Stay away from Conan

Chapter 1618 They are actually brothers!

"How could Kudo Shinichi, who had just entered elementary school at that time, solve puzzles full of Chinese characters alone? Therefore, if those puzzles were designed for Kudo Shinichi at that time, it would not have been possible to use such difficult puzzles. The mystery..."

Slowly widening his eyes, Zai Xiaoai couldn't help but look at Gao Yuan in shock because he heard the truth that he had never heard from Conan and Xiaolan, expressing great surprise at the facts he knew——

A problem that even Edogawa and the two people who experienced it were not aware of...

In other words, for them at the time, Mao Lilan did not have enough knowledge and was not as curious as Kudo Shinichi, so he would not take the initiative to notice the problems. Although Kudo Shinichi was curious, he also learned it very smartly. He had some knowledge beyond his age at that time, but at that time his self-righteousness also prevented him from seeing the truth clearly...

Therefore, when the two of them recounted their personal experiences of that incident, both of them only recounted their subjective memories, and naturally did not notice anything wrong with the incident itself——

That's what Takato said, the riddles of those puzzles were beyond the ability of children of that age to solve them. Even Edogawa needed the help of Dr. Agasa to fully understand the riddles, so...

"So that's not a puzzle for children. Normally, when faced with this kind of puzzle, children should ask adults for help. So logically speaking, these puzzles will eventually end up in the hands of Kudo Shinichi's parents. ——In the hands of his father, Kudo Yusaku.”

While Xiao Ai was thinking, Gao Yuan also continued:

"But Kudo Shinichi is Kudo Shinichi after all. He was asked to accept the challenge. How could he let others interfere? So he bit the bullet and solved the puzzles, but even so, the final answer was not correct. ,after all……"

"After all, if the person who gave the puzzle wanted Kudo Shinichi and the others to watch the sunset, then in the end, after Mao Lilan left the words of thanks in the wallet and put it back in the library, the wallet should have been taken by that person It's only right to take it away, but..."

Speaking of this, Xiao Ai finally spoke up:

"That wallet is still intact in the library of Didan Elementary School. After all these years, no one has taken it."

In this way, Gao Yuan was a little surprised when he heard Xiao Ai say this:

"Have you seen it?"

Being able to tell this, thinking back to the original work, Gao Yuan wondered if the plot in the original work where the young detective team and others found the wallet in the library of Didan Elementary School had already happened?

So, Gao Yuan thought this, and at the same time he felt very embarrassed——

I thought I was telling a secret story, but if the story of discovering the wallet has already happened, then Xiao Ai obviously knows the direction of the story, so what does the story I just told mean?

However, Xiao Ai also explained this matter:

"I've seen it before. I heard Edogawa tell the first half of the story in the school library, but he didn't finish the second half because he had something to say. So later, the child asked the lady at the office about the follow-up. story……

"So, what you are talking about now is the first time I know it."

After hearing this, I learned that things developed like this, which means that Conan did not finish the story in one go, that is, he has not discovered the problem of the puzzle itself in the story?

In this way, Gao Yuan's mood improved a little, but his expression remained unchanged and he pretended to be calm. After nodding slightly toward Xiao Ai, he continued:

"Yes, then you should have seen that the wallet was left there intact, and no one took it away at all. Therefore, Kudo Shinichi's reasoning at that time was wrong. The other party's real purpose was not to let them see it. The sunset, and the puzzle is not yet solved——

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"After all, if they were asked to look in the direction of the setting sun from where they were at that time, there would be no need for the final symbol to be like that. Therefore, the real puzzle actually appeared after Kudo Shinichi found all the locations. And the last symbol is a reminder...

"Tip to replace the previous places with map symbols, then connect them together, and then follow the instructions of the last symbols, so that they will eventually form an English word——

"Oxhide."

"Cowhide?"

Hearing this, Xiao Ai was in a daze, but then she immediately thought of:

"Is that the cowhide wallet?"

"Yes, the real key is actually in that cowhide wallet. As long as you open that wallet, you can see inside the message that the person who left the wallet really wanted to convey..."

Gao Yuan said with certainty.

"So, the wallet is still there intact, so the mystery is not solved at all!"

He was a little surprised at first, but then he thought that the reason for this result was Kudo Shinichi's self-righteousness, and Xiao Ai couldn't help but chuckle, without feeling any more regret.

So, listening to Xiao Ai's words, Gao Yuan nodded, but then shook his head, which made Xiao Ai very puzzled:

"It's true as far as the wallet is concerned, but... as far as I know, in the end, the person who left these puzzles received the answer from the person he really wanted to ask."

Recalling the plot of the original work, Gao Yuan smiled bitterly and said:

"The message left in the wallet should be a question mark. This is actually what the person who left the code wanted to ask Kudo Yusaku. But in the end, you also saw that the wallet was not opened, but Kudo Yusaku still wrote back to that person, and the content of the letter was an exclamation mark."

"A question mark... and then an exclamation mark..."

Listening to Gao Yuan's story, Xiao Ai couldn't help but be surprised-

You know what's in the wallet before you open it? So you have met that person, right?

"Is this imitating the story of the two letters with only punctuation marks between the famous French writer Hugo and the publisher after he completed the manuscript of "Les Miserables"? "

With a dumb smile, Xiao Ai pointed out the similar allusions behind this, and then looked at Gao Yuan, wanting to hear what he was going to say about this story. It's not that he just wanted to tell me a story about Kudo Shinichi on a whim, right?

At this point, when Gao Yuan finished speaking, he sighed deeply, and finally talked about the most crucial point:

"Originally, for this story, I thought that the two of them were both enemies and friends, and that Kudo Yusaku was obviously better. It was only because I knew that there was this code that I skipped all the puzzles and knew what the other party was thinking, so I could reply without looking at the contents of the wallet...

"But now I know...the two of them are actually brothers! And even Kudo Yukiko didn't know about this, which really made me not know what to say..."

At this moment, facing Xiao Ai, Gao Yuan couldn't help but speak out his thoughts...