Conan's other self

Arriving at the London City Hall, Maplehara and Haibara Ai continued to look for things related to Sherlock Holmes. With good luck, Haibara Ai soon found a small toy doll in the corner of the bench.

"It's so ugly..."

Haihara Ai commented, and then read the words written on the doll's clothes, "Mazarin's gem..."

"The Case of the Crown Jewels..."

Feng Yuan put his hand on the doll's head and looked at Hai Yuan Ai.

Hui Yuan Ai immediately understood what he meant, but he just looked back with half-moon eyes and said angrily: "What for? You obviously remember it, right?"

"All right…"

Haiyuan Ai looked at Feng Yuan, hesitated for a moment, and then cooperated in reciting the lines of Sherlock Holmes in The Case of the Crown Jewels, "I only have one brain, and the rest are just accessories..."

Maplehara gently took off the doll's head and wrote the letter T on its neck.

"You still like secret codes..." Haiyuan Ai said.

Although he had said before that his interest in codes was average, she could feel that his interest was still quite high now.

"Because this code is related to Sherlock Holmes. I'm a Sherlock Holmes fan... Well... Next is the Gherkin Building."

As Maplehara spoke, he took out a map of London and marked the locations they had visited with a marker.

Haibara Ai looked around a few times, "Speaking of which, Edogawa should be able to solve this code, right? Aren't you worried about running into them?"

"So we need to speed up the progress...end it before they come..."

"What if they don't come in order?"

"That's bad luck - go this way."

Feng Yuan put away the map, followed Hai Yuan Ai's wishes and looked up, then immediately turned around and pulled Hai Yuan Ai and walked in the other direction.

Hui Yuan Ai resisted the desire to look back and realized that he had probably been right, "Is it them?"

"Yes," Fengyuan replied, "but there are only two people, Uncle Maori and Xiaolan... You guessed it right, they really didn't come in order..."

There were many people in the city hall, and Uncle Maori and Xiaolan had just arrived nearby, and their attention was also on searching for clues. Fengyuan felt that he and Haibara Ai had not been discovered.

"It may be that the progress is faster than ours," Hui Yuan Ai struck maliciously, "Maybe this is their last stop..."

"It's impossible... The doctor just sent me a message not long ago, saying that Uncle Maoli and Xiaolan came out to look for clues. If there is any progress, he will tell me..."

"..."

The two got into a taxi.

Next stop.

The Gherkin Building does indeed look like a gherkin, and items related to Sherlock Holmes are not difficult to find here. There are many scratched markers scattered around.

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

"The little dancing man..."

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

Maplehara unscrewed all the caps at the tip and tail of the marker, then brought the pen caps together to see the scars together.

"The letter N... is also going well here," Fengyuan said, "Then the next is the cake in the fifth row... St. Wedding Cathedral."

Scattered around the cathedral are pieces of paper in plastic bags with "A Scandalin Bohemia" handwritten on them.

"A Scandal in Bohemia..." Maplehara read, then walked aside to buy a bottle of mineral water, "The story of Irene Adler's appearance."

"You don't understand because you are just looking with your eyes instead of observing..."

Taking out the thicker paper from the plastic bag, Maplehara poured water directly onto the paper.

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

The next row in the sixth row was still Big Ben, and they jumped directly to the Mason Porcelain Store in the last row.

Because he was not very familiar with Mason porcelain, Maplehara could not find anything related to Sherlock Holmes nearby at the first time. Haibara Ai went to ask the store clerk and learned that someone had been hanging strange decorations on the signboard for the past two days.

"I thought that's how the sign was originally..."

Feng Yuan said, taking the decoration handed over by Hai Yuan Ai.

They were silk threads of various colors with bells tied to each end, and the other ends of the silk threads were tied together.

Maple could see that each little bell had a letter written on it.

"The combination of these letters should be the title..." Maplehara did not try to look at every bell, "If I guessed correctly, it should be Research on the Letter in Scarlet... The first story of Sherlock Holmes..."

Hui Yuan Ai was startled for a moment, remembering the dream he had ten years later and that German sentence.

She couldn't help but glance at Fengyuan secretly, and noticed that he was already looking for the red thread in the silk thread, so she dismissed the distracting thoughts in her mind and recited Sherlock Holmes' lines in coordination as she had done several times before.

"The colorless spool of life is wrapped with the crimson thread of murder... Our job is to untie and separate this thread, leaving not even an inch behind, to expose it to the scorching sun..."

The bell hanging on the red thread has the letter R written on it.

"In this way, we have found them all..." Fengyuan thoughtfully returned the decoration in his hand, "Starting from the first sentence, in order, they are A, U, T, N, S, A, R, seven in total. letter…"

"If you put it in order, you can't read it at all," Haiyuan Ai thought for a moment, "If you put it out of order...if you only use A once, then you can arrange it into Saturn..."

While Saturn refers to Saturday in Japan, Saturn can also be associated with Saturday in English.

"That's Saturday, tomorrow..." Maplehara said, "The final at Wimbledon is also tomorrow..."

"I think you have determined that the password refers to tomorrow's finals... and tried to trick it..."

"Hey, you were the one who thought of Saturn first..."

Maplehara defended, "And that's what the reasoning is! Holmes also said that if you imagine what has happened and act accordingly, you may be able to find the result."

"Yes, yes... but don't you think it's strange? If A only needs to be used once... it seems that just deleting the sixth sentence will not affect..."

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

"Eh?"

