"I agree! It would be great if we could see each other!"
"What a great idea! We've accepted this commission!"
"If you find it, you can treat us to eel rice!"
Faced with Tangze's proposal, several little ones agreed almost instantly.
And this is also rare. The young detective team did not transform into a "death-seeking team" and started its first operation with the support of Tang Ze.
"Is that at Noi's house?" Genta quickly began to guess: "It's the house with the scary big dog."
"It's not impossible. After all, that was the place where the two of them met for the first time." Mitsuhiko nodded and agreed.
"I actually thought so too." Dr. Ali said with some melancholy after hearing what the two said: "So that day ten years later, I went there and waited all day, but no one came."
"What about the Danye family who raises golden rats?" Ayumi guessed.
"In my twentieth year, I went to stay at a friend's house the day before." Dr. Ali still shook his head and said with a bitter smile, "It's a pity that I still didn't wait for her."
"It seems that these two places are not special places full of memories for her." Tangze touched his chin and began to guide a few little ones.
"Then she must be waiting for you somewhere else..." Mitsuhiko said firmly, as if in the other person's mind, there was no such unacceptable possibility.
"Then will she write to you again?" Ayumi asked the doctor.
"Well..." Dr. Ali thought for a moment and said, "Although she knew where my home was, we later moved to the countryside..."
"Then why didn't you write to her at that time?" Yuantai said angrily: "Wouldn't there be no follow-up things?"
"But I can't even remember his address and name, so how can I send a letter?" Dr. Ali couldn't help but smile bitterly after hearing Yuantai's words.
"Eh? You can't even remember the name?" Bumi said in surprise.
"Why don't you go to school and ask about this kind of thing?" Conan said with a speechless expression.
"Of course I wanted to go there and ask." Dr. Ali said with a smile, "But at that time, I thought we would meet again in ten years, so I didn't ask."
"By the way, I remember that Dr. Ali also studied at Didan Primary School, right?" Bumi suddenly thought of this: "Then can't we call and ask?"
"But today is a holiday, so only the security guard should be here." Mitsuhiko said hesitantly.
"If that's the case, then it can't be checked..." Yuantai sighed in disappointment.
"And even if you find the other person's name and address, and you are lucky enough to be able to contact them and meet them successfully, doing so will only hurt the other person, right?"
Haiyuan hugged and glanced at Dr. A Li and said: "After all, I can't even remember the place of memories that I cherish, so I let you waste forty years of waiting in vain."
"Ha ha ha ha..."
Dr. A Li could only smile to cover up the embarrassment in his heart when he heard Haibara's venomous words.
Even Conan on the side had a speechless expression, obviously feeling that what Haiyuan said was a bit heartbreaking.
"Well, the premise of this issue is that the other party is still waiting for the doctor in the "Land of Memories"." Haiyuan said lightly: "Now the most urgent thing is to find that place."
"Then it really depends on the doctor to come up with that place!" Ayumi said after hearing this.
"But it's been forty years..." Dr. Ali rubbed his chin and said distressedly: "Even if you let me think about it, I can't help it..."
"Well...it's not like there are no clues." Conan said, pointing to the envelope: "Look here, there is a line of numbers above the recipient's name, right?
Maybe these numbers are a hint to the promised place."
"But what do these numbers mean?" Yuantai looked at the numbers on the letter and was a little confused: "There is also a sign next to it that it means animals."
"4163, 33, 6, 0"
Here are the cipher numbers on the letter.
"Doctor, what do you mean?"
Facing Ayumi's inquiry, Dr. Ali could only smile bitterly without saying anything.
"But if it's Conan, he must know it!" Ayumi on the side looked at Conan expectantly.
"No, I don't know at all." Conan looked at the letter and shook his head.
"At this time, it's natural to ask Karasawa for criminal advice!" Mitsuhiko's words immediately diverted everyone's attention to Karasawa.
"Hey, hey, I'm not omnipotent." Looking at the expectant eyes of a few little ones, Tang Ze spread his hands and said, "Even if I don't have more information, I can't cancel this code."
