The game was kind enough to give them a way back to London.

Under the guise of the Reestrade police department and Sherlock Holmes, Conan had them follow them into a carriage, just as the other party also needed someone to report the situation to the city.

The train had only been running for about twenty minutes, and the carriage was faster than expected, but by the time they got back to the safety of Scotland Yard to meet Ayumi and the others, it was close to early morning.

And Ayumi's side, when he was at the opera house before, Kikukawa Seiichiro was hit by a pillar when saving Mitsuhiko in order to repay Mitsuhiko's previous life-saving grace and was out on the spot, so compared to the beginning, they have three fewer people.

And they've been playing for almost a day, so after all that counting, they decided to head to the office near the Downtown Poker Club overnight.

Because it was waterproof, Conan jumped directly into the fountain's pool and placed the ring in the groove, and soon there was a clear clicking sound below.

“……”

"Why hasn't there been any change?" Then after waiting for a while, the imaginary secret passage was not opened, and the garden couldn't help but say.

"Hey, the bespectacled one," Hideki Shishi said, "I guess I'm mistaken, right?" ”

"That's what Holmes should have written..."

"The smell in the air has thinned a bit." Gray Yuan expressed his opinion, and Kaedehara expressed his support.

As soon as the mechanism was activated, the indescribable smell was almost noticeably fading.

"I see!" Conan said, "The Lestrade Police Department said that some of the fog on Baker Street was coming up from underground pipes... It should be the same here, the mechanism is probably used to shut down the underground pipes... However, the speed at which the demonic fog dissipates is too fast..."

"It's a game, after all!"

"Hmm!" Mitsuhiko followed Ayumi and said, "In the previous games, it would be like this, because it was necessary to reduce the invalid waiting time of players..."

"After all, it's impossible for us to stay here for days, can we try it?"

Heading towards the poker club, they soon meet several drunks and homeless men on the road. According to the previous routine, these were obviously enemies, but now these people were just staring at them with strange eyes on the sidelines, and did not pounce directly.

But it wasn't all the way, and there were still some criminals who attacked them suddenly, but the frequency and intensity were much lower than before.

And despite the loss of the main combat power Xiaolan, after completing the Jack the Ripper incident, the combat effectiveness of their group has also improved considerably, so they came to the poker club smoothly.

It's brightly lit, someone is playing cards inside, and the whole building is the most normal place to go along the way.

Colonel Moran was inside.

He sat on one side of a long, delicately carved table, playing Blackjack with the man opposite, with stacks of chips in front of each other. However, Colonel Moran clearly did not want a fair match, and one of his monkeys was crouching behind him, using the raisins in the fruit bowl to help him cheat.

The main seat of the long table was now empty, with a neat and clean tablecloth, an expensive bottle of red wine, and wine glasses.

From the outside, it seemed that everything was normal inside, and it seemed that he didn't notice their arrival, nor did he feel the change in the magic fog, so Conan planned to sneak in to check the situation first, but Hideki Zhuxing rushed in directly.

The battle soon began.

A moment later.

“… Why hasn't this guy disappeared? ”

Looking at Colonel Moran, who was lying on the ground and fainted temporarily, Mitsuhiko said breathlessly.

There are not many enemies in the poker club, but the intensity is very high, Jiang Shouhuang and Takizawa Shin also used their last spell in the battle just now, and Sonoko and Zhuxing Hideki also used one.

With their cooperation, the enemy turned into white light and dissipated into the air, but Colonel Moran in front of him stubbornly stayed where he was.

"I should have asked Moriarty from his mouth where Moriarty was, really, you didn't listen to you just now, now let's wake him up first..."

"And what if he wakes up and fights?" Jiang Shouhuang asked, Yuan Tai was not there, and now he was sitting on Mo Lan's body with the heaviest weight - of course Yuan Zi refused to do such a thing.

"Ahh I remember seeing a roll of rope over there! Mitsuhiko suddenly thought of something and ran towards the bar, "I'm going to get the rope!" ”

Then Ayumi and Mitsuhiko expertly tied Colonel Moran into a sturdy knot, and Conan woke him up.

