Most things in the world kill two birds with one stone.

The collection of events every second is like water ripples spreading out on the lake, influencing each other and superimposing layers upon layers.

There are no innocents.

In one case, all the people who showed up were like a drop of water in a lake. They influenced each other, and the shock was strengthened or offset, and finally returned to calm.

……

"It really breaks my heart."

Irene looked at the ring on the table and raised her eyebrows:

"I thought you were here to buy me coffee."

"I did invite you to drink coffee, but unfortunately, the coffee maker insists on staying in the supermarket to buy plant roots and stems."

There was no trace of regret in Sherlock's tone.

He just looked at his watch:

"I'm partial to quick fixes."

The supermarket is not far from here and she will be back soon.

His little girlfriend is sometimes sharp and sometimes dull and irregular. Being discovered has already put him in a passive situation. Of course he can't let this woman appear in front of her again.

"A quick fix?"

Eileen smiled, and the thick black eyeliner made her eyes look deeper:

"What a rough man, let me tell you a secret, women, at least me, prefer to be penetrated in slow grinding...long torture can bring the ultimate orgasm."

Sherlock said noncommittally, "You know what I'm talking about."

"No, I don't know, I've never seen the ring."

Erin casually picked up the ring:

"I just know that you called me to Baker Street specifically and didn't say a word to me for 10 minutes... Oh, Sherlock, it's not a gentleman to keep staring at the phone and ignoring women. What kind of text message makes you so important?"

The phone twirled between Sherlock's dexterous fingers:

"There's a train that's gone onto the road and I'm trying to get her back where she should be."

Erin: "Her?"

Sherlock ignored her question.

He just straightened up and took a business card out of his pants pocket.

"If you insist you don't remember the ring, then..."

He threw the white, simple, crumpled business card in front of Irene:

"You should always remember this."

It was a business card for a funeral home.

His little girlfriend once held this business card and sat where he was sitting now for a day and a night.

She called the funeral home early in the morning.

Then, her friend was sent to the crematorium.

——.

This is Erin Edler's game.

On the night that Ludwig secretly escaped from the hospital morgue in order to get rid of Sherlock's tramp tracking, she met the undertaker Joe Alice.

Apparently his little girlfriend was doing the magical undertaker, who is said to be able to see ghosts, a little favor, so Jo-Alice gave her the business card, promising to do something for her in the future.

That's right, take advantage of the trend.

The design of this business card is quite simple, except for the name of the funeral home, there are only the contact information of the three persons in charge.

smith71092-88324

0-73244-42374

+75001-58294

……

"The death rate in London has risen lately, thanks to Amon-Ra."

Sherlock looked at her face and smiled slightly:

"Mrs. Eplin, is your funeral home doing well?"

……

Irene seemed to no longer want to bother about Sherlock's address, nor did she want to continue to deny it.

Now that the evidence has been laid out and the answer has been laid out, it would be foolish to deny it.

So she just picked up the business card on the table, blinked her beautiful eyes, and said softly:

"Look, the orgasm is coming."

"With all due respect, this can't be called a climax, because your password design is too crude."

Sherlock pulled out the business card from her hand:

"You played a big hand, a clever strategy, trying to use my hand to get rid of Atum... If I don't expect it, you are very proud of your strategy."

"Proud? I disagree with that, Sherlock."

Erin put away her smile:

"A woman who is cornered cannot be complacent."

"The characteristics of human nature will not change due to sudden changes in the environment. Mrs. Aplin, those who are unwilling to be lonely are still unwilling to be lonely, and those who are arrogant are still arrogant... and you have both of these."

The snow-white business card was held between his fingers, and he said lightly:

"You think you've played it so well that you can't help but get your name branded on this project...on this business card."

This business card is a password.

Sherlock smiled:

"To be honest, your password design is not professional, and there are too many flaws. It only took me three seconds to crack it."

Erin looked at him:

"Where did I show my flaws?"

"Because zero."

The business card was held under his chin:

"Only the phone number of the second name on the whole business card has a zero in front of it, which is unreasonable."

