Chapter VI: Eyewitnesses
"Huh?"
Mao Lilan looked at Shinichi beside him in confusion.
You understand again, I'm confused again.
Only Kudo Shinichi at the scene instantly figured out the meaning of Mito's words from scratch.
Kudo Shinichi looked at Mihoko Shimomura, and when Mito mentioned her phone, Mihoko Shimomura's face suddenly turned white.
"Oh?" Officer Twilight's eyes were still full of suspicion, but out of the work ethic of a police officer, he still asked Officer Chiba and Shin beside him, "Chiba, what about the photos you took at that time?" ”
"Here......" The chubby Chiba Kazushin in the Metropolitan Police Department found the photo, and after glancing at the photo, he stammered, "Really, there really is blood." ”
Chiba and Shin are still chubby, but after losing weight, they are responsible for the appearance of Twilight and his party.
Taking the photo from Chiba and Shin, Officer Twilight opened his eyes and asked incredulously, "How do you know?" ”
Faced with Officer Twilight's doubts, Mito explained, "It's very simple, because of the Fukuzawa Yukichi (Japanese kana: ふくざわゆきち/romanized fukuzawa_yukichi) mentioned in the text message. ”
At the scene of the murder, there is such a statue of Fukuzawa Yukichi.
Yukichi Fukuzawa's old sculpture stood silently, ignoring the hustle and bustle of the crowd around him, and just last night, his eyes had witnessed a murder.
"Our Mr. Yukichi Fukuzawa is my eyewitness."
Mito walked up to the upper figure of Yukichi Fukuzawa.
"Generally speaking, no, it is 99 percent for sure that no one in the school will choose to use Fukuzawa Yukichi (Japanese kana: ふくざわゆきち/fukuzawa_yukichi) as the meeting place, and everyone will use the reading room (Japanese kana: えつらんしつ/etsuran-shitsu) as the surface."
"Except for people like me who frequented the reading room, or glasses classmates at the front desk, no one could remember that the statue of Yukichi Fukuzawa had already been moved."
The glasses lady at the front desk who was ordered pointed at herself blankly and embarrassedly, she obviously talked to Mito Moon every day, and she introduced herself to Mito Moon at the beginning, why is the name still a glasses classmate?!
Chiba and Shin were stunned and asked, "But Mito-san, aren't you the one who knows about the statue of Fukuzawa Yukichi, and is there any connection between this and the fact that you guessed that there was blood on the 9 on the keyboard?" ”
"Of course ......there is," Shinichi Kudo was about to explain, but it occurred to him that this didn't seem to be his own reasoning show.
This is really an embarrassing situation, the first time he has encountered such a thing where someone else has stolen the limelight.
"Of course there is, as I said earlier, since the person who texted used 'Yukichi Fukuzawa' instead of 'Reading Room,' there must be a problem with it."
Mito took out her mobile phone and showed the keyboard to the Metropolitan Police Department in front of her, "If you type with the mobile phone keyboard, the reading room (えつらんしつ) only needs to knock out six kana,They are the え corresponding to the nine-square grid numeric key 1,The numeric key 4,9,0,3,4。 ”
"After six taps like this, what comes out is the kanji in the reading room."
Mito Yue's tone is cold, if it is placed in the future in ten years, the mobile phone input method with intelligent associations will automatically type into the reading room when the first few kana are typed, but now it's only the nineties, and it's not even convenient to type romanized sounds on the mobile phone keyboard.
At the same time, the Chinese straight mobile phone used the nine-square grid to spell pinyin to input Chinese characters, but the Japanese nine-square grid was not, and most of the Japanese mobile phones of this period did not use romanization, but replaced them with kana.
Taking the number 2 as an example, in the Chinese mobile phone keyboard, the number 2 represents the a, b, and c in pinyin.
The Japanese number 2 is composed of か (ka) lines and five vowels, which means that the number 2 represents か (ka) き (ki) く (ku) け (ke) こ (ko) in Japanese keyboards, and each key position that is converted into a voiced sound or something more is counted......
"Yukichi Fukuzawa, on the other hand, needs to hit the keyboard seven times, in order of 6 ふ, 2 く, 3 ざ, ざ as a voiced sound is also in the position of keyboard 3, 0 わ, 8 ゆ, 2 き, 4 ち."
Officer Twilight still didn't understand what Mito meant: "What the hell are you trying to say?" Just because of the trouble of knocking on Fukuzawa Yukichi, you can see something. ”
Mito Moon shook his head, "Officer Twilight, of course I'm not saying this just because it's troublesome for Fukuzawa Yukido to tap on the keyboard, it's just a matter of moving your fingers. ”
"But the prisoner chose to spell Fukuzawa Yukichi because it would avoid the 1 and 9 on the keyboard, and counting the spelling of the rest of the text message, all the keys in the text message deliberately avoided the keyboard 9."
On the contrary, it is inferred that the key position is used to spell the reading room on the Chinese nine-square grid keyboard 345789 the mobile phone, and the key 34789 is used by Fukuzawa Yukichi, and the key 5 can be avoided between the two.
At this point, the police officers in the Metropolitan Police Department had their eyes widened, but Mao Lilan was still a little confused.
"Obviously, I can write out the reading room, but I have to type out Yukichi Fukuzawa, which basically no one knows, and if it's going to be used as an agreed place, Reya Hanabuchi is afraid that I will find her? So I deliberately chose an unpopular and remote sculpture to test my daily observational skills? ”
"Imagine if you would meet under a telephone pole at Shibuya Station instead of in front of the statue of Hachiko, the loyal dog at Shibuya Station? Isn't that redundant? ”
"Either that, or the number 9 has some reason not to be touched."
"For example, after the murderer's classmate killed Reya Hanabuchi, the blood stains on Reya Hanabuchi splashed the number 9."
Mito Yue took a step forward and paused: "Shimomura-san, this mistake you made is really ordinary and old, and there is nothing new about it. ”
"You, you, what nonsense are you talking about!" Mihoko Shimomura took a few steps back with a pale face and hit the shelf.
"Sending a text message to me is actually a step in the plan you have thought about a long time ago, you want to fake the time difference between the scene where I received the text message first, and then went to meet with Reya Hanabuchi before I died, but the reality is that I saw Reya Hanabuchi in the reading room first, and then received the text message, but if I hadn't broken your fake text message, it would really have made you succeed this time."
"But because the number 9 is splashed with blood, your plan is disrupted, if you type out of the reading room, you will inevitably encounter the number 9 blood stains to leave traces, with your cautious and bold character, you naturally know that even if you carefully wipe the blood stains on the keyboard, it will inevitably leave blood in the gap between the keys and the keys, no matter what, it will expose the fact that there are blood stains first - and then typing."
"So, instead of typing the reading room where the number 9 is bound to run, you found another thing to replace the reading room, which is our poor Yukichi Fukuzawa."
One of the students in the crowd muttered puzzledly, "But if you type on the keyboard of your phone, you will definitely leave a fingerprint on the keys." ”