Chapter 2757-2769 [Kudo's Backstab]
Unlike the fake elementary school student who was slightly distracted, Inspector Megure was seriously helping Brother Jiang Xia solve the case next to him.
“The first time the author’s guest role appeared, the protagonist encountered a problem and made a transatlantic phone call, and then the author, who lived in France, picked up the phone.
"The second time was also in France, and the third and fourth times were still..." Inspector Megure scratched his head and asked Shinna Kaori, "Does your father like France very much?"
Shinna Kaori nodded. "He often travels to France with my mother."
Inspector Megure: "..." With your mother? You weren't brought along, poor kid...
Conan pricked up his ears to eavesdrop on the noise here, while taking out his cell phone and wanting to call Hattori Heiji.
Just then, the editorial office's landline rang.
It was common for such a busy editorial office to have calls coming in. Conan glanced over here, ignored it, and turned around to dial the number he wanted to make.
Then he heard the busy tone on his phone and was slightly startled: the phone was busy, who was the Osaka detective talking to?
...Is there a mystery going on behind his back?
As this thought flashed through his mind, Conan felt that he was emitting the sour aroma of lemons: Jiang Xia had commissions, and Hattori Heiji had commissions, but he hadn't... Damn it, these clients actually dared to look down on elementary school students! But in the final analysis, all this was Gin's fault.
Conan sighed, put down his phone, and started to hold a grudge as usual.
Next to him, the editor heard the ringing and walked over to answer the phone: "Hello, this is Wen Yi Shi Dai Publishing House..." As he spoke, his voice suddenly rose, "What? You solved the puzzle left by Mr. Xin Ming?!"
Conan: “……?”
He had just figured out who was on the other end of the phone. It was pretty impressive that his thoughts were in sync with his.
The editor obviously had the same question: "You are..."
Inspector Megure heard the noise just now: "What happened?"
The editor covered the phone and whispered to Inspector Megure, "The caller said he solved the mystery and asked me to call the police immediately. From the voice, it sounded like a teenager with an Osaka accent."
Jiang Xia came over with great interest: "Osaka accent?"
…
On the other side of the phone.
Hattori Heiji held a magazine in one hand and a cell phone in the other.
Hearing the sudden silence on the other end of the phone, he couldn't help but curse: "I knew these editors wouldn't take it seriously. Damn it, if that writer lived in Osaka, I could just send the police here, and Uncle Otaki would definitely believe my reasoning - Tsk, why does he have to live in Tokyo? It's so dangerous there, and the police are unreliable."
As he was muttering, he suddenly heard a series of small noises - it seemed like there was someone else on the other end of the phone.
"!" Hattori Heiji's eyes lit up, and he quickly shouted at the person opposite, "Don't dawdle, immediately find the police as I say and report the disappearance of Shinmei Rentaro - it will be too late if you delay any longer!"
He originally thought that the other party would not believe him and was about to tell his reasoning at three times the speed.
However, at this moment, a voice came slowly from the other end of the phone: "Don't worry, the police have already arrived."
Hattori Heiji: "..."
With a click, he hung up the phone.
In the quiet bedroom, Detective Osaka stared at his phone for a while, and a question mark popped up above his head: ...Why is Jiang Xia there! !
"...That's right. At the beginning of the story, Niina Rentaro issued a 'provocation' to detectives across the country. Jiang Xia must have been caught by him. With the sharpness of that Tokyo detective, he can definitely decipher the code left by Niina Rentaro as long as he sees that magazine."
Hattori Heiji took a breath silently: "I can't talk to that guy! I only solved the first part of the puzzle, and I'm still thinking about the second part. If the call just now continues, he will definitely tell me all the second and third parts... Damn it! If I had known he was there, I wouldn't have called."
Hattori Heiji suddenly felt a sense of urgency that was different from before. He grabbed the next magazine and started to read it carefully without wasting any time.
…
"Hello?"
Jiang Xia looked at the silent receiver, then looked at the phone screen that had returned to normal, and was silent for a moment.
Then he put down the receiver, poked Conan behind the policeman's back, and whispered, "Call Hattori."
Conan: "..." What do you think I am? Am I the kind of person who betrays my friends?
He picked up his phone, opened the address book, and dialed Hattori Heiji's number.
——It has nothing to do with betrayal, after all, human life is at stake. Hattori just lost a little joy in solving puzzles, but the author is about to lose his life.
When Conan dialed the phone.
Inspector Megure looked at Jiang Xia curiously. With his hearing ability, he could only hear a few words of quarrel between the people on the other end of the receiver, and then nothing more happened: "Who is on the other end? What is he saying?"
Jiang Xia sighed: "From the sound of his voice, it should be my friend who is far away in Osaka."
"Brother Hattori?" Inspector Megure knew all the detectives who could help, and immediately understood who Jiang Xia was referring to. He asked excitedly, "Could it be that he has some new clues? ... Uh, but why did he hang up the phone? Shouldn't he be working on the case with us online at this time?"
"He must have accidentally hit the hang-up button." Jiang Xia glanced at Conan who was dialing, "He should call back soon. Rather than this, I roughly guessed what he wanted to say - he has already cracked the first part of the code."
Inspector Megure's eyes lit up: "What is it?"
Jiang Xia: “The first few sentences are not a provocation to the detective, but an invitation to solve the mystery. When people read, their thoughts are easily driven by the words and immersed in the world of the novel. The better the novel, the more this is the case. Only by writing more sentences like this can we forcibly connect the novel with reality and make more people realize that there are some puzzles related to reality hidden in this novel.
“And solving the puzzle requires a key, and the key left by Mr. Niname is the title of this novel, “The Peak of 1/2”.
"The questions waiting to be answered are the lines of the author in each paragraph when he appears in the book. This book is a common vertical format. Extract the top words of each line of the lines and combine them into one. That is what Mr. Xinming wants to convey to the readers."
"...I see!" Inspector Megure seemed to understand, but not quite. He took the first line and used Jiang Xia's formula to solve the puzzle, "'力' and '目' together make '助', '十' and '１' together make 'ke'..."
Inspector Megure compared them one by one, his expression gradually becoming serious: except for the group of 'ku' and 'he' in the middle, the other words, when put together in pairs, turned out to be...
——Save me!
(End of this chapter)
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