A few days later, the trend of leaflets spread beyond Makuhari, out of Chiba Prefecture, and even reached Bunkyo Ward.

Originally, the unidentified life form incident could be regarded as the most important event in Tokyo this year. It attracted a lot of attention among the public, and the fundraising activities organized by the unidentified life form also successfully attracted a large number of people.

Due to the continuous publicity of flyers by the media and volunteers, people living in Tokyo are basically aware of this matter.

Xiangyuan Zhongxin, who signed the sponsor column, also won good praise and political reputation. Even people who care a little about politics began to become supporters of Xiangyuan and shouted "people's livelihood politics" for their "prince".

Home" slogan.

From those few days on, the search headquarters began to place a highly vigilant eye on Goyuan. Basically, someone would secretly follow and investigate his activities throughout the day and record key information.

At a press conference for a charity event yesterday afternoon, Gohara Tadahin also appeared and delivered an emotional speech at the scene. Officer Sakurai, who searched the headquarters, was watching the scene and using his portable notebook

Record any abnormalities at any time.

Gohara Tadahin's speech skills are not bad. This is one of the ways he was able to be elected as a member of Parliament at such a young age. After his speech brought tears to the eyes of the people present, he announced that he would hold a speech in the near future.

Plans for a large charity gala.

However, apart from feeling the restlessness of the people whose emotions were aroused by Gohara, Sakurai was not able to directly discover any clues or loopholes at the scene.

…

The next morning, in the reception room of the Metropolitan Police Department, Kaoru Ichijo contacted Higashino, Godai, and Suita Sakurai, and they gathered here again. Everyone sat at the table and started thinking around a small leaflet.

Godai held his chin with his hands, showing a rare serious expression: "Are you sure now? This guy just wants to use this charity event to play games."

Ichijo looked hesitant. He was always rigorous and couldn't guarantee anything now.

Sugita Morimichi responded: "Although I couldn't seize any evidence, the suspicion is still high. And it's so blatant under our surveillance, it's like a provocation..."

Although Higashino Ryusuke is sure that the lion will cause trouble, in what way... to be honest, he still doesn't know.

"By the way, Officer Sakurai, did you find anything during yesterday's follow-up investigation?" Ichijo asked, turning his gaze.

"No." Sakurai shook his head, but then he said thoughtfully: "But... what makes me a little concerned is that Gohara deliberately said a few words in English during his speech, such as the first time

When talking about youth, yonker is used, but in comparison, youth is more common, right? After noticing this, I wrote down all the English words that appeared, and their order was roughly the same."

He took out the small notebook he carried with him, opened the page and showed it to everyone.

"sadness, rogation, yonker, gorgeous..." Sugita recognized the words above in turn, and then touched his hairline distressedly: "Except for some words that are relatively unpopular, these are completely unrelated words.

!”

Ichijo's brows were knotted, and he was obviously thinking about these incomprehensible words, but he couldn't think of any clues in a short time.

And when Ryusuke Higashino saw these words, he couldn't help but think of something. He remembered that in the official novel, Jellyfish Gurungi had hinted at the number of murders in English. Could it be that these words...

Before he could think too much, the door of the reception room opened with a creak, and Sasayama saw her walking in with a piece of information. She seemed to be more mature with her hair cut short.

"Here's some basic information about the upcoming charity event."

Sugita stood up and stepped forward, taking the information from her hand, "Thank you, Sasayama."

Sasayama smiled lightly, "You're welcome, this is my duty... The time is Christmas Day half a month later, the location is the headquarters of the Democratic Liberal Party, and the expected number of people in attendance is 3,645..."

Before Sasayama finished speaking, Higashino Ryusuke suddenly said loudly: "By the way, that's the number!"

Godai next to him was startled, then he propped himself up on the table and looked over in confusion: "What's wrong? Ryusuke-san, have you found any clues?"

Everyone's attention was drawn to hear the enlightening information from him.

Ryusuke Higashino gathered his thoughts before speaking slowly: "These words are related to numbers. If they are interpreted in a special way..."

After his prompting, an idea flashed in Ichigo's mind, and he quickly figured out the connection, "I know! The beginning of the pronunciation of Japanese numbers corresponds to the first syllable of these words, sadness is 3, rogation is 6,

yonker is 4 and gorgeous is 5, which can be interpreted as a number - 3645!"

"Isn't this the same as the expected number of people for the charity gala!" Sakurai exclaimed, suddenly enlightened.

"That's not all." Ryusuke Higashino still remembered that the Gurungi clan had the habit of counting in base nine. If it was really the number set by Gurungi, it would also be a special number in the base nine system, so

He said confidently: "If this number is broken down and expressed into a nine-base number..."

"Uh, by the way, how do you convert the base 9 system?" Sugita suddenly interrupted and said with an embarrassed smile, "As I get older, I have forgotten a lot of the things I learned in high school."

Ichijo's eyes twitched and he explained helplessly: "First divide it by nine to get the remainder, then divide the quotient just now by nine to get the second remainder, and then divide the quotient by nine again... until the quotient is zero.

Finally, sort the remainders in reverse order..."

"Pause! Anyway, let's just come to the conclusion."

"3645, which is 5000 in base nine."

"Hmm... For Grunge, these are indeed very neat numbers." Sugita nodded, sighing that this was indeed the case.

Kaoru Ichijo stood up quickly, "This is definitely not a coincidence, his target number must be this!"

At this point, the clues that Gohara Tadahin was planning to carry out the murderous game were finally grasped, and the search headquarters was sure to be ready before then.

After going around in a circle, Godai asked the original question again, "So, can you be sure that Gohara really wants to complete the game in this event?"

But even so, Ichichi can only answer: "This still cannot be legally used as conclusive evidence that Gohara Tadashi is Gurungi, but for us, it is enough to be convinced of the matter!"
Chapter completed!