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

"That means this is indeed a code that hides a certain pattern!"

Conan lowered his head slightly, and two white rays of light suddenly reflected from the lenses of his glasses.

Dr. Agasa turned the candlestick in his hand over and over for a long time but could not find any pattern.

"That's the code, no doubt about it." Conan suddenly started to laugh, and his laughter was very devilish.

"What?" Dr. Agasa was confused. "Why do I feel that you look very happy? Could it be that you have solved the mystery?"

"No, not yet. I still have no idea what the coin and the pattern are." Conan said calmly, trying his best to suppress his excitement. "But I'm really happy. The more unknown I am, the more I can't control my curiosity."

Baiquanyi really wants to persuade Conan to put away the standard villain smile on his face. If he continues like this, he will become a childhood shadow for the audience!

But before he could decide whether to remind her or not, Huiyuan Ai beside him also opened the box——

"Ah?!" Haibara Ai exclaimed in a low voice, and Genta was even more exaggerated. He sat down on the ground with his butt.

"What's wrong?!" Conan, whose detective mode had been triggered, quickly looked back with a gleam in his eyes.

Ai Huihara silently pointed at the box and said, "The treasures inside...the gifts inside have all been destroyed."

Excuse me, but does Dr. Agasa think these children are fools? She doesn't believe they can't see such an obvious flaw... well, maybe they're just pretending to be ignorant. After all, the elderly need to be coaxed. Otherwise, what if he gets angry and doesn't buy gifts next time?

A whole box of Kamen Rider snacks and toys had been completely destroyed. Conan had accompanied Professor Agasa in purchasing these things. He knew how much effort Professor Agasa had put into preparing for this treasure hunt. And now, someone had actually ruined the professor's good intentions like this...

Unforgivable!

The Kamen Rider doll on the top of the box was firmly stuck with a shiny dagger, which was a shocking sight.

Bai Quanyi reached out and closed the box to prevent the children from seeing such a brutal scene.

Lately, it seems like his memory of the plot has been fading. Although Bai Quanyi tries to recall it whenever he has time, he inevitably forgets many details. For example, he has no recollection of the gift box being stabbed with a dagger.

Bai Quanyi was a little worried about this, but that was all.

As long as the general direction is correct, small details can be completely ignored.

If all else fails, he just needs to remember to follow Conan. The protagonist's halo can solve all problems anyway.

Dr. Agasa was heartbroken to see his carefully prepared gift destroyed like this. Although his vision was blocked by the template, he seemed to hear the crying of Kamen Rider inside. Dr. Agasa was very angry and called the police. He wanted to accuse this annoying thief!

"What did the police say?" Conan asked.

Dr. Agasa sighed softly, "The police suspect this is a thief's prank. They will send someone to investigate the day after tomorrow. In addition, the police suggest that we do not touch anything now and go home immediately."

Conan touched his chin and thought seriously: "Well, the police's suggestion is correct. Although I am very interested in those secret codes now, it would be too costly to destroy the scene and let the thief escape..."

"Ah! I found it!" Ayumi suddenly shouted in surprise.

Conan turned around and angrily scolded, "Hey, what are you guys doing? Didn't we tell you not to disrupt the scene?!"

Ayumi raised the playing cards in her hand and smiled happily: "But I also found that strange pattern on the back of the playing cards!"

Conan ran over immediately, yelling, "Really? Well, let's do this. Ayumi, Huihara-san, and I will take care of the 5.5th floor. Mitsuhiko and Genta will go to the second floor. We'll search separately!"

...No, was the rational Edogawa Conan just now an illusion?

Huiyuan Ai, who was inexplicably named, looked reluctant: "Can I not go? I want to stay with my brother."

In fact, Shiraizumi Mashi didn't want to let the children run around when he knew that there were criminals active, especially since Haibara Ai was not supposed to come here originally, but Conan's arrangement made him feel very interesting.

"Conan," Shiraizumi said with a meaningful smile, "Do you specifically choose girls as your teammates?"

Conan was stunned for two seconds. When he understood what Mr. Bai meant, he immediately frowned: "What?! I just think girls need protection and can't be left alone!"

Mitsuhiko and Genta were immediately unhappy: "What do you mean? Are you saying that we can't protect Ayumi and Sister Haibara?"

Seeing that the Detective Boys were about to start a quarrel before they could even begin to find the truth, Dr. Agasa quickly stepped in to smooth things over: "Alright, alright, you're all still kids, and you're all in danger. So, how about Mr. Bai and I each take charge of a team, and we go looking together?"

Conan: My dad is so miserable.

Naturally, he was in a group with Ai, and naturally gained a teammate who was a Death God.

In the end, the Junior Detective Team finished their search with a score of "seven".

Among the objects depicting stars, moons and suns, there is even a French dictionary.

"Ah..." Dr. Agasa looked at the pattern in front of him and suddenly slapped his head and said, "I remember, I actually saw this kind of pattern before!"

"Really?" Conan asked quickly, "Where is it?"

"When I was a child, every year a strange letter would be sent to Aunt Dingzi. It would say things like 'Hello, teacher' or 'Please take care of yourself' written in hiragana."

