"But in my opinion, Subaru-san may be even better as a detective..."
As Yuanzi spoke, he snickered and observed Xiaolan's reaction.
Sure enough, Xiaolan showed a slightly unconvinced look as she expected: "Is that so... Shinichi is also very powerful, okay..."
Sonoko came closer to her face: "Hehe - then, do you want to let Mr. Subaru compete with Shinichi?"
Xiaolan quickly understood that this was a trap set by her best friend, and blushed: "Then how do you want to compete?"
Seeing that Xiaolan had no objection, Yuanzi took out something from the bag with a smile: "Didn't you say you wanted to ask Shinichi about the thing I showed you this morning?"
It was a paper airplane painted with strange patterns, and it was the paper airplane weirdo who caused a lot of noise recently.
"How about it depends on who can solve this puzzle faster, your husband or Mr. Subaru?"
Yuanzi said with a wicked smile.
Xiaolan shook her head subconsciously: "I already told him that he is not my husband anymore..."
Although she was saying retorts, Xiaolan still took out her mobile phone, took a photo of the paper airplane, and edited a text message to send to her childhood sweetheart.
"It shouldn't be a problem for Shinichi to unravel the incident that has caused a commotion in society, right? Well... I got the actual paper airplane and sent the photos to you... That should be all right, right?
"
Seeing that Xiaolan had sent a message to Shinichi, Sonoko excitedly took her hand and went to find Mr. Okiya Subaru who was staying in this villa.
Subaru Okiya was wearing a black turtleneck sweater and was cleaning dust in the study room. Two high school girls came to his door. He calmly took a paper airplane folded from a newspaper with black dots and black lines on it, and held it in his hand.
He examined it in his hand.
"Mr. Subaru, this is a paper airplane that fell in my yard. It seems that a lot of these paper airplanes have appeared nearby for no apparent reason recently, and there are also rumors of a 'paper airplane weirdo'... I want to catch that prankster!
Yuanzi said sternly.
She thought for a moment and softened her tone: "Even if I can't catch him, I at least want to find out who threw these paper airplanes, and why he did such a thing..."
"Oh..." Subaru Okiya nodded and looked back and forth at the paper airplane. Soon, a terrifying divine light appeared in his narrowed eyes.
He frowned slightly: "This code..."
Sonoko's eyes suddenly widened and she looked at him in astonishment: "Huh? Mr. Subaru, do you already know the meaning of this paper airplane?"
This is too fast! She just gave the paper airplane to the other party!
Such speed made Yuanzi start to wonder if she was not very smart... Why couldn't she see things that others could see at a glance?
At the same time, Xiaolan's cell phone beeped. She took her cell phone out of her pocket and saw a new message transferred to her cell phone.
"Shinichi's reply! So soon?"
[The message written on this paper airplane is SOS!]
"I'm afraid this paper airplane has SOS written on it..." Subaru Okiya said in a serious voice, "It seems that the situation is a bit urgent... I wonder if you have picked up other types of paper airplanes? If so, I hope so.
Let me see it as soon as possible."
"SOS? Is this someone asking for help?!" Yuanzi opened her mouth.
Xiaolan's voice came from the side: "Yes, yes... According to the pattern drawn on the paper airplane, if you take the paper airplane apart, you can see that it has been painted with 'three dots-three line segments-
The graphic of three dots... This is the Morse code that is often used for communication and other purposes. In the Morse code, the three dots represent the letter S, and the three line segments represent the letter O..."
Xiaolan read to the message on her phone.
Yuanzi was stunned for a moment, then looked back at Xiaolan: "No way? He has also untied it?"
What's going on? Am I the only one who's stupid? I'm obviously still a sleeping high school girl detective...
"He?" Subaru Okiya caught the word keenly and looked quite interested, "I remember that the owner of this house is also named Shinichi, right? Are you looking for him to discuss this matter?"
Sonoko turned around unprepared to answer this question: "Mr. Subaru, don't you know? That's..."
When Xiaolan heard this, she immediately panicked. She had just told Yuanzi to try not to leak Shinichi's information to this tenant, but she didn't expect Yuanzi to forget when she saw the handsome guy turning his head.
"It's a teacher we know!" Xiaolan thought quickly and subconsciously asked someone she knew to deal with Subaru Okiya, "I was discussing this matter with a teacher who is particularly good at reasoning..."
Okiya Subaru suddenly said: "Oh? Teacher... I wonder if it's convenient to ask, what is the name of that teacher?"
"His surname is Yuan. We usually call him Teacher Yuan. He is currently teaching at Didan Primary School. Even though he is just a teacher, in fact, even the police gentlemen from the Metropolitan Police Department respect his opinions..." Xiaolan
There was faint sweat on his face.
Sonoko's head was full of questions, and he watched his best friend making up wrong information: "The Shinichi who lives here is just an ordinary high school student with no merits. We were entrusted by him to come here while he was skipping school.
Help with cleaning..."
However, neither the nervous Xiaolan nor the confused Sonoko noticed that when Subaru Okiya heard the words "teacher named Yuan", his whole body seemed to tense up. In an instant, a fierce aura emanated from his eyebrows.
, but it quickly converged.
He looked at Xiaolan with a normal expression: "In my opinion, he doesn't look like an ordinary high school student, does he? After all, there doesn't seem to be any trace of where he once lived here. Whether it's clothes, diaries or photo albums, etc.
I can't find anything... Of course, I mean in a more conspicuous place."
"Maybe it was put away?" Xiaolan guessed.
"I have no intention of inquiring into his personal affairs, so let's get back to the topic... I remember it was said in the news that the day before yesterday and yesterday morning, nearly a hundred paper airplanes were thrown out and picked up in the city. According to my speculation,
The person who sent out the SOS signal should not only send out this message. If more paper airplanes can be found, maybe we can deduce the whereabouts of the person asking for help."
Subaru Okiya pushed up his glasses as if he was blaming himself: "If I had been more careful when I saw the news, I might have discovered it earlier, but in the end it was just a prank and not taken seriously.
…”
A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Can I trouble you to find more paper airplanes? Or... we can also go to Didan Primary School and cooperate with the teacher named Yuan. I would also like to meet that teacher.