had done bad things.

In the end, he was driven out by the emperor and the great demons at the time. He didn't learn a thing or two and was just a muscle-bound idiot who couldn't even tell the difference between a human male and a female! If it weren't for the fact that they were both evil... cough cough, fellow countrymen, the virtuous and kind priestess would never have taken him in.

She is a fox spirit renowned for her wisdom and beauty among the great demons...

She had to get these guys motivated.

Su Jiu thought for a moment, blinked, and said, "This won't do. Those old human men will look down on us. We have our pride too. We can't let mere humans look down on us."

Hearing Su Jiu's words, Qiongqi and the others also became serious.

That's true. Although acting in a human way would be incredibly troublesome, as great demons, they can be hated, feared, or worshipped by humans, but they absolutely cannot be looked down upon by humans.