Ke Xue: The thief Cao is actually myself

Chapter 338 The arrival of an uninvited guest! (Monthly ticket requested!)

"Where is the last pattern? White Night."

Sato Miwako, who was completely unaware of what was happening behind her, followed Bai Ye out of curiosity and came to the top floor of a hotel called Onizakura.

At this time, because the sky had gradually darkened, the surrounding environment was dim. Only a little moonlight shone in through the window, preventing the two from being blinded.

"Look……"

Hearing what Sato Miwako said, Bai Ye smiled slightly, then stretched out his finger and pointed at the river not far outside the window.

There, there was a large bridge. The flashing neon lights on the bridge, combined with the reflection of the neon lights on the river surface, formed the shape of a fish. "That's the last pattern!"

Looking at the big glittering fish outside the window, Miwako Sato suddenly realized, "Is that so?"

Originally, after entering this hotel, she didn't see any neon signs with fish graphics, let alone anything related to fish. She was a little confused about this and wondered if Bai Ye had taken her to the wrong place.

Or maybe there was something wrong with the other party's reasoning. Otherwise, why had I walked for so long but still not seen the neon light corresponding to the last pattern?

But now, after Bai Ye's guidance, she suddenly understood that she was the one who was wrong.

From the beginning to the end, she shouldn't have doubted the judgment of her good friend Bai Ye.

Because the smart other party has already mastered the answers to all questions!

"But this big fish doesn't seem to have anything to do with the treasure, right?"

The location corresponding to the last pattern was found, but the key point is that it doesn't seem to help them find the real treasure, right?

For a moment, Sato Miwako couldn't help but wonder if Dino Cabana, the leader of the Italian bandit group, had accidentally added an extra pattern.

"This is?"

Just as she was wondering about this, suddenly, Sato Miwako felt as if she stepped on something. Subconsciously, she moved away and picked it up.

With the help of the moonlight coming through the window, Miwako Sato saw the true appearance of the thing in her hand. It was a gold coin with a maple leaf engraved on it.

"Maple Leaf Gold Coin?"

Just now, in order to see the big fish outside the window clearly, Sato Miwako deliberately took a few steps towards the window.

And it was this movement that made her discover the relationship between the big fish and the treasure.

——It turns out that the last pattern on the treasure map was not drawn accidentally by Dino Kabana, but if one wants to find the real treasure, then one needs to find the location corresponding to the last pattern first.

Because only by standing where you can see the complete big fish pattern can you find the real treasure.

Looking at the golden maple leaf coin in her hand and the black mass on the ceiling, Sato Miwako's beautiful eyes seemed to be glowing, "Great, Bai Ye, we found the treasure!"

Generally, people don't hang things randomly on the ceiling.

Moreover, no one would be willing to throw away something as priceless as the Maple Leaf Gold Coin.

However, in this hotel called Onizakura, she found a maple leaf gold coin on the ground.

This kind of thing is obviously very abnormal.

Eliminate all impossibilities, and what remains, no matter how unbelievable, is the truth.

The truth of the matter is most likely that the black thing hanging from the ceiling is the 15,000 maple leaf gold coins stolen by the Italian robber group, which is the treasure corresponding to the treasure map.

As for the maple leaf gold coin she had just picked up on the ground, it was very likely that when Dino Cabana hid the 15,000 coins in a bag and hung it on the ceiling, the bag was not tied tightly or had a gap, and it accidentally fell out.

Looking at the "Maple Leaf Gold Coin" in Sato Miwako's hand, which could almost be mistaken for the real thing if one didn't look at it carefully, Bai Ye nodded calmly.

I didn't expect that those guys' craftsmanship was so good.

If he had not known in advance that the real Maple Leaf gold coins had already entered his inventory, and had not known the details of these "Maple Leaf gold coins", he might have been fooled by these golden "Maple Leaf gold coins" and mistaken them for real Maple Leaf gold coins.

As for why he deliberately replaced the real maple leaf gold coins with counterfeit coins made of candy, instead of using some materials that are more difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake?

On the one hand, candy is cheap and easy to fake. On the other hand, using other materials would take too long.

Thirdly, Ayumi and her group of little ones have worked so hard for so long to find treasure, so we should give them some rewards, right?

Otherwise, if there is nothing to gain, it would really dampen the enthusiasm of these little guys in treasure hunting.

However, the "Maple Leaf Gold Coins" they found now are fake, so there is no need to tell Sato Miwako this news.

Firstly, it is difficult to explain why he can tell the authenticity of the "Maple Leaf Gold Coin" at a glance. Secondly, if he tells Sato Miwako that what they have found now is not the real Maple Leaf Gold Coin, then given Sato Miwako's personality, she will definitely drag him to find the real Maple Leaf Gold Coin.

Or, even if he doesn't go now, after rescuing Conan and the other children from the black-haired man in sunglasses and others, the other party will definitely take him and his colleagues to look for the real maple leaf gold coin.

After all, it can be confirmed that the Italian bandit group Dinocaba robbed a bank and stole 15,000 maple leaf gold coins from it.

With the other party's many years of robbery experience, it is impossible that he could not even tell whether the gold coins he robbed were real maple leaf gold coins or counterfeit ones. It is also impossible that he would rob a bank for a bunch of counterfeit money, risking being thrown into prison, spending the rest of his life in a small dark room for labor reform, or even being shot on the spot. It is even more impossible that he would betray his old friends and have an internal conflict with them because of a bunch of counterfeit money.

