nucmednet Chapter 1293 Another person has died!
Chapter 1293 Another person has died!
Looking at the long, winding queue, Ooka Momiji sighed softly, "It takes so long to queue, and it takes so much energy. I wish we could just deduct these costs from the price of the food."
She'd rather spend a little more money than wait in a long line.
"Remove?" Hattori Heiji and Conan, who were deciphering the code, suddenly caught the key words in Ooka Momiji's drawing. Instantly, a flash of inspiration struck them, and they stared intently at the code.
The next second, the three shouted in unison, "The fourth warehouse in Beihu Port!"
"Huh?" The three girls, Ooka Momiji, turned around in surprise, not understanding what the three were talking about for a moment.
Iori Muichi had been observing the three detectives—two adults and one child—deciphering the code. He noticed that Conan didn't seem to be talking to Shinichi Kudo on the phone; he just gave the answer directly.
Conan felt a chill run down his spine and quickly said into his phone, "You said the treasure is there, is that true, Shinichi-nii?"
Ooka Momiji asked in confusion, "Why there?"
With a smug smile on his face, Hattori Heiji explained, "The soccer ball is the key to cracking the code."
The character "足" (foot) in the first three codes is thicker than the other characters, and "足" implies addition, meaning superposition. Superimposing the first three codes reveals a strange line of text in the middle.
As he explained, he stacked the three code cards together.
Kazuha Toyama leaned over for a look, completely bewildered: "I don't understand what this means at all!"
Yuya continued, "So we need a fourth code. The word 'ball' on that code is bolded, and the pronunciation of 'ball' and 'bow' is very similar. In Japanese, 'bow' also means 'to reduce,' which means..."
Conan, afraid he'd miss his chance to speak too slowly, quickly interjected, "If you just remove the part covered by the arrow from the newly obtained line of text, you'll get a line of text you can understand!"
Conan quickly operated the phone for a while, and Ran and the others crowded around to take a look. They found that the final text they got was indeed "Beihu Port Fourth Warehouse", and they couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
After explaining, he added that it was Shinichi's older brother who told him.
Yu also glanced at him and said, "So, we should be able to find the treasure the nanny hid by going to that warehouse."
Upon hearing this, Toyama Kazuha looked at Ooka Momiji with a smug expression: "It seems that the three of them deciphered the code almost at the same time, so it's a tie, right?"
Ooka Momiji was somewhat unwilling, but that was indeed the case.
However, Iori Muga suddenly spoke up: "Is that so?"
The others looked at him with surprise.
Iori Muga said calmly, "Although the three of them gave the answer at the same time, Conan was told the answer by Shinichi Kudo and then relayed it to him. So, if we consider that, wouldn't he have solved it a little faster?"
"Huh?" Toyama Kazuha choked for a moment, and upon thinking about it carefully, it seemed to be true.
Ooka Momiji was overjoyed: "Iori, you're absolutely right!"
“That’s right, that’s right,” Conan nodded with a smile, “I also think Shinichi is faster~”
Yuya and Hattori Heiji looked displeased. "You've really put on airs, haven't you?"
Heiji Hattori knew Conan's identity and was well aware that he and Conan had deciphered the code at the same time.
As for Yuya, he supports Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha more, so he can be accommodating once, but losing to Conan is unacceptable.
"Hey, Kudo!" Heiji Hattori barked a stern voice into Conan's ear, "Believe it or not, I'll tell you your true identity!"
Yuu, arms crossed, threatened, "I remember there are some videos at home..."
Conan's forehead swelled with anger. These two guys were inhuman! He forced a laugh and said, "I was just kidding."
He turned to Ooka Momiji with an innocent smile and said, "I was startled by the sudden shouts of Heiji and Yuya, so I just said it along with them. Actually, they untied it almost at the same time."
Ooka Momiji was greatly disappointed and frowned slightly: "If that's the case, then it's going to be difficult."
Yuya suggested, "Why don't we go to that warehouse first? The mystery of the nanny's eldest son's disappearance hasn't been solved yet, has it? Let's use the truth of the disappearance as the outcome of our next duel."
Heiji Hattori and Conan listened and had no objections.
Ooka Momiji also thought it made a lot of sense, so she agreed with the suggestion.
The group then prepared to head to the fourth warehouse in Beihu Port.
Iori Muga gave Yuya a deep look—he noticed that when the three of them gave their answers at the same time, Yuya didn't shout it out immediately when he deciphered the code. Instead, he deliberately observed the other two's actions and shouted it out along with them when they spoke.
In other words, he should be the fastest at cracking the code.
Moreover, judging from the fact that he didn't seem to pay much attention to the code along the way, he may have already deciphered it before he arrived.
However, Iori Muga did not expose him, because he knew that Yuya was obviously closer to Toyama Kazuha than to his own young lady, so it was not hard to understand why he would throw the game a little.
Most importantly, these are all inferences he drew from observing details and cannot be used as actual evidence.
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The group got into the car and soon arrived at Beihu Port, where they found the administrator.
He wasn't surprised at all when he heard that everyone had come for the fourth warehouse: "You've cracked the code, haven't you? I'll take you there right away."
Yuya seemed to understand something: "I see. Someone arranged for you to guide the people who come here to show the answer to the coded message, right?"
The administrator confirmed this statement.
"If I'm not mistaken, besides us, other people have been here too?"
The administrator recalled: "Early this morning, a man with a beard came, then another man came, and just a short while ago, two more men came."
Four men? If there are no surprises, it should be those four brothers.
When the group arrived at the warehouse entrance, they found that the roller shutter door was only half open.
Hattori Heiji bent down and called out, "Is anyone inside?"
The three remained silent.
He looked closely and saw three men standing with their backs to the door in front of an iron staircase in the warehouse. One of them was slumped on the ground for some reason.
"What? If you're there, just say so."
But the three people still didn't react.
Filled with doubt, one by one, the group bent down and entered the warehouse, coming up behind the three men and peering inside.
"Ah!!!" Instantly, three terrified screams echoed through the warehouse.
The reason these three ignored Hattori Heiji's calls was because—
Before them lay a man lying on his back, blood seeping from the back of his head and staining the ground red...
Another person died!