"Didn't you say your aunt is an elementary school teacher? Could it be that the letter was written by one of her students?"

"But ten years have passed, and students will grow up. It's weird to keep writing in hiragana."

27 "So, what is the relationship between the code and the letter?" Conan asked.

"There were patterns like this next to the hiragana characters. I always thought they were lace, but now I think they might be what the sender really wanted to express." Dr. Agasa thought for a moment and said, "At the time, I gave the letter to a neighbor with strong reasoning skills to study. He was very busy at work and was reluctant to help, but he became more and more addicted to it."

As soon as Conan heard it, he knew that the neighbor Dr. Agasa was referring to was his father, Yusaku Kudo.

Huiyuan Ai asked curiously: "Did he figure out the code later?"

"Of course, it only took him a few minutes to return the letter to me. My aunt even praised my neighbor in front of me later." Dr. Agasa smiled sheepishly and said, "It was obviously my job to help Aunt Sadako solve the mystery, but in the end I ended up troubling someone else, haha."

Baiquanyi's eyes deepened a little, and he suddenly asked casually, "You are talking about Kudo Yusaku, the wanted criminal, right?"

"Eh?" Dr. Agasa was surprised that Shiraishi would ask this question, but he still answered seriously, "Thanks to you, Kudo Yusaku has become a wanted criminal... Wait, how do you know that the neighbor I'm talking about is Kudo Yusaku?"

Shiraizumi Mashi was helpless: "Please, Dr. Agasa, you only have a few neighbors, and he's good at reasoning. Who else could it be but the mystery novelist Yusaku Kudo?"

"Wow!" Mitsuhiko couldn't help but exclaim, "It turns out that the wanted criminal Kudo Yusaku lives near the doctor's house! Is Professor Agasa's life in danger?"

"I have no grudge against Kudo Yusaku. The one whose life is in danger is... ahahaha... Mr. Bai, you are so powerful. It's as easy to crush Kudo Yusaku to death as to crush an ant. He won't commit suicide on his own initiative."

Dr. Agasa laughed out loud.

Conan sighed. In order to avoid ending up like his father, he could only try to please Baiquan Yi and obediently offer up his childhood sweetheart and mother. If he couldn't beat them, he would join them. There was no other way, even if he had to sacrifice his childhood sweetheart and mother.

Conan said calmly: "The hiragana on the letter suggests that the patterns should represent different kana, and as long as you observe carefully and compare them with the 50-sound chart, you can understand the meaning of each pattern.

"For example, the stars, moon, and sun all come in black and white, and the black and white images change slightly, but the black sun remains unchanged. This uniqueness is also reflected in hiragana."

The Junior Detectives let out an "Oh!" sound: "Yes, it's the only one that can do it alone!"

"Yes, so the black sun represents ん." Conan pointed to the end of the pattern and said, "The next thing to pay attention to is these three patterns. Every message ends with them, which means they have different meanings from the previous patterns. And the small white and black dots marked next to the patterns, I think they are the symbols representing voiced sounds in kana."

Conan took the paper with all the patterns marked on it and put on a personal reasoning show on the spot.

The Junior Detective Team is worthy of being the Junior Detective Team. They all listened with great interest, and even Haibara Ai was looking at Conan intently.

Conan introduced a whole hiragana comparison table step by step.

The person who set the puzzle has the same imagination and bad taste as Dr. Agasa, and he also uses an arrow-like method to point out a passage to an unknown place for those who come later.

"The final location is—" Conan pointed in a direction very enthusiastically, "The fireplace!"

The children of the Junior Detective League were not worried about their clothes getting dirty by the dust accumulated in the fireplace. They rushed over happily and filled the entire fireplace in an instant.

"No wonder I've been noticing these clanging sounds coming from that house lately. I initially thought a thief had broken in," Dr. Agasa lamented. "That family is truly pitiful. They've finally managed to raise their child to be successful, but he was murdered over some trivial matter. What a pity."

Shiraizumi Mashi was about to say something to divert Dr. Agasa's attention from unnecessary sentimentality when Conan's astonished voice rang out first: "Impossible! How could it be a plate? Wouldn't this mean we're back to square one?"

"Ah... So this is actually a prank?" Ayumi said regretfully, "How boring! I thought we could find real treasure this time, not the snacks and toys that the professor bought himself."

A hint of embarrassment suddenly crept onto Dr. Agasa's forehead: "Uh...you all guessed it?"

Mitsuhiko subconsciously wanted to roll his eyes, but his good upbringing prevented him from doing such an impolite action. "It would be strange if he couldn't guess it, but are these patterns really a prank? I think the code he designed is quite complicated. If it's just for a prank..."

Ai Huihara looked around and suddenly discovered something: "We searched the entire villa, but only found seven items with patterns. Including the first three, all ten items were found in this room. Could there be a connection between them that we haven't discovered?"

"You mean?"

Ai Haibara met Conan's eyes and said seriously, "Perhaps the picture will tell us the answer."

Conan was hurt by Xiao Sadness again

After hearing what Haibara Ai said, Conan immediately took out a piece of paper, drew the layout of the entire house, and connected the original positions of the items in order.

