Arriving at London City Hall, Kaedehara and Gray Yuan Ai continue to look for something related to Sherlock Holmes, and the lucky Gray Yuan Ai soon finds a small doll in the corner of the bench.

"It's ugly..."

Gray Yuan mourned for a moment, and then read the words written on the doll's clothes, "Mazarin's jewel..."

"The Crown Jewel Case..."

Kaedehara put his hand on the doll's head and looked at Ashbara.

Gray Yuan Ai immediately understood, but only replied with a half-moon eye, and said angrily: "What are you doing?" You remember that yourself, right? ”

"Well..."

Gray Yuan looked at Kaedehara, hesitated for a moment, but still read the lines of Sherlock Holmes in the crown jewel case, "I only have one mind, and the others are just attachments..."

Kaedehara gently removed the doll's head, and a letter T was written on its neck.

"You're still quite fond of codes," said Gray Plains.

Although he had said before that he was not interested in the code, she could feel that his interest was still quite high now.

"Because this code has something to do with Sherlock Holmes, I'm a Sherlock Holmes fan... Well... Next up is the Gherkin Building. ”

Kaedehara said as he pulled out a map of London and marked it with a marker pen where they had been.

Gray Yuan Ai glanced around a few times, "Then again, this kind of code Edogawa should be able to be solved, right?" Aren't you worried about running into them? ”

"So to speed things up... It's over before they come..."

"And what if they don't come in order?"

"That's bad luck – go this way."

Kaedehara put away the map, looked up at it as Gray Yuan Ai meant, and then immediately turned his head and pulled Gray Yuan Ai and walked in the other direction.

Gray Yuan Wai resisted the desire to look back, and realized that he was probably right, "It's them?" ”

"yes," Kaedehara replied, "but it's just Uncle Maori and Ran... You guessed it, they really didn't come in order..."

There were a lot of people at the city hall, and Uncle Maori and Xiaolan had just arrived nearby, and their attention was also on looking for clues, and Kaede Yuan felt that he and Gray Yuan had not been discovered.

"Maybe it's faster than us," Gray Hara struck out with bad intentions, "Maybe this is their last stop..."

"Impossible... Not long ago, the Doctor sent me a message saying that Uncle Maori and Ran had come out to look for clues, and if anything went wrong, he would tell me..."

“……”

The two got into a taxi.

Next stop.

The Gherkin building does look like a gherkin, and it's not hard to find anything related to Sherlock Holmes, and there are many markers with many marks scattered here and there.

The pen is engraved with "DancingMen", which is also one of the titles of Sherlock Holmes's stories.

"The little man dancing..."

"Omit all the reasoning in the middle, and only tell the other party the starting point and conclusion..."Gray Yuan continued to read the line, "Although it is very simple, the effect of surprising the other party is very good..."

Kaedehara unscrewed all the caps at the end of the marker head, and then brought the caps together to see the scars.

"The letter N... It's going well here," Kaedehara said, "and then there's the fifth row of cakes... Cathedral of St. Wedding. ”

The cathedral is dotted around the area with sheets of paper in plastic bags with the words "A Scandalin Bohemia" written on them.

"The Bohemian scandal," Kaedehara thought, and then stepped aside to buy a bottle of mineral water, "The story of Erin Adler's appearance. ”

"You don't understand because you're just looking with your eyes, not looking..."

Removing a thicker piece of paper from the plastic bag, Kaedehara then poured water directly onto the paper.

As the water washed away, all the other letters were diluted and could not be seen clearly, leaving only one letter "S" clearly left.

The next row was Big Ben, and they jumped straight to the Mason porcelain shop in the last row.

Because he was not very familiar with Mason porcelain, Kaedehara was not able to find anything related to Sherlock Holmes in the vicinity at the first time, and Gray Yuan went to ask the clerk only to learn that someone had been hanging strange decorations on the signboard for the past two days.

"I thought the signboard was like this..."

Kaedehara said, taking the decoration handed over by Ashbara.