"Stinky little imp—"

"Hey, you're a captive now!" Yuan Zi said dissatisfiedly with his hands on his hips.

"Where is Moriarty now?" Conan asked directly, "Or rather, when will he come over?" ”

Colonel Moran was stunned for a moment, as did the others.

"How do you know—"

"Because of this." Kaedehara said, throwing down the red wine in his hand, and then catching it steadily, Colonel Moran's eyes were glued to the bottle, and his head swayed up and down slightly with his gaze.

"With elaborately decorated chairs and well-prepared red wine, who else can put you, the second-in-command of London's underworld, in second place but Moriarty?"

"Not to mention that you deliberately moved out of the table when you were fighting, and your men held the red wine tightly in their arms when they were knocked down by me."

Conan and Kaedehara explained one by one, and the others showed expressions of sudden realization, and Colonel Moran's face was a little ugly.

That's when the door to the club was suddenly pushed open.

A tall, thin, well-dressed old man pushed open the door and walked into the club, pressed the brim of his hat, and bowed slightly.

"I'm sorry, everybody." The voice was not loud but very clear, "Lord Moriarty said he wanted to see you. ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment.

"He's waiting for you in the carriage." The visitor lowered the brim of his hat again and bowed, as if inviting them, "Please go this way." ”

"Wait a minute!" Colonel Moran, who was tied up, suddenly shouted, looking a little panicked, "I-"

"You want to defy Lord Moriarty, don't you?"

The elderly man who had just turned around and walked outside turned sideways slightly and glanced at the room, his tone and eyes were extremely cold. Colonel Moran swallowed his saliva and subconsciously shut his mouth.

Conan glanced at Colonel Moran with some surprise, and then heard Kaedehara's voice.

"Why not?"

Kaedehara's voice was equally soft but clear, and Colonel Moran looked at him in disbelief.

"Now that you're here..."

Kaedehara took the red wine, took a glass from the bar that had not been broken, and sat down on the carefully decorated chair next to the long table, "There's no need to be so troublesome, right?" ”

"Professor Moriarty!" Conan, who was a little suspicious just now, reacted instantly.

"Moriarty?" And the people were amazed.

The old man chuckled softly, turned around, took off his top hat, and walked towards the long table. The sound of his steady footsteps on the wooden floor made people hold their breath and be quiet.

"I didn't expect to be seen through all of a sudden," Moriarty pulled out a chair and sat down across from Kaedehara, "How did you find out?" ”

"You'll have to punish Colonel Moran well," Kaedehara opened the wine and poured himself a glass, "who else can make him use honorifics and show a look of fear?" ”

"Yes, that's good!" Moriarty laughed again, "Sherlock Holmes sent you?" ”

"That's right," Kaedehara hesitated for a moment but still didn't drink the red wine, it's not good for children to drink," he said, and it was time to finish. ”

Hearing this, Moriarty stood up again and walked towards the door.

"Tell Holmes that at sunrise I will wait for him at the highest point in the world. He's alone. ”

He walked out of the club under the gaze of everyone, and there was a sudden silence in the air for a while.

"This guy is so imposing, I don't even dare to speak," said Yuanzi, who didn't even feel this way when she saw the prime minister, "Aren't we going to knock him down?" Why did you just let him run away? ”

You didn't even dare to say anything yourself, and now you say why don't we rush forward...

Conan complained inwardly, and then cast an envious look at Kaedehara. Just as he liked Sherlock Holmes, he also liked Moriarty, but he didn't bother to interrupt the conversation between the two just now.

"He's strong." Zhuxing Xiushu said suddenly.

"Well," Kaedehara agreed, "and we've only just been through the battle, and there are other of his men out there." ”

"That's... That's a quest hint just now, right? Mitsuhiko analyzed on the side, "We need to get Holmes to meet Moriarty..."

His voice grew quieter.

Holmes was not there.

(End of chapter)