Ke Xue: I picked up a bottle of sherry at the beginning.

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"Would that be spelling in Katakana?"

Ayumi made a guess.

"I'm afraid that's not right."

Dr. Agasa shook his head and said, "If we spell it in katakana, then Mr. Futagawa would need 14 cigarettes, Mr. Amado would need 12, Ms. Nonomiya would need 8, and Mr. Mikami would need 9. It doesn't make sense no matter how you look at it."

"If you spell it in English."

A thoughtful look appeared on Huiyuan Ai's face. She said, "Look, the English abbreviation of Huiyuan is HA, so 6 is just enough."

"Um……"

Genta pondered for a moment, then suddenly pointed at Huiyuan Ai and said, "So, are you the murderer?"

Everyone couldn't help but roll their eyes, even Shiraizumi Yi found it funny. After all, Kawabun Masao's death had nothing to do with Haibara Ai.

Huiyuan Ai also said: "I'm just making an analogy, don't talk nonsense, okay?"

"Just give me an analogy."

Yuantai scratched the back of his head and smiled embarrassedly.

"So, my name is abbreviated as TM in English, which is the same as Yoshida Ayumi's YA, with six roots."

Mitsuhiko thought about it and suddenly said this.

"Really."

Ayumi smiled when she thought about it.

"Then how many do you need to fight Kojima Genta?"

Yuantai touched his chin and seriously calculated in his mind how many cigarettes it would take to spell his name.

Before he finished counting, Mitsuhiko had already looked at Haibara Ai and Ayumi and said with a smile: "It turns out that the three of us have the same six senses. What a coincidence."

"My name is Dr. Agasa, AH, and I also have six roots."

Dr. Agasa came over, pointed at himself and smiled.

Mitsuhiko walked away with a look of disgust and said, "It must have been a coincidence."

As they were laughing, Conan suddenly said, "Hey, don't you think? The answer might really be the English abbreviation?"

Everyone was stunned. Was the answer really the English abbreviation?

Then, Mitsuhiko tapped his chin and muttered to himself: "If it is really the English abbreviation, then who is the murderer? Mikami? Amado? Er..."

Just as he said this, his eyes suddenly lit up: "Could the murderer be Mr. Erchuan?"

The English abbreviation of Hajime Nigawa can be spelled out using six cigarettes.

Conan nodded. "Assuming those cigarette butts really represent English abbreviations, Mr. Amanato Ryoji is AR, Ms. Nonomiya Etsuko is NE, and Mr. Mikami Heihachi is MH. The only one that can be spelled out with six cigarette butts is Mr. Futagawa Hajime's FH."

After listening to Conan's analysis, everyone felt that it made sense. Genta stood up and said excitedly: "Yoshi, let's go ask Mr. Nichuan directly."

"Yeah."

"Let's go find Mr. Erchuan."

Ayumi and Mitsuhiko also jumped up excitedly, as if they were going to find Hajime Nigawa immediately.

Dr. Agasa quickly waved his hand and said, "Wait, this might not be a good idea, right?"

"It's okay to go over and take a look. I'll find a way to test him."

Conan said with a smile.

"Yeah! Conan agrees too, so let's go."

Mitsuhiko, Genta and Ayumi jumped for joy and ran out pulling Conan.

Dr. Agasa shook his head speechlessly.

Shiraizumi Mashi and Haibara Ai looked at each other and followed.

When they arrived at Erchuan Zhao's room, they were surprised to find that the door was not closed tightly and Erchuan Zhao did not seem to be in the room.

The room is not very big, but it is quite clean.

There was an ashtray on the table with a few cigarette butts in it, and Conan was attracted to it as soon as he entered the door.

He picked up a cigarette butt from the ashtray, examined it carefully, and said, "The filter of the cigarette butt is still wet, which shows he probably hasn't been out for long."

Just as Conan was looking at the cigarette butts in the ashtray, he suddenly heard Ayumi's exclamation, "Look! Someone is passing by the window."

Hearing this, everyone looked out the window.

Under the dark sky, there was a faint moonlight. With the help of the moonlight, everyone saw a woman walking outside the window, not knowing where she was going.

After taking a closer look, Mitsuhiko said in surprise: "Isn't that Miss Nonomiya Etsuko?"

"Where is she going?"

Bai Quanyi looked at the moving figure outside the window and frowned.

At this moment, Dr. Agasa appeared out of nowhere and said hurriedly: "This is bad, not only is Mr. Nikawa missing, but also Mr. Mikami and Mr. Amado are missing."

Conan was startled, then said angrily: "Damn it, I clearly told them not to go out, why don't they listen..."

Shiraizumi Masu said calmly: "Don't worry, Dr. Agasa, you and Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko go find Mr. Futakawa and the others, and Ai, Conan, and I will go find Miss Nonomiya."

After hearing Baiquanyi's words, Conan calmed down a little. He said, "Brother Baiquanyi is right. There is no time for nonsense. Let's go."

