Chapter 369

"Professor William pointed out to Mr. Sherlock where the answer is." Fujimaru Ritsuka watched the image on the big screen in the control room change from the interior of 221B Baker Street back to the communication screen, and asked Lansemello who had already taken his position near London Bridge in advance, "Won't the deputy director go over there to check the situation?"

"There's no need to follow them." Lansemero looked up at the gloomy sky of London in winter, "Sherlock and William have both left the control room temporarily, right? So take this opportunity to take out Sherlock's bond dress and unwrap it, Fujimaru. I remember it was a letter - and the name of the concept dress was 'The answer to a certain puzzle'."

"——This is the 'correct answer' that William prepared for Sherlock in the designated place for answering."

“Eh…?”

"You are being followed." After the communication with the control room ended, Moriarty reminded Lansermello with a sneer, "What are you going to do? Kill him directly? Or..."

Before Moriarty could finish his words, Lancermello had already turned around and locked onto the location where the stalker was hiding.

"Come out, Irene Adler." Lansemero snapped his fingers and lit a rose-scented lady's cigarette created by projection magic. He did not inhale it, but just let the cigarette burn in his hand. The scent of roses surrounded Lansemero, forming a temporary magic formation. "No, James Bond."

——Since it has been seen, there is no need to hide it.

This is why Lancer Mello decided to directly point out Bond's hiding place.

"This is a great final stage." Lancer Mellor turned his back to the Thames and opened his hands to Bond who was slowly walking out of the shadows. "Don't you think so? The history of this bridge, London Bridge, may be longer than the history of this country. What it originally looked like may no longer be verified, but no matter what it becomes, this bridge will always be London Bridge."

"Just like no matter whether it was the Celts, Anglo-Saxons or fairies who founded a nation here, this land will always be the British Isles."

In this world, there are time discrepancies between the time of many events and the records in the history of the world where Phoenix Chaldea was born - in addition to the time of the Jack the Ripper case and the establishment of MI6, there are also errors in the construction and reconstruction of the bridges on the Thames.

For example, the London Bridge should have completed its second reconstruction, and the London Tower Bridge has just been placed in front of the MPs - instead of the London Bridge still being rebuilt, the London Tower Bridge has been entrusted to a certain company to start construction... In short, you can still see many scaffoldings used for bridge construction standing on the bank of the Thames.

"Speaking of which, I thought of something." Lansemello held a cigarette that burned very slowly and asked Moriarty, who was in a state of deep consciousness, "The "London Bridge" they were talking about, is it this London Bridge? William and Sherlock, they have always been talking about the bridge in London, "The Bridge in London"... right?"

"It would be better to ask that detective about this kind of question, right?" Moriarty complained to Lansemero, "I may not remember the verbal conversation, but I think we can find the answer by looking through the text records of our chat room 221B, right? I'll help you look for it. I hope that by the time I'm done, you and this gentleman will have already talked about something I don't understand."

"Then help me pass a message to Fujimaru." Lancer Melo sighed and looked at Bond who was silent in front of him, "Just tell Kirsch and the others to go to the Tower of London - maybe the Reichenbach of these two is the Tower of London Bridge. After all, the record of the London Bridge was provided by them themselves - there may be misleading information."

"I went to the slums to confirm some things." Bond walked closer to Lansemello and held up the file bag in his hand to Lansemello, who was closer to the Thames. "About your uniqueness, which only William understood in the past - eleven years ago, you worked in a school for the poor using the identity and face of 'Vivian'."

"Although the school has become a ruin now, I found someone who used to be a teacher in the school and showed her the photo of you in the Moriarty mansion dressed as a maid." Bond opened the file bag and took out a colorized photo that was very consistent with the style of this era. "And the teacher said that the person in this photo is the same person as Teacher 'Vivian' who appeared in the poor school eleven years ago."

"I didn't tell her the photo was taken recently, so she thought it was a photo of 'Vivian' from 11 years ago."

