Ke Xue: The thief Cao is actually myself

Chapter 435

Under the guidance of Ayumi and others, Officer Megure quickly arrived at the top floor of a building. Officer Megure habitually stretched out his right foot, stepped on the steps on the edge of the balcony, put his hands on the pergola, and looked around.

"I see, the curvature of this bend is indeed very similar to the curvature of the river that I saw from the rooftop of the building by the river. This must be the place!

You guys did a great job!”

After looking around, Inspector Megure muttered to himself.

Afterwards, he turned around and spoke to the place where Conan, Yoshida Ayumi, Kojima Genta, Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko, and Mao Li Ran were, with a tone full of praise.

"Hehehehe!" Conan, Ayumi Yoshida, Genta Kojima, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, and Ran Mouri smiled at each other and chatted happily. It felt really good to be praised.

At this moment, Maori Kogoro, who was standing behind the right hand of Inspector Megure, stood directly in front of Yoshida Ayumi, Kojima Genta, Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko, Maori Ran and Conan, pointed at himself with one hand, and said to Inspector Megure as if asking for praise:
"Hey hey hey! Officer Megure, don't forget, I was the one who drove them here."

Hearing Kogoro Mori's words that sounded like he was asking for credit and reward, the five people behind him looked very helpless.

Officer Megure didn't care about what Maori Kogoro said. He turned around and continued to walk up the balcony steps, looking down. As he looked, he said to Maori Kogoro:
"But, although we know the location, we still don't know the important time and people!!!"

Inspector Megure spoke with some worry.

"Ah! Oh? Is that so?"

After looking up and finding nothing else, several people went downstairs again, got in the car, and drove back towards the Metropolitan Police Department.

On the road, Kogoro Mouri was driving the car attentively, while Inspector Megure frowned, thinking about the famous people, things, or times that might have passed by on the road just now during that period.

At this moment, Conan revealed a very surprising point:
"Well, Officer Megure, I remember that the balloon burst at around one o'clock."

Hearing what Conan said, Officer Megure turned around in the passenger seat with great surprise and said to Conan with certainty:

"Yes! It must be one o'clock, but what day?"

Although we understand the time when the shooting may occur, if the specific day cannot be determined, there is no way to prevent it.

At this time, Maori Kogoro, who was concentrating on driving, spoke. Maori Kogoro looked at the road ahead very seriously, and then said without turning his head:

“Since the criminals have detained the two of them, it means there is no time to procrastinate.

Therefore, the possible time for the sniper attack should be in the next two days, and the most likely time is tomorrow!"

Hearing what Maori Kogoro said, Officer Megure suddenly understood, but her expression became serious. If tomorrow was the time when the criminals were going to launch a sniper attack, then she would not have much time to prepare. Officer Megure first said to Maori Kogoro with great gratitude: "Very good, Maori brother, thank you for your help! In this case, time is very tight, we must hurry back to the Metropolitan Police Department and make arrangements along this road."

Officer Megure has a serious expression on his face. Time is of the essence. This not only concerns the life safety of the missing police officer, Officer Yamabe, and his girlfriend.

More importantly, since the criminals kidnapped a former Olympic athlete and a police officer in the Metropolitan Police Department, the person they wanted to snipe was definitely not an ordinary person.

If it causes panic among the people, not only will he be in trouble, but Officer Yamabe, as the main sniper, will probably never be able to return to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Ran Mouri was listening to the conversation between the two people in the driver's seat in front, she turned her head and was about to praise Conan.

But I found Conan, frowning, with his arms folded, looking very serious.

So, she was a little curious about why Conan solved the puzzle, and she was still like this, so she asked Conan curiously:

"What's wrong? Conan!"

"Ahh! Ah! It's okay!"

Conan shook his hands and cold sweat broke out on his face. He didn't expect that Mao Li Ran's observation ability was so sharp.

"But I always feel like something is wrong. Where is it?"

……

At night, at the Maori Detective Agency.

After finishing his meal, Conan turned around and went downstairs directly to the Mouri Detective Agency. He still wanted to explain the meaning of the string of numbers.

He folded his arms across his chest and looked carefully at the piece of paper on the coffee table and the numbers written on it.

I saw the same numbers written on the brand new paper: 3135134162.

"Is this number 162 really the same as County Road 162?"

Conan thought hesitantly.

"If it were me, I would definitely include the location and time in the signal.

Another thing is that, up to now, no matter how I think about it, I still don’t understand the meaning of the other 3135134 numbers. "

Conan looked at the brand new white paper and the numbers written on it. He felt overwhelmed and cold sweat ran down his cheeks.

……

The next morning, in a blue van, Officer Megure gave orders to the police officers who were waiting nearby in ordinary small cars.

"Don't act on your own without my instructions!"

Right next to the building that the men found yesterday, there were densely packed police forces.

"understood!"

"understood!"

Many noisy noises came from the pager in Officer Megure's hand.

"There is also a helicopter with snipers on standby on the nearby riverbank. We are fully prepared! We are just waiting for them to come out now."

Officer Megure said this, put down the pager in his hand, and looked outside with a serious face.

Maori Kogoro sat in the driver's seat and said to the serious-looking Officer Megure:

"If the sniper attack was launched at one o'clock, the criminals would have appeared before 12 o'clock."

Listening to Kogoro Mouri's words, Inspector Megure, without commenting, picked up the binoculars beside him and looked in the direction of the stairs leading upstairs.

"There's still an hour left. How could this happen?"

Officer Megure said helplessly.

In the carriage behind them, Ayumi Yoshida, Genta Kojima, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, Conan, and Ran Mouri, five people, were sitting obediently in the car, waiting quietly.

