Chapter 748: Sherlock Holmes Revelation: Decrypted
Miyano Shiho looked at the preview letter she had taken on her phone and read, "The third sentence is about eggs. My appetizer is a boiled egg that's as cold as a corpse."
She looked up at the building in front of her. It looked like a crooked egg. "It is indeed in the shape of an egg. So where is the clue?"
Youya began to look around, and soon a strange phenomenon caught his attention.
He found that several children were holding white dolls with white hair, white clothes and black pants.
Just at this moment, two little boys passed by him holding the same doll.
One of the boys asked his companion: "What do the words on it mean? Is it a code?"
The companion took the doll, looked at it, and said, "That should be the doll's name, right? Mazarin Stone."
"Mazarin Stone?" Yuya was stunned. "The case of the crown jewels? Another case involving Sherlock Holmes."
He walked over and said to the two boys with a smile: "Hi~Where did you find this doll?"
One of the boys pointed to a bench not far away and said, "I found it on the bench over there, and in the bushes over there..."
Yuya guessed that this was the clue to the third code, so he asked, "Can you lend me this doll?"
The boy handed the doll over generously: "This is for you. I picked up several."
After saying this, he ran away happily with his companions.
Yuya took the doll and found that the words of Mazarin Stone were written on the clothes on the chest.
At this time, Conan also came over with a similar doll in his hand.
He was stunned when he saw the doll in Yuya's hand, and then laughed: "It seems that you have discovered it too."
Yuya nodded and said slowly: "Mazarin Stone, which is the Crown Jewels case in Sherlock Holmes, and it is something related to Sherlock Holmes."
Conan nodded: "Do you remember what that man said to Apollo?"
Youya raised an eyebrow: "You mean, if you have no clue, go find Sherlock Holmes? It seems that this sentence does not mean to find Sherlock Holmes himself, but a hint."
"In that case," Yuya looked at the doll in his hand, "In the Case of the Crown Jewels, Holmes once said, 'The mind is everything to me, Watson, and everything else is just an accessory.'"
In other words, the only important part of this doll is its head.
Yuya decisively grabbed the doll's head and pulled it hard.
With a pop, the doll's head was pulled off.
Almost at the same time, Conan did the same action.
After the head was pulled off, the answer appeared.
On the doll's neck, there is an English letter T written.
Yuya and Conan looked at each other.
"Based on the current situation, it can be inferred that each sentence in the preview letter hints at a location, and there should be something related to Sherlock Holmes hidden near the location, and these things correspond to a case or work of Sherlock Holmes.
Then, according to the classic lines said by Sherlock Holmes in the work, you can find the hidden letters, and finally combine these letters to get the final answer, right?"
Conan nodded.
Ran Mouri and Shiho Miyano looked at each other and picked up their phones to read the preview letter.
Maori Kogoro also analyzed the situation: "The next sentence's clue is pickled cucumbers. No matter what, there can't be a building that's as thin and round as a pickled cucumber, right?"
Mao Lilan was a little confused and said, "But the notice said to eat the cucumber in one go, so it should be before slicing it, right?"
Maori Kogoro immediately retorted: "Even if that's the case, pickled cucumbers are pickled cucumbers. Where can there be such a long and thin, round building?"
"Isn't there one?" Miyano Shiho suddenly interrupted their conversation. She pointed at a building in the distance and said, "It's long and round, and it's indeed thinner than other buildings."
Everyone looked up in surprise, and just as Miyano Shiho said, there was indeed a building that looked like a cucumber cut in half and standing on the ground.
"That must be it!" Mao Lilan shouted excitedly, "Mio-chan, you are amazing. You found it in no time."
Yuya also flattered her: "As expected of my Mio."
Miyano Shiho smiled sheepishly: "It's just luck."
Soon, everyone arrived at the building that looked very similar to a cucumber.
This is a skyscraper called 30 St Mary Axe. As a landmark building in the City of London, it is more widely known by its nickname - thanks to its special exterior design, it was nicknamed Gherkin.
Gherkin means cucumber.
As soon as they arrived here, they found a lot of pens with scratches all over them.
On the pen holder, the words "Dancing Men" are written in English.
Yuya squatted down and Conan quickly came over.
"This should refer to the case of the dancing man." Conan said with certainty.
Yuya nodded in agreement, uncapped the pens at both ends, and assembled them together.
Miyano Shiho asked curiously: "What classic line of Sherlock Holmes is this?" Otherwise, Yuya would not have done such a strange thing.
Before Yuya could speak, Conan spoke first: "Holmes said that removing all the reasoning in the middle and inferring the criminal only by the starting point and conclusion is a simple method, but the effect is shocking enough!"
Miyano Shiho looked puzzled, and the Maori father and daughter also looked at Conan with question marks.
Yuya tapped Conan's head and explained, "What Conan just said is a line that Sherlock Holmes once said in the Dancing Man Case. To apply it here, just discard the pen holder and leave only the pen caps on both sides."
"And if you spin it like this..."
Yuya rotated the pen cap, and the scratches on the pen merged and transformed into a capital letter N.
"This will reveal the third code."
So far, three English letters have been obtained, namely A near Big Ben representing the bell, T near Town Hall representing the boiled egg, and N near Gherkin representing the pickle.
"Next is the building that looks like a cake. Where should we find it?" asked Mao Lilan, tapping her chin with her finger.
"This..." This time, even Yuya and Conan looked at each other in confusion.
Just when they were about to ask a passerby, a child's voice suddenly rang out.
"Ah! It's the older brother of Holmes' apprentice!"
Everyone looked back subconsciously.
Yuu couldn't help but show a surprised expression: "Apollo?"