What is an example of two variables that are INDIRECTLY related?

Question

i know what an indirect relationship is but i cant think of an example. this is for macroeconomics

Answer 1

When more hot chocolate is consumed,
Street crime figures are low.


(When it's freezing out there... people drink hot chocolate and muggers stay home. They vary roughly together, but because they are both connected to another variable, the temperature, not directly to each other)

Answer 2

sun and the cows, less sun or rain = less crops, less crops= less feed, less feed=less cows

or economic terms
maybe capital to profit, maybe
less capital =less product= less sales= less profit