The famous criminal in the world of Conan

"but--"

Bai Masong changed the subject.

"There are a lot of contacts in it, and they all have a long list of contact phone numbers, but these phone numbers are all empty or fake numbers. Moreover, among these contacts, some people's names have black dots after them, and some do not."

"All these circumstances indicate that this seemingly inexplicable contact list is definitely weird!"

Ok.

This is what they thought, but...

What's so weird about it?

"First we can look at the contact list,"

Bai Masong took the camouflage mobile phone, opened the cover, and pulled out the contact list, and placed it on the table for everyone to see clearly.

"The contact list, from top to bottom, actually has a common pattern."

law?

Everyone once again carefully checked the names of the contacts, and the patterns in their names...

"Ah, I know!"

Miyamoto Yumi's eyes lit up and she said,

"These people's names are not made up entirely of Chinese characters. Basically, they are made up of two or three Chinese characters to form the surname, and then a string of kana to form the given name."

"It's a little strange when you put it that way,"

Maori Kogoro pinched his mustache and frowned slightly.

"No one would normally record someone's name in this way."

As he said this, he looked at Bai Masong and made a guess.

"Could it be because the owner of this mobile phone only knows the pronunciation of many people, but does not know the specific word?"

"Probably not."

Yumi Miyamoto shook her head, then pointed at the words on the screen of her mobile phone and said,

"If it was just one or two, it would be understandable, but there are more kana than kanji, this is too outrageous. Who would record a long list of contacts whose full names they don't even know?"

"Also, Mr. Maori, don't forget that the premise of our discussion now is that there is something wrong with this list, so we absolutely cannot think about it according to common sense."

"...Well, what you said does make sense."

Kogoro Mori pondered for a moment, nodded, and stopped talking.

Bai Masong said calmly at this time,

"Take a look at the Chinese characters for these 'contacts', which are their last names. Do they look familiar to you?"

very familiar?

Kogoro Mori, Yumi Miyamoto and others were all stunned. They didn't know these people, so why did they feel familiar?

Conan smiled secretly in his heart, then couldn't help but jump out and said innocently,

“It’s a place name!”

Place name?

Everyone repeated it in their hearts once again, and then thought of the word place name, and suddenly they understood.

"I see,"

Azusa Enomoto smiled and said,

"Aida, Ishizawa, Kenbashi, Otoyama... Aren't these all place names?"

"so,"

Miyamoto Yumi looked at Bai Masong and asked directly,

“Are the names of these so-called contacts related to place names?”

"That's right,"

Bai Masong nodded lightly.

"The word 'Aida' is a kanji followed by the hiragana pronunciation of '建', and the word '石泽' is a kanji followed by the hiragana pronunciation of '自作'."

"Can we assume that this was done intentionally by the owner of the mobile phone and was deliberately designed this way?"

"If that's the case, then can Aida Ken be understood as Aida Construction? And can Ishizawa Jisaku be understood as Ishizawa Productions?"

"I remember that there seemed to be these two companies in Aida and Ishizawa."

"I see,"

Maori Kogoro nodded, then curled his lips.

"Really? What kind of secret is there that made that guy express the names of these companies in such an obscure way?"

“Not only are the names interesting, but even these seemingly outrageous phone numbers are interesting.”

Bai Masong had a faint smile on his face at this time and spoke in a calm tone.

telephone number?

"Is there anything strange about the phone number?"

Kogoro Maori blurted out.

"You'll know just by looking at it."

Bai Masong pointed to the mobile phone on the table and spoke to everyone.

The mobile phone was in his hand most of the time before, so he was able to discover the problem with the mobile phone number more quickly.

It is displayed now for everyone to see.

Everyone listened to Bai Masong's words and looked at the mobile phone on the table.

Yumi Miyamoto picked up her mobile phone without any hesitation and opened the interface of each contact one by one to check their phone numbers.

"hiss--"

Miyamoto Yumi took a breath, frowned, and looked at Bai Masong.

"Why do all these numbers start with '1'? And they are all ten digits?"

"You know, there are no ten-digit phone numbers starting with '1' in the island country."

"That's right,"

Bai Masong nodded lightly and said,

"These phone numbers are indeed as Yumi said, all of them are ten digits long, and all start with the number '1'."

"The ten digits are not the point. The point is that they all start with '1'."

"Let's assume that the owner of this mobile phone wanted to create a bunch of fake numbers, so why did he start all of them with 1?"

"Logically, shouldn't it be possible to press any button and see the number appear?"

"Hmm... makes sense."

Maori Kogoro groaned and nodded.

"So what do these numbers mean?"

Hakuba Song listened to the question that Kogoro Mori couldn't wait to ask, but didn't tell him the answer directly.

Instead, he looked at the cell phone on the desk and read the first four digits of the numbers one by one.

"1022, 1022, 1023, 1024, 1025..."

"This is......"

As everyone listened to Baimasong's words, there was more and more surprise in their eyes.

"These are the first four digits of the phone number in the first few 'Contacts' lists."

Bai Masong said lightly,

"The smallest of these numbers is 1022, and then they continue down in order, and this order runs through the entire contact list."

"Could it be,"

Miyamoto Yumi guessed,

"Could these numbers be order numbers? Or customer numbers? Or perhaps some kind of transaction number?"