Detective Conan: The System Takes Me to Zero's World

Kudo Yuki smiled and said, "Aunt Mary, you're welcome. We have an agreement before. I will try my best to investigate the case of Haneda Hiroshi and tell you the truth. We will help each other and cooperate in a win-win situation. I will tell you as soon as I have any new clues."

Akai Mary nodded and said, "Okay, I will also keep an eye out for clues around me. If there is anything you need my help with, feel free to let me know."

Their eyes met and they exchanged email addresses.

Kudo Yuki came to the living room and saw Sera Masumi sitting in front of the computer, her fingers tapping the keyboard quickly, making rhythmic sounds.

Conan stood nearby, his hands in his pockets, teasing with a relaxed look on his face: "You really got it! It's the code sent by the criminal of the hotel bombing incident. Did you hack the internal police information?"

Sera Masumi kept moving his hands and raised his eyes slightly: "No, when the first explosion happened, the code was sent together with the explosion warning letter, and it was said to have been circulated on the Internet for a while.

It is said that a hotel employee said, "This must be a boring prank," and then uploaded it to the Internet. I just hacked into the employee's phone and found the code.

Kudo Yuki slowly walked to the other side of the computer desk. A sentence of unreadable hiragana was displayed on the computer screen. She narrowed her eyes slightly and carefully observed the code on the screen. "The first word of this code is interesting. It is written in the square. It seems that the only way to understand it is to find the whole code."

Masumi Sera stood up from his chair and said, "The notice that came with the code says, 'If the code cannot be solved before 19: tonight, the room written in the code will be detonated.

Of course, if I find out that you deliberately evacuated even one guest, or if I see you calling the police, I will just press the detonator. You only have one chance to answer, and even if you make a mistake, you will lose your chance.'"

Conan sat directly on the chair, leaning forward slightly, looking at the computer screen. "It was ignored as a prank. When the time came, the first explosion occurred."

Kudo Yuki nodded slightly, "Indeed. The first room to explode was Room 3420, right?"

Sera Masumi nodded and said, “Yes.”

She walked to the long table opposite, on which was placed a set of exquisite tea sets. She picked up the tea sets and began to prepare tea. "Sister Xue, Conan, do you want black tea?"

The siblings said in unison, "Yeah, okay."

Conan turned his head and looked at the teacup on the long table. The teacup was as white as jade, emitting a faint luster. He tactfully probed: "It seems... you like drinking black tea very much."

Masumi Sera turned around and glanced at Conan, then continued to make tea. He pretended to be dumbfounded and said, "Ah? This? I'm a tea lover, and I plan to wash it off later."

Conan's eyes sternly turned serious. "No, I mean 'that someone' who lives here with Sister Sera."

"what?"

"After brewing, a part of the tea bag is squashed, isn't it? When you pick up the tea bag after brewing, sometimes people will use the back of a spoon to squeeze the tea bag, but most people who do this are British."

Mary Akai hid in the closet, her figure hidden in the shadows, only a pair of eyes exposed listening to the conversation between the three people.

Conan turned to the direction where Akai Mary was hiding, as if he could sense someone there. "I've seen Sister Sera brewing tea several times, but I never saw you do this, so I know.

There might be another person hiding in this room. And that person is very likely to be British. I wonder if that person is Sister Shira..."

Conan was talking about the key point when he was interrupted by the harsh voice of the man outside the door.

"Hey, are you kidding me? Why is there this code on the table in the room I just checked into?"

When the three heard the keyword "code", they immediately walked to the door, opened it, and looked at the scene in the corridor.

The man was holding a coded note and yelling at a female cleaner: "Are you cleaning seriously?"

Conan and Sera Masumi saw this and both opened their mouths in surprise.

Kudo Yuki was only paying attention to the coded note in the man's hand.

Pointing at the room he was staying in, Room 2114, Hayashizaki Danji kept on scolding, "Call the cleaner who's in charge of cleaning my room over here!"

Lun Tian Shengzi frowned slightly, looking confused: "I made the bed in this room, and there is nothing on the table."

