Chapter 130 Kaoru VS the Junior Detective Team

Chapter 131: Kaoru VS the Junior Detective Team

Ding Dong. Ding Dong.

I just said I was going to take part in the Detective Team's assessment, but the bell for the end of get out of class suddenly rang. Before I knew it, we had already chatted for a whole class. That's right, the bell for the end of get out of class just rang, and after the teacher called the end of get out of class, before I had time to sit down, a group of little kids swarmed around me. Maybe the pale blond hair color is a very novel thing for them. Almost all the children asked me why my hair is pale blond. Of course, there are also many strange questions. For example, do you dare to eat green peppers, are you a bad boy, do you have a girlfriend, etc. I can't get angry with a group of children, so I can only patiently answer them one by one. But they are children after all, and after the questions they are interested in are answered. They left for lunch. About half an hour later, almost all the children around me left.

"Hey, Xun, what are you planning to eat for lunch?" Seeing that I had broken free from the children's restraints, Conan turned to me and asked.

"Hmm? Didn't Xiaolan prepare a lunch box?"

"Ah, when we were little, Xiaolan and I always bought lunch at the convenience store at school. We didn't have the habit of bringing lunch." Conan answered. "So, let's go buy something for lunch."

"Ah, I won't go. You can bring me something. Bread, sandwiches or something will do." I handed Conan a 10,000 yen note. "Those brats are planning to test me. Now is not the time to disappear from their sight." I leaned my arm on the table to support my head, smiling at Genta who was still writing furiously, Mitsuhiko who was watching and giving instructions, and Ayumi who was frowning and looking a little embarrassed. "But then again, don't those brats need to eat lunch?"

"Ah, besides Ayumi who has the habit of bringing her own lunch, Mitsuhiko and Genta also go to the convenience store to buy lunch, but Genta is a little special. He seems to have a stomach that is never full. The money his family gives him for lunch is almost all spent by breakfast. So at noon, he usually only buys a bowl of eel rice.

"Hey, it's not a good thing for a child to be hungry." I chuckled. "Then just think of it as my gift for joining the Junior Detective Team, Conan, today is my treat, spend all the 10,000 yuan bill."

"Hey, hey.. do you know how much food you can buy with 10,000 yen?" Conan narrowed his eyes. "You'll eat too much like this."

"Don't worry, I just treat them to a meal occasionally." I waved my hand.

"Wait, I think I missed the point." Conan suddenly became alert. "You want to join the Junior Detective Team?!"

"What? Is it not possible?" I asked back.

"That's not the case, but aren't you interested in detective work solving cases?"

"I'm really not interested, but compared to something more boring like attending classes, I would rather stay with kids and find the so-called childhood." After I finished speaking, my gaze drifted again to the three little kids not far away from me.

"Xiao Xun... I'm sorry." Conan saw that I looked a little disappointed, so he hurriedly said. "Well, I'm going to buy food, you just work hard to pass their test." After saying that, Conan ran out with the banknotes in his hand.

"Alas... a person with a strong sense of justice and compassion." I shook my head slightly. Then I walked towards the little ghosts, because just now, I heard Yuantai's shouting.

"Yoshi! Done!!!"

————The scent of orchids, the scent of lavender, the scent of home & the wings of angels, the wings of demons, the wings of guardians————

When Conan came back with a big bag of lunch, he saw Kaoru sitting on a chair in a corner of his classroom, tapping his forehead with his fingers, and the three little ghosts were showing different behaviors. Genta looked very proud. Mitsuhiko crossed his arms, squinted his eyes and waited with a smile on his face, while Ayumi looked at Kaoru with a worried look on her face. It seemed that she was afraid that he could not solve such a puzzle.

"Wow! Conan, why did you buy so much food?!" Genta couldn't help drooling when he saw the big bag of food in Conan's hand.

"Ah, this is what Xun asked me to buy." Conan said casually.

"What?! Mingya, can you eat so much by yourself?"

