At the suggestion of Conan and Mr. Kobayashi, the trio of graduates agreed to work together to find the time capsule that Miyano Akemi buried thirteen years ago.
In order to increase the probability of finding it, Conan proposed dividing the 10 people present into three groups.
A group consisting of Conan, Ai Haihara, Ayumi, and Takumi Murata.
Kobayashi, Mitsuhiko, and a female doctor.
A group consisting of Wakasa, Genta and Yanagimachi.
After hearing this grouping, Mitsuhiko immediately grabbed his waist and asked Conan, "Why is Conan only grouped with girls?"
"Conan, are you too cunning?" Yuantai also echoed.
Conan could only show a helpless smile, secretly complaining: Is this the point?
He chose this lineup because the man named Murata seemed to be very familiar with Miyano Akemi.
In the process of searching for the time capsule, maybe I can tell you something about Miyano Akemi, which will make Ai Haibara happy, who has been in a bad state recently.
And our group also has the best chance of finding the time capsule, so Haibara Ai should always stay by his side.
Another point is that when the three people saw the code paper, their expressions changed.
The contents on the code paper seemed to have meaning, and the three people seemed to understand its meaning at a glance.
The grouping is also done so that each group can have an adult monitor their actions.
But before Conan could explain, Mr. Kobayashi and Rumi Wakasa came up from behind, held the two little ones' shoulders, and said with a smile.
"Oh~ the teachers are girls too~"
"Can't we just change teammates after a while?"
In response, Mitsuhiko and Genta could only droop their eyelids and show reluctant expressions.
…
In this way, everyone arrived at the school teaching building and wandered around the shoe cabinet on the first floor for a while.
The trio sighed at the slight changes here, and the capsule-hunting team officially started searching.
As the "strongest repeater", Conan looked at the photo of the code paper taken on his mobile phone and understood the meaning of the first sentence at a glance, and led the team members to the principal's office.
Facing Conan's suggestion, Ayumi said in confusion: "Huh? Why?"
Conan explained confidently: "Isn't the first sentence written 'let people see Monet'?"
"Because the principal of our school likes the painter Monet very much, there is a replica of Monet hanging in the principal's office, which is a very proud decoration for him."
"So that painting must be..."
Conan, Haibara Ai, Ayumi, and Murata Takumi happened to enter the principal's office at this time.
Conan looked up and found that the Monet imitation was gone, replaced by an ordinary watercolor painting.
The content of the painting is a small bridge and flowing water, and the label "6th Year Group A, Murata Takumi" is attached below the watercolor painting.
Takumi Murata from behind saw this and stepped forward, with memories in his eyes: "This is my previous award-winning work, I miss it so much..."
Conan walked to the painting at this time, opened the drawing board and took a look, but there was nothing inside.
But since Monet was mentioned in the code, Conan felt that the key information should be the imitation of Monet.
The principal had a day off today, so Conan took matters into his own hands and took Haibara Ai and Ayumi to search the office.
Seeing the three children searching recklessly in the principal's office, Takumi Murata, who was standing there, was a little at a loss.
Are all children today so unafraid?
"Hey, if you mess around like this, you'll get scolded~"
Conan lay under his desk and replied nonchalantly: "I'll be fine if I explain the reason well later..."
"By the way, I'm more curious about what kind of person Miyano Akemi is who left this code?"
Conan deliberately brought the topic to Miyano Akemi.
This made Hui Yuan Ai next to him look stunned and quickly looked back.
Murata Takumi was startled for a moment, then smiled and closed his eyes to remember.
"Let me think about it..."
"She is very cheerful and gentle, and she also knows how to consider others."
"Everyone in our class likes her... maybe all the male students in the class like her."
Hearing this, Haiyuan Ai, who was a little touched in her heart, turned around and confirmed: "Is that true?"
"Yes, actually I was one of them before..."
Murata Takumi scratched his head in embarrassment, "But she politely refused~"
"There is such a thing~"
Listening to her sister's past gossip, a sincere smile appeared on the corner of Haiyuan Ai's mouth.
Conan looked at the happy Haiyuan Ai and turned his eyes away.
Remember to thank me.
