"Huh? Ah, they've already left."
After everyone left, on the top floor of the clock tower, Shuichi Akai leaned against the wall, wiping his gun while talking to the voice in the earphone.
"Don't worry, the organizer has placed the screen in front of the stairs on the first floor. No one will be able to come up."
With that said, he raised the sniper rifle in his hand and aimed at the crowd below.
"What? The people from the organization haven't shown up yet?"
"Ah, Bourbon and Kiel, it seems that they can be seen in action frequently recently. It seems that the two of them have regained the trust of the organization.
Of course, this is also a good thing for us..."
As he spoke, Akai Shuichi slightly adjusted the scope, and a certain figure on the street below appeared more clearly in his field of vision.
That was Haibara Ai who was following Maori and his group towards the Spectacle Bridge.
"Don't worry about me here. You should pay more attention to the actions of the organization than me. I think there are definitely more than just Bourbon and the two members of the organization hiding in this Edo Street..."
"..."
"Everyone! The Phantom Thief should have left his last hint here. Let's find it together now!"
On the other side, after everyone left the clock tower and slowly came to the Glasses Bridge with a playful attitude, the host of the event, Xue Ding, took out her big speaker again.
"You have to work harder~ After finding out the clues, please use your own wisdom to solve the mystery!"
The process of finding the hint is not difficult. After all, the hint is written on a wooden sign hanging on the stone bridge. You can see it if you look carefully.
"Found it! Xiaolan! Come on, come on! Look! There are some strange Chinese characters and numbers on this sign!"
With sharp eyes, he was the first to spot the wooden sign. Suzuki Sonoko quickly called on everyone to come over to answer the question.
"Huh? Let me see..."
Following her call, the navigation software on everyone's mobile phones rang again, issuing the same prompt as the wooden sign.
"The ninja is exhausted and the annoying mouth sings first..."
After reading this awkward Chinese character with great difficulty, Mao Lilan felt like her head was getting big.
"Well, I don't understand it at all. I remember that the Chinese characters taught by the teacher in class have never been combined in this way... I can't understand their meaning at all. Do you want us to rearrange and combine these Chinese characters? "
Not only her, but the other guests present also looked bitter, not knowing how to start. As the Phantom Thief said, the difficulty of cracking this last code was indeed much higher than the previous one.
"Four, two, four, one, four, three...and what does this string of unknown numbers mean?" Suzuki Sonoko was completely shattered.
On the side, Haiyuan Ai stared at these Chinese characters and numbers for a while, and then an idea suddenly flashed in her mind. She suddenly clicked on the translation software on her mobile phone, and after a while, the corners of her mouth raised slightly.
[So that’s it, is it actually cracked like this? 】
She already had the answer in her heart. Looking at everyone who was still thinking hard, she was about to give some hints, but suddenly she realized Shimizu Shizu standing next to Suzuki Ayako.
When she came out of the lobby of the guest hotel, Qing Shuijing seemed to be a little absent-minded for some reason. She kept looking down at her phone and typing something on it from time to time, as if she was contacting someone.
It wasn't until Haihara Ai looked at him that he finally put his phone back into his pocket and turned to look at the puzzle displayed on Suzuki Ayako's phone next to him.
Withdrawing his gaze, Haiyuan Ai finally chose to remain silent.
She didn't want to be too conspicuous in front of Qing Shuijing.
"Brother-in-law~"
After scratching his head vigorously, Suzuki Sonoko, who was puzzled, finally gave up thinking and turned to look at Qing Shuijing.
"I can't think of anything~ Come and help me~"
"Yuanzi, why do you always give up so quickly..."
With an expression of helplessness and doting, Qing Shuijing sighed, glanced at the puzzle on Suzuki Ayako's phone, and replied directly:
"Go to the Guest House, the Phantom Thief should have gone back there."
Qing Shuijing did not deliberately suppress her voice. After hearing his answer, all the guests around looked up and looked at him curiously.
Some of them tried to deduce the puzzle from his answer, but still found nothing.
"Huh? Why?" Suzuki Sonoko asked curiously.
She took the wooden sign and looked at it horizontally and vertically, but she couldn't see what the Chinese characters had to do with the guest house.
"It's very simple. The solution to this puzzle is actually similar to the first puzzle."
Taking the mobile phone from Suzuki Ayako, Qing Shuijing smiled and explained:
"The string of Chinese characters 'turn the ninja down and sing first' has no meaning in itself. The key point is to look at their Chinese pronunciation.
The string of numbers '42241443' respectively represent the four tones in Chinese: one flat, two rising, three qu, and four falling.
Use the tones represented by these numbers to replace the original tones of the Chinese characters from left to right and then read them out, which is the final answer. "
"The prisoner...returned...to the scene of the crime?"
Suddenly a voice sounded in the crowd, and everyone turned around to look. Okino Yoko, who had said this sentence, just raised his head and looked at Qing Shuijing, and asked with a smile:
"The criminal returned to the scene of the crime, which is the lobby of the guesthouse where the belt was first stolen... Mr. Shimizu, is this what you mean?"
"That's right." Qing Shuijing nodded with the same smile.
"Amazing……"
Although she still couldn't understand the Chinese characters, Suzuki Sonoko nodded to show that she understood.
"No wonder brother-in-law said it was similar to the previous puzzle. The previous puzzle was solved in English, and this time it has to be solved in Chinese... Damn it! Isn't this bullying those of us who are not good at foreign languages?! "
"Brother, you are so awesome. You saw through the puzzles at a glance both times. It seems that your knowledge of foreign languages is quite solid..."
In the crowd, some guests couldn't help but praise.
"You're flattered. It's just that when I was young, I met an aunt who liked archeology and knew many regional languages, so I learned a little bit from her." Qing Shuijing replied with a smile.
"Mr. Shimizu is truly worthy of being the son-in-law of the Suzuki Consortium."
Okino Yoko, who interpreted the answer to the mystery based on Qing Shuijing's prompts, also clapped her hands and said with a smile:
"It's not like me. Although I studied very hard, in the end I was only half-full, and I didn't even understand such a simple puzzle."
"Miss Yoko, you're welcome..."
Listening to the compliments and compliments from the people around her, Suzuki Ayako, who was standing next to Qing Shuijing, subconsciously raised the corners of her mouth with a happy smile.
It can be seen that she is very happy now.
"Ahem!"
At this moment, the host Xueding Yao took out her loudspeaker again, coughed twice, and shouted loudly:
"Now that everyone has answered the final answer to the mystery, let's head towards the guest house and catch the Phantom Thief who keeps teasing us!"
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(End of chapter)
