I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

This is what is meant by talking about morality but thinking about business.

"That's great, that's great. It turns out that photographing people is much more interesting than photographing antiques."

Hanchuan Long, who claims to be a freelance photographer but is actually an unemployed vagrant, was holding a camera and recording while fanning the flames.

Then he turned to the cheongsam beauty Pu Siqinglan beside him, and tried to lead her into the battle with a smile.

"Why don't you try to get it? As a scholar of the Romanov dynasty, you can't be completely uninterested in the Tsar's secret treasure, right?"

Well……

As if a sore spot had been touched, Pu Siqinglan, who had been able to remain calm in the last second, instantly had her disguise broken. She glanced to the side, gritting her teeth and revealing a hint of unwillingness.

"I really want it, but I can't afford 800 million yen..."

"Well, then we're on the same page~" Hanchuan Long shrugged and spread his hands while holding the camera, "Even if it's me, I can only come up with 200 million after trying my best."

"OK OK."

Seeing that a war of words was about to break out in the office, Shiro Suzuki stood up at the critical moment, smiled and pressed down with both hands to stop both sides.

"I think it's almost time today, how about we leave it for next time?"

"..."

"..."

Although they were still reluctant, since President Suzuki had spoken, they had no choice but to obey.

What's more, it was indeed "about time". It had been a while since Serabelle and the others arrived at the office. After all, they were all guests invited by President Suzuki, so no one had to wait for anyone else. If they insisted on staying and President Suzuki had to leave the new guests alone, it would be a bit impolite.

"Then we'll take our leave."

He bowed slightly, picked up the briefcase at his feet and left first.

Then the other three followed closely.

It is worth mentioning that the last one to leave, Ryu Kankawa, happened to bump into Secretary Nishino who came in with a small box. Then his cynical expression immediately turned into a look as if he had seen a ghost, and he left quickly without looking back.

The office door closed again, and Secretary Nishino came to the coffee table and placed the box in his hand on the table.

The structure of the box is similar to that of a cake box. Remove the ribbons tied on the four sides and open the lid. Inside is an egg that looks quite exquisitely made... Of course, it is inedible.

"Is this the legendary Egg of Memory worth 800 million?" Kogoro Mouri came closer and took a curious look.

“Can this be opened in the middle?”

Conan took advantage of his small size and agility to squeeze to the front and pointed at the two horizontal circles of gold edges in the middle of the egg and said.

"Oh, you are a very smart kid. That's right. In fact, just like this..."

Shiro Suzuki smiled, leaned over, picked up the Egg of Memory, and opened it with a gentle push in the middle.

The lid of the upper part of the Egg of Memory was opened, revealing a pure gold sculpture of Emperor Nicholas and his family.

"Of course, there's more to it than that..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shiro Suzuki took out another clockwork key from his body, inserted it into one of the small holes on the egg, twisted it a few times and pulled it out.

Then a magical scene appeared.

The sculpture was seen rising slowly from the egg. Emperor Nicholas, who was sitting on a chair surrounded by children, gently opened the cover of the book in his hand with his right hand, and the subsequent pages were also turned over.

"There is actually such a sophisticated mechanism." Hattori Heiji said in surprise.

You have to know that it was a product of the early last century. Such detailed production is not easy to produce even in today's extremely developed industry, not to mention that it was all handmade at that time.

This is no longer art, it's a miracle.

At this time, Suzuki Tomoko, who had been silent, took advantage of everyone's attention being on the Egg of Memories and quietly came to the side of the absent-minded Serabelle.

"Inspector Nakamori has already come to talk to us about the defense against Kidd."

"Oh huh?"

"According to Inspector Nakamori, he believes that Kidd has always succeeded in getting the treasure because he was too focused on competing with him and always placed the treasure in a place Kidd knew."

"So this time he plans to hide the Egg of Memory in an inconspicuous place?" Serabelle could probably guess.

"Yes."

Suzuki Tomoko smiled mysteriously.

"In order to deal with the situation this time, we specially asked the craftsmen to make two extra fakes of the Egg of Memory. One of them will be exhibited in the art museum, and the other will be given to Inspector Nakamori. As for the real one... I plan to give it to you, Sera-kun."

"Let me guess, Mrs. Suzuki, you said the same thing to Inspector Nakamori?" Serabel glanced sideways.

"of course not."

Being questioned like this, the corners of Suzuki Tomoko's mouth curved even further.

"The only thing I give you, Sera-kun, is the real thing. Please protect it well."

Chapter 130: The big sick area still performs steadily

Once the novelty of the Egg of Memories wore off, everyone's attention quickly returned to Kidd's notice.

Hattori Heiji touched his chin first: "But actually, I am more curious about another point than this. In the preview letter, Kidd mentioned the 'glowing tower in the sky'. If the tower in the sky refers to the castle tower, then why does the castle tower glow?"

"You are an idiot..."

Hearing the doubts raised by his childhood sweetheart, Yuanshan Heye beside him immediately curled his lips.

"Of course, that's because Mr. Taiko, who built Osaka Castle, thought that the castle tower was like the light of Osaka Castle. How come you don't even know that?"

"That's right!"

The voice of approval did not come from anyone else present, but came from the direction of the office door.

Following the sound, I saw Inspector Chaki and Inspector Nakamori, who had appeared in the Dark Star incident last time, walking in quickly from outside, followed by two other police officers. They looked so heroic, as if they were determined to succeed in capturing Kidd this time.

