"How can you get lost if you have a map?"

Gao Cheng glanced at it, pointed to the connection on the map and continued: "At present, I still think that Wimbledon tennis is the most dangerous, from the words of the boy you met who has a tennis queen's sister, it also proves that the prisoner is eyeing this game, the problem is the time of the crime, and whether the prisoner only has this one target, after all, the prisoner has a lot of children." ”

Kudo Shinichi took it seriously and carefully studied Gao Cheng's inference.

"So we have to figure out the meaning of these titles first, and the prisoner left these things related to Sherlock Holmes, if the titles are a hint......"

"Bang!"

Kudo Shinichi suddenly pulled out the head of the "Magellan Jewel" doll found outside the city hall, and saw a capital "T" letter on the doll's neck, and his expression was abrupt.

"I see, in the story of "The Jewel of Magellan", that is, "The Crown Jewel", Holmes said that 'except for the accident of the mind, everything is just an annex', and the title left by the prisoner turned out to be this meaning, and the key line of Sherlock Holmes is the clue."

“T？”

Gao Cheng saw the doll's hidden letters, and picked up the old fountain pen found near the Gherkin Building.

"So, the title engraved on the pen is 'The Dancers,' and in this story Holmes says, 'Omit all the reasoning in between, and just tell the other person the starting point and conclusion, although it is very simple, but the effect of surprising the other person is very ......good.'"

Looking at the fountain pen full of nicks, Gao Cheng unscrewed the caps at the head and tail, removed the middle pen body and put it together, and after a slight turn, several nicks were connected together to form a letter "N".

"It is true that the letters are hidden, that is, the prisoner hides the letters in the places mentioned in the code, and if he finds them all, he can combine them into any words?"

"Probably, but," Kudo Shinichi looked at Gao Chengdao again with his eyelids slumped, "It's strange, you're not a Sherlock Holmes fan, how can you be so familiar with Sherlock Holmes's lines?" ”

"It's not just his lines, but his reasoning ideas and methods are also familiar to me."

Gao Cheng continued to look at the photos of the other two places.

Big Ben and that station, the line in "Uncanny Valley" is "If something heavy disappears at the water's edge, it's always good to see if something sinks under the water", and "The Missing Groom" is "When I look at women, I pay attention to the cuffs first, and if it's a man, it's better to look at the knee part of the pants".

"The knee part of the pants...... No wonder even the clothes have to be prepared, it looks like we have to run again tomorrow. ”

Will it really go well, though?

The prisoner was quite experienced, and except for the station, it seems that everyone else was paying to find someone to act according to the instructions, which can be described as meticulous.

Gao Cheng frowned secretly, not as excited as Kudo Shinichi because of the progress of solving the puzzle.

There is no problem in unlocking the code, the key is to be able to solve the prisoner, which needs to be carefully considered.

Although it is a trouble that this guy found without authorization, it is not a simple matter from the beginning of the case that may occur, and it is one of the responsibilities of all detectives to stop the crime.

……

The next morning, just as Gao Cheng was about to go out after breakfast, the information about the suspect was published in the morning newspaper, and according to the information released by the police, the suspect's fingerprints were found on the cipher paper.

He is a serial murderer on the run, named Hades Zabala, and the newspaper also has a distorted and dangerous head with a strange expression, which is very different from the seemingly ordinary serial murderers in the past.

Kudo Shinichi stayed in the hotel to investigate the prisoner's information, and although Gao Cheng still had to go outside, he also contacted Xiao Ai in Japan, asking Xiao Ai to help collect information as much as possible, the motive for the crime, and the past criminal behavior are all very important information.

On this day, the streets of London were not much different from before, except for the occasional police patrol, Gao Cheng took his uncle and Xiaolan, who accompanied the investigation, first went to Big Ben, found the cover of the drain suspended into the river with a fishing line by the bridge, found the letter "A" on it, and then went to St. Bryde's Church.

As the Fat Lady and her party said, the church is partially in the shape of a wedding cake, and it is the first choice for many people in London for their wedding location.

There were also a lot of thick sheets of paper in plastic bags scattered around the church, but after asking people around, no one knew who left it.

The pale pink thick paper with the words "A Bohemian Scandal" written in a black pen is also one of the more famous stories in the Sherlock Holmes series.