It was a thread of various colors with a bell tied to each end, and the other end of the thread was tied together.

Kaedehara could see a letter written on each of the bells.

"The combination of these letters should be the title..."Kaedehara didn't try to look at each bell, "If I guessed correctly, it should be a study of blood letters... The first story of Sherlock Holmes..."

Gray Yuan was slightly stunned, remembering the dream ten years later and the German sentence.

She couldn't help but sneak a glance at Kaedehara, and noticed that he had already found the red thread in the silk thread, so she dispelled the distracting thoughts in her mind and read the Sherlock Holmes lines as she had done before.

"On the colorless spool of life, the crimson thread of murder is entangled... Our job is to untie this thread, separate it, not even an inch left, and expose it to the scorching sun..."

The bell hanging from the red line had the letter R written on it.

"In this way, I have found them all..."Kaede Yuan thoughtfully returned the decoration in his hand, "From the first sentence, in order, it is A, U, T, N, S, A, R, a total of seven letters..."

"I can't read it in order," Gray Hara thought for a moment, "If it's out of order... If you use an A only once, then you can arrange it as Saturn, Saturn..."

In Japan, the day refers to Saturday, and Saturn can also be associated with Saturday in English.

"It's Saturday, tomorrow," Kaedehara said, "and the final at Wimbledon is tomorrow..."

"I think you've already decided that the code refers to tomorrow's finals... Trying to put it on top..."

"Hey, you thought of Saturn first..."

Kaedehara argued, "And that's how the reasoning is! Sherlock Holmes also said that if you envision what has happened and do it according to it, you may find results. ”

"Yes, yes... But don't you think it's strange? If A only needs to be used once... It doesn't seem to affect the deletion of the sixth sentence directly..."

"That's because A has to be used twice..."

"Huh?"

"Look..."

Kaedehara said, picking up the map, which had already marked the various locations, "Starting with Big Ben as mentioned in the first sentence, we will connect them in order... Back to Big Ben in the middle"

As Kaedehara spoke, a pentagon appeared on the map, "and then from Big Ben to here... Mason porcelain..."

“… Tennis rackets? ”

The result of the connection takes the shape of a tennis racket.

"That's why the letter A is only used twice, because it's the intersection of the three lines..."

Kaedehara folded the map and put it away, "This way the hypothesis is once again verified... I think Hades must be trying to do something at tomorrow's tennis final..."

"Why not today? There's a game today, right? ”

Ash Yuan was a little curious, because the semifinals were being held today.

"If it's today," Kaedehara paused, "then it's already too late..."

Although the code was solved quickly, they spent a lot of time on the road after running so many places.

"And if he's really holding a grudge because Glass lost that final... Wouldn't it make more sense to put revenge in the final? ”

"So what now? According to your habits, you should call the police? ”

Unlike Edogawa, Kudo has always preferred to leave the rest of the steps to the police after the reasoning is complete. So she thinks this time should be no exception, but...

"This time is different..."

Gray Plains gave him an inquiring look.

"In the morning, I told you that Hades's second code was unlocked by Dad, right?"

Kaedehara explained to Gray Plains.

"He blew up two hospitals, hid the crime predictions in Shakespeare and Grimm's fairy tales... The first time the code was not solved, he sent the police a videotape with the explosion...

The second time, someone from the Metropolitan Police asked my dad to help solve the code, and he solved it in advance, but after the police dispatched an explosive ordnance disposal team to rush into the hospital, the bomb was suddenly detonated...

This is a guy who doesn't talk about the rules of the game at all. He also sent a videotape after that... There was the sound of Hades laughing and saying, "It's too late..."

"So what? Do you want to find him on your own? ”

"No, the police must have reported it, but it's not us who came..."

Kaedehara then glanced at the time, "Let's go to dinner, and then go back to the hotel first, there are some things that still need to be investigated..."

Because they had been running around investigating the secret number, they didn't even eat lunch, so they ate an authentic French meal nearby, and then took a taxi back to the hotel again.