At this time, Takumi Murata turned back to the watercolor painting on the wall and murmured: "Speaking of this painting, actually..."
Haiyuan Ai took a step forward, "Actually?"
Murata Takumi stared at the painting and hesitated for a while, but finally smiled and scratched his head without answering.
"No, it's nothing..."
…
Conan and others searched the principal's room for 10 minutes, but found nothing.
After taking a look at the agreed gathering time, they went downstairs and went to the science classroom to look around, but still found nothing.
When the appointed time came, the three groups regrouped in front of the breeding hut next to the playground.
"Um……"
"So far, we have gone to the principal's office, the health room, the art room, the family classroom, the science classroom, and the rooftop."
"Although I visited many places, I found nothing."
Yanagi Dingue: "Me too."
Doctor woman: "Me too."
Looking at the trio of gloomy graduates, Conan also fell into thinking.
He asked Mitsuhiko and Genta where the other two groups went.
Mitsuhiko and Kobayashi, a team of female doctors, went to the health room to investigate.
The reason is that Mitsuhiko feels that the word "lie" in "Doctors Don't Lie" means "TELL A LIE" in English.
This is very similar to "washing hands" in Japanese, so Mitsuhiko thought of the sink in the health room.
However, after Conan heard this, he immediately rejected this idea in his heart.
Because there are many wash basins in the school, Miyano Akemi would not leave a code with such a high error rate.
On the other hand, the team of Genta, Rumi Wakasa, and Gaku Yanagi went to many places for no particular reason.
"We went to the family classroom, the art room, and the rooftop..."
Yuanta stretched out his fingers and counted the places he had been.
"Originally, Mr. Wakasa said that there was a fire in the music classroom 14 or 15 years ago and some paper cranes were burned, but Yanagimachi-nii said he didn't remember it, so he didn't go there."
"But we still didn't find anything. Teacher Wakasa went to the toilet in the middle, and Brother Yanamachi left alone to look for clues."
"alone?"
Conan looked at the trio of graduates who were still discussing not far away, and he still felt that the three of them were trying to hide some secret.
So, he decided to give it a try.
"How about we tell the other students in the class the secret code?"
"How about we all come together to help find it?"
The three people discussing not far away turned around and looked at the childlike Conan with slightly stunned expressions. Then the doctor woman took the lead and waved her hand.
"But, I, we can still try harder to find it, right?"
The doctor woman turned to look at Yanagi Dingue, who also echoed.
"Yes, yes, I also thought of some clues." Takumi Murata said in the same tone, "...I really feel like I'm about to figure out the code."
Seeing the strange reactions of the three people, Conan was already convinced that they knew some secret.
If that's the case, let's test them.
"Then the two teachers and I will continue to help find..."
Conan turned around and said sadly to the three little ones and Haiyuan: "Please stay in the breeding hut and finish the rest of the work~"
"Eh——?"
The three little ones stretched out their voices to express their dissatisfaction.
Only Haiyuan Ai looked at Conan's back as he followed the adults and thought to himself.
Please, Kudo.
…
Conan, Kobayashi, Rumi Wakasa, and the trio of graduates returned to the teaching building and sorted out the entire search route while strolling around.
During this period, Xiao Lin called the principal and learned that he had taken the imitation of Monet home and hung it, and there were no suspicious marks on the painting.
"It's a pity that I guessed wrong..."
Murata Takumi sighed, but there was no regret on his face.
Yanagimachi, who was walking at the front, held his chin and murmured: "If it's not on the back of the painting, could it be on the wall?"
"yes!"
As soon as these words came out, other people present seemed to have woken up from a dream and immediately decided to go back and take a look.
When they returned to the principal's office, the doctor girl removed Takumi Murata's painting from the wall, and sure enough, a hiragana was revealed behind the wall.
"Sure enough, there are words on the wall behind the painting!"
"Is... よ?"
"We've all noticed it before."
The three of them put their heads in front of the wall and observed.
Xiao Lin, who was standing at the door of the principal's office, also congratulated several people, "I finally took the first step..."
"Yes." Rumi Wakasa said.
Only Conan stood behind the three of them, staring at them with scrutinizing eyes.
