Chapter 1457 Miyano Akemi’s secret code

At the suggestion of Conan and Teacher Kobayashi, the three graduates agreed to work together to find the time capsule that Miyano Akemi buried thirteen years ago.

In order to increase the probability of finding it, Conan proposed to divide the 10 people present into 3 groups.

Conan, Haibara Ai, Ayumi, and Murata Takumi are a group.

Kobayashi, Mitsuhiko, and the female doctor are in a group.

A group consisting of Wakasa, Genta, and Yanagimachi.

After hearing the grouping, Mitsuhiko immediately put his hands on his waist and asked Conan, "Why is Conan the only one in the group with the girls?"

"Conan, aren't you too cunning?" Genta also echoed.

Conan could only smile helplessly, secretly complaining in his heart: Is this the point?The reason why he chose this lineup was because the man named Murata seemed to be familiar with Miyano Akemi.

In the process of searching for the time capsule, maybe I can tell you something about Miyano Akemi and make Haibara Ai, who has been in a bad state recently, happy.

His group has the best chance of finding the time capsule, so Haibara Ai must stay by his side at all times.

Another point is that the faces of these three people changed when they saw the code paper.

The content on the code paper seemed to have a hidden meaning, and the three people seemed to understand its meaning at a glance.

This grouping is also to allow each group to have an adult to monitor their actions.

But before Conan could explain, Teacher Kobayashi and Wakasa Rumi came up from behind, held the two little ones' shoulders, and said with a smile.

"Oh my~ the teachers are girls too~"

"Can't we just wait a while and change teammates?"

In response, Mitsuhiko and Genta could only droop their eyelids and show very reluctant expressions.

……

In this way, everyone came to the school teaching building and walked around the shoe cabinet on the first floor for a while.

The trio lamented the subtle changes here, and the capsule-hunting team officially began their search.

As the "strongest repeater", Conan looked at the photo of the code paper taken on his mobile phone, understood the meaning of the first sentence at a glance, and led the team to the principal's office.

Facing Conan's suggestion, Ayumi asked in confusion: "Huh? Why?"

Conan explained confidently: "Doesn't the first sentence say 'Let people see Monet'?"

"Because the principal of our school likes the painter Monet very much, there is a replica of Monet hanging in the principal's office, which is a decoration he is very proud of."

"So the painting must be..."

Conan, Haibara Ai, Ayumi, and Murata Takumi just entered the principal's office at this time.

Conan looked up and found that the imitation of Monet was gone, replaced by an ordinary watercolor painting.

The painting depicts a small bridge and flowing water, and under the watercolor painting is a label that reads "6th year Group A, Takumi Murata".

Takumi Murata, who was standing behind him, stepped forward and said with memories in his eyes: "This is my previous award-winning work. I miss it so much..."

Conan then walked to the painting, opened the drawing board and took a look, but there was nothing inside.

But since Monet was mentioned in the code, Conan felt that the key information should be the imitation of Monet.

The principal is on vacation today, so Conan took the initiative to search the office with Haibara Ai and Ayumi.

Seeing the three children searching recklessly in the principal's office, Takumi Murata, who was standing there, was a little at a loss as to what to do.

Are children nowadays so fearless?

"Hey, if you flip through the pages like this, you'll get scolded~"

Conan lay under the desk and replied nonchalantly: "It will be fine if I explain the reason later..."

"By the way, I'm more curious about what kind of person is Miyano Akemi who left this secret code?"

Conan deliberately turned the topic to Miyano Akemi.

This made Haibara Ai next to her stunned and she quickly turned around to look.

Takumi Murata was stunned at first, then a smile appeared on his face and he closed his eyes to recall.

"Let me think about it..."

"She is very cheerful and gentle, and she is very considerate of others."

"Everyone in our class likes her very much... maybe all the boys in the class like her too."

Hearing this, Huiyuan Ai, who was somewhat touched, turned around and confirmed: "Is that true?"

"Yeah, actually I used to be one of them..."

Murata Takumi scratched his head in embarrassment, "But she politely rejected me~"

"There is such a thing~"

Listening to her sister's past gossip, a genuine smile appeared on Huibara Ai's lips.

