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Seeing that Li Mo swept away the cups and plates of the afternoon tea, while Du Ruoying remained motionless, William could not help but smile slightly, "It is a good habit to stay alert, but if you are too alert, you will miss a lot of wonderful experiences."

Du Ruoying knew that he was talking about herself, so she casually said, "I've lost weight recently."

William didn't comment, but continued, "I'm going to go out later, and I'll be back before dinner. During this period, if you have any needs, just talk to Louis directly."

good chance!

After William went out, Du Ruoying lay on the window for a long time to confirm that he had indeed gone far, and then started to act.

She decided to discuss it with Sherlock first.

At that time, Sherlock and Mycroft were smoking and chatting in the backyard.Sensing the footsteps behind him, Mycroft immediately extinguished the cigarette in his hand, and then took the cigarette out of Sherlock's mouth.

"Hey, what are you doing?!" Sherlock protested angrily.

Mycroft gestured for him to look behind him: "It is the basic etiquette of a gentleman not to smoke in front of a lady."

Sherlock glanced back and found that it was Du Ruoying: "Ah, that girl, she's fine."

Du Ruoying ran over out of breath: "Sherlock."

"What's the matter?" He turned around.

She calmed down her breathing a little bit, and then told everything about overhearing the conversation between William and Herder.

After listening to it, Sherlock held back his full of laughter and spoke for a while, "Since Lian said it was a 'surprise', I'd better not spoil it, lest someone say I'm a man who doesn't understand style."

"What do you mean?" Du Ruoying was confused.

Obviously, Sherlock already knew William's true intentions, but he was unwilling to say the answer bluntly, why?Does he have another layout?Or--

Is this a test by Mr. Holmes? !

"It means you just wait and see." Sherlock waved his hand at her impatiently, "Okay, okay, you go, you stay here, I can't even smoke."

It really is a test!Otherwise, there was absolutely no need for him to use such an excuse to drive himself away.Just like what he believed in, puzzles had to be solved by hand to be interesting, and he didn't want to deprive her of the opportunity to have this kind of fun, so he gently encouraged her to take the initiative to explore the answer instead of staying here and waiting for a result.

She cheered up immediately: "I understand, I will behave well!" After that, she strode away, leaving behind Sherlock and Mycroft with puzzled faces.

It was still Mycroft who reacted first. He watched her receding figure, raised his eyebrows and said, "That little girl seems to admire you very much."

Sherlock lit a second cigarette nonchalantly, "Yeah."

"Oh... a guy like you, is there actually someone who worships you?"

"What do you mean? Make it clear to me, bastard!"

"I mean," Mycroft put his hands behind his back, raised his face and smiled slightly at Sherlock beside him, "the days when I lost you really made me sad."

Shocked by this sentence, Sherlock choked all the smoke into his lungs, and he couldn't help coughing violently: "You...cough cough...did you do it on purpose?!"

Back in the hall, butler Jack was clearing up the afternoon tea on the table. Du Ruoying noticed that there was still an untouched snack and tea set on the table, and immediately took it off.

"Has Herder not eaten yet? I'll go and deliver one to him." She poured a new cup of black tea graciously, and picked up another plate of pastries.

Old Jack waved his hand kindly to her, "No, he usually doesn't eat when he's busy."

"When people are busier, they are more likely to be hungry. I'm sure he will want to eat. Where is he now? I'll go find him."

"No need, you are a guest, how can I bother you?" Old Jack saw her determined face, so he stretched out his hand and said, "Why don't you give it to me, I'll deliver it."

Unexpectedly, Du Ruoying ran away quickly.

Herder's workshop must be found as soon as possible. She remembered that Herder hadn't left the Moriarty mansion, so his workshop must be nearby.However, Moriarty's mansion is so big, and she is not familiar with the place, how can she find the target in a short time?

This question is not difficult for her, a student majoring in architecture——

Herder is a mechanic who designs weapons, and his workshop must be adjacent to the ammunition warehouse.In order to prevent accidents, such warehouses are usually kept away from daily life areas such as bedrooms, and try to avoid direct sunlight. They even specially set up extremely strong defensive thick walls. If they are independently installed on the ground, they often present a bunker-like shape. She can recognize the architectural form at a glance.

But she did not find such a building.

The Moriarty mansion is not complicated. In front of the two-storey English-style house is a huge front yard. On one side of the front yard is a glass greenhouse for planting roses. Behind the greenhouse is a path leading to a small garden full of greenery all year round. , none of these places can be used as hiding places for arsenals.

Then there is only one other possibility - the basement.

She immediately went to the stairwell. Although she didn't find the stairs leading to the underground, nor did she find any hidden doors, but she noticed that there was a brick wall on the first floor that looked a little newer than the other surrounding walls. If it was removed, Let the stairwell continue, just to form a passage to the basement.