"You know for sure that the person in the photo is the same person as the person in the memory - you can do that with disguise, right?" Lansermello crossed his arms and raised his eyebrows at Bond. "You are an expert in disguise, and William's introduction to you is enough to prove that I have the ability to disguise -"

"But if you use the same identity for a long time, it will generally age over time." Bond interrupted Lancermello's response and pointed out the key point directly, "But you just used the same face without any changes, and William had no opinion on your actions... That can only prove that William has information about you that we don't know."

"To be honest, the pasts of other people are unknown to us because we are all in the same MI6 department and have shared information with other members from the beginning. Except for William who is in charge of the project, only your past is still vague. And you were not put into MI6, and you were even outside the Moriarty Project itself..."

"Ah, that's easy, because I'm not human."

"Eh? Wait, eh? Are you kidding me!?!"

"Do you think I'm joking?" Lansemelo frowned and sighed helplessly, "Just as you gathered around William because of the plan, I also came to William because of this. There is not much time left before the final curtain is on. I will try to explain it to you as simply as possible."

"First, why did William's introduction make it sound like I could disguise myself, but he didn't assign me a job that required disguise? The reason is that my disguise doesn't rely on makeup and clothing to change my appearance, but directly changes the shape of my flesh and body - it can be used for both men and women, but it can only show a certain fixed period of time."

"For example, I can be a young male and an old male, but I can't show the transition from youth to old age."

"As for why William asked me to use the identity of 'Vivian' in Moriarty's house, it was because before you came, when I joined them, William said to me - 'It has come to this, do you still want to see me with this face?'" Lansemello tilted his head, avoiding Bond's sight, "Then I changed back to my original appearance, 'essence'."

"Originally, I should have come out and faced everyone directly, but I asked Louis to call William to the locker room - after all, for me, the fewer people who know about this, the better. Fortunately, William cooperated and came, otherwise I would have to find a way to fool everyone..."

"In short, when William saw that my original face was that of 'Vivian', he helped me solve a series of problems that followed."

"Then... why are you waiting for William's death as if you were watching a drama?" Bond put away the file bag in his hand and asked Lansermero with his head down, "William should have helped you too, right?!"

"That's because I'm not human, so I can't understand what you mean by 'death'." Lansemero looked at Bond with a smile, and his clothes changed from the Magic Association uniform back to clothes more in line with this era. "I am a fairy, a pure and flawless fairy - a fairy who enjoys goodness purely and evil flawlessly."

"Moreover, for us who are not human, whether William is dying here or faking his death and dies at the end of his human life span, it just means that he will no longer appear in front of me in human flesh and blood." Lansemero smiled and showed Bond his magical goblin eyes, "The humans that we 'goblins' have taken a fancy to will eventually become guys who are similar to us but different, and exist independently from time."

"So, well, because I'm interested in William's endgame, I want to watch the ending he has planned for himself the same way a human being would watch a play."

While the goblin was giving his answer to the human, the Moriarty Mansion, which had been filled with fuel by the last two members left at home, was set on fire. The flames burned fiercely, engulfing the entire mansion in an instant. Moreover, there was a lot of fuel spilled in the mansion. When most people noticed the fire, the Moriarty Mansion exploded again.

At this time, Sherlock Holmes had just finished answering the Hope case and the Noadic case, and received a letter written by William James Moriarty from Jack Renfield who was guarding the designated location.

"This letter is not sealed with wax." Mashu stood beside Fujimaru Ritsuka and looked at the "answer to a certain puzzle" with Fujimaru Ritsuka. "Professor William gave this letter to Mr. Sherlock to directly disclose the truth of all events to him and answer all the puzzles from the past to the present for him..."

"And Mr. Sherlock was not given the option to refuse. Although Mr. Sherlock would not refuse to get a direct answer at that time, this letter was not sealed with wax like the envelope with the true identity of the criminal that Miss Irene gave to Mr. Sherlock. This proves that Professor William directly revoked Mr. Sherlock's right not to read it."

Fujimaru Ritsuka opened the envelope and entered the contents directly into the database using an instrument.

"Well, let's see what's in this letter."

Sherlock Holmes, standing in front of Jack Renfield, opened the envelope eagerly the moment he received the letter.