The code has been solved, and Hades should not appear until tomorrow, so it's not a rush now.

Kaedehara relaxed a little, but also a little depressed.

They obviously came to London for a tour, but they hadn't even been to the Sherlock Holmes Museum, and they had to get busy with the case just after getting off the plane...

Thinking like this, he got out of the car, and Maple Yuan and Gray Yuan came to the door of the hotel together, and then were stunned for a moment.

Not far from them, two people had just stepped out of another taxi.

Gray Yuan Ai was also slightly stunned, because she felt that Feng Yuan paused, but before she could ask what was wrong, she noticed that Feng Yuan walked up casually again, and slightly accelerated her pace...

But then a high school student-like man rushed to them as if he had seen a treasure.

"Shinichi Kudo!"

Gray Yuan Ai subconsciously grabbed Kaedehara's sleeve and looked towards the man, who looked sixteen or seventeen years old, with short black wavy hair, a black hat, and dark green pupils.

With a surprised expression on the other party's face, he bent over to look at Kaedehara, "I didn't expect to meet here!" Are you visiting the UK? ”

“… Who are you? ”

Kaedehara didn't answer the question, but took a step directly to the side, protecting Gray Yuan behind him, looking at her vigilantly.

"Don't you remember? I'm—"

"Shinichi Kudo?"

Behind him was a beautiful woman with short curly blond hair, who looked no more than twenty or thirty years old, and wore a gray coat.

"Did you recognize the wrong person?" She then said to the high school students.

"Ahh Worst! I almost forgot... That was 10 years ago..."

The high school student-looking man smiled embarrassedly, revealing his cute tiger teeth, "I'm really sorry, little brother... I was mistaken... You look so much like someone I used to know..."

“……”

"Do you know Shinichi Kudo?"

“……”

The kid didn't seem to want to say a word...

The high school student thought to himself, watching the little child in front of him tightly protect his companion behind her, so that she couldn't even see the face of the child behind her...

Speaking of which, it doesn't seem good to suddenly rush to a child and shout another person's name...

"By the way, what's your name?" She then asked.

"I won't tell you."

"Huh?"

"Mom said you can't just tell strangers your name..."Kaede Hara said coldly, "Can you let us pass?" ”

"Ahh Okay, I'm sorry..."

With that, she moved out of the way.

Kaedehara led the gray plain who hung his head and walked towards the elevator.

It wasn't until he returned to the room that Gray Yuan looked up.

"Remember what I told you about my encounter with Shuichi Akai ten years ago?"

Without waiting for Ash Yuan to ask, Kaedehara took the initiative to explain, "The older one in the back should be Akai Shuichi's mother... Ten years have passed, and almost nothing has changed..."

"And you're almost the same as you were ten years ago..."

"yes... So it's okay, she probably just didn't react for a while, and subconsciously thought of it and came over and called me... I don't really think I'm Shinichi Kudo..."

"She?"

"yes... It's a girl... Don't worry," Kaedehara said, "I just met someone I met ten years ago... And your radar isn't responding either, is it? ”

“… Then why are you standing in my way? Gray Yuan lamented his hands to his chest, revealing a suspicious gaze, "You don't want them to notice me." ”

"Just in case... And don't you think the woman in the back looks a little like you? I'm worried that she's focusing on you because of that..."

Gray Yuan was stunned for a moment, "I didn't see it at all..."

After noticing that Kaedehara was blocking herself from the back, she cooperatively lowered the brim of her hat and hung her head, pretending to be very scared, so she couldn't see the other party.

"Anyway, it's okay... Can you look something up for me? ”

……

A few minutes ago.

A high school girl named Masumi Sera embarrassedly moved out of the way and watched the two children walk towards the elevator.

Although they were a little curious, they still had to check in.

"It's like... I thought I was back ten years ago..."

"Be careful, Zhenchun, you can't be so reckless..."

Mary Akai said, "We came here when we heard about your father... You don't come out until I see him..."

(End of chapter)