Conan: The Mechanic

Chiba's cell phone rang—it was Matsumoto Kiyotaka who called.

"Qianyu, have you found any clues?" Matsumoto Kiyotaka asked. "For example, is the murderer really Mizutani Kosuke? Who will be the last person to die?"

"...If it's not unexpected, the murderer should be him." Qian Yu replied after thinking about it. "And based on what happened at the time, I think his last target will be himself."

"He himself?" Matsumoto Kiyocho frowned. "You mean, Mizutani Kosuke intends to commit suicide?"

"Yes," Chiyu responded. "The specific inference process may be more complicated, so-"

"You listen to me first," Matsumoto Kiyoshi interrupted him. "Is there anyone else near you?"

"Near me?" Qian Yu glanced around. "I'm sitting on the tram going home now and there's no one else around."

"Is there anyone within five meters?" Matsumoto Kiyoshi asked again. "Anyone potentially able to hear what I'm saying?"

"..." Qianyu raised her eyebrows and replied after checking the surrounding environment. "I'm sure, and there doesn't seem to be anyone in this car, I guess it's probably because it's not time to get off work."

"That's good," Matsumoto Kiyotaka said after a moment of silence after saying this. "Listen to me carefully, Icewine."

"!?" Qianyu's expression became sluggish for a moment - even with the computing power of the auxiliary unit, Qianyu couldn't immediately react to what happened to Matsumoto Kiyoshi calling him that, so he naturally didn't have the energy to control his expression.

"Hello?" Matsumoto Kiyoshi asked again when he heard that there was no response from the other side. "are you there?"

"I'm here, but...what is Icewine?" Qianyu pretended to be stupid.

"I came to you after being introduced by Vermouth," Matsumoto Kiyocho seemed to have long expected Chiba to have such a reaction. "She said if you don't trust me, I'll tell you 'Zed2Thyme'" (I'll start by saying...this Zed has nothing to do with Zed...)

"..." After a moment of silence, Qianyu finally spoke. "Do you need me to do anything?"

"Zed2Thyme", this is a sentence that has no meaning to ordinary people, but for Chiba, it has a special meaning of combination that is not ordinary.

When Qianyu was just a rookie who only had a first glimpse of mechanical mechanisms, the first product he made with a combination lock function was a mechanical combination box-although the box walls of the combination box were all paper, but The door of the box is embedded with a steel plate, so as long as the password box is embedded in a hole opened in the wall, this simple safe will have super strength that does not match its material at all.

The password input interface of this safe is a nine-square numeric keyboard like a telephone, and the password is 123578951 - the trace on the keyboard is just after drawing a Z, and then connecting from the end of Z to the starting point of Z, just forming a The hourglass shape representing time, and "Zed2Thyme" is the homophone spelling of "ZtoTime" (from Z to time, implying the password) in English (Z is pronounced zed in the English phonetic system Qianyu is in contact with, not in American pronunciation or The zee used by children who are deeply poisoned by alphabet songs, because the letter Z actually appeared around the 15th century, from the Old French zede; and zede comes from the Greek letter ζ, which is pronounced zeta.).

When he first made this thing, he actually interacted with Belmod - when he told his master about this, Belmod in disguise happened to be in the orange mansion - she was talking to Chiba's Master ordered a new pistol grip.

... back to more than ten years ago.

"The password for this is zed—" Xiao Qianyu wrote on a small note while looking at his master. . "tothyme"

"I probably understand why writing thyme is probably alluding to time, but what is zed?" asked Belmod, who was looking over here. "Zedekiah? (Zedekiah, the last king of Judah in the Bible

"Zed is zed?" Xiao Qianyu looked bewildered.

"zed?" Belmode blinked - as a native American, he had absolutely no idea what the word meant. "what is that?"

"Huh?" The master, who had just finished polishing, raised his head and said slowly to Belmod. "Don't worry too much, the pronunciation of z in English is zed."

"Huh?" Belmod was stunned. "is that so?"

"Yes," the master nodded. "You haven't heard it just because the d ending doesn't usually appear in words, so no one cares."

"Did you let this little guy learn English accents?" Belmod leaned down, keeping at the same height as Chiyu's, and asked his master while stroking his head. "It's not a good idea in Japan."

"He chose it himself," the master shook his head. "I originally hired an American tutor for him, but the tutor said that he has never been able to adapt to the American pronunciation, maybe the English pronunciation is more suitable for him - the fact that the British tutor was hired later also confirmed this."

...back to the present.

The only one who can know "ZedtoThyme" is Chiba himself, the late master and three other people, Belmod, so the Kiyoshi Matsumoto, who claimed to be introduced by Belmod, can know this, and he must have really got Belmod. hint. In other words, he does represent the organization.

"Get ready, go to Tokyo Tower." Matsumoto Kiyo said in a deep voice. "It's up to the two of us to find Mizutani Kosuke. The token he took from Masaki Okakura was a USB flash drive with a list of spies sent out by an organization. We must get this thing back from him."

"List of spies?" Chi Yu's expression changed suddenly~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Wait a minute, is this Okakura Masaki's position very high? "

"It's very low," Matsumoto Kiyoshi said in a sullen voice. "This guy is just the secretary and housekeeper of Congressman Nagisa (do you have a sense of sight? That's right, this guy is in the scene ←← If you don't guess, you can get the answer by entering the group =, =), This list was completely taken out by him secretly. Originally, the organization planned to get rid of him forever, but unexpectedly, it was taken a step ahead, and this list was also taken away.”

"So, do we need the two of us to **** this thing back?" Qian Yu asked.

"Yes," Matsumoto Kiyocho replied. "And soon, we have to get these things before anyone else finds out that the two of us are unusual. By the way, for your safety, I will use a text message to contact you one-way and agree on a place to exchange information - rest assured, The chat history in my phone is automatically cleared and will not expose you. But if you take the initiative to contact me, it may not be."

"It's not necessary." Qian Yu hung up the phone after saying that.

"?" Matsumoto Kiyotaka looked at the phone that was hung up and was stunned. Just before he was about to redial, he received a text message.

[Just send a text message to this phone number. Don't worry, you can see that this number is obviously an empty number. 】

"?" Matsumoto Kiyotaka looked at the number curiously, only to find out why Chiba said it must be an empty number. "!!!???"

Phone number: 0019330130

According to Japan's numbering rules, this is a landline, but 00 doesn't correspond to any area code - it's not even a legal phone number, of course, it's an empty number.

But how did this kid do it?