Conan Moslin

While Hirota Masami was still in a daze, Li An had already spoken.

"This is the cat that Miss Yamei's father raised. You should take care of it while Mr. Hirota is not here." Li An smiled, "I have to leave for a while. I'll give it to you with the collar on."

She looked very relieved.

Hirota Masami was still thinking about how to find an excuse to get the clue when Li An brought it to her.

"I'm sorry to have wasted Sister Li An's time..." Mao Lilan felt a little guilty.

Mao Lilan agreed to her father's request only after she knew that she said she had a friend here and could come over to visit.

We were supposed to come together and then separate, but we came so late.

I don’t know when I can go back today.

Li An understood her expression and felt a little guilty, but he still invited her with a smile: "My sister's daughter is at the racecourse. She said that if you are interested, you can come to the four o'clock show. Do you want to watch it together?"

In fact, the long delay was partly due to her.

Since Kogoro Mouri was drunk and unable to drive, he advanced the commission fee for the first phase of finding someone for Kuriasu and asked Kuriasu to help as a driver in return.

Since it was the commission fee that had not yet been received, Kogoro Mori spent it without any regrets.

It's just at this stage anyway.

Li An had a rare bit of free time after finishing his report and had nothing to do, so he agreed.

It was just because she didn't sleep much at night, so she drove on the highway, waited until everyone else fell asleep, then took a detour and found a place to park and rest for a while.

She only slept for twenty minutes. How could she have imagined that when she got on the highway again, there would be an accident and a traffic jam ahead?

If Yuko were here, she would definitely complain:

Is this how the illusion into dreams is used? ? ?

well, let's get back to business.

"Racecourse?" Although she had no interest in horse racing, Mao Lilan's eyes lit up because of the previous information. "Mr. Hirota's clues point to that place! Can I go?"

Li An did not hesitate: "Of course, Chris will definitely welcome you."

This matter is settled.

Hirota Masami, who was standing by, pinched the three bells on her collar and swallowed what she was about to say.

Just what she wanted.

Now, she believed that she had found the clue and there was no need for her to stay here any longer.

Kogoro Mouri was still inside the house, looking around, but as usual he didn't find anything wrong and had no idea that his daughter was going to be kidnapped by Hei Yu to watch horse racing.

Of course, he knew that now.

"You guys go ahead, I'll ask his neighbors if they have any clues." He didn't quite believe that Mao Lilan's speculation about the code was so frivolous, but Mao Lilan insisted on thinking so.

Anyway, with Hei Yu around, she won't be in any danger.

Maori Kogoro waved his hand and let them go, but left Conan behind: "The racetrack is not a place for children, let him stay with me."

This is not the point.

The point is, Kogoro Mouri thought, Conan's "puzzle" has not been completed yet.

Li An took the key, calculated the time silently in his mind, and assured Maori Kogoro: "If nothing unexpected happens, you can be back before seven o'clock."

Kuriya felt at ease leaving Kogoro Mouri and Conan behind and taking Mouri Ran away.

As for Hirota Masami, she would naturally follow Mori Kogoro.

As for whether she would run away halfway...

That was not within her consideration.

Not long after Li An and the other two left, Hirota Masami, no, Miyano Akemi took off the bell on her collar, found an excuse to go to a convenience store to buy some personal items, quickly left her accomplice's residence, and went to a nearby bathroom.

She took out the bell she had taken off the King's collar. Because there was something inside, the bell made no sound even though she walked so fast.

She pried open the gap of the bell with force and pulled out a note.

The note was crumpled and looked like it was difficult to stuff in. It had the hotel address and room number written on it, as well as a time.

The handwriting was crooked and did not look like Kenzo Hirota's handwriting.

And... time?

She pondered for a moment and silently memorized the address.

Speaking of calendars, when making plans, she and her accomplices once used the calendar placed at her workstation to pass some simple messages.

But at that time it wasn't such a "violent" poke, it was just a simple circle.

Many people would mark important dates in this way, so it wouldn't be out of place for her to send the message this way.

But she didn't expect that Kenzo Hirota would dare to leave this message in the house, and even the code decryption method had not changed at all.

Does this mean that she or someone else cannot find the person?

Miyano Akemi pondered for a while.

No...that's not right.

If he wanted to hide something from detection, it was unlikely that he would use a code that all three knew.

If he ran away with the money, he should have paid more attention to hiding instead of leaving them any clues.

A similar situation can be seen in the case of Tino Cabana and his group who have been deported.

The secret code left by Tino Cabana was just to make it easier for him to find it, and his accomplices could not understand it.

Miyano Akemi didn't know about Tino Cabana, but that didn't stop her from understanding the logic.

She suddenly had a hunch that this message might not have been written by Kenzo Hirota.

Who could that be?

Who can be sure that she or another person will come and see this message?

She frowned.

If there was anyone who knew that she was looking for Kenzo Hirota, besides the people in the organization and today's detective, it should only be the bookstore owner.

Could it be him?

In any case, she couldn't stay here any longer.

Miyano Akemi took off her hairpin, untied her pigtails, turned her blue jacket inside out and put it on, put on lipstick, took off her glasses and stuffed them into her bag, and after cleaning up all the traces, left quickly.

She got in a taxi back to her apartment and called Mr. Maori to explain that she had to leave first because of an emergency.

After hanging up the phone, she heard the radio in the taxi broadcasting this news.

"Today, a serious shooting incident occurred inside the Shinjuku Racecourse. The deceased was Kenzo Hirota, an unemployed man... It was initially determined to be a revenge killing..."

Miyano Akemi was horrified.

……

After thinking for a while, Conan figured out the code.

While deciphering the code, he felt a strange sense of familiarity.

The last time he solved a similar code was on Moon Shadow Island. He later drew the musical notation code of the word "Dream" in his notebook again.

Is it because it is an English code again?

Calendar dates after the 27th are crossed out as they are not needed.

The dates from the 1st to the 26th represent 26 letters respectively, and the letters represented by the punched dates are B, E, G, I, K, L, and N respectively.

The line of text above the calendar is the order of the circled letters, with 0 as the separator.

5、4、7、3、0、1、2、6、6。

That's two words in English.

King, Bell.

"King" and "Bell".