Conan looked at the happy Haibara Ai and gave her a half-moon eye.

Remember to thank me.

At this time, Takumi Murata turned back to the watercolor painting on the wall and murmured, "Speaking of this painting, actually..."

Huihara Ai took a step forward, "Actually?"

Takumi Murata stared at the painting and hesitated for a while. Finally, he smiled and scratched his head without answering.

"No, nothing..."

……

Conan and others searched the principal's office for 10 minutes but found nothing.

After taking a look at the agreed gathering time, they went downstairs and looked around the science classroom, but still found nothing.

When the agreed time arrived, the three groups regrouped in front of the breeding hut beside the playground.

"Um……"

"So far, we have been to the principal's office, the health room, the art room, the family classroom, the science classroom, and the rooftop."

“Although I went to many places, I found nothing.”

Yanagimachi Yue: “Me too.”

Female doctor: “Me too.”

Looking at the three gloomy-faced graduates, Conan's mind also fell into thought.

He asked Mitsuhiko and Genta where the other two groups were going.

Mitsuhiko, Kobayashi, and the female doctor team went to the health room to investigate.

The reason is that Mitsuhiko thinks that the "lie" in "Doctor, don't lie" can be expressed in English as "TELL A LIE".

This is very similar to "wash hands" in Japanese, so Mitsuhiko thought of the washbasin in the health room.

However, after hearing this, Conan immediately rejected this idea in his mind.

Because there are so many washbasins in the school, Akemi Miyano would not leave a code with such a high error rate.

On the other hand, the group of Genta, Wakasa Rumi, and Yanagimachi Gaku went to many places for no special reason.

"We went to the family classroom, the art room, and the rooftop..."

Yuantai stretched out his fingers and counted the places he had been.

"Originally, Mr. Wakasa said that there was a fire in the music classroom 14 or 15 years ago, and some paper cranes were burned, but Yanagimachi brother said he didn't remember, so he didn't go there."

"But we still didn't find anything. Wakasa-sensei went to the bathroom, and Yanagimachi-nii left on his own to look for clues."

"alone?"

Conan looked at the three graduates who were still discussing not far away, and he still felt that the three of them were trying to hide some secret.

So he decided to give it a try.

"How about we tell the code to other students in the class?"

"How about we all come together to help find it?"

The three people who were discussing not far away turned around and looked at Conan with a slightly stunned expression, and then the female doctor waved her hand first.

"But, we can still try harder to find it, right?"

The female doctor turned to look at Yanagimachi Gaku, who also echoed her.

"Yes, yes, I have also thought of some clues." Murata Takumi said in the same tone, "...I do feel like I am close to figuring out the code."

Looking at the strange reactions of the three people, Conan was already certain that they knew some secret.

In that case, let's test them.

"Then the two teachers and I will continue to help look for it..."

Conan turned around and said to the three little ones and Huiyuan: "Please stay in the breeding hut and finish the rest of the work~"

"Eh--?"

The three little ones stretched out their voices to express their dissatisfaction.

Only Haibara Ai stared at Conan's back as he left with the group of adults, and said secretly in her heart.

Please, Kudo.

……

Conan, Krillin, Wakasa Rumi, and the three graduates returned to the teaching building and strolled around while sorting out the entire search route.

During this time, Kobayashi called the principal and learned that he had taken the imitation of Monet home and hung it up, and there were no suspicious marks on the painting.

"I guessed wrong, what a pity..."

Takumi Murata sighed, but there was no sign of regret on his face.

Yanagimachi Gaku, who was walking in front, held his chin up and murmured, "If it's not on the back of the painting, could it be on the wall?"

"Yup!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the others present woke up as if from a dream and immediately decided to go back and take another look.

When they returned to the principal's office, the female doctor removed Takumi Murata's painting from the wall, and a hiragana was revealed behind the wall.

"Sure enough, there are words on the wall behind the painting!"

“Yes…?”

“We’ve noticed that before.”

The three of them put their heads close to the wall to observe.

Xiao Lin, who was standing at the door of the principal's office, also congratulated them, "Finally, we have taken the first step..."

"Yes." Wakasa Rumiya said.

Only Conan stood behind the three people, staring at them with a scrutinizing look.