Bai Ye was on the other side, in another police car, looking outside and waiting.

Conan leaned his right hand against the car window, supporting his chin, his eyes fixed on the piece of paper in his hand and the numbers on it, thinking seriously.

"Oh, by the way, what about these little families in the back? If a gunfight breaks out, we may not be able to take care of them, Maori brother."

Officer Megure looked through the binoculars at the building, the direction of the staircase, and turned to ask Maori Kogoro. Hearing Officer Megure's question, Maori Kogoro seemed a little helpless and said:
"Hey, these little devils followed me here on their own initiative."

Looking at the look in Inspector Megure's eyes, Maori Kogoro couldn't hold back his face, so he could only turn his head and say to the young detectives behind him:

"You guys are absolutely not allowed to leave this car."

After hearing what Kogoro Mouri said, the three members of the detective team looked away and pretended they didn't hear it. They just liked to seek death, and would be very unhappy if they didn't do that for a day.

This made Maori Kogoro lose face, and the disobedient attitude of the detective team kids also made him very angry, so he turned around and shouted at them:

"Please give me an answer right now!"

Hearing Maori Kogoro's roar, the three members of the Junior Detective Team turned around and shouted at Maori Kogoro fiercely:
"We! Know!!"

The sound echoed in the closed interior of the car. The sound was so loud that Kogoro Mouri's ears could hardly bear it.

He covered his ears with his hands, looked at the roof with an uneasy look on his face, and said:
"My ears!"

Conan completely ignored their meaning and continued to look at the numbers on the paper in his hand seriously.

"Emmmm~"

……

After an unknown amount of time, Officer Megure looked at the staircase leading upstairs not far away. There was still no one there, so he looked at his watch and said seriously:
"30 minutes left!"

Outside the blue passenger bus they were riding in, there was a constant stream of vehicles coming and going.

In the distance, next to the river bank not far from the sports building, a helicopter with the police helicopter logo on it was parked very quietly on the river bank.

On both sides of the police helicopter stood two snipers with rifles in their hands. They were wearing police uniforms.

One of the snipers, who was standing far away from the riverbank, held a sniper rifle in his right hand and raised his left hand to look at his watch.

It clearly shows:

"12:00."

……

After an unknown amount of time, Officer Megure raised his watch and took another look. The time displayed on it was:

"12:30."

Officer Megure broke out in a cold sweat and said in confusion:
"That's strange, why hasn't he appeared yet?"

Several people in the back seat also leaned against the car window and looked out.

After waiting for a long time and not finding the criminals, the few people became a little discouraged.

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya said:
"Could it be that Conan's reasoning was wrong..."

Kojima Genta was a little angry. He turned to Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko and said in a scolding tone:

"what are you saying?"

Yoshida Ayumi, a veteran Conan fan, of course defended Conan. She said in a baby voice:

"That's not the case!"

At this time, Maori Kogoro, who heard the quarrel between Yoshida Ayumi, Kojima Genta, and Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko, turned around and said to the back:

"No, it must be wrong. I shouldn't have believed what these little brats said in the first place."

The criminals had not appeared for such a long time, and the police were dispatched again. With such a large number of police forces, Kogoro Mouri felt that he could not bear it and tried to shirk responsibility.

I heard that Kogoro Mouri was backing down again, making sarcastic remarks, and trying to put all the blame on Conan.

Mao Lilan was indeed somewhat unhappy. She crossed her arms, looked at Mao Li Kogoro sitting in the seat in front of her, closed her eyes, and said in a threatening tone:

"dad?!"

Conan was looking anxiously at the entrance to the stairs at this time, his face showing sweat from the heat in the car and a trace of restlessness.

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya really couldn't sit still anymore, so he took out a computer from his trouser pocket.

"Well, it's true, right?"

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, while speaking, held the computer and pressed the buttons in order.

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya's restless movements attracted Conan's attention. Conan looked at Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya from the seat in front of Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya.

Looking in Conan's direction, the direction of the numbers was exactly the opposite of the numbers on the computer in Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya's hand.

Conan suddenly had an idea, and a dazzling look flashed before his eyes. He turned around and asked Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya for the computer and said:
"Mitsuhiko, let me borrow your computer!"

"Oh!" Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, seeing Conan so anxious, handed the computer to Conan without saying a word.

He took the computer and turned it over, carefully reading the information on it.

He looked at the information formed by numbers on the computer, and then he suddenly realized.

“So this is how it looks!!!”

He said that he had been looking at it for a long time but still couldn't figure out what the string of numbers meant. It turned out that he was looking in the wrong direction!
I saw that the string of numbers, when viewed upside down on the computer, was displayed in the following font:
"291.hEISEIE"

At this time, Yoshida Ayumi was a little strange, pointing at Conan, who was looking at the numbers on the computer backwards, and asked in confusion:
"Conan, you read the numbers backwards."

What is her friend doing? He can even read numbers backwards?

Could it be that because I haven’t been able to understand the secret code for a long time, my brain is not working well anymore?

"Oh! Ah? That's right!"

Conan responded to Yoshida Ayumi's words somewhat awkwardly.

"It works even if I look at the computer upside down. How lucky!"

Conan figured everything out at this point and began to perform.

Hearing the noises from Conan and the child behind them, anxious Kogoro Mouri and Inspector Megure turned their heads curiously to see what was happening to them.

Maori Kogoro asked curiously:
"What are you talking about, Conan!"

Why does he feel like he doesn't understand what kids these days are saying?
Or did he accidentally miss something?
When Conan saw Maori Kogoro turned around, he placed the computer in front of Maori Kogoro and said:
"If you look at it this way, 162 is 291, and the numbers behind it are like English letters."

(End of this chapter)