Lin Qi Danji held up the code slip and showed it to her, shouting in a stern voice, "Isn't there a piece of paper like this lying here? The previous guest must have wanted to scare the next guest who comes to stay at the hotel! He must have pretended to be the culprit of the recent hotel bombings, so he left such a boring code."

Masumi Sera walked behind him and took the code note from Hayashizaki Danji's hand.

Lin Qi Danji was still standing there, chattering endlessly, and he turned his head to find that the code note in his hand was gone. He showed an expression of surprise and anger on his face, and he couldn't believe that someone dared to take his things in front of him.

Sera Masumi was squatting down with the code note in his hand, and he and Conan were looking at the code together. They both said in unison: "The bomber's code!"

Their voices were filled with surprise and nervousness, realizing the seriousness of the matter.

Conan took out his cell phone, slightly adjusted the angle of the phone, stared at the code note, pressed the shutter button with his finger, and with a "click", the photo was taken.

Masumi Sera was still in shock and hadn't come to her senses yet.

Kudo Yuki held her forehead helplessly and walked behind the two of them. She looked at the secret code and thought to herself: "Is this hotel the next stop?"

Hayashizaki Danji heard the voice and looked over. Seeing the expressions of Conan and Sera Masumi, he asked loudly: "Hey, what are you looking at? Is this true?"

Masumi Sera and Conan turned to look at Hayashizaki Danji, awkwardly trying to find an excuse.

"How can this be?"

"It's a prank, a prank!"

Conan muttered in his heart: "If we deliberately evacuate the guests or call the police, the criminal will press the explosion switch."

Sera Masumi stood up straight, smiled and kicked the code note into his arms. "Give me this piece of paper first."

Kudo Yuki stood by and warned with a serious expression: "Majun, you can't take things from others without their permission."

Sera Masumi scratched his head a little embarrassedly: "Sorry, I was just anxious for the moment."

Seeing that the little girl had apologized, Lin Qidanji coughed twice and said, "Forget it, since you said it was a prank, then I will just treat it as a farce. Anyway, go and tell the hotel to clean my room again."

The four people stood in front of the door, and when they saw him walk into the room, they closed the door with a bang.

A doorman came running down the corridor. He looked hurried and walked quickly. He trotted all the way to where everyone was and asked, "Excuse me, what happened in this room?"

Lun Tian Shengzi frowned slightly and recounted what had happened.

Afterwards, several people came to the front desk together.

The doorman Mushi Youdou was shocked and exclaimed, "What! Did you find the secret code in room 2114?"

Sera Masumi was confused: "Really?"

Mushi Youdou quickly explained: "Just now, the front desk received a call from a man who claimed to be the bomber, with a strange voice. The man said that there was a code in room 2114, and asked us to send someone to confirm it quickly. I happened to be near this room, so I went to check the situation. Besides, I also moved the luggage to this room."

As soon as he finished speaking, the landline phone at the front desk rang.

The female staff member answered the phone: "Hello, this is Beihu Hotel."

A mixed voice came from the other end of the line. The voice was low and strange: "Hello, I am the bomber who called just now. Have you confirmed the code?"

The female employee's face instantly turned horrified: "Explosion, explosion..."

When Masumi Sera, Conan and Yuki Kudo heard the voice, they hurried forward.

Mushi Youdou asked nervously, "Could it be the bomber?"

Sera Masumi quickly said, "Turn on the speakerphone!"

The female employee quickly pressed the hands-free button.

A mixture of distorted voices suddenly resounded through the front desk, and the voice was full of threat: "Just like last time, and the time before that, if I find out that you deliberately evacuated the guests or the police intervened, I will destroy 1 room in this hotel.

The opportunity only lasts until five o'clock this afternoon. I will call you again at this time. You just need to tell me the answer to the code."

Mu Shi Youdou tried to persuade him: "Well, that... Although I don't know who you are, can you please not do such stupid things."

"Humph, a doorman wants to teach me a lesson?"

Then, over the phone, he heard the sound of something flying. Mushi Youdou stepped on it and fell to the ground, crying out in pain: "Ahhhh."

