Chapter 180 - Moriarty
"At that time, this bottle of red wine was placed in front of the main seat, but as the second most powerful person in London, you did not sit there," Conan said to Colonel Moran. "It seems that you are the only one qualified to sit there.
The person on the seat is probably Professor Moriarty. Do you think the professor will be happy if you break Professor Moriarty's wine?"
"Sorry, that's not Mr. Moriarty's wine," Colonel Moran sneered. "You guessed wrong!"
Although Colonel Moran said this, Qian Yu felt relieved.
There was no other reason than that Colonel Moran's hand on the trigger was originally tense, but now it was completely relaxed.
He had no intention of shooting anymore, it must be because Conan's deterrence was successful.
That really is Professor Moriarty's wine!
"Then just shoot!" Conan also sneered and asked Colonel Moran loudly. "If you have the guts to break the professor's red wine, just shoot!"
This is not the way to go... Qianyu frowned.
Although Conan's threat can temporarily make Colonel Moran fearful, Colonel Moran is different from others. He is Moriarty's confidant and second-in-command.
If it were Moriarty's minions who broke the red wine, then Moriarty would probably crush them like ants. But if it was Colonel Moran who broke the red wine, Moriarty would never
Killing him easily would only require a few words of scolding.
When Conan pushes Moran to the point where he can't bear it anymore, Moran may shoot at any time.
However, there is no way to save Conan now... Qianyu held the finger tiger and thought about the battle plan.
There is no way... My traceless umbrella is in my school bag, and I gave it to the doctor for safekeeping before entering the game... Now I don't have any long-range attack methods, and Zhihu's defense is okay. I want to kill so many big men on the opponent's side.
, it is really unrealistic to save Conan.
At this moment, the back door behind Qian Yu was opened.
Is it the little guys? What are they doing here at this time? Are they causing trouble!!??
However, the person who came in through the back door surprised Qianyu.
An old man in a well-dressed suit stood at the door, while Mao Lilan stood beside the old man cautiously.
"Children, Lord Moriarty wants to see you." The old man said, neither humble nor overbearing. "Sir Moriarty is waiting for you in the carriage."
"What?" Colonel Moran looked surprised. "Meet them? How could..."
"Let's go, little girl." The old man said to Mao Lilan and walked out of the back door again.
"Please wait a moment!" Colonel Moran quickly tried to ask the old man about the situation.
"Please?" Qianyu was surprised, because this was obviously an honorific.
Has Moriarty's authority become so terrifying that even his emissary can boss him around in front of Colonel Moran?
The old man stopped, turned his head, and looked at Colonel Moran with a sinister look that made Qian Yu tremble. "Do you want to disobey Lord Moriarty's order?"
"..." Moran looked at the old man with fear on his face. "I...I understand..."
Isn’t this too cowardly? Do you still have the arrogance of the second person? Just like that, under the leadership of the old man, everyone walked out of the back door, only to find that except for Yuantai who had been waiting here and the other little guys
, a carriage has already stopped here - this can explain why Mao Lilan is following the old man. It seems that they have already been controlled by Professor Moriarty.
The old man led Qianyu and Conan to the carriage and said respectfully to the people on the carriage, "I brought them here."
"Thank you for your hard work," the person sitting in the car nodded. "Little brother, please give me the red wine." Conan kept holding the bottle of red wine, probably to ensure that Colonel Moran did not dare to make mistakes.
Conan handed the red wine to the old man, and the old man put the red wine in the storage box of the carriage.
"You are worthy of being Holmes' apprentices," said the man on the carriage. "One can compete with adults with a crude weapon like a finger tiger, and the other can compete with Moran with his ingenuity."
"!?" Qianyu was stunned.
How did this guy know? This guy had obviously been sitting on the carriage here just now. How did he know the specific details of the battle inside?
Moreover, the sound is a bit strange...
Qianyu immediately looked at the old man who was standing aside after packing the red wine.
If it's ventriloquism...
Ventriloquism is a technique of speaking without using the lips and teeth. If the skill is high enough, it can be fake and make others think that someone else is speaking.
However, there are still flaws in ventriloquism, which are enough for others to discover that he is speaking.
First of all, although the old man is standing next to the people on the carriage, if the distance is close enough, you should still be able to tell that it is the old man who is talking, not the people on the carriage - this is probably because the old man asked them to stand between the two.
The reason is about two meters away.
Secondly, although ventriloquism is called ventriloquism, in order for the words to be spoken, the lips still have to be opened. However, the opening will not be large, maybe only as wide as a grain of rice, so the distance must be very large.
It can only be discovered recently - so there is no way to confirm it this way.
However, the third point is the Achilles heel of ventriloquism. No matter how sophisticated ventriloquism is, it cannot change the defect that the voice is slightly dull because the lips are only opened a small gap. And even if ventriloquism is used, normal
Some habits of speaking under the circumstances will also be retained.
Just like now, the final sound of this unknown voice is exactly the same as the way the old man called everyone before!
"Uncle, are you really Professor Moriarty?" At this moment, Conan suddenly said.
"What do you mean?" The person on the carriage looked confused.
"Are you testing us in this way?" Conan continued to ask.
"Conan, what does this mean?" Mao Lilan asked, unable to hold back.
"Because," Conan raised the corners of his mouth slightly and looked at the old man. "The real Professor Moriarty is here! Those sounds just now were all made by the professor using ventriloquism, right?"
Sure enough, his answer was the same as mine, which basically proves that I guessed it right...
"..." The old man faced everyone's gaze and took off his hat with a smile. "I didn't expect you to see through it. It's interesting. But how did you know?"
"Colonel Moran just said honorifics to you," Conan shrugged. "Excuse me, as Moriarty's confidant and second-in-command, would Colonel Moran use honorifics to an ordinary servant? Of course not,
The only reason he would use honorifics on you is because he discovered you were Professor Moriarty."
"Is that all there is?" Professor Moriarty glanced at the wall of the Poker Club - behind that should be the card table where Colonel Moran was sitting.
Is he dissatisfied with his pig teammates?
"Another point," Conan shook his head and continued. "I heard that Professor Moriarty is a fashionable old man who uses cologne."
"So when you gave him the red wine, did you ask about the taste of the cologne?" Hiroki Morohoshi asked.
"Yes." Conan nodded.
"Well done," Moriarty nodded hopefully. "You are just like a little Sherlock Holmes."
Chapter completed!