"No, that's the gift I gave to everyone after they joined the Junior Detective League. But I haven't solved the mystery yet, so let's put the food aside for now." I didn't look up, but continued to stare at the note that Yuan Tai had just written in my hand.

"Eh, eh?!?! Why is this happening?" Yuan Tai was instantly disappointed. "If I had known, I wouldn't have set up this test." To this, the others could only give him a half-moon eye.

Putting down the bag in his hand, Conan walked up to me and asked, "Hey, Xun, you are not stumped, are you?"

"Well... I'm really stumped. I can't see anything on this picture." I shrugged and said calmly. At the same time, I handed the note in my hand to Conan. When Conan saw the note, he said to Yuantai with a frown on his face. "Yuanta, although I think your idea is good, don't you think there is something missing on this paper?" There was no text on the drawing in Conan's hand, but a series of figures from top to bottom. From the top, there were two figures in the shape of a tower and a moon, separated by a horizontal line. Below them were rectangles with semicircular protrusions, inverted triangles, umbrellas, and five-pointed stars surrounded by circles, and a rectangle divided by a horizontal line. After that, there was another horizontal line separating them, and below was a fish-shaped figure.

"What are you talking about, Conan? This treasure map is the first case solved by our Junior Detective Team. How could I have drawn it wrong?" Yuan Tai retorted dissatisfiedly.

"Indeed, there is nothing wrong with the picture you drew. However, don't you think there is something missing in the second-to-last picture?" Conan took the pen and wrote the word "ORO" next to the last rectangular divided picture.

"Huh?" Yuan Tai was startled, and then smiled awkwardly. "It seems that there are indeed these words. Hey, hey." Facing Yuan Tai's words, everyone responded with half-moon eyes again.

"Okay, now this code is complete. Xun, it's up to you from now on." Conan handed me the note.

"Oh, okay." I took the note and smiled faintly. "If I heard correctly, Xiaodao just said that this is a treasure map, right?"

"Oh no, I let it slip!" Yuan Tai quickly covered his mouth.

"Well... it's nothing. If you had told me from the beginning that this was a treasure map, maybe it wouldn't have been so troublesome."

"Huh? What did they say at the beginning?" Conan asked puzzledly.

"They just told me that this is a code. So I thought it was something that kids played games with, so I didn't think too much about it. Or maybe I was thinking too much, thinking about toys and clothes." I shook the note in my hand. "If it's a treasure map, then everything is easy to explain." I said to everyone confidently. "From the whole picture, this code is divided into three parts, the two pictures at the top, the five pictures in the middle, and the fish-shaped pattern at the bottom. The ORO that Conan added just now, if I remember correctly, should be the Italian word for money. You said this is the first case you solved, which proves that this map can only be found in Japan. After all, no matter how friendly your relationship is, it is impossible for your parents to agree to let you go to Italy at the same time. Not to mention Conan, an illegal resident." "Hey, hey... is it my fault for being an illegal resident?" Conan was full of black lines on his head.

"Illegal household? What does that mean?" Yuan Tai asked.

"Well... it's just unimportant stuff. The point is that this picture appeared in Japan, right?" I quickly changed the subject.

"Yes, it was indeed found in Japan." Ayumi's eyes flashed with anticipation.

"Well. The discovery of a treasure map marked in Italian in Japan proves that the person who hid the treasure was not familiar with Japanese. In other words, these graphics are just some graphics or symbols he saw, and they don't need to be translated into language," I explained.

"But, it could also be Italian," Mitsuhiko asked doubtfully.

"That's a possibility, but I don't think it will work." I shrugged and continued. "If you use graphics to outline a text trap, it takes a lot of time to think about it, otherwise it will be seen by others at a glance. I don't think a person in a foreign country has the time to spend a lot of time thinking about such things. Judging from the current situation, the so-called treasure in this era is nothing more than those properties that cannot be deposited in banks through formal channels and are hidden out of necessity. In other words, the treasure here is illegal, and the treasure hider should be a criminal, right?"

"It's amazing that you can deduce to this extent!" Mitsuhiko's eyes also showed admiration.

