I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

"As for cicadas, I know there is a kind of cicada called Oil Cicada, so it's probably Oil Xiaolu that you're referring to."

"The Tengu in the middle is known to be the Karasuma Road that runs from north to south."

"The last goldfish, I think the neta should be the sentence that goldfish feed is wheat bran, so it is Fuyacho Road."

The Kyoto puzzle that seemed extremely abstract to outsiders was quickly solved by Ooka Momiji, a local lady.

"And now we just need to connect all the locations..."

As Ooka Momiji spoke, she touched the screen of her mobile phone with her slender white index finger and drew lines on the screenshot of the map one by one.

On the bottom five streets, draw from Aburano-koji to Fuyacho-dori, on the middle four streets, draw from Nishi-Toin-dori to Yanagibaba-dori, and on the top Oike-dori, draw from Ogawa-dori to Tomikoji.

Finally, the middle Wuwan Road runs through the center of the three north-south red lines.

It forms the Chinese character “王” (king).

"King? Why is it the king?"

Hattori Heiji was also confused.

Now the puzzles are all solved, but it seems to be of no use?

The total number of locations analyzed now is eight, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the group of people divided the Buddha statues into eight parts and hid them in these places respectively.

A Buddha statue made up of eight parts? Even if you put it all together, can you still sell it for a good price?

"Don't be impatient, the puzzle is not over yet."

Ooka Hongye shook her head slowly, raised her hand again and tapped on the map, adding a dot to the lower right corner of the word "王", which corresponded to the ink dot between the top bookshelf and the next one on the map.

"Not Wang, but Yu?"

Serabelle's eyes fell on the eye-catching point on the screen.

"How amazing! How did you guess that?"

"Well, it's not a very complicated reasoning process." Ooka Hongye smiled elegantly, "I just heard from Sera-kun that this is a treasure map, so I analyzed it from the perspective of a treasure map. The final jade character also proves that my analysis is correct."

Indeed, jade is often used in Japanese to refer to treasures, and the place name of that location is... Gyokuryuji Temple?

"The word formed on the map at the end is 'Jade', and the location of the dot is also Yulong Temple, it matches!"

Finally solving the mystery and knowing the whereabouts of the Buddha statue, Hattori Heiji seemed extremely excited. He didn't even lie on the hospital bed. He lifted the quilt and jumped down.

"Great, then let's go out now...eh?"

As soon as his feet touched the ground, he suddenly paused, turned his head cautiously and looked in the direction of another bed near the door behind him.

That was originally where Toyama Kazuha was sitting, but now only Xiaolan and Sera Masumi are left there.

"Huh? Where's He Ye?"

Hattori Heiji couldn't help but ask curiously while breathing a sigh of relief.

"Maybe he went to the bathroom?"

Sera Masamune shrugged nonchalantly.

"She rushed out while you were still chatting about the map puzzle or something."

"Oh, he should be back soon..."

Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, then quickly stood up.

"No, we have to leave quickly, otherwise if that woman He Ye comes back and finds out I'm leaving, she'll definitely tie me up on the bed. Hurry, hurry!"

He said he was fast, but his actions were not that fast.

Perhaps the injury he suffered last night was still affecting him. Hattori Heiji had just gotten out of bed and taken two steps when he suddenly staggered and subconsciously held onto the bed railing to avoid falling. Conan was so scared that he quickly went over to hold him.

"Is this okay for you?" Serabell also complained.

Anyone can see that Hattori Heiji's current condition is obviously not suitable for moving on the ground.

"It's okay, I know what's going on." Hattori Heiji raised his head and smiled, "The wound is actually not serious. It may be that the anesthetic effect of the knife last night has not worn off yet. It should be fine after walking a few steps and sweating a little."

Seeing that he was like this, it was clear that there was no point in trying to persuade him, so Serabel could only shrug.

"Forget it. There's still time. Let's just walk over slowly."

Chapter 426 Someone Has to Be Kidnapped

The distance from the hospital to Gyokuryuji Temple is not very short. You have to walk almost from the upper left half of Kyoto to the lower right half of the city.

I almost walked from the northwest corner of Kyoto to the southeast corner.

Without the help of convenient modern transportation such as motorcycles, even without considering the time wasted on red lights or traffic jams, it would take nearly two or three hours to walk.

"It's still a long way to go if we walk there now. Do you really want to go with us, Ms. Ooka?"

"Of course, you guys are going treasure hunting, so how can you leave me behind for such a fun thing? Besides, I helped solve all the puzzles. Isn't it the job of a mystery solver to verify and witness the answers?"

"OK then……"

The conversation is roughly the same as above.

Since they had decided to go together, and there was plenty of time, there was no need to rush, so Serabelle and the others set off on their journey at a leisurely pace.

We set out at 10:30, had lunch at a restaurant on the commercial street near the hospital at 11:00, and didn't set out again until 11:45.

Considering that it is not advisable to do strenuous exercise right after a meal, and that they also have to take care of the sick Hattori Heiji, everyone slowed down their pace even further, and only returned to their normal pace after the food was almost digested.

So, by the time we arrived at the so-called Yulong Temple address on the map, the sun in the sky was already setting.