In the UK, zeros are only added to UK numbers when calling from abroad.

Erin raised an eyebrow:

"Maybe I'm doing business overseas?"

"Oh, funeral homes can't do it on a multinational scale."

Sherlock smiled mockingly:

"Human bones are returned to their homeland, and there is a limit to the delivery time of the corpse, so there is no reason for you to add the country code before the mobile phone number on the business card...Of course, this may be a typist's fallacy, but the probability of such an obvious error is too small."

Eileen supported her chin with one hand, looked at him intently, and smiled when she saw him stop:

"Why stop? I'm still waiting for you to accuse me, Sherlock."

"Then you're going to be disappointed because I can't accuse you."

Because from the beginning to the end, this scheming woman was just adding to the flames... She didn't even kill a single person, but she easily facilitated the whole thing.

Sherlock said lightly:

"On this business card, only the third number is a real number, the first two are nothing more than a simple word code, based on the simplest 26 letters - oh, ten numbers correspond to ten letters, not to the left To push is to push to the right, and the lack of innovative design can be seen at a glance.”

"No, sir, this cannot be pushed... If the letter corresponds to the number on the phone number, the initial letter is h, which corresponds to the first digit 7 of the phone number, and the seven digits to the left of the 26 alphabet are a, and the seven digits to the left of the alphabet are a. Seven bits to the right is o, no problem."

Irene's fingers with exquisite nails tapped the back of her hand lightly:

"But if the order is 9 corresponding to the second e from the left, there is no corresponding number to the left... If the order of calculation is to the right, then the s of smith corresponds to 8, and there is no corresponding number to the right."

The golden bracelet on her hand is inlaid with red gemstones, just as charming as her expression at the moment:

"Left and right can't be justified...my detective."

……

It's really unreasonable.

If all the clues are limited to this one business card, it's a dead password.

……

"That's because there are more than just two phone numbers."

Sherlock looked into her eyes, ignoring her lingering "my detective" in the slightest:

"There is another one...you gave it to me. In the Royal restaurant, you gave me a mobile phone number."

……

Everything that happens every second in the world is preordained, including coincidence.

Coincidence is also doomed coincidence.

It was no accident that he met this woman in the Royal restaurant.

As she said, she just came to test him, to see if Sherlock Holmes was worthy of his name.

She did come to test him.

Deliberately pretending to be a waiter, and deliberately wearing multiple disguises under the waiter's disguise.

It was just to confirm whether he could really help her against Atum.

……

"76541-12579, this is the phone number you left for me."

Sherlock accurately reported this string of numbers:

"The first half of the number corresponds to the second name on this business card, and the second half of the number corresponds to smith."

"I'm so glad you memorized my cell phone number so well."

Erin smiled softly:

"How did you see it?"

"Because the digits of your mobile phone number are too neat, this is a big flaw."

Generally people's phone numbers are random.

But this string.

The numbers in the first paragraph are from large to small, and the numbers in the second paragraph are from small to large... The probability that random numbers can be arranged like this is too low.

"Why is it the other way around?"

"It's still because of 0."

Sherlock held up her card:

"The first thing I saw was smith, which is reasoned in alphabetical order...and you did a little trick on this name, you reversed the order of the first and last name, the reason is still before the number The extra zero."

The sunlight, as thick as coffee, came in from the window sill and shrouded his white shirt, so his shirt seemed to smell like coffee.

The way Sherlock Holmes solves the case is a woman's drug.

It's dazzling.

……

"The meaning of 0 in many teachings does not mean nothingness, but a cycle. Sometimes the two are equivalent. The end result of the cycle is an exchange—the end is replaced by the beginning, and the beginning is replaced by the end."

He put down his business card and said calmly:

"The loop is infinite. It is obvious that you simplified this code for laziness, because you exchanged the sequence three times with one trick."

Erin sat on the couch.

Her position was opposite Sherlock, so she could completely see how the afterglow of the setting sun enveloped the man with the sexiest brain in the world bit by bit.