"look…"

Feng Yuan said, picking up the map, which had already marked various locations, "Start from the Big Ben mentioned in the first sentence, and connect in order...and return to Big Ben in the middle."

As Maplehara connected the lines while talking, a pentagon appeared on the map, "Then connect from Big Ben to here...Mason Porcelain..."

"...Tennis racket?"

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

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

Maplehara folded the map and put it away, "In this way, the hypothesis will be verified again... I think Hades must want to do something in tomorrow's tennis final..."

"Why not today? There is a competition today, right?"

Haihara Ai was a little curious because the semifinals were being held today.

"If it were today," Fengyuan paused, "then it would be too late..."

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

"And if he really holds a grudge because Glass lost that final... wouldn't it be more reasonable to put revenge in the final?"

"Then what should we do now? According to your habit, you should call the police?"

Unlike Edogawa, Kudo has always preferred to leave the remaining steps to the police after the reasoning is completed. So she felt that this time should be no exception, but...

"It's different this time..."

Hui Yuan Ai cast a questioning look.

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

Feng Yuan explained to Hai Yuan Ai.

"He bombed two hospitals and hid the code for crime predictions in Shakespeare and Grimm's fairy tales... The first time the code could not be solved, so he sent the police a videotape with the explosion scene...

The second time, someone from the Metropolitan Police asked my father to help decipher the code, and he solved it in advance. However, after the police dispatched the explosive ordnance disposal team to raid the hospital, the bomb was suddenly detonated...

This is a guy who doesn't follow the rules of the game at all. After that, he also sent a videotape... In it there was the voice of Hades laughing and saying "It's too late..."

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

"No, I will definitely call the police, but we are not here..."

Fengyuan then looked at the time and said, "Let's go have dinner and then go back to the hotel first. There are some things that need to be investigated..."

Because they had been running around investigating the cause of the code, they didn't even have lunch, so they ate at an authentic French restaurant nearby, and then took a taxi back to the hotel.

The secret code has been solved, and Hades shouldn't appear until tomorrow, so it's not too urgent now.

Feng Yuan relaxed a little and felt a little depressed.

They were obviously traveling to London, but they hadn't even been to the Sherlock Holmes Museum yet. They had to work on the case as soon as they got off the plane...

Thinking like this, after getting out of the car, Fengyuan and Haibara Ai came to the door of the hotel together, and then were stunned for a moment.

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

Haiyuan Ai was also slightly startled because she felt Fengyuan pause in his steps, but before she could ask what was wrong, she noticed Fengyuan started walking again as if nothing had happened, and even sped up his pace slightly...

But then a person who looked like a high school student rushed in front of them as if he had seen a treasure.

"Kudo Shinichi!"

Haiyuan Ai subconsciously grabbed Fengyuan's sleeve and looked at the man. The man in front of him looked about sixteen or seventeen years old, with short black wavy hair, wearing a black hat, and dark green pupils.

With an expression of surprise on the other party's face, he bent down and looked at Fengyuan, "I didn't expect to meet you here! Are you coming to England to travel?"

"…Who are you?"

Fengyuan did not answer the question, but moved a step forward, guarding Haiyuan Ai behind him, and looked at her warily.

"Don't you remember? I am-"

"Kudo Shinichi?"

Following this man was a beautiful woman with short curly blond hair. She looked to be in her twenties or thirties and was wearing a gray coat.

"Did you recognize the wrong person?" she then said to the high school student.

"Ah! Oops! I almost forgot...that was already ten years ago..."

The high school student smiled sheepishly, showing his cute fangs, "I'm so sorry, little brother... I made a mistake... you look so much like someone I knew before..."

"..."

"Do you know Kudo Shinichi?"

"..."

This child seems unwilling to say a word...

The high school student thought to herself, watching the child in front of her protect her companion tightly behind her, so that she could not even see the face of the child behind...

Speaking of which, it doesn't seem right for me to suddenly rush in front of a child and call another person's name...

"By the way, what are your names?" she then asked.

"I won't tell you."

"ah?"

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

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

With that said, she moved out of the way.

Feng Yuan led Hai Yuan Ai, who had his head hanging down, towards the elevator.

It wasn't until she returned to the room that Hui Yuan Ai raised her head.

"Do you still remember what I told you about meeting Akai Shuichi ten years ago?"

Before Haibara Ai could ask, Fengyuan took the initiative to explain, "The older one at the back should be Akai Shuichi's mother... Ten years have passed, and almost nothing has changed..."

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

"Yeah...so it's okay. She probably just didn't react for a while, and subconsciously thought of it and came over to call me...she probably didn't really think that I was Kudo Shinichi..."

"she?"

"Yes... that's a girl... don't worry," Fengyuan said, "I just accidentally met someone I met ten years ago... and your radar didn't respond, right?"

"...Then why are you standing in front of me?" Haiyuan Ai crossed his arms and looked suspiciously, "You don't want them to notice me."

"Just in case...and don't you think the girl behind you looks a bit like you? I'm worried that she will focus on you..."

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

After noticing that Feng Yuan was blocking her behind, she lowered the brim of her hat and lowered her head in cooperation, pretending to be afraid of strangers, so she couldn't see him either.

"Anyway, it's okay...can you help me check something?"

…

a few minutes ago.

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

Although they were a little curious, they still had to go through the check-in procedures.

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

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

Akai Marie said, "We came here after hearing the news about your father...Don't come out before I see him..."