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Chapter 1706 Some Gambling Plans

"What did you say!"

For a moment, Sato Miwako and Takagi Wataru couldn't keep up with Gao Yuan's thoughts, and didn't know what to say to Gao Yuan. After all, the police were now in a state of panic over the whereabouts of the two bombs.

"Apart from the Touto Tower and the predicted explosion time, the rest of the code means 'I am a strong hitter among American professional baseball players, and the extra innings have begun' and 'Even if you prepare high-quality brakes, it will be useless because I will still turn the situation around in the end'."

Slowly, Gao Yuan began to explain:

“‘American professional baseball player’… the phrase brings to mind the English term ‘high-quality braker’, which refers to a pitcher with good defense.

"'Extraon' is 'extrainning game' in English, 'defensive power' is 'era', if you remove the 'useless' 'era' from 'extra', you only have 'xt'. And if you write 'xt' vertically, 'finally a comeback', it becomes the Chinese character '文'. That is, the school mark on the map!"

In this way, Gao Yuan, relying on his vague memory of the original work and having seen the entire coded text in reality, completely restored the interpretation of the code in the original work.

In this regard, after hearing Gao Yuan's words, Sato Miwako's mind emerged with the words that Matsuda Jinpei said to her three years ago during that incident -

At that time, Jinpei Matsuda also used that code to immediately figure out the approximate location of the second bomb, and the answer was the same as today, which was the symbol on the map, representing the "cross" of the hospital.

And now, according to Mr. Mingzhi's analysis, the result obtained is also a map symbol, which further proves that everything is exactly copied from three years ago.

Therefore, Miwako Sato naturally understood what this meant. If there were no clues given by the criminal, this alone would be enough to know that the second bomb was in the school, but how could she be sure which school it was?

  I wonder how many schools there are in the entire Tokyo metropolis!

Just as Sato Miwako was feeling somewhat angry but powerless, Gao Yuan began to explain:

"So now that we know the second bomb was planted in a school, all that remains is to find out which school it was planted in.

"So far, the police should have checked several major baseball stadiums based on the information of 'baseball player' in the code, right? Logically speaking, since this criminal placed a fake bomb on the train to confuse the police, why didn't he place a fake bomb on the baseball stadium to further distract the police force?

"Because if the police found a fake bomb at the baseball field but couldn't find the real bomb, they would definitely check all the baseball fields in Tokyo, just like they are doing now with the trains. But the criminal didn't do that, which means he didn't want the police to check the baseball fields, and some schools do have baseball fields!"

"So! The location of the second bomb is in a school on a baseball field!"

At this moment, after hearing Gao Yuan's analysis, Takagi Shigeki sorted out his thoughts and continued speaking.

"Yes, this is the first condition, to narrow the scope of investigation."

  Gao Yuan continued:

"Secondly, the second bomb was predicted to explode at 3 p.m. But for most junior schools, school is basically over before 3 p.m. Even if there are students staying on campus at that time, the impact will be limited. Therefore, it is likely that the criminal will not place the bomb in a junior school, but in a senior school that has not yet finished school at 3 p.m. Compared with the number of junior schools, there will be fewer senior schools." "Yes, in this way, the scope is narrowed down to senior schools with baseball fields... In this case, it is not impossible for our police force to check them out..."

Sato Miwako nodded, feeling that she saw some hope.

At least, I shouldn't be threatened by this gangster this time. I have to wait and see for further hints from him...

"But don't forget that the criminal is unreasonable. Once he finds out that the police have started searching the school, he might just detonate the bomb. The casualties that would be caused would be secondary, but the criminal would probably go into hiding again."

  Gao Yuan reminded:

"So, we can't conduct a large-scale investigation. However, there are clues. If the criminal wants to plant a bomb, it can't be done temporarily. He must have made a move a few days in advance, so the bomb should have been placed in the school a long time ago. But there are so many students in the school. If it is placed in a place where students often walk, who can guarantee that the students will not discover the existence of the bomb in advance? Therefore, to be on the safe side, the location of the bomb should be in a place that will not attract attention and is not often visited.

"But how powerful would a bomb have to be to threaten students if it were placed in that place? Could such a bomb be sneakily brought into the school?

"So I tend to think that the school where the criminal placed the bomb must have been one of those schools where outsiders drove into the school in the past few days under normal pretexts. The bomb may have been brought into the school in a normal way of delivering things."

Speaking of this, Gao Yuan has narrowed the scope to a very small extent -

Of course, this is also the result of reverse analysis based on the original plot. After all, Gao Yuan knows that in the original work, the school where the criminal placed the bomb was Teitan High School with a baseball field, and the bomb was brought into the school warehouse by the criminal in the normal way of transporting some goods. Gao Yuan also knows that the police checked the baseball field, but gave up investigating in this direction after finding nothing.

Therefore, with the original work as a basis, Gao Yuan could just tell the police the answer directly, even if it was forced.

  After all, compared to the bomb on the Dongdu Tower, at least the bomb in the school can be easily dismantled without attracting attention, because what the criminal is really paying attention to is not the bomb in the school!

"So, it should be easy to find, right? It's a senior school with a baseball field. There was an outside vehicle transporting something into the school in the past few days... There's no need to make a big scene to check. As long as the location is determined, the police officers of the explosives team can quietly dismantle the bomb. The remaining key to the problem is the bomb in the East Capital Tower."

Gao Yuan said this, and as all the groundwork was laid, he began to express his thoughts:

"We need to be careful with this bomb. The criminal must be paying full attention to the bomb and the situation around it. He may even have installed a bug on the bomb just in case. So, it is best not to touch this bomb. As long as there is no problem with the bomb before noon tomorrow, I think based on the criminal's behavior, he will definitely appear near the Dongdu Tower!"

"I understand!"

  Hearing this, Sato Miwako understood what Gao Yuan meant:

"As long as we let the criminal think that everything is going well, he will definitely show up near the Dongdu Tower. That will be the best time to capture him..."

"It's just that this plan involves some bets on the criminals' behavior patterns... I can't guarantee that all of you police officers will accept this approach, so I only told you two about this."

Gao Yuan finally explained...