Chapter 625: The distress signal sent by the paper plane

Chapter 625: The distress signal sent by the paper plane

Mao Lilan looked at the two of them, then at her phone, and said, "That's what the email said."

Suzuki Sonoko immediately reacted: "Hey, Shinichi also figured out the code?"

Mao Lilan showed her the screen of her mobile phone: "Yes, and he also asked me to send him pictures of other paper airplanes."

"Shinichi?" Okiya Subaru thought, "Come to think of it, I heard from Yuya-kun that the owner of this house seems to be called Shinichi as well?"

Suzuki Sonoko was stunned: "You still know Yuya?"

Subaru Okiya nodded: "Yes, in fact, it was Yuya-kun who suggested that I live here in the beginning. Come to think of it, I may have to teach at your school in a few days."

"Huh? Our school? Teaching?" Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran widened their eyes in surprise.

Subaru Okiya nodded and looked at the school uniforms of the two people: "If I'm not mistaken, this is the school uniform of Teitan High School, right? I've been having a headache about where to do my internship recently. Yuya-kun said that your school is short of a teacher, so he suggested that I go there for internship..."

"Oh, that's great! I wonder if he will teach our class!" Suzuki Sonoko's face was full of anticipation.

Mao Lilan looked at Suzuki Sonoko with contempt: "It shouldn't be. I heard from Mr. Mizuhara that the third-grade teacher Makino resigned because of family matters, so Mr. Subaru should teach the third grade. Besides, there is no vacant teacher in our class."

Suzuki Sonoko dropped her shoulders in disappointment: "Is that so? That's such a pity."

"Not necessarily." Okiya Subaru suddenly said, "I am just an intern and a temporary replacement for a vacant teacher. They probably won't let me teach the third grade. After all, they have an important entrance exam next."

Suzuki Sonoko's eyes lit up again after hearing this: "So there is still hope!"

Subaru Okiya smiled and changed the subject, "So, I remember the news saying that nearly a hundred paper airplanes were recovered the night before yesterday and last night. Are there any other paper airplanes? If I'm not mistaken, we should be able to get more information from them, and maybe even find out where the person who sent out the distress signal is."

Suzuki Sonoko pinched her chin and said thoughtfully, "Come to think of it, when we went to that hamburger shop just now, I seemed to hear the manager tell the staff to take down the paper plane on the sign. Maybe that person threw it out, too?"

Mao Lilan immediately said: "Then let's go over and take a look!"

The hamburger restaurant was not far away, and the two soon came back with paper planes, and the photos were also sent to Conan's mobile phone.

The pattern on this paper airplane is obviously different from the previous one.

There are five straight lines of the same length drawn on the bottom of the paper airplane, which represents the number "0" in Morse code.

At the same time, I used a pen to paint along the crease of the folded part on the front of the paper airplane. After turning the paper airplane over, I found that it was the shape representing the signal on the mobile phone.

"So, the man with the paper airplane was in a place where there was no cell phone signal, and he sent out an SOS distress signal?" Suzuki Sonoko suddenly realized, but then became confused again, "But where exactly is he referring to?"

Okiya Subaru shook his head: "That's not clear. We can only get these two pieces of information at the moment. But since there were paper airplanes the day before yesterday and yesterday, maybe there will be some today as well?"

"Oh, right, news!" Mao Lilan turned on the TV, which seemed to be broadcasting news and occupied almost all the channels.

The news reported that it was a kidnapping case. The kidnapper fell to his death, and the hostage, a former crew member and the president of a company named Dai Tian, ​​is still missing.

Then the news reported that another paper plane was found today, with a third pattern or a third code drawn on it - two circles missing half and one intact circle, and there were strange creases on the paper plane.

Subaru Okiya groaned and said, "I'm afraid this kidnapping case is related to the paper airplane. If he was once a crew member, it would make sense for him to use Morse code to send a distress signal."

"Because you didn't know that the prisoner had fallen to his death, you used a method that ordinary people wouldn't understand to convey the information, right?"

Mao Lilan suddenly realized: "Even if the criminal picked up the paper airplane, he would just think it was a child's prank, right?"

Suzuki Sonoko said in distress: "It's not clear on TV, Mr. Subaru, do you know what it means?"

Okiya Subaru squinted his eyes and pondered for a while, then suddenly took out a notebook from his pocket, tore off a page and began to fold it.

Suzuki Sonoko was confused: "Mr. Subaru, what are you doing..."

Mao Lilan asked tentatively: "Since you didn't get the real thing, do you plan to fold one yourself?"

Suzuki Sonoko suddenly realized and said with some worry: "But there are several ways to fold a paper airplane, right? I can't see it clearly on TV, and I don't know which one is used, but it always feels different from the paper airplanes I made two days ago..."

Several ways to fold it? Hearing this, Okiya Subaru paused. Originally he was just trying it out, but his movements suddenly became faster.

Soon, he folded out a...squid? Then he drew three circles where the squid's eyes and tail would be.

Suzuki Sonoko was confused: "Is this... a paper airplane? The shape looks so strange. Can it really fly?"

Subaru Okiya smiled, unfolded the squid with the circle painted on it, and then folded it again according to the same method as the previous two paper airplanes. Soon, a paper airplane exactly the same as the one on TV appeared, even the part where the circle was missing was almost exactly the same.

"That's amazing. So, the paper airplane guy wants others to guess the real folding method, which is actually a squid?"

"That's right," Okiya Subaru nodded, and restored the paper plane to its squid shape, "This is the Morse code in Japanese. One circle represents he, and two circles represent a voiced sound, which together means be."

“And then, this shape…”

Suzuki Sonoko said blankly: "Squid?"

"How about putting them together?"

"be...ika?"

"Beika? Rice flower?" Suzuki Sonoko said with a wry smile, "What a joke."

Subaru Okiya smiled and said, "Well, secret codes are similar to bad jokes to some extent. If the criminal finds it, as long as he doesn't understand the meaning, it won't matter even if it's a bad joke, right?"

Mao Lilan nodded in agreement: "That's right. In this case, the meaning of these codes is 'I'm in Beika Town where there is no cell phone signal, come and save me' right?"

Suzuki Sonoko asked tentatively: "Could it be in a basement somewhere?"

Mao Lilan retorted: "If it was in the basement, how could the paper airplane be thrown into the city? And it flew into the yard of Sonoko's house."

Suzuki Sonoko scratched her head in distress: "Indeed, but if it's not the basement, is there any other place in Beika Town that would cause the phone to have no signal?"