"Then it won't be too late, let's set off right away."
Conan gently tore off the photo of two rings of the same style, one large and one small, from Holmes's notebook where he recorded Jack the Ripper, and said to the others.
The streets of London in this era were full of classical British style. Elegant architectural styles, decent gentlemen coming and going, and an endless stream of horse-drawn carriages... everyone seemed to have really returned to that era that was not that far away.
Looking at Big Ben from a distance, the sense of urgency in everyone's hearts became even stronger.
"There are thirty people left."
"In just a short while, twenty people have already been eliminated..."
Although everyone thought it was unlucky and did not say it explicitly, everyone felt heavy in their hearts - if they went to find Colonel Meng Lang this time, they might be the first person to be eliminated on the stage.
London's second most dangerous man is no joke.
Not long after, the group arrived at the poker club in the city center.
"Then everyone wait for me here. I'll sneak in through the back door to see what's going on inside."
With these words behind him, Conan walked through the alley and slipped in through the dark back door of the poker club. When no one was paying attention, he came to a dark place where he could observe the internal situation of the club in the dark.
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Finally, he found the Colonel Menglang he was looking for in a luxurious booth in a corner of the club.
The rather imposing colonel was playing cards with three other people at this time. There were playing cards and messy chips on the table, and everyone had wine at hand.
On the high platform behind the mustached man who was betting against Colonel Meng Lang, a small monkey was looking at the cards in the man's hand, and kept picking up small pieces of red and black cards from the plate in front of him.
Put the alternate fruits into your mouth.
Conan immediately saw that this monkey was helping Colonel Menglang cheat.
After this smart monkey saw the cards in the hand of the mustache, he told Colonel Menglang the cards in the hand of the mustache by eating fruits.
The left hand holds spades and hearts, and the right hand holds club squares. The number and color of the fruits represent the points and specific suits.
In this way, it is equivalent to the eight-character Hu Zhengming betting against Colonel Meng Lang.
Although such a smart monkey seems a bit unbelievable, in the game world of Kexue World, when these buffs are stacked up, it doesn't seem so strange.
"Huh? Weird..."
He was surprised to notice that the top seat of the table was currently empty, but there was a bottle of red wine and an empty wine glass in front of the seat.
It seemed that the few people playing cards, including Colonel Meng Lang, were waiting for some dignified figure.
Combined with the information about who Colonel Meng Lang's younger brother was, it was clear who they were waiting for.
The Napoleon of crime, the originator of the supervillain profession, the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, and the mastermind behind half of the cases in London—James Moriarty!
Colonel Meng Lang continued to win chips from the mustache, showing a feeling of being in control and the God of Gamblers reincarnated, which was in sharp contrast to the increasingly irritable mustache on the other side.
Just when he was about to take advantage of a few people gambling and Professor Moriarty had not yet arrived, he slipped out of the back door and told everyone about the situation in the club. The door of the club was suddenly opened. Xiaolan, Young Detective Team
The four men and the naughty children filed in, and behind them, followed a man.
This man wears a black top hat, a well-made black suit, and holds a pure black cane in his hand. Overall, he is the kind of dress that can most trigger PTSD in Conan's black organization.
He lowered his head so that only his lower jaw could be seen, and he could barely tell that he seemed to be a middle-aged man who was over fifty years old.
[Xiaolan! How did they get in? Didn’t I tell them to wait outside?!]
In his excitement, his center of gravity suddenly became unstable and he hit the wall beside him with a "thud" sound.
"Who's there?"
By coincidence, a waiter happened to be passing by his hiding place at this time. Hearing the noise, he came over immediately.
"Hey! Whose kid are you from?! What are you doing here?"
The waiter who could work in this place was no ordinary person. He picked up Conan by the back of his collar and carried him out.
"Ah! Conan!"
What happened here naturally attracted the attention of most people in the club. Xiaolan, who had just entered the door, immediately saw Conan being picked up and fluttering in the air.
"Hey! What are you doing?!"
"Let him go!"
Ayumu Tai and Mitsuhiko shouted out immediately.
The waiter looked over and saw the man dressed in all black at a glance.
After simply judging in his mind that the person brought into the club by this distinguished man seemed to be of the same group as the little boy he was holding, he immediately picked up Conan ten times faster than before.
He put down the boy who was as hot as lava in his hand.
Then, he kept bowing to the man respectfully and fearfully. After seeing the man wave his hand at him as if to ward off flies, he ran away as if he was being pardoned, without even daring to take a breath.
"Sister Xiaolan, why did you come in?"
Seeing this, Conan suppressed the doubts rising in his heart, ran to the door, stood in front of Xiaolan, and asked.
"We met this gentleman at the door. He said he was a member here and he could bring us in if we were looking for someone..."
Xiaolan glanced at the man and said to Conan with a smile.
"Yes, yes, although this uncle looks suspicious, he is really a good person!"
Genta patted his belly and smiled.
After hearing the child call the man "suspicious uncle", everyone in the club who looked at the door took a deep breath, and the temperature in the club suddenly rose several degrees.
"So kids, with so many of you coming to this club, who are you looking for?"
The man spoke, his words were neither hasty nor slow, and seemed to have some kind of momentum in his gentleness.
"We are looking for a man named Moriarty!" Morihoshi, the leader of the naughty children, said without hesitation the name he had heard from Conan before.
"hiss……"
The temperature in the club has risen several times.
"Oh? Moriarty? What are you going to do with him... That's a dangerous guy."
The man seemed to ask with great interest. Before the children in front of him could answer, he took off his top hat and revealed his face.
It was a face with some signs of vicissitudes of life. Apart from being a bit sharp and scary, it seemed to be just the face of an ordinary man who was entering old age.