Among them, Chaki Shintaro continued speaking along with what Toyama Kazuha said.

"There is no doubt that between today and tomorrow, Kaito Kidd will appear at the castle tower of Osaka Castle. We have deduced this over and over again and it should be absolutely correct, but..."

He paused, seeming a little discouraged.

Inspector Nakamori, who was following closely behind, immediately took over.

"But so far, we still have no clue about the sentence 'the clock without a second hand reaches the twelfth number'."

A clock without a second hand...

If interpreted as normal text, it should ask people to find a clock without a second hand, but if it is placed in a riddle, it should be a hint to the decoder that this does not refer to a clock in the popular sense.

But if it's not a clock in the popular sense...

"Could it be that they are actually speaking the 50-sound system?" the Osaka girl suddenly asked.

"Fifty tones?"

Everyone was stunned.

The Goku is equivalent to the pinyin in Japanese, and is arranged in a fixed order just like the pinyin ah, oh, er, and eh in Chinese.

But if we talk about the twelfth 50-character syllable, it would be...

Yuanzi counted on his fingers and recited it silently, then a look of surprise appeared on his face.

"Si (pronounced xi in Japanese)? That means four in the morning?"

At first glance, it makes sense. If you use the fifty sounds to represent it, then it is indeed a clock without a second hand, and the twelfth one does correspond exactly to the pronunciation of the number four.

But this discovery was immediately rejected by Inspector Nakamori who shook his head.

"Impossible, Kidd's code wouldn't be that simple."

"Hey, is that so..."

The discovery that she had finally made was rejected. Miss Sonoko hung her head a little, feeling a little frustrated.

At this moment, Kogoro Mouri, who was sitting on the sofa on the other side and also counting on his fingers, laughed softly, with a smile on the corner of his mouth as if he knew everything.

"I understand, Inspector General. Kidd's code does not refer to the twelfth digit of the 50-character syllable, but to the English alphabet!"

"The English alphabet?"

After all, it was the famous "Sleeping Kogoro" who spoke, so everyone started counting on their fingers and reciting the words one by one again.

ABCD blah blah until the twelfth one is...L!

"L, that means it's three o'clock in the morning?" Inspector Nakamori was a little shaken.

"That's right!" Kogoro Mouri still looked confident.

"But what is the basis for saying this?"

Serabelle didn't give him any face and asked questions that hit the nail on the head.

That is indeed the truth. You said that others are just guessing the 50-sounding phonetics, but why is the English alphabet correct? There is no mention of the English alphabet in the original text of the preview letter, right?

"Basis? Of course I have."

Kogoro Maori laughed confidently again.

"But this was not obtained through Kidd's prompting, but through logical thinking."

Oh?

Serabel raised an eyebrow, he liked to talk about logic.

Then I heard Maori Kogoro continue to say: "Inspector Nakamori, Superintendent Chaki, since you are also police officers, you should know that three o'clock in the morning is the time when normal people are most relaxed. Kidd knew that we would set up a dragnet to wait for him in the castle tower in advance, so he deliberately chose this time when everyone was most relaxed to attack."

Then I would rather believe that she will come at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night. Doesn't it mean that it doesn't represent a real clock? It's not like there is nothing to sell on the market... Sera Bell said to her heart.

But it was obvious that Shiro Suzuki would not think so much. He was overjoyed to hear this analysis which could be regarded as completely groundless.

"Oh, as expected of Mr. Maori, your reasoning skills are amazing."

"Ahahahaha!"

Hearing the praise from President Suzuki, Kogoro Mori laughed so hard that his tongue almost popped out.

Seeing this scene, Conan twitched his mouth helplessly, then nudged Serabel next to him with his elbow and lowered his voice.

"So what do you think? Do you have any idea about this sentence?"

"Not at all, but it doesn't matter..."

Serabelle shrugged and looked down.

"It doesn't matter to me whether I have this clue or not."

……

It was seven fifteen in the evening.

Tsutenkaku, Osaka.

A pure white figure quietly landed on the top of the building.

It's Kidd...or rather, Kidd.

Just like what she had seen on the rooftop of Beihu Hotel, she spread her arms against the strong wind, and the boy's voice, masked by her miraculous voice-changing skills, floated in the wind.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the show of Kaito Kid is about to begin!"

As if she was praying before taking action, after saying this, she took out a remote control from her inner pocket and pressed the only red button on it hard.

The next moment, flames shot up into the sky from a substation somewhere in Osaka Castle. The rumbling sound of the explosion temporarily drowned out the wailing alarm, and all the equipment was destroyed in the sea of ​​fire.

The Osaka Castle, which was originally full of neon lights at night, seemed to have been shut down in an instant. The skyscrapers on both sides of the city center went out one after another until the entire city was plunged into darkness.

But soon the lights in some buildings came back on.

"Hoenzaka Sanmon Hospital, Dojima Century Hotel, Tenma Emergency Center, Channel Pavilion Hotel..."

The names of the buildings that were lit up by the emergency self-generating systems were reported one by one by the Phantom Thief Girl, but these were not her search targets.

Then she suddenly let out an "oh".

That was also a building that had lights on due to its self-generated power system, but compared with the above ones, its appearance was really too inconspicuous.

It is neither a hospital nor a hotel, nor a government building.