Masumi Sera, Conan and Kudo Yuki all turned their heads and looked at the people hurrying around in the hotel.

“Can…can you see here?”

"Somewhere in this hotel?"

"Something is fishy."

Conan turned around, placed his hands lightly on the front desk, and murmured into the landline phone: "Excuse me, just like last time... can I only answer one question?"

But the voice on the phone did not respond to Conan's question. "Then I'll call you again at 5pm. Come on!"

Sera Masumi quickly said, “Ah, wait…”

There was a "click" sound from the landline phone as the call was hung up.

Conan and Sera Masumi were surprised by the sudden hang up.

Sera Masumi muttered, "I have something else to ask you." She took out her phone from her pocket and said, "Let's call the police first."

"Is it okay?" The female staff member nervously reminded: "During the second explosion, the criminal knew that the hotel had called the police, so he detonated the bomb before the time came, right?"

Another female staff member came to the front desk and asked, "By the way, where is the code in room 2114?"

Ronda Moriko pointed at Masumi Sera and Conan beside Yuki Kudo. "With those two kids."

The two female employees were stunned for a moment, their eyes full of surprise.

Masumi Sera smiled and murmured, "Oh, don't get it dirty before handing it over to the police."

Conan's phone made a "beep beep" sound, "But I've already taken the pictures."

He showed the secret code photo in his phone to the others: "Look."

When the two female employees saw this, their eyes widened in shock.

"Oh, this..."

"It's exactly the same as the code for the two explosions the police sent me last time."

Kudo Yuki frowned slightly: "Two times?"

One of the female staff members answered the question: "Yes. The police said that if you see similar secret codes, you must call the police immediately."

Conan took the opportunity to ask a question: "Can you show me the code for the second bomb?"

The two female employees looked at Sera Masumi and Conan with questioning eyes.

"Why?"

"By the way, who are you guys?"

The two were dumbfounded, and Kudo Yuki stood beside them with a faint smile.

Masumi Sera smiled and scratched her head nervously: "Ah, I live in Room 2113. My name is Sera..."

Two female employees immediately interrupted what she was about to say.

"Not even if you're a guest."

"We need to discuss countermeasures with our superiors."

Masumi Sera pointed at herself and said, "I'm a high school detective."

A female staff member looked at her speechlessly, obviously not buying it. "Huh? Even if you're a detective, you can't do that unless you have the police's consent."

Masumi Sera put down his hand helplessly, frowned and thought about what to do next.

Conan looked at the time on his watch and became more and more anxious: "Oh no, there is only a little more than an hour left until 5pm."

He was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, thinking in his heart: "What should I do? What should I do? Should I call Officer Ogino or Officer Takagi? Since I can't call the police openly, I should notify the uncle...]

Kudo Yuki patted her brother's shoulder. "Conan, you look so anxious, like a crawling insect on a hot pot, you can't wait any longer."

Conan looked at Kudo Yuki helplessly, "Sister Yuki, this is not the time to joke around."

At this time, Kisaki Eri saw the Kudo siblings and Sera Masumi not far away. She narrowed her eyes slightly and asked, "Huh? Conan, are you with Xiaolan?"

Conan was shocked and said to himself: [Lawyer Fei!]

Conan quickly waved his hand and responded: "Auntie Kiyori, Sister Xiaolan is not here."

Hibiki frowned slightly and walked over, her high heels making crisp sounds on the ground. She looked down at Conan with a puzzled look in her eyes: "What are you doing here?"

Conan looked up at Kisaki Eri slightly and gave a brief summary of the matter.

After hearing this, Hibiki was shocked. She put her hands on her hips, leaned down slightly and looked at Conan, her voice rising a few notches: "The serial bomber who caused the commotion, is this hotel his next target?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the attention of the people around them was attracted by these words, and they all turned their heads to look at the four people.

The Kudo siblings and Sera Masumi quickly made cautious movements and said "hush" at the same time, signaling Kisaki Eri to keep her voice down.

To be continued...