Just because you can do it doesn't mean you have to do it.

Kaedehara still cherishes his life.

He just caught the attention of the middle-aged man as planned.

However, Kaedehara felt that even if he didn't attract the attention of the other party, the other party couldn't avoid Conan's kick.

At this moment, the middle-aged man had fainted, and the gun in his hand had been taken off and fell to the side.

The insurance hasn't even been opened yet.

If this guy enters the black-clothed organization, he will only be cleaned up by his own people.

While Kaedehara was thinking like this, Conan ran over, looked at the middle-aged man who had fainted, and then at the pistol on the side, and breathed a sigh of relief.

He underestimated the danger of the other party.

It was also his idea to try to trap the other party first, and this plan was not dangerous for the two of them - if the other party did not have a gun.

But the good thing is that everything goes well.

"What did you kick it with?" Kaedehara asked curiously. The middle-aged man's face was bruised, but there was no blood.

"Wooden toys." Conan pointed to the somewhat deformed object on the side, "Turned out at the bottom of the Doctor's box." ”

This is quite a Ke study.

Kaedehara didn't dwell on it anymore, after all, compared to his crossing, even Dr. Asasa's unscientific props were not worth mentioning, let alone such a trivial matter.

After confirming that the other party had indeed fainted, Kaedehara opened the badge of the Junior Detective Corps.

The badge has the ability to make remote calls.

Soon, Dr. Asa ran out with three elementary school students.

"Conan! Kaedehara! ”

"Damn! You're sneaking out again to solve the incident! Yuan Tai said dissatisfied.

Mitsuhiko carefully looked at the middle-aged man on the ground, and then high-fived him with his fist: "By the way, I just saw a roll of rope, so go get it!" ”

Mitsuhiko runs away to find the rope, Ayumi worriedly asks if Conan and Kaedehara are not injured, and Motota seems to be hesitant to give the man on the ground a kick.

Kaede replied as he put the pistol bag in the car, ready to hand it over to the Twilight Police Department on the way to avoid being touched by the elementary school students.

Soon, Mitsuhiko took out the rope and skillfully tied up the middle-aged man.

That's when Conan explained.

"Huh? Is this person also here to find treasure? ”

"Hmm." Conan nodded.

"Ahh Speaking of treasures," Mitsuhiko said, "Conan, Kaedehara! We've found the key clue! ”

"What clues?" Conan became interested.

"The pattern under the vase?"

"Uh-huh," Ayumi nodded, "and the robot dolls, candlesticks, plates..."Ayumi said as she wrenched her fingers, "Oops! In short, there are a lot of patterns! ”

Conan, who was very interested in solving puzzles, naturally couldn't sit still.

There was still some time before the Twilight Police Department arrived, and after tying up the middle-aged man a few more times, the Junior Detective Group embarked on a treasure hunt again.

A moment later.

"Thirteen of them." Conan held his chin in contemplation. The motifs on it are all moon, stars, and suns, and Conan thinks it's a kind of password, "It would be nice if it was longer and more like an article..."

"The Doctor said Oh!" Mitsuhiko said, "The anonymous letter that Aunt Doctor received has such a pattern on it! ”

"Really?" Conan looked at Dr. Asasa.

Dr. Asasa nodded: "My aunt came to me a few years ago and said that she had been receiving anonymous letters every year since ten years ago, all written in Hiragana, with words like 'Hello Sensei' and 'Please take care of your health'. This is the kind of graphic that is drawn next to those hiragana letters, like lace. ”

"Like lace?" Conan said, "And then? What about those letters? ”

"I don't know what's going on, so I'll give it to you... Uh, a mystery novelist friend who lives nearby has a look. ”

"He was so busy with work that he didn't want to pay attention to me, but then the more he looked at it, the more excited he became, took the envelope and went to the room, and then came out in a few minutes and gave me a letter for me to give to my aunt."

"What else do you say, I'm as warm as the sun." Dr. Asasa said as he recalled.

Hearing this, Conan seemed to think of something, and glanced at Kaedehara proudly, like the former Hattori Heiji.

Kaedehara was thoughtful.

He wondered if he remembered the memory.

But Shinichi Kudo was not present at that time.

