Stay away from Conan.

Chapter 1736 This is the answer

The next day, when it was time to decide who would own the inheritance, since Xiaolong and Huolong were both safe and sound, the lawyer who was there to witness the incident came to Qing's house with the documents, ready to make a final questioning of Xiaolong to see if he could decipher the code left in the suicide note, in order to determine whether he could fully inherit the inheritance left by the Dragon King.

At this point, in a living room that had been cleaned up by the Qing family, almost everyone in the mansion gathered here at this moment.

Huolong, Xiaolong, Meiling, the driver Gouri, the butler Shijo, Maori Kogoro, and the lawyer team present were all here, waiting for Xiaolong's answer.

"Then... according to Mr. Qinglong Wang's will, the seven days have passed, and it's time to decide who will inherit Mr. Qinglong Wang's estate. Qing Xiaolong, there's only half an hour left. Have you figured out the code left by Mr. Qinglong Wang?"

A middle-aged man with a gentle expression but a very dignified look, as the leader of the lawyers present, looked at the time and said to Xiaolong in a very serious and calm tone:

"If you cannot decipher the code within this final time limit, then according to the provisions of the will, King Qinglong's estate will be inherited by his younger brother, Qinghuolong."

Thus, there is only half an hour left in the full seven-day deadline starting from the time when King Qinglong announced his death. After this time, everything will be settled.

Therefore, although it is difficult for me to do anything in front of so many people at this point, I believe that the little devil will not be able to decipher such a secret code.

  Therefore, the Fire Dragon sneered and said to the Little Dragon in a mocking tone:

"Have you really solved my brother's last words?"

"Ah."

Facing the Fire Dragon's question, Xiao Long replied with a faint smile, which made the Fire Dragon a little unhappy.

At the same time, in the venue, when Xiaolong was dealing with the fire dragon, Conan, who was hiding aside, was secretly watching this scene. Conan couldn't help thinking about the fire dragon's face:

"We need to make that guy admit defeat on his own!"

So, facing Xiaolong's answer, Huolong couldn't help but ask loudly:

"So, what does 'a rat with a tail on its head' mean?"

  In response to this, Xiaolong couldn't help but chuckle:

"Uncle, this is very simple, can't you guess it? It refers to the computer mouse! Look, this is my father's computer, and this is the mouse..."

  As he said this, Xiaolong took out Qinghuolong's portable laptop and pointed at the accompanying wired mouse and said:

"Look, does it look like a wire trailing from the mouse's head?"

So, looking at the mouse, Huo Long was stunned for a moment. For this answer...

After hearing the explanation of the riddle which was so simple that it was shocking, Huo Long looked unhappy and continued to question:

"I see. What about 'the end is in the middle of the beginning'?"

"That's the computer itself. When you shut down a computer, you first press 'Start Menu' and then press 'Shut Down' to cut off the power, right?"

"That's true."

In response to this answer, Maori Kogoro, who had experienced several computer-related incidents and now had some understanding of such basic computer usage, nodded. At this time, looking at Xiaolong's answer, Meiling beside him seemed to notice that -

I thought the current "Xiaolong" was still Conan's stand-in, but based on my mother's intuition, the child in front of me was obviously Xiaolong!

But, when was it...

  So, just when Meiling was wondering when Xiaolong came back to exchange identities with Conan, Xiaolong confidently began to speak when Huolong was a little angry because of the answer to the first two sentences:

"The most difficult riddle is the last one, 'Dissolve the wallpaper on the desk and become my true heir.' Since the first two sentences both refer to computers, then according to this line of thought, the so-called 'wallpaper' here refers to the 'wallpaper' on the computer desktop, which is the so-called picture on the computer screen."

"But even so, it's impossible for the wallpaper on the computer to dissolve!"

Up to this point, the fire dragon made his final resistance with a ferocious look on his face. After all, even if he knew the answers to the previous few codes, he still couldn't imagine how to interpret this one.

"Uncle, do you know that there is a technology called 'steganography', which means 'information hiding' in cryptography? It is a technology that uses special software to hide things that you don't want to be seen by third parties into photos or pictures. The appearance and size of the information do not change much, and the hidden information can be read out using special software. Isn't that what father's company does?"

After hearing this, Huolong was stunned for a moment. He knew nothing about this kind of technical knowledge. After all, when the company was first established, he and his brother Longwang were in charge of completely different areas. Without his brother's focus on technology, how could the company have reached its current scale without expanding the market himself?

Therefore, when the company's software products have basic guarantees, Huolong believes that it is a complete waste to continue investing in research and development based on technology. The key to the company's revitalization is how to get other users to buy its mature software and expand the market.

  How could this be left to a little kid?

At this point, when Xiaolong said this, Huolong had completely understood that this so-called code was indeed impossible for him to decipher. Only Xiaolong, who had been educated by his brother to learn various professional knowledge since childhood, could understand it.

but……

"Of course I know what you're talking about. I've already tried the company's software on my brother's computer and didn't find any hidden information!"

Huolong roared like this. Although he didn't know much about technology, as it was a product of the company and a computer left by his brother, he had of course checked the contents inside and did not find any secrets.

But in response, Xiaolong smiled and said:

"Really? But the original painting on the wallpaper... the portrait hanging in the house, you probably haven't checked it!"

Fire Dragon can use software to conduct a comprehensive check on the computer, but how could he possibly think of it if he didn't understand the hint before the code and the meaning of the key word "wallpaper"?

Because the fire last night started on the second floor, the portrait hanging on the first floor was well protected, so everything was intact.

  After Xiaolong said this, he pointed to the portrait that had been transported to this room in advance and said:

"This painting was made with colored chalk, which is a pigment that is mixed into a paste and then solidified into sticks. Even if it is heated, the things drawn with it will not dissolve. However, because oil painting contains crayons and oil, it will easily dissolve when heated... Therefore, if part of this painting was painted with oil painting techniques, then it should be..."

  So, in front of everyone, he used a hair dryer to heat the portrait, then used white paper to copy it, and finally copied a paragraph of text:

"Congratulations, you are the official heir of my Qing family!"

After showing all this, Xiaolong looked at the legal team leading the inheritance and said:

"This is the answer to the puzzle my father left behind!"