The capital of Brittania was as always, with a dark cloud overhead, overwhelming the entire city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Magellan wrapped up his trench coat tightly, walked down the alley with his head down, ignored the waves of strangers behind him who had stalked his home, and rounded a section of the road into Baker Street.

"Hi Professor, it's just in time, you can pay me back the money you borrowed from me in the first two years. ”

As soon as he entered, Arthur greeted him warmly.

"It seems that those two distinguished guests still come here regularly. ”

The Sherlock Holmes home never returned to its original state. There were no skeletal specimens he loved, no pungent chemicals, no smoke from the burning of tobacco and his "exclusive herbs", just fresh air and a tidy room.

"I have no reason to refuse them. ”

Holmes didn't seem to think it was strange or important, and he sat in the middle of the sunny room, snuggling up on the couch and smoking his pipe.

"No, Sherlock Holmes. ”

Magellan's smile was still tired, but he was at least starting to smile.

"Hey, don't do that, I'm just kidding. Arthur patted Magellan on the shoulder, revealing a cynical smile as usual, "It's time to pay me back last night's money." ”

"I don't think even an ordinary person with an extraordinary memory would be mistaken about such a thing. ”

Magellan shook his head helplessly.

"Don't say that, I just want to see if Holmes' tricks work. ”

The detective showed a noncommittal expression: "It's not known for sure yet. ”

"I think a lot of times," Arthur put away a rare smile, "can that talent really be replicated by training?"

"Yes, there are plenty of theories that are enough to support your skepticism. Sherlock Holmes took off his pipe, and while letting the white smoke fill, he calmly said the bad news, "The human brain has a miserable upper limit, and at any time, most of it is resting, otherwise people will die from brain exhaustion." Athena's, parasitic - I think it's a more apt term, it is equivalent to cutting off most of the professor's brain, and it should be said that he did not become an idiot, which is enough to prove that he was born smarter than the gods. ”

"And your training can't make the professor's head bigger?"

"That's impossible. Memory is not the same thing as memory, and many people think that people with more training are smarter, which is not entirely wrong, but it does contain a sad misunderstanding. It's a clever illusion that people who remember more things have better memories, but the reality is that the more things you remember, the easier it is to find material to piece together impressions. ”

Watson handed Magellan a cup of black tea and complained in passing: "Let's put it in an easy-to-understand way, Sherlock Holmes." ”

"If you remember a man's name, Sherlock Holmes, then you will accidentally learn about his friend, Watson. After that, you may forget about this one, Watson, but when you get to know a man named Watson from scratch, you will feel that the process of remembering this time is simpler than before, and it is easy to have the illusion that your own memory has become stronger. ”

"So," Arthur picked up a candy cube from the table and threw it into his mouth, "the professor's memory shouldn't be decayed, he hasn't forgotten what he remembered, has he?"

"The gods......" Holmes smiled, as he did every time he heard of a murder, "it's a power that humanity doesn't yet understand." In short, you are a very precious specimen, Professor. ”

"My pleasure. Magellan was completely unaffected by the cold bad news from Sherlock Holmes, "Whether this theory is correct or not, I do feel that my memory is returning." As for whether my brain can get bigger, that's a later story. ”

"Are you really sure?" Arthur stretched out a hand and grabbed a passing hapless fly, "The brain determines anything a person can do, reflexes, logic, memory, comprehension, these are combined with other things that humans haven't been able to discover, it's brainpower, and most of your brain power has been taken away by the gods, even if you can get your memory back by training, it's still far behind." ”

"Oh!" said Watson, who hurriedly walked over with a rag, "this damn weather, this annoying pest is everywhere. ”

"I don't know......," Magellan said, taking the lamp out of his bosom, "if it will work......"

"A piece of extraordinary power...... I still don't know what a soul is......"

"According to Holmes, I think recovery is not impossible. Magellan eventually put the sun back, "I enrolled in logic, reflexes, and philosophy courses at university. To put it simply, adults whose brain growth has stalled are no different from me, and if they can be smart, so can I. ”

"But you're much dumber than they are. ”

"Yes," Magellan nodded with a sluggish movement and expression, then took a sip of his tea, "and the brain contains more than anyone could have imagined." Even the taste and touch I feel when I drink tea are duller than before. ”

"But you think it doesn't matter. ”

Arthur took another sugar cube from the table, and he smiled cynically, but his tone was full of certainty.

"That's true. ”

"Well, in your plan...... How long will it take to get rid of this group of omnipresent explorers?"

Arthur looked out the window with contemptuous gaze, and everyone in the room knew what terrible danger his expression meant at this moment.

"Explorers don't die, they don't give up, and from the moment the King of the World opens the box, nothing can stop them. ”

"That's not good news. Holmes gave a rare gloomy look, "The presence of explorers has increased all the crime, which has greatly increased the difficulty for me to find true pleasure. ”

"What a surprise!" Arthur said in an exaggerated tone, expressing his almost non-existent amazement, "one day our great detective was suspected of having too many cases. ”

"The cases brought by the explorers are worthless. ”

Sherlock Holmes is like a king, he doesn't hesitate to draw conclusions, only affirmations that people can't refuse.

"It's pathetic," Arthur spread his hands, "and guess how many of the explorers who followed the professor were clever criminals?"

Magellan smiled: "Their crimes took place outside Britannia, so our great detectives cannot send them to the gallows." ”

"Ah, that's bad news. ”