He had personally inspected the painting just now. If there were writing on the wall at that time, there was absolutely no way he would have missed it.
But at this moment, the words "magically" appeared.
This can only mean that during the time when I left the principal's office, someone came back here and wrote on it.
First of all, it's impossible for Takumi Murata, because this person never left during the whole process.
The condition of the doctor girl is unclear, but Yanagi Machigaku is certain to have left the team during the last operation.
Moreover, it was also him who caused the re-examination of the conversation in the principal's office.
It seems that this word should have been written in the principal's office when I left last time.
It's just not clear why he did this...
After weighing it in his mind, Conan decided to remain silent and continue watching Yanagi Machigaku's performance.
…
Next, the trio of graduates began to reason alone.
Yanagimachi suggested that the second code sentence, "attack the plane," can also be equated with "hijacking."
The English word for "hijack" is "hijack", which can also be pronounced as "high" and "jack", which means a high socket.
The highest indoor socket in the entire school is the socket that powers the clock hanging high in the gymnasium.
As an active firefighter, Yanagimachi took the initiative to bring a ladder and climbed to a high place to check.
"It's all gray and I can't see clearly..."
"But there's a hiragana written on the side of the socket."
His voice reached below, immediately arousing Conan's alert.
Conan turned on the telescope function of his black-tech glasses and looked at the location Yanagamachi said. There was no so-called hiragana there.
He is lying...
However, Conan did not reveal it and allowed him to continue acting.
Next, the group went to the art room.
Genta's team had searched here before, but when they came here again, Conan took advantage of his height and found a ぐ under the edge of the table.
He took the photos silently and did not tell anyone about his discovery.
Since the others were all adults and couldn't see below, they naturally didn't notice it.
At this time, Takumi Murata remembered that there was a student in school who was drawing on the rooftop, but the wind blew the drawing board off and he almost fell down.
Since then, the school has banned students from painting on the rooftop.
And an experience coincided with the code of "Don't paint".
So, several people went to the rooftop of the top floor and found ぐ on the door handle leading to the rooftop.
Based on this way of thinking, the doctor woman remembered a certain classmate from the past who liked to pretend to be sick and go to the health room to sleep.
Everyone hurried back to the health room.
The doctor woman got under the bed in the health room alone, and sure enough she found a hiragana character "し" at the foot of the bed.
However, Conan, who was more cautious this time, had already found the same match on the scale next to him.
He silently took out his mobile phone and took a photo of the symbol, keeping it as evidence for his reasoning later.
"Okay, then put the four words collected now and spell it out to be YOUGUSI..."
"This way you don't even have to untie the 'Don't burn 89's amulet'..."
"The answer is definitely the storage room (YOUGUSITU)!"
The trio of graduates all looked very excited, but at this moment, Teacher Xiaolin poured a basin of cold water on them.
"But I remember that place has..."
Xiao Lin took several people to the library. On the large computer here, Xiao Lin searched for the history of the school's reconstruction.
Sure enough, I found that the storage room in the corner of the school was too dilapidated and had been demolished and converted into a toilet 10 years ago.
"Eh?"
"Then our time capsule is gone too?"
Xiao Lin nodded and replied: "I guess so..."
After hearing Xiaolin's reply, the trio of graduates could only shake their heads regretfully, feeling that even their alma mater, which seemed to remain the same, had actually changed over time.
Xiao Lin touched the keyboard in front of the computer and couldn't help but sigh.
"But I really miss the time when I was a library committee member~"
"At that time, this computer was still brand new, and I was organizing the books in the library just like I do now!"
Xiao Lin's emotion was like a bolt of lightning exploding in Conan's heart, and his pupils instantly dilated.
Is that graphic...
Conan quickly stood up on his tiptoes and glanced at the keyboard on the table. The keycaps on it were all rolled out.
This speaks volumes about the age of this keyboard.
And on the coded paper, it was written that Miyano Akemi used to be a library committee member here.
That means...
I see!
Conan quickly turned around and left the library, while Xiaolin and the trio, who were still talking, did not notice the actions of this super little man.
Except for Rumi Wakasa who was standing there with her hands behind her back, her eyes were coldly glancing at Conan's leaving figure.