"it is good."

So, everyone parted ways at the hotel gate. Shiraizumi Mashi, Conan and the other two went to find Nonomiya Etsuko, while Professor Agasa took Haibara and the others to find Futagawa Hajime and the others from another direction.

Huiyuan Ai: "Ms. Nonomiya, where are you?"

Conan: "Sister, please come out quickly."

Shiraizumi Masu, Haibara Ai, and Conan couldn't find Nonomiya Etsuko near the hotel, so they went to the grove in the backyard of the hotel.

Everyone was looking for someone with flashlights while shouting Nonomiya Etsuko's name.

After shouting for a while, there was no response from Nonomiya Etsuko, so Haibara Ai looked at Shiraizumi Masu and said, "Brother Izumi, where do you think Miss Nonomiya is?"

Conan shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I don't know either."

Suddenly, Conan looked around and said, "This should be the road where we found the skeleton."

It was indeed as Conan said, this road was the one leading to where the skeleton was found.

Haibara Ai couldn't help but feel moved. She said, "Could it be that Miss Nonomiya Etsuko went to look for the skeleton? She wants to confirm whether the skeleton is her fiancé, Kawabe Maao?"

"It's not impossible that there is a 5.5 possibility."

Baiquan Yi said.

"In that case, let's speed up."

Just when everyone was about to speed up, they suddenly heard a noise coming from the front.

"What happened?"

Conan looked ahead in confusion, but his speed did not slow down, instead it increased a lot.

When I rushed to the source of the sound, a man appeared in the flashlight's light. He was lying on the ground, motionless, and it was unknown whether he was dead or alive.

"ah!"

Seeing this scene, Haibara Ai was shocked and grabbed Shiraizumi's hand tightly.

Conan was also horrified and ran over quickly, shouting as he ran: "Mr. Erchuan!"

That's right! The man lying on the ground was none other than Hajime Nigawa.

Conan quickly squatted down and checked on Erchuan Zhao's condition. His face became serious and he said, "He's dead. His tibia was broken and he's dead."

Seven Matches

"What is that thing he has in his hand?"

The observant Ai Haibara noticed something unusual.

Hearing this, Bai Quanyi pulled Erchuan Zhao's hand away, took out the object in his hand, looked at it, and said, "It's a cigarette box."

Cigarette box?

Conan quickly moved closer to take a look.

It was indeed a cigarette box, and there were a few cigarettes in the box.

"Is it another death message?"

"No, this time there's one more than what Hefen Maxiong left."

There were only 6 cigarettes in the cigarette box left by Hefen Maxiong, but there were 7 cigarettes inside, some long and some short.

at this time.

A thought flashed through his mind, and he understood what the death message left by He Fen Ma Xiong was.

"Brother Bai Quanyi, can you let me see the cigarette?"

At this time, Conan stretched out his tender little white hand to ask for the cigarette box, and Bai Quanyi nodded and handed the cigarette box to him.

Conan took out a handkerchief and spread it on the ground, then poured all the cigarettes in the box onto the handkerchief.

Ai Huihara opened her eyes, nodded, and said, "There are seven cigarettes, what does that mean?"

Conan pondered for a moment and said, "The only thing I can think of right now is that during the day we found that Kawabun Ma'ao, who was murdered a year ago, left behind six cigarette butts, and Mr. Nikawa left us seven cigarette butts, suggesting that the murderer might be two different people."

"Could it be that the murderer deliberately added an extra cigarette butt to confuse the audience?"

Haiyuan asked sadly.

"I don't think so."

Conan said: "We rushed here as soon as we heard the noise just now. When we ran over here just now, we probably didn't see any light here."

"Indeed, it was pitch black here just now."

At this point, Ayumi said, "Could it be that the people who killed Mr. Futakawa and Mr. Kawabun Masao are really two different people?"

"That's for sure."

After saying this, Conan turned his head to look at the seven cigarettes on the handkerchief, frowned and said: "What kind of hint does Mr. Nichuan want to give us by leaving these seven cigarettes?"

After thinking about it over and over again, Conan still couldn't figure it out.

It was originally thought that the six cigarettes left by Maxiong Kawabun might indicate that the murderer was Hajime Nigawa, but now Hajime Nigawa has been killed.

Obviously, he is not the murderer.

Who is the murderer?

Who killed Hajime Nigawa?

Just as Conan was thinking about these things, he suddenly heard Dr. Agasa calling him, "Conan, Mr. Bai, Huiyuan... We are here, can you see us?"

Conan, Shiraizumi Mashi, and Haibara Ai looked up.

They saw Dr. Agasa and three children standing on the cliff, waving at them.

"It's Dr. Agasa and the others."

Conan looked surprised.

"Doctor, do you see anyone up there?"

Bai Quanyi asked.

"I didn't see anyone else."

Dr. Agasa said.