"Ah, how could this happen..."
After being disappointed for a moment, Mitsuhiko seemed to have thought of something and said excitedly: "Then if we call Uncle Maori, the "famous detective" and the "famous criminal" to decipher the secret together, there will definitely be a way!"
"No, Uncle Kogoro went to attend the joint concert of Okino Yoko and Nakayama Misa, and he is not at home at all now." Conan blocked Mitsuhiko's plan.
"Weisha?"
Hearing Conan's words, Dr. Ali on the side seemed to suddenly think of something. He touched his chin and said thoughtfully: "I remember her name seems to be this..."
"What about Sister Sonoko?" Genta looked at Mitsuhiko and said, "I remember last time she showed off what case she solved!"
"As for Yuanzi, I'm not free today either."
Tangze smiled and said: "Originally, we called Yuanzi to come to today's party, but she said she wanted to buy brand-name products that were on sale in limited quantities today, so she went to line up early in the morning.
Xiaolan should be with him this time."
"I am behind both of them...I can't figure it out and still expect them..." Conan complained speechlessly after hearing the two people's suggestions.
"Ah, you're talking about the products that were released after designer Sae Campbell arrived at Neon, right?"
After hearing what Conan said, Haiyuan couldn't help but said: "I also like their products very much."
"I really don't know what's good about it. That bag is full of leaves..." Yuantai on the side said with a look of disgust on his face: "And it's also very expensive."
"That's the ginkgo leaf, the brand pattern painted on cloth." Mitsuhiko explained with a smile.
"Bushae...why does it feel like this is the name..."
Dr. A Li scratched his head again after hearing this: "Wei Sha...Bu Shae...these pronunciations are similar...I really can't remember..."
"Why..."
Seeing Dr. A Li's dissatisfied look, the little ones sighed helplessly.
"Is there really no way to do it?" Ayumi looked at the numbers on the envelope and asked in distress.
"If you want to decrypt it, you must first assume the identity and psychology of the coder."
Tangze said, smiled, looked at Dr. Ali and said, "Can you describe the other party in detail?
Whether it's personality, appearance, or family background, these will be the keys to forming a code."
"Eh? But don't these have nothing to do with secret codes?" Yuantai said a little confused when he heard this.
"No, it actually has a lot to do with it." Conan chuckled and explained: "Everyone's secret code will not exceed his cognition and knowledge.
At that time, the other party was still a fourth-grade primary school student and had only been exposed to so much knowledge, so the secret code would naturally not exceed this range of knowledge."
Conan actually agreed with Karasawa's proposal. In Conan's opinion, this method was very feasible.
Although they don't know the specific solution to the secret code, if they can get to know each other better through profiling and guess the other person's thoughts on the question, then it will be easier to solve the secret code.
"Doctor, think about it quickly. Apart from being afraid of small animals, is there anything else worth noting about the other party?"
After hearing Conan's explanation, the three little ones quickly asked Dr. Ali, hoping to get more information from him.
"Well... let me think about it..." Dr. Ali scratched his head after hearing this, but still found nothing.
Seeing that the situation was at an impasse, Tangze knew that if he didn't want to be a tool and take a few little ones to the zoo, he had to step up and control the rhythm.
So Karasawa touched his chin and pretended to think, then looked at Dr. Ari: "Doctor, I remember you said that when you first met each other, the girl held her hat down very low, and it was like this after that.
?"
"Eh? This..." Upon hearing Karasawa's question, Dr. Ali seemed to have thought of something, and immediately fell into deep thought.
The three little ones on the side looked anxiously at Dr. A Li's appearance, but they did not dare to rush him, for fear that their interruption would interrupt his memory.
"By the way, hair, I remembered why she always wears a hat."
Soon, Dr. Ali came back to his senses and said: "Although her pupils are black, the color of her hair is different from ours.
More like blonde than brown..."
"The girl's father or mother must be a foreigner."