Finally, the lines converged into one point in one place - the chandelier!

No one knew what Conan did, but a set of wooden stairs suddenly fell from the ceiling of the house upstairs, opening the way to the attic.

Dr. Agasa opened his mouth in astonishment. "I've heard that Uncle Kurisuke likes mechanical devices, but I didn't expect him to actually create a secret room like this!"

The children were the most excited, they jumped and ran into the attic.

Dr. Agasa opened the attic window, and fresh air immediately rushed into the cramped space, making people's minds much clearer.

Under the light, the figure lying on the table suddenly became much clearer.

Although he was wearing clothes and his hair was still covering them, what was hidden underneath were dry bones.

"Who is this?"

Faced with such a terrifying scene, the children of the Junior Detective Team can still remain calm.

"Mr. Edogawa once said that there's an old man with very skillful hands hiding in this villa," Huihara Ai confirmed. "The patterns on the coins and utensils must have been carved by him!"

"But how did he know about this room? Logically, only my uncle and aunt should know about this room, right?"

Bai Quanyi pointed at the letter paper buried under the bones and guessed, "Maybe your aunt told him. After your uncle passed away, she must have allowed this person to live here."

"Hasn't he got anywhere to go?"

"He was hiding from someone." Huiyuan Ai found a twenty-dollar bill template before Conan and handed it to Dr. Agasa. "That person forced him to make counterfeit money. Maybe he felt guilty or something else made him hide here. He died while writing a thank-you letter to your aunt. It might have been a heart attack..."

Dr. Agasa suddenly realized: "My aunt once said that someone often went through her mailbox. If so, the stranger who went through the mailbox should be the same person who forced him to make counterfeit money!"

Conan, whose line was stolen by Haibara Ai, could only silently add: "And he should be the one who destroyed the toys."

"boom--"

Suddenly, there was a sound of a huge heavy object falling from under the attic, accompanied by someone's screams.

Conan looked back in confusion, only to see Baiquan Yi covering his mouth and nose in surprise, looking innocent:

"Sorry, sorry. I just wanted to see what the handle was for, but I didn't expect it to raise the ladder."

Conan: "..."

A big drop of cold sweat hung on Conan's temple.

"Did someone fall down just now?" Huiyuan Ai asked while looking around, "Strange, we are not short of people...Ah! Is it the guy who destroyed the toys??"

As soon as she finished speaking, Conan rushed to Baiquanyi's side. Due to his height as an elementary school student, he had to jump up to turn the handle and lower the stairs.

The scene below is really too tragic.

The floors of the villa are much higher than those of the apartment. In addition, the man was about to climb up to the attic when he was suddenly shaken down by the shaking stairs and fell flat on his face.

Out of habit, Shiraizumi Yi walked over to the man as Conan lowered the stairs and searched him from head to toe. He actually found a pistol with several bullets inside.

Conan gasped: "He actually has a gun??"

Although shocked, Conan still skillfully found the rope and tied the man up tightly.

Professor Agasa and the children of the Junior Detective League also came down at this time.

Ai Haibara looked carefully at the gangster who was almost tied up like a meat dumpling, and asked softly, "You are Mr. Okuda Tomoaki, right? And the man hiding in the attic should be the painter who used to draw for Mr. Kurisuke and Ms. Sadako."

Okuda Tomiaki was in pain all over from the fall just now. He glared at Huihara Ai and said, "How do you know my name?!"

"It's clearly written in the letter. He doesn't want Okuda Tomoaki to take his artwork, so he's hiding in the attic." Huihara Ai's expression softened a little. She looked at Dr. Agasa and asked, "Doctor, where is Ms. Sadako now? I think the painter left something for her."

Dr. Agasa sighed slightly and said with great regret: "My aunt just passed away last year. She was seventy-six years old and never married."

"Really?" Huiyuan Ai was in a daze for a moment, "Then let the artwork stay here forever."

Conan said nonchalantly: "But here..." It's going to be demolished soon.

He didn't say the rest of the words because Mr. Bai was looking at him with such gentle and peaceful eyes. Conan felt a chill hit his brain, and his subconscious avoidance of danger made him shut up instantly.

Having discovered the body, the police didn't hesitate any longer. Just two hours later, they arrested O'Tian Lunming for counterfeiting and trespassing.

On the way back, the children in Professor Agasa's car chattered excitedly. However, the atmosphere on Shiraizumi's side seemed a little strange.

Conan's eyelids were already twitching, while Haibara Ai was looking out the window quietly without saying a word.

"¨" What's wrong, Ai?" Bai Quanyi noticed something was wrong and asked.

When Huiyuan Ai heard his voice, she shook her head slightly and replied very obediently: "Ms. Sadako is really beautiful."

Conan's half-moon eyes: "So you didn't say anything just now because you were still immersed in Agasa Sadako's beauty and couldn't extricate yourself?"

"I'm not just lost in her beauty..." Huiyuan hesitated for a few seconds before saying, "I always feel that Ms. Sadako in the painting gives me a very familiar feeling. Did I know her before?"