I don't know if it was an illusion, but Conan felt that the black cat in front of him suddenly became fierce - just after he casually said "the fish was thrown away".
This made him stunned. Cats can actually understand human speech?
Impossible. His approach must have aroused the cat's alert, so it flicked its paws.
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly saw the black cat turn around, jump to the ground, and get together with the fox. The two of them looked like they were whispering to each other.
After a while, the fox slipped away along the corridor, not knowing what he was doing.
Although the men in black clearly defined them as assistants, Conan still couldn't figure out how to communicate with animals after watching the whole "whispering" process.
It was more reliable to solve the puzzle by himself... He began to look around the room, looking for clues.
…
Shiraishi wanted to let the fox see if Dr. Ari had been here recently, and let him dig out suspicious things.
In order to allow Shiraishi to adapt to the cat form as quickly as possible, the system has made adjustments to the cat-shaped senses. In addition to hearing being more sensitive than humans, vision, smell and taste have not been greatly enhanced. In this regard, the "Tracking Hound" is more
practical.
After a while, the fox had something to gain.
It took Shiraishi to the bedroom, slithered under the dusty bed, and diligently showed Shiraishi a wooden box placed against the wall.
The box is not big, but it is as high as three cats stacked on top of each other.
Shiraishi estimated the weight of the box, then glanced at the little spider hanging upside down from under the bed, silently turned back to the living room, and stopped in front of Conan who was wandering around.
Conan's reaction was not slow and he quickly understood Shiraishi's intention.
He followed the black cat to the bedroom, looked down at the "treasure box" under the bed, and then looked at the fox squatting next to him wagging his tail. He felt that this was too fast.
The so-called treasure hunting and solving puzzles shouldn't just involve him leading the fox around and taking out the treasures...
But now that we have reached this point, how could we not open the box and take a second look?
Conan crawled under the bed, grabbed the box and dragged it out. He originally thought it would be a lot of effort, but he didn't expect that the wooden box was not heavy. With a little effort, he dragged it out completely.
The box was not locked and looked very new, especially since there was not much dust on the top, which made it look out of place in the entire villa.
Conan opened the lid of the box in confusion, looked at the contents inside, and was startled.
——This is a large box of toy remains. You can barely tell that they were brand new teddy bears, remote control racing cars, airplane models, etc., but now they are all broken and chopped, and there are knife marks all over the inside of the box.
Shiraishi understood when he saw Conan's expression. He straightened up and stood on the edge of the box, looked inside, and confirmed his previous guess.
From the placement of this wooden box to the filling content, it seems that Dr. Ali hid it here specially for the purpose of holding a "treasure hunt game".
The gangsters who were targeting this area knew that there was something hidden in the villa, but they didn't know where it was hidden.
After arriving here, he worked hard to solve the puzzle that Dr. Ali came up with. He originally thought he could get what he was looking for, but he was so excited that he only saw a box of children's toys at the end.
In anger, he scratched all these things to pieces.
In other words, dangerous people have indeed been around this villa recently.
The system has set a two-day countdown for this task, perhaps just to allow Shiraishi to solve the safety hazard before the naughty children come here.
Before Conan entered the door, he saw the word "A Li" on the door number. In addition, there was an oil painting hanging in the living room, and the person in the painting was somewhat similar to the doctor. He had already guessed that this place was related to Dr. A Li.
At this moment, looking at the toys in the box and thinking about the toys that Dr. Ali bought secretly a while ago to surprise the young detective team, Conan guessed part of the truth.
But obviously, he only guessed the entire process correctly, but got the wrong person.
Thinking of someone who would just take out a kitchen knife when they disagreed, Conan held his head and sighed: "The black cat is too impulsive. He got the wrong clues. How can he play with his anger... Ugh!"
The cat stepped on his face and jumped onto the windowsill.
As soon as Baishi stood on the window sill, he saw a figure outside the window suddenly leaning back and retreating to the side.
It was a man with a high nose and a slender face. He was just about to stick to the window and peek inside, but he was startled by the black shadow that suddenly jumped up.
After discovering that it was just a cat, the gangster breathed a sigh of relief and did not take it seriously. He slowly hid in the bushes nearby and looked in a certain direction.
Shiraishi followed his line of sight and found that through the trees and bushes, he could vaguely see the car he was driving.
It seems that the villain is a little concerned about the whereabouts of the people in the car. He will not do anything random until he finds out where the people are.
Shiraishi opened the light screen and looked at the time of the Humanoid Mask. There were still about ten minutes left, which was enough, so he dropped it back to the ground with confidence.
Conan was half-crouching next to the box just now, but was caught off guard by the cat and stepped on him a few times. He leaned back and sat on the ground.
He covered his face and supported the ground with his other hand. Suddenly he felt something pressing on his palm. He picked it up and saw that it was a 1 yen coin.
After careful observation, Conan judged from the coin's denomination, engraving and size that it was a counterfeit coin.
It’s hard to imagine that someone would put so much effort into making counterfeit 1 yen bills. It’s more like passing time than making a profit, but who would pass the time by engraving counterfeit bills...
Conan held the coin and completely believed what Shiraishi said before, that this house did have secrets.
Back in the living room, with the help of the cat and the fox, Conan discovered that many utensils, such as plates, vases, candlesticks, etc., were engraved with a long series of small black and white patterns.
The orientation of the graphics varies, and occasionally there are missing edges and corners. At first glance, it looks like a string of crudely printed lace.
Conan glanced at it twice and immediately remembered the "little dancing man" that Black Cat once said before getting off the car.
——This is a plot that appears in the Sherlock Holmes series. Certain patterns that look like random graffiti are actually passwords with special meanings!
After searching the living room, they found a total of seven items with this "code".
Conan took out the notepad and ballpoint pen he carried with him from his pocket and drew all the graphics that had appeared.
The very act of reasoning made Conan feel very happy, and explaining the reasoning to ignorant people and watching them suddenly realize the process made Conan even more happy.
It's a pity that there is no suitable audience here, and Conan never imagined that one day he would be reduced to telling a cat and a fox his reasoning process:
"There are a total of seven basic shapes, and on top of that, many variations are added, making a total of fifty different shapes... So this should not refer to the English alphabet, but the fifty tones in Japanese.
picture."
As soon as he finished speaking, he was about to continue, but suddenly he saw the cat and fox next to him, who nodded in sync as if they agreed very much.