Haiyuan said calmly: "This should be the reason why she always wears a hat, because she doesn't want to cause discussion among her classmates at school, or even make a fuss about her hair of different colors."
"Indeed, children will always feel ostracized towards people who are different from themselves and their peers." Tang Ze nodded.
"Foreigners..." Conan seemed to suddenly think of something, looking at the numbers on the postcard in his hand with a look of understanding.
"Conan, do you already know anything?"
Seeing Conan's familiar expression, the three little ones who had experienced many cases with Conan immediately became energetic.
"Well, actually it has something to do with animals." Conan nodded and said, "This number actually refers to the sounds of animals."
"Scream?" Dr. Ali said blankly after hearing this.
"That's right, it's the number of words to describe the cry."
Conan smiled and explained: "For example, the "6" in the secret code represents "SQUEAK", which is the onomatopoeia of "squeak" in the mouse."
"Really, it's exactly six letters." Mitsuhiko and others suddenly said.
"But there are six letters to describe animals that make sounds, so there should be more than this one." Dr. A Li hesitated.
"That's true, but don't forget that in the doctor's memory, one of the animals associated with that girl is the golden rat." Karasawa reminded.
"Is that the home of Dr. Ari's friend who has a golden rat?"
After Yuantai finished speaking, he hesitated and said: "But the doctor has already said that he has been there. Could it be that the other party did not go..."
"Don't forget that there are three sets of numbers "4163, 33, 0" that have not yet been solved." Tang Ze reminded with a smile.
"But is there really any animal sound that uses so many adjectives?" After hearing Karasawa's words, Mitsuhiko asked with some doubts.
"As long as you take the numbers apart and treat them as a whole, it's enough." Tang Ze smiled and said, "For example, "4163" is the sound of a chicken.
Because the crowing sound of the chicken is "Cocl-a-doodle-doo" which is exactly the code, right?"
Hearing this, Conan glanced meaningfully at Tang Ze, who was smiling at the side, and suspected that the other party already knew the answer.
After all, asking the previous question means that the other party may have guessed that one of the girl's parents is a foreigner.
Now that we know this, it is natural to get the answer as long as we try to decrypt the code.
"As expected of Karasawa, he is as sharp as ever..." Conan sighed secretly.
"Ah, then "33" is the sound of a dog barking!" After listening to Tangze's words, Dr. Ali immediately understood the method of deciphering the code and guessed another code.
"Ah, it's true, because the dog's bark is "Bow-Wow", so it happens to be "33"!"
"The dog should refer to the Noi family?" After hearing the answer, Ayumi was happy at first, and then became confused and said, "But what does the chicken represent..."
"It should be the school." Dr. Ali thought for a moment and said, "I remember that she often went to feed the chickens in the school..."
"Then there is only one "0" left to solve." Haiyuan looked at Tang Ze and Conan and smiled: "This code seems to be a little different from before."
"Yes, are there any animals that can't bark?" Mitsuhiko said hesitantly.
"No, it's not that it doesn't bark, it's that there are no animals there at all."
Karasawa smiled and explained: "Don't forget, Dr. Ali said that she was afraid of animals before, so it should be appropriate to use "0" to represent her home."
"Yes, she once said that her parents no longer want to keep animals after she was bitten." Dr. A Li said suddenly after hearing Karasawa's words.
"So, then "0" represents Miss Kinoshita's family?" Haibara said clearly.
"But how can a person wait in four places? Where is the waiting place..." Mitsuhiko frowned and said in distress.
"Then how about connecting the four locations in the order written by Miss Kinoshita?" Conan looked at the three little ones and said with a smile.
"School...Noi...Dieye...Kinoshita..."
After the few chanted and combined all the codes, a look of surprise appeared on their faces the next moment, and then they looked at each other and shouted out the answer in unison.
“Under the ginkgo tree at school!”
That's right, when these words are combined into a sentence, the answer is "under the ginkgo tree in school".
And here is the place agreed upon by Dr. Agasa and Miss Kinoshita!