"Tell me. Looking for me...what's the matter?"
"What?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone except Haiyuan and Conan exclaimed in surprise.
The man who led them in was the famous Professor Moriarty?
Conan and Haihara opened and closed their lips, they were so shocked that they could not speak.
——There is no other reason, just because in the eyes of the two of them, the face of the man in front of them who calls himself Professor Moriarty takes off his top hat. Although it is a bit old, they still recognize it at a glance.
The name of that familiar person.
Yuanhuaiyu!
…
"There's something weird about the communication! The connection to the fifth stage has been cut off! We can't see what's going on inside!"
In the control room, Dr. Ali said to Kudo Yusaku anxiously.
Kudo Yusaku had a solemn expression on his face. After placing all his hopes on his son, he was suddenly cut off from contact, which undoubtedly made everyone present more and more worried.
"This must be Noah's Ark!"
Uncle Maori shouted loudly.
"Damn it... this damn computer, after they come out, I will definitely throw it into the recycling bin!"
"But, what reason does Noah's Ark have to do this? We can't see what's happening on the stage, can we?"
Mumu Police Department asked. He felt that this was a bit superfluous.
"In this case...if Noah's Ark really cut off the connection, and only cut off the fifth stage..."
Kudo Yusaku looked at Dr. Agasa, and quickly received a reply from the latter that this had not happened on the other four stages.
"That means there are some things in the script that Noah's Ark arranged for the children that we cannot see!"
Kudo Yusaku murmured to himself: "It seems that if you want to know what happened, you can only ask them after they come out of the cocoon..."
"You must clear the level, Shinichi..."
…
"That's right, that's right. I can't even predict what I'll look like after I age. I'm worthy of being an artificial intelligence."
Yuan Huaiyu looked at the face that appeared on the TV screen.
"But Mr. Yuan, why are you doing this?"
Hongshu was very puzzled by what Yuanhuaiyu had just told him to do with Noah's Ark.
"You showed the original image of Professor Moriarty in the game in front of these players, but you used the future appearance predicted by Noah's Ark to these two children..."
"Is it possible that there is something special about these two children?"
Yuan Huaiyu replied: "You guessed it right, these two people have a more special meaning than others."
But that's where his explanation ended.
Hiroki was still confused after receiving this affirmative answer, but when he saw Yuan Huaiyu putting on the headset and starting to "perform" Professor Moriarty in the game, he could only bury his doubts in his heart for the time being, and even more
Observing Conan and Haibara Ai carefully and carefully.
…
"You, you are the one..."
"Are you Professor Moriarty?"
Seeing that Genta was about to blurt out the word "big bad guy", Mitsuhiko, who had quick eyes and quick hands, quickly covered his mouth and respectfully asked the man who called himself Professor Moriarty.
What a joke! If he was really Professor Moriarty and angered the emperor of the dark world in London and the leader of the world's criminal organizations, their group would probably be eliminated within a minute!
"I don't think anyone in London would dare to impersonate my name."
Professor Moriarty said politely, but there was a chilling arrogance hidden deep in his words.
"So, these children, what exactly do you want to see me for? Can you sit down and talk about it?"
In the eyes of the players, after Professor Moriarty said these words, his body suddenly seemed to stiffen, and his whole temperament seemed to have completely changed.
What they don't know is that at this moment, Noah's Ark has urgently added a module containing the Yuan Huaiyu personality analysis package to the preset module belonging to Professor Moriarty in the role of Professor Moriarty.
DLC.
Everyone watched Professor Moriarty step by step towards the table where Colonel Meng Lang and four people were sitting. At this time, the four people who were playing cards had already stopped playing cards and stood up respectfully, with their hands hanging down to their sides in a restrained manner.
, lowered his head, not daring to look into Professor Moriarty's eyes.
The student who made eye contact with the desk and did not dare to look directly into the teacher's eyes when the teacher asked a difficult question in class and then asked "Who can solve this problem?"
Otherwise, the teacher may naturally think——
[You look at me so confidently, you must be able to answer my questions perfectly, right? 】
"Meng Lang, clear the place and let everyone here get out."
Professor Moriarty sat down at the top of the luxurious long table and said calmly to Colonel Monland.
"Yes, Professor!"
Colonel Meng Lang was about to breathe a sigh of relief, thankful that he could temporarily escape the oppression of the professor's momentum and turn to complete the tasks assigned by the professor, when he heard Professor Moriarty add:
"Also, don't gamble your money next time you play cards. Don't you feel embarrassed that such a smart monkey uses it to play cards?"
"Yes, yes! I won't dare to do it next time!"
Colonel Meng Lang didn't care at all about the mustache glaring at him. He just felt like he was sweating like rain and his head went blank.
"Okay, okay, let's clear the place. I want to talk to these kids."
Xiao Lan watched in surprise as Colonel Meng Lang took out his pistol, walked directly to the lobby of the poker club, pointed at all the guests who were playing cards or stopped playing cards to pay attention, and forcefully asked them to come back another day.
The guests also obeyed obediently, simply packed up their belongings, even left their chips alone, and ran out of the club in a messy manner.
The waiters and waiters in the club were no exception. Finally, Colonel Monland drove away the last person. Seeing that only himself, Professor Moriarty and the group of people he brought in were left in the club, he showed a flattering smile.
laugh.
"Professor, it's done..."
"Okay, take this monkey and get out of here. Guard the door and don't let anyone in."
"yes!"
Colonel Menglang grabbed the fruit-eating monkey who didn't know the truth, trotted out of the club, and gently closed the door.
"Okay, everyone else has disappeared, let's talk."