……

"You could have done it more delicately, but laziness is human nature, especially for women... Only a few women will make trouble for themselves."

Irene propped her chin, her eyes were like sparkling water:

"Like your fiancée?"

He paused: "She is one of them."

"Didn't you say it? Can you explain it to me?"

"I've made it very clear."

"It's not a good habit for a man to be impatient, it will annoy women."

"Oh." Sherlock said, "That's not on my mind."

"Indeed, you don't seem like a man who would think about these things."

Erin nodded:

"But your fiancée is also a woman."

"...You use 12579 to correspond to the first, second, fifth, seventh and ninth letters in smith respectively, which are h, e, n, m, t respectively, and then correspond to the first and the first in the phone number Two, fifth, seventh and ninth numbers... I don't need to count them for you, they are 7, 1, 2, 8, 2."

Irene laughed, and this time she followed him by saying:

"Then use the extracted digits to push to the left... h pushes seven digits to the left in the alphabet to be a, e pushes one digit to the left to be d, n two digits to the left is l, m pushes eight digits to the left to be e , two digits to the left of t are r...adler?"

"Yes, Edler."

"What about Smith?... You said it was the other way around."

"The password you made, but you want me to explain it to you?"

Sherlock smiled:

"Sorry, my language is paid, and the free commentary ends here."

Not everyone in this world can enjoy Sherlock's free guidance.

He is the only consulting detective in the world, and his fees are expensive.

……

"So I need to pay? But what can you ask me for?"

Irene's fingers caressed her bright red lips:

"I have nothing now... except myself."

"But you're clearly experienced in love."

Sherlock raised the corner of his lips:

"Don't worry, it won't be such a valuable reward. I will only ask you for some experience afterwards."

……

Conversely, alina, from right to left, corresponds to the seventh, sixth, five, four, one-digit numbers, which are e, n, a, l, a, and push the corresponding numbers of the mobile phone number on the business card from left to right in the alphabet, that is''.

Then contact the adler obtained before.

adler.

Erin Edler.

This woman, in an extremely roundabout way, engraved her name on the work she was proud of.

……

Irene was silent for a while, and then said softly:

"I'll pay you."

Her answer was obviously expected by Sherlock, because when she was silent, he had already picked up the gray ring on the table and played with it on his fingertips.

"I didn't know what you were going to do until I saw this."

—the gray ring.

This imitation ring was so finely crafted that even the subtle creases were exactly the same as the real one in her hand... How could this be the work of an ordinary small funeral home?

"My fiancée's little trick was taken advantage of by you. You knew she wanted to leave, and this imitation ring was the key to her leaving, so you decided to help her."

Irene looked at Sherlock for a while, propped her chin and smiled:

"But why should I do this?"

"Because Atum has something against you, that's why you said you were cornered."

Sherlock raised his wrist and looked at his watch - she should have been back long ago.

So, she was deliberately giving him time?

"You know that if Vichy leaves my side, nine out of ten will fall into the hands of the Egyptian Church, so you want to use this to intensify the conflict between me and Atum... you want to use my hand to kill Atum Mom, be free."

Seemingly doing nothing, but doing everything.

Involved in all these events, fueling the flames, the indispensable woman...

It's Erin Edler.

……

There was silence when the truth was revealed.

In Baker Street, there is only the sound of sunlight walking slowly.

"What a pity."

Under the wide brim, her delicate makeup was caught in the afterglow of the setting sun:

"You can tell the truth at a glance, but you may not be able to see clearly the woman you love...Speaking of which, she is taller than you and me. We are just calculating others, but she can calculate herself."

Sherlock sat under her watery gaze, motionless.

"Looking at your expression, you seem to know something already?"

Erin took his hand on the table:

"I envy your wife, Sherlock, but I also sympathize with you. I have dealt with Atum for ten years, and I seem to know more about the Egyptian church than you do."

Erin sat across from the sunny window sill and smiled slowly:

"The last truth... Sherlock, do you really know who you are going to marry?"

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