Chapter 751: Sherlock Holmes Apocalypse - Saturday
Several people finished tasting the delicious food.
Maori Kogoro picked a toothpick and asked, "The next step is to find the last clue and pierce the white back with two swords, right?"
Conan couldn't help but frown slightly. He had been thinking about this code all the way. He had almost torn the map apart, but he still couldn't find a building or place that could express this meaning.
He couldn't help but look at Yuya, and then he realized that Yuya didn't seem to be in a hurry at all. He couldn't help but wonder, could it be that he had already...
As Conan expected, Yuya smiled confidently: "As for this, I already have an idea."
"What? Is this true?" Kogoro Mouri looked over in surprise.
Youya opened his hand and shook it, then said, "In fact, the clue to the secret code is already in our hands."
"In the hands?" Kogoro Mouri was confused. He looked at Yuya's empty palms, then looked at his own empty palms, and a huge question mark appeared above his head.
Mao Lilan and Miyano Shiho looked at each other, not understanding what You was talking about.
Conan, on the other hand, had a thoughtful expression on his face.
Yuya says the hint is already in hand, rather than always in hand, indicating that this happened after their arrival.
In other words... Conan turned his eyes to the table and quickly focused on the white coffee cup.
The snow-white back... Conan understood something. He picked up the still warm coffee cup and looked at the bottom. He found a pattern, and this pattern was exactly the style of two crossed swords.
Conan suddenly realized: "So that's it, the so-called double swords piercing the white back refer to the ceramic manufacturer's trademark printed on the bottom of the white tableware!"
Upon hearing this, the others also picked up the cups in front of them and looked at the bottom, each showing an expression of sudden realization.
Youye said: "Let's go to this tableware store and ask the waiter there, maybe they know where the store is..."
"I know!" Apollo raised his hand and said, "My mother likes this brand of tableware very much, so she often takes me to that store to buy it, and there is only one store in London."
Led by Apollo, everyone came to this tableware store.
I just walked around the store inside and outside, but didn't find anything that looked like a secret code.
"Could we have found the wrong place?" Mao Lilan said somewhat worriedly.
You also shook his head: "No, according to the hint, it should be here, but how can it not be here..."
He thought about it for a moment and decisively found the store clerk to ask.
This question gave me the answer immediately.
The clerk said that in the past few days, someone has been hanging strange decorations on their signboard every day, which is very bothering them.
You also came to get a decoration and found that it was bells hanging from ropes of various colors, and there was a letter written on each bell.
There is a fixing sleeve at the top where the ropes intersect, with some instructions written on it, but it is difficult to see clearly because it is a little dirty. It may be that the clerk accidentally rubbed it when he was putting it away.
Maori Kogoro looked dead and asked Yuya, "What is Holmes' line this time? I can't even see the clue clearly."
"You know that without any prompting," Yuya smiled.
Conan echoed, "Yeah, yeah."
"Bang!" Maori Kogoro couldn't stand Conan's smug look, so he gave him a slap and scolded him, "If you know, just tell me now. Why are you keeping it a secret? Don't you know this is related to a criminal case?"
Conan covered his head with his hands, looking aggrieved. He wasn't the only one keeping the secret, so why was he the only one being hit?
Ran Mouri next to him had her eyes half closed. If it were the old her, she would definitely go forward to comfort Conan out of heartache, but after knowing that Conan was Kudo Shinichi, she never did such a thing again.
If possible, she would also like to try what it feels like to give Conan a slap in the face.
Yuya suppressed a smile and said, "This smudged title should be A study of scarlet, which is a story in which Sherlock Holmes appeared, A Study in Scarlet."
"In this story, Holmes once said this: Life is a bundle of colorless threads, entangled with a blood-red thread called murder. Our job is to untie and separate this thread so that criminal acts can be exposed in broad daylight."
"In other words, we just need to find the red line."
Yuya fiddled with the ropes a few times and soon found a red rope among them. The letter on the bell connected to this rope was R.
"In this case, the letters we found, in the order of the notice letter, are A, U, T, N, S, A, R."
Maori Kogoro pinched his chin and frowned: "What can these letters mean?"
Mao Lilan said: "If five of the letters form SANTA, then what do the remaining U and R mean?"
But no one answered her.
Ran Mouri looked at Conan in confusion and found that he was concentrating on thinking about something. She looked at Yuya again and saw the same expression.
She wisely stopped talking, leaving the two of them in silence for their thoughts.
"I think we only need one A." Conan suddenly said.
Yuya nodded and said, "Yes, the correct combination order of these letters should be SATURN, which means Saturn, Saturday."
"Hey," Maori Kogoro interrupted, "In Neon Saturn can indeed mean Saturday, but in English, Saturn should mean the planet, right?"
"No," Yuya retorted, "In fact, the words Saturn and Saturday both come from Saturnus, the god of agriculture in Roman mythology."
"I see." Maori Kogoro laughed dryly. Where on earth did this kid get such unpopular knowledge? They didn't teach these things in school, did they?
Did you learn this from Sherlock Holmes' novels?
"But," Apollo asked anxiously, "even if we know it's Saturday, where and what will happen?"
Conan's face looked a little heavy, which he had not expected.
Yuya stroked his chin, a thoughtful expression on his face.
Suddenly, he said to Maori Kogoro: "Uncle Kogoro, give me the map."
Kogoro Maori was a little confused, but still handed over the map.
Yuya unfolded the map and took out a pen to mark on it.
Soon, he smiled as if he had seen through the truth.
"I see, that's what happened."