Stay away from Conan.

Chapter 171 Trick Box

Also looking at the "Nissan Silvia S15" parked here, and seeing Ooka Hongye's expression, Gao Yuan couldn't help asking curiously:
"Miss Hongye, what's the matter?"

"No, nothing."

Ooka Hongye replied, "Mr. Akechi, please come with me."

With that said, under the leadership of Ooka Hongye, Takato followed to the gate of the mansion, and then Iori Muga, who was accompanying him, stepped forward and knocked on the closed gate.

Soon, someone from the house came out and opened the door for everyone.

The person who came was a middle-aged woman in a brown kimono. After seeing the person coming outside, she couldn't help but respectfully said: "It's Miss Hongye, this way please."

As he spoke, he led everyone into the mansion.

Walking into the gate of the mansion, Gao Yuan glanced at the wooden door that showed a little age and the quaint atmosphere of the whole mansion building, and couldn't help sighing: "Miss Hongye, this mansion is old, right?"

"Mr. Wise has seen it."

Hearing Takato's words, Koyo Ooka, who was walking in front, couldn't help saying, "This mansion was built in the late Tokugawa period. It is said that the famous puppet master at that time, Sanshui Kiesemon, built it for our ancestors. My uncle looked at it. After falling in love with the scenery near this mansion, he chose to come here as his place of cultivation after retirement."

Misui Kichiemon?It's really a familiar name.

Hearing this, Gao Yuan thought so.

It didn't take long before everyone entered the mansion and came to the door of a Japanese room. After the woman stepped forward and knocked on the door, she respectfully opened the door of the Japanese room and signaled everyone to enter.

So, Koyo Ooka walked in front and entered the Japanese room first, and Iorimuga and Takato followed behind Koyo Ooka and walked in.

Enter the Japanese room, walk through the screen at the entrance, and you can see two people kneeling and sitting in front of the table in the center of the Japanese room.

The one in the main seat was an old man with gray beard and hair wearing a dark gray kimono. Although he was over sixty years old, he still looked very healthy.

Opposite the old man was a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a suit and leather shoes, and wearing gold-rimmed glasses.

"Uncle, long time no see."

Seeing the old man, Momiji Ooka bowed respectfully and said.

"It's Hongye, here you come."

Seeing Ooka Hongye's arrival, the old man responded with a kind smile, and then looked at Gao Yuan behind Ooka Hongye.

"This is the wise detective!"

"Wise and lofty, take the liberty to disturb Professor Ooka."

Hearing what the other party said, Gao Yuan immediately bowed and responded - that's right, this old man is Kiyosaku Ooka, and he had seen his photo during his investigation before.

Then, after Ooka Momiji exchanged a few simple greetings with Ooka Kiyosaku, Ooka Kiyosaku signaled that the two of them can sit down, so Iori Muga who was on the side bowed slightly to Ooka Kiyosaku and Ooka Momiji After bowing, he went out and stayed outside He.

Ooka Hongye, on the other hand, walked to the side of the table, got close to Ooka Kiyosaku's position, knelt down, and then motioned to Gao Yuan to let Gao Yuan kneel beside her.

"By the way, I forgot to introduce."

Seeing that both of them had already taken their seats, Kiyosaku Ooka began to explain, "This is Professor Ayukawa from National Naniwa University, who is also my guest today."

"Ayukawa Tatsuya."

Nodding to Ooka Hongye and Gao Yuan, Ayukawa Tatsu also said his name.

So Ooka Hongye and Gao Yuan also nodded at him in return.At this time, Gao Yuan and Ooka Hongye also understood who the car outside the door belonged to, but they didn't understand why Ooka Kiyosaku deliberately put the meeting time of the two parties together.

"No one comes to my place all year round, and I'm used to it being quiet. So for convenience, I asked you to come together."

Ooka Kiyosaku said.

"Professor Ooka, you are too modest. Who doesn't know that you have already been full of peaches and plums. As long as you are willing, your students will naturally visit you often."

Ayukawa Tatsuya said, "I am very honored to accept your invitation this time. I just don't know why you invited me here?"

Saying that, Ayukawa Tatsu looked at Ooka Kiyosaku with some doubts.

In this regard, Ooka Kiyosaku did not make a sound, but took out a wooden box from behind, put it on the table, and carefully opened the box, only to see a mechanism box inside.

It is about [-] centimeters long, [-] centimeters wide, and [-] centimeters high. It is a rectangular parallelepiped box.

"This is something I accidentally found in the warehouse of this mansion recently."

Ooka Kiyosaku said, "Because this mansion is suspected to be built by the master of the mechanism at the end of the Tokugawa period for my family's ancestors, so the mechanism box in the warehouse may contain important things of my family. I would like to invite Professor Ayukawa to come to the house." Come, just want to ask, can you think of a way to open the box."

"Professor Ooka is serious."

Ayukawa also said with some trepidation, "But, I don't know anything about agencies, do I?"

"Professor Ayukawa can take a look first before drawing conclusions."

Ooka Kiyosaku said, and then looked at Gao Yuan, "If Detective Sensei has any ideas, please refer to them."

In this regard, Gao Yuan couldn't refuse, so Ai Chuanda and Gao Yuan came together to observe the detailed appearance of this mechanism box.

I saw that on the front and back sides of the mechanism box, there are many square small squares with words written on them, but these small squares can be moved, because there is a small gap in the rectangle formed by these small squares. The position of the square, so there is room for the rest of the small squares to move——

"This is...'Hua Rong Dao'?"

Looking at the shape of this mechanism, Gao Yuan immediately reacted, and——

"The text on this..."

When Gao Yuan was about to explain, Ayukawa Tatsu also said in surprise first, "There are no pseudonyms, they are all Chinese characters!"

"That's right, this is a puzzle game organ called 'Hua Rong Dao' composed of Chinese characters."

Ooka Kiyosaku said, "But to be precise, it should be ancient Chinese, because the original owner of this mansion was a sinologist from my ancestor, so I have reason to believe that the authority on it is that ancestor It was designed together with the master of the mechanism. That's why I need the help of Professor Ayukawa, a professor of Sinology."

"But generally speaking, an institution like 'Huarong Dao' needs to fulfill a certain purpose before it can be regarded as unraveling. With so many Chinese characters on it, what kind of purpose does it require to achieve to be considered correct?"

Ayukawa Tatsuya said with a look of embarrassment on his face.

"It should be to form a sentence."

After Gao Yuan fiddled with the small squares on the trick box, he suddenly said, "Look, the eight squares in the middle row, move to the squares in these few squares, if you look carefully, their height It is obviously lower than the grid on the side. Therefore, it should find out eight Chinese characters from these Chinese characters, form a sentence, and move them to these eight grids...these two on both sides are the same!"

(End of this chapter)