In other words, the 15,000 maple leaf gold coins reported in the news that were stolen by a gang of robbers led by Dino Cabana must exist and must be real maple leaf gold coins.

It's just that they haven't found the right place yet.

Thinking of this, Bai Ye pondered for a moment and said, "Since the treasure has been found, then next, we just need to meet up with the support team sent by Officer Megure here, and then set up traps with them, waiting for Kabana and his accomplices to fall into the trap." "Hmm..."

Naturally, Sato Miwako would have no objection to Bai Ye's arrangement.

After all, this was not only Bai Ye's idea, but also her own idea.

As for why not take away the 15,000 maple leaf gold coins now before the black-haired man in sunglasses and others find them?
First of all, although a small maple leaf gold coin weighs only a few dozen grams, you should know that there are as many as 15,000 maple leaf gold coins on the scene.

With so many maple leaf gold coins added together, even if it is not several thousand kilograms, it would at least be eight or nine hundred kilograms.

There were eight or nine hundred kilograms of stuff, and a pile of scattered gold coins. It would undoubtedly take a lot of time for her and Bai Ye to move it all away.

Secondly, if they transferred these 15,000 maple leaf gold coins away, then when the black-haired man with sunglasses and others came looking for them, and then, they were desperate and couldn't find the treasure, what if they attacked those children?
However, for the safety of those children, they could not touch the treasure for the time being.

Fortunately, these 15,000 maple leaf gold coins will not disappear without a trace. It will not be too late to send someone to deal with this treasure after the black-haired man with sunglasses and others are arrested.

Moreover, compared to when to transfer the 15,000 maple leaf gold coins, she is more worried about another problem.

That is……

"Can those kids really find their way here?"

"Should we give them a hint?"

The black-haired man with sunglasses and others believed in those children and thought they could lead them to find the 15,000 maple leaf gold coins, but she did not have that much confidence in those children.

After all, after following them all the way, she had gained a certain understanding of Ayumi and the others.

In her eyes, the so-called Junior Detective Team is clearly a collection of naughty kids, foodies, crybabies and bootlickers.

It was really hard for her to have any trust in these naughty kids.

Well, perhaps, only the little boy named Conan in the group could make her look up to him.

Because, along the way, she had figured out that the so-called Junior Detective Team, whose apparent leader was the naughty kid named Kojima Genta, but in fact, the think tank was the little guy named Conan.

If the other party was not there, the Junior Detective Team would have no chance of cracking the secrets contained in the patterns on the treasure map, and it would be difficult for them to even crack the first code on the treasure map and find the Tokyo Tower.

However, no matter how smart the child named Conan was, she didn't have much hope that he could find the real treasure.

After all, you have to know that the reason why her Bai Ye was able to decipher all the codes on the treasure map and lead her to find the real treasure was because the other party was not only an adult, but also a private detective famous for his wisdom and ability to solve cases.

But, that little kid named Conan is just an elementary school student.

Even if an elementary school student is much smarter than his peers, how could he be so amazing?
Bai Ye shook his head gently, rejecting her suggestion, "There's no need to give hints or anything like that!"

At this point, Bai Ye paused, with a meaningful look on his face, "Because, among those kids, there is a kid who is very smart. With him around, even if we don't give any hints, sooner or later he will be able to bring his friends and Kabana's escaped accomplices to find us!"

After all, the true identity of a certain little devil is Shinichi Kudo, a high school detective who has shown strong IQ and reasoning ability since childhood and is known as the "savior of the Japanese police" and the "Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era."

If even the other party can't crack the code on the treasure map and find out where the real treasure is, then no one in the so-called Young Detective Team can find it.

"Ok?"

Hearing this, Sato Miwako couldn't help but feel curious, "Does that little guy really matter to you so much?"

The particularly smart kid that Bai Ye mentioned, she could guess the other party's identity even without asking Bai Ye.

Because, that very smart kid, without a doubt, can only be the little guy named Conan.

In other words, in the Young Detective Team, only he deserves the word smart.

However, she admitted that the little guy named Conan was very smart. So smart that even she, when she was the same age, was far inferior to him.

However, she absolutely did not believe that the other party could crack all the codes on the treasure map and find the real treasure like her good friend Bai Ye.

I just don’t know why her Bai Ye is so confident that the other party can do this!

Thinking of this, Sato Miwako was just about to open her mouth to ask Bai Ye why he trusted the little boy named Conan so much, but the next moment, she suddenly heard hurried footsteps coming from the stairs.

For a moment, Sato Miwako was extremely surprised: "It came so quickly?!"

You know, she and Bai Ye just found the treasure!
But the next second, Conan and others came over?
Doesn't this mean that in terms of intelligence, this little guy Conan is not inferior to her Bai Ye?
Otherwise, it would be impossible. Bai Ye had just found the location of the treasure, and the next moment, the other party followed and found it!
But, is it really possible that a primary school student is as good as an outstanding detective in cracking codes?
Sato Miwako was a little skeptical about this.

"No, not them!"

Bai Ye listened attentively to the footsteps coming from the stairs and frowned slightly. "Children's footsteps are not that heavy, and the number of footsteps is not right!"

Hearing this, Sato Miwako was slightly stunned.

If it wasn't Conan and his group of kids, then who else could it be?
Could it be a staff member of this hotel?
But the top floor of this hotel has been abandoned for so long, and it is so dark up there. Will there really be staff coming here?

And, they came in a large group?

Or was it that the group of fugitive robbers cracked the code on the treasure map and found the location of the treasure before Conan and his group of children?
Thinking of this, Sato Miwako instantly became alert...

(End of this chapter)