"Uh, but I seem to have seen this pattern before..." Professor Agasa turned back to the issue of the code.
"Really?" Conan stopped worrying about the video. It was already sent, so worrying was useless. He pestered Professor Agasa instead. "Professor, think carefully! Where did you see it?"
"Don't rush me..." As Professor Agasa was recalling, he was interrupted by Mitsuhiko.
"Conan, come and help think about the code on the floor too!"
Conan had no choice but to solve the code on the floor first, reminding the three children to follow the arrows, leading them all the way to a box in the bedroom.
The box was opened, but inside was a pile of toys slashed to pieces by a knife. Even the Kamen Yaiba cards were slashed.
The expectant looks of the three children froze instantly.
Feichi poked his head out to watch, silent for two seconds. "Master, the souvenirs you bought were all destroyed too!"
"Mn," Chi Feichi walked over. "The slashing direction is on the same side, right-handed, stabbed deeply, knife marks are messy. It should have been stabbed with anger or resentment."
"Isn't this a joke the Professor is playing on us?" Ayumi turned to look at Professor Agasa in disappointment.
"No, someone definitely came looking after the Professor hid the box," Conan stroked his chin. This guy Chi Feichi is indeed sharp. "Because they found only toys, they started destroying them in anger."
"In that case, that person must have come here looking for something," Haibara Ai analyzed calmly.
"Then what exactly did he want to find?" Genta pressed.
"Don't know. Maybe related to those sun, star, and moon codes," Conan said.
"Are those random drawings really codes?" Mitsuhiko was surprised.
"Yes," Conan pondered. "I think this villa might really hide some priceless treasure!"
The three children immediately got excited and started looking for codes and treasure again.
Professor Agasa went out to call the police, just in time to receive a call from Kudo Yusaku. "Eh? You're back?"
"Yes, we've arrived in Japan..." Kudo Yusaku mentioned the call with Fukuyama Chiaki.
"The doctor probably overthought it," Professor Agasa lowered his voice. "You know Shinichi's situation..."
"Although that's the case, I think a checkup is good," Kudo Yusaku said. "Professor, where are you now?"
Professor Agasa told him the location and current situation. "Are you coming over?"
"Since there are others present, it's probably inconvenient for us to appear directly," Kudo Yusaku considered. "Let Yukiko disguise herself and pick him up. As for that code..."
"By the way," Professor Agasa remembered. "You've seen that code before, right? Those strange letters I asked you to look at a few years ago. There were also those patterns on the edges of the letters. You started getting excited just like Shinichi, and a day later told me I was like the sun, sweeping away your previous depression..."
"Leave that code for the young people to solve. You can give them a hint," Kudo Yusaku laughed. "I hope, Professor, you can keep our return a secret from Shinichi first. Let him solve the code properly. I'm also curious who can solve it first, Shinichi or that Mr. Chi. Hmm... with a hint, it should be a bit faster than me back then. I look forward to their performance."
"Uh, okay..."
After Kudo Yusaku hung up, Professor Agasa called the police.
Obviously someone had broken into the villa and slashed toys to vent anger. It was better to call the police and inform them...
In the living room, the three children found a pile of items with the same code.
"Playing cards, French dictionary, records, airplane, glass wine glasses, portraits, puppets..." Conan pondered while looking at the items. "Plus the vase, candlestick, and plate we found earlier, that's a total of 10 items."
"But relying on these alone, we don't know what it means at all," Ayumi said.
Conan thought for a moment, saw Professor Agasa entering, and asked, "Professor, what did the police say?"
"They said probably a thief broke in," Professor Agasa said. "They'll come over to take a look in a while."
"Mn..." Conan still wanted to solve the code. He turned to look at Chi Feichi, wondering if that guy had any... Eh?
Chi Feichi looked up at the chandelier on the ceiling. He didn't remember what the code meant, but he remembered after searching around, the center point was finally on the ceiling, where there was an attic, and the old man had already died in the attic.
Haibara Ai walked over. "What's wrong with the chandelier?"
"Brother Chi, you haven't already solved the code, have you?" Conan asked uncertainly.
"I'm not good at codes." Chi Feichi was telling the truth to some extent.
He could solve codes, but he wasn't very good at it. He just vaguely remembered some key points of the plot.
Conan breathed a sigh of relief. Although Chi Feichi had said he wasn't good at codes before, he still solved Kaitou Kid's code first. But this time shouldn't be that fast; he didn't even have a clue.
Professor Agasa mentioned Kudo Yusaku seeing similar letters and said the letters only had hiragana written on them, giving Conan a hint.
Conan started deciphering the code. He found the code represented all the items in the room. He drew the deciphering table directly, sitting on the floor writing and drawing. "This way, all the codes can be restored... just like this!"
"Let me see," Ayumi read. "Look at the vase, look at the candlestick, look at the propeller, look at the oil painting..."
"Look at the record, look at the doll, look at the glass wine glass, look at the playing cards..." Mitsuhiko followed.
"Look at the French dictionary, look at the fireplace!" Genta said. "So the treasure is in the fireplace, right?"
Conan and the three children immediately ran to look at the fireplace.
Haibara Ai didn't follow. She looked up at the ceiling and whispered to Chi Feichi, "What exactly is on the ceiling? You were staring at it blankly for quite a while just now."
"The answer to the code." Chi Feichi didn't hide it.
"But the fireplace..." Haibara Ai looked at the fireplace.
"There's a code inside the fireplace too," Conan crawled into the fireplace. "It's the same carved code. Ayumi, hand me the deciphering table!"
"Okay!" Ayumi immediately went to get it.
Conan checked against the answers, but the result was...
"L-Look at the plate?!"
"Look at the plate? You mean the plate from the very beginning? Doesn't that mean we went in a circle and came back?" Professor Agasa was surprised. Is this code playing tricks on people?
Conan didn't believe it was a prank, staring at the deciphered note for a long time.
"Then, before the police arrive, let everyone return the items in the villa to their original positions!" Professor Agasa called out to the group of children.
Conan wandered over to Chi Feichi, looking puzzled at Chi Feichi who was calmly watching the show. He looked up at the ceiling, then continued staring at the note. Soon, he noticed the three children returning items constantly passing by him. After a start, he gave Chi Feichi half-moon eyes. "And you say you're not good at solving codes? I won't believe your nonsense anymore!"
"Eh?" Professor Agasa was surprised.
"Could it be that this code..." Haibara Ai looked up at the chandelier overhead.
"Have you solved it? Conan!" Mitsuhiko ran over immediately.
"Yeah. You guys kept passing by me while returning the items. If you link the locations of all the items in the order of 'look at a certain item', starting from the plate, vase, candlestick, propeller..." Conan sat on the floor, drawing lines on the paper to connect the locations of the items, and couldn't help looking up at Chi Feichi with extreme resentment. "All lines converge at the very center, which is the position Brother Chi has been standing in all along!"
"Is the treasure under Brother Chi's feet?" Genta leaned over curiously. "Hidden by Brother Chi?"
"No, the switch should be on the ceiling chandelier..." Conan looked at Chi Feichi gloomily. "Not going to help?"
Chi Feichi said nothing, just picked Conan up.
After Conan turned the chandelier, the sounds of mechanisms rumbling and clicking came from the house.