Conan: Another Famous Detective

There was still some time before the afternoon class. Except for Rumi Wakasa who had to mark the lines on the playground, Akira Hanomiya and his team all returned to the classroom again to try to decipher the codes.

"So, what does it mean?" Mitsuhiko stared at the photo on the tape, rubbing his chin with a confused expression on his face.

"It's the password for the code stick!" Conan smiled, seeming to have an idea.

"Shou...the sauce for the sukiyaki pot?" Gentai looked confused.

Conan's mouth twitched, Genta could think of anything to eat!

However, after knowing each other for so long, he has become accustomed to it and explained to himself: "This is a code used by the Spartans 2,500 years ago. The specific principle of the code is roughly like this..."

Conan tore off a slender piece of paper from a scrap of paper and explained: "Prepare such a piece of paper and roll it on a stick."

He used a ballpoint pen instead of a stick and wrapped long strips of paper around the pen.

"Then, write some words on it." Conan picked up another pen: "For example... Yoshida Ayumi is a lively and gentle girl."

As he spoke, the corresponding content was already written on the note.

There was a blush on Ayumi's face. Conan seemed to be complimenting her, which made her a little embarrassed.

Conan didn't notice Ayumi's reaction. After finishing writing, he showed the pen body to everyone: "Look, it doesn't seem to be a problem, but if you untie the note..."

The paper unwraps itself from the pen itself and becomes a long, thin strip of paper again.

"Look, this has become a secret code!" Conan laughed.

Yuantai looked at the paper tape and unconsciously said: "You are a beautiful woman but not a child, you are Chang Rou..."

"It really became a code!" Mitsuhiko said in surprise.

Conan nodded: "Rewind the tape onto the stick and you can see what is written on it. Therefore, as long as people have sticks of the same thickness, they can exchange secret codes!"

"Then the tape we found also has the same code?" Ayumi asked,

"Yes." Conan said with a smile: "I think that paper tape should be rolled up on the door of the warehouse to read. I can use a ballpoint pen instead."

Conan called up a photo of the tape, recreated a code tape based on the photo, and rolled it around a ballpoint pen.

The three little ones looked at the numbered ballpoint pens expectantly.

However, as the content on the ballpoint pen appeared, the expressions of the three little ones were gradually taken over by disappointment.

"What! There are still a lot of unintelligible words!" Yuantai muttered.

"The second-to-last character from the walk seems to be the river of Edogawa, but this is the only character that can be seen." Xiao Ai said calmly.

Conan frowned slightly: "Strange, could it be that the thickness of the stick is wrong?"

"Could it be that our direction was wrong from the beginning?" Mitsuhiko guessed: "Maybe this code is not solved using a code stick?"

"Did you think that the characters on the code tape were the radicals of Chinese characters, and that as long as they were rolled up on a stick, the complete Chinese characters would appear?" Akira Hanomiya, who had been silent on the side, finally spoke.

Conan was stunned when he heard this, and then nodded slightly: "I do think so."

"Ah? What radical?" The three little ones all looked confused when they heard this, which touched upon their knowledge blind spots.

"There are Chinese characters that are composed of two Chinese characters, which are the so-called combined characters." Xiao Ai started to explain: "The left half of the combined character with a left-right structure is called partial, and the right half is called side. For example, Yu The [明] in Brother Gong’s name means the sun and the moon.”

"Oh!" The three little ones still seemed to understand.

"Now the password has no meaning according to the solution of the password stick. Maybe we have missed some clues? For example, the password stick is only the first level of encryption." Hanemiya Akira said sideways.

Conan tapped his fingers on the table: "But apart from that note, there doesn't seem to be anything strange found at the scene..."

"If it's something strange, does this count?" Ayumi said suddenly, taking out a piece of yellowed paper from the drawer.

"Huh? This is..." Conan's expression moved slightly.

Ayumi smiled and said, "This is the old curriculum I found in the warehouse!"

"Oh! It's a curriculum with a lot of blank spaces!" Mitsuhiko also thought about it.

Conan took the class schedule and stared at the row above indicating Monday to Sunday, his eyes getting brighter: "So that's it, that's what happened!"

"Conan, what did you think of?" Ayumi asked curiously.

Conan smiled slightly: "If I guess correctly, this curriculum is actually a code interpretation chart!"

"The code's...interpretation table?" The three little ones were puzzled.

"You want to say that the words containing moon, fire, water, wood, gold, earth, and sun written on the right half of the code tape represent the seven days of the week, right?" Yu Gongming also had a guess.

"That's right!" Conan laughed.

"But, there's no word water on it?" Mitsuhiko asked confused. ,

As he said, there was no word water on the code tape.

"The character [水] is represented by these three dots of water!" Conan pointed to the [氵] on the code tape and explained: "Chinese characters related to water such as lake, river, and sea are all represented by three dots of water. Radical, it is not surprising to use three points of water to refer to water.”

"Then what are these Wu, Li, and Gong on the left?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"Those should be the components of each subject." Conan's thinking became clearer and he said: "The Chinese class is [Wu]; the mathematics class is [攵]; the social studies class is [Hui]; the science class is [Li]; and the handicraft class is [ Work]; physical education class is [Ben]; activity class is [Tongue].”

"That's it!" The three little ones suddenly realized.

Conan picked up the pen and started writing on the curriculum, saying, "Just fill in these words in the corresponding positions on the curriculum, and then mark them with Japanese kana from the upper left corner."

After a while, Conan filled in all the contents in the curriculum.

He said to the three little ones: "I will read these codes next, and you can help compare them."

"Okay!" The three little ones responded loudly, looking very interested.

"First of all, add "攵" next to the word "Tu"

In this way, Conan read out the secret codes one by one, and the three little ones translated them into Japanese kana. Xiao Ai then recorded these kana.

After a while, all the codes were translated.

Conan and Sanxiao only looked at the translated Kana, and the excitement on their faces cooled down again.

The above content is still undecipherable.

Conan scratched his hair: "Damn it! I thought I could decipher it right away!"

"Perhaps this curriculum is not arranged according to the fifty tones?" Yu Gongming said calmly.

Everyone couldn't help but look at him.