In the face of Conan's words, Maori Kogoro on the side saw that since the phone had been hung up, and felt that the incident in Tokyo was not the turn of Hattori Heiji in Osaka, so he said seriously:

"Officer Twilight, this is Tokyo, let's leave that kid in Osaka alone and solve it ourselves!"

"Hahaha!"

In this regard, looking at Maori Kogoro's demeanor, Officer Twilight couldn't help laughing, and he felt that it was indeed about the same, so he said:

"Yes, too...... So, isn't it time for you to fall asleep too? ”

"Huh?"

Suddenly, hearing Officer Twilight say this, Maori Kogoro looked dazed and puzzled:

"How do I solve the case when I'm asleep?"

"It's just a metaphor!"

Officer Twilight continued to explain with a smile:

"Didn't you always seem to have an idea when you solved a case before, and then you started reasoning as if you were asleep? So you're going to feel it, aren't you? ”

"Oh, that's not ...... yet"

Blinking, Maori Kogoro said helplessly, and then his expression became serious, picked up the manuscript in his hand, and continued to look:

"The problem is the dialogue of the character that Mr. Shinnaga created based on himself...... Through the interpretation of his dialogue, the code can be deciphered. However, according to the implication of the title 'Half of the Apex', although the content of the first dialogue can be unraveled, such a rule cannot be interpreted in the subsequent dialogue, and the sentence cannot be read smoothly, which is ......"

"Yes, even if you read through all the plots from the first appearance of this character to the second appearance of this character, I didn't find anything more like hints of solutions, so I suddenly couldn't decipher it in the original way, what the hell is going on?"

In this regard, Conan on the side also felt anxious and thought-

"Could it be that the code used to call for help in the first paragraph was discovered by the gangsters who imprisoned Mr. Xinming, so as a last resort, in order to prevent the gangsters from detecting the problem, Mr. Xinming changed the way of interpretation again?"

With a solemn face, Officer Twilight analyzed solemnly.

"If the gangster is really a fan of Mr. Shina's book, it is impossible not to be suspicious of Mr. Shina's unusual declaration at the front of the book and the appearance of a character based on the author himself, that is, it is likely that the gangster has discovered that Mr. Shina wants to use this to ask for help from the outside world, so after that, the gangster has changed the paragraph with the code before faxing the manuscript to the editorial office!"

And at this moment, Mori Kogoro looked at the undecipherable content in front of him, and couldn't help but make such an analysis, and then said:

"Officer Twilight, I don't think it's possible to decipher the content of these conversations. If we want to save Mr. Shina, we have to find another way to search! ”

So, it's very serious, Mori Kogoro advised.

"Hmm."

Nodding, Officer Twilight sensed that there was some truth in Mori Kogoro's words, so he thought about dispatching a large number of police forces to start the search-

However, at this moment, the fax machine in the editorial office moved, and I saw that the latest manuscript about "The Apex of One-Half" was transmitted at this time.

"Huh? Why is it ...... at this time?"

And at this moment, seeing that the content that came was the latest serialized manuscript, the editor-in-chief of the editorial department was suddenly surprised-

"What's wrong?"

Urgent, seeing that the editor-in-chief showed such a surprised look, Conan hurriedly asked.

To this, the editor-in-chief replied:

"Because, the teacher's serialized manuscript is transmitted on time at 0:00 a.m. on Saturday every week, and there is no error in the time. But how can this still be ...... during the day?"

"Show us!"

Realizing that something was wrong, Kogoro Mori stepped forward and began to take the manuscript from the fax machine, began to look through the passages of dialogue that might have hidden the code, and then left the rest of the paper on the fax machine after finding the pages of the relevant paragraphs.

And in this regard, Conan was also anxious to see it, but due to his height, he couldn't see the manuscript that was standing in his hand by Mori Kogoro.

So, there was no way, Conan could only look at the rest of the manuscript that was left on the fax machine, and-

"The puzzle has been solved, thanks to the reader who fulfilled my wish......"

Suddenly, at the end of the manuscript, Conan saw this sentence written in the appendix at the end, and couldn't help but read it out in surprise-

"What!"

"Wise brother!"

Suddenly, as soon as these words came out, Mori Kogoro and Officer Twilight, as well as the rest of the people here, were stunned, and then couldn't help but come to Conan, take a look at the content of this last page, and indeed saw that at the end of this manuscript, in the afterword, such words were left.

So, although he was puzzled, Officer Twilight immediately took out his mobile phone and contacted Gao Yuan......

……

"So, in the end, we thought about the follow-up code that we didn't solve for a long time, and the detective brother just looked through the serialized ones, and he knew the answer directly?"

A few days later, during the holidays, at the Osaka Shinkansen station, when Conan, Koran, and Mori Kogoro got off the train, they met Hattori Heiji, who had already arrived with several others.

As for the secret matter about the "Apex of One-Half" that day, Hattori Heiji took the opportunity to walk out of the station and couldn't help but ask Conan to understand the situation, and then he learned the general situation after that, and then he couldn't help but sigh.

"yes. Mr. Shina's daughter, Miss Shina Kahori, who commissioned Mr. Akechi to investigate Mr. Shina's whereabouts, knew Mr. Shina's whereabouts immediately after watching Mr. Akechi simply flip through those magazines. Because Mr. Shina was suffering from terminal cancer, he wanted to fulfill his last wish before he died, hoping that some readers would be the first to interpret the truth before he could give an answer, so at the end of his life, he willfully planned this incident......

"And in the end, Mr. Wise fulfilled his wish, and let the reasoner, without regret, pass away."

In this regard, Conan couldn't help but explain with some amazement.

"That's right......"

With some emotion, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but say:

"But I still don't understand, the follow-up interpretation, aren't we unable to interpret it according to the original rules?"

"Because there are still hidden clues."

Conan explains:

The character created by the new gentleman based on himself is a sojourn in France, which is actually a hint that the subsequent interpretation should take into account the rules of the French language, that is, the initial 'H' is not pronounced. In this way, the following dialogue can also be interpreted. ”

"That's ...... so"

In this regard, Hattori Heiji nodded silently, and then as if he remembered something, he couldn't help asking:

"By the way, what about the detective brother? Didn't he agree to come over and play? Why didn't you join you? ”

"He didn't take the same bus as us, so he would have arrived late."

Conan couldn't help but explain.

"yes......"

In this way, if you have some understanding, Hattori Heiji took Conan and the others to walk outside the station first-

"So, this trip to Osaka, I'll take you around first!"

As he spoke, Hattori couldn't help but take the lead outside the station, leading everyone to a police car......

(End of chapter)