Chapter 26 5. The secret of the plaque

They stared at the lighthouse for a while. Then, the monk brought a plaque and said: "Mr. Kindaichi, this is the plaque you just mentioned. Is there anything special about it?" Ah Zi glanced at the forehead, feeling very puzzled. I saw some incomprehensible words written on the board with a length of 25 centimeters and a width of 15 centimeters with a manometer. Kosuke Kaneda watched the plaque for a while, then pulled out of his pocket the paper he had found in Noguchi's wallet. "A Jin, if you put this piece of paper on top of the huge forehead, you will be able to see the text in the small hole. Please read it out after you return it."

"Mr. Kindaichi, is this a code?" "Yes, this is a code. If you only see this plaque, you don't know what is written on it. Only the person with this piece of paper can understand the meaning of these words on the plaque." So Azu tremblingly put the paper that Kindaichi Kosuke gave him on the plaque, revealing the words. "Push the bottom of Fan Shaft Rock to the west three times... Ah! Mr. Kindaichi, is this the entrance of the cave?" "Well, it must be so. Shimazaki, is there a 'Fan Shaft Rock' on Lighthouse Island?" Shimazaki looked at Kosuke Kindaichi in surprise, and said in a flustered tone:

"Yes, yes, Lighthouse Island was originally called Tuanfan Island or Fan Island. There is a large rock at the position equivalent to the fan shaft. Everyone calls that rock 'Fan Shaft Rock'." "In that case, there must be no mistake." Kindaichi Kosuke exclaimed excitedly. Qingshui patrolman was puzzled, he moved his body forward and asked: "But why is there such a strange plaque here? Master, who is the one who donated this huge burden?" "I was going to tell everyone about this tonight...Shimazaki-san, the lighthouse was built in Showa 16, right?"

"yes." "So, it should have happened in the 15th year of the Showa era... At that time, the lighthouse island had not started to build a tower. One day, a fisherman in this fishing village was swept away by the waves. He drove all the hard work to get there. On a small island, a male corpse with a split head was found on the island. "This incident immediately caused a commotion. No one knew the deceased at all. The police checked the belongings of the deceased and found no documents, so they sent the unknown corpse to the temple for cremation. The left arm of the corpse had A tattoo identical to Noguchi's..."

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at each other. "More than a year after this incident happened, four men came to the temple. Since they were about to go to the battlefield, but they didn't know whether they would return safely, they said that they would hang this plaque in the plaque hall, hoping that this plaque would Tian Neng bless them. After they donated the plaque and a lot of money to the temple, they left without leaving their names. "Before this, I had never associated this incident with the man with the tattoo at first, and I didn't think of it until I heard Mr. Kindaichi's words.

"The man named Noguchi, the man with prosthetic limbs and the one-armed man who came to the temple today are the people who came to Sankai Temple back then... Including the man who was killed in Showa fifteen years, there are five people in Yijing, five Do the interlocking tattoos represent the five of them?" After listening to the monk's words, everyone present was silent. At this time, Ah Zi suddenly yelled: "Ah... Mr. Kanedaichi, Mr. Shimazaki, the light source of the lighthouse is rotating much faster than before!" Everyone hurriedly turned their heads to look in the direction of the lighthouse, and found that the rotation speed of the lighthouse light source was indeed much faster than before.

"Mr. Kindaichi, let's go back and have a look, something must have happened to the lighthouse." Shimazaki stood up with a flustered expression and said.