Without Kaedehara's question as a compliment, Conan was a little disappointed, but fortunately, Yuan Tai opened his mouth: "And then?" What's in the envelope? ”

"It must be a cipher table." With the praise, Conan spoke, "These passwords all represent hiragana. ”

The puzzle solving finally progressed, and the elementary school students were very happy. After learning that the patterns all represented hiragana, Conan quickly deduced the interpretation table from the changes in the graphics.

Then I learned that the password was all "please see" plus something in the villa.

"Just follow these things, and you should find them," Conan said confidently with his hands in his pockets, "that important thing that must be hidden with a password!" ”

After saying that, Conan demonstrated it on the spot, and soon found the last password: please look at the plate.

But on the plate is the first password.

"Isn't that going back to square one?" Motota said.

Ayumi and Mitsuhiko have lost expressions, and Dr. Asasa thinks it's just a prank.

Conan felt a little embarrassed.

He had just proudly shown off in front of his other self, but his reasoning had reached a dead end.

Thinking of this, Conan couldn't help but glance at Kaedehara again.

"That's right, Kaedehara-san, you can also help think about it!"

"yes... You didn't say a word at first..."

The elementary school students who had just fallen from hope to disappointment were counting on Kaedehara to help out, but Kaedehara had a headache.

Because logical thinking is still his own, he thinks he is inferior to Conan in this kind of puzzle solving.

Conan couldn't even think of a puzzle, and even if he could figure it out, it would consume a huge amount of brain cells.

However, although I don't want to do graphical reasoning, Kaede Yuan does have a little idea about where the "treasure" is.

"You've already searched the first and second floors, right?" Kaedehara said.

"Huh?" The topic changed suddenly, and the elementary school students were stunned for a moment before Mitsuhiko replied, "Yes, I've already searched through it." ”

"Nothing found except the Doctor's pranks!"

Dr. Asa touched his head in embarrassment, and the destroyed box of toys was still being turned out by elementary school students.

"What about the attic?" Kaedehara then asked.

"The attic? Is there an attic? Motota looked at his companion in confusion.

Conan was stunned for a moment.

"From the outside, this villa must have an attic, right?" Kaedehara pointed upward, "Maybe the attic is hidden?" ”

Turning his attention away from the pattern, Conan couldn't help but feel that Kaedehara was right. But he's still more interested in solving puzzles...

But elementary school students are different.

They're a little more interested in rummaging through cabinets.

So Ayumi, Motota, and Mitsuhiko began to look at the ceiling, trying to find the gap where the attic was...

"Stupid!" Conan had a black line on his face, and couldn't help but say, "This is the first floor, if you want to find it, you should go to the second floor-"

However, before the words fell, he heard Ayumi's cry of joy, and the expression on his face froze all of a sudden.

"Found it!" Ayumi happily pointed to the middle of the ceiling, "There seems to be a gap in the chandelier!" ”

"Huh? That's a groove, right? Mitsuhiko objected.

Conan was like a bullet through his brain, and he had a flash of inspiration.

I saw that he took the paper on which he had just taken notes, and connected the furniture he found with the code pattern printed on the paper in order. The intersection of the lines converges in the middle, where the chandelier is located.

And by this time, Mitsuhiko and Motota had already scrambled to climb onto the sofa.

Conan reminds them that the chandelier should be turnable.

Soon, the sound of a heavy object falling from the second floor was heard.

"You guy," Conan complained to Kaedehara as he walked upstairs after the elementary school students, "I didn't say anything about it when I solved it early in the morning." ”

Kaedehara blinked innocently.

He's just a little bit more observant.

The chandelier turns, and it opens the staircase that leads to the attic.

They found a long-dead man in the staircase, who looked like he had died of a heart attack while writing a letter.

Conan also deduced the full picture of the matter from the unfinished letter.

The deceased was the same artist who painted Dr. Asasa's uncle and aunt. He was commissioned to make a template for the twenty dollar bill, but because of his troubled conscience, he did not want to hand it over, so he hid in this house.

The middle-aged man downstairs came to find the counterfeit banknote template.

In short, the treasure hunt organized by Dr. Asa came to a successful conclusion after the arrival of the Twilight Police Department.

Dr. Asasa was satisfied.