Ke Xue: Shinichi and I are childhood friends.

Chapter 1168 The Third Code

Ayanokouji's face looked grim, and he said in a heavy tone, "We thought there wouldn't be any problems with the constant flow of people on the street, so we put the security behind us. Unexpectedly..."

It’s not his fault. Who would have thought that the murderer would dare to commit murder on the street?

Hattori Heiji asked with some confusion: "But why did Mr. Hayabusa come outside? When we left, I told you to stay in the room, right?"

Director Masanori explained: "I went to the bathroom with Isamu and Agada. Isamu was worried that Keiko was unsafe in the room alone, so he turned back halfway."

Agata added: "I remember that he seemed to check his phone before he went back."

Ayanokouji nodded slightly and looked at Keiko Kurachi: "Ms. Kurachi, is Mr. Hayabusa going back soon?"

Keiko Kurachi shook her head and denied it. "I didn't meet Mr. Hayabusa. I was alone in the room at the time and was a little scared. I also went to the bathroom after that. I think he might have come back after I left the room, right?"

Ayanokouji asked again, "Mr. Mashan, how long were you in the bathroom?"

Ma Shan said: "I came out of the toilet right away, but I got lost on the way back..."

Agatian said: "My stomach was not feeling well, so I stayed in the toilet for a little longer..."

Both of them looked nervous and frightened, as if they were shocked by the murder of another of their companions.

Sera Masumi said, "So, you three had the opportunity to send a message to Mr. Hayabusa, call him out of the store, and then kill him?"

Ayanokouji didn't refute, what Sera Masumi said did make sense.

However, the three people cried out with a look of injustice on their faces: "Why, why do you say that?"

"How could we possibly do such a thing?!"

Ayanokouji smoothed things over and turned his gaze to the footprints on Inuya's room. "These footprints look the same as the ones in Nishiki's room. They were painted there a long time ago."

He looked at Yuya and the others and asked, "Before you found the body, you really didn't see these footprints when you came here?"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Ooka Hongye had a frightened expression on her face: "Could it be that all of us have been deceived by the fox demon's tricks?"

"Huh?" When she heard the word "youkai", Mao Lilan instinctively showed an expression of fear.

She subconsciously looked at Kudo Shinichi, only to find that the latter was frowning in thought.

Yuya naturally didn't believe in the fox demon story. He carefully observed Inuya standing on the footprints and soon found something strange. Just when he was about to speak.

"Ah heh!" Kudo Shinichi suddenly shouted at the top of his lungs, "There are strange traces around Inuya!"

This complicated business is completely because Conan found something suspicious, but due to his identity he couldn't express it clearly, so he pretended to be a child.

Yuya, Miyano Shiho, Mori Ran, and Hattori Heiji, who knew that Kudo Shinichi and Conan were the same person, responded: "...?"

The three of them showed disgusted expressions at the same time, with dead eyes, watching Kudo Shinichi's exaggerated performance speechlessly.

At this time, Kudo Shinichi also realized that he was not Conan now, and there was no need to pretend like this. He quickly returned to his normal voice: "Uh-huh, did you see that?"

Yuya sighed, glaring sideways before cooperating, "Really? It's come full circle. What is this?"

Kudo Shinichi forced a smile.

Suzuki Sonoko and Ooka Momiji blinked their small eyes and looked at Kudo Shinichi in confusion, not understanding why such a grown-up suddenly acted cute.

Suzuki Sonoko complained, "What are you talking about? Why are you imitating that four-eyed brat at a time like this?"

Masumi Sera looked at Shinichi Kudo with a meaningful smile.

Kudo Shinichi quickly changed the subject: "By the way, where's the code? Did you find any on him?"

"Yes." Ayanokouji didn't care about Kudo Shinichi's strange look. He took an evidence bag from the forensic officer. Inside the bag was a leaf of the golden plate, and on the back of the leaf was a white paper with a secret code written on it.

The third code, like the previous two, also has crooked text, and its meaning is completely incomprehensible.

Hattori Heiji complained, "By the way, why is this square the symbol of the person called Izuri?"

Youya casually said, "If you use a larger, positive direction and surround it along the upper edge, does it look like the word '出'?"

Hattori Heiji stared at the square, compared it in his mind, and found that it was indeed similar.

At this time, Hattori Heiji's phone began to vibrate wildly.

He took it out and looked at it, his face changed slightly, he coughed twice, and then answered the phone.

"Heiji, what are you doing there?!" Toyama Kazuha's roar was heard clearly by everyone around him, and they all looked at him in surprise.

Hattori Heiji said hoarsely, "Didn't I tell you that I couldn't go to school because of a cold?"

Yuanshan Heye cursed: "Huh? If you lie, at least find a good excuse! The TV showed you clearly!"

TV? Hattori Heiji was startled. He turned around and saw that there were many reporters standing outside the cordon, filming this place with cameras.

It turns out that his lie was exposed so quickly because someone "betrayed" him.

Hattori Heiji looked at the code paper in his hand and said impatiently, "Anyway, I'm busy trying to crack the code of a bizarre serial murder case. Don't tell my parents about this!"

He didn't want to be punched by Hattori Heizo again, even if it was to solve the case.

"Of course I won't tell you, but if you appear on TV, your parents will see it sooner or later..." Yuanshan Heye complained incessantly.

At this time, Ooka Hongye came over and said, "Heiji, don't you think these words on the code sound like place names in Kyoto?"

"Huh?" Hearing this, the other three detectives immediately came over.

"Tell me more about it?" Youye urged.

Ooka Hongye exclaimed, raised her hand and pointed at a word on the code paper and said, "This word is the character "Bi" in Bi-cho, Kamigyo-ku. The one on the left is the character "Mu" in Mu-zeishan-cho, Shimo-ku. The one on the left is the character "Hua" in Kaya-cho, Ukyo-ku..."

Ooka Hongye pointed out several words related to place names.

Hattori Heiji was a little surprised: "This is how 'Hua' is pronounced." It's different from the pronunciation he usually knows.

Ooka Hongye looked at Hattori Heiji's face which was so close to her, her face flushed slightly, and she said with a smile: "Yes."

The tone sounds a bit like coaxing a child.

"Let me ask," Yuya said, "You just mentioned Kamigyo Ward, Shimogyo Ward, and Ukyo Ward. Are they the names of districts in Kyoto?"

Ooka Hongye understood what he meant and nodded, "That's right, Kyoto is divided into upper, middle, lower, left and right."

"!"

This sentence seemed to press a switch. The four detectives immediately gathered in front of the code paper and started discussing: "This code, could it be that..."

"It shouldn't be wrong."

The four of them were talking at the same time, but no one could make their point clear, which made Ooka Hongye next to them a little confused.