He had just personally inspected the painting. If there had been words on the wall at that time, he would definitely not have missed them.

But at this moment, the words "magically" appeared.

This can only mean that during the time when I was away from the principal's office, someone came back here and wrote something on it.

First of all, it is impossible for Takumi Murata to do this because this person never left during the entire process.

The situation of the female doctor is unclear, but Yanagimachi Gaku has definitely left the team during the last operation.

Moreover, it was he who initiated the re-examination of the principal's office.

It seems that this word was written in the principal's office when he left last time.

It's just not clear why he did this...

After some internal weighing, Conan decided to remain silent and continue watching Yanagimachi Gaku's performance.

……

Next, the three graduates began to reason on their own.

Yanagimachi Gaku proposed a second code word, "attack the plane", which can also be equated with "hijacking".

The English word for “hijack” is “hijack”, which can also be pronounced as “high” and “jack”, meaning a socket high up.

The tallest indoor socket in the entire school is the one in the gymnasium that powers the clocks hanging high up.

As an active firefighter, Yanagimachi Gaku took the initiative to bring a ladder and climb to a high place to check.

"It's all gray and a little hard to see clearly..."

"But there's a hiragana word written on the side of the socket."

His voice reached below and immediately aroused Conan's vigilance.

Conan turned on the telescopic function of his black-tech glasses and looked towards the location Yanagimachi Gaku mentioned. There was no so-called hiragana there.

He is lying...

However, Conan did not expose him, but let him continue to act.

Next, the group went to the art room.

Genta's team had searched this place before, but when they came here again, Conan used his height advantage and found a ぐ under the edge of the table.

He took the photo silently and did not tell anyone about his discovery.

Since the others were all adults and couldn't see below, they naturally didn't notice it.

At this time, Takumi Murata remembered that there was a student in the school who was drawing on the rooftop. The wind blew the drawing board off and the student almost fell down.

Since then, the school has banned students from painting on the rooftop.

And an experience just happened to coincide with the code of "Don't paint".

So, several people came to the rooftop and found it on the door handle leading to the rooftop.

Based on this way of thinking, the female doctor recalled a former classmate who liked to pretend to be sick and sleep in the health room.

Everyone hurried back to the health room.

The female doctor crawled under the bed in the health room alone, and sure enough, she found a hiragana "し" at the foot of the bed.

However, this time, Conan, who was more careful, had already found the same match on the scale next to him.

He silently took out his cell phone and took a picture of the symbol, keeping it as evidence for later reasoning.

"Okay, then put the four words we have collected together and you get YOUGUSI..."

"This way, you don't even have to untie the 'Don't Burn 89' amulet'..."

"The answer must be the storage room (YOUGUSITU)!"

The three graduates looked very excited, but at this moment, Teacher Kobayashi poured a bucket of cold water on them.

"But I remember that place is already..."

Kobayashi brought a few people to the library, where he searched the history of the school's reconstruction on the big-headed computer.

Sure enough, I found this storage room in the corner of the school. It was too dilapidated and had been demolished and converted into a toilet 10 years ago.

"Eh?"

"So our time capsule is gone with it?"

Xiao Lin nodded and replied: "I think so..."

After hearing Kobayashi's reply, the three graduates could only shake their heads regretfully, feeling that even their alma mater, which seemed to remain unchanged, had actually changed over time.

Xiao Lin couldn't help but sigh as he touched the keyboard in front of the computer.

"But I really miss the time when I was a library committee member~"

"At that time, this computer was still brand new, and I was organizing the books in the library just like I am doing now!"

Kobayashi's sigh was like a bolt of lightning exploding in Conan's heart, and his pupils dilated instantly.

Could it be that the graphic is...

Conan quickly stood on tiptoe and took a look at the keyboard on the table. The keycaps were all polished to a patina.

This is enough to show how old this keyboard is.

And on the code paper, it was written that Miyano Akemi was also a library committee member here.

That means...

I understand!

Conan quickly turned around and left the library, while Kobayashi and the trio who were still talking did not notice the actions of this super short guy.

Except for Wakasa Rumi, who was standing there with her hands behind her back, she glanced coldly at Conan's leaving back.