Hattori did not bring Makoto Yada with him this time. He just told him to get his face back to its normal appearance as soon as possible. After all, Shinichi was already wanted by the organization. If he saw Makoto Yada wandering around outside, it would be embarrassing to catch the wrong person.

After realizing that Kudo Shinichi had many enemies, Makoto Yada retreated back to the hotel obediently.

Chu Ming brought Hattori to Shinichi's room and knocked on the door, and the door opened quickly.

Shinichi had already changed his clothes and no longer looked like the savage he had before. He had already heard the code that Chu Ming and Hattori said through the eavesdropping device and was now itching to try it out.

"Quick, what's the password? Let me see it."

Hattori handed the paper to Conan, and then the three of them sat around the table, took out paper and pen to write down the code, discussing it as they wrote.

"Every three letters form a group. Could it be the abbreviation of some English letter?"

"Rot means decay."

"No, if you interpret it this way, the following words have no direct meaning. They may be the abbreviation of three English words."

"But these letters can't form a word... This idea is wrong."

"Then break the letters into numbers and make a table..."

",1356,..."

“There doesn’t seem to be any pattern to this…”

Chu Ming watched the two of them writing furiously, and soon the entire page was almost filled with their guesses. He then looked at the blank page in his own notebook, scratched his head, and began to calculate on paper as well.

Alas, the password was clearly his own, but now he has to think of other answers because he can't figure it out...

Chu Ming felt the cell phone next to him vibrate slightly. He raised his eyelids and looked at Shinichi and Hattori who were immersed in writing and calculating. He quietly opened his cell phone under the table and saw that it was a message from Lafitte.

He and Bourbon had originally stayed just to watch the show, but since they had already stayed, how could Chu Ming possibly leave two useful helpers in the audience?

Now that Lafitte has succeeded, he has to speed up the process.

He pretended to mutter to himself, but deliberately raised his voice: "None of them are right. Is it an encryption code, Atbash code, Virginia code, or Caesar code? Or a chessboard or a change of position?"

"Encryption password?"

After being reminded by Chu Ming, Shinichi and Hattori simultaneously drew a huge table on their notebooks, then stared at the table and began to ponder.

Looking at the table in his notebook, Hattori frowned: "If it is the Virginia cipher, it needs a key. Which one is it?"

Shinichi's eyes lit up, he unfolded the letter and pointed at the English name at the end: "Could this be the key?"

The two compared the table, comparing the disordered English letters one by one: "r becomes l after conversion, o becomes d, t becomes p..."

After one-to-one correspondence, the letters become "ldp zdl wlq jir ubr xlq wkh zrr ghq fde lql qwk hir uhv w".

Gradually seeing the dawn of hope, Xinyi wrote faster and faster: "The letters are grouped in groups of three. It is very likely that the Caesar cipher has an offset of 3. So if we count all the letters forward by three, it becomes iam wai tin gfo ryo uin the woo den cab ini nth efo res t..."

Looking at the decoded code, Hattori and Shinichi stood up together and said in unison: "I am waiting for you in the wooden cabin in the forest... I am waiting for you in the wooden cabin in the forest???"

"Oh no, Xiaolan and the others are in danger!!"

Shinichi and Hattori didn't even bother to greet Chu Ming who was watching their performance on the side, and turned around and ran out the door.

Looking at the two people leaving quickly without looking back, Chu Ming curled the corners of his lips.

It was too late to realize that they were in danger.

He slowly stood up, stood by the window, looked at the two figures running on the road, chuckled, took out his cell phone and made a call.

"They're over there, let's get started."

*

Hattori and Shinichi ran into the wooden house in the forest at almost the fastest speed. Shinichi was very familiar with this wooden house. He had lived in it during the time when he was locked up by Makoto Yada.

But now, he could hardly believe his eyes.

He had only been away from the forest for a few days, so how come the original cabin had become completely unfamiliar?

The small house, which was originally only about ten square meters, has now expanded several times. The windows have disappeared, leaving only a black door with a wooden sign with the word "wele" hanging on it.

The handwriting was bright red, and some of the letters seemed to have bright red blood flowing down them, which made people feel creepy just looking at it.

Hattori and Shinichi were startled and didn't care about anything at this moment. They quickly stepped forward and looked at each other in front of the door. Shinichi pushed the door open and stepped aside, while Hattori quickly slipped in with the stick he had just picked up.

But after entering, Hattori's eyes widened suddenly when he saw the scene in front of him.

The house was divided by a railing that reached the roof. On the other side of the railing, there were thirty or forty people imprisoned. There were some familiar faces, most of whom were villagers from Okuho Village. Makoto Yada, Kazuha and Xiaolan were also among this group of people, but they all had their eyes closed and lost consciousness.

And their position was also very strange. They were divided into two groups and sat opposite each other. In the middle of the crowd, two masked men were standing with guns in their hands.

On this side of the railing, there is only a table and three chairs.

On one of the chairs, there was also a man in black clothes sitting.

Shinichi looked at the man sitting at the table and clenched his hands tightly: "Granburch..."

Seeing the two people rushing in, Chu Ming, who had arrived early in Bourbon's car from the other side, pressed the switch and the door slammed shut.

He looked at Hattori and Shinichi, raised his hand and politely motioned them to sit down.

Hattori's eyes were red with anger as he looked at He Ye who was locked behind the railing. He had no time to have friendly talks with Chu Ming. He raised the wooden stick and chopped at Chu Ming: "Asshole, let my He Ye go right now!"

Chu Ming's legs tapped the ground, and the chair he was sitting on leaned back slightly, just enough to avoid Hattori's attack. As the chair swung back to its original position, Chu Ming reached forward, grabbed Hattori's wrist and bent it upwards.

With a slight clicking sound, Hattori's hands opened uncontrollably and the wooden stick in his hand fell to the ground.

Chu Ming kindly repositioned his dislocated wrist and pushed him back.

Hattori stumbled back to his original position.

All this happened in a flash. Shinichi watched Hattori rush forward and then be disarmed and sent back. During the whole process, Granburch did not leave his seat.

[If you are interested, you can learn about the Virginia cipher and the Caesar cipher, which are quite interesting]

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