"Sera...Elena?"

"The name is a bit strange..."

Detective Baima picked up the information, confirmed the information above, and found that he was British.

It's just that this name does sound like a Japanese surname.

He handed the information to Bert, and after staring at the photo for a while, Bert's eyes became a little bright.

"It feels like it's her..."

"very good!"

Detective Baima waved his hand, and his police officers immediately went to investigate this person's information and invited him here as quickly as possible.

Conan, on the other hand, raised his chin with a serious face, thinking about the name he seemed to have heard somewhere.

Elena...

Sera Elena?

If I remember correctly, the girl who suddenly came over to chat with me yesterday was named Seriang.

Are these two people related?

And the strangest thing is that if the woman I saw this morning is the same person as the one in the information, that would be incredible.

Because there is almost no obvious aging in this woman's appearance.

You must know that this is a photo from the university archives, more than 20 years ago.

But that woman's appearance was probably that of someone in her 25s, and she didn't look like someone in her 40s at all.

And she also said that she once had children in Japan.

What on earth is going on?

…

City of London.

After more than half an hour of walking, Sera, Maori and his party arrived at the next coded location.

The building they came to was called "Gherkin", so named because the shape of the building looked like a pickled cucumber.

This corresponds to the fourth line of the code - in the end it is enough to just eat the pickled cucumber.

The group of people started searching the surroundings and easily found markers scattered around the building.

These markers were deliberately scratched with a knife, and the title "Dancing Men" was written on the pen barrel.

And Dancing Men is the title of a certain chapter in Sherlock Holmes, called "Dancing Men".

Mao Lilan held a pen she picked up in her hand. She thought about it this time, but she couldn't think of any hints.

After all, she herself has never read Sherlock Holmes, and her knowledge of Sherlock Holmes only comes from Kudo Shinichi.

Kogoro Mouri is a fan of Agatha Christie and is not very interested in Sherlock Holmes.

Not to mention Dr. Ali, the part of his life that is closest to reasoning is telling funny jokes and riddles.

"Zhenchun, do you see anything?"

Mao Lilan turned to look at Sera Masumi who was standing beside the trash can.

At this time, Seriang held two markers in his hands and looked at them quietly.

One of the pens she picked out from the trash can.

Since this marker pen had scratches on it, many passers-by threw it away as garbage.

Hearing Mao Lilan's call, Sera Masaki turned away with a smile and shook his head.

"I can't figure it out at all~"

"Haha~"

When Mao Lilan heard this, she could only take out her phone and prepare to ask for help again from Kudo Shinichi, who is a Fu fan.

Seriang continued to turn around and examine the pair of markers in her hand.

Although she is also a reader of Sherlock Holmes, she is not as obsessed as Kudo Shinichi and regards every word that Holmes said as a wise saying.

But as a quasi-detective, I still learned a lot of basic rules of reasoning from Mary.

One of the reasoning methods is to put yourself in the position of the murderer and think about it.

For example, if the current pen did not cause scratches on it, it might not be regarded as useless garbage and thrown into the trash can.

In this way, it can stay on people's hands for a longer time, allowing more people to detect abnormalities.

However, the murderer deliberately made scratches on it and did such a seemingly "waste of time" and thankless thing, which only shows that he had ulterior motives for doing so...

Seriang held the marker and looked at the scratches on it.

The scratches on the two markers are different and seem to have been made randomly.

But if you look carefully, you will find that the scratches on the caps at both ends of the two pens are exactly the same.

Could it be...

Seriang removed the two pen caps according to what he had in mind, and then aligned them with each other.

When the pen cap is aligned in the correct position, those fixed scratches form the letter "N".

this is……

"Yes!"

"It's the English letter N!"

On the other side, Mao Lilan also removed the pen cap at the prompt of Kudo Shinichi and found the letter N.

"How did you find out?!"

Mao Lilan instantly transformed into a little fan girl, causing a satisfied smile to appear on Conan's face on the other side of the phone.

"cough……"

"It's because Sherlock Holmes once said in this story that all the intermediate reasoning processes should be omitted, and only the starting point and conclusion should be explained to the other party. Although this method seems simple and crude, it is enough to achieve amazing results."

Kuroba Kaito, who was standing next to Conan, glanced down with disdain, and thought to himself: It's so boring to even memorize such obvious words word for word...

And isn’t this how magic shows work?

If the secrets of magic are shown to the audience, even the most wonderful magic will be overshadowed.

Saston’s Three Principles…

Kuroba Kaito looked stunned, and suddenly realized that he seemed to have memorized some content that seemed "boring" to a layman.

The passage that Conan memorized was, to put it bluntly, to teach detectives how to create program effects.

However, children should not imitate easily~

Because there are no points if you just write the results and don’t write the process!

…

On the other side, Mao Lilan suddenly realized after listening to Conan's explanation.

"That's it~"

"Then Shinichi, please do your work first. If we need your help at the next location, we will call you again..."

But just when Mao Lilan didn't want to delay Zhuma's work and wanted to hang up the phone, Conan immediately called her.

"Wait a minute! Xiaolan."

"Eh?" Mao Lilan was stunned, "What's going on?"

Conan held a bow-tie voice changer in one hand and a phone in the other, and asked seriously: "Is that person named 'Sera Masumi' with you now?"

Mao Lilan raised his head and glanced at Seriang not far away, nodded, "Yeah, what's wrong?"

"Give her the phone. I need to ask her something..."

Mao Lilan's expression was a little confused, but she still came to Seriang and handed her the phone.

"Zhenchun, it's Shinichi who is looking for you..."

"Looking for me?"

Sera Masaki looked stunned and pointed at his face in disbelief.

The next second, her brain suddenly reacted.

Could it be that Shinichi has realized something? He remembered that she was the little girl who was with him at the beach 10 years ago.

Will the next drama be...

I'm sorry that I only think of you at this time.

There are many things I want to say to you at the same time.
To be continued...