In the story, Sherlock Holmes shows Watson a pale pink letter with the line "You don't understand because, you're just looking with your eyes, not observing".

"But," Xiaolan wondered, "how do you interpret this?" I don't think there's anything strange about it......"

"So you can't just look with your eyes."

Gao Cheng took out the paper in the plastic bag, snatched the mineral water that the uncle was drinking, soaked the paper and said: "The meaning of using a plastic bag should be to prompt the paper to be wet with water, and it is ...... out."

As the paper was penetrated by water, the letters on the paper gradually blurred, and finally only the "S" was still clear.

"Only the S were written with an oil-based pen, so there were only two places left."

After Gao Cheng took the photo, he continued to the Elephant Castle Station.

Yesterday the man didn't know where he went, but today there was also a man walking around the exit of the station with a suitcase.

Xiaolan was surprised: "It's true, Identity is written on the box, and then." ”

"Look at the knee part of the pants."

Gao Cheng stepped forward, and after exchanging a few words with the man, he squatted down and picked up the man's trouser legs, and found the letter U on the knee part of the inside of the pants.

“U……”

"The A of Big Ben, the U of the station, the T of the egg-shaped town hall, the N of the Gherkin Building, and the S of the Cake Church, the first six lines of cipher are connected together to form AUTNSA...... Does this mean anything special? Uncle Maori wondered.

"I don't know," Gao Cheng looked at the last location on the map, the Mason porcelain store, "and there is still a letter missing......

Mason porcelain is delicious and the first porcelain in Europe, there is indeed only one specialty store in London, and when Gao Cheng arrived from afar, he heard that there were children pranks on the outside in the past two days.

The decoration looks pretty good, the silk threads of various colors are tied together, and there are small bells hanging underneath, and the words written on the silk threads are not very clear.

"What should I do?" Xiaolan looked at the dirty silk thread and said worriedly, "I don't know the title this time......"

"It's okay," Gao Cheng rummaged through the bell, "probably written "The Study of Blood Letters", because in the line, there is 'On the colorless spool of life, the red silk thread of murder is entangled, and our job is to untie and separate this silk thread, leaving not even an inch, and exposing it to the scorching sun'......

"There is, there's a letter on the red bell."

“R？”

Uncle Maori looked at the bell and said, "If you add this, it's AUTNSAR, what does this mean?" It doesn't seem to be easy to put together words. ”

"Hmm."

Gao Cheng silently pinched the bell and looked around, but unfortunately he still didn't see any suspicious characters, or the prisoner hid himself deeply.

"Ahh This is it! A car stopped in front of the store, and a little boy hurried down, just like Glass, the little boy Conan had met earlier.

Xiaolan said unexpectedly: "Are you the child named Apollo who gave Conan the code paper?" ”

"Conan?" Only then did the boy notice Gao Cheng and his entourage, and asked rhetorically, "Do you know the disciples of Sherlock Holmes?" ”

"A disciple of Sherlock Holmes?" Xiaolan was stunned and said with a smile, "He caught a cold and slept in the hotel today, so we came out to investigate instead of him, but we also have two detectives." ”

"Detective?" The little boy subconsciously looked at Gao Cheng and Uncle behind him, with an obviously unrecognizable expression on his face, "But I haven't seen it." ”

"It's a Japanese detective......" Xiaolan looked embarrassedly at a dignified woman sitting in the car, and then asked the child, "Why did you come here?" ”

The little boy said proudly: "Because my mother has already solved the code, and the last sentence refers to this Mason's shop, and my mother is a Sherlock Holmes fan!" ”

"Yes, yes?"

"Alright, Apollo, don't be rude," the woman in the car, wearing sunglasses and seemingly unable to see, shouted to the boy in a voice, "Let's hurry back to the hotel, we have to go to your sister's game tomorrow!" ”

"But," the boy anxiously argued, "the code has not yet been fully solved, and there is no telling what is going to happen there!" ”

"Apollo ......"

"Madam," Gao Cheng suddenly stepped forward and said, "Can you give this child a little time?" In this incident, I am afraid that only Apollo has the key clues. ”

Although the woman couldn't see it, she still turned her head sideways to face Gao Cheng: "Who are you?" ”