Apparently, they did hide the basement.

The stairwell didn't work, so she had to try her luck in other places in the mansion. Walking, she came to the study.

Prying open the door lock, pushing the door and entering, William's aura rushed towards his face—many mathematics books were neatly placed on the bookcase, and various landscape paintings were hung on the wall, the only one A figure painting is "Girl Holding a Sparrow" by Greuze.

William's desk is very tidy, with a small globe standing on the upper right corner, and the leather chair used by the owner of the desk is set with its back facing the south window. It is not difficult to imagine that every time William meets guests here, he will hide his face in the safe. In the backlit place, the expression of the visitor and even the slight changes of the pupils can be clearly seen under the direct sunlight.

Du Ruoying picked up the silver-handled cane that was standing slanted beside the desk, and knocked on the carpeted floor. As expected, the sound came from was different!

There must be a mechanism to open the basement here.

She first checked the books on the bookcase one by one, then took a look at the globe and lamp on the desk, and then looked through his drawers, but found nothing.

Finally, she set her sights on the paintings on the wall.

She clearly remembered that Mr. Holmes had emphasized in the original book that the work of Greuze in William's study had impressed him deeply. As the only figure painting in the room, it was placed closest to William's seat.

very suspicious...

She curiously reached out to uncover the portrait, and just as she was about to reveal the switch, the door opened behind her.

"What a disobedient kitten, why did it come here?" It was Bond's voice.

Du Ruoying quickly let go of the portrait, "I'm sorry!"

"No, I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about this naughty little guy." Bond picked up a white Persian cat from his feet, and gently rubbed the top of its head. The kitten immediately showed a comfortable expression, "By the way, dinner is ready. I'm here to ask you to eat in the restaurant. Let's go together?"

"Okay... okay."

After absent-mindedly eating dinner in a hurry, Du Ruoying wanted to go to the study to check again, but Bond unexpectedly guarded the door before her, where he was teasing the cat intentionally or unintentionally.

She had to give up.

"Don't be discouraged, Du Ruoying," she secretly encouraged herself, "William's study is a private space, and the decoration is so expensive that it is impossible for subordinates to pass by at will, so it will never be the only entrance to the basement. Find it!"

Just as she was thinking, through the corridor window, she suddenly noticed that Herder and Fred had entered the greenhouse together, and hurriedly followed.

"Fred, can you lend me some roses?"

"For what?"

"Help Lord William develop something."

"Okay, you can pick it yourself, and be careful not to overturn the flowerpot."

"You can rest assured."

It didn't take long for Herder to come out with a large bouquet of pale pink roses. He happily hummed a ditty, and his steps were very brisk, completely unaware that he was being followed.Du Ruoying watched him walk into a small tower, pressed a brick on the wall, and the spiral staircase leading to the basement appeared in front of her eyes.

After Herder went down, she followed suit and finally broke into the basement successfully.

After coming down, she didn't feel a long sigh of relief, but her spirit became more tense, because the passage in the basement was narrow and tortuous, and the light from the wall lamp couldn't reach her head at a glance. Same in a horror movie scene.

With such a nervous and apprehensive mood, she cautiously continued to walk forward, and at the next corner, a pale and terrifying face suddenly approached her, which made her fall to the ground in fright.

"Why are you here?" Louis held a lamp and illuminated the girl in front of him.

"I... came in for a walk," she smiled obsequiously, got up from the ground despondently, patted the dust off her body, and pretended to be at a loss, "Where is this? I seem to have lost my way."

"Lost? Oh, what a clumsy lie," Louis gave her a cold gouging look.

"However, Brother William has already told me that you are the one who knows our secrets, so you don't need to avoid it." He walked past her with a lamp in his hand, "Go over and do what you want, I won't stop you .”

Du Ruoying suppressed the doubts in her heart, and quickly ran away from him, for fear that he would regret it later.She opened and inspected the rooms one by one: ordinary warehouses, wine cellars, combat meeting rooms... until a room full of blueprints and calculation books appeared in front of her eyes.

There was a faint smell of gunpowder in the room, and a few rose petals were left on the ground. Undoubtedly, this was Herder's workshop.However, no suspicious new weapons were seen in the house, and even Herder himself was gone. The desk was empty, only a pile of wisdom rings piled up on the corner of the desk.

"The thing has been taken away by Herder." At some point, Louis stood behind her. "I don't know what it is."

"How could it be like this?" Du Ruoying suddenly fell into a great sense of frustration.

Louis didn't intend to comfort her, he continued to say coldly: "Brother William has returned, he asked me to tell you to set off together, to Limehouse."

Could it be... has reached a desperate situation?

Is there really nothing I can do?

She lowered her head in frustration...

No, no—

There is another way!