"Well, since it was a criminal, and the markings were in Italian, it proves that the criminal is Italian, and after obtaining illegal property, he fled to Japan and made the code for this treasure map. For a person who is unfamiliar with a country, I don't think he has the ability to design complex codes such as graphics and text. If he really knows Japanese, then even if he doesn't draw this treasure map, he should be able to easily recall the location of the treasure. Why would he bother himself by drawing this treasure map? On the contrary, I think these graphics should be some signs that the treasure hunter saw on the street, and they are simplified into patterns." At this point, I raised the note in my hand. "Then we can look back at these graphics. Since it is a treasure map, it is nothing more than looking for clues that you are familiar with according to the graphics, and it is divided into three groups by two horizontal lines, which means that this code can find the treasure in three steps."

"Uh-huh."

"Uh-huh."

"Yeah." The three children, including Yuantai, stared at me seriously, as if they were back in the scene of solving the case.

"Then. According to normal people's thinking, the two pictures on the top should be the first step, which is the starting point." As I said, I took out the mobile phone I just got today from my pocket, turned on the notebook system, and turned on the street view mode of satellite positioning.

"Wow, Mingya, you actually have a cell phone." Ayumi looked at me enviously.

"Ah, because my parents are abroad for a long time and can't come back to see me, so they bought me a mobile phone." I lied, but when I said this, Conan looked at me meaningfully, and then continued to pay attention to my actions.

After turning on the Street View mode, I started searching for relevant locations and explained, "Since the starting point is in the shape of a tower, the only place I can think of is the Tokyo Tower." As I searched the Street View to the base of the Tokyo Tower.

"Wow, the mobile phone actually has such a function!" Mitsuhiko leaned over to look at the phone screen.

"Well... it just has a few more functions." I shrugged. "Next is the moon pattern. But since it is placed together with the tower, it proves that the treasure map was drawn when the moon was visible, that is, at night. But what can attract people's attention at night? I guess it should be lights? After all, the only thing that can indicate in the dark night is lights." At this point, I turned my head to Conan for argument. And Conan nodded to me. "Since it is lights, it's easy. Just find all the corresponding light shapes of the second group of graphics." I said and carefully searched in street view mode. However, street view mode can only show the situation during the day. This also caused difficulties in my search progress.

"It's here, Mingya-san." As I was searching, Ayumi pointed at the bic.camera sign and said to me. (The Japanese in the animation is the name of this camera brand.) Following Ayumi's finger, I saw that there was indeed a circle of small light bulbs on the outermost edge of the sign, forming a cake-like shape.

"Ah, thank you Yoshida-san." I smiled and moved the street view towards the store. "The next one is the inverted triangle."

"Hey, here!" As soon as I finished speaking, Mitsuhiko pointed to a corner of the screen, which was the lighting of the stadium. He quickly moved the screen, and before I could say anything, Yuanta shouted excitedly.

"The next umbrella is a sign of the weather forecast, here it is!"

Smiling, I adjusted my position again. "So the pattern of the five-pointed star and the circle is..."

"Ferris wheel~"

"Ferris wheel!"

"Ferris wheel!!!" The three children became excited at the same time.

"Haha, then the last one..."

"Here it is." After moving, Conan's calm voice came over, and his hand pointed to the last restaurant.

"Well, the final location has been found. Since ORO is marked on the last picture, it means that this tavern is where the treasure was hidden, right?" He looked up at the children, only to see them all nodding their heads like chickens eating rice.

"Well, that means that the last fish should be the way to find the treasure from the building. According to the above clues, the last fish should also be the light, but the street view mode cannot enter the interior of the building, so my reasoning can only go here. If you want to further discover the treasure, you can only wait until night to go for a field investigation." I turned off my phone and said to the children.

"No need, just stop here." Conan's relieved voice floated into my ears. Turning around, I saw Conan stretched out his right hand and looked at me.

"Xun, welcome to join the Junior Detective Team."

I shrugged and held out my right hand as well. "It's my pleasure."

(End of this chapter)