Chapter 530: Unlocking the Code
Yuya ran to the guest room and first took out the Kyoto map given in the guidebook from his backpack, and then opened the coded letter.
Conan's eyes flickered: "Do you think this picture refers to the street name in Kyoto?"
Yuya nodded, "It's very possible. I've never figured out what these pictures refer to. I originally thought that the Tengu referred to Kurama Temple, but where does the other Tengu head refer to?"
"Where is it?" Hattori Heiji asked subconsciously.
Yuya shook his head: "The colors of these two Tengu heads are the same, so they must be referring to the same place. Think about it, what kind of place would span such a long distance?"
Conan suddenly realized and answered quickly: "It's a road!"
"That's right!" Youya patted his head in appreciation, "Correct answer, one point~"
Conan's mouth twitched and he slapped Yuya's claw away.
Yuya didn't care. He placed the two drawings side by side on the table and gestured: "First, this Tengu. Since it refers to the name of the road, it is very easy to know that it is Karasuma Road. The two Tengu are side by side, and Karasuma Road happens to be north-south."
Hattori Heiji, who was more familiar with Kyoto, nodded and said, "Indeed."
Yuya continued, "Next is Acorn. Hattori, you are quite familiar with Kyoto, can you think of any street names?"
Hattori Heiji pinched his chin and thought for a while before saying, "The only person I can think of is Oike Road."
"That's right," Yuya nodded, and continued, "The secret staircase has five levels, starting from the top five roads, followed by four roads; but it's different here," Yuya pointed to the third and second stairs, "The picture here is in the middle, which means the road between the third and second roads, but there are several roads here, so the meaning of the acorn is here."
"I see." Hattori Heiji and Conan nodded in sudden realization, looking like good students who were listening attentively.
"Next is the meaning of the pattern." Yuya said.
Hattori Heiji frowned slightly, but he couldn't figure it out, so he asked, "What does it mean?"
Youya rolled his eyes at him and said with disdain: "You keep saying that you have found your first love."
Hattori Heiji was a little embarrassed and annoyed: "What does this have to do with my first love?"
Youya sneered: "Have you forgotten what your first love said?"
Hattori Heiji was a little confused for a moment. Did she say anything special?
Conan carefully recalled what Chika Ling said, and a crackle popped in his mind: "So that's it, it's a nursery rhyme! Children in Kyoto use nursery rhymes to remember street names. Since this picture refers to the place name of Kyoto, then these patterns must be found in nursery rhymes!"
Hattori Heiji also reacted. He glanced at the patterns and pointed at the violet and said, "But in the nursery rhyme, only this violet has appeared in the song of Haru no Ogawa, so this must be Ogawa Road, right? But what about the others?"
Yuuya pointed to Mount Fuji on the far right of Violet's row and said, "Mount Fuji has the word 富 in it, so it means Tomi-koji Street."
With the beginning, the subsequent decryption will be easy.
The three of them took turns to speak and soon figured out the entire code.
The rooster in the pattern can be said to be the Rooster (Chinese Zodiac), and the direction of the Rooster is the west, so it is "Nishi-Dongyuan Road";
The last loach can be associated with Yanagawa-nabe (a Japanese dish with loach as the main ingredient), referring to "Yanagiba Road";
The cicada below is called "Oil Cicada", so it refers to "Oil Lane Street";
The last one is the goldfish. The goldfish can be associated with the saying "goldfish feed is wheat bran", so it refers to "Fuya-cho Road".
Yuya took a pen and started drawing on the map: "Next, connect the patterns of the same color with lines, and you will get the word 'king'."
"King? Why is it King?" Hattori Heiji was a little confused, but he suddenly realized something, staring at Yuya and questioning, "So the meaning of these patterns is that only one violet is related to the nursery rhyme!"
This guy just said that, he must be making fun of me, right? Hattori Heiji secretly hated him.
Yuya shrugged his shoulders: "But this is also the most crucial beginning. Without the decryption at the beginning, how could we solve the rest of the answers so easily?"
Hearing him say this, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but hesitate: "Is that really the case?"
You also nodded affirmatively: "Yes!"
"Okay." Hattori Heiji believed what Yuya said.
Conan on the side was trying to hold back his laughter, almost making no sound - Hattori, you are still too young! You were fooled so easily.
Conan quickly began to divert attention: "So, the final answer is king, what does that mean?" Hattori Heiji is not a fool. If he is given time, he will definitely realize the loophole in Yuya's words.
Conan considers Hattori Heiji as a good comrade, so...
How can we not jump into the pit together?
Youye said: "No, this is not the end." He raised the pen and wrote a dot in the lower right corner of the map, and the word "Wang" became the word "Yu".
Hattori Heiji and Conan were stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at the code map, and sure enough, they found a black dot on it.
"I see!" The two of them suddenly realized and quickly looked towards the location of the dot, "Foguang Temple?"
"Hurry, we must be the first to find the Buddha statue!" Hattori Heiji rushed out immediately.
Of course Yuya and Conan were unwilling to fall behind and quickly caught up.
"Yuya, where are you going?" Miyano Shiho asked hurriedly when she saw Yuya running over.
Yuya shouted without even turning his head, "Go find the treasure!"
A huge question mark appeared above Miyano Shiho's head: "Treasure?"
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Yuya and the other two rushed to Foguang Temple, but were troubled by the huge temple.
"This place is so big, where could the Buddha statue be hidden?" Hattori Heiji asked in some embarrassment, "It's impossible to search every room, right?"
Conan pinched his chin. Although they had cracked the code, he always felt that he had overlooked something. He ran quickly to the door, and the other two hurriedly followed.
Conan came to a stone tablet with the words Yulong Temple written on it.
Hattori Heiji was stunned when he saw the stone tablet: "Could it be that the point refers to here?"
Conan touched his chin and said, "It should be correct."
"That's right," Yuya looked at the guidebook in his hand, "Come and take a look."
Hattori Heiji and Conan came over, and Yuya pointed at it and said, "This is a guide map of Yulong Temple. You can see the overall layout of the temple."
Hattori Heiji widened his eyes in surprise: "Isn't this just a jade character?!"
"And," Conan stood on tiptoe, raised his finger and pointed to a corner of the picture, "this is exactly where the dot of the word jade is."
"The Buddha statue must be here! Let's go quickly!" Hattori Heiji shouted anxiously.
Yuya nodded, then looked hesitantly at Hattori Heiji's trouser pocket.
"What's wrong?" Hattori Heiji was a little confused.
Youye shook his head: "Nothing, let's go over there."
It was strange. If he remembered correctly, Toyama Kazuha should have been captured by the murderer on the way to look for evidence. Why hasn't he called yet?
"By the way, Hattori, regarding your crystal bead that seems to be a token of your first love, it is actually..."