It was three o'clock in the afternoon.

The location where the ink was thickly drawn on the map was an intersection on a street in Kyoto, but it was not a crossroads in the common sense.

Instead, it is more inclined towards the alleys in residential areas.

And this is indeed a residential area, as evidenced by the children who had just finished school walking by the roadside, supported by their young mothers.

Looking around, there are houses and people living here...but the so-called Yulong Temple is nowhere to be seen.

"Where is the Yulong Temple?"

Looking at the navigation on his phone again, Hattori Heiji couldn't help scratching his head.

He walked along all the roads within a radius of fifty meters. Without exception, they were all residential houses. The only temple was called Foguang Temple. He walked in and took a look around, but there was no one there, so he came out again.

"How strange..."

Conan also found it a bit puzzling, he came here with Hattori Heiji, there were two people with two pairs of eyes, one responsible for investigation and the other for review, there should be no way they could make mistakes.

If you can't find it, it means it's really not here.

But the map points to this exact location. How could this be?

"Wait, what's that under your butt?"

At this time, Conan cast his sharp eyes towards Serabelle, who had been sitting on a stone tablet on the side of the road for about a quarter of an hour ago.

It’s not that this guy was slacking off, but after discovering that the address on the map didn’t match the reality, Serabelle started downloading different navigation apps one by one to check.

As a result, without exception, they all said that this was the Yulong Temple.

Being in an unfamiliar place and having encountered such a situation for the first time, even Serabelle felt a little at a loss.

Now that Conan called him like that, he simply stood up.

"what happened?"

"This……"

Conan didn't look at him, but stared blankly at the stone tablet under the other person's butt.

Without the obstruction of the legs, the words on the stone tablet appeared clearly in front of everyone.

【Yulong Temple Ruins】

"What? Why are there only ruins left?!"

Hattori Heiji's eyes almost popped out of his head.

What is the concept of ruins?

It is equivalent to saying that there was indeed a place called Yulong Temple here, but it no longer exists.

It is possible that they moved away, but judging from the current situation, it is more likely that they were directly razed to the ground.

Otherwise, another line would have to be added to the stone tablet to adjust the current geographical location.

What’s more, even the map navigation has not updated the relocation location of Yulong Temple, so it is almost 100% certain that it has been razed to the ground.

Fight your mother!

"What should I do now..."

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Just then, a young mother happened to pass by with her child on the side of the road. Seeing a group of half-grown children who looked like high school students gathered around the stone tablet and did not know what they were doing, she couldn't help but speak up kindly.

"You are here to travel in Kyoto, right? If you want to find the Gyokuryuu Temple, you'd better give up and go to other big temples. The Gyokuryuu Temple moved away a few years ago."

"Where exactly did you move to?" Serabell asked politely.

"I remember it was deep in Mt. Kurama..." The young mother stopped talking halfway, "But you'd better not go there. No one goes there now. It has been abandoned for a long time. It's easy to encounter snakes and insects when walking on the mountain road. It's too dangerous."

"Yeah, I see, I see. Thank you for your reminder."

Hattori Heiji agreed quickly, but people who knew him well knew that it was obvious that he didn't take it to heart at all.

As expected, after the young mother and son left, Hattori Heiji immediately turned to Serabell and Conan.

"Then let's go there now!"

"Yeah, that's okay."

Serabel was about to nod when the phone in his pocket vibrated again.

It was a call from Masumi Sera.

"Hey, what's wrong..."

"Brother, listen to me first, something terrible is going to happen!"

Before he could finish his words, the anxious voice of the girl with tiger teeth on the other end of the phone interrupted him instantly.

"He Ye is missing!"

"what?"

Serabelle paused, moved the phone away from her ear and tapped the screen to turn on the hands-free mode.

"…How could that be? Shouldn't she be in the hospital with you?"

"That was originally the case, but remember when I said He Ye went to the bathroom in the ward before, she didn't actually go to the bathroom, she went out on her own!"

Sera Masumi explained hurriedly.

"Not long after you left, Xiaolan and I thought it was time for lunch, so we called Heye to ask her when she would be back. She answered the phone at that time, and from the background noise on the phone, it seemed like she was outside. She didn't mention where she was going, but just said that she had something to do and that we could go to lunch first and not worry about her. She also said that she would be back to see us around 2pm, but now it's past 3pm and she hasn't appeared yet, and I can't get through to her on the phone!"

tsk...

Serabelle held her forehead slightly in her heart, calmed down and said calmly.

"Got it. You guys should report it to the Kyoto police first. We will also start looking for him. Contact us as soon as we have any news."

"okay!"

After the call ended, Hattori Heiji was the first one who couldn't bear it anymore.

"How could this happen? Could it be that Kazuha was killed by the man wearing the Noh mask..."

Jingle Bell!

Before he finished speaking, his cell phone rang.

The caller ID showed it was Toyama Kazuha.

I pressed the call connection, and the voice coming from the other end was an Osaka accent that sounded a little familiar.

"It seems that you have solved the puzzle. Come to Gyoryuuji Temple deep in Kurama Mountain to find me. The little girl from Osaka is also here with me... Of course, you, Hattori Heiji, have to come alone."